Mar 25, 2021 - Sale 2562

Sale 2562 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BUSINESS.) Negro Directory [for Omaha], 1947-48. 148 pages. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers, minimal wear; toning and minimal wear to contents. Omaha, NE: P.C. Doss & Co., 1948
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Among the names listed here are jazz saxophonist Preston Love, described as "Musician, Count Basie"; the late great St. Louis Cardinals pitcher Bob Gibson, here a 13-year-old boy listed as a student at Kellom Elementary and living with his widowed mother; Mildred Brown, publisher of the Omaha Star; pioneering journalist Lucille Skaggs Edwards (here listed as a notary public); activist Harrison J. Pinkett; and thousands more. Local advertisements can be seen on every page. In the rear of the volume are a directory of Omaha's Black-owned businesses and 4 pages devoted to nearby Council Bluffs, Iowa.

3 editions of this directory have been traced: 1941, the present 1948 one, and 1950. Only one example of the present edition has been traced, at Omaha Public Library.