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[ Book Club of California ]. Harlan, RobertBiblio.com

The Two Hundredth Book. A bibliography of the books published by The Book Club of California 1958-1993.

[Abolitionism – John Brown – Southern California] Rogers, F HBiblio.com

Two Photographs of John Brown’s Sons Owen and Jason Outside Their Cabins in the San Gabriel Mountains

1880List2900Los Angeles California 1880. Two photographs measuring approximately 4 Â½ x 7 Â½ inches. Pasadena Historical Society stamps verso. One with manuscript caption verso including â€œMtn Home of John Brownâ€™s Sons Located just south of Brownâ€™s Peak between Millards CaÃ±on arroyo secoâ€. Wrinkling and marginal tearing with some missing corners. One photograph with tape residue. Very good. Owen Brown 1824â€“1889 and Jason Brown 1823â€“1912 were two of abolitionist John Brownâ€™s twenty children. Owen Brown participated in both the Pottawatomie massacre and the Harpers Ferry raid. Following the unsuccessful raid he led the party of escapees to Pennsylvania. He lived in Put-in-Bay Ohio until 1885 when he joined his brother Jasonâ€”who was not involved in his fatherâ€™s activitiesâ€”in Pasadena. The two lived in poverty in mountain cabins several miles outside the city; offered here are two photographs of the brothers standing outside their cabins. In their time in Pasadena they were described as eccentric and hermetic but were liked and respected by those in town. Several obituaries of Owen Brown describe how witnessing the growing anti-Chinese sentiment in the region the brothers hired two Chinese men from the area to work for them â€œfor the sake of the principle although they had no needâ€ of the workers.1 One of these laborers may be the third man standing behind Jason Brown in the photograph where the brothers are astride donkeys. Of interest to scholars of the Brown family and their legacy. 1 â€œThe Late Owen Brown. The Peculiar Life of the Son of the Abolitionist Ends in California.â€ Indianapolis Journal January 13 1889 8. unknown

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[African Americana]: [California]Biblio.com

Black Business Directory 1970 Summer Edition Los Angeles and Vicinity cover title

197012882Los Angeles: Black Business Directory Inc 1970. ii66pp. Square quarto. Original illustrated peach wrappers printed in black stapled. Minor edge wear and rubbing uneven toning to wrappers. Text toned but clean. Very good. A rare business directory intended for use by the African-American community of Los Angeles at the outset of the 1970s. The cover touts the directory's series motto: "Most Complete & First of Its Kind." The directory itself contains listings for a wide variety of businesses presented alphabetically by business type ranging from "Accountants" to "Youth Organizations & Centers." As with most other directories the listings are interspersed with advertisements for a plethora of local Black-owned or managed businesses including First City Savings Clarke's Furniture Vermont Volkswagen Friendly Chrysler-Plymouth Lewis Bakery and Soul Deli Triple AAA Building Maintenance Service Foreman Driving School Magnificent Bros. Hair Styling Salon Kelsey's Termite and Pest Control Leo's Plastic Slip Covers Willie Greene's Travel Service Medallion Printers & Lithographers and numerous others. The advertisements are often illustrated with portraits of the managers or proprietors of the businesses. The penultimate page of the directory is reserved for a listing of "Supporting White Business." There is also a full-page ad for the publication itself which touts its advantages and purpose: "Black Business Directory -- Contains over 5000 competitive Black Businesses in over 250 categories. Purpose -- to stimulate minority employment by exposing minority businesses services and products." All four of the directories that we know of in this series are rare. OCLC reports just three copies of the first volume published for the summer of 1969 at the New York Public Library the Bancroft Library and the University of Southern California; and just two copies of the second volume published in the Winter of 1969-70 at NYPL and the Bancroft. The present work is only the second copy of the Summer 1970 edition that we have ever seen or of which we are aware with no institutional copies reported in OCLC. No copies of the Winter 1970-71 or Summer 1971 editions exist as far as we know though they were likely produced as the Winter of 1971 edition is reported at three institutions -- the University of Southern California the Bancroft and Yale. Black Business Directory, Inc unknown

