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(EDUCATION.) HOWARD UNIVERSITY.
Number 39 of the American
Scenery Series, Washington, D.C.
Stereopticon view of Howard University; on the
usual rectangular mount; some discoloration and light foxing. (WGC)
Washington, D.C., circa 1870-1880
[300/400]
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(EDUCATION.) HUNTER, CHARLES N.
Review of Negro Life in North
Carolina, With My Recollections.
Portrait from a photograph. 34 pages. 8vo, original
printed gray wrappers; a few blue pencil markings.
Raleigh, N.C., [1925?]
[300/400]
An autobiography by this African American educator, and political activist. The title page states
“Volume 1, Number 1,” though there is no explanation for this, it is possible that Hunter
intended to add more, however no further volumes were published. OCLC locates six copies,
mostly in the South.
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(EDUCATION.) UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS.
Personally made year
book—album belonging to W. Ferguson Thornton.
Large, oblong, string-bound
cloth-covered album filled with photographs, calling cards, dance cards, Alpha Phi Alpha
material, pamphlets, class booklets, and other ephemera. A couple of the long pages at the
end with chips, not affecting photos etc.
SHOULD BE SEEN
.
[1,000/1,500]
AN ELABORATELY ASSEMBLED YEAR BOOK
—
SIGNED BY A NUMBER OF IMPORTANT
AFRICAN AMERICAN BUSINESSMEN
,
ACTIVISTS
,
AND ARTISTS
.
An album rich in content
assembled by W. Ferguson Thornton, a member of the class of 1920-1921. Thornton has not
only collected the autographs and sentiments of a large number of his classmates, but arranged
their photographs, dance cards from a ball, as well as calling cards, sporting records and other
ephemera into a rich and most informative album. Classmates include: artist - cartoonist
Wilbert Holloway, civil rights advocate William Monroe Trotter, actor Charles Gilpin, and
Robert Taylor, first Negro graduate of MIT and later one of the most famous African American
architects. Louis Freemont Baldwin, author and race historian, wrote: “Rather than be a slave,
seek ye an early grave and let thy soul go marching on.” Like Baldwin, most of the signers
have added words of wisdom next to their entries.
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