2005 June Political Memorabilia & Americana #625

<B>Early Black Photographic Work - an Original by A. B. Tubbs</B></I> This sixth plate, cased daguerreotype is by A. B. Tubbs, the...

<B>A Daguerreotype of Two Black Men</B></I> This lovely, ninth plate, cased daguerreotype features two black men posing in formal ...

<B>A Vivid, Ninth Plate Cased Ambrotype of a Young Black Girl with Ringlet Hair Holding a Book</B></I> Surrounded by a brass mat, ...

<B>A Portrait by Chapin of a Lovely Black Child Sitting in a Chair</B></I> A ninth plate, half-cased tintype with a small ring att...

<B>Two Novelty CDVs</B></I> One carte de visite features an elderly black woman with the titled label reading "Flora Stewart,...

<B>Proudly Posed in his Masonic Uniform</B></I> A handsome, mounted albumen of a black man proudly posed in what appears to be a M...

<B>A Beautiful Albumen of a Black Nanny Holding her Charge, a White Baby, in her Lap</B></I> The photograph measures 5.25" x ...

<B>Two Fascinating Sixth Plate Black Occupational Tintypes</B></I> The first depicts four shoeshine boys, two of whom are black. E...

<B>Three Fine Sixth Plate Tintype Studies of Well-dressed Black Couples in Formal Poses at Photography Studios</B></I> In two, you...

<B>19th Century Black Portrait Album - CDVs and Ferrotypes</B></I> Here is a wonderful group of approximately 37 images, mostly po...

<B>A Fine, Sixth Plate Cased Tintype Featuring Four Blacks Standing in Front of Their Home Out in the Country</B></I> With an orna...

<B>A Great Pair of Cased Tintypes of Blacks</B></I> The first, a sixth plate, features a beautiful black woman sitting at a table....

<B>Rare 1/6th Plate Cased Ferrotype of Black Baby in Chair</B></I> An unusual outdoor photo of a small black child sitting in a ch...

<B>A Fine Tintype of a Black Boy Standing by a Fence</B></I> This ninth plate cased tintype, surrounded by brass mat, includes ros...

<B>A Compelling Group of Six Tintypes Featuring Portraits of African American Women</B></I> Five are sixth plates. One a sixteenth...

<B>A Marvelous Civil War Stereoview of a Black Soldier Working on the Dutch Gap Canal</B></I> Taken after the canal bank was blown...

<B>A CDV Featuring a Group of Black Soldiers and Laborers Posed in Front of the Headquarters that had Belonged to General Lafayette</B>&...

<B>Two Frederick Douglass Cartes de Visite Photos</B></I> Frederick Douglass, 1817-1895, the great black American reformer who was...

<B>A Fine Frederick Douglas Cabinet Card</B></I> By Warren of Boston, mount trimmed somewhat as shown, photographer's imprint ...

<B>Photo of Black Soldiers Guarding a U.S. Stage Coach</B></I> Panoramic view of African American soldiers (complete with carbines...

<B>Three Fascinating Stereoviews of Blacks in Scenes by Photographer J. A. Palmer</B></I> The first shows a black man, women and b...

<B>Blacks Posed in Pair of Photographs</B></I> Two items: a 9.5" x 7" photograph on a 12" x 10" mount presenti...

<B>Three Compelling Cabinet Cards Depicting Young Blacks with Deformities, Formerly (and Inappropriately) Known as "Freaks"</B>...

<B>The Real Uncle Tom!</B></I> A wonderful oval albumen portrait, 5.25" x 7.25" of Reverend Josiah Henson, on an 8"...

<B>Two Marvelous CDVs of the Jubilee Singers</B></I> One depicts the entire group, the other shows the men only. Both cartes de vi...

<B>Now That's Entertainment! A Marvelous Photo of Four Black Vaudevillian Actors</B></I> Mounted 9.5" x 7.5" photogr...

<B>An Unmounted, Blue Cyanotype of Two Banjo Players Sitting in Front of an Ivy-covered Wall</B></I> Similar to cabinet card in si...

<B>A Vivid, Detailed Stereoview of a Black Banjo Player</B></I> The African American banjo player is wearing broad stripes. A note...

<B>A Fun Pair of Cabinet Cards Illustrating Well Dressed Men</B></I> This pair of cabinet cards depicts a tall man in fancy dress ...

<B>A Marvelous Series of Ten (10) French, Real-photo Postcards Featuring Black Children Performing a Dance Entitled "Le Cake-Walk"&l...

<B>Two Cabinet Card Portraits of Black Singing Groups, Including a Photo of the Jubilee Singers, One of the Better Singing Groups to be Sponso...

<B>Two Cabinet Cards: One Featuring the Black Author William Pickens and the Other of a Woman in a Universal Negro Improvement Association Uni...

<B>Well Tended-to by a Black Shoeshine Boy!</B></I> A wonderfully sublime, 7" x 5" mounted photograph, a cabinet card in...

