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Young Lords
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Zoot Suits
Tattoos
Paños
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Asians in America
1. [Gutstadt, Herman and Samuel
Gompers]
Some Reasons for Chinese Exclusion. Meat vs. Rice. American Manhood Against Asiatic
Coolieism. Which Shall Survive?
Washington, DC: American Federation of Labor, [n.d. but ca. 1901].
First edition. 38 pages. Spine ends
beginning to split, old “RUHS Library” stamp on front cover, else
very good in self wrappers. (51647)
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One of the most notorious pamphlets published in support of Chinese exclusion laws. While the first
edition was published without a byline, when the Asian Exclusion
League reissued it in 1908, it was
credited to Gutstadt and Gompers.
In what was surely a low point for
the American labor movement, the
authors argued that cheap Chinese
labor degraded the white working
man just as slavery had and that
meat-eating Americans could not
survive on the rice-wages and food
of Asian immigrants.
Uncommon.
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Asians in America
2. Parker, Tom [photographer]
War Relocation Authority Photographic Section (WRAPS) image E[The Ninomiya Family in Their
434 showing three interned Japanese
Barracks Room at the Amache
Americans. A typed caption is taped
Center]
to the verso: “The mother’s handiwork in preparing drapes, fashioning
Amache, CO, 1942. Vintage gelatin
furniture out of scrap material, plus
silver print. 10 by 8 inches. Caption
the boys’ ingenuity in preparing doudated 12/9/42; verso date stamped
ble deck bunks have made this bare
Feb 14, 1943. With two newspaper
captions from the Denver Post; black brick floored barracks room a fairly
crop marks drawn on the recto of the comfortable duration home. Tosh
Uyano [sic, Ninomiya], left, is
photograph. (51580)
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charged with the responsibility of
documenting the history of the
Amache Center.” Thomas Parker ran
the Denver WRAPS office and specialized in propaganda photographs
for the US government during the
war.
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Asians in America
veterans of Hawaii’s 100th Infantry
Division, a regiment of Nisei soldiers.
According to Yoshisato’s obituary in a
1948 issue of the 100th division’s
alumni newsletter, his nickname referred to his “small opticals.” Yoshisato died in a tractor accident while
Japanese American
soldiers at Camp McCoy,
which doubled as an
internment camp
working on his watermelon farm.
3. Rito, Michael “Mickey” [photographer]
good image, with a few scratches reproduced from the negative. Date
stamped, with other editorial notations on the back. (51128) SOLD
Corp K. Tanigawa Awakens Pvt
K. Yoshisato “Peep Sight” with a
The young soldiers pictured are
Blast from a Bugle
(probably) Katsumi Tanigawa and
Chicago Times, 1942. 10 by 8 inches. Koomei “Peepsight” Yoshisato, both
Vintage gelatin silver print. A very
Camp McCoy, in Sparta, Wisconsin,
served as both a Japanese American
detention center and as an army
training base. Surely that presented
an odd environment for the Japanese
Americans there. Some, like the soldiers depicted here, were natives of
Hawaii and free men; others, who
had been living on the West Coast,
were uprooted from their homes and
relocated to internment camps.
Asians in America
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4. [Wong Sun Yue and Ella May
Clemmons on the Steps of Their
Earthquake Shelter]
[San Francisco]: [after 1906]
Real photo postcard with a divided
back (1907 or later) captioned in ink
on the front, “Mr. & Mrs. Wong Sun
Yue. Mrs. Howard Gould’s Sister.”
Small spots on image margin and on
the back. Generally very good.
(51631)
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The image shows a hexagonal cottage
with a canvas roof in a Chinatown
refugee camp built following the 1906
earthquake in San Francisco. The
sign on the cottage reads “Built by
Musical Spraguello.”
