37.203 Ergebnisse
1961Best.-Nr. 2708Washington DC 1961. Very good. 88pp. Quarto. Original textured padded cloth printed in gilt and black with calendar designs on front cover. Minor edge wear rubbing and abrading to covers. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean. A rare yearbook from Veterans High School Center - an segregated academic and vocational training high school for American servicemen and other non-traditional male African-American students in the District of Columbia. Veterans High School was started in the old Armstrong Manual Training High School building in 1946 and operated until 1964 at which time it became an adult education center. During its run Veterans High School Center graduated around a hundred students a year trained in various academic and vocational specialties. The range of study is reflected in the senior class section here noting that each student is graduating on an "Academic" track or gaining a diploma in such vocational avenues as Printing Radio-TV Shoe Repair Auto Mechanics Brickmasonry Barber Science Electricity Drafting and Tailoring. Other sections of the yearbook feature students in typical settings such as the classroom in clubs playing sports and so forth. There is also a list of school patrons followed by an eight-page section of advertisements for local businesses. We could locate no other yearbooks from the segregated all-male Veterans High School in Washington D.C. unknown
1959Best.-Nr. 3137Washington D.C. 1959. Good plus. 19pp. mimeographed on rectos only. Original printed blue wrappers brad bound. Covers stained and worn. Mild uneven toning to a few leaves. A seemingly unrecorded directory for the Howard University School of Law published by the Student Bar Association in 1959. This humble handmade directory includes a short acknowledgement followed by listings of the faculty administrative staff Student Bar Association the Howard Law Journal the National Moot Court Team the Legal Assistance Program the "Law Wives" the class officers and finally the "Student Directory 1959-1960" arranged alphabetically. The directory lists the name expected year of graduation address phone number if any and undergraduate institution for each of the seventy-nine law students attending Howard at the time. Among the more notable names in the directory is Vernon Jordan Jr. who was then in his final year at Howard Law School. No listings for this ephemeral and homespun African American law school directory. unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. 5265St. Louis: The School Press 1957. Very good. 180pp. Profusely illustrated with photographs. Original orange printed self wrappers staple. Minor rubbing soiling and some edge wear to wrappers. Internally clean. A seemingly unrecorded photographic annual for a prominent African-American dance school in Jim Crow Missouri. The Les Pierrettes Dance School was a well-respected institution for the training of young dancers in St. Louis. The school's director identified in the present work as "Maitre d'Ecole" was Anita W. Roland a prominent dancer with experience on the stage in North America Latin America and Europe. The work opens with a couple of introductory poems and a table of contents; thereafter the work features almost sixty dance students both male and female in two-page spreads with a poem on the verso and a photographic portrait of the students in their dance uniforms on the rectos. This section is described on the table of contents as "A group of mirth-laden girls and boys make truth-laden statements about themselves" indicating the biographical poems were written by each of the students. The middle of the work features the dancing school staff and "Studio Demonstrators" i.e. dance instructors with some biographical details about each person. This is followed by a long section of well wishes and congratulatory messages from the dance students' family friends and the larger community. The rear of the work also includes a section of advertisements from local businesses. The present work was edited by Anita Roland's husband Philip Roland here listed as the Director of Program Activities for the dance school and editor of Foto-Feature. The work itself is identified on the table of contents as "Vol. 2 No. 1" indicating it is likely the second in a series. We could locate no exact matches of the present work in OCLC or auction records though there might be one other example at the Missouri History Museum the OCLC record does not specify volume number. The School Press unknown books
