Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana, 2697, New York

Auction Details

Auction Date
March 20, 2025 - March 20, 2025
Page Size: 403 items in 17 pages

Lot Number Author Name Book Title Place Printed Year Published Estimate Actual Price
300

(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Issue of the Navy News Bulletin revealing the identity of Pearl Harbor hero Dorie Miller

[Washington, D.C.] 1942-04-03 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
301

(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) Twice a Patriot!

Washington 1943 USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
302

(MILITARY--WORLD WAR TWO.) "Working for Victory" certificate issued to master painter Willie C. Webb, with her portrait

Portland, OR circa 1942-1945 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
303 Thurgood Marshall.

(MILITARY--KOREAN WAR.) Report on Korea: The Shameful Story of the Courts Martial of Negro GIs

New York [April 1951] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
304

(OCCULT.) Paschal Beverly Randolph. His occult pamphlets "The Ghostly Land," "The New Mola," and "Love! At Last!" bound in one volume

Boston and Toledo, OH 1870-1874 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
305

(PERIODICALS.) Issue of "The Colored American Review: A Magazine of Inspiration."

New York 1916-01-01 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
306

(PERIODICALS.) Issue of "The New Negro Magazine."

New York 1918-03-01 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
307

(PERIODICALS.) Long run of the Detroit news weekly, "The Owl."

Detroit, MI April 1928 to March 1929 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
308

(PERIODICALS.) An issue of the scarce weekly magazine "Harlem Life: The Civic-Pictorial Weekly."

[New York] 1934-10-27 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
309

(PERIODICALS.) Issues of "Nite Life," a weekly Washington entertainment magazine

Washington 1937-1939 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
310

(PERIODICALS.) Issue of "The Negro, America's Best Negro Monthly."

St. Louis, MO 1946-06-01 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
311

(PERIODICALS.) Group of 17 point-of-purchase posters from Johnson Publishing (Jet, Ebony, Copper Romance, and Tan)

No place 1947-1975 and undated USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
312 James Presley Ball.

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Quarter-plate daguerreotype by the pioneering photographer

Cincinnati, OH circa late 1850s? USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
313

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Carte-de-visite portrait of "Aunt Mary."

Philadelphia circa 1866 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
314

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Pair of portraits of Yale University workers

[New Haven, CT] [circa 1871] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
315

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Cabinet card of Pomp Wilson, University of Pennsylvania staff member

Philadelphia circa 1879-1888 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
316

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) African-American family photo album from Springfield, Ohio

Springfield, OH and elsewhere circa 1880s and 1890s USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
317 James Conway Farley

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Group of cabinet card portraits by James Conway Farley

Richmond, VA circa 1895-1906 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
318

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Pair of photographs of Booker T. Washington from a visit to California

[Oakland, CA] [14 January 1903?] USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
319

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Photograph of a porter at the Hotel Palomares in California

[Pomona, CA] circa 1890 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
320

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Pair of photo albums showing boxcar-riding, gun-toting, cowboy women and more

Various places circa 1910-1930 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
321

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Group of 4 postcards of Harlem street scenes, some or all by James Van Der Zee

[New York] circa 1930s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
322

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Large group of vernacular photos by Charles "Teenie" Harris of Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, PA circa 1940s-1950s USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
323

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Collection of work by Black Chicago photographer Dion Stams

Chicago and elsewhere 1949-1952 and undated USD 2,000.00 - 3,000.00 Unknown
324

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Family photographs of travels in the 1950s American West

Various places 1955-1956 and undated USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown