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
150

(CRIME.) Commutation of a death sentence for a Black Pennsylvania man who had nearly been lynched. Letter Signed by William A. Stone as Governor of Pennsylvania and by the state secretary, to warden William McC. Johnston of the Western Penitentiary

Harrisburg, PA 1902-01-08 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
151

(CRIME.) Wanted for Murder: Charles James, alias "Jelly Roll."

Marlinton, WV circa 1919 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
152

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. The Anti-Slavery Movement: A Lecture . . . Before the Rochester Ladies' Anti-Slavery Society

Rochester, NY 1855 USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
153

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. Eulogy, of the Late Hon. Wm. Jay . . . Delivered on the Invitation of the Colored Citizens of New York City

Rochester, NY 1859 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
154 FREDERICK DOUGLASS

FREDERICK DOUGLASS. His autograph statement on voting rights for "all the people without distinction of race or color." Autograph Manuscript Signed as "Fred'k Douglass"

No place 1866 USD 20,000.00 - 30,000.00 Unknown
155 George Kendall Warren, photographer.

(FREDERICK DOUGLASS.) Carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass

Boston circa 1879 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
156 FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Address . . . on the Twenty-First Anniversary of Emancipation in the District of Columbia

Washington 1883 USD 2,500.00 - 3,500.00 Unknown
157 FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Letter sharing the history of Prudence Crandall and America's first private school for Black girls

Washington 20 January 1886 USD 10,000.00 - 15,000.00 Unknown
158 FREDERICK DOUGLASS

Self-Made Men: Address before the Students of the Indian Industrial School, Carlisle, Pa

Carlisle, PA [1893] USD 4,000.00 - 6,000.00 Unknown
159 (FREDERICK DOUGLASS)

National Equal Rights League. Citizenship Foundation Day / The Call of Douglass on his 105th Birthday

Stewart of Tyler, TX; the local postmaster has added to his address "(Colored) Baptist Church." Boston? 1922-02-01 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
160 W.E.B. DU BOIS, editor.

Very early issues of "The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races."

New York 1912-1914 USD 1,500.00 - 2,500.00 Unknown
161 W.E.B. DU BOIS.

Illustrated poster for his lectures

No place circa 1924 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
162 W.E.B. DU BOIS

Early press photo of W.E.B. Du Bois

New York circa early 1920s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
163 W.E.B. DU BOIS.

His signed application for a New York Public Library card

New York 1934-09-15 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
164 W.E.B. DU BOIS.

What the Negro Has Done for the United States and Texas

[Washington?] circa 1936 USD 3,000.00 - 4,000.00 Unknown
165

(EDUCATION.) Letter announcing plans for the Philadelphia House of Refuge for Colored Children. Autograph Letter Signed from James J. Barclay as chairman of the Executive Committee to Benjamin Patton of Pittsburgh, PA

Philadelphia 13 June 1849 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
166 Booker T. Washington.

(EDUCATION.) Group of letters regarding the employment of a young instructor at Tuskegee Institute. 4 Letters Signed to L.G. and J.J. Wheeler, each on Washington's Tuskegee letterhead

Tuskegee, AL 1898 and 1905 USD 1,200.00 - 1,800.00 Unknown
167 Booker T. Washington.

(EDUCATION.) Up from Slavery, inscribed

New York 1914 USD 1,000.00 - 1,500.00 Unknown
168 E.W.B. Curry.

(EDUCATION.) Addresses

Urbana, OH circa [1911] USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
169

(EDUCATION.) Promotional postcard for Wiley College in Texas

Marshall, TX 1922-09-12 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
170

(EDUCATION.) Album kept by a Black student at an integrated Pittsburgh high school

Pittsburgh, PA 1924-1928 USD 800.00 - 1,200.00 Unknown
171

(EDUCATION.) First issue of "The New Era Journal," produced by graduates of a Pennsylvania teacher's college

West Chester, PA 1928-02-01 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
172

(EDUCATION.) Photograph of a Boy Scout troop in Montclair, New Jersey

No place circa 1927-1935 USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
173

(EDUCATION.) Photograph of Lewis Business College in Indiana

Indianapolis, IN circa 1930s USD 600.00 - 900.00 Unknown
174 John Baer, artist.

(EDUCATION.) Artist's rendering of the proposed Bel Air Consolidated Colored School

Baltimore, MD circa 1949 USD 500.00 - 750.00 Unknown