(BUSINESS) Harlem Better Business League

Sale 2271 - Lot 185

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(BUSINESS.) Harlem Better Business League. Round poster, 9-3/4 inches in diameter, enclosing a smaller circular vignette (5 inches in diameter) of a black family with the caption "A Clerk in Negro Business at Home. The Result of Group Economy." New York, nd

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A highly unusual poster, possibly meant to be hung at one's place of business. The design of the poster is intriguing-- incorporating two circles, the smaller of which is within a square, bearing the motto "Trade on the Square." The only reference we could find to the Harlem Better Business League was in a 1941, all black cast film, "Murder on Lenox Avenue. The plot of this sensational film "follows the disgraced leader of the Harlem Better Business League as he plots to murder his replacement." (an early advertisement for the film). The Harlem Better Business League, it would seem was a perfectly legitimate outgrowth of the Negro Business League, founded by Booker T Washington in 1900.