Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

193 193 c   (BUSINESS.) Illustrated business card for Iowa stockyard entrepreneur Bruce Payne, “Dehorning and Branding.” Illustrated with a portrait of Payne on recto and a humorous photograph on verso, 2 x 3 1 / 2 inches, printed on aluminum; minor wear. Sioux City, IA, circa 1900-02 [500/750] Bruce Payne (1849-1917) was a Missouri native who came to Iowa before 1881. The Sioux City directories list him mostly as a stockyard worker from 1890 to 1916, but from 1900 to 1902 he was listed as a dehorner or brander on his own account—likely the period when this card was produced. The 1900 census lists him and his son as the only African Americans in his neighborhood. 194 c   (BUSINESS.) Group of 7 stock certificates and bonds for African-American businesses and organizations. Various sizes and conditions. Vp, 1901-45 [600/900] First Northern Colored Co-Operative Banking Association stock certificate, 28 October 1901 * African Steamship & Saw Mill Company stock certificate, 28 July 1920 (accompanied by 2 printed letters on engraved letterhead, and an engraved envelope) * Ex-Soldiers Investment Industrial Company stock certificate, 29 August 1927. Illustrated with portraits of officers Ohio Bell and Mrs. Alice Street * Colored Masonic Hall Association certificate of indebtedness, 10 January 1924 * African Methodist Episcopal Church victory bond, Elkhart, IN, circa 1941-45 * National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race mortgage bond, 1 November 1911 * Colored Pythian Castle Hall Association stock certificate, 16 March 1920. BUSINESS LOTS 193 - 203