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University of Georgia Center for Latin American StudiesBiblio.com

Los Ensayistas: Boletin Informativo. Nos. 1-17 1976-1984

GEORGIA; WORLD WAR I - BAXTER, WBiblio.com

In Batoum 1918-19.

1919147489Tbilisi: no stated publisher February 1919. First edition of this rare book of satirical sketches showing British forces and the locals during the occupation of Batumi an oft-overlooked conflict in the final year of the war. There are cartoons of Gurkhas Chinese Punjabis Turks and Cossacks reflecting the wide diversity of people involved in the conflict. We have traced only two other copies at the Imperial War Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Batumi the capital of the region of Adjara in southwest Georgia changed hands multiple times in the immediate aftermath of the First World War. First it was controlled by the Russian Empire until the October Revolution where the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk transferred the region to the Ottomans. However the Transcaucasian Federation opposed this deal and Ottoman forces proceeded to invade in April 1918. After the defeat of the Ottoman empire in the First World War 3000 men from one British and two Indian battalions part of the Army of the Black Sea were sent to supervise their withdrawal in December 1918. The 1st Battalion Cameron Highlanders were present in this conflict as part of the 27th Division and the large number of Scottish soldiers pictured in these cartoons indicate that perhaps Baxley was one of them. The region was eventually ceded to the newly independent state of Georgia in 1920. The loosely inserted photographs show a cafe in Batumi the Bosporus a farewell party among soldiers of the Royal Flying Corps the British Army HQ in a bombed-out street and the locals. Octavo. Cartoon illustrations printed on recto of 14 leaves. With 10 loosely inserted gelatin silver prints approximately 85 x 118 mm 3 captioned in pencil on verso 3 numbered in pencil on verso. Original brown paper wrappers wire-stitched as issued front wrapper lettered and decorated in black. Wrappers chipped and loose at lower staple spine separated but holding contents browned; photographs a little bowed and silvered: a very good copy. Rowell & Wye 217. unknown

Peter Harrington · Royaume-Uni750,00 £GB≈ 856,35 €

[African Americana]: Williams, Georgia BlakemoreBiblio.com

Autograph Letter Signed from Georgia Blakemore Williams a Pioneering African-American Pharmacist While Still a Student at Meharry Medical School to Rev. A.T. Stewart of Tyler Texas

19205516Nashville: February 29 1920. Very good plus. 6pp. on plain paper with original transmittal envelope. Original mailing folds light wear. A friendly and informative correspondence written by Georgia Blakemore later Georgia Blakemore Williams while studying at the famed Meharry Medical College in Nashville. Georgia Blakemore Williams was born in Tennessee in 1883. She graduated from Tuskegee Institute at the turn of the century and worked as a teacher in the East Texas Baptist Academy and in the public schools around Tyler Texas in her early career. Georgia graduated from Meharry two years after the present letter was written and opened her own pharmacy in Tyler in 1923 called the People's Pharmacy. By 1930 Georgia married a laborer named E.Z. Williams; she was noted in the 1930 census as the owner/manager of a retail drug store. Her correspondent in the present letter was Rev. A.T. Stewart a distinguished pastor educator and author in Tyler in the first half of the 20th century who was apparently a mentor to Georgia. In the present letter Georgia reports on her life at Meharry in Nashville. She details the harsh winter weather "I am 'snow bound' as Whittier wrote" her recent illness "I had a dreadful cold and cough but have rid myself of both" missing a local public lecture but avoiding disease "I'm sorry as I wanted to hear Dr. Ellington at Ryman auditorium this P.M. on his famous annual sermon 'The Prodigal Son' but the flu and pneumonia are raging and I am taking no chances" joining a church "You speak about the minister and the church I joined. It is exactly the one on Spruce & Cedar below the capital" reporting on visitors "Prof. A.M. Moore was here Xmas visiting his sons in Rodger Williams" and more. In her most interesting passage Georgia reports on her studies and the atmosphere at Meharry: "I went over the top in one exam in pharmaceutical arithmetic. Made 100% does that sound like I'm working I hope so. The passing mark is 80 and so one has to work hard to even make that as these old instructors are so hard expect so much and explain so little." She reiterates that "I don't go out so much. Have to study too hard. Went to the theater once this year to see the Smarter set. Everybody here dances. My dept. will give a big ball in March but that leaves me out. I just go to school and back home." A rare letter from an important and hard-working African-American pharmacy student in the years before she worked in this monumentally challenging field especially for a Black woman in Jim Crow Texas. Georgia's letter is accompanied by a typed letter of recommendation from Reverend Stewart dated September 28 1919. In his recommendation Stewart describes Blakemore as "a young woman of sterling worth" who has "as a student distinguished herself for her diligence accuracy integrity and conscientious discharge of every duty." Stewart closes by writing: "I hereby cordially recommend her to all good people every where and especially to those to whom she may offer her service." A unique correspondence from an educated African-American woman getting even more professional education for her pharmacy career at the outset of the Roaring Twenties. February 29 unknown

