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(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES—PENNSYLVANIA.) HOWARD, JAMES H. W.
Pennsylvania Negro Business Directory.
Copious illustrations from photographs etc.
156 pages. Tall 8vo, original wine-red cloth, lettered in gilt on the upper cover; tips and
spine extremities lightly rubbed; bookplate; small label pasted over copyright on title page.
Harrisburg: James H. W. Howard & Son, [1909]
[600/800]
Little is known of the early life of James H. W. Howard (1856—?) publisher of this directory.
Howard was the publisher of “Howard’s Negro American Magazine” and is author of “Bond
and Free”. (1882)
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(BUSINESS DIRECTORIES—SOUTH CAROLINA.)
Baldwin and
Southern’s Charleston South Carolina City Directory, Master Edition 1944-1945.
1272 pages. Large, thick 4to. Original cloth-backed red cloth covered boards, printed in
gilt; rear cover showing some discoloration from damp-staining, not affecting the contents.
Charleston, 1944
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
.
WITH A SEPARATE SEVENTY
-
ONE PAGE DIRECTORY FOR
C
HARLESTON
’
S
“C
OLORED
”
POPULATION
which was greatly expanded due to wartime
ship production. Next to each name is their occupation, which in many cases is related to the
shipyards, or other naval related jobs. The 3000 acre yards employed over 25,000 civilian
workers, building destroyers and destroyer escorts. It also was the arrival point for disembarking
the wounded brought back home. Strangely enough, OCLC located no copies of this, or any of
the three preceding directories produced by Baldwin and Southern.
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