Black Print Culture collection
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Printed ephemera
Series 6
Printed ephemera, 1921-1993
Scope and Content Note
The items in this series include various cards, stamps, postcards, and other printed ephemera from 1921-1993. Calendars relating to African-American history, business, organizations, and the church (1921-1993) comprise the largest part of the series.
Arrangement Note
Arranged by record type.
| Box | Folder | Content |
|---|---|---|
| 46 | 20 | Afro Number News and Information, 1946 |
| 31 | 1 | Alphabet cards |
| 40 | 32 | Anti-Caste magazine, published by Catherine Impey, subscription order form, circa 1880s |
| 42 | 20 | "Blacks in the Military: The Myth of Equal Opportunity," circa 1972 |
| 49 | 10 | Blue Book |
| 31 | 2 | Bookmark, Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver |
| 49 | 17 | Bozeman's Blue Book: The Easy Bay Negro, circa 1962-1963 |
| 42 | 21 | Bucknor vs. Green, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, May 1854 |
| 31 | 3 | Calling card, Mrs. Charlotte Hawkins Brown (founder of the Palmer Memorial Institute), undated |
| 42 | 22 | Calland, Horabell, "A Gypsy Tea" invitation, December 4, 1966 |
| 42 | 23 | Camp Zachary Taylor, "In Place--Halt!" no date |
| 42 | 24 | Catholic review of the week, "A New York community plan," April 5, 1947 |
| 47 | 50 | "Charlotta Bass Celebration on the Occasion of the Publication of her Book, 'Fory Years'," flyer, Los Angeles, 1960 |
| 42 | 25 | Collins, Mark A., "What I Saw in Africa," no date |
| OP36 | - | Conal, Robbie, "Gag Me with a Long Dong Condom," with image of Clarence Thomas, undated |
| 42 | 26 | Contact, February-March 1948 |
| OP6 | 7 | Daily World, August 25, 1971 |
| 42 | 27 | Dean, Ted, photograph in Philadelphia Eagles uniform, no date |
| 47 | 51 | "Don't You Want to be Free?" Langston Hughes play performance, flyer, Los Angeles, 1963 |
| 45 | 8 | Douglass, Frederick, biographical brochure, 1952 |
| 42 | 28 | Duyckinck, Evert A., "The New York Negro Plot of 1741," no date |
| OP6 | 2 | "Earl Fuller's Second Anniversary Dance," Armory (Washington, DC), June 16, [?] |
| 38 | 22 | Flyer, "The Jubilee of Freedom," African American Day, September 22, 1903 |
| 47 | 15 | Free the New York 8, brochure, circa 1985 |
| 49 | 14 | Go: Guide to Pleasant Motoring and Modern Living, Eastern edition, 1952 |
| 46 | 23 | Great Lecture of the Season by Mademoiselle Boxdale Brown, programs, 1915 |
| 31 | 4 | Greeting cards |
| 47 | 49 | "Hear William Worthy," flyer, Los Angeles, circa 1962 |
| 42 | 29 | International Coronation of King & Queen and Fiesta (Minneapolis, Minnesota), August 7, 1962 |
| 46 | 19 | King, Reverend Dr. Martin Luther, flyer for speaking even, circa 1968 |
| 42 | 30 | Lawson, Elizabeth, "The American Standard of Living," Jefferson School of Social Science (New York City, New York), circa 1950s |
| 50 | 17 | Lee, Elnora L., "Sprays of Living Water, A Condensation with Flowing Streams," circa 1960 |
| 42 | 31 | "Listen to Charles Barkley," energy assistance brochure, no date |
| 42 | 32 | "Make the March a Million Strong!" sample resolution, circa 1964 |
| 42 | 33 | Manning, Joseph C., "The Republican Party and the Ku Klux Klan," circa 1928 |
| 42 | 34 | Mayfield, Julian, "The Monroe Kidnapping," November 1961 |
| 44 | 14 | Michaux, Prof., "A Tribute in Loving Memory of the Late Malcolm X," broadside, circa 1965 |
| OP5 | 8 | Michigan State University (East Lansing) all-campus fast for Nigerian-Biafran relief, poster, 1970 (2 items) |
| 50 | 18 | Miller, Dorie, "The Hero of Pearl Harbor," pin, undated |
| 42 | 35 | Newspaper articles on NAACP and consumerism, 1966-1967 |
| OP5 | 9 | Nigeria, unidentified printed photographs of people and landscapes [possibly portions of calendars?], circa 1960s |
| OP32 | - | Operation Outrage, Inc. (The North American Coalition for Biafran Relief), poster, "With Your Permission, These Children Will Die," circa 1970 (2 items) |
