[N.p., probably either Alton, Chicago, Springfield, or St. Louis]: 1897. Photographic montage comprised of five photographic vignettes with reproduced manuscript captions, 7 x 9.25 inches on a slightly large cardboard mount. Minor dust-soiling, small chip to lower left corner of mount not affecting image, some staining and browning on verso.....
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.....
Naperville, IL: J.L. Nichols & Company, [ca. 1907]. [98]pp., variously paginated, plus photographic frontispiece of the author, twenty doubled-sided plates, and eight pages of lined paper at rear for recording subscriptions. Original maroon cloth stamped in gilt on front cover and in more elaborate black and white floral designs with.....
![Item #13008 Our Colored Heroes [caption title]. African Americana, World War I](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13008.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1776289535)
Chicago: E.G. Renesch, 1918. Chromolithograph, 11.75 x 15.75 inches. Moderate surface wear, a few closed tears, and significant insect damage in the image area costing about a half-inch by four-inch section in the center of the image. Trimmed, especially along the top margin. Fair condition only, and priced accordingly. A.....
Great Lakes, Il. 1943. Panoramic photograph, 8 x 19.75 inches. A handful of heavy vertical creases, irregularly rolled, moderate edge wear, minor soiling. A unique annotated panoramic photograph picturing the segregated Company 1011 of the United States Navy at the U.S. Naval Training Station in Great Lakes, Illinois during World.....
[Chicago: 1949]. 6,[1]pp. of mimeographed text on tall folio sheets, stapled. Minor wear. On the night of November 8, 1949, a Jewish labor leader named Aaron Bindman held a union meeting in his house on Chicago's South Side. The meeting was attended by "several members of his union, including Negroes".....
Rock Island, IL: L.M. Haverstick, Printer, Union Job Rooms, [ca. January 18, 1867]. Broadside, 24 x 18 inches. Old folds, minor creasing, a few small chips, short closed tear to left edge near the "B" in "Babcock's," faint circular dampstain in center, minor scattered foxing. Withal, very good condition. A.....
New York: Newcomb Publishing Co., 1913. 16pp. Oblong quarto. Original pictorial self wrappers, stapled. A few small scuffs and edge chips, moderate dust-soiling to wrappers, short tears to spine. Internally clean. A rare viewbook of the city of Chicago ostensibly seen at night by printing scenes from around the city.....
[Springfield, IL: 1908]. Four silver gelatin real photo postcards, each 3.5 x 5.5 inches, with caption titles printed in the negatives Minor silvering, light edge wear. With penciled date on each verso, "10-4-08," perhaps the date of the original owner's acquisition. Very good overall. A striking visual record capturing scenes.....
Marengo, IL: 1942. Pen and watercolor on art board, 11.75 x 10 inches, affixed to 13.25-x-11-inch mat, with typed caption on lower margin of mat. Staining and bumping to mat. Original art a bit toned, light dust soiling but overall very good. A delightful satirical cartoon by noted illustrator Robert.....
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[Various locations in and around Chicago, Il. likely early November, 1960]. Title leaf, plus [25] leaves, illustrated with forty-seven silver gelatin photographs, pasted one per leaf or page, all about 5.5 x 7.5 inches, plus five loose images (two duplicates and three other images not pasted in). Square quarto. Contemporary.....
[N.p., but likely Springfield, Il. 1944]. 83pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor wear and dust-soiling to wrappers, ink stamp on front cover reading, "Pamphlet File Copy." The rare first report issued by the Illinois Inter-Racial Commission, comprised of "seven whites and seven Negroes" appointed by Governor Dwight H. Green in.....
New York: 1893. [32],138,[40]pp., plus two folding plates. Pagination a bit irregular. Illustrated. With dual text in English and Spanish. 12mo. Original blue publisher's cloth, stamped in black; spine perished, boards loose. Light toning to exterior leaves, internally clean. A bilingual guide to the World's Fair in Chicago. The text.....
![Item #13077 Home Guide for Voters. Wards 23-24 [wrapper title]. Voting, Illinois](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/13077.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1780516367)
[Chicago: 1892]. [32]pp. Original printed wrappers, stapled. Minor staining and soiling to wrappers. Light soiling to last few leaves, otherwise clean internally. Very good. An unrecorded voting guide / directory issued for Chicagoans in Wards 23 and 24 ahead of the 1892 elections. The work alternates between advertisements on the.....
[Mainly Chicago, Il. 1948-1975]. Spiral-bound sketchbook, with nineteen full-page sketches, some in color and some in pencil, 12 x 9 inches; plus a finished color painting on art board, 14 x 9.75 inches; twenty-eight photographs, 3 x 3 inches to 8 x 10 inches; fourteen printed art exhibition catalogues; and.....