Chinese-Anglo intermarriage in San Francisco
In her handwritten captions (which
every postcard seems to have), Clemmons always calls herself Mrs. Howard Gould’s sister, because her sister
Katherine had married the son of
Ella May Clemmons met and married railroad magnate Jay Gould (they divorced in 1909, with Gould accusing
Wong Sun Yue while she was doing
his wife of infidelity with Buffalo Bill
missionary work in San Francisco's
Chinatown after the 1906 earthquake. Cody). The Goulds did not appreciate
She had previously worked with lep- having a Chinese man in the extended
family.
ers in China (see Woman’s Medical
Journal, August 1900). They opened In March 1907, Clemmons ana curio shop, and in addition to trin- nounced to the newspapers that she
kets, sold picture postcards of them- was not going to leave her husband
selves.
despite her sister’s offer of money to
abandon him (see entry for Wong
Sun Yue in Street’s Pandex of the
News, 1908 edition). Later that same
year, Clemmons reportedly renounced her American citizenship
and “declared her intention to become as much like a Chinese as possible” (see The Feilding Star, New
Zealand, 7 Here-turi-koka [early August in the Maorian calendar], 1907,
quoting the San Francisco Observer).
It does not appear that she legally renounced her citizenship. She divorced
Wong some years later and married
at least once or twice more. See also
“The Christ Angel” chapter in They
Were San Franciscans by Miriam Allen De Ford.
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Young Lords Movement
In the mid-1960s, under the leadership of Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez, the
Young Lords, a Puerto Rican street
gang in Chicago, began evolving into
a neighborhood-based Latino civil
rights organization. They made alliances with the Black Panthers and
formed the Rainbow Coalition with
other groups with similar aims.
In late July 1969, a group of Puerto
Rican activists in New York officially
joined as a second chapter of the
Young Lords Organization (YLO).
The growing movement soon splintered, with the increasingly militant
New York group changing its name to
the Young Lords Party (YLP) in May
1970. By 1972, the YLP shed its neighborhood activists roots and became a
Maoist-Leninist organization called
the Puerto Rican Revolutionary
Workers Organization.
histories. Material artifacts
from the Young Lords are very
hard to come by.
5. Simmons, Howard D.
[photographer]
[Jose “Cha Cha” Jimenez,
a Leader of the Young
Lords, Stands in Front of
the Church which the
Gang Took Over This
Evening]
Chicago: Newspaper Division,
Field Enterprises, 1969. 8.25
by 10.25 inch vintage gelatin
silver print. (16104)
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In the mean time, in Chicago, Jimenez had been sentenced to jail on a
minor charge, and he went underground. The YLO faltered after that.
This photograph, dated June
11, 1969, shows Jimenez in
front of the United Methodist
Church, which the Lords took
over and turned into the People’s Church. The building became a center for organizing
and activism for Puerto Ricans in
Chicago.
Despite its short life, the Young Lords
movement remains on the most fascinating examples of Brown Power and
continues to be a subject for academic
research, documentaries, and oral
The African American photographer
started his career at Ebony and then
worked at the Sun-Times for eight
years before going out on his own as a
commercial photographer.
Young Lords Movement
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After being sentenced to one year in
jail on a charge of stealing $23 worth
of lumber, Jimenez went underground. He emerged 27 months later
to serve his time. The image shows
Jimenez walking toward the camera
as he enters a Chicago police station.
Lenahan was a life-long Sun-Times
photographer, starting with the paper
in 1949 and spending more than four
decades on the job. This little known
image of a key moment in Young
Lords history should be one of his
best-known shots.
6. Lenahan, Jack [photographer]
Chicago: Sun-Times, 1972. 8 by 10
inches. A very good vintage gelatin
[Cha-Cha Jimenez, Y.L.O. Leadsilver print. Lightly wrinkled, with a
er, Hiding from Police Since Aug.
typed caption glued to the back, along
70, Surrenders to Police Towith the printed caption from the
night—Crowd Outside Cheers
Dec. 7, 1972, issue of the paper.
Him On]
(16103)
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7. Simmons, Howard D.
