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Macon B. Allen signs a document.
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DS: "Macon B. Allen" (twice) as
Probate Judge, 1p, 8½x14 blue sheet, folded in fourths.
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"Satchmo" contracts to appear in That's Life , it was released
in 1948 as A Song is Born
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He signs a 1956 agreement to accept ½ his normal royalty payment for records sold
through the Columbia Record Club.
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Louis Armstrong signs Employee's Withoulding form
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She signs a typed document waiving any claim to royalties on Columbia
'V-disc" recordings of her songs "Tired" and Fifteen Years" made for the US
armed forces during World War II.
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Document signed: "Pearl Bailey", 1 p, 8½x11.
On letterhead of Columbia Records, Inc. No place, 1947 December 26.
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Partly Printed Document filled out and
signed: "Stephen S. Balk" as 1st Lieutenant 6th Cavalry, 1p,
17x11.
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$180.00
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$144.00
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Harry Belafonte signs a release form authorizing the Chicago
Tribune-New York News Syndicate to use his name or picture for editorial or
promotional purposes, excluding commercial advertising.
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Extraordinary document! Giving approval to Paramount Pictures (without being paid) to
use his name in an animated cartoon entitled The Goose Goes South, in which a group of
“ Negro Mammies and Little Pickaninies” begin yelling into telephones “Hello, Mr.
Benny”!
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A slave-owner who supported Lincoln, expended his fortune in the Union cause
and won Grant and Sherman's praise for his generalship, he opposed
Reconstruction and ran for Vice President as a Democrat.
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$2,060.00
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[JAMES BROWN].
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John Brown signs an autograph document.
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Manuscript bill of sale for a Washington D. C. deed signed by former
slave and Senator Blanche K. Bruce as the city's Recorder of Deeds in
1890
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Printed release document for a land sale in Washington, D. C., signed
by former slave and U. S. Senator of Blanche K. Bruce as Recorder of Deeds in
1890
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$224.00
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The entertainer who hosted the popular 1950s show Where Were You?
received permission via signature from the Nobel Prize Winner to use his
voice and photograph on his show
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The Cotton Club jazz leader signs a contract to appear in The Cincinnati
Kid.
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Diahann Carroll signs a standard AFTRA contract for a single TV
engagement, a program titled On Broadway Tonight.
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$360.00
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GOVERNOR JULIAN M. CARROLL - DOCUMENT SIGNED 07/02/1979 CO-SIGNED BY: RAY DANDRIDGE, JUDY JOHNSON, MONTE IRVIN, LEON DAY, GENE BENSON, JIMMY DORAN, JAKE STEVENS, CLINT THOMAS, TED PAGE, DON MAYS, QUINCY TROUPE, JR., DREXELL R. DAVIS - HFSID 276049
Two State of Kentucky officials and several Negro League players sign a certificate
commissioning Negro League player Quincy Trouppe as a "Kentucky Colonel".
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The actress signs a contract to receive payment for her appearance in
the Bill Cosby and Sidney Poitier comedy Uptown Saturday Night.
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She signs a typed letter of agreement modifying contact procedures in
her contract with 20th Century-Fox. Also signed by studio manager Lew Schreiber.
Extremely rare!
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Extremely rare signature from the actress on an amendment to her
contract with Twentieth Century Pictures to cancel her previously slated filming
schedule for an upcoming film. Also signed by studio manager Lew
Schreiber!
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The abolitionist leader signed this document as Recorder of Deeds for the District of
Columbia
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$500.00
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The abolitionist leader signed this document as Recorder of Deeds for the District of
Columbia
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$625.00
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$500.00
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An indenture that features the orator's signature from his days as a Recorder of Deeds
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$625.00
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$500.00
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The iconic orator signed this document when he was Recorder of Deeds
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$625.00
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$500.00
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The sophisticated jazz balladeer agrees to appear on The Rosey
Grier Show in 1970.
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$280.00
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$224.00
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The social reformer signed and dated the back of this document in 1862, releasing Aaron
Cooley from a debt of $50
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$900.00
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$720.00
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Promissory note for $95,000.
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Secretarialy signed contract for singer Billie Holiday to perform at Pittsburgh's Copa in
1957
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$2,500.00
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$2,000.00
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Tony and Grammy-winning singer Lena Horne signed this AFTRA contract
in 1969 to appear on an episode of Kraft Music Hall. Horne was the first
black American woman to sign a long-term contract with a major movie
studio.
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$600.00
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$480.00
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Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce
Lena Horne's signature and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for
needy film industry veterans. The form is signed twice by Lena Horne, once as an
autograph sample and again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified
example!
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$800.00
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Tony and Grammy-winning singer Lena Horne signed this document from
Yorkshire Productions in 1969 to cancel her appearance on Kraft Music
Hall. Horne was the first black American woman to sign a long-term contract
with a major movie studio.
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$400.00
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$320.00
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Legendary Black poet signs an agreement with the Dramatists' Guild of
the Author's League of America
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$1,700.00
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$1,360.00
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The Harlem Renaissance poet signs a contract authorizing use of his
autobiography I Wonder as I Wander
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$1,700.00
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$1,360.00
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BLACK ACTOR WHO PLAYED GOD IN GREEN ACRES SIGNS TO PLAY THE DEVIL IN
CABIN IN THE SKY
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An Employment of Day Player contract for Richard Lawson's appearance
in Dirty Harry, signed by him
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$220.00
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$176.00
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Nelson Mandela signs a 1994 South Africa Election Ballot, the African
National Congress (ANC) included in the running. Extremely Rare!