1961Best.-Nr. 2708Washington DC 1961. Very good. 88pp. Quarto. Original textured padded cloth printed in gilt and black with calendar designs on front cover. Minor edge wear rubbing and abrading to covers. Ink gift inscription on front free endpaper toning to endpapers but otherwise internally clean. A rare yearbook from Veterans High School Center - an segregated academic and vocational training high school for American servicemen and other non-traditional male African-American students in the District of Columbia. Veterans High School was started in the old Armstrong Manual Training High School building in 1946 and operated until 1964 at which time it became an adult education center. During its run Veterans High School Center graduated around a hundred students a year trained in various academic and vocational specialties. The range of study is reflected in the senior class section here noting that each student is graduating on an "Academic" track or gaining a diploma in such vocational avenues as Printing Radio-TV Shoe Repair Auto Mechanics Brickmasonry Barber Science Electricity Drafting and Tailoring. Other sections of the yearbook feature students in typical settings such as the classroom in clubs playing sports and so forth. There is also a list of school patrons followed by an eight-page section of advertisements for local businesses. We could locate no other yearbooks from the segregated all-male Veterans High School in Washington D.C. unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. List01121Richmond: N.A.A.C.P. 1957. 8vo wraps 30 pp. Some light wear staple holes to edge original owner's address and postage mark on back cover overall very good plus. An uncommon NAACP publication published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision with a range of articles on racism and segregation in Virginia and the efforts to desegregate schools there. The pamphlet is made up of several essays entitled "Behind the Segregation Curtain" "The N.A.A.C.P. - Defender of Constitutional Freedom" "The Truch about what led to School Cases" "Lookng at Work of the NAACP in the Fight for Integrated Schools in Virginia" "Integration - An Avenue to Liberty for Both Groups" "The Way to Genuine Good Race Relations in Virginia" and "Our Way of Life in Virginia." The essays are all written anonymously. The pamphlet argues for the use of reason in reversing racial prejudice and suggests appealing to the intelligence of people as a means for combating the problem. Uncommon with four copies held institutionally. N.A.A.C.P. unknown
1950Best.-Nr. 5036Washington DC: Cortez W. Peters Business School 1950. About very good. 60pp. Original purple wrappers printed in silver. Some soiling and staining to covers minor chipping and rubbing. Small unobtrusive stain to fore-edge of text overall even toning. A seemingly-unrecorded yearbook from the Washington D.C. branch of the Cortez W. Peters Business School the first African-American-owned business school in the United States. The co-educational school was founded in 1834 in the Nation's Capital followed in the next few years by branches in Chicago and Baltimore. The founder Cortez W. Peters taught himself to type as a child and went on to become the first African-American champion of the World's Amateur Typing Contest. Peters' school was one of the first to teach typing to Black students while also offering instruction in shorthand and other clerical skills. The present yearbook begins with a message from Peters which strikes a conciliatory tone in the wake of racial tensions that followed the conclusion of the Second World War: "We naturally resent discrimination lack of opportunities oppression.But on the other hand there are many other values to be considered which should make us tolerant and willing to work out these traditional handicaps generally." This is followed by messages from the dean and class president Eva Itene Brown then portraits of students and faculty a class history a class prophecy class will class poem and twelve pages of group photographs including shots of the men's and women's basketball teams the coronation ball and images featuring students in the classroom. Many of the students both men and women have included words of advice or stated their personal goals which are printed beside their portraits "To be a good typist" "To be a stenographer" and so forth. OCLC lists a single copy of three similar yearbooks all under different titles from other years and branches of the school Washington D.C. and Chicago in 1948 and an undated yearbook from Baltimore but not this particular year at the school's home base. Cortez W. Peters Business School unknown
