Sale 2471 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 29, 2018

345 348 345 c   (ROBESON, PAUL.) Paul Robeson Tribute, 75th Birthday. Poster, 25 1 / 2 x 16 1 / 2 , in red, green, and black; mounted on foam board, minimal wear. Rutgers University, NJ, 8 April 1973 [400/600] Advertising a tribute to the controversial actor and activist, not long before his death. Robeson had been just the third African-American student at Rutgers, way back in 1919. None in OCLC and none traced at auction. 346 c   (SCIENCE.) Tiedemann, Friedrich. Das Hirn des Negers mit dem des Europaers und Orang-Outangs verglichen. 6 lithograph plates of brains. [9], 84 pages. 4to, original boards, minimal wear; minor foxing and dampstaining. Heidelberg, 1837 [400/600] first german edition , first published in English in 1836.The title suggests a hostile project:“The Brain of the Negro Compared with the European and the Orangutan.”His research findings, however, showed that the Negro and European brains were indistinguishable, and that nothing in the physical nature of the brain supported a subservient relationship between the races. 347 c   (SCIENCE.) Carver, GeorgeWashington. Letter to a young protégé. Autograph Letter Signed “G.W. Carver” to “My very own precious boy Mr. Davis.” 2 pages on one sheet, 11 x 8 1 / 2 inches, of Tuskegee letterhead; 2 punch holes in upper margin, mailing folds. Tuskegee Institute, AL, 9 April 1933 [600/900] An effusive letter, containing some interesting scientific information. “Mr. Ford had decided not to push the project he wanted me to look over . . . I have what they needed worked out in the laboratory. I want them to see it. I cannot take it all up there.” Henry Ford and Carver became friends through Carver’s efforts to produce synthetic rubber and a soybean-based plastic which Ford used in automobile production. Carver concludes: “Dear, the coconut (cocus nucefera) is propagated almost wholly from the seed (the nut itself). The young plants come out from the two little eye-like spots. The nuts grow in bunches similar to grapes, from 12 to 15 in a bunch, at the top of the tree.” The recipient was apparently Ford Clinton Davis (1906-1976), a white peanut factory employee in Alabama, and a protégé of Carver. 348 c   (SCIENCE.) George Washington Carver calendar issued shortly before his death. Broadside, 16 x 10 inches, with mounted color photographic image of Carver and 12 small calendar sheets; light folds to photograph, otherwise minor wear. Seneca, SC, [1942] [300/400] This calendar was ordered as an advertising piece by the Peek &Addison mortuary in Seneca, SC. It features a large photographic image of the aged scientist, tipped over a short biography, with monthly calendar pages for 1943 stapled below. Carver died just five days into the new year in 1943.