Feb 26, 2009 - Sale 2171

Sale 2171 - Lot 158

Price Realized: $ 1,440
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 500
(BUSINESS--GEORGIA.) JACKSON, JUDIA C. Model and Training School and Settlement Work for Negroes, Athens Georgia (cover title). copious illustrations from photographs. 19 pages. Oblong small 8vo, original gray wrappers, printed in gilt; small stain and oval stamp (illegible) on front cover. Nd, circa 1900

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first and apparently only edition. A brochure from a training school that taught people of color about real estate. "The Model and Training School is located in a thickly settled Negro community several miles east of Athens, Georgia. The object of this work is to inspire our people to buy land, to better their home life, to educate their children and to farm intelligently." Illustrated with photographs of "The Model Home," "Members of the First Land Club," "A room in the Model Home," etc. No copies located by OCLC.