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Swann Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Thu Mar 30, 2017 - Thu Mar 30, 2017
104 East 25th Street - New York City
Swann Printed & Manuscript African Americana
MARCH 30
Preview: March 25, 12-5; March 27 to 29, 10-6
104 East 25th St, New York, NY 10010
tel 212 254 4710
www.SWANNGALLERIES.COM
Specialist: Wyatt H. Day • wyatthday@swanngalleries.com
Carte-de-visite album featuring a previously unrecorded image of Harriet Tubman, 1860s. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Abby Fisher, What Mrs. Fisher Knows About Old Southern Cooking, fi rst edition, San Francisco, 1881. Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
Malcolm X, typed manuscripts for the LA Herald Dispatch column “God’s Angry Men,” July-August 1957. Estimate $200,000 to $300,000.
Collection of 41 letters addressed to Rebecca Primus, 1854-72. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.
Frederick Douglass, Autograph Letter Signed to George Alfred Townsend, Washington, May 1880. Estimate $40,000 to $60,000.
Large collection of formative papers from the Montgomery Improvement Association, including checks signed by Martin Luther King, Jr, Alabama, 1955-63. Estimate $20,000 to $30,000.
Benjamin Bannaker’s Almanac for 1795, Baltimore. Estimate $30,000 to $40,000.
Martin Luther King, Jr., working draft of the “Letter from Birmingham Jail,” Alabama, 1963.
Estimate $10,000 to $15,000.
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