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

263 c   (FOOD AND DRINK.) Southern Pacific Company: Special Recipes for Guidance of Chefs on Dining, Cafe, and Coffee Shop Cars. [2], 225 pages plus 3 leaves of lined paper at the end for notes. Tall 12mo, original cloth-backed printed stiff card covers; pencil signature of early owner on inner cover. Np, 1944 [300/400] Later edition of a pocket guide for chefs on the Southern Pacific Railroad. The preliminary pages are filled with Southern Pacific’s strict rules regarding everything from dress code and uniform to smoking and “free meals.” One of the most powerful railroad companies, its chefs, waiters, and conductors were generally African-American. MARCUS GARVEY LOTS 264 - 275 264 “TO THE BELOVED AND SCATTERED MILLIONS OF THE NEGRO RACE” 264 c   (GARVEY, MARCUS.) Membership certificate in the Universal Negro Improvement Association. Engraved Document Signed by 5 officers (though not Garvey), issued to “Mr. McA. Jones.” One page, 11 x 14 inches; minor wear and a bit of loss at intersection of folds. New York, 8 October 1919 [800/1,200] “To the beloved and scattered millions of the Negro race . . . an organization embracing the millions of men, women and children of Negro blood and of African descent of all countries of the world, striving for the freedom, manhood, and nationalism of the Negro, and to hand down to posterity a flag of empire—to restore to the world an Ethiopian Nation one and indivisible out of which shall come our princes and rulers.”