Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 86

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(BUSINESS--FINANCIAL.) Who Should Buy Stock in the Afro-American Mercantile Company and Why? Printed handbill, 8½ x 4¾ inches; minor dampstaining and wear at folds. Wilmington, NC: W.H. Moore's Electric Print, undated

Additional Details

The company was incorporated in Wilmington, NC in May 1903. This flier urges wide participation by "every Negro family": "We are making a place of business for you like white men make for their sons. We will need clerks, salesmen, book-keepers, type-writers, and agents." Farmers are urged to become shareholders as well as suppliers: "You will be building up your race." Nothing regarding this company is traced in OCLC or at auction.