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African Americana

Jazz meets Shakespeare

[African Americana][Jazz]

Vintage Playbill, “Swingin’ the Dream”, 1939. Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, African-American cast

1954 Yearbook Southern University Baton Rouge Louisiana African American College HBCU "The Cat"

Collection 8 Photographic Negatives African-American Soldiers During World War II 1940s Black Photo Journalist

Scarce Issue The Musician May 1905 Articles by Booker T Washington about Samuel Coleridge Taylor African American Music History

African American Art — Kara Walker (b. 1969).

SIGNED. Kara Walker. Frankfurt am Main: Deutsche Bank AG, 2002.

[Slavery & Free Labor — 1856 Election Propaganda.] The Real Issue. Facts for Northern Laboring Men. The New “Democratic” Doctrine.

African American Advertising — Funeral Home Ephemera — Women in Business.

1902 Diary Pastor Civil War Veteran Travels Through the South Carolina Inter-State Exposition Jacksonville Florida Savannah New Orleans African Americans

CREATOR OF UNMANNED DRONE

Upon My Many Masters - an Outline [Cover Title]

1932 8x10 Photograph African American Doctors American Medical Association San Antonio Texas Charles Austin Whittier

Z. Alexander Looby Funeral Program

Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, Nashville, Tennessee

Obsequies of Z. Alexander Looby, Civil Rights Leader and Attorney, March 27, 1972, Funeral service program honoring the life and legacy of Z. Alexander Looby, prominent Nashville lawyer, educator, and champion of civil rights.

Mammy’s Shanty Restaurant Menu, Atlanta, Georgia

Mammy’s Shanty / Pickaninny Coffee Shop chain

Racist Caricature Menu from Mammy’s Shanty Restaurant, Atlanta, Georgia, ca. 1940s–50s, Segregation-era restaurant ephemera with stereotyped imagery and verse

Howard University Presidential Letter, 1888

Rev. William W. Patton, D.D., President of Howard University

Autograph Letter Signed by HBCU Howard University President & Abolitionist William W. Patton on Student Aid, November 2, 1888, Early Howard University manuscript advocating financial support for theological education

Estate Ledger Page w\ Enslaved Persons Referenced

Manuscript Document

Account Ledger Page 1800–1801, with reference to “Dr. Phillip Robinson, Negro” and a Mutiny Trial, Double-sided folio manuscript account recording labor, goods, and enslaved references

I.C.R.R. Segregated Depot Blueprint

Illinois Central Railroad Company, Engineers of Buildings

Seven 1916–1918 Vellum Architectural Plans for Illinois Central Railroad Depots, Including Segregated Train Depot in Cecilia, Kentucky, Passenger and Freight Station Designs Documenting Jim Crow Segregation Cecilia Ky.

1920s Archive National Ideal Benefit Society NIBS African-American Fraternal Insurance Richmond Virginia 27 Letters Documents

1924 Large Felt Pennant St Paul's College Lawrenceville Virginia African American School HBCU

A Narrative of the Life of Rev. Noah Davis, A Colored Man. Written by Himself, At the Age of Fifty-Four

1962 Scrapbook Alpha Kappa Alpha African American Fraternity Grambling State University Programs Photographs Ephemera Black History

1870s Manuscript Ledger Account Book Frederick County Maryland General Store African American Customers 400 Pages

1960s Archive 2 Photo Albums African American Young Progressives Black Panther Black Power Posters New York City 200+ Photographs

1937 Photo Album African American Black Couple Traveling Across the United States Green Book Era Young Married California to New York 200 Photographs

Scarce 1960s Lucky Strike Cigarettes Cardboard Sign African American Trudy Haynes Philadelphia TV Reporter Black History

1890s Photo Archive 40 Photographs African American Young Woman Teacher in Macon Georgia Shaw University Identified Anna Goodman

1897 Scarce Identified Cabinet Card Photograph of a Lynching of an African American Man Hanging Charles Mitchell in Ohio

1862 Scarce Sheet Music The Negro Emancipation Song Published in Chicago Slavery Slaves Set Free Fillmore Bennett J.P. Webster African American History

1860 Tom The Blind Negro Pianist Sheet Music Illustrated Cover "Only 10 Years Old" African American Music History Slavery

1850s 1860s Manuscript Account Book Ledger from Saluda Virginia Slavery Hiring Slaves Freedmen John Bristow Family

Archive 4 Letters Detailing the Service and Death of a Slave Working in Morris Island South Carolina for the Confederate Army 1863

1864 Broadside Office of Enrollment Slaves Confederate Impressment Slaves for Military Service Macon County Georgia Civil War

SLAVE TRADING

Wendell Holmes Stephenson

Isaac Franklin, Slave Trader and Planter of the Old South

Scarce 1st Edition Glimpses of the Negro in Indianapolis 1863-1963 by Ida Webb Bryant African-American History in Indiana