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Lot 47(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Collection of cartes-de-visite photos including numerous African-Americans and abolitionists.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 47,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 193DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Letters from Douglass to an old friend concerning race relations, Haiti, and more.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 42,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 185(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Griffiths, Julia and T. Powis. Farewell Song of Frederick Douglass, on Quitting England for AmericaEstimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 37,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 190(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Warren, George Kendall; photographer. Signed cabinet card of Douglass.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 30,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 10(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Letters on Gabriel Johnson, an enslaved man at Mount Vernon--including his letter from Bruins Slave Jail.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 21,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 298(MUSIC.) Archive of photographs taken at Manhattans famous integrated Café Society nightclub.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 20,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 1(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Plan of an African Ships Lower Deck, with Negroes, in the Proportion of Not Quite One to a Ton.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 16,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 11(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Walker, Moses. Letter from an enslaved Georgia man to his mother at another plantation.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 16,900(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 255MALCOLM X. Letter from prison, one of his first to use his new name.Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 12,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 16(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Kimball, Myron H.; photographer. Wilson Chinn, a Branded Slave from Louisiana.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 11,875(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 194DOUGLASS, FREDERICK. Letter to the sculptor of his well-known bust, praising the work.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 82(ART.) Papers of the artist, photographer, and graphic designer Louise E. Jefferson.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 46(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Delicately hand-tinted tintype of John Brown.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 29(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Papers of an early Pennsylvania abolitionist, including the landmark kidnapping case of John Davis.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 9,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 39(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Ruggles, David. Letter urging the establishment of a Committee of Vigilance in Syracuse.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 141(BUSINESS.) Cuffe, Paul. Bond signed by a renowned African-American sea captain for his best-known vessel, the brig Traveller.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 7,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 162(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Lyon, Danny; photographer. Come Let Us Build a New World Together.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 339(RECONSTRUCTION.) McDaniel, Daniel. Letter to a freedman, offering to help track down his lost wife and daughter.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 380(WOMEN.) Pair of slippers said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley for cabinet member Gideon Welles at the time of Lincolns second inaugurEstimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 111(BLACK PANTHERS.) Vote Nov 5th, Huey Newton for U.S. Congress.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 235(KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR.) Honor King: End Racism.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 287(MILITARY.) Papers of Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African-American in the Regular Army Nurse Corps.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 374(THEATER.) Ayers, Lemuel; artist. Costume design for Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman.Estimate $ 700 - $ 1,000Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 273(MILITARY--SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR.) Papers of Lieutenant James B. Coleman as a soldier and educator.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 330(RACISM.) Set of original Real Photo lynching postcards depicting the Burning of the Negro Smith.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 48(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 70(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--CUBA.) Contract for a Chinese indentured laborer bound to Cuba.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 264(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Duval, P.S.; lithographer. United States Soldiers at Camp William Penn.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 5,200(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 138(BLACK PANTHERS.) Black-light poster titled Power featuring a stalking panther.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 246(LITERATURE.) Group of 3 posters produced by Amiri Barakas Jihad Productions.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 20(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Shepherd, Rezin D. Letter ordering a ship captain to procure slaves in Virginia and bring them to New Orleans.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 35(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Garrison, William Lloyd; editor. Large group of early issues of the Liberator.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 71(AFRICA.) Smash the FBI & CIA: Enemies of the African Revolution.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 165(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 35 press photographs of civil rights demonstrations and related subjects.Estimate $ 700 - $ 1,000Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 250(LITERATURE.) Hurston, Zora Neale. Mules and Men.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 91(BEAUTY.) Madame C.J. Walkers Handbook of Beauty, Happiness and SuccessEstimate $ 400 - $ 600Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 3(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Sartain, John, engraver. Cinque, the Chief of the Amistad Captives.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 4,160(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 267(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Full-length carte-de-visite studio portrait of an African-American soldier.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 280(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) American Red Cross. Statement of Policy Regarding Negro Blood Donors.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 4,160(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 108(BLACK PANTHERS.) If I Should Return, I Shall Kiss You. If I Should Fall on the Way, I Shall Ask You to Do as I HaveEstimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 288(MUSIC.) [Marsh, J.B.T.] The Story of the Jubilee Singers with their Songs.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 87(ART.) Pinkney, Jerry; artist. Original study for the cover of the award-winning childrens book, The Old African.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 3,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 198(EDUCATION.) Lockwood, Lewis C. Mary S. Peake, the Colored Teacher at Fortress Monroe.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 3,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 365(SPORTS--FOOTBALL.) Team photograph of the Wooster High School football team featuring pioneer athlete Charles W. Follis.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 54(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Grand Celumbrashum ob de Bobalation Socity ob de Fift of Uly, 1833.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 174(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Album of aerial views of the historic march on Montgomery, taken by the federal troops assigned to protect them.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 88(ART.) Tabary, Céline Marie. Portrait of the artist Loïs Mailou Jones.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 92(BEAUTY.) Group of 13 original fashion photographs from the files of Jet and Hue magazines.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 222KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 3,640(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 77(ART.) Burroughs, Margaret; artist. Pompadour.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 3,380(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 13(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Trial account of an enslaved New York man for arson, with the order to burn him at the stake.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 3,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 343(RELIGION.) Programs and other papers of the Mother African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church in Harlem.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 3,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 226KING, MARTIN LUTHER, JR. A gracious response to what must have been a very unusual letter.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 3,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 74(AFRICA.) The Love of Liberty Brought us Here--Republic of Liberia.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 3,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 68(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--CUBA.) Group of 9 Cuban manumission documents.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 64(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Biffar, H.W.; photographer. Carte-de-visite of Samuel R. Curtis, freed by proclamation.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 244(LITERATURE.) Death notice of Phillis Wheatly in the Massachusetts Centinel.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 2(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Rodrigues Rivera, Jacob. Letter from a Newport slave trader to his veteran captain.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 22(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Stephen, Robert. Runaway slave broadside: Ranaway from the subscriber . . . a negro man named Daniel.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 33(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Linen abolitionist handbag in support of the Negro Woman who sittest pining in captivity.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)