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Lot 428

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Group of Nearly 70 Postcards, Most wit...

Estimate: $500 - $700

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[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. Group of Nearly 70 Postcards, Most with Racist Imagery. [V.p., ca. 1900s-1960s]. Mainly color postcards. Most with written addresses, messages, stamps or cancels. Most have illustrated artwork, some have photographic images (no RPPCs). Sizes generally 3 ? x 5 ??. Very good (general wear, soiling, rubbing). Some of the images displayed are startlingly disturbing, including a drawing of a lynching victim with the caption ?I have got to hang around here awhile,? a tinted image of an electric chair ?Execution Chamber, Auburn, N. Y.? (no direct link to African Americans), a color image of a stork carrying two African American infants with the caption ?No Race Suicide,? and more.