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

113 c   (BLACK PANTHERS.) Poster of Huey Newton posed in front of a poster of himself. Large black and white poster, 35 1 / 2 x 29 inches, from a photograph by Ted Streshin- sky (here spelled “Strashinsky”); minor foxing, light wrinkling, tape remnants at edges, 4-inch repaired closed tear, 1-inch chip filled along lower edge. New York: Personality Posters, “1966” [late 1967?] [500/750] Faintly visible in the background of this soft-focus image of Newton, hanging on the wall, is the famous poster of Newton seated with a rifle and spear. Oddly enough, that poster is usually assigned a 1967 or 1968 date, so it shouldn’t appear in the background of an 1966 poster. The present image comes from a shoot the well-known photographer Ted Streshinshy did with Newton and Bobby Seale at the Black Panthers headquarters in July 1967. One copy in OCLC, and only one other traced at auction.