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Detroit, Michigan: The H. O'Reilly Clint Co, 1930. Very good. 12¼" x 9¼". Sheet music. Pp. 6. Very good with moderate wear and light dust soiling. This is the sheet music for a composition "dedicated to the Booker T. Washington Memorial, Detroit, Mich." It features a full page illustrated image of Washington as well as striking cover art of "Lifting the Veil of Ignorance," a statue of Washington created by Charles Keck in the 1920s and which is on the grounds of Tuskegee Institute. We were unable to find any information about the music/lyrics or about the Booker T. Washington Memorial in Detroit for which it was composed, save one Detroit newspaper article found online that mentioned the "tiny Booker T. Washington Memorial Park, started in the 1920s by a group of Black lawyers." Rare documentation of a possibly lost memorial to Washington, coupled with previously unknown uplift music. A ghost of a project, with OCLC locating no copies; no mentions in numerous variants of Google searches, nor on… Read More

Salem, Oregon: Adolphson's Printing Company, 1970. 10 7/8" x 7 5/8". Stapled card wrappers. pp. [52]. Very good: moderate wear and light dust soiling to wrappers; rear wrapper with a few patches of surface loss; clean and bright throughout. This is a photo book documenting Vortex I: A Biodegradable Festival of Life which was a rock festival held at Milo McIver State Park near Estacada, Oregon in late summer 1970. 1970. With Nixon scheduling an appearance at the National American Legion convention in Portland, local counterculture groups came together to shine a light on their peace movement. That led to the idea of the festival, and they pitched it to the Oregon's state government as a way to funnel some of the possibly 50,000 antiwar protestors away from Nixon's appearance and facing off against a mass of up to 25,000 legionnaires. According to Wikipedia, In order to keep the peace, [Governor] McCall acted on a suggestion by staffer Ed Westerdahl who had been meeting with the Vortex volunteers.… Read More

Houston,Texas, 1929. Good. 39 loose leaves from a scrapbook, 60 pages with handwriting and/or ephemera. Scrapbook includes 17 items of ephemera, three photographs, seven items clipped from school publications and 14 news clippings. Good: edges of all leaves with insect predation. usually impacting text on a page; ephemera generally good or better, a few items fair due to losses. This is a wonderful scrapbook documenting a segregated high school in Houston, Texas that was compiled by a young woman, Eula Mae Cotton. It was compiled beginning just two years after Phyllis Wheatley High School (PWHS) was established in January 1927 and at a time when the school did not issue yearbooks, making this an important primary source. Eula Mae listed the names of all faculty and staff and secured at least 19 inscriptions from them. Several of these teachers later had schools named for them such as J.C. Sanderson and J.C. McDade. McDade wrote in the book, "in every moment of our lives we should be trying to… Read More

Chicago, Illinois: The Overland Publishing Company, 1879. Hardcover. Very Good+. 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 7 7/8" x 5 1/2". Publisher's original brown cloth, stamped and ruled in black, spine gilt. Pp. [3 pages advertisements] [frontis] [title page] [4-5] 6-272 [273] [1 page advertisement] + 18 foldout illustrations not included in the pagination. A densley packed and heavily illustrated late 19th century travel guide with dozens of illustrations and information on nearly 30 railroads, over 50 rivers, lakes and forts and several hundred cities. Mostly focusing on towns, cities and parks of Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Montana, Idaho, Nevada, California, and Arizona. Fully indexed with lots of information on Utah, Salt Lake City, the Donner party and much more. A lovely copy, especially considering its intended use. Condition: Very good plus: bright boards showing light wear, mostly at edges and corners; pages bright and clean; one foldout split in two, another with a split at fold but holding. Please… Read More

Cincinnati, O.: Jennings & Pye, 1896. Second edition stated. Good. 7½" x 5½". Green cloth, title gilt. Pp. [author frontis], [i-ix], x-xiii, 9-330 + + 8 plates interspersed. Good: corners frayed with small losses to spine tips; vertical patch of staining at the outer edge of both boards; hinges cracked but holding; some soil spots and stains to endpapers and first and last few leaves. Inscribed by the author on front free endpaper to Addie Hunton. This is a collection of speeches by W.H. Crogman, a noted African American educator and orator, many of which were addressed to white audiences. The book was inscribed to Black civil rights leader, suffragist, political organizer and author, Addie Waites Hunton. William H. Crogman was born on the Caribbean island of St. Martin in 1841. Orphaned at the age of 12, Crogman was brought to the United States by a shipbuilder and worked as a seaman until his 20s. He graduated from Atlanta University in 1876, and gained immediate employment at Atlanta's Clark… Read More