The Joe Fay Company LLC · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[African Americana]: [Georgia]Biblio.com

Compliments of Rev. Fuller.Known Throughout the World as the Elephant Face Boy wrapper title and first line of text

19405368N.p. likely Georgia 1940. Very good. 4pp. on a single folded sheet. Illustrated portrait. Old folds minor wear and soiling. Former owner's pencil inscription and notations on front and rear covers. A seemingly unrecorded and intriguing ephemeral item presumably handed out during a preaching tour of Georgia around 1940 by an extraordinarily obscure African-American minister who billed himself as "Rev. Fuller The Elephant Face Boy." Very little is recorded about Reverend Fuller; the only mention we could locate occurs in the January 8 1940 edition of The Macon News mentioning Fuller's recent appearance in Dawson Georgia about 120 miles southwest of Macon: "Dawsonites listened to an 'elephant-faced' preacher recently when they were visited by 'the Rev. Fuller a colored preacher born part human and part elephant and known throughout the world.' Fuller is said to be the only of 13 children in his family born in his condition. He has a formation of an elephant ear that hangs 17 inches two normal ears and three eyes but can see out of only one. An elephant trunk formation hangs 24 inches." The present leaflet echoes some of the language in the news article touting Reverend Fuller as "The Elephant Face Boy -- Born Part Elephant and Part Human" mentioning that he is one of thirteen children "born in this condition" and describing the same physical features. Additionally the work states that Fuller was "born 41 years ago in Brazil South America" and that he was born presumably with elephantiasis "due to his mother attending a Circus during which the elephants went on stampede" after which she became "so frightened that when the child was born he was in this condition." The brochure also states that Fuller "eats from 5 to 6 meals daily and drinks from 7 to 10qts. of water" that his "mind is normal" and he has "traveled throughout the European countries.with some of the leading side shows and circus." The text concludes by mentioning that Fuller has "spent many weeks in Hospitals in different parts of the country and has been examined by leading Doctors and Specialists. They all pronounced him to be the strangest Curiosity on Earth alive." Interestingly unlike the newspaper article quoted above the text of the present work does not identify Fuller as someone of African descent. The text is illustrated with a full-page drawing of Fuller on the second page in which about half of his face is obscured. In the illustration Fuller does appear to be of African descent; whether he was born in Brazil of American parents or immigrated to the United States at a later time is unknown. In fact a great deal about Fuller is unknown and the present work provides a wonderful opportunity to dive deeper into the mystery. The leaflet is also interesting for its treatment of Fuller as a medical oddity. No other copies located in trade auction history or institutional records. unknown

The Joe Fay Company LLC · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[Georgia]. [Judiciary]Biblio.com

The Atlanta Republican --- Extra.Saturday December 18 1880 caption title

18805904Atlanta: December 18 1880. About very good. Broadside newspaper extra 19 x 11.25 inches. Old folds and creases a bit wrinkled minor soiling minor fraying and light staining to top edge tiny hole at center crossfold. An extraordinarily rare broadside newspaper extra from the only Republican paper in the state of Georgia to survive the end of Reconstruction. The Atlanta Republican was issued weekly between 1874 and 1886 and was devoted to Republican Party causes during Reconstruction. The present extra issue is a ringing endorsement of Hon. Amos T. Akerman 1821-1880 the Republican nominee to a recent open circuit judgeship in the state. Akerman was a Dartmouth-educated jurist who moved south to practice law. He settled in Georgia in 1850 and true to his surroundings owned several slaves and served as a colonel in the Confederate Army. Following the war Akerman became an advocate for Reconstruction and freedmen's rights served as U.S. Attorney for Georgia and eventually worked as President Grant's attorney general crusading against the first incarnation of the Ku Klux Klan during the early 1870s. Though a Republican in Reconstruction Georgia Akerman remained a largely popular figure in the state. The present broadside documents a meeting by the Atlanta Bar in which they speak glowingly about the "ability learning and integrity" of Akerman praise his "unswerving fidelity to the Republican Party at the most stormy and trying periods of the struggles of the South" and note both his "manly services in the cause of the true national and human and sentiments and principles in the trying days of reconstruction" and "valuable services to the cause of Republicanism during the last fifteen years." The work also mentions Akerman's volunteer services during a supposed "negro insurrection" in Georgia in the mid-1870s in which Akerman's work "resulted in restoring peace and satisfying the impassioned and infuriated whites that there was no insurrection attempted or contemplated." The Bar calls for united support for Akerman and the broadside concludes with an article about a "Committee of Lawyers appointed to press the claims of Mr. Akerman for the Circuit Judgeship." Despite the strong support statewide Akerman was never able to accept the judgeship had it been offered to him; unfortunately he died three days after the issuance of the present newspaper extra. Still the broadside remains an interesting example of the waning though remaining Republican influence in very late-to-post-Reconstruction Georgia. The present newspaper extra is not in the collection of the American Antiquarian Society nor in OCLC but one is apparently located at the University of Georgia's broadside collection. December 18 unknown

