May 07, 2020 - Sale 2534

Sale 2534 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 219
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Pair of pamphlets from Douglass commemorations held in Rochester. Various sizes and conditions. Rochester, NY, 1917 and 1940
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Printed invitation: "You are Invited to Attend the One Hundredth Anniversary of the Birthday of Frederick Douglass on Thursday, February 15th, 1917." [4] pages, plus original printed cover illustrated with Douglass portrait, 7 x 5 1/2 inches, bound with red, white and blue thread; minor dampstaining; completed in manuscript from event president J.W. Thompson to A. Jeffrey and family.
Pamphlet: "Frederick Douglass Celebration and Seventy-Fifth Exposition of Progress, Thursday and Friday, June 6 and 7, 1940." [4] pages, 11 x 8 1/2 inches, on one folding sheet, illustrated with portraits of Douglass and two of the speakers; minor toning. Inserted are 3 smaller related leaflets from the same commemoration.