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

241 c   (EDUCATION.) An issue of The Brownies’ Book, the first African-American children’s magazine. Volume 2, #10. Pages [273]-300. 4to, 11 x 8 inches, original pictorial wrappers, moderate wear; minor wear to contents. New York: Du Bois & Dill, October 1921 [300/400] The Brownies’ Book was launched as a monthly children’s magazine by W.E.B. Du Bois in 1920, while he was also editing The Crisis. Its aims, as described in an ad inside the front wrapper, were to bring children “the best in pictures and stories of Negro life” and “the current events of the world told in beautiful language which children can understand.” This issue includes a short play by Willis Richardson, a full- page photo of an all-black baseball team in Hopewell, VA, stories by Elsie Clews Parsons, a full-page ad from the Madam C.J. Walker Company, and much more. On page 293 is a short poem by 20-year- old Langston Hughes titled “Winter Sweetness.” This magazine is not in Blockson, or in Lomazow’s American Periodicals. None traced at auction since 1984. 242 c   (EDUCATION.) Signed photograph of Booker T. Washington. Silver print, 3 3 / 4 ” x 2 1 / 4 inches, on original plain mount, signed and dated in lower margin of photograph; mount remnants on verso. Np, 12 April 1902 [1,500/2,500] Washington is shown here in a collegiate cap and gown, apparently at a graduation event. He signed just a few months after becoming the first African-American to dine with the president at the White House. 241 242