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Greenwich Ephemera Fair 2018 Striking Abolitionist Broadside 1. [Abolitionist Broadside]: [Western Anti-Slavery Society]: UNION WITH FREEMEN - NO UNION WITH SLAVEHOLDERS. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! [caption title]. Salem, Oh.: Homestead Print, [ca. 1850]. Broadside, 16 x 10¾ inches. A few short closed edge tears, light toning and foxing. Very good plus. A rare and striking abolitionist broadside from Salem, Ohio, the seat of the Western Anti-Slavery Society, and a small but important center of progressive movements through much of the 19th century. As suggested by their advertisement's headline, "Union with Freemen - No Union with Slaveholders," the members of the Western Anti-Slavery Society were radical Garrisonian abolitionists who believed the U.S. Constitution was fundamentally a pro-slavery document and therefore unfit to bind together a morally just nation. Formed in the mold of Garrison's New England Anti-Slavery Society (founded 1832) and American Anti-Slavery Society (1833), the Ohio Anti-Slavery Society first assembled in 1833 in Putnam, Ohio, and in 1839 moved its headquarters to Salem and became known as the Western Anti-Slavery Society. From 1845 to 1861 the Society published a weekly newspaper, THE ANTI-SLAVERY BUGLE, printed for the first five weeks in New Lisbon, Ohio, and for all subsequent issues in Salem. The text of the broadside, a printed blank form for advertising abolitionist meetings, reads in full as follows: "Union with Freemen - No Union with Slaveholders. ANTI-SLAVERY MEETINGS! Anti-Slavery Meetings will be held in this place, to commence on [blank] in the [blank] at [blank] To be Addressed by [blank] Agents of the Western ANTI-SLAVERY SOCIETY. Three millions of your fellow beings are in chains - the Church and Government sustains the horrible system of oppression. Turn Out! AND LEARN YOUR DUTY TO YOURSELVES, THE SLAVE AND GOD. EMANCIPATION or DISSOLUTION, and a FREE NORTHERN REPUBLIC!" OCLC lists only two copies, at Yale and Williams College; the Library of Congress holds an additional copy, which may be viewed online at the American Memory web site (see below). OCLC 59557224. "An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera." Library of Congress, American Memory website. $4750. 2. [African-American Photographica]: [LARGE CABINET CARD PHOTOGRAPH OF AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN AND FOUR WHITE CHILDREN]. Washington, D.C. [ca. 1891]. Albumen card-mounted photograph, image approximately 8¾ x 6¾ inches. Light wear to card. Faint line of older adhesive substance in center of photograph. Minor wear and fading. About very good. A large photograph of a well-dressed African-American woman posing with four white children. The black woman wears a demure, dark dress with a high collar and brooch at her throat. Her hair is parted in the center and pulled back. She stares fixedly into the camera. Four white children pose on and around her, the oldest two girls standing behind and to either side of her, while a younger girl and the youngest boy each sit next to her, their arms leaning on her thighs. The boy is dressed in a sailor suit, cap in hand. We suppose that the woman is the children's nanny, or similar trusted household servant. One of the most striking factors is the sheer size of the photograph, in addition to the subject matter. The mount is stamped with the logo for Prince's studios in Washington, D.C., with the center stamped: "Enamel Finish, 1891 Imperial." $450. 3. [African Americana]: SIXTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE RELIEF OF DESTITUTE COLORED WOMEN AND CHILDREN, FOR THE YEAR ENDING JANUARY 1, 1879. Washington, D.C. 1879. 16,[2]pp. Original printed wrappers. Mild spotting to wrappers. Light foxing. Very good. A rare report for a little-known organization formed in the American capital in 1863 to support "aged or indigent colored women and children." The present work includes the charter, by-laws, a list of officers, the annual report for the organization through 1878, a "Matron's Report," extracts from letters written by children helped by the organization, a list of donations, and a membership listing. OCLC records a smattering of reports from the National Association for the Relief of Destitute Colored Women and Children, but no copies of the present work. $600. 4. [Alaska]: Goetze, O.D.: SOUVENIR OF NORTH WESTERN ALASKA [cover title]. [Nome, Ak. 1904]. [96]pp. of photographic illustrations. Oblong quarto. Original cloth-backed pictorial wrappers. Light shelf wear, short, straight tear to fore-edge of wrapper, some stray coloring marks on blank rear wrapper. A few marginal small closed tears, plus light soiling from handling. Still very good. A wonderful photographic account of Gold Rush life in Nome, Alaska at the turn of the 20th century. The photographer, O.D. Goetze, moved to Nome at the beginning of the rush in 1898 and operated a photography studio there for approximately a decade, though none of the images collected here are dated beyond 1904. They include a wide variety of photographic reproductions of street scenes, Eskimo portraits, hunting and fishing work, mining activity, landscapes, winter scenes, wildlife, and transportation. An attractive record of Nome in the Gold Rush. $750. 