BEIN USA198: From the Cary Collection of Playing Cards., Title from wrapper., Suit system: Monitors, Merrimacks, Zouaves, drummer boys., Type: Historical., Composition of deck: 52 [A, K, Q, J, 10-2]., Issued in Wrapper, red, white, and blue: ARMY & NAVY / PLAYING CARDS / MANUFACTURED BY / A. DOUGHERTY, New York. / Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1865, by / ANDREW DOUGHERTY, / In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for / the Southern District of New York., Aces: Ace of Monitors: TO COMMEMORATE / THE GREATEST EVENT IN NAVAL HISTORY. / THE SUBSTITUTION OF / IRON FOR WOOD. / A. DOUGHERTY / MANUFACTURER / 26 BEEKMAN ST. N.Y.; ace of Merrimacks: A. DOUGHERTY / MANUFACTURER / 26 BEEKMAN ST. N.Y., and CourtCards: Courts are caricatures.
N.A.A.C.P. publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978 and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People publications and related ephemera, 1915-1978
Description:
BEIN JWJ Zan N213 +915N: Some of these items are accompanied by articles printed from the World Wide Web., A collection of NAACP items. Most were published by the organization itself, one was published by a sympathizer, and two, emblematic of racial prejudice, were produced anonymously., The sympathetic publication is a broadside with the title "Strong man!" It was distributed by Hollywood Beauty Secrets Company, owned by Mr. & Mrs. Homer Goodwin, Hollywood, California, and it urged people to join the NAACP., The anonymous items, probably from 1963, are a dollar bill with a message stamped on it and a contribution card, one or both of which were likely produced by the Ku Klux Klan., and Included in the collection are two letters to individuals on NAACP stationery, not listed among the titles of the printed works.
Publisher:
National Association for the Advancement of Colored people
Subject (Geographic):
Texas, Waco., and United States
Subject (Name):
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
BEIN Za St34 933A copy 5: Autograph of Norman Holmes Pearson., BEIN Za W6453 Zz933S: Ms. notes of Thornton Wilder. From the Thornton Wilder Papers., "Third printing, October 1934"--T.p. verso., and The life of Gertrude Stein written by herself as though it were the autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.