![Item #5603 [Cabinet Card of an African-American Woman]. African Americana](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5603.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761972293)
[N.p. n.d., likely late-19th century]. Cabinet card photograph, 5.75 x 4 inches, on mount. Unevenly trimmed. Minor surface wear. A wonderful studio portrait of a distinguished African-American woman in a stunning black dress. The woman bears a striking resemblance to Ida B. Wells, but we do not ultimately think it.....
![Item #3518 Profit Sharing Loan Certificate [caption title]. African Americana](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3518.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761710443)
[Des Moines, Ia. Robert E. Patten, 1951]. Broadside, 8 x 6 inches, printed in brown ink within a decorative border. Mild toning. A rare sample copy of an original promotional certificate offering a loan to prospective members of a "Co-operative movement" in Iowa. African-American publisher, printer, and Co- operative movement.....
![Item #4045 Carnegie Hall Marian Anderson [cover title]. African Americana, Marian Anderson](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4045.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761709505)
New York: Alfred Scott, [1951]. 16pp. Publisher's pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor wear. Very scarce program for Anderson's March 25, 1951 performance at Carnegie Hall. The great contralto is pictured on the cover and her schedule of songs is listed on three different pages interspersed with advertisements and other information.....
![Item #6121 Not by Power [wrapper title]. African Americana, Joseph V. Baker](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6121.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761618731)
Philadelphia: 1956. 64pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Light wear. A rare work highlighting the achievements of dozens of notable African Americans and the larger African-American community in the mid-1950s. The work opens with a prologue which begins: "As the American Negro stood at the gate of 1956, his flag of.....
[Oakland]: Voice Publishing Company, 1946. 140pp. Original tan wrappers printed in black. Some creasing and light chipping to wrappers. Internally clean. Sixth edition, revised and enlarged, with the subtitle reading "A book discussing the problems of unity and co-operation among American Negroes in those matters concerning their betterment." Barrett's work.....
[N.p., probably Chicago: 1949]. 112pp. Original red printed wrappers, stapled. Very minor wear. The 1949 issue of an irregularly-published almanac aimed at uplifting the African-American community. The author, Rev. Ross D. Brown, writes rather defiantly about a host of issues important to the Black community, such as white supremacy, the.....
Chicago: Atwell Printing and Binding Co., 1907. 540pp., including fifty-six plates. Original blue cloth stamped in black with oval engraved portrait of Sojourner Truth inset on front cover. Edges and corners scuffed, moderate staining and soiling, spine sunned. Front hinge cracked, rear hinge tender, dampstain to fore-edge of first several.....
Pittsburgh: Committee to Defend the Pittsburgh Five, 1953. 24pp. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. Minor toning and handling wear. Very good. A scarce pamphlet pertaining to the controversial legal battle pertaining to one of the Pittsburgh defendants in a notable Smith Act case. Careathers, a longtime Communist activist, was accused by.....
Providence: Snow & Farnham, Printers and Publishers, 1898. xi,343pp., plus thirty-nine photographic portrait plates. Original red cloth stamped in gilt. Floral endpapers. Minor edge wear, slight dust-soiling to spine but boards bright. Internally clean. An unusually nice copy of Chenery's scarce history of the African-American Fourteenth Rhode Island Regiment of.....
[N.p., but likely Washington, D.C. 1947]. 5pp. mimeo typescript on legal-sized sheets, stapled four times at top left. One center horizontal fold, minor wear. A typed document containing the text of a speech delivered by Dr. William Montague Cobb on July 3, 1947 before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee.....
[New York: Haven Press, 1947]. 190pp., plus four pages of photographic portraits preceding the text. Original blue cloth lettered in gilt. Minor rubbing and spotting to boards. Text lightly toned but clean. A scarce collection of poetry and prose by Frank B. Coffin of Little Rock, Arkansas. Coffin, an African-American.....
