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Lot 21(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Burnett, C.A. $250 Reward! Ranaway from the Subscriber, 3 Negro Girls.Estimate $ 7,000 - $ 10,000Price Realized $ 37,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 317(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Newell, Lafayette V.; photographer. Photograph of a contraband family at Point Lookout.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 32,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 191(BUSINESS.) 17th Year Afro-Americans Travel Guide.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 345(MUSIC.) Campbell, E. Simms; artist. A Night-Club Map of Harlem,Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 260(FAMILY PAPERS.) Papers of two parallel Stephens families: the Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens and his servants.Estimate $ 25,000 - $ 35,000Price Realized $ 20,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 248(ENTERTAINMENT--COMEDY.) Papers of the comedian Nipsey Russell, including a personal letter from Martin Luther King and more.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 17,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 205(CIVIL RIGHTS.) March for Freedom Now!Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 17,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 60(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Rockwood, George; photographer. Carte-de-visite portrait of the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 15,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 197(CIVIL RIGHTS--SEGREGATION.) Colored Waiting Room.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 15,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 71(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Lincoln, Abraham. The Proclamation of Emancipation by the President of the United States,Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 11,875(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 394(SPORTS--BOXING.) Archive of photographs of the Brown Bomber, Joe Louis, collected by his manager Julian Black.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 11,875(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 79(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION--JAMAICA.) An early account journal for a plantation estate on the southern coast of Jamaica.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 350(MUSIC.) CORE Presents Max Roach, Freedom Now Suite . . . World Premier Performance.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 209(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Lyon, Danny; photographer. Come Let Us Build a New World Together.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 7,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 321(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Trail, William. A private in the 28th U.S.C.T. describes the slow painful death of his brother from scurvy.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 7,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 232(DOUGLASS, FREDERICK.) Scarce war-era carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 280(KING, MARTIN LUTHER.) I Am a Man, Memphis.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 118(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Black Panther: Black Community News Service.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 353(MUSIC.) Sun Ra in Space is the Place.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 40(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Autograph book including inscriptions by noted early African-American orators Moses Roper and Peter Williams.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 316(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Newell, Lafayette V.; photographer. Carte-de-visite punishment scene of a Negro prisoner at Point Lookout.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 373(POLITICS.) Outrageous! Shirley Chisholm for President.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 276(KING, MARTIN LUTHER.) Union Justice Now!Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 208(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Pennant from the March on Washington.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 215(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of One Man, One Vote ephemera.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 65(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Cane said to have been a gift from Frederick Douglass to John Brown.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 5,720(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 20(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Runaway reward notice for an important case.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 90(ART.) Rocher, Henry; photographer. Carte-de-visite portrait of the sculptor Edmonia Lewis.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 98(ART.) Archive of sculptor Isaac Hathaway including a plaster mold for his bust of Booker T. Washington.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 277(KING, MARTIN LUTHER.) [Withers, Ernest; photographer.] I Am A Man, Sanitation Workers Strike.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 289(LITERATURE.) Brown, William Wells. Clotelle: or, The Colored Heroine, a Tale of the Southern States.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 204(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Racist flier issued to discredit Daisy Bates, leader of the Little Rock desegregation effort.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 382(RECONSTRUCTION.) Civil Rights! Miscegenation Allowed by Congress, Despite the Veto of the President.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 247(ENTERTAINMENT--CIRCUS.) Early appearance of Joice Heth, said to be George Washingtons nursemaid.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 103(ART.) Archive of letters, postcards, and greeting cards sent by the artist Romare Bearden.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 387(RECONSTRUCTION.) Pinchback, Pinckney B.S. Commission signed as governor of Louisiana.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 210(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Lyon, Danny; photographer. Is He Protecting You?Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 211(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Lyon, Danny; photographer. Now.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 290(LITERATURE.) Cunard, Nancy; editor. Negro Anthology, Made by Nancy Cunard, 1931-1933.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 262(FOOD AND DRINK.) Roberts, Robert. The House Servants Directory.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 261(FAMILY PAPERS.) Papers of five generations of the distinguished Ruby-Jackson family of Portland, Maine.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 4(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) [McPherson & Oliver; photographers.] The Scourged Back.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 14(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Land and Negroes for Sale!Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 240(EDUCATION.) [Washington, Booker T.] Partial manuscript draft of his annual report to the trustees of the Tuskegee Institute.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 9(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Public Sale. Will Be Sold . . . One Negro Woman.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 3,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 15(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Trade card for John W. Chrisp & Co., Dealers in Slaves.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 3,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 83(AFRICA.) Lehman & Duval; lithographers. A View of Bassa Cove (in Liberia).Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 186(BUSINESS.) Record book of Browns Funeral Home in Petersburg, Virginia.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 196(CIVIL RIGHTS--SEGREGATION.) Colored Dining Room, Rest Rooms.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 200(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Fowler, Manet. Original sociological reports on Dutchess County Attitudes on Defense--Opinions from Negroes.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 3,640(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 53(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Jay, William. For the Emancipator & Republican: Mr. Clay on Slave Breeding,Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 3,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 147(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Oppressor May Jail Our Warriors, but the People Will Move Against Their Jailer. Free Bobby Seale!Estimate $ 700 - $ 1,000Price Realized $ 3,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 25(SLAVERY AND ABOLITION.) Charleston slave tag issued to a servant in 1824.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 3,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 104(ART.) Africobra 1: Ten in Search of a Nation.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 3,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 124(BLACK PANTHERS.) Hand-painted sign reading BPP for SD, Free Huey & Eldridge / Peace and Freedom.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 3,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 135(BLACK PANTHERS.) Collection of Black Panther, Black Power, and other related buttons.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 3,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 265(FRATERNAL.) Masonic certificate signed by Arturo Schomburg.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 264(FRATERNAL.) Masonic certificate signed by the important abolitionist Lewis Hayden, a fugitive from slavery.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 251(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Program for the Hyers Sisters Combination in Out of Bondage.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 331(MILITARY--WORLD WAR ONE.) West, A.B. Diary of a Buffalo Soldier stationed in the Philippines.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 2,750(with Buyer's Premium)