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......

Houston: ca. 1950-1955]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Some creasing, light foxing and edge wear. An unrecorded and humbly-produced brochure on the aims, activities, and accomplishments of the Texas Health, Recreation and Encampment Association (THREA), an organization created to assist African Americans in Jim Crow Texas find better health.....

[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!".....

[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.....

Austin: 1897. [1]p., on Texas House of Representatives 25th Legislature letterhead, with engraved view of Capitol building at top left. Old folds, minor toning. An informative manuscript document recording budget expenditures for three Texas institutions of higher learning in 1897, one of which, Prairie View A&M University, remains an important.....

San Antonio: Smith Studio, [ca. 1940]. Albumen photograph, 6.25 x 4 inches, matted on a studio mount. Minor staining to mount and photograph, moderate edge wear and toning. A striking original photograph featuring a young African American boy holding a clarinet, dressed in formal band uniform and hat. The image.....

[Fort Worth: 1967]. 326,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Some creasing to wrappers, mild soiling and edge wear. Internally clean. An unrecorded pamphlet containing a wealth of detail on the Texas Prince Hall Masons during the turbulent 1960s in Texas.  The work opens with photographic portraits of the Most Worshipful Grand Master.....

[N.p., likely either Marshall or Kilgore, TX]: Masonic Printing Co., [1938]. 8pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and toning, some soiling to rear cover. The detailed program for the upcoming semi-annual meeting of the Texas Baptist Convention, Women's Auxiliary Convention, and the Laymen's Movement, held in Kilgore, Texas in.....

[Prairie View or Dallas: 1953]. Mimeographed broadside, 8.5 x 11 inches. Old folds, minor wear and toning. An attractive flyer announcing the call for attendees for the Prairie View Leadership Training Institute, held over three days in December 1953 at Prairie View A&M College in Prairie View, Texas. The flyer.....

[Mainly Tyler and Marshall, TX: 1928-1966]. [24] leaves, illustrated with thirty-two original photographs, plus two manuscript letters with original transmittal envelopes, numerous periodical clippings, some printed photographs, programs, and assorted ephemera. Quarto. Contemporary photograph album bound in crimson leatherette, comb-bound, with "Photographs" in white ink on front cover and the.....

[Ennis, Tx. 1954]. [4]pp. of mimeographed text on a single folded sheet, plus [1]p. of manuscript. Minor wear to both items. The printed program and a single page of manuscript sermon notes pertaining to the funeral services of Mr. K.C. Jones, held at the Holsey Chapel of the Colored Methodist.....

[Dallas]: Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce, [1941]. lxxx,448pp., including illustrations and advertisements. Text printed in double columns. Original blue cloth boards with titles and illustrations stamped in black. Spine sunned, moderate soiling, edge wear, and some unobtrusive staining. Ownership inscription on inside front cover reading, "Desk Copy [illegible] Chamber of.....

San Antonio: 1952. [76]pp. Original textured tan cloth over smooth blue cloth with stylized title on front board in tan. Moderate soiling and minor wear to boards. Two manuscript ownership signatures (one in cursive and one in block capitals) on inside front cover. Very good. The 1952 annual for St.....