Lot 418
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. A group of 10 items, featuring press photographs of high profile African Americans, incl. Arthur Shores, Stevie Wonder, and Jesse Jackson.
Sale 1005 - American Historical Ephemera & Photography
Lots Open
Mar 1, 2022
Lots Close
Mar 8, 2022
Timed Online / Cincinnati
Estimate
$100 - $150

Sold for $94

Sold prices are inclusive of Buyer’s Premium
Lot Description
[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. A group of 10 items, featuring press photographs of high profile African Americans, incl. Arthur Shores, Stevie Wonder, and Jesse Jackson.

UPI, publisher. 7 x 9 in. silver gelatin photograph of Arthur Shores, American civil rights attorney with note indicating that his home had been bombed on 20 Aug. 1963. Shores guided the admission of African American students James Hood and Vivian Malone to the University of Alabama. -- 5 x 7 in. silver gelatin photograph of Jesse Jackson and three others, one of which is Coretta Scott King, all receiving an award from Nabisco Brands, Inc., 1982(?). -- 7 1/4 x 9 1/4 in. photograph, on verso "Roberta Flack / feb. - 26 - 1973." -- 7 1/2 x 9 1/4 in. photograph, not identified, of a younger woman and older gentleman. -- UPI, publisher. 8 x 10 in. silver gelatin press photograph, with identification of Lionel Hampton and Vivian Reed at a party following her opening in "It's So Nice to Be Civilized" on Broadway, dated 6-6-80. -- Silver gelatin photograph on PBS advertising of Roberta Flack in concert, 22 April (1972?). The concert was recorded for airing on PBS stations in July 1972. -- 5 x 7 in. silver gelatin photograph of a group of people singing, most African Americans (a bit out of focus). -- UNIVERSITY STUDIO, photographers. 5 x 7 in. silver gelatin photograph of people lined up at a Woolworth's, entering under the sign saying "Luncheonette," likely during the sit-in at the Greensboro lunch counter in 1960  (or a recreation of it). Greensboro, NC.

[With:] Postcard (color) with title "Ante Bellum Auntie, New Orleans, La." Image of an older African American woman leaning on her cane. Used on verso (message in German). -- Hawkins, Walter. Love Alive. Waco, TX: Lexicon Music, Inc. Music recorded by Walter Hawkins and the Love Center Choir. Booklet 6.75 x 10.25, printed paper wraps, 60pp. (wraps worn, separating from text block).

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