<B>Two Photos: Blacks at Work... Bicycle Smiths and a Cobbler!</B></I> Two photographs, the first a 7 3/4" x 4.5" albume...

<B>Two Fascinating Photos: A Cabinet Card Depicting a Grown Woman Holding Hands with Princess Wee Wee, a Black Woman Featured in Side Shows an...

<B>A Wonderful CDV Featuring Millie and Christine, Famous Black Co-joined Twins Who Toured with P. T. Barnum</B></I> The carte-de-...

<B>A Wonderful Cabinet Card of Millie and Christine, Famous Black Co-joined Twins</B></I> Born slaves in North Carolina in 1851, M...

<B>Two Light-hearted Stereoviews of Black Chimney Sweeps from Savannah</B></I> The first shows a man with his four helpers, the fr...

<B>Four Wonderful Stereoviews, Two Featuring Black Laborers Picking Cotton</B></I> One features a large smiling woman balancing a ...

<B>A Fascinating Carte de Visite Study of a Young Black Man by Brady</B></I> The great photographer Mathew Brady's imprint is ...

<B>Four Lovely Carte de Visite Portraits of Black Children</B></I> Three of the CDVs include the photographer's imprint on ver...

<B>Five lovely CDVs Featuring Portraits of Black Women</B></I> One with photographer's imprint on verso, one with photographer...

<B>Four Wonderful Stereo Cards of Blacks</B></I> The first depicts a group of black children posed for Sunday school (the best beh...

<B>Four 8" x 5" Interesting "Slice of Life" Photos of Murfreesboro, Tennessee</B></I> Each mounted 9" x 7...

<B>Could These be the Descendents of "Old Hickory's" Slaves?</B></I> A wonderful, 8.75" x 7.25" photograph...

<B>Three Interesting "Slice of Life" Stereoviews of Blacks</B></I> The first is a portrait of a black family outside the...

<B>An Interesting Study Depicting the Freed Slaves Formerly Owned by Rebel General Thomas F. Drayton</B></I> General Thomas F. Dra...

<B>Three Stereo Cards of Blacks in Florida</B></I> The first depicts the residents of the Colored Women's Home of St. Augustin...

<B>Three Wonderful Photos of White Children with Their Black Nannies</B></I> The first, a cabinet card, features a smiling nanny w...

<B>Photographs of Blacks -- Sweet Children on Horses</B></I> Two are cabinet cards, each featuring a well-dressed black man standi...

<B>Two CDVs Featuring Englehardt Hart, the Renown Black Cyclist</B></I> Both cartes-de-visite with titled label. We know little of...

<B>Photograph Depicting Sioux Indians (in Uniform) on the Hampton Institute Baseball Team</B></I> A great 8" x 5 3/4" ph...

<B>Three Fine Stereoviews of Famous Black American Booker T. Washington</B></I> Born a slave, Booker T. Washington attended school...

<B>A Mounted, Sepia Photograph Featuring the White-owned "Gilt Edge Barber Place" in Harlem, New York City, Circa 1910</B><...

<B>Framed Cabinet Card by Newsboy of the Great Boxer Peter Jackson</B></I> Born in Jamaica, Peter Jackson was arguably the best bo...

<B>A Fascinating Set of Nine Real-photo Postcards Chronicling the Boxing Match Between the Great Jack Johnson (First Black Heavyweight Champio...

<B>An Exciting Set of Five Real-photo Postcards Picturing the 1915 Title Fight Between Black Heavyweight Boxing Champion Jack Johnson and Jess...

<B>Wonderful Set of Five Real-photo Postcards Detailing the Boxing Match Between Black Heavyweight Champion Jack Johnson and Jess Willard</...

<B>A Fascinating Group of Six Black Convict Photos</B></I> Four of the photographs show front and profile; one photo has the crimi...

<B>A Wonderful Group Lot from the Hampton Institute! </B></I> A 7.5" x 4.5" photograph from the dedication of a new libr...

<B>Booker T. Washington's Tuskegee Institute - Two Books</B></I> Tuskegee University was established in 1880 by act of the Ala...

<B>Celebrating Their School -- The Tuskegee Institute</B></I> A large, impressive 19" x 10" photograph with a printed le...

<B>Depression Era Black Leader Father Divine - Two Items</B></I> An African-American religious leader and founder of the Universal...

<B>Four Paul Laurence Dunbar First Edition Poetry Books</B></I> Dunbar was the first African American poet to gain national critic...

<B>Down South 1900 Pictorial by Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr.</B></I> Eickemeyer was a famous American photographer, a leader in the Pict...

<B>"Roll, Jordan, Roll," First Edition Book by Doris Ulmann and Julia Peterkin</B></I> (New York: Robert O. Ballou, 1933...

