Chicago: Kurz & Allison, 1890. Color lithograph. Image size: 18½ x 25 inches; sheet size: 22 x 28¼ inches. Matted to an overall size of 25 x 31 inches. Some moderate chipping and edge tears, not affecting image. Reinforced with older tape along top edge. Lightly toned, though colors are.....
Cincinnati: The American Reform Tract and Book Society, 1855. 117pp. plus two-page woodcut frontispiece. 12mo. Modern brown cloth, paper label. Old institutional stamp on titlepage. Moderate foxing. Very good. Much later edition of this significant anti-Slavery publication, after the first of 1791. The work provides a synopsis of the evidence.....
[Chicago. ca. 1846]. pp.[89]-96. Dbd. Light soiling and wear. Good. A scarce printed letter from John Quincy Adams to the anti-slavery committee in Bangor, dated July 4, 1843, followed by a report from the Monroe, New York DEMOCRAT about Adams' recent journey through the state. In his letter to the.....
Middletown: C.H. Pelton, 1837. 32pp. Dbd. Minor foxing and soiling. Very good. A declaration of sentiments expressed by the Anti-Slavery Society of Meriden, Connecticut to their fellow citizens, expressing their views on slavery and abolition in the hope of persuading their fellows to feel likewise. This second edition was published.....
Philadelphia. 1821. 58pp. Dbd. Gatherings loose. Trimmed a bit closely, affecting some text. Lightly foxed. Good. The American Convention for Promoting the Abolition of Slavery and Improving the Condition of the African Race brought together several regional and state organizations under a national umbrella group. The group was founded in.....
Toledo, Oh. November 8, 1913. Broadside, 11 x 5 1/2 inches. Contemporary processing stamps from the Toledo Police Department, very faint staining, light original horizontal folds. Very good. A fascinating wanted poster for a thirty-year- old African-American man named "John Sefears, alias John Leworth, alias Joseph Brown, alias 'Poor Boy.'".....
Philadelphia: Printed by Kite & Walton, 1849. 44pp. Original plain rear wrapper, stitched (front wrapper missing). Spine perished, rear wrapper soiled. Ex-Historical Society of Pennsylvania, with their ink stamp on the second leaf and five-digit number on the titlepage. Light soiling and foxing, particularly to outer leaves, otherwise quite clean.....
Georgetown, Demerara: James Thomson, [ca. 1885]. Titlepage and contents leaf, followed by fifty half-tone plates. Oblong quarto. Original half diced morocco and printed paper boards, expertly rebacked with matching diced morocco backstrip. Boards soiled, rubbed and scraped, corners and edges worn. Free endpapers mended, rear endpaper torn at edges. Titlepage.....
Philadelphia: Reprinted by Order of the Board of Education, 1859. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Wrappers slightly soiled, chipping at extremities. Internally clean. A very good copy. The rare, expanded second edition of Benjamin Bacon's important 1856 survey, featuring additional statistics and analysis regarding incarceration rates. Conducted and published by order.....
Argentina & Paris. 1951-1959. Twenty-two photographs, each hand-stamped with Freund's credit statement and captioned in pencil, most often in French and German, on their versos (most likely by Freund), each between 7½ x 8¾ inches and 8 x 10 inches. The two typescripts on seven 8½ x 11-inch sheets, holes.....
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Son, 1866. 27pp. Original printed wrappers. Rear wrapper detached but present; wrappers lightly soiled, minor chipping. Soft vertical crease throughout, interior evenly tanned but otherwise clean. About very good. One of two apparently simultaneous editions of this forceful argument against segregation in Philadelphia in the early days.....
Detroit. 1952. Broadside, 14 x 11 inches. Minor dust-soiling, rubbing, and toning. Very good. A delightful pictorial broadside advertising a Methodist church concert in Detroit on September 12, 1952. Photographs include portraits of the choir director, Marvin Dupre; the narrator, Rev. Poole; and twenty- seven members of the co-ed Dupre.....
[New York: Readers and Writers Club of America], 1937. 11,[1]pp. Original printed self-wrappers, stapled. Light wear, soiling, and uneven tanning to wrappers, some rust residue from staples. Soft vertical fold throughout with very short fold separations at bottom edge. Internally quite clean. Very good. Only the third known copy of.....