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[African Americana]: [California]: Father DivineBiblio.com

Extra! Extra! Extra! Peace Everybody! Father Divine Is God! Peace to All the World! caption title

19345724Los Angeles: California Eagle 1934. Good. Broadside 14.5 x 9 inches. Moderate toning old folds very minor loss at two crossfolds a few short splits along fold lines some small marginal chipping. A highly ephemeral broadside touting the message of Father Divine and denouncing a recent fraud by "a Set of People from Hollywood" who attempted to use Father Divine's name to purchase the Hotel Dunbar. Father Major Jealous Divine 1882-1965 known earlier in his life as George Baker was the most prominent Black religious cult leader of the 1930s believed to be a divine messenger the messiah or God himself by tens of thousands of African Americans and middle-class whites during the Great Depression. In November 1931 Divine and seventy-eight of his followers were arrested for disturbing the peace at the Reverend's property in Sayville New York on the south shore of Long Island. Father Divine was tried and found guilty in June 1932. The judge -- who interestingly died of a heart attack just days later speaking to Divine's followers of heavenly retribution -- called him a fraud and a "menace to society" handing down the maximum sentence of a year in prison. He actually spent only a few weeks in jail before his lawyers secured his release on appeal. When freed Father Divine moved to Harlem where his "Peace Mission" of social and economic betterment acquired international acclaim. One unintended consequence of Father Divine's success is encapsulated in the present broadside. The first portion of the work quotes from an address by Father Divine delivered in New York on May 17 1934. In this message Father Divine discusses housing as an extension of evangelical work the world of commercialism as a good provided it is "magnified and made honorable" and then lambasts "the racketeers the speculators and grafters and the money-changers for they made merchandise of the Spirit of God's Presence." These various aspects dovetail into the issue at hand. Apparently a group of nefarious individuals in Los Angeles were attempting to "close a deal on the Hotel Dunbar" in the name of Father Divine. Not so says the broadside for this "set of people in 51st Street Los Angeles Calif. Santa Cruz included are endeavoring to use Father Divine's name to make believe." The broadside was printed on the press of the California Eagle an African-American newspaper published in Los Angeles between its founding in 1879 and its last issue in 1964. This is the only Father Divine item we've encountered that was published in California and as far we know the only copy of this ephemeral broadside in existence. California Eagle unknown

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[African Americana]: [California]Biblio.com

West Coast African-American Vernacular Family Photograph Album with Manuscript Index of Photos

19554414Various locations 1955. Very good. 9 leaves illustrated with twenty-nine photographs various sizes between 3 x 2 inches and 9.5 x 7.5 inches with a manuscript index at front identifying the subjects. Later blue-green limp vinyl album with self adhesive pages. Minor wear and soiling. Photographs in generally nice condition. An interesting family photograph album assembled by a later-20th-century descendant of an African-American family with ties to Howard University Alcorn College and the West Coast. The photographs are mostly studio portraits of various kinds sepia-toned black-and-white hand-tinted featuring distinguished African-American men women and children. The photographs are arranged in number order and keyed to a handwritten list at the front of the album identifying each subject and occasionally including brief additional information about some of them. Most of the photographs also have a date written near them on each album page. The photographs seem to center on two woman probably sisters named Olga Williams Roby and Alma Williams Greene; the album includes two photos of Olga and multiple images of Alma and there are photographs inscribed to each of the women here. Olga apparently lived on the West Coast as the earlier of her two photographs is noted in California and the later in Seattle in 1940. One of Alma's photographs features her while at Alcorn College. There are also multiple images of Dr. Clifton Nelson one at Howard University. Four of the photographs are noted as emanating from the various subjects' time at Alcorn College now Alcorn State University in Mississippi. This combined with a final page of photographs featuring family friends one of which pictures a house in Greenwood Mississippi indicates the larger family probably emanated from Mississippi. The fact that several of the subjects attended college combined with Olga's life on the West Coast indicates at least part of this family participated in the Great Migration. unknown

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