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1 "AUNTIE FAT, AND AUNTIE LEAN"
Fine 
Trade card advertising F.E. Thayer, Fish Dealer, Haskins' Block, Auburndale, Mass. 4 5/" X 3 1/8". Printed in black on blue stock. Image as title suggests

See Gibbs. Black Collectibles. p. 129. 
Price: 30.00 USD
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2 A MIDSUMMER DREAM AT HOTEL NANTASKET.
n.d. Very mino spot to front, rear has four small adhesions where the card was one mounted in 
Trade card for the Hotel Nantasket. Color printed by the Forbes Co. 3" X 5". Comical image of diners with a Black waiter

 
Price: 15.00 USD
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3 A MUSICAL DISCORD.
n.d. Fine 
Trade card advertising Tiger Coffee, Detroit, MI. 31/4" 3 1/4". Comical image in black and white of musicians quarreling

 
Price: 10.00 USD
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4 BURNT CORK JOKES.
Cleveland Arthur Westbrook n.d. Good, printed on inferior paper, this quite sound 
12mo. Stapled paperback. Unpaged. Illustrated. Color-printed covers

 
Price: 20.00 USD
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5 DENISON SONGS.
Chicago T.S. Denison & Company n.d. Fine 
30-page catalogue in stapled wrappers.

Samples of the printed music and pictures of the covers. Includes several Black-themed pieces in a Minstrel style, such as "If I Was What I Ain't Instead of What I IS", "De Wes' Wind Blows From De Wes'", and "Steppin' Around." 
Price: 20.00 USD
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6 DICK'S ETHIOPIAN SCENES, VARIETY SKETCHES, AND STUMP SPEECHES.
New York Dick & Fitzgerald (1879) Quite worn with corners showing, but complete and sound 
178p, 34p ads. Cloth spine with color-printed paper-covered boards with ads printed on pastedowns and flyleaves

 
Price: 300.00 USD
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7 FOOLED DIS TIME, CULLY. DIS AINT GWINE TO BREAK.
N.D. Fine 
Trade card for the Merrick Thread Co. 4 1/4" x 2 7/8". Color printed with comical image of a Black boy pursued by an alligator

 
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8 FRANCKIE JOAILLERIE DE FANTAISIE.
Paris n.d. Slightest soil, about fine 
Advertising sheet (12 1/45" x 9 5/8"). Black and white lithograph by Yan B. Dyl featuring a naked Black woman with huge lips adorned only with sparkling jewels

 
Price: 75.00 USD
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9 Full length portrait of a Black man in suit and hat.
Columbus, OH W.A. Price, Photographer Very good, reverse blank 


 
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10 Full length portrait of a young Black man in suit.
Chillicothe, OH F.C. Mader's Little Palace Fine 
Reverse blank

 
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11 FUNERAL SERVICE OF REV. EMANUEL MATTHEW LAWRENCE, D.D., B. Th.
Kayne Avenue Baptist Church October 12, 1929 Minor fold creases, VG 
One leaf folded to form four pages

 
Price: 6.00 USD
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12 Group of 39 post cards.
Asheville, NC Asheville Post Card Co. [1930'0-40's?] All fine without writing on reverse 
Color printed post cards. Some are cartoonish and some are lighthearted

 
Price: 150.00 USD
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13 Group of Eight Post Cards.
v.p. n.d. Fine 
Four are color photo cards, four are varia. Produced by Deep South Specialties in Jackson, MS.; Photo arts in Winnsboro, SC; E.C. Kropp in Milwaukee, WI; and Cline Photo in Chattanooga, TN

 
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14 MINSTREL SONGS, OLD AND NEW: A COLLECTION OF WORLD-WIDE, FAMOUS MINSTREL AND PLANTATION SONGS
Boston Oliver Ditson 1882 Overall wear, one page repaired with slight loss of text, sound 
Quarto. 216p. Printed music. Publisher's cloth over beveled boards, a.e.g., the spine and upper cover with titles and fancy gilt decoration, lower covers repeats the decorations in blind

 
Price: 75.00 USD
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15 MISS WHITES BIRTH-DAY, PARTY.
London T.C. Lewis n.d. [1890] Moderate spotting, upper right corner torn, but pleanty of image area 
Aquatint engraving (11" X 14 1/2", within the plate mark, 10" X 13 5/8"). Drawn by W. Summers and engraved by Hunt. Features a large Black family in formal wear around a dining table. The facial features are in caricature, and with caption in cartoon balloons

No. 11 in "Lewis's Black Jokes". 
Price: 200.00 USD
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16 POLITICAL ORATOR. SEPERATE DE NOAF FOM DE SOUF! "NEVAH."
n.d. Fine 
Trade card advertising Holbrook, Merrill & Stetson, Importers and Dealers in Stoves, Metals, Tinware... Sacramento, Cal. 4 1/8" X 2 1/2". Comical image in black and white of a Black man raging and waving his umbrella over his head

 
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17 Set of six post cards.
Printed in Germany Post mark of 1908 PBF Serie 7179 Two cards have writing on the backs, all are fine and bright 
Embossed and colored post cards depicting very stylized "Darkies" with sayings such as " Oh, de rudeness of de men when dey see a handsome darkie!" and "Dere is no doubt, sah, dat I am a hairstocrat!"

 
Price: 200.00 USD
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18 Set of two post cards.
Printed in Germany Post mark of 1908 PBF Serie 7942 One card has writing on the back, both are fine and bright 
Embossed and colored post cards depicting very stylized "Darkies" with New Year's greetings

 
Price: 75.00 USD
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19 SING OUT! Vol. 12, No. 5. "Freedom Songs"
New York Dec-Jan, 1962-1963 Good 
76p. in stapled self wraps

 
Price: 20.00 USD
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20 THE SMALLBREED FAMILY AT SEA SIDE.
n.d. Hole at top from mounting, good 
Trade card advertising Clarence Brook Varnishes. Color-printed comical image of Black family swimming in the ocean

 
Price: 8.00 USD
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