c.1900 Patent Medicine Advertising Pamphlet Afro American Almanac

Item Details

Biographies w/ wood engraved portraits (1/4 to full page) :

 

P.B.S. Pinchback; W.H. Councill; William Frank Powell; Marshall Walter “Major” Taylor; Black Patti ; T. Thomas Fortune; Honorable Henry P. Cheatham; Honorable Judson W. Lyons; Mary Church Terrell; Hon. George H. White; Rev. W.H. Steward; Bishop Alexander Walters; Col. W. A. Pledger; Prof. R.R. Wright; Dr. A.M. Curtis; Prof. G.N. Grisham; Hon. John R. Lynch & Hon. John P. Green.

 

Whose positions represent (former) Louisiana Governor, Pres. DC National Afro American Council, Mech College Pres. in Normal Alabama, Consul to Haytian (sic) Republic, DC Office Holders, President of the National Association Colored Women of America, Editor American Baptist in Louisville KY, National House Rep, Pres. State Industrial College of Georgia, Surgeon at DC Freedman’s Hospital & other military officials.  Those bios largely appear on right pages. At left advertising / almanac content which is many times broken with an informational text panel. Topics include :

 

Church work in Africa (Bishops Henry M. Turner & Abram Grant);  Mothers Club of New York City; Indiana State Epworth League; Announcement that Principal Booker T. Washington will sit on 1900 Paris Expo Education Board for the U.S., A.M.E. Zion Church Publishing (Rev. J.W. Smith & Rev. G.L. Blackwell); North Carolina Legislature (11 black members); Millionaire Tony Lafon (Louisiana); Nurses in Cuba; Virginia oyster trade, exclusion from professional baseball, city populations, number of newspapers held by black owners and many others.

 

1899 copyright line by Rossie & Co. // Brooklyn N.Y., though marketed by Mexican Mustang Liniment.

 

5.25 x 8.25”, complete in 32 pp. Soft covers are vivid, but brittle w/ white spatter back. Significant tears have been stabilized with rice starch tape.

 

Likely due to the ephemeral nature, the guiding hand behind this publication has remained undiscovered. Exceptional research opportunity. WorldCat shows only one example (of the 1902 edition) in archive.