Feb 21, 2008 - Sale 2137

Sale 2137 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 2,400
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
RARE PHILADELPHIA WOMEN'S BUSINESS DIRECTORY (BUSINESS.) KEENE, JOSEPHINE B. Directory of Negro Business and Professional Women of Philadelphia and Vicinity. 26 pp. Illustrated with photographs. 4to, original red cloth with a neat hole at the top corner at the spine to facilitate hanging. Philadelphia, (1939)

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first edition. rare. OCLC gives Josephine B. Keene as the compiler of this women's business directory, locating only two copies (Duke University and Philadelphia Free Library). Among the women listed are Sevilla Low Brown, the "First Negro Woman Recording Technician," Laura Wheeler Waring, Artist, and Sadie Tanner Mosell Alexander. The latter, married to the noted Philadelphia attorney, Daniel Payne Alexander, was herself an attorney, and director of the Urban League.