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......

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.....

Boston: Published at the Office of the Society, 1864. 86pp. Original printed wrappers bound into modern quarter morocco over marbled boards, gilt spine titles. Light chipping and soiling to wrappers. Contemporary notation to header of title, else internally clean. Very good plus. An account of the second year of the.....

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.....

Tuskegee, Al. [before 1908]. [1]p., written on Tuskegee Institute letterhead. Original mailing folds, minor toning. A short correspondence from Booker T. Washington to noted educator Professor Charles Eliot Norton of Harvard. Norton was a progressive social reformer who lectured on fine arts at Harvard, and was one of the most.....

Tuskegee, Al. Tuskegee Institute Steam Print, [ca. 1900]. [4]pp., on a single folded sheet. Old horizontal crease, minor toning around edges, light overall wear. A humbly-produced fundraising pamphlet printed at the Tuskegee Institute around the turn of the 20th century, produced by two members of the Committee on Investment of.....

[Enterprise, Alabama: 1955]. [32]pp. Original red wrappers decoratively stamped in gilt on front cover, stapled. Minor rubbing along spine. A seemingly unrecorded yearbook for a segregated African American elementary school in Alabama. Enterprise Academy taught first through sixth grade to the African American community in Enterprise, Alabama (near Dothan in.....

Montgomery, Al. 1958. [92]pp. Profusely illustrated from photographs. Quarto. Original textured wrappers, printed in blue and gilt, stapled. Moderate soiling and minor edge wear. Some foxing to initial and terminal leaves, but mostly clean internally. An unrecorded souvenir program from the seventy-fifth annual convention of the Alabama State Teachers Association.....

[Various locations. ca. 1910 to 1955]. [9] leaves, illustrated with twenty-nine photographs, various sizes between 3 x 2 inches and 9.5 x 7.5 inches, with a manuscript index at front identifying the subjects. Later blue-green limp vinyl album with self adhesive pages. Minor wear and soiling. Photographs in generally nice.....

Washington, D.C. Plans for Progress, 1967. [4],103,[3]pp. Quarto. Midcentury blue buckram, white spine titles. Minor wear. Ex-University of Iowa, with deaccession stamp. An informative directory of 103 American HBCUs, produced by the U.S government's Plans for Progress office. The schools are located in seventeen states and the District of Columbia.....

Warrenton, Va. 1969. 54pp. Original light blue front wrapper, stapled (rear wrapper lacking). Minor wear and dust-soiling. A rare conference report sponsored by the Scholarship, Education & Defense Fund for Racial Equality in New York. The conference took place over three days in early 1969 in Warrenton, Virginia. The specific.....

Baltimore: primarily 1954. [17] leaves, illustrated with twenty-seven original photographs, most in corner mounts, and numerous ephemeral items and periodical clippings. Folio. Original black cloth, embossed in blind on front cover, with titles and decoration in gilt, string-tied. Moderate chipping to edges of leaves, text leaves tanned and somewhat fragile.....

[Hampton, Va. ca. 1910]. [16]pp. Slim octavo. Original tan wrappers stamped in black, stapled. Minor edge wear and spotting to wrappers, scuffing to rear wrapper. Light foxing to text. A handsome fundraising promotional touting the many advantages of the Hampton Institute in Virginia. The text is generally arranged with two.....