New York: Verna, 1965. Panoramic photograph, 10 x 20 inches. A few heavy creases, two closed edge tears, small puncture at bottom left of image area. A striking panoramic photograph featuring the attendees of the national banquet of the Epsilon Nu Delta Mortuary Fraternity in New York City on August.....
![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 #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.....
[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.....
[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.....
[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.....
Richmond, Va. H.H. Price, 1921. [8],151pp. Original printed wrappers. Light wear and minor even toning. An early publication by an important Virginia African-American insurance cooperative. The present work is a compendium of reports for the annual conventions from 1913 to 1921 for the National Ideal Benefit Society, an African American.....
[St. Louis: ca. 1922]. Broadside, 11.25 x 14.25 inches. Tanned, short closed diagonal tear on right edge, left edge a bit frayed, tiny hip to top right corner, otherwise minor edge wear. Fragile, but in good condition. An unrecorded promotional broadside recruiting membership in the short-lived Paramount Progressive Order of.....
[Boston]: February 16, 1815. Manuscript document signed, on plain paper, 5.25 x 6 inches. Minor toning and wear, old folds, some mostly unobtrusive staining. Very good. A unique and powerful record of free persons of color living and working in early America, specifically Boston in 1815. The present document is.....
Boston: [ca. 1898]. [4]pp. on a single folded sheet. Minor wear, creasing, and staining. Small abrasion at spine fold. [with:] Calling card, 3 x 5 inches. Small paperclip stain at top left. [and:] Blank donation form, 5.25 x 5.25 inches. Small area of staining, minor edge wear. A scarce brochure.....
![Item #6123 [Large Full-Color Sign Advertising Simon Pure Beer to the African-American Community]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/6123.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762131303)
Buffalo, NY: The William Simon Brewery, [ca. 1960s]. Full-color poster, 20 x 15 inches, on cardboard. Minimal wear. A wonderful full-color advertising poster for Simon Pure Beer targeting the African-American community, with an African-American man at left pouring a can of beer into a glass, with an African-American woman at.....
[N.p., likely Pine Bluff, Ar: 1904]. [12],238pp., including numerous photographic portraits. Original blue wrappers printed in black and gilt. Some chipping, fraying, and insect damage to wrappers. Old dampstain on last leaf and rear wrapper, the two partially adhered together. Good only. A rare record of the proceedings of African-American.....
[Oklahoma City: 1943]. Broadsheet, approximately 11 x 8.5 inches. With original mailing envelope. Original folds, light toning and wear. A rare advertising circular issued by Sun-Ray Hair Preparation, an African-American beauty supply company based in Oklahoma City. The circular features illustrations and brief descriptions for three main products -- a......
![Item #4815 6th Conference on the Negro in Business [wrapper title]. African Americana, Business](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4815.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761971507)
Washington DC: Department of Commerce, 1951. Eight-panel brochure, 9.5 x 6.5 inches when folded. Minor toning and general wear. A rare program for the sixth annual Conference on the Negro in Business held by the United States Department of Commerce in the nation's capital over three days in late-March, 1951.....
![Item #12882 Black Business Directory 1970 Summer Edition Los Angeles and Vicinity [cover title]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12882.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1773511291)
Los Angeles: Black Business Directory, Inc., 1970. ii,66pp. Square quarto. Original illustrated peach wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor edge wear and rubbing, uneven toning to wrappers. Text toned but clean. Very good. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the outset.....
Los Angeles: 1950. 198pp., plus a folding panoramic photographic plate. Original green printed wrappers. Wrappers lightly soiled, worn, and detached, with about a fourth of the spine perished. Minor thumb-soiling to first several leaves, but otherwise clean. A rare edition of the annual meeting minutes and other proceedings of the.....
[Oakland, Ca. 1958]. 20pp. Quarto. Original blue wrappers printed in black, stapled. Minor soiling and rubbing to wrappers. Top corner of one leaf torn away, just touching one letter. A seemingly unrecorded program for the biennial meeting of an African American Masonic group at the Most Worshipful Golden West Lodge.....
![Item #12988 Eureka Villa [caption title]. African Americana, Sydney Dones, California](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12988.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776289949)
[Los Angeles or Chicago: ca. 1926]. Single sheet, 9.25 x 16 inches, folded three times vertically to form a slim 8pp. pamphlet. Dampstain to top margin throughout, moderate soiling throughout especially along bottom margin, slight biopredation to one panel. About very good. A rare pamphlet touting the advantages of Eureka.....
[N.p., but perhaps Oakland or Berkeley: 1944]. Printed broadside, 5.25 x 8 inches. Minor foxing and staining, light edge wear, penciled note covering most of verso. A small and apparently unrecorded broadside calling for African Americans interested in working as bus drivers and street car operators in the San Francisco.....
Washington DC: 1963. Handbill, 8.5 x 5.5 inches. Even toning. A rare handbill or small broadside advertising an important Civil Rights demonstration organized and co-sponsored by the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC), with.....
[Denver: 1928]. [32]pp. Original pictorial green wrappers, stapled, picturing the Glenarm Branch of the YMCA on the cover, the remainder of the wrappers printed with advertisements. Minor soiling and light fading or offsetting to wrappers, top corner of first text leaf creased. Overall very good. An unrecorded combined residential and commercial.....
![Item #5913 [Group of Modern African American Business Directories from Various U.S. Cities]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/5913.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1762026569)
[Various locations: 1973-2000]. Eight volumes. General use wear, some staining. Overall a nice group. A wide-ranging group of modern African American business directories from various cities across the country. Each volume is produced with illustrated wrappers, and contain typical information for business directories, along with a legion of advertisements relevant.....
![Item #4585 Third [& Fourth] Fashion Extravaganza. Polio Isn't Licked Yet! Join the March of Dimes...](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4585.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761976416)
Detroit: Bolar Printing & Publishing, 1956-1957. 20; 36pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Moderate soiling and wear. A pair of rare programs issued for the 1956 and 1957 benefits for the March of Dimes Fashion Extravaganza at the Latin Quarters in Detroit. The programs include information on the organization's committee, hostesses.....