Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana

The Negro Travelers' Green Book.

Broadside for Ira Aldridge's performance of Shakespeare--and Jim Crow.

Records of Hyde Park plantation in Virginia, with lists of their enslaved, and letters by enslaved Confederate workers.

Carte-de-visite album including portraits of Truth, Douglass, Phillips, Garrison, and other abolitionists.

Badge issued to a private in the "Glory" regiment, the 54th Massachusetts, who was wounded at Fort Wagner.

Papers of the Garveyite and Trotskyist activist Simon Williamson of New York.

The Greater Black Patti Troubadours. Black Patti, Greatest Singer of Her Race (Mme. Sissiereta Jones.)

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave.

Portrait of a bride and groom.

Large archive of personal and official papers of a lieutenant with the 22nd United States Colored Troops.

The Bronze American National Travel Guide, 1963-64

His letter on the controversial "Colored American Day" at the 1893 World's Fair, enclosing a pair of tickets.

Correspondence of a Florida activist who risked his life for fair elections in the face of Klan violence.

Engraved portrait of James Armistead Lafayette, master spy for the Continental Army.

Record books of the New York African Society for Mutual Relief.

O, Sing a New Song: Supreme Spectacle of a Musical Race.

Archive of the White Plains Beauticians League and their founding president.

The Fugitive Slaves' Appeal!! To the Clergy of Massachusetts.

Eloquent letters of an officer of Colored Troops, one describing "the death hour of the rebellion" at Appomattox.

Group of 9 prints, most of them accompanied by poetry.

Real Photo postcard of a Garveyite in uniform.

Black Reconstruction.

Letter discussing the role of Quakers in the abolitionist movement.

The Frederick Douglass Souvenir.

Scrapbook of Jazz-age trombonist George Brashear's time in Sweden.