African American from Walter Reuben, Inc. / WalterFilm

New York: General Artists Corporation, [ca. late 1940s]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white photo, minor marginal stain in blank bottom right margin, photo credit for James J. Kriegsmann, N.Y., in lower left of image, near fine. A portrait of Louis Jordan, a seminal figure in the history of rhythm and blues. Known as "the King of the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Jean-Pierre Leloir. No binding. Near Fine. Paris: Jean-Pierre Leloir, [ca. 1965]. Vintage original 9 1/4 x 7" (24 x 18 cm.) borderless black-and-white French photo. With stamp of photographer on verso. Near fine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Classic Pictures. Softcover/Paperback. Near Fine. New York: Classic Pictures, [1951]. Vintage original 15 1/4 x 10 7/8" (39 x 28 cm.) promotional pressbook, 8 pp., pictorial self-wrappers. Folded once (as issued), near fine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Lerner Arons Associates. No binding. Fine. New York: Lerner Arons Associates, [ca. 1975]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white photo, with label on back of a press agency, fine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Columbia. No binding. Fine. [Los Angeles: Columbia Pictures, 1957]. Two (2) vintage original 8 x 10"" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, both keybook photos with punch holes at top (as was the norm) and with mimeographed text on verso, fine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Unknown. No binding. Near Fine. [New York?: ca. 1960]. Vintage original 9 7/8 x 7 3/4" (25 x 20 cm.) mostly borderless black-and-white print still photo. Light diagonal creasing in lower right, near fine. A strong portrait of playwright Lorraine Hansberry, most likely soon after A Raisin in the Sun opened its historic run on Broadway.

Johan Elbers. No binding. Near Fine. New York: Johan Elbers, 1976. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo, there is unevenness to the emulsion in part of the top of the photo, mostly in the black background, but slightly going into Kirk's head (but this is only visible if you lift the… Saber más sobre este artículo

Screenland Select Agents. No binding. Fine. [Los Angeles, Screenland Select Agents, ca. late-1930s]. Vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white double weight semi-glossy print still photo. "Screenland Select, Agents, Hollywood" ink stamp on verso. Photographer's signature is hidden under photo agency sticker. Fine. Character portrait of Willie Best as a prisoner sporting handcuffs.

US Dept of Treasury. No binding. Very Good+. Np: US Treasury, 1945. Vintage original 26 x 18" (66 x 46 cm.) poster, folded (as issued), with some small marginal tears mended with archival paper, very good+. Poster designed by Kautz commemorating African American agricultural scientist and inventor George Washington Carver, who had died only two years earlier. Although the US government… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: Horace Liveright, 1926. Vintage original flyer, 4 pp., 8 x 5" (20 x 13 cm.), opens up to 8 x 10" (20 x 26 cm.). A flyer for this play by Jim Tully and Frank Mitchell Dazey starring Paul Robeson, which appeared on Broadway for 37 performances in October and November, 1926. Woll, p. 18: "Describes the rise… Saber más sobre este artículo

Unknown. No binding. Near Fine. Vintage original 3.5 x 2 5/16" (8.4 x 5.7 cm.) tintype photo, near fine. … Saber más sobre este artículo

Consolidated National Film Exchanges. No binding. Near Fine. [New York]: Consolidated National Film Exchanges, [1942]. Vintage original 41 x 27" (104 x 69 cm.) one sheet poster, on archival linen, minor conservation has been done to address scattered stains, near fine. An African American "all colored star cast" film made during World War II, in which a group of… Saber más sobre este artículo

Carson McCullers (source) [Hollywood]: Columbia Pictures, 1952. With promotional text in paper snipe on back, as well as stamp of photographer Van Pelt. Near fine. Portrait of James Edwards as "Honey Brown" in this Carson McCullers adaptation, "a troubled young man happiest when away from the white world's dictates and simply playing his horn. Edwards understands jazz musicians and how… Saber más sobre este artículo

Universal. No binding. Near Fine. [Hollywood]: Universal Pictures, 1947. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) black-and-white print still photo. Traces of glue on back does not show through, near fine. A… Saber más sobre este artículo

Np, [1947]. Set of eight vintage original (8) 11 x 14" (28 x 36 cm.) lobby cards. Just about fine. An unusual morality film, in which a young woman is tempted by the Devil, but righteousness wins out in the end. The film was promoted as having "an all-colored cast of 30 and a choir of 40." That choir interspersed… Saber más sobre este artículo

Unknown. No binding. Near Fine. Np, [ca. 1930]. Vintage original 10 x 8" (25 x 20 cm.) photo, near fine. Buck and Bubbles were an important African American vaudeville act in the early decades… Saber más sobre este artículo

RKO. No binding. Very Good. Langston Hughes, Clarence Muse (screenplay) [Hollywood]: RKO Pictures, 1939. Vintage original 81 x 41" (206 x 104 cm.) three sheet poster. A very scarce poster, one I have never… Saber más sobre este artículo

New York: ABC, 1977-ca. 1980. Set of fifteen (15) vintage original photos, of which there are six 7 x 9" (18 x 23 cm.) and nine 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) photos. Many with affixed descriptive text, near fine. ROOTS, a television miniseries, was a landmark event in American television history -- a sweeping look at the life… Saber más sobre este artículo

Toddy. No binding. Just About Fine. Np, [1947]. Vintage original 11 x 14" (28 x 36 cm.) lobby card #3. Just about fine. An unusual morality film, in which a young woman is… Saber más sobre este artículo

[Hollywood]: United Artists, 1953. Set of seven (7) vintage original 8 x 10" (20 x 25 cm.) black-and-white print still photos, overall near fine. Corey Wallace starred in this fictional biography of the great African American boxing champion. "Corey Wallace plays Joe... with feeling and reserve and a cautious, gentle strength." (Bogle, Blacks in American Film, p. 123.)