5. [Alaskan Photographica]: [ANNOTATED COLLECTION OF VERNACULAR ALASKAN VIEWS TAKEN AND ORGANIZED DURING THE LATTER YEARS OF THE ALASKAN GOLD RUSH, WITH SEVERAL VIEWS OF MINING CAMPS]. [Nome, Juneau, and other locations in Alaska, ca. 1900]. Twenty-four tipped-in photographs, with printed captions, each photograph approximately 3½ x 3½ inches. Contemporary brown wrappers. Some scuffing to spine. Minor fading to images. Very good. An excellent collection of vernacular photographs of Alaska around the turn of the 20th century, with printed captions beneath the images containing valuable information for identification of the images. The majority of the album captures images of Nome when it was a thriving boom town following shortly after the 1898 discovery of gold. One of the captions covering three of the photographs reads, "Mining on the Beach. Nome, Alaska." Other views include Nome from a distance, showing the hundreds of tents housing the prospectors; the house in Nome belonging to one of the album organizer's friends; sled dog teams delivering water; six views taken on the Fourth of July, including a parade of sled dogs passing in front of Wyatt Earp's Dexter Saloon, draped in patriotic ribbons; the Hunter Saloon, titled "the finest in Nome," and Northern Saloon, similarly decorated for Independence Day; the J.F. Giese Hardware Store, occupying the "finest building in Nome;" five views of Juneau, including a street scene, a brewery housed in the first church in Juneau, and an enormous canoe named the "Whalekiller"; totem poles in Wrangle, Ak.; and the Muir Glacier near Skagway. Photographs from the time period near the Alaskan Gold Rush are rare, especially in an album as well-organized and well-identified as this one. $2000. 6. [Alaskan Photographica]: [OUTSTANDING VERNACULAR PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM AND ANNOTATED SCRAPBOOK DOCUMENTING AN ALASKAN CRUISE BY TWO SISTERS AND THEIR FRIENDS IN 1932]. [Victoria, B.C.; Juneau, Skagway, Whitehorse, and other locations in Alaska. 1932]. [78]pp. with seventy-two originals, from 2½ x 3½ inches to 3 x 5 inches, most captioned in manuscript in white ink, also with thirty-eight real photo postcards, nine color & black-and-white linen postcards, thirteen shipboard newsletters or newspapers, and approximately fifty assorted ephemeral items both pasted in and laid in. Oblong quarto. Contemporary string-tied brown cloth photograph album, front cover embossed. Minor shelf wear. Chipping to corners of a few leaves, a few removed photos or ephemeral items. Still, very good. A marvelous vernacular photograph album, annotated by hand, recording an Alaskan cruise by two sisters from Salt Lake City, along with two friends and their mothers, in 1932. The principal figures, Le Nora L. Losee and Frances Losee Pearson, the former a statistician with the Salt Lake City school district for over twenty years, and the latter an elementary school teacher in Utah and California, were both the daughters of Frank Losee, owner of a large lumber mill operation in Salt Lake City. They documented their Alaskan trip unusually well, with LeNora writing a detailed itinerary describing their journey. The itinerary begins with their Union Pacific train from Salt Lake City to Portland, hence to Seattle, where they boarded the S.S. NORTHWESTERN of the Alaskan Steamship Company line. The photographs and ephemeral souvenirs track their progress through the Inside Passage, their arrival at Wrangell and Ketchikan, where the women visit the Kadashan Totem Poles, Taku Glacier, followed by a visit to Petersburg, where they view the newspaper shop. In Juneau, they see the famed Nugget Shop, and then take a trip out to Mendenhall Glacier. They also travel to the Chilkoot Barracks, stop over in Skagway, and take a tour of historic Gold Rush sites with Alaskan author Martin Itjen (author of THE STORY OF THE TOUR ON THE SKAGWAY, ALASKA STREET CAR, 1933). The women also travel along the White Pass & Yukon Railway, take the Tutshi steamer across Lake Bennett, visit the Atlin Inn in British Columbia, and see yet another gold mine. On their return trip, they stop in Sitka, then see the sights in Seattle, Portland, and the Columbia River Gorge. The ephemeral items include periodical clippings, menus, souvenirs, tickets, telegrams, a laid-in manuscript itinerary & Alaskan steamship brochure, and more. There are also three leaves from a former trip the women had taken to Europe, also containing photographs and ephemeral items from that 1930 excursion. A fascinating collection of photographs and likely unique ephemera from Alaska in the early part of the 20th century, with crucial details about the trip provided in manuscript annotations.

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