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(BUSINESS.)
“White or Colored Help of every Description. Servant’s
Agreement and related documents from the Charles H. Smith Employment &
Labor Exchange.
Two 4to pages, printed on both sides, with the original envelope, dated
December 14th 1894.
Philadelphia, 1894
[400/600]
The C. H. Smith agency provided house servants of both races from the South for Southern as
well as Northern country or city households. “To order male or female colored house servants,
patrons in New York or vicinity are required to remit $8 in advance to pay second class fare
and the office fees or $9.25 to include first class or state-room passage with meals, for the
help—the former rate being $6 and the latter $7.25 from Richmond to New York via the old
Dominion Line of Steamers.” Includes a sample of the “Servants’ Agreement and testimonials
from a long list of well-to-do employers etc.
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(COMMUNISM.) HUGHES, LANGSTON, ET AL.
The Truth about the
Soviet Film “Black and White.”
Folio sheet, folded to form four pages, illustrated from
photographs. New York: Central Committee of the Communist Party, [1932]
[400/600]
In June of 1932, at the invitation of the Mezharabpom Film Company of the Soviet Union, a
party of American blacks left the U.S. to make a film in Russia about Negro life there.
According to the “official line” the film had to be postponed for technical problems. However
word leaked out that blacks in the Soviet Union were as subject to discrimination as they were
elsewhere. The present flyer is a defense of “Mother Russia” by the black wing of the American
Communist Party, led by James Ford.
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