Swann Galleries: Printed and Manuscript African Americana

Collection of cartes-de-visite photos including numerous African-Americans and abolitionists.

Letters from Douglass to an old friend concerning race relations, Haiti, and more.

Powis.

Warren, George Kendall; photographer.

Letters concerning Gabriel Johnson, an enslaved man at Mount Vernon--including his letter from Bruin's Slave Jail.

Archive of photographs taken at Manhattan's famous integrated Café Society nightclub.

Letter from an enslaved Georgia man to his mother at another plantation.

Plan of an African Ship's Lower Deck, with Negroes, in the Proportion of Not Quite One to a Ton.

Letter from prison, one of his first to use his new name.

Wilson Chinn, a Branded Slave from Louisiana.

Letter to the sculptor of his well-known bust, praising the work.

Delicately hand-tinted tintype of John Brown.

Papers of the artist, photographer, and graphic designer Louise E.

Papers of an early Pennsylvania abolitionist, including the landmark kidnapping case of John Davis.

Letter urging the establishment of a Committee of Vigilance in Syracuse.

Bond signed by a renowned African-American sea captain for his best-known vessel, the brig Traveller.

Lyon, Danny; photographer.

Letter to a freedman, offering to help track down his lost wife and daughter.

Vote Nov 5th, Huey Newton for U.S.

Honor King: End Racism.

Pair of slippers said to be made by Elizabeth Keckley for cabinet member Gideon Welles at the time of Lincoln's second inauguration.

Papers of Nancy Leftenant-Colon, the first African-American in the Regular Army Nurse Corps.

Costume design for Pearl Bailey as Butterfly in St. Louis Woman.

Carte-de-visite portrait of Sojourner Truth.

Papers of Lieutenant James B. Coleman as a soldier and educator.