Mar 24, 2022 - Sale 2598

Sale 2598 - Lot 173

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(BUSINESS.) Don Gilbert, editor. Dallas, Texas Negro City Directory, 1947-1948. 356 pages. 4to, publisher's cloth, minor wear; minimal wear to contents; 1949 gift inscription on front free endpaper. Dallas, TX, 1947

Additional Details

Pages 33 to 73 are largely devoted to historical essays and profiles of important local institutions, especially the city's Black churches and colleges. Among the notable listed residents is activist and Housing and Urban Development leader A. Maceo Smith (page 276). The volume includes many pages of advertisements (quite a few illustrated) and a business directory at the end.