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Lot 106BENJAMIN BANNEKER. Bannekers . . . Almanack and Ephemeris, for the Year of our Lord, 1792.Estimate $ 15,000 - $ 25,000Price Realized $ 75,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 319(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Carte-de-visite of Charles Remond Douglass in uniform.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 47,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 15(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Archive of the slave-owning Randolph family of Virginia.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 42,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 258(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Scott Joplin. Treemonisha: Opera in Three Acts.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 40,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 62(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. [The Scourged Back.]Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 32,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 262(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Archive of Dizzy Gillespies personal music and arrangements.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 32,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 261(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Substantial archive of Louis Armstrong, including memoirs, signed contract, travel itineraries, and more.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 30,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 269(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Lorraine Hansberry. The actress Juanita Moores copy of the script for Raisin in the Sun.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 30,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 222FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself.Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 23,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 182(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Martin Luther King. Why We Cant Wait,Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 23,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 63(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver, photographers. Carte de visite of a pair of contrabands.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 17,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 180(CIVIL RIGHTS.) J. Edgar Hoover. Letter defending the FBIs civil rights record in the wake of the Emmett Till lynching.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 16,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 107BENJAMIN BANNEKER. His famous correspondence with Thomas Jefferson, as published in an issue of the Universal AsylumEstimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 16,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 4(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) John W. Barber, compiler. A History of the Amistad Captives,Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 15,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 181(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Thurgood Marshall. Photograph inscribed to his successor at the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 14,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 61(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. Carte-de-visite photograph of a contraband camp at Baton Rouge.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 130(BLACK PANTHERS.) [Emory Douglas, artist.] You Can Jail a Revolutionary, but You Cant Jail a Revolution.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 384(WOMENS HISTORY.) Anna Julia Cooper. A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 265(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Langston Hughes and Arna Bontemps. Jubilee: A Cavalcade of the Negro Theatre.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 12,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 239(ENTERTAINMENT.) E. Simms Campbell, artist. A Night-Club Map of Harlem,Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 42(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Abolitionist handbag in support of the Negro Woman who sittest pining in captivity.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 30(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Slaves! Valuable Cooks, Washers, Ironers, House Servants, Blacksmith and Slater.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 2(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 9,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 224(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) [John White Hurn, photographer.] Carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass, taken by an old ally.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 333(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Dorie Miller Received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 195(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Jesse O. Thomas. Negro Participation in the Texas Centennial Exposition.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 285MARTIN LUTHER KING. His signature on the jacket of the LP March on Washington: The Official Album.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 8,450(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 46(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Elizabeth Ambrose Merrill. Letter describing the final days and death of abolitionist martyr Elijah Lovejoy.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 7,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 226FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Letter confirming his upcoming lecture on John Brown.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 7,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 282MARTIN LUTHER KING. Short personal letter to a Chicago civil rights leader.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 7,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 227FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Proceedings of the Civil Rights Mass-Meeting Held at Lincoln Hall.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 190(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Equality: Dinner Given at the White House by President Theodore Roosevelt to Booker T. Washington.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 47(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Letter written on stationery, with the famed engraving by Patrick Reason.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 323(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Correspondence of an officer of the 14th R.I. Heavy Artillery Regiment (Colored).Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 178(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Briefing book for Brown v. Board of Education, the personal copy of one of the key attorneys.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 297(LITERATURE.) William Wells Brown. Manuscript draft of a passage from his My Southern Home.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 289(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) Autographed program for a Chicago tribute to Dr. King.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 6,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 207(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Danny Lyon; photographer. Now.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 6,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 377(WOMENS HISTORY.) The Madam C. J. Walker Beauty Manual: A Thorough Treatise Covering all Branches of Beauty Culture.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 6,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 225(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) George Kendall Warren, photographer. The classic carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 54(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 12(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Dinah Browning. An enslaved womans letter to her former master.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 87(ART.) National Conference of Artists Presents: A Print Portfolio by Negro Artists.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 100(ART.) Group of 4 pieces of exhibition ephemera from the Where We At: Black Women Artists art collective.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 306(LITERATURE.) Papers of author Joe C. Brown, a lifelong friend of Richard Wright.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 13(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Octavia V. Rogers Albert. The House of Bondage, or Charlotte Brooks and other Slaves.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 184(CIVIL RIGHTS.) James Meredith. Three Years in Mississippi,Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 308(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) The old master of manumitted slave Brister Warner claims his back pay.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 312(MILITARY--WAR OF 1812) A spys report from the Florida frontier, including a description of what became the famed Negro Fort.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 380(WOMENS HISTORY.) Wanted: Justice for Joanne Little.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 168(BUSINESS.) Photograph of the Boyd and Miller Barber Shop.Estimate $ 400 - $ 600Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 14(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Charles Paxson, photographer. Wilson, Branded Slave from New Orleans.Estimate $ 7,000 - $ 10,000Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 16(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Detailed accounting of a Maryland familys enslaved people who were not worth the maintenance.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 296(LITERATURE.) Three issues of the important Anglo-African Magazine.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 298(LITERATURE.) Lewis Howard Latimer. Poems of Love and Life.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 313(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Portrait of Nick Biddle, said to be the first man wounded in the Civil War.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 17(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Memorandum book tracking many dozens of enslaved people at a Mississippi plantation.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 41(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) William Wilberforce. A Letter on the Abolition of the Slave Trade.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 214(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of images from Life Magazines coverage of the Newark riots.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 301(LITERATURE.) Nancy Cunard; editor. Negro Anthology.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)