1920Best.-Nr. List3814Nashville Tennessee: Ambrose 1920. Printed photographic postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Recto with two portraits of Laurence C. Jones captioned "Laurence C. Jones Ph. B." and describing him as founder and president of the Piney Woods Country Life School "an opportunity school for the training of the head hand and heart of underprivileged colored boys and girls in the Black Belt of Mississippi." Divided postcard back with printed appeal headed "How to Help Piney Woods School" soliciting money clothing shoes and scholarships. Light wear and soiling; very good. A fundraising postcard for Laurence C. Jones and the Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods Mississippi. Jones founded the school in 1909 to provide academic industrial and agricultural education for African American children in rural Mississippi. The front of the card summarizes the school's purpose in the language of the period describing it as an "opportunity school" for the training of "head hand and heart" in the Black Belt. The verso gives a direct appeal for support requesting "money in any amount-even one dollar is helpful" and asking for clothing and shoes for young men and women "who are working their way." It also gives the price of scholarships: $100 for an academic scholarship $50 for an industrial scholarship or $5 a month to give a boy or girl the opportunity to enter the school. Ambrose unknown
1943Best.-Nr. BK0057Pine Bluff Arkansas 1943. Gelatin silver photograph 5 x 7 inches. Minor loss or wear at upper left corner otherwise very good. A class photograph of the 1943 graduating class of Merrill High School one of only a handful of schools serving Black students in Pine Bluff before integration. Approximately fifty graduates and several faculty members pose in caps and gowns before the school with the image captioned in the negative "Merrill High School / May 22 1943 / Pine Bluff Ark." Merrill was established in 1886 and graduated its first students in 1894. It became an important center of Black secondary education in Pine Bluff and was the third Black high school in Arkansas accredited by the North Central Association. The school continued as a Black high school until the integration of Pine Bluff's public schools around 1970-71. unknown
1916Best.-Nr. List2304New York 1916. Small broadsheet measuring 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches mounted to backing paper. Chips to margins affecting text fair condition. A program for a benefit concert for the Manassus Industrial School at the Music School Settlement in New York featuring performances by Mabel Diggs Consuelo Pappy Jessie Janefer and Jean Kelly. The program also featured addresses by Principal Fred Norton of the Mannasus Industrial School. We find scant information on the performers other than Diggs with Pappy whose name is misspelled as Consuleo listed as a pupil of Music School Settlement. The Manassus Industrial School for Colored Youth opened in 1894 as a private residential school and was converted to a public school following the Virginia Supreme Court case of 1902 mandating the education of African-American youth. unknown
1931Best.-Nr. 14390Minden LA 1931. Very Good. Minden LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph 15.5x25.5cm. depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso identifying the team in "Shreveport LA / Circa 1947 / Washington ". The label is a red herring misdating and misplacing the photograph sixteen years late and thirty miles west. The center player holds a basketball dated '31 nineteen years before Booker T. Washington High School was founded. The school almost certainly is Webster High School in Minden Louisiana thirty miles east. The building in the background and the women's slightly mismatching uniforms conform to those depicted in W.L.G. Abney's 1950s booklet "The History of Webster High School." Indeed the simple whitewashed wooden structure sitting on a brick pile foundation appears to be either the back of the dormitory or the newly-completed library the ground still unpaved dirt. The story of the founding of Webster High School less than ten years earlier in 1922 displays the dedication and financial burden of a Black community in the heart of the Jim Crow South. According to Abney's history a Colored Board of Trustees comprised of members of the community first set out to find a suitable site for a new school settling on a piece of land "owned and occupied as a home by one of Minden's colored citizens Mr. Henry Harris who was perfectly happy there and had no desire to sell." Abney glosses over the displacement of Harris but the site was secured and approved by the White Parish board "with the understanding that the colored people themselves would have to make substantial financial contribution if they were to secure this site because no money had been budgeted for the cause at that time." Indeed by 1931 the list of state-sponsored schools in Louisiana for White and Black students was sixty-eight to four. Webster was not one of those four schools. As Abney's history delineates however the money was raised by the community through the leadership and outreach of the Colored Board of Trustees and by 1931 a library had been erected and numerous sports teams active. The date is also significant as it coincides with the founding of two of the first all-Black all-women's professional basketball clubs the Philadelphia Tribune Girls and the Chicago Romas. Perhaps these pioneering teams inspired the formation of Webster High School's girls' basketball team. In any case the members listed are as follows: Coach Mr. Russ Tena Lowery Hazel Garrett Willie Stewart B. Green M. Ford Bran Watson M. Gafford E. McCorey Ella B. Gafford Lorscie Henry and Louella Ruffin. unknown
