(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION) DOUGLASS FREDERICK 100000 Maintenanc

Sale 2271 - Lot 48

Price Realized: $ 480

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 350 - $ 500

(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. $100,000 Maintenance Fund Drive to Insure perpetual upkeep of the Home of Frederick Douglass, the Abolitionist. Pictorial placard, 11 x 14 inches, on heavy cardboard stock with a photographic image of Douglass' Washington D.C. home. Evansville, Indiana, 1900-1910

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At one point, Douglass' home was literally falling apart. This drive and the subsequent takeover by the National Park service saved the home known as Cedar Hill.