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STORER COLLEGE.
Manuscript ledger for the Curtis Free Will Baptist
Church.
Typical tall ledger from Stationer, with 69 pages of entries Tall 4to,
1
/
4
calf and
cloth-covered boards; edges rubbed, joints started but firm.
Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, 1896-1902
[600/800]
A church ledger with a direct association to Storer College. Several members of the Curtis Free Will
Baptist Church went on to co-found, and become faculty members of Storer College. The church con-
tinued to be a social focal point and chapel for the school. One of the founders and prominent church
members, Richard I. McKinney, has made several entries in this ledger as has ex-slave Jared M. Arter
(see lot 148), who attended both church and college at Storer and is cited many times as a minister in
the ledger as late as 1917. These pages also tell personal stories of back-biting and some rather anti-
quated church thinking. The story, for example of three members excommunicated for “drunkenness
and unchristian behavior, and nonattendance” in 1897.
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WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
Large lithographed poster with a bust por-
trait of a youthful Washington.
28 x 21 inches, in blue pencil across the bottom “will
speak at colored grade school auditorium Nov. 1 1910 at 8 o’clock pm.” Accompanied by
two tickets to the event advertised, one of them a reserved seat. Framed.
[Wilson, N.C.], 1910
[2,500/3,500]
A RARE POSTER FROM WASHINGTON
’
S
1910
TOUR OF THE SOUTH
.
During the year 1910,
Washington spoke throughout the South urging Negroes to stay put, educate themselves and learn trades,
rather than moving to the North and Mid-West. During that same year, the North Carolina Business
League asked Washington to speak. Washington’s host in Wilson, N.C. was Samuel Vick, postmaster
and an important local political figure. Vick had been appointed by his good friend Congressman Henry
Cheatham, one of only five African Americans elected in the Jim Crow 1890’s South.
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WASHINGTON, BOOKER T.
The Man Farthest Down.
390 pages. 8vo,
later morocco-backed marbled boards.
PRESENTATION COPY
.
Garden City: Doubleday & Page, 1912
[800/1,200]
A PRESENTATION COPY WITH A FINE ASSO
-
CIATION
.
“To Miss Helen Porter with best
wishes of Mr. and Mrs. Washington, Xmas,
1913.” Helen Porter was the pedagogy teacher
at Tuskegee and a close friend and associate of
the Washingtons. Porter’s correspondence with
Washington is often cited in the Booker T.
Washington Papers.