1943Best.-Nr. BK0057Pine Bluff Arkansas 1943. Gelatin silver photograph 5 x 7 inches. Minor loss or wear at upper left corner otherwise very good. A class photograph of the 1943 graduating class of Merrill High School one of only a handful of schools serving Black students in Pine Bluff before integration. Approximately fifty graduates and several faculty members pose in caps and gowns before the school with the image captioned in the negative "Merrill High School / May 22 1943 / Pine Bluff Ark." Merrill was established in 1886 and graduated its first students in 1894. It became an important center of Black secondary education in Pine Bluff and was the third Black high school in Arkansas accredited by the North Central Association. The school continued as a Black high school until the integration of Pine Bluff's public schools around 1970-71. unknown books
1920Best.-Nr. List3814Nashville Tennessee: Ambrose 1920. Printed photographic postcard measuring approximately 3 ½ x 5 ½ inches. Recto with two portraits of Laurence C. Jones captioned "Laurence C. Jones Ph. B." and describing him as founder and president of the Piney Woods Country Life School "an opportunity school for the training of the head hand and heart of underprivileged colored boys and girls in the Black Belt of Mississippi." Divided postcard back with printed appeal headed "How to Help Piney Woods School" soliciting money clothing shoes and scholarships. Light wear and soiling; very good. A fundraising postcard for Laurence C. Jones and the Piney Woods Country Life School in Piney Woods Mississippi. Jones founded the school in 1909 to provide academic industrial and agricultural education for African American children in rural Mississippi. The front of the card summarizes the school's purpose in the language of the period describing it as an "opportunity school" for the training of "head hand and heart" in the Black Belt. The verso gives a direct appeal for support requesting "money in any amount-even one dollar is helpful" and asking for clothing and shoes for young men and women "who are working their way." It also gives the price of scholarships: $100 for an academic scholarship $50 for an industrial scholarship or $5 a month to give a boy or girl the opportunity to enter the school. Ambrose unknown books
1931Best.-Nr. 14390Minden LA 1931. Very Good. Minden LA: 1931. Original black and white photograph 15.5x25.5cm. depicting the girls' basketball team alongside their coach Mr. Russ each player identified in ink manuscript along bottom of image. Photograph slightly curled with very small flaw at bottom of image else Very Good overall. Misidentifying manuscript label mounted to verso identifying the team in "Shreveport LA / Circa 1947 / Washington ". The label is a red herring misdating and misplacing the photograph sixteen years late and thirty miles west. The center player holds a basketball dated '31 nineteen years before Booker T. Washington High School was founded. The school almost certainly is Webster High School in Minden Louisiana thirty miles east. The building in the background and the women's slightly mismatching uniforms conform to those depicted in W.L.G. Abney's 1950s booklet "The History of Webster High School." Indeed the simple whitewashed wooden structure sitting on a brick pile foundation appears to be either the back of the dormitory or the newly-completed library the ground still unpaved dirt. The story of the founding of Webster High School less than ten years earlier in 1922 displays the dedication and financial burden of a Black community in the heart of the Jim Crow South. According to Abney's history a Colored Board of Trustees comprised of members of the community first set out to find a suitable site for a new school settling on a piece of land "owned and occupied as a home by one of Minden's colored citizens Mr. Henry Harris who was perfectly happy there and had no desire to sell." Abney glosses over the displacement of Harris but the site was secured and approved by the White Parish board "with the understanding that the colored people themselves would have to make substantial financial contribution if they were to secure this site because no money had been budgeted for the cause at that time." Indeed by 1931 the list of state-sponsored schools in Louisiana for White and Black students was sixty-eight to four. Webster was not one of those four schools. As Abney's history delineates however the money was raised by the community through the leadership and outreach of the Colored Board of Trustees and by 1931 a library had been erected and numerous sports teams active. The date is also significant as it coincides with the founding of two of the first all-Black all-women's professional basketball clubs the Philadelphia Tribune Girls and the Chicago Romas. Perhaps these pioneering teams inspired the formation of Webster High School's girls' basketball team. In any case the members listed are as follows: Coach Mr. Russ Tena Lowery Hazel Garrett Willie Stewart B. Green M. Ford Bran Watson M. Gafford E. McCorey Ella B. Gafford Lorscie Henry and Louella Ruffin. unknown books
