Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 95

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
(BUSINESS--LAND.) Promotional brochures and business card for the planned Black community in Whitesboro, New Jersey. 3 items, various sizes; minor wear to business card only. No place, circa 1923 and undated
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Whitesboro near the southern tip of New Jersey was founded circa 1901 by a group of Black investors including Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and its namesake, former North Carolina congressman George Henry White. This lot includes three promotional pieces relating to lots in the village's "S.H. Vick Plat" owned by Samuel Hynes Vick (1863-1946) for more than twenty years:

An unfolded 4-page pamphlet, 8½ x 11 inches, describing the merits of Whitesboro's amenities and location.

Sheet of testimonials dated 1915-1923, 8½ x 5¼ inches, most by residents regarding the property, and one describing Vick as a "most highly educated colored man . . . looking to the civic betterment and uplift of his race."

Business card, 2½ x 4½ inches: "Don't Pay Rent, Own a Country Home. Beautiful Home Sites, Whitesboro, N.J.," listing Vick as owner and A.G. Bronston as his field manager.