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Nagasaki: Ikuta, 1893. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount, with the imprint of Ikuta, Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading, near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso. Near Fine. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan, taken at the Kwassui Girls' School (later Kwassui Women's University) in Nagasaki. At the time, Taylor was representing the Women's Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and serving perhaps as principal of the school, which had been started in 1879. Callahan began his work as a teacher in Japan shortly after graduating from Emory, in 1890. The two would spend over forty-five years in Japan as missionaries.

N.P., 1890. Albumen photograph measuring 6 x 3 ⅞ on larger mount. Chip with loss to corner of mount, retouched to add a moustache and a tie, good overall with fading. Good. A cabinet card reproduction of an earlier photograph, captioned "Jim Fox," with ink additions to the eyebrows, mustache and tie.

New York, 1970. Six photographs measuring 8 x 10 inches. Fine condition. A collection of six photographs of Murray Louis Dance Company productions from the 1970s, with another portrait of Louis. The productions include Go Six, Personnae, Calligraph for Martyrs (two images), and Hoopla. A fine collection.

N.P., 1972. N.p., 1964 and 1972. Two small press photographs measuing 7 1/2 x 2 1/2 and 3 x 4 inches, minimal wear, editorial marks to versos, near fine overall. Near Fine. A scarce pair of period press photographs of Frankie Freeman, including a portrait used at the occasion of her appointment to the Civil Rights Commission in 1964. When President Johnson appointed Freeman, at the time a St. Louis attorney, to the commission, she was the first woman of color to serve. She held the position through several administrations until 1979. After being forced out of government during the Reagan administration she returned to St. Louis and worked on the bipartisan Citizens Commission on Civil Rights.

NP: Associated Press, 1970. First Edition. Press photograph measuring 8 x 10 inches. Minimal wear, very near fine with slightest fading. Near Fine. An uncommon press photograph of students with raised fists in front of the building that was damaged by gunfire during the Jackson State College shootings, which left two students dead and injured twelve more. The caption reads: "A Jackson State College student raises a clenched fist in a "Black Power" salute during Sunday's memorial march to the campus. Behind him is a bullet-riddled women's dormitory fired on by police and highway patrolmen during student disturbances. Two Negro youths died in the gunfire last week.".

American, 1910. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 6 x 8 inches on larger mount. Some hand coloring to costumes. Some fading, chips and wear to mount, very good overall. Very Good. A photograph of a fraternal group in faux-Native American costume, likely a meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men or a similar organization. Spectators line the hill in the background.

California, 1911. Single sheet measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches. Two vertical folds, two holes punched at upper margin, very good condition overall. Very Good. An uncommon survival, possibly published by the Santa Clara County Sherriff's Office, showing two wanted criminals from 1911, who were travelling together. The first, a C.K. Paullins, was the editor of the Rocky Mountain Moose and is wanted for embezzlement. The second, a Ruby J. Stanley, alias Lillian Raymond, is known as "Kentucky." According to the flyer, "This woman is very well known in the tenderloin of Los Angeles and Fresno. She dresses in the latest style and wears fancy dresses... These people work all kinds of schemes to make money. I wish you would keep a sharp lookout for these parties... W.J. Newman, Constable, Visalia, California. Dated October 23, 1911.".

Havana: R. Testar, 1890. Albumen photograph on cardstock mount, image measuring 7 1/4 x 4 1/2 inches on 8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inch mount. A view of an American warship in Havana harbor, likely taken prior to the outbreak of hostilities between the United States and Spain in early 1898. The photographers, Leach and Patterson of Calle San Rafael, published several views of Cuba at this time, mostly of bucolic scenes around Havana and its environs. The American cruiser is similar in design to the U.S.S. Maine with slight differences - two smokestacks instead of three. An excellent example with minor wear to mount and fine image.

Cincinnati / St. Louis: George H. Jung Co, 1930. Four panel fan measuring appx. 4 x 7.5 inches. Staining to front panel, some chips and wear, good plus overall. Good. A fan produced by the George F. Jung Co. of Cincinnati for the Price & Walker Funeral Home of St. Louis. Fans, often featuring prominent African-Americans, have been used by African-American-owned businesses for several decades, with a collection held at the Auburn Avenue Research Library in Atlanta. The two inner panels list some of Washington's accomplishments, with the second entitled 'Tuskegee's Creed,' which is actually a reprint of Alpha Phi Alpha pledges.

New York, 1920. First Edition. Gelatin silver print measuring 8 x 10 inches. Some editorial marks to verso, very good contrast, very good overall. Very Good. The Dunbar Apartments were one of the first developments built for African-Americans, in a period in which there was a shortage of housing in Harlem. John D. Rockefeller Jr. funded the project, which was completed in 1926-1928. Offered here is an uncommon period press photograph of the project dating from the period of the project's completion in the late 1920s. The verso reads " Dunbar Apts / New Rockefeller Apts / 149th + 7th Ave." A wooden cart and some original signage is visible on the surrounding streets.

