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
325

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Photograph and signature file used to facilitate check-cashing at a Pittsburgh store

Pittsburgh, PA 1968-1970 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
326

(PHOTOGRAPHY.) Group of fashion photographs by Arthur Grobes

[Philadelphia] circa late 1970s? USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
327

(POLITICS.) Archive of letters to a Virginia newspaper editor from Charles Douglass, John Mercer Langston, and more

Various places 1889-1905 and undated USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
328

(POLITICS.) Scrapbook on the career of Congressman Arthur Wergs Mitchell

Various places 1934-1937 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
329

(POLITICS.) A Franklin D. Roosevelt pamphlet titled "Take Your Choice," issued by the campaign's "Colored Division."

No place [1936] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
330

(POLITICS.) Group of 8 press photos of Shirley Chisholm

Various places 1968-1975 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
331 Kent, Corita.

(POLITICS.) Shirley Chisholm: Unbossed and Unbought

No place [1972] USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
332 Bring U.S.

(POLITICS.) Together

Slater 1972 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
333

(POLITICS.) "Just Once, Let Us Pull All Our Splinter Groups Together ... Against the Robber Barons of America." Rep. Shirley Chisholm

Berkeley, CA [1972] USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
334

(POLITICS.) Group of Shirley Chisholm ephemera, including an event program and local campaign materials

Various places 1969-1972 and 1981 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
335

(POLITICS.) Group of 4 posters from Jesse Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign

Various places 1984 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
336 Thomas W. Benton, artist.

(POLITICS.) Jobs, Peace and Justice: Jesse Jackson

No place [1988] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
337

(POLITICS.) Jackson '88: Artists for Jackson

No place 1988 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
338

(POLITICS.) Group of 9 posters from Jesse Jackson's 1988 presidential campaign

Various places 1988 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
339

(RECONSTRUCTION.) Order Organizing Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands

Washington 12 May 1865 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
340 [James G. Gibbes, photographer.]

(RECONSTRUCTION.) Radical Members of the So. Ca. Legislature

[Columbia, SC] [circa 1868] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
341 John Roy Lynch.

(RECONSTRUCTION.) Letter to an office-seeker while awaiting the start of his first term in Congress. Autograph Letter Signed to William J. Davis on Mississippi House of Representatives letterhead

Jackson, MS 30 January 1874 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
342 Wiley P. Harris.

(RECONSTRUCTION.) An ex-Confederate lawyer complains about "Negro government" in the midst of the Vicksburg Riots. Autograph Letter Signed to A.D. Banks

Jackson, MS 26 December 1874 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
343 William D. Jervay.

(RECONSTRUCTION.) Letter by a former member of South Carolina's reconstruction legislature. Autograph Letter Signed as "W.R. Jervay" to insurance agent J.D. Copplemann

Summerville, SC 1900-05-16 USD 300.00 - 400.00 Unknown
344 Thomas W. Stringer.

(RELIGION.) Letter by the noted Mississippi A.M.E. minister and founder of the Knights of Pythias. Autograph Letter Signed "Thos W Stringer" to "all whom it may consern."

Vicksburg, MS 8 January 1867 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
345

(RELIGION.) Group of 20 illustrated cards and leaflets for ministers and evangelists (4 of them women)

Various places 1898-1951 and undated USD 700.00 - 1,000.00 Unknown
346

(RELIGION.) Papers of a bishop with the Church of God in Christ

Pennsylvania 1940-1992 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
347

(RELIGION.) Papers of a Pittsburgh Jehovah's Witness and her husband, a Negro National League pitcher

Various places 1951-1986 and undated USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
348

(RELIGION.) Pair of programs for the biannual Unity Bazaar held by the Washington mosque of the Nation of Islam

Washington 20 May and 28 October 1969 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
349

(SLAVE TRADE.) Painting titled "The Slave Traders."

New York circa 1850s? USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown