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Lot 6
Sale 1310 - American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Feb 27, 2024
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Live / Cincinnati
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$603
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Lot Description
DOUGLASS, Frederick (ca 1818-1895). Land indenture involving the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company. Washington, DC, 4 June 1883. Signed by John Jay KNOX, Charles J. FOLGER, and Frederick DOUGLASS.
3 1/2 pages, 8 x 12 1/2 in. (pages fully separated along horizontal creases, some with taped repair, and toning and spotting to some areas).
Asa Whitehead purchases multiple lots of land in Washington, DC from the Freedman's Savings and Trust Company, with Jay Knox acting as that company's commissioner, for the sum of $3,334.50.
President Garfield appointed Frederick Douglass recorder of deeds for the District of Columbia in 1881. During his tenure, a white woman named Helen Pitts served as his secretary. The two were married in 1884, causing controversy among Douglass's friends and family, as well as the public.
Property from the Augustana Collection