Black Culture

Advertising for Jordan & Timaeus chocolate and cocoa. Learn More

"The Royal Primrose Soap Worth Snapping," by John Knight & Sons, Ltd. Used 1903 England. Learn More

"Room Service, Homestead Hotel, Hot Springs, Virginia." Real photo. Learn More

Notation on back "Dear little sister. Accept this to put in the garden next summer. Kid Easy." Autographed on front, "Eazel Caulton." Learn More

Notation on back "Compliments from Leopold, Barie, Victoria, Sadie from the Island of Madagascar, Ringling Bros. Circus. 1940." Real photo. Learn More

Baer & Rempel's Phoenix Sewing Machine in German East Africa. Used 1908 Switzerland. Learn More

Advertising for the Frisco casino, Nice, France. Used 1908 France. Learn More

The killer (set of three, all shown). Artist signed. Pin holes. Learn More

The mine rescue workers in gear in front of their train. Including two black men, center front and standing behind him. Learn More

The black, standing behind the cart. Blind stamp of Felch, Sanford. Used 1906 Sanford, North Carolina. Learn More

"Ayer Going Forward." Man dressed as woman holds sign, "First Woman Suffragette in Ayer." Parade float from Ayer, Massachussetts. Learn More

"Drummer of the Kuria Tribe." Copyright by Joy Adamson. Learn More

"Woman Rainmaker of the Kuria Tribe." Copyright by Joy Adamson. Real photo. Learn More

"Elder of the Luo Tribe." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Learn More

"Warrior of the Luo Tribe." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Learn More

"Warrior of the Luo Tribe." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Learn More

"Kuria Man Wearing Mask." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Learn More

"Funeral Mask of the luo Tribe." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Learn More

"Funeral Mask of the Samia Tribe." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Real photo. Learn More

"Woman Witchdoctor of the Kuria Tribe." Published by Kodak, Nairobi. Learn More

"Cleaning with Electorlux is very easy." Artist signed. Used 1927 Germany. Learn More

"Association of Fallen Comrades of the German-African Colonial Forces. Established Berlin 1896." Used 1914 Berlin. Learn More

The black-faced couple in the carriage. Learn More

Greetings from St. Nicholas. Used 1925 Prague, Czechoslovakia. Learn More

The dressed Black Seminoles. The Black Seminoles originated as run-away slaves who sought refuge in the late 1700s in Spanish-controlled Florida. They lived among the Seminole Indians, but retained their own cultural heritage. Learn More

Notation on back "Local Indians dressed up to have their pictures taken. The women of Seminole tribes can be told by their always having their hands well covered - usually with a long scarf." The Black Seminoles originated as run-away slaves who sought refuge in the late 1700s in Spanish-controlled Florida. They lived among the Seminole Indians, but retained their own cultural heritage. Learn More

"In Cameroon the king of the blacks ordering his chefs to cook the pig in the sauce." Artist signed. Published in Russia. Learn More

Cafe Jazz-Band. Learn More

The marching black and the silhouettes. Learn More

"Duke Kwesi Kuntu and his tribesmen welcome Prince Adeliayo Glawumi and his tribesmen upon their arrival by airplane to take part in the ceremonials in Darkest Africa at A Century of Progress." Chicago World's Fair. Learn More

"Thus is our gentlemen! Vote Black-White-Red." Published by the German National People's Party for the 1924 vote. Learn More

The girl, trying on the stocking. Artist signed. Learn More

"Use a Good Line when we can offer you our Montgomery County Little Dutch. Davenport Leaf Tobacco Co., Davenport, Iowa." Copyright, 1905, by E. Nash. Used 1907 Davenport. Learn More

"Away with the Language-Regulation." Fighting against the poor language of the black man. Used 1901 Austria. Learn More

Ethel Waters, one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. Blind stamp of the photographer Carl Van Vechten. Learn More

Ethel Waters, one of the most popular African-American singers and actresses of the 1920s. Real photo. Blind stamp of the photographer Carl Van Vechten. Learn More

Posed for picture, including three black soldiers. Maple leaf insignia on the hats and neck lapels. Learn More

"The Huppa-Huppa. The new dance." Tiny edge tear at left. Learn More

"Porte-Monnaie. The tanner without seam." Artist signed. French. Learn More

"Quinado Ramos Pinto." Spanish. Learn More

"Original Miler's African Air Grotesque." Learn More

The fleeing Hitler. Artist signed. Learn More

"The Xmas bogey !" Artist signed F. H. Learn More

"The editor look for a garden site in Labrador
[Canada]." Quotation from Amherst Antiques - Old Jokes publication, May 10, 1942, F.C. Sears Editor & Publisher. Real photo attached. Used 1943 Amherst, Massachusetts, on government postal card. Learn More

The dressed devil with the glass. Advertising icon from the hot springs at French Lick, Indiana. Photo by Yarmoth Wigginton. Used 1908 Indiana. Learn More

The Cake-Walk. Photo by S. I. P. Learn More

Portrait by Walery, Paris, #115. Light corner crease. Learn More

Holding a can of cocoa "That's good! I can eat it or powder my face with it. "French. Learn More

"We've been looking all around for you. "Two layers, allowing eyes to shift back and forth. Used 1906 Utica, New York. Learn More