| 36 | 41 | "Our Baby Book," Wilco Calendar and Advertising Specialty Company, 1964 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Be an Oxfam Pledged Gift Collector," Nigeria, circa 1970 (2 items) |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Help Oxfam fight famine now," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Help Oxfam fight famine with a Hunger Lunch," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Help Oxfam stop feeding hungry children," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Keep Oxfam in action--to fight human suffering in the hungry half of the world," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Keep Oxfam in action--helping to grow more food in the hungry half of the world," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Keep Oxfam in action--improving farming in the hungry half of the world," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Keep Oxfam in action--spreading knowledge in the hungry half of the world," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| OP5 | 10 | Oxfam, poster, "Oxfam hates hungry children," Nigeria, circa 1970 |
| 42 | 36 | The Panama Canal, chapter nine, "The Negro Workers," no date [2 copies] |
| 42 | 37 | Pennsylvania Heritage, volume IV, number 1, December 1977 |
| 42 | 38 | Peterson, Henry Adelbert, fiftieth wedding anniversary invitation, June 27, 1932 |
| 31 | 5 | Post cards [1 of 2] |
| 48 | 27 | Post cards [2 of 2] |
| 31 | 6 | Postage stamps featuring Bessie Coleman |
| 42 | 48 | Postage stamps featuring Bessie Coleman and Bessie Smith, circa 1990s |
| OP5 | 15 | Poster, commemoration of the lives of Frederick Douglass and Paul Laurence Dunbar, circa 1910 |
| OP26 | Poster, on-air reading of The Autobiography of a Slave, Italian radio (Italy), January 1991 | |
| 42 | 39 | Poston, Ted, "The Story of Florida's Legal Lynching," The Nation, September 24, 1949 |
| 47 | 52 | "Punish the Killers! Halt the Mississippi Terror," People's World, flyer, Los Angeles, 1955 |
| 49 | 20 | Ramsey, George (Little George) and William Richardson, The Amazing World of American Pool Checkers for Novice and Expert, 1968 |
| OP6 | 6 | "Rome Gives Full Picture of American Negro," no date |
| OP6 | 3 | Simon, Caroline K., "Causes and Cure of Discrimination," May 29, 1949 |
| 42 | 40 | Spannaus, Nancy, anti-Communist article, New Solidarity, April-May 1973 |
| 42 | 41 | Spencer, Estelle C. (Rochester, New York), business card, no date |
| 42 | 42 | "The Testing of Negro Intelligence," Lynchburg News (Virginia), May 31, 1966 |
| 31 | 7 | Trading cards, Famous Quotations Series Presents: Malcolm X, Zone Productions (Berlin, New Jersey), 4 cards, 1993 |
| 42 | 43 | "X" (newsletter articles), no date |
| 39 | 12 | Wanted poster, Leon Cooper wanted for murder by H.J. Sweat, sheriff, Waycross, Ware County, Georgia, 1933 |
| 42 | 44 | West Philadelphia Broadside, August 22, 1970 |
| 47 | 48 | "William Worthy Speaks on 'Forbidden Cuba'," flyer, Los Angeles, circa 1962 |
| 31 | 8 | Window sticker, Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (Washington, D.C.), May 17, [1957] |
| 46 | 27 | World Premiere of the revised and extended The Ballad of the Brown King, broadside, by the Emergency Committee for the Southern Freedom Struggle, 1960 |
| 50 | 28 | "The Youth Stars," 1967 |
| Calendars: African American history | ||
| OP4 | 14 | The Afro-American Historical Calendar, 1982 |
| 39 | 13 | The Afro-American Historical Calendar, 1988 |
| OP3 | 3 | The Art of Jonathan Green, Tide-mark Press, 1993 |
| Association for The Study of Negro Life and History, 1965 | ||
| 31 | 9 | Black American Historical Calendar-Diary, 1985 |
| 48 | 28 | "Black History Calendar: The Art of James Denmark," 2014 |
| OP27 | - | Cambridge African American Heritage Trail (Cambridge, Massachusetts), 1993 |
| 36 | 52 | Freedom Calendar, Museum of Negro History and Art, 1964 |
