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Lot 269(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Inscribed carte-de-visite portrait of early photographer James Presley Ball.Estimate $ 6,000 - $ 9,000Price Realized $ 125,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 4(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) McPherson & Oliver; photographers. [The Scourged Back.]Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 75,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 250(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) The original photograph of United States Soldiers at Camp William Penn.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 52,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 77(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Manuscript broadside of the 13th Amendment signed by the Vice President and 111 congressmen.Estimate $ 80,000 - $ 120,000Price Realized $ 52,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 16(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Correspondence archive of the Richmond slave dealers Dickinson, Hill & Co., and S.R. Fondren.Estimate $ 30,000 - $ 40,000Price Realized $ 50,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 157(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Victor H. Green, editor. The Negro Motorist Green Book.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 50,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 243(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Lincoln Ripley Stone. Diary of the surgeon from the famed 54th Massachusetts Infantry, and related photos.Estimate $ 20,000 - $ 30,000Price Realized $ 50,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 98(ART.) Archive of letters from the sculptor Richmond Barthé to a close Jamaican friend.Estimate $ 25,000 - $ 35,000Price Realized $ 50,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 236(LITERATURE.) Wallace Thurman, editor. Fire!! A Quarterly Devoted to the Younger Negro Artists.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 32,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 238(LITERATURE.) Richard Wright. Annotated typescript of his adaptation of Daddy Goodness.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 164(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Freedom Summer archive of civil rights activist Karen Haberman Trusty.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 206(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Papers of pianist-composer Lawrence Brown relating to Paul Robeson and more.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 27,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 5(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Half-plate ambrotype portrait of an enslaved Virginia woman, possibly named Martha, with her owners.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 20,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 112(BLACK PANTHERS.) The Black Panther: Black Community News Service.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 20,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 190(ENTERTAINMENT.) E. Simms Campbell, artist. A Night-Club Map of Harlem,Estimate $ 8,000 - $ 12,000Price Realized $ 18,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 57(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Minutes of the African Civilization Society and other papers of abolitionist Theodore Bourne.Estimate $ 8,000 - $ 12,000Price Realized $ 17,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 251(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Sixth-plate ambrotype of a Black Confederate valet.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 17,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 282(POLITICS.) Outrageous! Shirley Chisholm for President.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 16,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 249(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Joshua M. Addeman. Detailed and observant diary by a captain in the 14th Rhode Island Heavy Artillery (Colored).Estimate $ 8,000 - $ 12,000Price Realized $ 14,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 141(BUSINESS.) Records of the Green Book-approved Eggleston Hotel in Richmond, Virginia.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 13,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 242(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Full-length profile portrait of a Black cavalryman.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 11,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 64(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) [Henry P. Moore, photographer.] Enslaved workers on a South Carolina plantation after the owner had fled.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 10,625(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 60(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Portia Gage. An Appeal to the Governors of the Free States: The Prayer of Twenty Millions.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 142(BUSINESS.) Catalog of Color-Tone Christmas cards designed and manufactured by Negroes . . . for Negroes.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 32(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Peter Kramer, artist. The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 280(POLITICS.) Cabinet card of Thomas Peterson, first colored voter in the United StatesEstimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 10,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 61(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 9,375(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 36(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Documents on the states confiscation of 15 slaves owned by Grief Cook, a free man of color in Georgia.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 8,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 48(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) The Genius of Universal Emancipation.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 200(ENTERTAINMENT--FILM.) Sam Greenlee. Script and investment pitch for the film adaptation of The Spook Who Sat by the Door.Estimate $ 500 - $ 750Price Realized $ 8,125(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 205(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Black Pattis Troubadours, the Sweet Singers of the Sunny South.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 7,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 58(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Constitution of the African Civilization Society,Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 7,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 152(CIVIL RIGHTS.) For Colored / For Whites sign for a segregated bus.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 7,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 296(WOMENS HISTORY.) Pauline E. Hopkins. New Illustrated Lecture: The Rise of the Black Republic.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 7,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 168(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Pair of Congressional draft printings of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 7,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 33(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Treaty settlement for Negros stolen . . . by a party of Creek Indians.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 6,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 14(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Bill of sale for an enslaved man, sold by the recently elected first Mayor of Hartford.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 73(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Lafayette V. Newell, photographer. Photograph of a contraband family at Point Lookout.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 94(ART.) Loïs Mailou Jones. Original portrait of executive Sara Spencer Washington, done for the 1942 Twelve American Women calendar.Estimate $ 4,000 - $ 6,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 210(ENTERTAINMENT--MUSIC.) Archive of photographs, negatives, and slides taken or developed by Dizzy Gillespie.Estimate $ 10,000 - $ 15,000Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 275(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Collection of work by Black Chicago photographer Dion Stams.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 6,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 71(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Clinton B. Fisk. Telegram from the founder of Fisk University celebrating the Emancipation Proclamation.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 6,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 161(CIVIL RIGHTS.) An Appeal to You . . . to March on Washington.Estimate $ 1,500 - $ 2,500Price Realized $ 6,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 178(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) [Samuel Montague Fassett; photographer.] Carte-de-visite portrait of Douglass taken during the Civil War.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 6,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 223(HISTORY.) Handbill for an early Texas Juneteenth commemoration.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 217(FAMILY PAPERS.) Letters to a Philadelphia woman re the final care of her aunt, and expanded opportunities during World War One.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 222(MARCUS GARVEY.) Group of 5 Garvey pamphlets and magazines.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 215(ENTERTAINMENT--VAUDEVILLE.) Signed portrait of George W. Walker, of Williams & Walker fame.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,250(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 295(SPORTS--BOXING.) LeRoy Neiman. Portrait of Muhammad Ali.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 228MARTIN LUTHER KING. Letter from Birmingham City Jail.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 10(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Business card of J.W. Odell, Negro Broker.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,200(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 96(ART.) Charles White. Six Drawings.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 163(CIVIL RIGHTS.) Pennant from the March on Washington.Estimate $ 2,000 - $ 3,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 252(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Orders for an enslaved Black man to serve as pilot of a Confederate naval vessel.Estimate $ 3,000 - $ 4,000Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 256(MILITARY--CIVIL WAR.) Claim submitted by the mother of Medal of Honor recipient Sergeant Alfred Hilton of the 4th USCT.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 5,000(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 70(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Thomas Affleck. A plantation owners attempt to set up slave patrols in the last days of Confederate Texas.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 241(MILITARY--AMERICAN REVOLUTION.) Pair of documents regarding final pay for deceased soldier Kedar Freeman.Estimate $ 1,000 - $ 1,500Price Realized $ 4,750(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 224(HISTORY.) A.W. Turner. No Such Race on Earth as Negro--This is a Slave Title. Do Not Be a Mental Slave.Estimate $ 800 - $ 1,200Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 8(SLAVERY & ABOLITION.) Administrators Sale . . . at the Elliston Plantation . . . Consisting of the Following Slaves.Estimate $ 5,000 - $ 7,500Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)
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Lot 147(CIVIL RIGHTS.) East St. Louis Riots: Report to the Special Committee Authorized by Congress.Estimate $ 600 - $ 900Price Realized $ 4,500(with Buyer's Premium)