(WEB DU BOIS) Early press photo of WEB Du Bois

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Sale 2697 - Lot 162

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

(W.E.B. DU BOIS.) Early press photo of W.E.B. Du Bois. Photograph, 6½ x 4¼ inches, with 3 Culver Service inked stamps and several contemporary and later annotations on verso; minor wear. New York, circa early 1920s

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The photograph is marked on verso with the address of Du Bois care of his magazine The Crisis. The NAACP used that address from 1922 onward.

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