As soon as I saw it, I was impressed with the drawing of the little black boy on the book’s dust jacket. He was decently dressed in an outfit that put him in the early…
Category: Books
The first thing that caught my eye as I saw the small stack of tattered books on the auction table was the bright yellow color of the book jacket. Then I spotted the red lips…
A shout-out to women on their very own month
Posted in African American women, Art, Black history, Books, Civil War, Cooking, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, and slavery
I was reading an email a few days ago that reminded me that this month was Women’s History Month. Why are people whom society considers marginal given a small piece of the year to spotlight their…
As I routinely do at auction, I was flipping through a stack of Life magazines when I came across a face that stared pointedly out at me. It was a man whom I recognized for…
Most of us would love to give and get something new, different and unique at Christmas – a gift we won’t likely see in the malls. Some of the best gifts can be found on the auction…
From Brownie books to black children’s magazine
Posted in Black history, Books, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
When I first saw the books and their titles in the glass case at the auction house, my first thought was of cameras. The images on the covers, though, were of strange little characters with…
I was looking through the box lots at the auction house when my auction buddy Janet hurried toward me. She’d found a book in another room with prints by African American artist Lois Mailou Jones.…
Book with photos of Booker T. Washington’s legacy
Posted in Black history, and Books
The book was half-buried under others in a box at the auction house. I had almost missed it, with its black and faded gold lettering against a very dark background – a senseless combination it…
I was at a reading this week by author Isabel Wilkerson on her new book about the Great Migration – that mighty flood of black people who left the South in the early part of…