<B>Signed Platinum Print Photograph by Doris Ulmann</B></I> Here is another of Ulmann's rare contact prints of a photograph ta...

<B>Original 1939 Peter Sekaer Photograph Signed by His Widow</B></I> Born in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1901, Sekaer came to New York ...

<B>Signed Platinum Print Photograph by Doris Ulmann</B></I> Ulmann was born in New York City in 1882 and became a popular photogra...

<B>1943 Book "Nicodemus Helps Uncle Sam" by Inez Hogan</B></I> A vintage World War II book from the "Nicodemus"...

<B>Civil War Era Stitchery Mini-Sampler "We's Free"</B></I> Can you imagine the joy felt by a slave who is told that...

<B>Graphic 1899 Black Themed Advertiser</B></I> The turn of the century was well noted for its great colorful graphics and this pi...

<B>Fine Poster of Booker T. Washington, Dating from His Acting Career</B></I> Booker T. Washington was a great pioneer in educatin...

<B>Set of Six Mammy Spice Containers Plus Syrup, Salt and Pepper Containers and Recipe Box</B></I> A unique grouping of Aunt Jemim...

<B>Black Americana Cast Iron Cotton Picker Still Bank</B></I> Great patina and look to this cast iron bank of a black character dr...

<B>Rare Black Gent Lux Clock with Swinging Tie and Animated Moving Eyes</B></I> When the tie, which is the pendulette, swings it m...

<B>1930 Black Maria Chewing Tobacco Wooden Box</B></I> With interesting graphics of a native black woman on two sides and the text...

<B>Black Americana Tin Sign "The Temptation of St. Anthony"</B></I> This sign was used by "Paul Jones & Co., Lo...

<B>Jolly Nigger Mechanical Bank</B></I> Has the original bottom which reads, "Made by Shephard Hardware Co. Buffalo, N.Y.,&qu...

<B>Black Americana Store Display Box for Licorice</B></I> Like many of the period pieces, such as Niggerhair tobacco or Black Mari...

<B>Cast Iron Black Americana Detailed Face Hat Hanger</B></I> Made of cast iron, this hat rack is centered with the boyish face of...

<B>Majolica Black Boy Playing Accordion</B></I> Nicely done and very colorful early Majolica black boy sitting on a ridge. Impress...

<B>Black Americana "Honey Lips" Children in Watermelon Ad</B></I> Little black boy trying to steal a kiss from a little ...

<B>Lucky Joe Mustard Jar Joe Louis Banks</B></I> Intended to be a representation of the boxer Joe Louis, these four mustard jars w...

<B>Early Pabst Blue Ribbon Advertising Sign Featuring African American Waiter</B></I> Founded in 1844, Pabst is one of the oldest ...

<B>Pair of Civil War Songsheets</B></I> A pair of wonderful, hand-colored songsheets: <I>Darkey Conscript</B></I>...

<B>Slavery Through a Northern Woman's Eyes... a Rare Imprint</B></I> A 32-page pamphlet in yellow, pictorial wraps entitled &q...

<B>Pair of Minstrel Songsters</B></I> A pair of minstrel songsters one coming from a performance at the outset of the Civil War. B...

<B>Anti Slavery Hard Times Token</B></I> Low #54, Sullivan-DeWitt CE 1838-19, 28 mm. Inspired by the British Anti Slavery Society,...

<B>British Anti-Slavery or Condor Token</B></I> This 28 mm copper token was issued in the late 1790s. The obverse has the symbol o...

<B>Barbados Will Dividing Slaves Dated 1729</B></I> Last will and testament of Thomas Lovell, Christ Church Parish, Barbados, date...

<B>1778 Document -- Slave Traded for 300 Acres of Land</B></I> An extremely rare handwritten document written and signed by Charle...

<B>1778 Revolutionary War Slave Document</B></I> A rare document being a handwritten receipt dated November 29, 1778 (Philadelphia...

<B>1811 General Anthony Wayne's Son Isaac Buys a Slave</B></I> A slave manumission, handwritten and dated December 10, 1811, N...

<B>1811 Slavery Documents Isaac Wayne's "Hetty"</B></I> This lot consists of two documents dated December 10, 1811 a...

<B>Great Political Content Letter: "That Act of 1836 Was The Beginning of Mischief" Letter with Important Historic and Slavery Conte...

<B>Runaway Slave Who Begged His Master to Take Him Back</B></I> February 12, 1845 letter commenting on a runaway slave who begged ...

<B>Confederate Postmaster General John H. Reagan Presides in a Dispute in Texas Regarding the Ownership of a Slave</B></I> Circa 1...

<B>Harriet Was Stolen! 1851 Fraudulently Sold Slave Manuscript Document</B></I> Spring term, 1851, fraudulently sold slave, Harrie...

<B>Slaves in Trade for Cotton 1852 Anderson County, Texas, Manuscript Document</B></I> January 2, 1852, lending of four slaves, An...