![Item #3970 A Declaration of Civil Rights [cover title]. African Americana, Civil Rights](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3970.jpg?v=1678125293)
[New Orleans: Southern Conference Educational Fund, Inc., 1948]. [4]pp., on a single folded folio sheet. Old horizontal folds, minor wear. A rare declaration of civil rights "approved at a Conference on Civil Rights at Madison Hall, University of Virginia" in 1948 by the Southern Conference Educational Fund. The group bills..... More
[Shreveport, La. 1949-1954]. [35]; 49pp., with a handful of newspaper clippings laid in. Contemporary composition books bound in blue wrappers, black cloth backstrip. Moderate wear, abrading, and creasing to wrappers. A pair of manuscript accounting books recording the personal expenses of Whit H. and Lula Smith Howard of Shreveport, Louisiana..... More
[Shreveport, La. 1928-1930]. [7],88,[1]pp. Folio. Contemporary tan cloth stamped in black. Cloth on spine and boards noticeably chipped and abraded. Minor thumb-soiling to text, a few leaves with tiny chips to margins. A unique manuscript ledger from the Sir Knights & Ladies Friendship Association of America in Shreveport, Louisiana, recording..... More
[Ohio: 1950s to 1960s]. [18] leaves, illustrated with 123 photographs mounted at corners with cello tape, plus twenty-seven loose photographs. Contemporary tan scrapbook album, string tied. Many leaves detached, photographs occasionally worn but overall in nice shape. A wonderful collection of vernacular photographs documenting the rural family life of Lee..... More
Washington, D.C. Powell y Ginck, 1872. [bound with:] Administracion de Justicia en Puebla. Tribunal de Primera Instancia. Mexico: 1875. 71,26pp. Contemporary quarter red calf and marbled paper-covered boards, spine gilt. Spine chipped and heavily rubbed, corners and edges noticeably worn, minor rubbing to boards. Faint thin dampstain to margins of..... More
New York: The Alliance Publishing Co., 1900. 40pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Some discoloration along front wrapper, minor dust-soiling to wrappers. Thin dampstain along outer margin of first few leaves, otherwise internally clean. A rare report compiled by noted African-American educator, author, and businessman George Allen Mebane of North Carolina..... More
[Various locations: 1974-1979]. Several dozen documents, letters, pamphlets, and assorted ephemera, constituting about half a linear foot of material. Some folds and creasing, moderate wear. An informative archive of materials documenting the brief Army career of Catherine Pope Burroughs Bentle, an Army brat who spent her late teen years and..... More
![Item #3941 [Early Phonograph Recording of Two Women's Suffrage Speeches]. Women's Suffrage,...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3941.jpg?v=1678125449)
New York, Paris, London: Pathe Freres Phonograph Co., [1915]. 78 RPM phonograph record, approximately eleven inches in diameter. In plain sleeve, accompanied by later, smaller-format illustrated Pathe brown paper sleeve. Some scratching on both sides, one small edge chip in blank area. A rare phonograph record containing two speeches in..... More
Osaka: [Taio Gold Mining Co.?], 1936. [8],134,57,[36]pp., plus three folding maps and plates. Extensively illustrated in the text with photographs and blueprints. Original blue cloth stamped in white on the front cover. In original tan cardboard slipcase, spine lettered in black. Soiling to slipcase and boards. Minor edge wear. First..... More
[San Jose Island, Panama: 1944-1945]. 195 black-and-white photographs, all measuring 4 x 5 inches, many with ink notations on verso, plus four smaller prints, two negatives, two typed notation sheets likely intended as captions for the photographs, and a printed journal centerfold. Housed in a makeshift maroon cloth clamshell box..... More
![Item #3757 Trip to South America, Central America, and Mexico [manuscript caption title]. Latin...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3757_01.jpg?v=1678125564)
[Various locations]: 1937. [18] leaves, illustrated with eighty silver gelatin photographs in mounting corners, measuring between 1.5 x 2 inches and 3.5 x 4.5 inches, all captioned in white pencil on the album leaves. Oblong slim quarto. Contemporary textured brown paper-covered boards, string tied. Moderate edge wear and rubbing to..... More
Irvington, Ca. May, 1941. [6],150pp. Original wooden boards decoratively illustrated and lettered in green, gray, and black paint on the front board, reading, "Recipes Irvington P.T.A." and bound by three separate rings. Text uniformly toned, with several leaves detached but present, a few with minor chipping. An exceedingly rare DIY..... More
