Visible 11 3/8 x 8 3/8 in. letterpress broadside (creasing, ink bleed from verso); matted and framed to 15 1/8 x 12 1/8 in. (not examined out of frame). Signed in type by administrator Franklin T. Utz. 

A broadside advertising the court-ordered auction of "three likely negroes...a woman named Ellen, aged 22 years, and her two children, and a little girl named Lucy Ann, aged two years; the other a girl about one year old." The notice stipulates that "all three of the negroes will be sold together." The enslaved individuals were from the estate of Nathaniel K. Sullivan, deceased.