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Lot 78(BUSINESS--DIRECTORIES.) Victor H. Green, editor. The Negro Travelers Green Book.Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 62,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 8(ABOLITION.) David Walker. Walkers Appeal in Four Articles; Together with a Preamble, to the Coloured Citizens of the World.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 52,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 177(ENTERTAINMENT.) Papers of Alonzo Collins, proprietor of Washingtons Club Caverns.Estimate $ 7,000 - $ 10,000Price Realized $ 40,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 260(LABOR.) Large collection of Pullman Porter ephemera, pamphlets, and artifacts.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 32,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 158FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Self-Made Men: Address before the Students of the Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 30,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 274(MALCOLM X.) Important collection from Alex Haleys estate, including 3 items signed or annotated by Malcolm X.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 30,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 366(SLAVERY.) [Venture Smith.] A Narrative of the Life & Adventures of Venture, a Native of Africa,Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 154FREDERICK DOUGLASS. His autograph statement on voting rights for all the people without distinction of race or color.Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 25,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 277(MEDICINE--VETERINARY.) Papers of pioneering veterinarian Jane Hinton.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 25,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 357(SLAVERY.) [McPherson & Oliver; photographers.] [The Scourged Back.]Estimate $ 25,000 - $ 35,000Price Realized $ 22,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 99(CIVIL RIGHTS.) [Rosa Parks.] Her hand-written recollection of her first meeting with Martin Luther King Jr.Estimate $ 30,000 - $ 40,000Price Realized $ 20,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 230(ENTERTAINMENT--THEATER.) Ira Aldridge broadside for his starring role in The Slave, and performing his Jim Crow song.Estimate $ 7,000 - $ 10,000Price Realized $ 17,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 152FREDERICK DOUGLASS. The Anti-Slavery Movement: A Lecture . . . Before the Rochester Ladies Anti-Slavery Society.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 16,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 362(SLAVERY.) A Valuable Sugar Plantation, and a Large Gang of Acclimated Negroes, for Sale at Auction.Estimate $ 1,200 - $ 1,800Price Realized $ 15,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 363(SLAVERY.) Valuable Acclimated Slaves, for Sale by Auction by Isaac L. MCoy.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 15,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 95(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Hollace Ransdell. Report on the Scottsboro, Ala. Case.Estimate $ 12,000 - $ 18,000Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 400(WOMENS HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Felix J. Underwood. Manual for Midwives.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 365(SLAVERY.) A Gang of 82 Choice Plantation Slaves! from Georgia . . . Will Be Sold at the City Hotel.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 17(ABOLITION.) Cabinet card portrait of the Rev. Henry Highland Garnet.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 212(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Papers of bebop drummer Kenny Clarke from his first years in France.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 14(ABOLITION.) Turn Out! Turn Out!! No Compromise with Slavery!!!Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 156FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Address . . . on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 201(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Photo album of jazz saxophone player Fletcher Allens tours through Europe, India, and Egypt.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 157FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Letter sharing the history of Prudence Crandall and Americas first private school for Black girls.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 9,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 7(ABOLITION.) [Thomas Fisher.] The Negros Memorial or Abolitionists Catechism, by an Abolitionist.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 9,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 367(SLAVERY.) Solomon Northup. Twelve Years a Slave: Narrative of . . . a Citizen of New-York, Kidnapped in Washington.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 271(LITERATURE.) Check List of Negro Authors Written in English and in African Dialects in the Library of Arthur B. Spingarn.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 299(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Above and Beyond the Call of Duty: Dorie Miller Received the Navy Cross at Pearl Harbor.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 75(BUSINESS--BANKING.) Prospectus for Chicagos Binga State Bank.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 7,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 360(SLAVERY.) Alexander Leslie. Letter offering the return of Georgias enslaved people to their owners by the evacuating British army.Estimate $ 7,000 - $ 10,000Price Realized $ 7,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 284(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) P.S. Duval, lithographer. United States Soldiers at Camp William Penn.Estimate $ 8,000 - $ 12,000Price Realized $ 7,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 257(MARTIN LUTHER KING.) I Am a Man, Memphis.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 263(LITERATURE.) Susan Paul. Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, who Died in Boston . . . Aged Six Years.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 371(SLAVERY.) Extensive letters discussing 3 enslaved people who had been loaned from North Carolina to Texas.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 196(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Justin Holland. Holland’s Comprehensive Method for the Guitar.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 93(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Formal portrait of journalist and activist Archibald Grimké.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 6,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 355(SLAVE TRADE.) Documentation of a slave sale gone wrong among American expat merchants in Havana.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 117(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Group of 6 press photos of John Lewis.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 312(PHOTOGRAPHY.) James Presley Ball. Quarter-plate daguerreotype by the pioneering photographer.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 146(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Wide-ranging collection of Rosa Parks memorabilia from her personal attorney.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 265(LITERATURE.) W.E.B. Du Bois. The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 205(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Collection of gospel music, photographs, and ephemera.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 162(W.E.B. DU BOIS.) Early press photo of W.E.B. Du Bois.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 241(HISTORY.) Correspondence between two titans of Black history librarianship, Arthur Schomburg and Dorothy Porter.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 138(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Proposed Plan of Organization and Action for the Chicago Freedom Movement.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 295(MILITARY--WORLD WAR ONE.) Group of 6 sentimental patriotic posters depicting Black soldiers.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 298(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Keep Us Flying! Buy War Bonds.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 368(SLAVERY.) $100 Reward. Ranaway from My Camp in Manchester . . . a Negro Boy Named John.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 115(CIVIL RIGHTS.) We March for Integrated Schools Now!Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 181(ENTERTAINMENT.) Photographs, manuscript lyrics and other papers of Harlem entertainers Thomas Chink Lee and Estrellita Morse.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 304(OCCULT.) Paschal Beverly Randolph. His occult pamphlets The Ghostly Land, The New Mola, and Love! At Last! bound in one volume.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 248MARTIN LUTHER KING. Detroit Council for Human Rights Presents . . . I Have a Dream, Recorded Live at Cobo Hall.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 124(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Danny Lyon; photographer. Now.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 125(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Danny Lyon, photographer. Come Let Us Build a New World Together.Estimate $ 2,500 - $ 3,500Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 338(POLITICS.) Group of 9 posters from Jesse Jacksons 1988 presidential campaign.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 267(LITERATURE.) Langston Hughes. Gypsy Ballads, his signed translation of Federico García Lorcas poetry collection Romancero Gitano.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 4,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 402(WOMENS HISTORY--PROFESSIONAL.) Anna Julia Cooper. A Voice from the South, by a Black Woman of the South.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,420(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 155(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) George Kendall Warren, photographer. Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 318(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Pair of photographs of Booker T. Washington from a visit to California.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 364(SLAVERY.) Valuable Slaves at Auction: Field Hands, Laborers, and House Servants.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 4,000(with Buyer's Premium)