McBride Rare Books · États-Unis850,00 $US≈ 719,19 €

[Leo Frank] [Atlanta] [Georgia] AnonBiblio.com

The Frank Case Inside Story of Georgia's Greatest Murder Mystery

191336796Atlanta: The Atlanta Publishing Company 1913. Soft cover. Poor. Wraps. Approx. 8" x 5". 144 pages. Complete. Wraps are in poor condition. Paper is extremely fragile with multiple chips tears and loss to the covers and spine. A poor earlier glue repair job has left the remains of the covers stained. Covers are mostly detached and at the time of this catalog description are barely attached by old tape repairs. First and last pages are near detached. Page edges for the first few pages are chipped and creased. Browned pages to the text This extremely scarce coverage of the Leo Frank Trial was published shortly after the trial was completed. Two years later a mob broke into the Milledgeville prison where Frank was an inmate and kidnapped Frank. The mob drove Frank to Marietta Georgia where he was hanged. From the author name not provided on page 2 - "This work ends with the conviction of Frank in the superior court of Fulton Atlanta county. Trial did not end the case for immediately after the young defendant was sentenced to pay the death penalty a motion for a new trial was made and it will be months probably years before he hangs if he ever does. From the day of conviction however the fight for Frank's life became a technical legal battle. The real story ends with the trial and every essential feature is given here." The last two pages of this narrative express the fears of Atlanta officials if a not guilty verdict and the potential of lynching before the jury reached its guilty verdict. An extremely scarce fragile and period narrative of one of the most violent Civil Rights abuses in Georgia history. No physical copies located in OCLC. No copies showing in auctions or the trade. Leo Frank was a superintendent at the National Pencil Company in Atlanta. He was charged with the murder of Mary Phagan a 13 year old employee of the National Pencil Factory. She was found murdered at the factory on April 26 1913. From the New Georgia Encyclopedia: "Based mainly on the testimony of the janitor who had been held in seclusion for six weeks before the trial on orders from Solicitor General Hugh M. Dorsey the jury convicted the defendant. Frank's attorneys were unable to break Conley's testimony on the stand. They also allowed evidence to be introduced suggesting that Frank had many dalliances with girls and perhaps boys in his employ. Atlantans hoped for a conviction. They surrounded the courthouse cheered the prosecutor as he entered and exited the building each day and celebrated wildly when the jurors after twenty-five days of trial found Frank guilty". Shortly after the trial concluded the appeals process began. From New Georgia Encyclopedia: "Within weeks of the trial's outcome in early September friends of Frank sought assistance from northern Jews including constitutional lawyer Louis Marshall of the American Jewish Committee. Marshall gave advice about what information to include in the appeal but Frank's Georgia attorneys ignored his counsel. Frank's lawyers filed three successive appeals to the Supreme Court of Georgia and two more to the U.S. Supreme Court all on such procedural issues as Frank's absence when the verdict was rendered and the excessive amount of public influence placed on the jury. Ultimately the U.S. Supreme Court still on procedural grounds denied Frank's appeals; however a minority of two Oliver Wendell Holmes and Charles Evans Hughes dissented. They noted that the trial was conducted in an atmosphere of public hostility: "Mob law does not become due process of law by securing the assent of a terrorized jury." Governor John Slaton of Georgia reviewed the testimony and went to the Pencil factory. After reviewing the case the Governor commuted Frank's sentence in 1915. This infuriated Georgians leading to Atlanta riots and the safety of Frank Slaton. Slaton left the state for 10 years after his term in office ended. In August of 1915 25 leading citizens of Marietta kidnapped Leo Frank and drove him to Marietta where he was hanged. The Atlanta Publishing Company unknown

Americana Books ABAA · États-Unis750,00 $US≈ 634,57 €

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