American Historical Ephemera & Photography, including African Americana

9 x 7 in. silver gelatin print on larger cardstock mount printed "Cotton Market, Montgomery, Alabama / The Philadelphia Museums" below image and to lower right (toning, spotting, wear and some losses to mount edges and corners). Verso bears lengthy printed caption, in part: "It will be seen that almost all the people in the picture are negroes...The few white men in the picture, walking among the wagons, are probably the buyers." Pictured is a public square in Montgomery filled with African American cotton sellers with bales of cotton, cotton buyers, carts, and mules, all arranged before storefronts laden with signage. -- 6 5/8 x 4 5/8 in. silver gelatin print on slightly larger colored paper mount (silvering tot image). Uncredited. An African American woman wearing a gingham shirt with rolled up sleeves and a mobcap poses with a cart of enormous melons. -- And 2 others including a real photo postcard showing an African American family standing outside of a small wooden restaurant by Eddy, South Pines, NC, and a rural homestead photograph of an African American family. -- Together, 4 photographs.

[With:] 2 3/8 x 4 in. advertising card for Honest Long Cut Tobacco featuring a portrait of an African American man wearing a straw hat and holding a riding crop or whip, and sitting against a landscape painted backdrop (toning, wear with crease to left side and some light chipping). These advertising cards were issued in the 1890s by W. Duke & Sons, Co. in various series. The card featured here was part of the Sunny South series, which pictured African American subjects in racist or exaggerated situations.

[Also with:] 7 1/4 x 11 1/2 in. album containing approx. 150 printed postcards of Black subjects, including occupational and domestic scenes as well as stereotypical representations, ca early-to-mid 20th century. Postcards displayed under photo corner tabs, which are affixed recto/verso to album pages. While some include handwritten notations on front or back, many appear to be unused (toning to some, but overall very good condition).