Baltimore: 1868. Unbound. This envelope measures 5.5” x 3”. It bears a hand-stamped corner card from the “Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational Improvement of the Colored People,” and is addressed to Miss Rebecca Primus at Royal Oak, Maryland. It is franked with 3-cent Washington stamp (Scott #65) that... More about Postally used envelope sent from the Baltimore Association for the Moral & Educational...

Philadelphia: International Printing Company, 1948. First Edition. Hard Cover. 8vo. Complete. 97 pages plus frontispiece. Signed by the author on the title page. Sound binding with intact hinges. Clean pages. Gift inscription on the front free endpaper. Almost no wear to cover. Somewhat scarce biography about a staunch supporter of... More about Thomas Earle as a Reformer

Boston: Henry Tolman & Co., Circa 1860. First Edition. Sheet Music. From Buckleys Comic Songs as sung by R. Bisop Buckley [and] Buckleys Serenaders. 5 pages including the front cover. Cover includes five b/w vignettes showing members of the Serenaders. One of the vignettes shows R. Biship Buckley, and the... More about Polly Perkins of Pemberton Green - Sheet Music

Duluth, Minnesota: Duluth Superior Milling Co, 1909. Unbound. The multi-color illustrated advertising cover (envelope) features a African-American baker, dressed in a spotless white suit with red tie, resting his right elbow on a sack of Duluth Flour while holding a sliced loaf of white bread in his left hand. The... More about Advertising envelope for Duluth Imperial Flour

[Thomas County, Georgia]: 1843. Unbound. This document measures 9.5” x 3” and is in nice shape. It reads, “Bryan minor of Joseph Bryan dc’d: / Hire of negro woman Patience 80.00 / Hire of Old woman Mary 50.00 / Hire of Girl Sal 48.00 / [Total] 178.00 / Subscribed &... More about Slave-hiring record

New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1881. Church, Frederick S. and James H. Moser. First Edition, 1st State. Hard Cover. 12mo. Meets all BAL 7100 first state points. 232 pages. 8 pp. advertisements. Frontispiece and 7 plates inserted; other illustrations in text. Last line of p. 9 shows the word... More about Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings: The Folk-Lore of the Old Plantation

On board the Euterpe: January 5, 1865. 1865. Unbound. Lightly soiled with some doodling at the upper corner of the first page. In this letter, Goddard expresses heartfelt sorrow to “Eva” that he would not be able to take leave for a visit. The reason he explains as follows... More about A LOVE LETTER FROM A WHITE OFFICER ASSIGNED TO THE ALL-AFRICAN-AMERICAN 25TH CORPS AS IT...

[Vicinity of Toledo, Ohio]: Circa 1910-1913. Album. This faux leather album measures approximately 7.5” x 6” and contains 50 photographs (mostly silver gelatin but two cyanotypes as well).. The photos vary slightly in size, but most are about 5.5” x 3.5” inches. The album is identified as the “Property of... More about Photograph album documenting an Ohio farm family’s life including images of African-American...

Edinburgh, London, and New York: Myles Macphail, Simpkin Marshall, Appelton, 1861. Hardcover. First American Edition. Complete with 72 pages. 4.5” x 7.5”. Sound binding; rear hinge starting. Light soiling to some pages. Sunned cover with gilded, stamped title. Spine covering has all but perished. An excellent example of an abolitionist... More about Wilfrid and Mary; or, Father and Daughter, A Domestic Comedy illustrative of American Slave Life

New York: Jos. W. Stern, 1902. First Edition. Sheet Music. 8 pages including the cover. Clean; no splits or tape. Some minor cover wear including tiny closed marginal tears. Owner's name on front cover. Long before he wrote the classic fictional autobiography, "The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man," James Weldon... More about Under the Bamboo Tree - Sheet Music

St. Louis: circa 1950. Unbound. This 7” x 5” night-time photograph shows five fashionably dressed, young black men posing with a bright and shiny, light colored 1950 Ford Tudor sedan. The photo has some minor, hard-to-see wrinkling. It is annotated on the reverse, "the Ville." At one time, the Ville... More about Photograph showing a group of five young African-American men posing with what appears to be a...

Omaha: Beacon Press, 1919. Wraps. This oblong, saddle-stapled, softcover photo-booklet measures 7.5” x 5.25” and is “Copiously illustrated.” It contains 26 pages of text and 14 images of the riot, its victim, and some of the perpetrators. The binding is sound; cover and several leaves have some edgewear and short... More about Omaha's Riot, 1919. In Story & Picture

New York: W. H. Murphy, Circa 1846. Cardboard covers. Approximately 3" x 4.5". The cover features a humorous wood engraving of Handy Andy, the blundering servant of and English squire in a very popular bawdy, slapstick novel of the same name published in 1842. Complete with the usual irregular pagination... More about Handy Andy's Budget of Songs.