1916Best.-Nr. List2304New York 1916. Small broadsheet measuring 9 ¾ x 6 ¼ inches mounted to backing paper. Chips to margins affecting text fair condition. A program for a benefit concert for the Manassus Industrial School at the Music School Settlement in New York featuring performances by Mabel Diggs Consuelo Pappy Jessie Janefer and Jean Kelly. The program also featured addresses by Principal Fred Norton of the Mannasus Industrial School. We find scant information on the performers other than Diggs with Pappy whose name is misspelled as Consuleo listed as a pupil of Music School Settlement. The Manassus Industrial School for Colored Youth opened in 1894 as a private residential school and was converted to a public school following the Virginia Supreme Court case of 1902 mandating the education of African-American youth. unknown books
1957Best.-Nr. List01121Richmond: N.A.A.C.P. 1957. 8vo wraps 30 pp. Some light wear staple holes to edge original owner's address and postage mark on back cover overall very good plus. An uncommon NAACP publication published right after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision with a range of articles on racism and segregation in Virginia and the efforts to desegregate schools there. The pamphlet is made up of several essays entitled "Behind the Segregation Curtain" "The N.A.A.C.P. - Defender of Constitutional Freedom" "The Truch about what led to School Cases" "Lookng at Work of the NAACP in the Fight for Integrated Schools in Virginia" "Integration - An Avenue to Liberty for Both Groups" "The Way to Genuine Good Race Relations in Virginia" and "Our Way of Life in Virginia." The essays are all written anonymously. The pamphlet argues for the use of reason in reversing racial prejudice and suggests appealing to the intelligence of people as a means for combating the problem. Uncommon with four copies held institutionally. N.A.A.C.P. unknown books
1950Best.-Nr. 5036Washington DC: Cortez W. Peters Business School 1950. About very good. 60pp. Original purple wrappers printed in silver. Some soiling and staining to covers minor chipping and rubbing. Small unobtrusive stain to fore-edge of text overall even toning. A seemingly-unrecorded yearbook from the Washington D.C. branch of the Cortez W. Peters Business School the first African-American-owned business school in the United States. The co-educational school was founded in 1834 in the Nation's Capital followed in the next few years by branches in Chicago and Baltimore. The founder Cortez W. Peters taught himself to type as a child and went on to become the first African-American champion of the World's Amateur Typing Contest. Peters' school was one of the first to teach typing to Black students while also offering instruction in shorthand and other clerical skills. The present yearbook begins with a message from Peters which strikes a conciliatory tone in the wake of racial tensions that followed the conclusion of the Second World War: "We naturally resent discrimination lack of opportunities oppression.But on the other hand there are many other values to be considered which should make us tolerant and willing to work out these traditional handicaps generally." This is followed by messages from the dean and class president Eva Itene Brown then portraits of students and faculty a class history a class prophecy class will class poem and twelve pages of group photographs including shots of the men's and women's basketball teams the coronation ball and images featuring students in the classroom. Many of the students both men and women have included words of advice or stated their personal goals which are printed beside their portraits "To be a good typist" "To be a stenographer" and so forth. OCLC lists a single copy of three similar yearbooks all under different titles from other years and branches of the school Washington D.C. and Chicago in 1948 and an undated yearbook from Baltimore but not this particular year at the school's home base. Cortez W. Peters Business School unknown books
Best.-Nr. 3P., Imprimerie Nationale, 1872 ; fort in-8. Demi-chagrin rouge, dos à nerfs, titre doré. 2ff.-XIV-654 pp. - 107 figures in-texte - 1 carte, 8 planches ( 6 photos contrecollées, 1 portrait litho. de Mathieu de Dombasle et 1 planche couleurs) et 18 plans hors-texte (doubles pages sur fond teinté). Des rousseurs sur les planches.
