The Ebony magazine cover showed a black boy haloed by a group of white boys about the same age. There was nothing threatening about the photo: In a show of harmony, one white kid was hugging…
Author: sherry
Family artifacts that may be worthy of history & cash
Posted in Black history, civil rights movement, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and Photos
few years ago, I bumped into an African American woman who told me that her aunt was a member of the Women’s Army Corp during World War II. I knew that there were not many…
Enslaved Africans on illustrated pages of Harper’s Weekly
Posted in Art, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
The sheets of yellowing pages emblazoned with “Harper’s Weekly” instantly attracted me. During the Civil War, the newspaper was famous for its illustrations of the war’s battles, its wins, its losses and its politics. Harper’s…
There was nothing very distinguishing about the array of vintage planters spread out over two tables at the auction house. Except that they were so cute. Most were figural, in the shapes of animals, from…
The painting was a simple oil of an old man in a buggy pulled by a mule. In the background – which appeared to be too close and too overbearing – was a building with an…
I couldn’t resist the five ceramic sculptured busts sitting on a table at the auction house. They resembled those anatomical models with pull-apart heart, lungs, stomach and other parts of the body that are used in…
A great day to pick up lovely pottery
Posted in Art, collectibles, Home, and pottery
For a second, I thought I had walked into a ceramics pottery store. Or one of those “make your own” pottery shops with students’ creations lining the shelves of two tall and expansive stands. This…