![Item #3096 [Two Photographs of an African American Teacher and Her Students in Jim Crow Texas]....](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB3096.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1659030847)
San Antonio: 1938. Two black-and-white photographs, each 2.75 x 4 inches. Light edge wear. Developer's stamp on verso of each. A pair of contemporary photographs featuring a neatly-dressed young Black woman with eight of her pupils. The first pictures the teacher and her students seated on the steps of a...... More
![Item #4398 Lackland Air Force Base Squadron 3743 Flight W1 [caption title]. African Americana,...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/McBRB4398.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694619986)
San Antonio, Tx. 1956. Sepia-toned photographic collage, 10.25 x 7.25 inches. Minor wear and creasing, mounting remnants on verso. A handsomely-arranged photographic roster featuring a handful of officers (including two women) and the seventy-two female members of Squadron 3743, Flight W1 of the United States Air Force while in training..... More
[Houston: 1944]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Mild toning, punch holes to top margin. A rare program for the commencement exercises for the 1944 midwinter graduating class of Phillis Wheatley High School in Houston, Texas. The program prints the lineup of speakers and songs, including "Let My People Go!"..... More
[Tyler, Tx. Texas College, 1937]. Pictorial handbill, 8 x 5 inches. Small marginal losses at top edge and bottom left corner, small puncture not costing any text, minor staining, paper remnants on verso likely from removal from a scrapbook. A seemingly-unrecorded promotional flyer advertising an April 23, 1937 performance by..... More
![Item #3847 [Late 19th-Century Cabinet Card of an African-American Man in San Antonio]. African...](https://mcbriderarebooks.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3847.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1683196481)
San Antonio: Barr Studio, [1880s]. Cabinet card photograph. Light wear and toning, a bit of foxing. Image clear. A handsome studio portrait of an African-American gentleman taken by D.P. Barr in San Antonio. It shows an unidentified man seated against what appears to be a "nature" background. He is in..... More
[Houston: 1935]. [3]pp., on a single folded sheet. Some holes punched into the inner margin, repaired with tissue. A rare program for the end-of-term exercises of Blackshear Elementary School, a segregated primary school in Houston, Texas still in operation today. The program includes a one-act musical comedy, with synopsis and..... More
Nashville: National Baptist Publishing Board, [ca. 1938]. 8pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Wrappers a bit dusty, mild rubbing and edge wear. The rare first edition of Dr. E.H. Borden's impassioned personal history and essay on why he identifies as a Baptist. At the time he wrote the present essay. Dr..... More
[Prairie View, Tx. 1973-1974]. [19] leaves, illustrated with 248 photographs, mostly in color but some in black-and-white, ranging from thumbnails to 8 x 10 inches, plus several ephemeral items. Square folio. Contemporary handmade photograph album comprised of self-stick album pages bound in blue velvet with white felt decorations affixed to..... More
Kildare, Tx. 1959-1972. Ledger I: [132]pp. of manuscript entries. Folio. Text block only, no binding. Occasional thumbsoiling and spotting to text, small areas of biopredation to first two text leaves affecting one or two words on a few lines, minor marginal chipping to last few leaves not affecting text. [with:]..... More
Nueva York: Imprenta de "El Correo de Nueva York" 1874. [4],xi,430,[1]pp., plus five plates (three folding). Early-20th century quarter black calf and blue textured cloth, gilt spine titles, by Mexican binder Saul A. Alva with his binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper. Edges and spine ends scuffed, minor soiling..... 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
Fort Worth: Published for the Author, 1900. 486,xxxvii,[1]pp. plus frontispiece. Illustrated throughout. Original dark blue cloth, gilt. Light wear and soiling to cloth. Text clean. A comprehensive work on the Texas angora goat industry, illustrated with numerous handsome halftones of various goats. With discussions on the goat's production for both..... More
