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.....
Palatka, Fl. 1947. [5]pp., typed on folio sheets, stapled. Old folds, minor wear and creasing, light dust-soiling. An unsigned petition from the Hallie Q. Brown Club, asking "The Honourable City Commission of the City of Palatka, Florida...to recognise its status as the 'Hattie Q Brown Club which the Commission gave.....
![Item #12634 1901 1941 Fortieth Anniversary Afro-American Life Insurance Co. [wrapper title]....](https://thejoefaycompany.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/12634.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1761837198)
[N.p., likely Jacksonville, Fl. 1941]. [4],61,[2]pp. Original pictorial wrappers, stapled. Substantial creasing, rubbing, dust-soiling, and overall wear to wrappers. Faint foxing and spotting to initial and terminal leaves, but mostly clean internally. Very good. A rare pamphlet celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company, an important African-American-owned-and-operated insurance.....
[N.p., but likely Live Oak, FL]: ca. 1880]. Albumen photograph, 4.5 x 7.75 inches, mounted on card. Card trimmed, with pinholes at corners, remnants of printed caption in bottom margin, slight surface soiling and spotting. Penciled annotation on verso. A stunning original photograph featuring Rev. Joseph Leroy Atwell Fish (1828-1890).....
Washington DC: June 7, 1844. Broadside, 12.25 x 7.75 inches. Light tanning, shallow marginal chips and some fraying to left and right edges. An unrecorded slip-bill printing of a House Resolution with a phenomenal back story involving an erudite, elusive, and resourceful Florida slave. The slip bill, authored by Howell.....
Miami: 1971. [3]pp. printed on rectos only. Original yellow illustrated covers, stapled. Minor wear, old folds, owner's name and addressed written on back cover. The program for the August 13, 1971 performance of The Many Faces of Eve by the Suitcase Players at the Miami Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel, sponsored.....
[Havana, Cuba: ca. 1860-1889]. [69]pp. of manuscript text, plus [77]pp. of newspaper extracts. Contemporary quarter calf and marbled paper-covered boards. Moderate scuffing and wear to boards and edges, spine scuffed. Hinges broken, with text block only nominally attached by threads, with many leaves detached. Ownership ink stamp on front free.....
Quincy, FL: January 1, 1864. [1]p. of manuscript, docketed on verso. Old crease, minor staining. Very good. A short but impactful and somewhat unusual document memorializing the inheritance of a young slave named "Anderson aged about twenty years" from a Florida estate in the penultimate year of the Civil War.....