Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 198

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(BUSINESS.) Souvenir Programme of the Seventeenth Annual Session, National Negro Business League. [29] pages. 4to, 9 1/4 x 7 inches, original color pictorial wrappers, moderate wear, detached from text block; minor toning to contents. [Kansas City, MO], 16 August 1916

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The program features a portrait of founder Booker T. Washington on the cover as well as some basic information about the conference. It is perhaps of most interest for the many pages of well-illustrated advertisements for black-owned businesses in Kansas City, from lawyers to butchers. with--a pinback button for the Negro Business League of Owensboro, KY Ticket for the Kansas City Negro Chamber of Commerce Trade Week of 1927 A packet on "Selected Aids to Small Businessmen" prepared by the Department of Commerce for the National Negro Business League convention of 1950.