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WITH SCARCE FOLDING PLATE OF TUSKEGEE (CROMWELL LIBRARY.) Booker T. Washington, et al. A New Negro for a New Century. Folding plate, frontispiece portrait, 59 full-page portraits paginated with text. 428 pages. 8vo, publisher's gilt pictorial cloth with photographic portrait of Washington inlaid as issued, minor wear; signed by owner Adelaide Cromwell (1919-2019), the noted sociologist, on front free endpaper. Chicago: American Publishing House, [1900]
Essays on Black military successes, education (by Booker T. Washington), Reconstruction, and "The Colored Woman and Her Part in Race Regeneration" (by Fannie Barrier Williams). Includes portraits of Paul Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Mary Church Terrell, and dozens of less well-known men and women. The 10 1/2 x 14-inch folding plate, "Buildings and Grounds of Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute," is mentioned in the plate list, but is lacking from the University of Connecticut and Emory copies as scanned on HathiTrust. The example here is detached and has some separation at the folds, but is complete. Afro-Americana supplement 2451; Blockson 3615.
