Early African American carnival gamingfigure late 19th/early 20th century painted papier-mache ball-toss game featuring hollow-bodied seated man with open mouth target ending in sloped divided scoring compartment...
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BLACK AMERICANA: Board game "The FunnyGame of Hit or Miss", c. 1900, McLoughlin Bros., contains eighteen wooden disc counters, one cardboard teetotem spinner with wood center, and a lithographed paper playing...
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Jules Lion (French/American, 1806-1866,active New Orleans, 1837-1866) , "Ashur Moses Nathan and Son", c. 1845, pastel on heavy paper board, signed "Lion" lower left, sight 35 in. x 28 in., glazed in a period cove-molded...
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[JONES, Absalom; and Richard ADAMS.]ANarrative of the Proceedings of the Black People, during the late Awful Calamity in Philadelphia, in the year 1793: and a Refutation of some Censures, Thrown upon them in...
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A Rare North or South Carolina “ColoredRepublicing Club” Stoneware Cooler
Dated July 7, 1892
in Southern alkaline glaze, with distinctive doubled collared rim, tooled body, two lug handles set low on the body...
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CHICAGO SCHOOL (FOLLOWER OF AARON DOUGLAS)
ChicagoWorld Fair.
Gouache over pencil on wove paper, circa 1933-40. 465x315 mm; 18 3/8x12 3/8 inches.
This unusual maquette design for an unknown or unpublished Chicago World's...
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MALVIN GRAY JOHNSON (1896 - 1934)
SwingLow, Sweet Chariot.
Oil on canvas, 1928-29. 1245x735 mm; 49x29 inches. Signed "Gray Johnson ©" in oil, lower right.
Provenance: the artist, New York; purchased by John...
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AARON DOUGLAS (1899 - 1979)
BuildingMore Stately Mansions.
Oil on canvas board, 1944. 507x405 mm; 20x16 inches. Signed and dated in oil, lower right.
Provenance: purchased directly from the artist by a...
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JOHN BIGGERS (1924 - 2001)
Shotguns.
Oiland acrylic on canvas, 1987. 1067x1267 mm; 42x49 7/8 inches.
Provenance: acquired directly from the artist, 1987; private collection.
Exhibited: John Biggers: Patchwork...
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Maud Cuney Hare NORRIS WRIGHT CUNEYA TRIBUNE OF THE BLACK PEOPLE 1913 First Edition Antique African Title: Norris Wright Cuney: A Tribune of the Black PeopleAuthor: Maud Cuney Hare - Maud Cuney Hare (nee Cuney)...
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TICKETS FOR ANTI-SLAVERY LECTURES (SLAVERYAND ABOLITION.) Six tickets to New York Anti-Slavery Society lectures for talks by these five speakers, and one 'Season Ticket' for a lady. All about the same size and design....
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RARE POSTER OF THE "AFRICAN TRAGEDIAN"INSCRIBED (THEATRE) ALDRIDGE, IRA. Ira Aldrige, African Tragedian. Lithographed portrait poster, by Nicholas Barabas, 15 1/4x11 inches (bottom margin very slightly trimmed),...
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A GREAT RARITY (LITERATURE AND POETRY.)HARPER, FRANCES E.; MARTIN R. DELANY, ET AL. The Anglo-African Magazine. February, March, May, June, August and September, of 1859. Tall 4to, original printed wrappers: consecutively...
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African American slavery--Mott, Abigail
Biographicalsketches and interesting anecdotes of persons of colour. York: W. Alexander, 1826. First edition, contemporary half calf, some spotting
Note: The very rare first edition...
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[African Americans] Sixth Plate & NinthPlate Tintypes of African American Couples Lot of 2 including: a sixth plate tintype of an African American couple seated on a wooden bench housed in geometric Union case;...
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[African Americans] Civil War-Era CDVsof African Americans Lot of 7 CDVs including: a hand colored illustration titled Emancipation in the recto margin with artist's credit to G.G. Fish photo/publisher's credit...
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Fine Group of Photographs of AfricanAmerican Cotton Pickers & Farmers Lot of 7 photographs by Eugene Atwater St. Louis MO photographer including: four boudoir photographs (roughly 5.25'' x 8.25'') of African...
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D. L. Lapsley Merchant Token: (1861-1865),F-690C-8a, "25" reverseNote: Daniel Lapsley was an African-American barber in Nashville from 1863 to 1870, at times with business partner Alfred McKay and other times on his...
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Richmond Barthé (American/Mississippi,1901-1989), "Male Nude", bronze, signed and incised "Modern Art Fdry NY" on self-base, h. 9 1/4 in., w. 2 1/2 in., w. 2 1/2 in Provenance: Collection of Noted Preservationist...
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DOLL LOT - Five Native American andAfrican American miniature dolls. Consists of 12" fully jointed composition Native American doll; 6" celluloid Native American doll; 5" composition African American doll;...
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SARGENT CLAUDE JOHNSON (1888 - 1967)
Untitled(Standing Woman).
Terra cotta, painted pale tan, circa 1933-35. 360x100x95 mm; 14 1/4x4x3 1/2 inches.
Provenance: the artist, San Francisco; Arthur W. Hanna, San Francisco.
San...
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(AFRICAN-AMERICANS.) Cheswell, Wentworth.Document signed by the nation's first African-American elected official. Partly-printed Document Signed, 8 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches, completed in another hand but signed by Cheswell,...
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