Mar 28, 2019 - Sale 2503

Sale 2503 - Lot 253

Price Realized: $ 2,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500
(FAMILY PAPERS.) Papers of the Daniels-Wells family spanning three generations through Howard University. 25 items, various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1886-1940 and undated
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The key figures in this collection are Eugene P. Daniels (1861-1931) and wife Rebecca Jett (1866-1919), pecan farmers of Concordia Parish, LA; their daughter Eva B. Daniels Wells Simon (1894-1953) of Houston, TX; and her daughter Jessie M. Wells Adams (1917-1997) who attended Howard University and remained in the north. She went on to marry publisher Alger Leroy Adams (see lot 200) and was a founder of the Westchester County, NY chapter of Jack and Jill of America. Highlights include: The original 1886 marriage certificate of Eugene and Rebecca Daniels, 1886 (worn) The Pronouncing Edition of the Family Bible, 1892, with 3 pages of family register entries spanning 1861 to 1997, professionally rebacked and conserved Photographs of Eugene P. Daniels circa 1900 standing next to a seated white man. According to family tradition, the seated man was his biological father, a plantation owner named Henry Daniels 6 other early photographs of Eugene Daniels and other family members 2 scrapbooks of family photos circa 1920s Marriage certificate of Eva Daniels Wells to Arthur Simon, Hardin, TX, 1940 Diploma of Jessie Wells from Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston, 1930 Autograph and photo album kept by Jessie Wells at the same school, 1930 Professional photo portrait of Jessie Wells by Mayfair Studios of Brooklyn, NY Howard University scrapbook of Jessie Wells. Contains clippings, invitations, telegrams, and other ephemera, 1931-34.