Jackson, Tn. 1946. xv,380pp. 16mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in gilt. Corners lightly bumped, binding rubbed. Contents clean with a few ink notations. Governing text of the Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, outlining criteria for organization, ministry, membership, church property, rituals and rites.
[N.p.]: 1932. Broadside, 9 x 6.25 inches. Minor wear. Father Divine was the most prominent black religious cult leader of the 1930s, believed to be a divine messenger, the messiah, or God himself by tens of thousands of African-Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931, Divine.....
Atlanta: Commission on Interracial Cooperation, [1939]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Minimal wear. A small leaflet printing an address by John Wesley Dobbs on the "Wings Over Jordan" radio program on the Columbia Broadcasting System on New Year's Day, 1939. John Wesley Dobbs, an African American activist based in.....
Dayton, Oh. The Otterbein Press, [1923]. 30pp. 16mo. Publisher's wrappers, stapled, with photographic portrait of Manly on front wrapper. Minor soiling and staining to wrappers. The rare updated second edition after the first of 1919, relating the story of David Jayn Manly's life from Sierra Leone to his college experiences.....
Boston: The Boston Book Company, 1894. xvi, 452pp., plus frontispiece and numerous additional illustrations, including nine maps (five single-page and two folding). Original deep blue cloth, spine and front board lettered in gilt. Ex-Shirley Public Library, with shelf mark on spine, bookplate on front pastedown, and paper remnants on rear.....
London [i.e. Baltimore]: [Black Classic Press, 1978]. 24pp. Original printed wrappers. Minor wear, some discoloration of wrappers. Internally clean but for a small ink notation on title page. Later reprint of the third edition of this fiery polemic against "the ugly octopus of race prejudice and exploitation" from "certain members.....
[Greensboro, NC: ca. 1939]. Corrected typescript on rectos only: [3],iv,[2],123pp. Occasional minor edge wear, varying levels of toning or tanning and dust-soiling throughout, some marginal chipping to a few leaves, all chapters except the first chapter individually gathered together with original paper clips, now somewhat rusted. Numerous edits and emendations.....
[Philadelphia: A.M.E. Book Concern], 1928. 104pp., plus four plates. Original blue cloth, gilt titles on front cover. Some rubbing to cloth and titles, minor edge wear, spine end a bit scuffed. Ownership ink inscription on front pastedown, ownership initials on fore-edge. Internally clean. Scarce in any condition. The scarce second.....
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.....
[Hampton: Hampton Normal and Agricultural Institute, 1900]. 12pp. Original printed light green wrappers, stapled. Split to bottom half of spine, two small dampstains to wrappers, minor edge wear, small chip to lower corner of rear wrapper. Internally clean. Good plus. A scarce address delivered by C.P. Huntington at the Hampton.....
Richmond, Va. Presses of the Virginia Press, [1908]. 400pp., including scores of photographic plates and illustrations within the text. Publisher's light blue cloth stamped in black. Minor wear and rubbing to boards. A profusely-illustrated historical treatment of African American industrial history intended as a textbook for teaching Black youth. The.....
New York: Sidney Hillman Foundation, [1956]. 11,[1]pp. Printed self-wrappers, stapled. Mild creasing. Minor toning and dust soiling. An address by Charles S. Johnson, the first Black president of Fisk University, before a convention of the Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America in 1956 on subject of education and desegregation in the.....
Holly Springs, MS: February 4, 1889. [2]pp. Original mailing folds, minor toning. In original transmittal envelope, with pre-stamped return label from Rust University. Very good. A rare correspondence from D.J. Johnson, a young African-American student in Holly Springs, Mississippi in 1889, written to "Dear Sister," E.F. Stewart. Johnson reports that.....
Louisville, Ky. Pentecostal Publishing Company, [1919]. 56pp. Original green cloth, white titles. Mild rubbing and very light soiling, minor bumping to top corners. Internally clean and bright. A rare work by African American poet Sterling M. Means, who dedicates the book "To the Nine Hundred Thousand Black Troops who fought.....