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(CIRCUS.)
Watson with his Wonderful Elephant Tom.
Chromolithographic
poster, 37x27 inches, linen-backed; a few faint signs of creases where once folded.
Np: Star Printing Office, Alex Hoenig, 1890’s-1910
[1,000/1,500]
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(COMIC BOOKS.) “SUPER HEROES.”TAYLOR,CARL.
The Black Avenger.
Psychedelic poster, 33-1/2x22 inches; some light wear to the edges.
Gardena, California: “The Joker”, 1973
[500/750]
Depicts a typical comic book “super hero,” though we could find no corresponding comic book.
It is quite likely that one never existed.
SIGNED BY ROBESON, DU BOIS & DUNGEE
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(COMMUNIST PARTY.) ROBESON, PAUL, W.E.B. DU BOIS AND
ROSCOE DUNGEE.
“Dear Friend. . .
Original Typed Letter Signed by all three of the
above, attached to a petition addressed to the President and the Congress of the United
States.Together three 4to pages; rust stain at the top corner.
March 22, 1947
[3,000/4,000]
THE ORIGINAL LETTER DRAFTED BY PAUL ROBESON
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DU BOIS AND ROSCOE DUNGEE
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“We invite you to join us in sending the enclosed ‘Petition to the President and Congress of the
United States. “Please indicate your willingness to do so by signing and mailing the enclosed reply
card IMMEDIATELY.” Attached to this letter is a mimeographed copy of the petition:
“We the undersigned Negro Americans, respectfully urge you to repudiate decisively the fascist-
like proposal of Labor Secretary Lewis B. Schwellenbach to illegalize [sic] the Communist
Party.” Apparently this petition, together with push-back from defenders of the second
Amendment, worked to forestall the banning of the USCP. The Communist Party in the
United States, founded in 1876 was not outlawed until the peak of the McCarthy era, when
under the Communist Control Act of 1954, it was officially “illegalized.”
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