Historic Reference
1904 African American Students Hampton Virginia HBCU Photo
$750.00
Founded just three years into Reconstruction, Hampton Institute / University, has always stood stalwart in African American education. The school houses the oldest African Diaspora museum in the country, notably rose to the education of...
1920s Red Cross African American Nurses Rolling Bandages
$2,000.00
Exceptional evidence and unusually aesthetic composition. African Americans were finally admitted into the Red Cross in 1919, a response to the nursing need created by the Spanish Flu epidemic. This image dates to just a...
1920s African American HBCU Students Hampton Virginia Mounted Photo
$1,200.00
Likely the steps of a dormitory w/ den mother prominent center top row. Hampton University is home to the oldest African Diaspora museum in the U.S. and very famous amongst its graduates is Booker T....
1959/60 Cuban Revolution Castro Propaganda Photos & Postcard
$2,000.00
1. Holy Mother in the Mountains / July 26th Armband Photo Montage. (Measures 4 x 6", surface scratches and minor foxing right edge). Signed St. Naranjo. 2. Raul / Field GRANMA Yacht (Also 4...
1900s Cleveland OH Elevator Operator Miniature Labor Photos
$550.00
SCARCE subject.
(2) mounted photos (3 x 3.5"), (4) miniatures measure 1 x 2" to 2 x 3" and news clipping.
1910s WWI Era Italy Prosthetic Limb Factory & Amputee Portrait Photos
$750.00
Individual work stations and lathes stacked with blanks; one man shapes a wooden leg at center. Includes before & after photographs of a beneficiary. Measure 5 x 7” and 2.5 x 4.5”. ...
WWI African American Soldiers Carnegie Library Group Photo
$450.00
Remarkable. Uniformed soldiers (and the women to welcome them home after Armistice) spill across the yard of a Carnegie Library. Men are sitting in the windows - a few even have climbed the building to...
1910s Sepia Gothic African American Railroad Labor Train Car Photos
$1,200.00
Startling tones and composition, text book images. Earl M. Tucker reverse (almost certainly the Caucasian man), found in NC. ____ Sight size 5 x 7". One photograph shows edge chipping but mounts suffer heavy damage. ...
19thc Religious River Baptism Sepia Photo
$1,200.00
EARLY and strong enough to contribute to any discussion of the subject.
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c1880s board measures 6 x 8.25" with damage left edge and top / center.
Please refer to photo details.
1910s Chinese Immigrant Railroad Labor Photo Pasadena CA
$2,000.00
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...
20thc African American Call to Baptist Church Card
$295.00
H.J. Burton V.D.M. Pastor Mt. V. Baptist Church BAPTIZING at 11:45 AM ALL CHILDREN COME OUT _____ McKinley 1c stamp dates this to the very beginning of the 20thc. _____ Postcard measures 3.25 x 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".