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Lot 79(BUSINESS--DIRECTORIES.) Victor H. Green, editor. The Negro Travelers Green Book.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 35,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 223(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Broadside for Ira Aldridges performance of Shakespeare--and Jim Crow.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 421(SLAVERY.) Records of Hyde Park plantation in Virginia, with lists of their enslaved, and letters by enslaved Confederate workers.Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 295(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Badge issued to a private in the Glory regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, who was wounded at Fort Wagner.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 21,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 17(ABOLITION.) Carte-de-visite album including portraits of Truth, Douglass, Phillips, Garrison, and other abolitionists.Estimate $ 8,000 - $ 12,000Price Realized $ 21,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 108(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Papers of the Garveyite and Trotskyist activist Simon Williamson of New York.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 18,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 196(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) The Greater Black Patti Troubadours. Black Patti, Greatest Singer of Her Race (Mme. Sissiereta Jones.)Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 18,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 157FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 16,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 343(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Winifred Hall. Portrait of a bride and groom.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 15,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 298(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Large archive of personal and official papers of a lieutenant with the 22nd United States Colored Troops.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 84(BUSINESS--DIRECTORIES.) The Bronze American National Travel Guide, 1963-64Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 12,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 163FREDERICK DOUGLASS. His letter on the controversial Colored American Day at the 1893 Worlds Fair, enclosing a pair of tickets.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 12,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 373(RECONSTRUCTION.) Correspondence of a Florida activist who risked his life for fair elections in the face of Klan violence.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 12,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 292(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Engraved portrait of James Armistead Lafayette, master spy for the Continental Army.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 12,350(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 241(FRATERNAL.) Record books of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 11,875(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 209(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Charles C. Dawson, artist. O, Sing a New Song: Supreme Spectacle of a Musical Race.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 454(WOMENS HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Archive of the White Plains Beauticians League and their founding president.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 12(ABOLITION.) The Fugitive Slaves Appeal!! To the Clergy of Massachusetts.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 296(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Eloquent letters of an officer of Colored Troops, one describing the death hour of the rebellion at AppomattoxEstimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 375(RECONSTRUCTION.) W.E. Burghardt Du Bois. Black Reconstruction.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 37(ART.) Charles Bible, artist. Group of 9 prints, most of them accompanied by poetry.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 340(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Jennie Van Der Zee / Mme. Toussaint Welcome. Real Photo postcard of a Garveyite in uniform.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 162FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Letter discussing the role of Quakers in the abolitionist movement.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 9,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 220(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Large group of disco club fliers, tickets, and cards.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 164(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) The Frederick Douglass Souvenir.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 438(SPORTS--CYCLING.) Major Taylor on the Sager Gear, Worlds Record at Philadelphia.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 203(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Scrapbook of Jazz-age trombonist George Brashears time in Sweden.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 218(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Soul: Americas Most Soulful Newspaper.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 316(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Troops Must Move--Transportation WACS Help! Serve with the Armys Transportation Corps.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 267(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) I Am a Man, Memphis.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 273(LITERATURE.) Phillis Wheatley. The first magazine printing of her patriotic poem His Excellency Gen. Washington,Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 6(ABOLITION.) [David Ruggles.] The Abrogation of the Seventh Commandment, by the American Churches.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 173(EDUCATION.) Papers of Hampton Institute student and trailblazing elementary school teacher Bessie Emanuel.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 16(ABOLITION.) Bound volume of The Liberator spanning the five Civil War years.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 418(SLAVERY.) Extensive Credit Sale of Slaves! At Auction, at the City Hotel. 112 Likely Young Negroes.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 47(BLACK PANTHERS.) Move On Over or Well Move On Over You.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 6,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 464(WOMENS HISTORY--BEAUTY.) Issue of Flaire: For Professionals Only, High Fashion Styling for All Types of Hair.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 431(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) A.B. West. Diaries of a Buffalo Soldier in the Philippines, noting ballplayers Bullet Rogan and Oscar Charleston.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 334(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Ambrotype of “a freed slave girl brought north by B. S. DeForest, with two supporting family photos.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 403(SLAVERY.) Letter describing an enslaved woman getting 100 lashes for resisting rape.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 190(ENTERTAINMENT--FILM.) Promotional pamphlet for The Birth of a Race, produced in response to Birth of a Nation.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 430(SPORTS--BASEBALL.) Photograph of famed baseball team of the 25th United States Infantry.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 43(ART.) Romare Bearden, artist. 50: The Golden Anniversary of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 332(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Carte-de-visite album of Black subjects, many of them apparently from Seneca and Geneva, New York.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 336(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Pair of elegantly compiled photo albums from the Gwinn family of Savannah and New York.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 251(HISTORY.) W.E.B. Du Bois. What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 446(WOMENS HISTORY.) Dayse Walker-Booker. If I Were A Negro Man In a Time Like This.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 15(ABOLITION.) Louis Prang & Co., lithographers. The American Declaration of Independence Illustrated.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 239(FOLKLORE.) Harry M. Hyatt. Hoodoo, Conjuration, Witchcraft, Rootwork.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 417(SLAVERY.) Detailed list of 310 enslaved people on a large Louisiana sugar plantation.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 116(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Racist flier issued to discredit Daisy Bates, leader of the Little Rock desegregation effort.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 270(LABOR.) Wanted! Colored Women for Rag Sorting. . . . Apply in Person to Colored-Department.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 277(LITERATURE.) Saleswomans sample of Twentieth Century Negro Literature, with subscriptions gathered by the agent.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 1(ABOLITION.) Sarah H. Bradford. Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 235(FAMILY PAPERS.) Papers of the Alexander Mike family re Oklahoma oil leases, the Creek Colored Orphans Home, and more.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 308(MILITARY--WORLD WAR ONE.) Group of 4 patriotic posters produced for returning Black troops.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 466(WOMENS HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Portrait of trailblazing physician Georgia Lee Patton.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 240(FOOD & DRINK.) Manuscript recipe book compiled by a student at the Thompson Institute in North Carolina.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 328(PERIODICALS.) A Hint to the Wise.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 265MARTIN LUTHER KING. Obsequies funeral program, signed by several politicians and civil rights leaders.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)