| 36 | 53 | Freedom Calendar, Museum of Negro History and Art, 1966 |
| OP4 | 14 | Gallery of Greats, Miller Brewing Company, 10th edition, 1993 |
| 34 | 14 | "Historic Black Idahoans," Mamie O. Oliver, Ph.D., 1992 |
| OP3 | 4 | Homecoming: The Paintings of William H. Johnson, National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, 1993 |
| 36 | 48 | The House of Knowledge pocket calendar, F.H.H. Robb, 1957 |
| 36 | 54 | The Negro Heritage Library Calendar, 1965 |
| 36 | 55 | Negro Historical Calendar, presented by Schlitz Brewing Company, 1971 |
| 31 | 19 | Negro History Calendar, Schenley Distributors, 1955 |
| OP4 | 14 | Twelve American Women, 1942 [artwork by Lois Maillon Jones] |
| OP4 | 14 | We are an African People, Drum and Spear Press, 1970 |
| 36 | 51 | We are an African People, Drum and Spear Press, 1970 |
| Calendars: Businesses | ||
| OP5 | 6 | Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Atlanta, Georgia), 1947 |
| OP2 | 31 | Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Atlanta, Georgia), 1972 |
| OP2 | 31 | Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Atlanta, Georgia), 1982 |
| OP4 | 15 | Booker T. Washington Laundry (location unknown), 1945 |
| OP4 | 15 | Burke's Mortuary (Forrest City, Arkansas), 1957 |
| OP4 | 15 | C. Lee Davis Funeral Home (Anderson, South Carolina), 1949 |
| 31 | 10 | Drexel National Bank (Chicago, Illinois), "Heritage of Black America," 1980 |
| OP4 | 15 | Grissom Funeral Home (Atlanta, Georgia), 1983 |
| OP4 | 15 | Harlem Night Club (Lovejoy, Illinois), 1955 |
| OP4 | 15 | Marshall Funeral Home (Bishopville, South Carolina), 1955 |
| OP4 | 15 | Metropolitan Funeral System Association (Detroit, Michigan) [calendar pages missing, year unknown] |
| 43 | 27 | National Standard Life Insurance Company (Orlando, Florida), "Tribute to a Great Leader," no date [cover only] |
| 39 | 14 | Pilgrim Health and Life Insurance Co. (Augusta, Georgia), 1970 |
| 39 | 15 | Ragsdale Mortuary (Phoenix, Arizona), 1964 |
| OP4 | 15 | Robert M. Day Funeral Home (West Chester, Pennsylvania), 1946 |
| OP4 | 15 | Shaw's Beauty Shop (St. Louis, Missouri), 1945 |
| OP4 | 15 | Southern Life Insurance Co. (Baltimore, Maryland), 1954 |
| OP4 | 15 | Sterile's 1 Hour Cleaning Service (Pittsburg, Pennsylvania), 1963 |
| OP6 | 10 | Utica Daily Press (Utica, New York), 1901 |
| Calendars: Organizations | ||
| OP4 | 16 | Boston Negro Artists' Association, 1968 |
| OP2 | 32 | The Church of St. Benedict the Black and Newman Center for Grambling State University (Grambling, Louisiana), Josephite Black Arts Calendars, 1978-1979 |
| OP4 | 16 | Kentucky Negro Educational Association, 1922 |
| OP4 | 16 | Liberation Support Movement (LSM) Press, Africa 1974 Liberation Calendar, 1973 |
| OP4 | 16 | Tuskegee Airmen, Inc., 1986 |
| 36 | 49 | Frederick Douglass Educational Center, 1953 |
| Calendars: Religious | ||
| 44 | 15 | African Orthodox Church, 1946 |
| OP4 | 17 | Ebenezer AME Church (location unknown), 1946 |
| OP4 | 17 | First Baptist Church (Morganton, North Carolina), Rev. S.E. Duncan, 1946 |
| OP4 | 17 | Mother Bethel AME Zion Church (New York, New York), 1921 |
| OP4 | 17 | Rose Chapel Baptist Church (Lynchburg, Virginia, 1925 |
| 36 | 50 | Unitarian Universalist calendar advertisement, 1969 |
| Calendars: Samples | ||
| OP4 | 18 | African American children and mother listening to radio, 1926 |
| OP4 | 18 | Carver, George Washington, 1944 |
| OP4 | 18 | Washington, Booker T., undated |
| Calendars: Other | ||
| 45 | 23 | Calendar featuring an African American pin-up girl, 1961 |
| 48 | 29 | "Ellingtonia '95," jazz calendar, photographs by Ray Avery |
| OP5 | 11 | Federal Ministry of Information, Lagos (Nigeria), "Nigeria: Traditional & Modern," 1967 |
| OP31 | - | Nigeria, "New Nigeria, No Nepotism, No Bribery, No Tribalism, No Corruption," 1967 |
| 48 | 30 | Reggae calendars, 1979, 1985-1987 |
| OP30 | - | The Republic of Biafra, 1968 |
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