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(BUSINESS.) OVERTON HYGIENIC MFG. CO.
Encyclopedia of the
Colored People and Other Useful Information.
Copiously illustrated. 124 pages.
Small 8vo, original printed stiff wrappers.
Chicago 1921
[300/400]
OCLC LOCATED SIX COPIES
.
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(BUSINESS.) SIMMS, JAMES N[ELSON].
Simms’ Blue Book and National
Negro Business and Professional Directory.
Copious illustrations from photographs.
305 pages. Tall, crown 8vo, original blue cloth lettered in orange; spine slightly faded as is
common; “first issue” on the spine.
Chicago, 1923
[300/400]
MADE FOR THE FIRST NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE MEETING
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(BUSINESS.) WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Small brass bell, made as a
souvenir of the First National Negro Business League meeting held in Boston in
1900.
5
1
⁄
2
by 2
7
⁄
8
inches; light, even patina, engraved along the bottom edge; rosewood handle.
Connecticut: F. G. Stedman, 1900
[800/1,200]
One of an unknown number of small bells created by Mr. F. G. Stedman a bell-maker from
East Hampton, Connecticut, as a souvenirs of the first meeting of the National Negro Business
League, held in Boston, on August 23rd and 24th of 1900. Stedman was an African
American businessman who attended the meeting, and offered copies of the bell “sent to any-
where in the U.S.A. for sixty cents,” for members of the League. The bell and Mr. Stedman
are both illustrated and discussed on pages 200-203 of “The Proceedings of the National
Negro Business League” (Boston, 1901). Mr. Stedman, in fact gave a talk at the meeting titled
“Bell Making.”
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