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1860s African American AME Church Membership Card
$600.00
Rare survivor. African Methodist Episcopal Church membership dues slip for the third quarter 1862. Henry Robert's (member) name in pencil and in a more confident hand, A. Till Minister. ___ Very good stable condition with...
1890s Compelling Woman Itinerant Portrait Photo Signed Virginia
$300.00
Fine dress and corsage or purse stand in stark contrast to her empty countenance. Posed against a house on stilts, this may well be the first photograph of her life. Pale blue mount measures 5.5...
1900s Chinese & Native American Western Social History Photo
$1,200.00
Compelling portraits of under represented cultures in the development of America's Western history.
Nice condition with only smudges at margin and minimal corner chipping.
Mount measures 5.25 x 7.25".
1900s Compelling African American Family Photo
$375.00
Haunting face may be a portrait of a very young mother or sister. Victorian embossed mount measures 4.5 x 5.5", nice condition with curve.
1900s Integrated African American Caretaker Father Itinerant Photo
$450.00
INCREDIBLE circumstance and details in the itinerant’s backdrops (photographs on the ground behind) and clothing.
Identified Beallsville PA. Mount measures 6 x 8”, very nice condition with edge wear.
1900s Texas Southwest Old Mexico Border Family Photos
$375.00
Sight size measures 3.75 x 4.5", terribly intimate portraits.
Flaking to mounts.
1910s Ancient Cultural Artifacts Victorian Exploration Photo
$275.00
There was a time when Native American and Pre Columbian artifacts, exceptional reference here for beaded animals and club, grass baskets, a clay water pot, kachina, dolls, totem pole and figural effigies, were treated this...
1910s Blind WWI Veterans St. Dunstan UK Men Labor Reform Photo
$275.00
Marvelous capture. St. Dunstan’s Hostel began serving just over a dozen men in their re-education of a trade after loss of sight. By the end of World War I and amended for Blinded Soldiers and Sailors it aided...
1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA
$2,200.00
Arresting image. Signed Lewis R. (Ransome) Freeman / Pasadena California paid on August 19, 1913 by Brown Brothers NYC. Freeman was a gentleman traveler and photo journalist who ran the gambit from Geological...
1930s Integrated Butcher Shop Consumer Photo
$600.00
Speaks loudly. Captures the tension of the shop owner at register, the photographer who rather progressively for the time includes the African American customer (likely a domestic) and she with down turned eyes and folded hands who seems...
1932 Depression Era Labor Protest Cox’s Army Jobless Party Broadside
$750.00
In January of 1932 Father James Renshaw Cox, a Roman Catholic priest with humble Pittsburgh beginnings, led a march of 250,000 unemployed Pennsylvanians to Washington DC. When President Hoover launched an investigation into exactly how...
1940s African American College Professors Scholars Studio Photo
$200.00
Collegiate (doctoral?) robes, believed to be a Pittsburgh studio and dated 1949. Measures 3.5 x 4.75", nice condition with scuffs and one soft corner.