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From Slavery to "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah."

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles Start Price:40.00 USD Estimated At:80.00 - 110.00 USD
From Slavery to  Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.
Varied assortment of black Americana, suitable for display: Lithograph captioned "The Negro," judged c. 1850-60, 4 1/2 x 6 3/4, showing a pensive young man with curiously Eurasian eyes, wearing white robe. Solid cream background panel and ruled border. Stylized contemporary manuscript title at top margin, "The Negro," in brown ink. Ink spot at blank lower left corner, else fine. * Playbill for just-opened "Cabin in the Sky," Martin Beck Theatre, N.Y.C., Jan. 17, 1941, 32 pp. Ethel Waters on cover. Also with Katherine Dunham; staged by George Balanchine. Light wear. * Glossy promotional still for radio series "Peggy's Doctor," presented by Blue Coal, c. 1934-39, 8 x 10. Cast photo, including black actor Ernest Whitman. Written by Himan Brown, remarkably prolific producer of "Dick Tracy," "Bronx Marriage Bureau," "Mystery Theatre," and other hit radio shows. V.F. * Realphoto advertising postcard for Zeno Bakery, caramel sepia, postmarked Bellows Falls, Vt., 1937, showing black guitarist at studio microphone, grand piano behind. Printed sig., "Zeno's Singing Baker, Jimmie Packard." Postally used. Postal creases, stamp with internal snag, else image V.G. * Oversize souvenir pub. "Walt Disney Presents Song of the South," the revolutionary live action-cartoon movie, 1946, 9 3/4 x 12 1/2, (20) pp., color and apple-green on cream. Cast photos, including Hattie McDaniel. Songs include "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "Let the Rain Pour Down." Some cover toning at top and bottom margins, scuff and moderate soiling at bottom, else internally fine and clean. * Steel engraving, "Prayer Meeting in a Contraband Camp, Washington, 1862." 5 1/4 x 8 1/2. V.G. (6 pcs.)