[Dallas. 1937]. [4]pp., printed on a folded quarto sheet. Minor soiling, upper outer corner chipped. Still, very good. A program for a Depression-era theatrical performance of Eugene G. Hafer's 1924 courtroom drama, ATTORNEY FOR THE DEFENSE, by an African-American theatre company, performed at Booker T. Washington High School in Dallas.....
[N.p. ca. 1910]. Pictorial business card, 2 1/4 x 4 inches. Printed on cardstock, rounded edges. Minor surface wear. Very good. A pictorial business card for J.G. Williams' Shaving Parlor, located at 1515 Pennsylvania Avenue, in an unspecified city. The small oval portrait at upper left is presumably Williams himself.....
[Frankfurt am Main-Schwanheim: Printed by Franz Jos. Henrich, November 1945]. 114pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Front board and titlepage printed in blue, black and red. Quarto. Original printed paper-covered boards, tan cloth backstrip. Front board and titlepage printed in blue, black and red. Some staining, moderate edge wear to boards.....
![Item #WRCAM62443 YOUR ST. LOUIS AND MINE [wrapper title]. African Americana, Nathan B. Young](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM62443_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1685732936)
[St. Louis: N.B. Young, 1937]. 80pp., including extensive photographic illustrations and printed advertisements. Original illustrated stiff wrappers. Wrappers tanned and a bit worn at edges and around staples. Later gift inscription from the author on first leaf. Internally clean. Near fine. An inscribed copy of this rare, thorough, and inventive.....
[N.p. ca. 1945]. Thirteen silver gelatin real photo postcards, each 5 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches. Moderate surface wear and silvering to some photos, minor edge wear. Overall very good. A collection of thirteen real photo postcards featuring young African American Navy midshipmen serving or training during World War II.....
![Item #WRCAM55212 PORTRAIT OF THE LATE PETRO ANDAYI MBIRIKA [manuscript title]. African...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55212.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593711998)
Nairobi, Kenya. September 10, 1960. [37]pp., consisting of a manuscript narrative interspersed with seventy-four vernacular photographs (twelve 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches, the remaining sixty-two approximately 3 1/4 x 5 1/4 inches) all with extensive captions, and four mounted telegrams. Oblong quarto. Contemporary blue leatherette photograph album, string-tied. Minor.....
[Philadelphia. 1967]. Broadside printed in brown on light blue paper, 18 x 12 inches. Minor edge wear, small bump along left edge, occasional mild spotting. Overall very good. An attractive and rare poster promoting a series of public events for Philadelphia-area African-American artists held at the Lee Cultural Center, 440.....
New York: David Longworth, 1808. 56pp. Dbd. Faint institutional ink stamp and embossed blindstamp to titlepage, minor toning, light foxing. Overall, very good. A curious and rare account of the trial of Alexander Whistelo, a Black man accused of leaving Lucy Williams, a mulatto, with child. A controversy ensued as.....
![Item #WRCAM55457 CITY OF NEW YORK HARLEM HOSPITAL H.H.S.N. 1959 [cover title]. African-American...](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55457.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712045)
[New York. 1959]. 64pp. Quarto. Red textured cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively stamped in gilt. Minor edge wear. Occasional ink notations by original owner, else internally clean. Very good. Yearbook commemorating the graduation year for the Harlem Hospital School of Nursing's Class of 1959. This copy was owned.....
![Item #WRCAM55456 PROFECTUS 1956 [cover title]. African-American Nursing](https://williamreesecompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/WRCAM55456.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1593712045)
[New York. 1956]. 80pp. Quarto. Contemporary black cloth over padded boards, front cover decoratively tooled and titled in gilt. Minor edge wear and rubbing. Contemporary ink ownership signature of "Joan Ryan '59'" on verso of front free endpaper (likely a future graduate of the same nursing program). Internally clean. Very.....
Washington, D.C. [ca.1891]. Albumen card-mounted photograph, image approximately 8 3/4 x 6 3/4 inches. Light wear to card. Faint line of older adhesive substance in center of photograph. Minor wear and fading. About very good. A large photograph of a well-dressed African- American woman posing with four white children. The.....
[Des Moines, Ia. Woltz Studios], April 1948. Two pages of photos taped together, each page 12 1/2 x 9 1/2 inches. Light wear to lower edge, old tape loosening. Very good. A two-page photo roster of the 150 members of the segregated Provisional Tank Battalion 3rd Armored Group, 3rd Armored.....
