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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 151
Snapshot from Eureka Villa, Negro Country Club near Los Angeles, 1924

Inscribed snapshot, 3 x 5 in., showing an outdoor scene from Val Verde, California, 1924. Three...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$200 - US$400
Price realised:
US$125
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Lot number 152
California Golden West Lodge No. 86 Photograph, Tijuana, 1925

Silver gelatin photograph, 8.25 x 6.5 in., Tijuana, Mexico, 1925. Photograph shows a street scene in...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$150 - US$250
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n. a.
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Lot number 153
Rare Los Angeles Ostrich Farm Real Photo Postcard with African American...

Real photo postcard, approx. 5.5 x 3.5 in., featuring three African American tourists, including an...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$320
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Lot number 154
Black Tourism Real Photo Postcards

Lot of 2, both featuring African American subjects posed on a simulated railcar rear platform. One...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$200 - US$300
Price realised:
US$125
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Lot number 155
Three Tourists in Tijuana, Mexico, Real Photo Postcard, ca 1942

Real photo postcard showing three African American tourists riding in a burro cart, Tijuana, Mexico...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$200 - US$300
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n. a.
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Lot number 156
Chaplain Allen Allensworth Cabinet Card, 1889

Cabinet Card of Allen Allensworth. Elrod Brothers: Louisville, Kentucky, n.d., ca 1889. Imprint and...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$5,000 - US$7,000
Price realised:
US$6,000
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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 158
Allensworth, California Related Postcards, Plus

Lot of 4. Ephemera relating to Allensworth, California. In the Showsheds, Sierra Nevada Mountains...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$500 - US$1,000
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n. a.
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Lot number 159
Scarce First Edition Allen Allensworth Biography

ALEXANDER, Charles. Battles and Victories of Allen Allensworth. Boston: Sherman, French & Company...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$625
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Lot number 160
African American Photography Reference Books

Lot of 5. GRIGSBY, Darcy Grimaldo. Enduring Truths: Sojourner's Shadows and Substance. Chicago...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$50 - US$100
Price realised:
US$31
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Lot number 161
Western Reference Books

Lot of 36. Most in like new condition, exceptions noted. Barr, Alwyn. Black Texans: A History of...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$50 - US$100
Price realised:
US$219
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Lot number 162
Jim Crow Era Missouri Negro City and County Directory

Negro City and County Directory 1936: Springfield, Mo., Greene County, Joplin, Carthage, Jasper...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,500
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Lot number 163
Scarce 1940 California Vocational Guide for African Americans

JONES, Henry L. The Negro's Opportunity. Los Angeles: H. L. Jones and Company, 1940. 8vo (169 x 219...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$100 - US$150
Price realised:
US$250
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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 165
Rare Dallas, Texas Negro City Directory, 1947

GILBERT, Don, ed. Negro City Directory, 1947-1948. Dallas: Don Gilbert & T.W. Pratt; Dallas Negro...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$1,875
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Lot number 166
1948 Negro Who's Who in California

WYNN, Commodore, ed. Negro Who's Who in California. [Los Angeles]: Negro Who’s Who in California...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$150 - US$250
Price realised:
US$344
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Lot number 167
Los Angeles 1953-1954 Negro Business Directory with Pioneering Black...

HUNTER, Wally. Los Angeles Negro Business Directory. Los Angeles: 1953. 8vo (6 x 9.25 in.). Original...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$400 - US$600
Price realised:
US$813
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Lot number 168
The Success Directory, 1959 San Francisco Black Business Directory

The Committee for Community Solidarity. The Success Directory. San Francisco: Success Publishing...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$50 - US$100
Price realised:
US$156
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Lot number 169
Photographs of Dahomeyans at the California Midwinter Fair, 1894

Lot of 5 photographs of Dahomeyans from the California Mid-Winter Exposition 1894, taken by Isaiah...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$2,500 - US$3,500
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n. a.
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Lot number 170
Scare Southern Pinbacks

Lot of 3 scarce Southern pinbacks. The First Colored Georgia State Fair / R.R. Wright, Pres't...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$500 - US$800
Price realised:
US$320
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Lot number 171
Booker T. Washington Cabinet Card by Elmer Chickering, Boston, ca 1890

Cabinet Card of Booker T. Washington. Elmer Chickering: Boston, Massachusetts, n.d., ca 1890...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$2,000 - US$3,000
Price realised:
US$1,250
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Lot number 172
Booker T. Washington Printed Postcard, ca 1902

Frank G. Schumacher, Los Angeles, California, n.d., ca 1902. Real photo postcard featuring a...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$400 - US$600
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n. a.
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Lot number 173
Booker T. Washington Muskogee Negro Business League Pinback, 1914

Booker T. Washington pinback. Diam: 1.25 in. (32 mm) Caption: "Muskogee negro Business League...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$600 - US$800
Price realised:
US$2,875
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Lot number 174
M.W. Gibbs, First US Black Judge Autobiography Shadow and Light, 1902

GIBBS, M.W. (1823-1915). Shadow and Light: An Autobiography with Reminiscences of the Last and...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$1,125
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Lot number 175
Texas Biographies and Uplift Book, Hall's Moral and Mental Capsule

HALL, Josie B. (b. 1869) Hall's Moral and Mental Capsule for the Economic and Domestic Life of the...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$313
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Lot number 176
Temperance Lecturer Eliza Suggs Autobiography Shadows and Sunshine, 1906...

SUGGS, Eliza (1876-1908). Shadows and Sunshine. Omaha: Privately Published, 1906. 18mo (112 x 159...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$750
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Lot number 177
Autobiography of Black Woman Suffragist Emma J. Ray

RAY, Emma J. (1859-1930) Twice Sold, Twice Ransomed: Autobiography of Mr. and Mrs. L.P. Ray...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$100 - US$200
Price realised:
US$438
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Lot number 178
1912 Lower Mississippi Flood Real Photo Postcards

Lot of 3 real photo postcards showing the effects of the Mississippi Flood of 1912 and civilian...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
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US$500 - US$700
Price realised:
US$531
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Lot number 179
Two 1908 Issues of The Forum, San Jose African American Newspaper

The Forum. Vol. I, Nos. 13-14. June 6 & June 20, 1908. San Jose, California: Forum Publishing Co...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,000
Price realised:
US$500
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Lot number 180
Only Known Copy The Voice of the West: An Illustrated Negro Magazine of...

The Voice of the West: An Illustrated Magazine of Western Civilization. Volume I, No. 3, June 12...

Cowan's Auctions, Inc., 20 Feb 2020
Estimate
US$800 - US$1,200
Price realised:
US$3,750
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