1868Best.-Nr. 13286Selma AL: J.P. Armstrong Printer 1868. Broadside 12.25 x 8.25 inches printed in three columns. Numerous old folds substantial wear and foxing some wrinkling edges scuffed and chipped but ample margins remain small hole in upper right corner. Good only. A striking unrecorded broadside publishing the lyrics to six songs intended to be sung by students of the Selma Union Sabbath School on an "excursion pic-nic" in the Spring of 1868. The songs printed here include "Festive Song" "Sunday School Volunteer Song" "The Happy Song" "By-and-Bye" "Around the Throne" and "Beautiful River." Little is known about the Selma Union Sabbath School; the only newspaper records we could locate concern the same picnic advertised on the present broadside held at Marion Alabama on May 12 1868. The Selma Morning Times published an advertisement in a few issues that week. Not in Ellison Hummel or OCLC. J.P. Armstrong, Printer unknown
1868Best.-Nr. 13286Selma AL: J.P. Armstrong Printer 1868. Broadside 12.25 x 8.25 inches printed in three columns. Numerous old folds substantial wear and foxing some wrinkling edges scuffed and chipped but ample margins remain small hole in upper right corner. Good only. A striking unrecorded broadside publishing the lyrics to six songs intended to be sung by students of the Selma Union Sabbath School on an "excursion pic-nic" in the Spring of 1868. The songs printed here include "Festive Song" "Sunday School Volunteer Song" "The Happy Song" "By-and-Bye" "Around the Throne" and "Beautiful River." Little is known about the Selma Union Sabbath School; the only newspaper records we could locate concern the same picnic advertised on the present broadside held at Marion Alabama on May 12 1868. The Selma Morning Times published an advertisement in a few issues that week. Not in Ellison Hummel or OCLC. J.P. Armstrong, Printer unknown books
1829Best.-Nr. 31861Philadelphia: American Sunday School Union 1829. Hardcover. 180pp. Cloth. Engraved frontispiece. With the small bookseller label of George L. Weed Juvenile Bookseller of Cincinnati. Front free endpaper partially torn scattered foxing to text block wear to covers. A very good- copy. ; 24mo. American Sunday School Union hardcover
1930Best.-Nr. 1081931930. 1930. 7 3/8 x 9 3/4" watercolor on paper artist initials and date in lower right corner; very good. § Original watercolor painting from the American School signed in initial. unknown
1893Best.-Nr. List1712Nagasaki: Ikuta 1893. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount with the imprint of Ikuta Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso. Near Fine. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan taken at the Kwassui Girls' School later Kwassui Women's University in Nagasaki. At the time Taylor was representing the Women's Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and serving perhaps as principal of the school which had been started in 1879. Callahan began his work as a teacher in Japan shortly after graduating from Emory in 1890. The two would spend over forty-five years in Japan as missionaries. Ikuta unknown
1832Best.-Nr. 35697Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union 1832. Hardcover. Very Good. Hardcover. A highly romanticized history of the Native Americans. Blue cloth spine over marbled paper covered boards. Rubbing to boards wear to spine ends and edges of boards. Illustrated. Minor soiling throughout. Rear hinge is split but board remains attached. 153 pages. CHILD/062322. American Sunday-School Union hardcover
Best.-Nr. 76-0241New York: American Publisher circa 1950. Modern reprint from the original photograph from circa 1860. 50.5 x 40.5 cm sheet. Very Good. [New York: American Publisher, circa 1950]. unknown
1893Best.-Nr. List1712Nagasaki: Ikuta 1893. Albumen photograph measuring 5 x 3 ½ inches on a larger mount with the imprint of Ikuta Uwajima on mount recto. Slight fading near fine condition. With identifying marks to verso. Near Fine. A photograph of the wedding party of the American missionary and author William Jackson Callahan and Martha Taylor Callahan taken at the Kwassui Girls' School later Kwassui Women's University in Nagasaki. At the time Taylor was representing the Women's Board of the Methodist Episcopal Church and serving perhaps as principal of the school which had been started in 1879. Callahan began his work as a teacher in Japan shortly after graduating from Emory in 1890. The two would spend over forty-five years in Japan as missionaries. Ikuta unknown books
