Mar 27, 2014 - Sale 2342

Sale 2342 - Lot 579

Price Realized: $ 1,062
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(RELIGION.) Group of forty-two items relative to the black church: male and female ministers' photographic cards, gospel singing and playing groups, programs, posters, pastor's certificate, original photographs, a copy of Julia Foote's 'Brand Plucked from the Fire (1881) etc. Various sizes, one card with a chip; condition generally good. must be seen Vp, circa 1920's to 194

Additional Details

A mixed lot of scarce evangelical church material. Includes: Rare broadsides, posters, programs and a number of early photographic cards for evangelical ministers of both sexes, with their programs, etc.. Most are from the South. Also included are cards for performing gospel groups like the Cleveland Colored Quintet, The Down Home Quartette from Mexico, Missouri, the Triple Tonguing Trumpet Trio, and the Eveready Gospel Singers. In addition, there are two Autograph Letters Signed from Reverend Nelson Jordan of Farmville Virginia with his photograph, dated 1909 and 1910.