Uncovering Our History Through The Relics Left Behind
Posted in dance, and Ephemera/Paper/Documents
One of the exasperating anomalies of history is that people can get lost in it. One minute they’re recognized; the next, no one remembers their name. That seemed to be the case when my auction…
Posted in Art, collectibles, and Postcards
Back in November, my auction buddy Janet found four neat postcards among a lot of cards she had just bought. They were images of two black couples demonstrating how to do the cakewalk around 1904.…
Posted in Postcards
My auction buddy Janet collects vintage African American postcards. Like me, she can’t stand the ugly ones that stereotype us as black people. At auction recently, she picked up a batch of cards, including three…
