Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 205

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
(CIVIL RIGHTS--NAACP.) DU BOIS, W.E.B., Editor. The Crisis for Sept., 1926. Point-of-purchase sign, 17 x 9-3/4 inches with photographic illustration of the Empire State Federation in Convention at Mount Olivet Baptist Church in New York's Harlem; archival paper repair to reverse, a few faint creases where folded. New York: NAACP, 1926

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An uncommon survival, this sign was meant to be hung at a newsstand or some place where Crisis Magazine would be sold. At the top is "Please Post," and "Additional Copies Sent on Request." Crisis, the official arm of the NAACP began publication in 1910.