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The year the famous actress won her Academy Award for Selznick's Gone With the
Wind, the first Black American to win an Oscar signs an agreement to work for Selznick
International Pictures in 1940 with options through 1946.
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Consent form authorizing the Motion Picture Relief Fund to reproduce the signature of
the famous actress and likeness for a series of stamps raising money for needy film
industry veterans. The form is signed twice by her , once as an autograph sample and
again to grant permission. A remarkable, perfectly verified example!
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Contract for a concert appearance at Williams College
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He signs a 2-page document (1974) detailing arrangements for his quintet's
tour of South America that year, accompanied by a series of unsigned filed
copies of letters related to the tour.
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His career taking off, Monk contracts for an engagement in
Philadelphia.
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His rare signature on a letter of agreement with Columbia Records, concerning
recorded distribution of his live performance at the 1963 Newport Jazz
Festival.
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The actress' handwritten resume from the archive of Theatre
World and Screen World, a comprehensive record of American stage and
film since 1945
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Sidney Poitier signs a release form for the News Syndicate Co., Inc.,
New York, New York.
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As producer of the film Hurry Sundown, he hires actor Rex Ingram, who has also
signed the contract.
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PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT - MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENT SIGNED CIRCA 1885 CO-SIGNED BY: JUSTIN McCARTHY, EDGAR FAWCETT, J. OSBORNE BAKER, AUSTIN DOBSON, SIR WALTER BESANT, MORTON Q. THAXTER, JAMES N. WILDER, THOMAS D. HINKLEY, GEORGE EATON, JAMES S. BAKER, SYDNEY HOWARD GAY, NOAH BROOKS, ALBION W. TOURGEE, GEORGE PARSONS LATHROP, WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON, SENATOR JOHN J. INGALLS, EDWARD EVERETT HALE, HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH, HENRY GEORGE - HFSID 40816
Twenty prominent American and British figures of the late 19th century organizing
themselves into The Captain Rice Club sign a roster
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Slave auction paper from 1857 in Wilcox County, Alabama.
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$360.00
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$288.00
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Commission to divide Negroes from the estate of the deceased Henry
Smith.
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$1,100.00
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$880.00
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1848 slave paper from Alabama.
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$460.00
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$368.00
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Slaves as personal property in pre-Civil War Alabama.
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$360.00
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$288.00
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An autograph document from 1841 about slaves in Wilcox County,
Alabama.
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A representative from Lawrence County Alabama signs a slave
paper.
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Slave paper from Wilcox County, Alabama in 1860.
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$360.00
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$288.00
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This extremely rare document is a deposition from a civil case
regarding the beating of a slave. The plaintiff in this case gave testimony that
he never gave the defendant permission to beat one of his slaves. A
fascinating and harrowing look into the world of slavery.
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$500.00
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A slave paper unsigned.
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ADS: "Nathan Gerald" as Justice of the
Peace, 1p, 12¼x16, front and verso.
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Slave paper dated 1844-1845, detailing the hire of slaves belonging
to the Canon family, listing their prices in the two years of their possession.
An interesting look into early American slave history.
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$460.00
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WILLIAM M. STEWART - DOCUMENT SIGNED 01/16/1868 CO-SIGNED BY: FREDERICK T. FRELINGHUYSEN, JAMES K. MOORHEAD, SAMUEL C. POMEROY, ALEXANDER RAMSEY, HENRY B. ANTHONY, TIMOTHY O. HOWE, WILLIAM H. HOOPER, MAJOR GENERAL NATHANIEL P. BANKS, BENJAMIN F. WADE, GEORGE H. WILLIAMS, MAJOR GENERAL JOHN M. THAYER, MAJOR GENERAL BENJAMIN F. BUTLER, ZACHARIAH CHANDLER, CORNELIUS COLE, JAMES W. PATTERSON, OLIVER P. MORTON, HENRY W. CORBETT, GEORGE M. CHILCOTT, WILLIAM HIGBY, COLES BASHFORD, JOSE F. CHAVES, LEWIS SELYE, ALEXANDER G. CATTELL, JACOB M. HOWARD, GOVERNOR JAMES W. NYE, DELOS R. ASHLEY, EDMUND G. ROSS - HFSID 285755
Signatures of 18 Senators, 6 Representatives, and 4 territorial delegates on
a manuscript document ordering copies of a Senate speech delivered one month
before the House voted to impeach President Andrew Johnson. Many of these
signers, including Benjamin Wade, Benjamin Butler and Oliver Morton, were of
great importance in the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.
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Jazz singer Sarah Vaughan signed this contract in 1960 to appear as a guest
star on Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall in return for $3,500.
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$750.00
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Typed DS: "Sarah Vaughan", 1p, 8½x11. No
place, 1980 January 18. In letter form to Pierre Cossette Productions,
Inc.
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$440.00
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$352.00
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Document signed:
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$440.00
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$352.00
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Document signed:
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$440.00
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Document signed:
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$550.00
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Contract signed: "Ethel Waters" as
Performer, 2p, 8½x12, front and verso. Los Angeles, California, 1976 June
3.
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$1,300.00
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This handwritten document is a contract between the actress and her collaborator,
agreeing to pay him 22½% of the proceeds from the play “The Constant Sinner” based
on her book Babe Gordon. Howard Merling was a key insight to the world of pimps,
prostitutes, drug use and night clubs in 1930's Harlem. An extraordinary document!
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The actor and screenwriter signs this RSVP for a "Social Security in
Action" event
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$600.00
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Fingerprint signature of the world famous Stevie Wonder on a 1983
contract to host NBC's Saturday Night Live.
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