Past Auctions
Mar 21, 2024
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Mar 30, 2023
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Mar 24, 2022
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Aug 19, 2021
LGBTQ+ Art, Material Culture & History
Mar 25, 2021
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
May 07, 2020
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Mar 28, 2019
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Mar 29, 2018
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
This multifaceted auction includes letters concerning abolition and the Civil Rights Movement, along with such unusual finds as a pair of slippers believed to be made by Lincoln’s seamstress.
Mar 30, 2017
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Offering powerful material from the formation of the Montgomery Improvement Association, Frederick Douglass, and a previously unrecorded photograph of Harriet Tubman.
Mar 31, 2016
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
This sale marks the 20th annual auction for this department, featuring early photography, rare books, ephemera and more, including a copy of Ida B. Wells-Barnett's Woman's Forum, 1922; and items from Tuskegee Airmen. More information here.
Mar 26, 2015
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
This annual auction covers everything from colonialism in Africa through the American Civil War, the Civil Rights era and beyond. Of note in this year's sale is a large selection of early Black Panther material.
Mar 27, 2014
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Features a strong selection of material related to slavery and the Civil War, early photographs of black soldiers, notable books by African-American women, black film posters and more.
Mar 21, 2013
Printed & Manuscript African Americana
Lots covered almost 300 years of history, from slavery and abolition through the Civil War, Reconstruction and into the 20th century.