France: None Stated, 1900. Postcard measuring 5 ½ x 3 ⅝ inches. Fine condition. Fine. Woody Headspeth - known also as Woody Hadspath or Hedspath, as is written here - was an African-American cyclist who raced mostly in France due to racial prejudice in the United States. Headspeth raced until he was 50 years old in France, working as a mechanic on tracks, and sometimes for Victor Linart. He was in France at the time of the German occupation, and fled to Portugal, where he would die of typhus and tuberculosis. While we can't date this photograph exactly, Headspeth looks to be roughly the same age as other known photographs from his early period in Europe c. 1900-1910.

Southern United States, 1890. Albumen photograph on mount, image measuring 4 x 2 ½ inches. Some foxing to mount, image fine with excellent contrast. Very Good. An uncommon image of an African-American family of six in an outdoor setting, likely in the American South in the 1880s-1890s. One of the children sits on what appears to be a wooden produce crate.

American West, 1940. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ inches. Fine. A well-posed and quite uncommon image of two nude men in an outdoor setting in the American West, c. 1930s-1940s.

Windsor, 1833. 8vo, 47 pp. Near Fine. Cyril Pearl was a Vermont-based pro-colonization abolitionist who feuded locally with William Lloyd Garrison on the subject of colonization and acted as a publishing agent in Vermont for the Boston-based The Colonizationist, and Journal of Freedom, a short-lived publication published from 1833-1834 by George W. Light in Boston. In this work, Pearl - writing anonymously - takes issue with Garrison's Thoughts on African Colonization pamphlet and makes a case for African colonization. We find little information on Pearl, save for a mention or two in correspondence relating to Garrison.

St. Louis: Gustav Cramer and Julius Gross, 1880. Cabinet card photographs measuring 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mounts. Fine condition. Fine. The German-American duo of Gustav Cramer and Julius Gross spent several decades photographing the wealthy families on St. Louis's south side in the late nineteenth century, with Gross succeeding Cramer at their 1001 S. Broadway location. Offered here are three particularly fine examples of their work, including a striking portrait of a young woman named Emma Gerhardt, an older woman in religious habit, and a young woman with braided hair.

New York: Anson P. Norton, 1860. 12mo, wraps, 144 pp. Very Good. An uncommon pro-annexation title on the gold fields of what is now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Courtney was commissioned by the editor of the New York Herald to write a pro-annexation treatise. He described the island as a virginal paradise ready for U.S. husbanding and fertilization. The outbreak of the Civil War a year later left these efforts to annex nearly impossible, and Courtney and similar advocates' ambitions were blocked. Spain reannexed Santo Domingo in 1861. A very good minus copy in original wraps with light general wear and some chips to wraps.

Nashua: J. Riley, 1890. Albumen photograph, 5 ½ x 4 inches on larger mount. A portrait of seven women holding weaving shuttles, most likely mill workers in Nashua. Two large mills, the Nashua Manufacturing Company and the Jackson Manufacturing Company, were active during this period, though we cannot confirm if this picture was taken at either. Generally well preserved with some wear and what looks like a fingerprint on the head of the subject in the upper right of the image, and some stray soiling and marks. Remains in good condition overall.

London, 1890. Small cabinet card photograph measuring 3 ½ x 2 ½ on larger mount. Slight fading, excellent condition. Near Fine. A portrait of Ambrose Clairmont of Bridgetown, Barbados, taken in London at the J.L. Huntly studio in Highbury. Clairmonte was a tailor and graduate of Harrison College in Bridgetown, Barbados. His father was also a tailor, and according to his brief biography in his Harrison College graduation program, he visited London at some point, when this picture may have been taken.

Vickburg: M.T. Frederichs, 1890. Cabinet card photograph measuring 5 ½ x 4 on larger mount. Some light wear to mount, very good. Very Good. A portrait of an African-American woman in a dress, holding a parasol and with a hat curiously perched on a prop branch nearby. We find a record of an M.T. Frederichs operating from a different address in Vicksburg in 1895, but are unable to identify the subject of this photograph.

Chicago and New York: Ralph E. Fox, 1916. First Edition. 8vo, wraps, 360 pp. Some wear, mark to front wrap, bright contents, very good overall. Very Good. Ralph E. Fox published this directory of the American music trade, which gives a detailed overview of the American instrument trade in the early 20th century, from roughly 1911-1929. The directory lists piano dealers in each state, and gives precise information on all piano factories and their outputs, financials, and prices. This is a relatively early issue. In very good condition, with very light wear.