This is the third group of cover illustrations from the 1930s that someone clipped from magazines and stored away. Most of these are illustrations of various types of flowers. I came across these while looking…
Category: Ephemera/Paper/Documents
Vintage illustrations clipped from magazines, Part 2
Posted in Animals, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
This is the second group of cover and inside-page illustrations from the 1930s that someone clipped from magazines and stored away. Most of these are illustrations of dogs and other animals. I came across these while looking…
I was going through some ephemera and other papers that I had bought at auction some time ago when I stumbled on a variety of illustrations. They had likely been part of a box lot that…
Theodore Ward’s new breed of black theater before Tupac
Posted in Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Music, and theater
The new Broadway musical featuring the words of Tupac Shakur is a far cry from what New York theater is accustomed to seeing. Maybe that’s why so many seats were empty Sunday at the matinee of “Holler…
The first thing I saw on the book’s pink dust jacket were the black faces of happy dancing people. They were not stereotypical black as I was used to seeing on the covers of books…
Some years ago in Tampa, FL, I was in a fabric store when I heard a tiny voice say “She black.” I looked up and saw an African American woman carrying a toddler on her hip. The…
The face of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. loomed large on the cover of the Feb, 18, 1957, issue of Time magazine. It was a young strong face of the man who’d need all the…
My auction buddy Janet saw it first, the excitement and curiosity in her voice signaling that she had found a treasure. I looked up from viewing the small items on an auction table to see her reading…
My mind was drifting to the sound of an auctioneer in an adjoining room of the auction house when I heard the word “Harlem.” I looked up front to the TV monitor in the room where I sat to see a book…