Mar 01, 2012 - Sale 2271

Sale 2271 - Lot 370

Price Realized: $ 1,800
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,000 - $ 3,000
(MEDICINE.) Charter of the Professional Club of Philadelphia. Elaborately hand-calligraphed certificate of incorporation for the Club. 26-1/4 x 20 inches; with affixed and embossed seals. Signed by Louis D. Senat, "Penman" in the lower margin. Philadelphia, 1913
Set Alert for Similar Items

Additional Details

The Professional Club of Philadelphia was composed of the most successful African American doctors in the city. This elaborate Charter would have hung where the group met. The Professional Club, and many other organizations like it, sprang up right after the Civil War, and came under the general umbrella of Booker T. Washington's "Negro Business League," founded in 1900. An example of the degree of organization within the black community less than a half century after emancipation.