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

350 350 c   (SPORTS—BASEBALL.) Cross; photographer. Photograph of an early Jacksonville baseball club. Photograph, 8 x 10 inches, on original mount with lightly embossed photographer’s stamp; moderate wear to image and mount including an inch of loss to the lower right corner of image; captioned in manuscript on verso. Jacksonville, FL,August 1912 [400/600] Barrs Field or the Myrtle Avenue Ball Park was built in Jacksonville’s predominantly African-American Durkeeville neighborhood in 1912.Among their early tenants was the all-black Jacksonville Athletics team. These men in “U.S.” uniforms may have been the Athletics or a rival club.The second player from the left is the consignor’s grandfather Clarence SylvesterWilliams. 351 351 c   (SPORTS—BASEBALL.) Group of 8 items relating to the 1950 film The Jackie Robinson Story. Various sizes and conditions. NewYork, 1950 [500/750] The Jackie Robinson Story. Illustrated booklet, [16] pages, 12 x 9 inches, in original color wrappers. New York: Eagle Lion Films, [1950] * Arthur Mann. The Jackie Robinson Story. 120 pages. 8vo, original illustrated wrappers. First edition of the paperback issued in conjunc- tion with the film. New York: F.J. Low, [1950] * Photogravure portrait of Robinson with printed signature, 9 x 6 1 / 2 inches, in original Brooklyn Dodgers mailing envelope * Group of 5 publicity photographs from the f ilm, which starred Robinson as himself.