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

398 c   (WOMEN.) Charter certificate for a new chapter of the Daughters of Samaria in Avondale, Pennsylvania. Partly-printed certificate, 21 x 15 1 / 4 inches, completed in manuscript and signed by 4 officers; worn at edges and along folds with several closed tears and chips. Baltimore, 7 August 1874 [500/750] A rare survival from an African-American women’s temperance society founded in 1866, the sister group to the Independent Order of Good Samaritans. The ornately engraved certificate is headed “Faith Hope Charity, Grand United Order, Daughters of Samaria,” and lists 11 officers of the society’s new 12th branch in suburban Avondale, PA. We have traced three of this chapter’s officers in the 1870 census of Chester County, PA, and all were African- American women in their twenties. 398 WOMEN LOTS 398 - 405 399 399 c   (WOMEN.) Postcard of the Young Colored Women’s Protective Association in Indianapolis. Printed postcard, 3 3 / 4 x 5 1 / 2 inches, with 3 photomechanical illustrations; minor wear, 1-inch repaired closed tear, unused but some light soiling to verso. Indianapolis, IN, circa 1905-10 [400/600] The YCWPA, established in 1905, offered rooms “for the accommodation of lady transients,” worked for “the protection of girls out of employment,” and tried to “encourage commercial enterprise among our women.” The card names the founder as Miss Dayse D. Walker; she became Mrs. Dayse Booker in 1910.

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