[Various locations in Texas: ca. 1850s to 1880s]. One daguerreotype, five ambrotypes, two tintypes, two CDVs, and five images mounted on card. Some significant wear and fading to a few of the earliest images, some soiling and surface wear to later images. A significant grouping of images documenting multiple generations..... More
![Item #3517 Parent and Teachers' Rally. Alto Negro High School... [cover title]. African...](/pictures/thumb/McBRB3517.jpg?v=1678125602)
Alto, La. 1952. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old folds, minor soiling, moderate chipping, not affecting text. A seemingly-unrecorded program for a fundraising rally by the parents and teachers of an African-American high school in Alto, Louisiana during the late Jim Crow period. The program prints the schedule of..... More
[N.p. 1892-1893]. 166pp. of retained transfer copies of typed and manuscript letters, preceded by [20]pp. of manuscript index. Large quarto. Contemporary tan cloth, leather corners, stamped in dark brown, "Letters" to spine and front cover. Small area of loss near bottom of front board, corners scuffed, moderate soiling to boards..... More
Hempstead County, Ar. 1917-1918. Three separate quarto reports, each [4]pp. on single folded pre-printed sheets, completed in manuscript. Light chipping to edges, discoloration and chipping along top edge of November report. A collection of three reports on rural education in Arkansas, produced under the aegis of the Negro School Fund..... More
Navarro County, Tx. August 18 to October 28, 1881. [4]pp., docketed on last page. Original folds, a few small areas of ink burn, but otherwise very clear and clean. A manuscript report from a processor in Navarro County, Texas documenting eighty head of "cattle slaughtered by J.A. Cooper for the..... More
Nashville: Sunday School Publishing Board, [1951]. 112pp. Original yellow wrappers printed in black. Light dust-soiling to wrappers, minor edge wear. Small ownership ink stamps to front wrapper, title page, last text page, and inside rear wrapper. A seemingly-unrecorded collection of "real life stories" published for the Young People's Department of..... More
[N.p., likely San Luis Obispo]: Aston, [1947 or earlier]. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 29.25 inches. "Aston Photo Shop" stamp on verso. Small crease at lower left corner, otherwise a very nice image. A somber scene of the funeral of a Japanese-American child, photographed by Frank Aston, a notable photographer in..... More
![Item #2341 Funeral of the Late Shigeki Yokota [caption title in Japanese, translated to English]....](/pictures/thumb/McBRB2341.jpg?v=1678130295)
Fresno: Kamiyama, 1954. Panoramic photograph, 10 x 38 inches. Minor wear and occasional soft creasing. A substantial panoramic photograph depicting the somber scene of the funeral of Fresno resident Shigeki Yokota on September 8, 1954. A couple of hundred mourners pose for the camera at the corner of 9th and..... More
[Philadelphia: 1850]. 7pp. Gathered signatures, folded, likely removed from a binding. Partially detached along spines. Moderate foxing. A quite rare pamphlet recording a jingoistic speech given by former Vice President George Mifflin Dallas in front of the Union meeting in November 1850. Supporting the Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive..... More
Nueva York: Imprenta del Novo Mundo y la America Ilustrada, [1874]. [4],142,[1]pp., plus three plates. Small quarto. Contemporary quarter calf and purple marbled boards, spine gilt. Rubbing and wear to spine ends and corners. Minor soiling to title page, but otherwise clean and fresh internally. An introduction to the construction..... More
Philadelphia: King & Baird, 1866. 136pp., including portrait frontispiece of Abraham Lincoln. Original brown cloth, decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover, recased, with later black backstrip and new endpapers. Boards worn and a bit stained. Loss to bottom portion of frontipiece, costing most of Lincoln's name but not touching..... More
Utica, Ms. 1911. 8pp., accompanied by a single-page fundraising typed letter, signed, and original transmittal envelope. Original mailing folds to pamphlet and letter, minor wear and toning. A very rare annual report from the Utica Normal & Industrial Institute of Utica, Mississippi, issued by the school's founder and principal, William..... More
Nueva York: A.B. Allen & Co., 1849. [4],114,[2]pp. Profusely illustrated with in-text illustrations. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter black calf and green cloth, gilt morocco spine label. Light wear and dust-soiling to boards. Some discoloration to front wrapper, minor creasing to rear wrapper. Small typed name label added..... More