The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
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Picture Stories: Chubby Checkers at Krass Bros. men’s store, Philadelphia
Posted in Music, Performers, and Photos
The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
Picture Stories: Lobby card for Eddie Jones’ “One Round Jones”
Posted in Black history, Movies, and Photos
The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
Picture Stories: Dance Carnival at Madison Square Garden, 1941
Posted in Black history, dance, and Photos
The wonderful photos kept coming. For several weeks, black and white photos with a mix of people, events and celebrations turned up on the auction table. An auction-house staffer told me that a dealer brought them…
Have you heard of the practice of “bundling?” I hadn’t either until recently when I was going through a stack of books at an auction. When I came across a thin paperback with the title…
I have no memories of the encyclopedia salesman. No one came to our door in rural Georgia trying to sell us encyclopedias that we could not afford. The only ones I ever saw were at…
Faces from an early black movie poster, but whose?
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Movies, and Photos
The image of the black police officer with a raised gun was the first to spark a memory. I had seen that image somewhere, but where? Someone had cut the picture from another poster and…
A seeming lifetime of fox hunting & horse shows
Posted in Animals, collectibles, and Figurines
The tables were an amalgan of fox hunting and horse-show paraphernalia, signs of a life lived among horses and stables and hounds. In one room, trophies told of equestrian shows, riders and winners, along with…