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501
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A.M.E. AND BAPTIST CHURCHES.
Over seventy-five pieces of church
related material, including photographs, programs, church directories, ministers
photographic cards etc.
Various shapes and sizes.
SHOULD BE SEEN
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Vp, circa 1900-1960
[700/1,000]
Includes photographs of full immersion baptisms, early church singing groups, programs etc. With an
1880 broadside advertisement for a church bingo (“Punch Card”) night. A wonderful cross-section of
black church history.
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(SOCIOLOGY.) DU BOIS,W.E.B.
The Philadelphia Negro, a Social
Study.
Charts, 520, i-vii pages. Large,
thick 4to, original green cloth with spine
label; re-cased.
Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania,
Series in Political Economy and
Public Law, 1899
[1,500/2,500]
FIRST EDITION OF W
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the most exhaustive study of its
kind to date. Du Bois was able to draw on
early studies of Philadelphia’s substantial free
black community done by Benjamin Bacon,
Charles Gardner in the 1840’s. Added to this
study is a “Special Report on Domestic
Service” by Isabel Eaton.
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