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American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
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- Sale 1310
Live
| Cincinnati
Feb 27 | 10:00 AM EST
Live
| Cincinnati
Sale 1310
| Cincinnati
| Cincinnati
Estimate$2,000 – $3,000
Bobolition of Slavery!!!! Grand Selebrashum by de Africum Shocietee!!!! Greenfield, MA: N.p., 1818.
Visible 9 5/8 x 14 1/4 in. printed broadside (old folds, toned); matted and framed to 14 3/4 x 19 1/2 in. (not examined out of frame, dampstain to lower right of mat). Signed in type "Cesar Crack-Em-All".
Text in three columns written in a dialect caricature satirizing the African Society of Boston's annual celebration of the end of the slave trade on July 14th. The African Society was a mutual aid society founded in 1796 by 44 African American freedmen living in Boston. In addition to charity lectures, they hosted an annual celebration commemorating the official end of the transatlantic trafficking of kidnapped Africans to the United States in 1808. RARE: OCLC locates only 1 copy held at the New-York Historical Society Library.
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Katie Horstman
VP, Head of Department, American Historical Ephemera and Early Photography
Ms. Horstman has spent over a decade specializing in historic photography and Americana at auction. During her tenure, she has overseen several notable single owner auctions, including property from the inventory of celebrated Americana and antique arms expert Norm Flayderman. During her time with the firm, she has maintained an active membership in the Daguerreian Society. Ms. Horstman holds an MA in Art History from the University of Cincinnati and a BA in Art History from The Ohio State University.
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