Mar 21, 2013 - Sale 2308

Sale 2308 - Lot 234

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(BUSINESS--TEXAS.) DALLAS CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Dallas Texas Negro City Directory, 1941-1942. Illustrated. 448 pages. Thick 8vo, original pictorial deep blue cloth; paper toned. Dallas, 1941
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A scarce and important city guide. Dallas' black population in 1941 was considerable, and its Negro Chamber of Commerce's Consulting Secreatary at this time was Antonio Maceo Smith (1903-1977), a graduate of Fisk. Smith was one of the most powerful black businessmen in Texas, having organized the Western Mutual Insurance Company serving as Executive President of the Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce from 1933 to 1939. This directory features a long, illustrated section on Bishop College, and numerous advertisements for other educational institutions, like the Tyler Barber College, and Coleman Beauty School, stressing the importance in the black community of acquiring a trade. Other ads include the South Dallas Funeral Home featuring the "Singing Chapel on Wheels."