(BUSINESS) Nathan B Young editor Your St Louis and Mine

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(BUSINESS.) Nathan B. Young, editor. Your St. Louis and Mine. Numerous illustrations. 80 pages. 4to, 10 x 6 3/4 inches, original wrappers; minor rust and wear at staples, page 12 marked up for copying, otherwise minimal wear; editor's inscription on page 1. St. Louis, MO: N.B. Young, [1937]

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A richly illustrated history and business guide to the Black community of St. Louis, produced by Nathan B. Young Jr. (1893-1993), publisher of the St. Louis American. Includes a feature on "Night Club Map of Harlem" artist Elmer Simms Campbell (page 6), a profile of Poro College founder Annie Malone (page 15); a page on local girl Josephine Baker (page 17); a note on the city's Negro League baseball teams featuring Oscar Charleston and others (page 46); a Madam C.J. Walker advertisement (page 54); and much more. This copy was inscribed in March 1981 by publisher Young (then aged 87) to Adele Tyre (1951-1988), a groundbreaking local television journalist.