(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES) Negro Business and Information Direc

Sale 2663 - Lot 82

Price Realized: $ 750

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(BUSINESS--DIRECTORIES.) Negro Business and Information Directory . . . Des Moines, Iowa. 12 pages. Octavo, 8¾ x 5¾ inches, original printed wrappers, moderate staining, pencil notes, punch hole in one corner; two center leaves detached. Des Moines, IA: Negro Chamber of Commerce, 1939

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Pauline Brown Humphrey's newly established Crescent School of Beauty, operating in the "Mme. C.J. Walker system," is on page 1. Nine rooming houses and tourist homes are listed; Des Moines has no listings in the 1940 Negro Motorist Green Book. Spare spaces are filled with "Facts About Negroes." The restaurant section, including Brown's Chili, Williams Barbeque, and the Sampson Chicken Shack, reminds us that it's getting to be time for dinner. 3 in OCLC, none traced at auction.