Mar 26, 2015 - Sale 2377

Sale 2377 - Lot 92

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
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, printed on heavy card-stock with a photographic inset of Douglass's Washington home. Evansville, Indiana, circa 1900-1910
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At one point, Douglass's home in Washington D.C. was literally falling apart. This drive and the subsequent takeover by the National Park Service saved the home known as Cedar Hill.