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2/20/2020 - The Road West: The Steve Turner Collection of African Americana, Part I

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., Este Ave 6270, Cincinnati OH 45232, United States
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Date of the auction: 20.02.2020

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Lot number 201
Black United Front Taking Care of Business Poster, ca 1968

TCB: United Front, Taking Care of Business. [Los Angeles]: [Los Angeles Free Press], n.d., ca 1968...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$625
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Lot number 218
Wanted by the FBI: Faith Beauty Integrity, Black Power Poster, ca 1970

Wanted by the FBI: Faith Beauty Integrity. Reward: Love, Peace, Happiness. [San Francisco?], n.d. ca...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
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n. a.
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Lot number 241
Golden Jubilee Edition Recipes by the Master of Mixers, 1943 Montana...

Anderson, Julian. Golden Jubilee Edition: Recipes by the Master of Mixers, as Served by Him at the...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$500
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Lot number 256
Rufe Turner Boxing Cabinet Cards, 1905

2 Cabinet cards of boxer Rufus “Rufe” Turner. Sommer Studio: Philadelphia, [1905]. Both show Turner...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$563
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Lot number 262
Joe Gans at Fairyland Park, California, ca 1907

Joe Gans at Fairyland Park Arcadia, Cal. Arcadia, California: n.p, n.d., ca 1907. Printed broadside...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
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n. a.
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Lot number 273
Jack Johnson and Wife, Las Vegas, New Mexico Real Photo Postcard, 1912

Jack Johnson and Wife pre-fight Las Vegas, New Mexico real photo postcard. 5.5 x3.5 in. (138 x 88...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$500
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Lot number 292
Rare Signed and Inscribed Library of Willam C. Bolivar, African American...

BRIGHT, Nellie, ed. Library of William C. Bolivar Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Together with Printed...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$500
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Lot number 310
Harlem Renaissance and New Negro Movement Modern African American Art...

LOCKE, Alain. Contemporary Negro Art. Baltimore: Baltimore Museum of Art, 1939. 8vo (6.2 x 9.25...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$500
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Lot number 214
Black Panther Pinback Collection, ca 1969-1970

Lot of 33 Black Panther Party related pinbacks, ca 1969-1970. With Panther Party logos, slogans...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$625
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Lot number 228
Tintypes of African American Musicians, ca 1865-1880

Lot of 3 tintype portraits of African American musicians. CDV tintype studio portrait of a fiddler...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$4,375
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Lot number 27
Quarter Plate Tintype of Buffalo Soldier Holding a Cigar, ca 1874

Quarter plate tintype full-length studio portrait of an unidentified Buffalo Soldier. Photographer...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,375
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Lot number 32
Buffalo Soldier James D. Cowan, 25th Infantry, Company D, Cabinet Card by...

Cabinet card of Buffalo Soldier James D. Cowan, 25th Infantry, Company D. O.S. Goff: Fort Custer...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
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US$1,500
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Lot number 50
Photographs of African American Sailors Lost in World War I, Including...

Lot of 7 photographs of African American sailors who died during World War I. Each captioned in...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
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n. a.
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Lot number 55
Buffalo Soldiers 10th Cavalry, Rare Historical and Pictorial Review, 1941

Historical and Pictorial Review Tenth Cavalry of the United States Army, Camp Funston - Fort Riley...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$2,000
Price realised:
US$625
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Lot number 59
Augustus Washington Sixth Plate Daguerreotype of Young Woman

Sixth plate daguerreotype of a young woman. Augustus Washington (ca 1820/1821-1875): Hartford...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$3,125
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Lot number 121
Colorado and Nebraska Cabinet Cards of African Americans, ca 1885-1895

Lot of 6 cabinet cards from Colorado and Nebraska of African American subjects. Several taken in...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$688
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Lot number 157
Two ALsS by Allen Allensworth to Republican National Committee Regarding...

ALS, 1 p., 197 x 250 mm, Bowling Green, Kentucky, August 25, 1884, Allen Allensworth to Benjamin...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$2,000
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n. a.
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Lot number 164
The Official California Negro Directory, 1942-43

VINSTON Warren C. and Anita GRANT, compilers. The Official California Negro Directory and Classified...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$2,375
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Lot number 223
Rare Japanese Tommy's Songster Pamphlet, ca 1860

Japanese Tommy’s Songster. Louisville: Bradley & Gilbert, [ca 1860?]. Folded pamphlet, 79 x 139 mm...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$938
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Lot number 227
Rare Frank Matsura Carolinian Jubilee Singers Real Photo Postcard, ca 1910

"Carolinian Jubilee Singers." Frank Sakae Matsura (松浦栄, 1873-1913): [Washington State], n.d., ca...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
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n. a.
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Lot number 255
The Black Champions of the Prize Ring from Molineaux to Jackson, 1890

FOX, Richard K. (1846-1922). The Black Champions of the Prize Ring: From Molineaux to Jackson. New...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,625
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Lot number 29
24th Infantry Buffalo Soldiers Muster Roll, 1875

Partly printed Muster Roll of Company H of the 24th Infantry Regiment from December 31, 1874 to...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,750
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Lot number 35
The Colored Cadet at West Point, First Edition

FLIPPER, Henry Ossian (1856-1940). The Colored Cadet at West Point: Autobiography of Henry Ossian...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$3,125
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Lot number 42
Buffalo Soldier Charles Young Military Morale of Nations and Races, First...

YOUNG, Charles (1864-1922). Military Morale of Nations and Races. Kansas City, Missouri: Franklin...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,188
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Lot number 56
WWII Buffalo Soldier Sgt. Thornton J. Owens Letter Archive, 92nd Division...

Lot of 17 letters, 1 telegram, 2 certificates, and 5 snapshot photographs. All letters are written...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$813
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Lot number 60
Glenalvin Goodridge Sixth Plate Daguerreotype Portrait

Sixth plate daguerreotype of a seated man. Glenalvin J. Goodridge: York, Pennsylvania, n.d., ca...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,063
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Lot number 99
Grafton Tyler Brown Nevada Printed Masonic Appointment, 1871

Grand Lodge F.S.A.M. of the State of Nevada Masonic Appointment. San Francisco: G.T. Brown, 1871...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$750
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Lot number 100
Information Concerning The Terminus Of The Railroad System Of The Pacific...

Information Concerning The Terminus Of The Railroad System Of The Pacific Coast. Oakland: Daily...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$1,375
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Lot number 115
Signed and Inscribed Presentation Copy The Negro Trail-Blazers of California

BEASLEY, Delilah L. (1867-1934). The Negro Trail-Blazers of California: A Compilation of Records...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$875
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Lot number 197
Negro City Directory, Tulsa, Oklahoma, 1941

Tulsa, Oklahoma Negro City Directory, 1941. [Tulsa: Greenwood Chamber of Commerce,] 1941. 8vo (150 x...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$1,200 - US$1,800
Price realised:
US$2,000
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