The man’s grainy photo looked as if it was straight out of a newspaper. He stared out unabashedly, a bowler hat set squarely atop his head. His picture was in the center of a mugshot card along with his…
Category: Photos
Artifacts tell their own story of Martin Luther King’s life
Posted in Black history, civil rights movement, Ephemera/Paper/Documents, Photos, and theater
One artifact was a photo of Dr. Martin Luther King and Malcolm X, two men who sought freedom for African Americans in their own ways. Another was a large pinback button from the Southern Christian…
Another box of photos had arrived at the auction house. Like the others, they were in a flat box that also contained documents pertaining to African Americans. The photo on top of the batch was a sepia studio…
Picture Stories: Stepping out in style
Posted in 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: 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…