Quarto, single sheet: typed on Department of the Interior, U.S. Indian Service letterhead and signed by Major Joseph M. Kelley, 10th Cavalry, Fort Belknap Agency, Montana. Dated September 13, 1894, the letter requests more documentation..... More
Small collection of material from African American writer and historian Lorraine Passovoy to the prominent collector Dion A. Stams, revealing newly-discovered information about Chicago’s founder, the Black fur trader Jean Baptiste Pointe du Sable (circa..... More
Original broadside advertising a week-long revival (October 18-23, 1959) at the Liberty Baptist Church, led by the Evangelist Reverend Clayborn Salter from nearby Freeport, Illinois. Features a half-tone portrait of the preacher, as well as..... More
New York: Charles H. Nicoll, 1893. First Edition. This early football program is notable for featuring William H. Lewis (1868-1949), the first African American to earn First Team All-America honors, who is seen here at..... More
Account book for the Baltimore dry goods store John E. Hurst and Company from 1865 to 1869 showing that credit was extended to African American customers. At this time, immediately following the Civil War and..... More
923rd Engineer Aviation Regiment IX Engineer Command, 1945. Wraps. The 923rd Engineer (Aviation) Regiment was a segregated African American unit activated August 1, 1942, at Eglin Field, Florida, under the command of Colonel I.D. Brent..... More