Dallas: Mathis Publishing Co., 1935. x,134pp., plus five pages of photographic plates. Original crimson cloth with gilt titles on front cover and spine. Original green dust jacket ruled in white with black titles on front cover and spine and a color reproduction of the Texas state flag on the front..... More
Denton, Tx. 1920-1938. [131]pp. Typescript on rectos only. Folio sheets, loose. Light wear and soiling, primarily at edges. Manuscript corrections and notations throughout. An apparently unpublished typescript of a story about ranch life in Texas at the turn of the century. There is substantial detail about ranch life, farming practices..... More
[Various locations in Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, and Texas: 1862-1866]. About 200 autograph letters, signed, totaling over 600 pages, including both war-date letters and manuscript letters dated before the Civil War, mostly written in ink, with a few in pencil, most with original transmittal envelopes; plus five photographs and several other..... More
Saltillo: 1881. xiv,38pp., plus lithograph folding map, hand-colored in outline, measuring approximately 13 x 16.5 inches. Untrimmed. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper nearly detached, with lower edge torn away and repairs. Map with professional repairs to separations and short closed tear on verso. Light edge wear, even toning, scattered dampstaining..... More
Fort Worth, Tx. 1978. [8],266pp., including six pages of color photographs of the author's family, plus eight blank pages for notes and additional recipes, separately-issued errata leaf laid in. Original orange wrappers, printed in black, with color photograph of the author of the back cover, spiral bound in black plastic..... More
New York: 1877. 31,[1]pp. Folio. Original orange pictorial wrappers. Light wear and soiling, some minor loss to wrappers. Text toned, slight biopredation to final leaf. A lovely catalogue of patterns for clothing of all types issued by E. Butterick & Co. The catalogue opens with styles for ladies' coats and..... More
Houston: Gray, Dillaye & Co., 1909. viii, 230pp. Modern half black morocco and black cloth, spine gilt, preserving original gilt cloth label on front cover reading, "A.C. Gray." Title page a bit chipped, diagonal crease in first few text leaves, moderate even toning to text. The printer's copy of one..... More
Houston: Gray, Dillaye & Co., 1909. viii, 230pp. Contemporary black limp leatherette, with gilt titles on front cover and "Alice Gray Sears McGee" stamped at the bottom. Title page a bit chipped, with two brown cello repairs to both title and the first leaf of the Preface, the latter of..... More
[Sedalia, Mo. ca.1907]. [36]pp. Oblong 12mo. Original yellow printed wrappers, stapled. Light wear and soiling, contemporary pencil notation on front cover. Slight biopredation to upper corner, continuing through text. Contents clean. A catalogue of nineteen horses for sale at the San Antonio fair, each with a half tone illustration and..... More
Austin: E.L. Steck, 1915. [22]pp. Oblong octavo. Original green printed wrappers, string-tied. Light wear and chipping to edges, slightly faded. Internally clean. Handsome promotional work for the city of Austin, Texas, compiled and published by the American National Bank on the occasion of its twenty-fifth anniversary. The work is extensively..... More
[Crystal City, Tx., and other locations: November, 1945-1966]. Autograph book, with 73pp. of entries. Contemporary tan textured cloth, 5 x 6 inches, string tied. Moderate dust-soiling to covers, minor edge wear. Ownership signature on inside front cover. One leaf detached, but contents generally sound. Accompanied by eighty-three photographs, from 2.5..... More
[Various locations, mainly in Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, and Texas: 1847-1969]. Approximately fifty-five original manuscript letters and documents, plus 150 photographs, most on studio mounts, and several dozen ephemeral items, including newspaper clippings, photocopies of manuscript documents, business cards, and much more. A handful of photographs with minor chipping, but overall..... More
Chicago: American Lumberman, 1902. [2],196pp. Quarto. Original red limp cloth, cover gilt. Light soiling and wear to binding. Contemporary ownership pencil markings throughout, text dampstained around the edges, light scattered soiling. Extensively illustrated work on the operations of the Kirby Lumber Company, a division of the Houston Oil Company, originally..... More