[photographer]
1) Captioned on a paper label attached to the verso “Jose Cha Cha
Jimenez, leader of the Latin Kings.”
[Press Photographs of Cha Cha
This photo, by the African American
Jimenez at the Beginning of His
photographer Howard Simmons, is a
Campaign for Alderman]
close-up of Jimenez with his face up
against a steel mesh-covered window.
Chicago: Chicago Sun-Times, 1974.
Two gelatin silver prints, roughly 8 by The printed caption from the Sun
10 inches. Very good to near fine vin- Times affixed to the verso reads
“Victory...What we need now is victotage prints. Typical press markings
on the verso. A few ink marks in mar- ry.” The photograph was taken on
gins of both photographs, not affect- May 3, 1974. It ran on June 18.
ing the image. (51584)
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2) Jimenez, dressed in a suit and tie,
sitting before bookcases filled with
law books, faces the camera. This image is not credited and may well be
his official campaign portrait. The
caption, on a newspaper clipping affixed to the verso and dated June 21,
1974, reads in part, “Jose (Cha Cha)
Jimenez, a former Latino street-gang
leader, announced his candidacy
Thursday for alderman of the 46th
Ward.” According to Wikipedia,
Jimenez won 39% of the vote.
Young Lords Movement
New York, so it seems likely that it
originated there in late 1969 or early
1970, before the YLO became the
[New York]: Young Lords OrganizaYLP. Stylistically, this banner, with its
tion, [ca. 1970]. 60 by 42 inches.
horizontal rifle, is closer to the Young
Brown cloth with embroidery and apLords Party iconography than the anplique lettering. Generally very good
gled “Tengo Puerto Rico en mi coraor better, with a couple of small holes
zon” logo adopted by the Chicago
and stains. (53559)
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faction. In any case, this is an excepA handmade, double-sided banner
tional artifact from a critical time in
for the Young Lords Organization.
the Latino Civil Rights movement.
The verso reads “Puerto Rico / Puerto
Rican” with the island in green cloth
in the center. This banner came out of
8. Unidos Luchamos / YLO / Unidos Triunfamos
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Latino Political Movements
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Includes “Analysis of 3-Year History
of Y.L.P.,” an account of the formation of the Young Lords Organization
in Chicago, the birth of the New York
chapter, the ideological split that
formed the Young Lords Party in New
York, and the group’s increasing shift
toward Leninist and Maoist ideologies. Also include are speeches by
Mike Hamlin of the Black Workers
Congress, Gordon Chang of I Wor
Kuen, and Bob Avakian of the Revolutionary Union.
9. Young Lords Party; Puerto Rican
Revolutionary Workers Organization
Resolutions & Speeches. 1st
Congress. Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization
(Young Lords Party) [cover title]
[New York]: Puerto Rican Revolutionary Workers Organization, 1972.
First edition. 54 pages; 8.5 by 11 inches. Dampstain to upper left corner,
else very good. (51637) SOLD
The influence of the YLP waned
quickly after this congress, as its attention moved from neighborhood
issues in the barrio to the worldwide
proletariat struggle. All of the Young
Lords pamphlets are scarce; OCLC
records two copies of this.
10. Howell, Duane and Dave
Buresh [photographers]
[La Raza Unida Press
Photographs]
Denver: Denver Post, 1970-74.
Three vintage gelatin silver
prints showing La Raza Unida Party
(RUP) officials from Colorado. Images very good, with press stamps,
markings, and captions on the verso.
(51166)
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1) Jose Gonzales, Jose Calderone [sic,
Calderon] and Ernesto Vigil at a press
conference (9 by 7.5 inches, dated
April 24, 1974);
2) Jose Gonzales and Jose Calderone
[sic, Calderon] at a press conference
(9 by 6.5 inches, dated September 3,
1974);
3) Joe [sic, Jose] Gonzales presenting
paperwork to the Colorado Secretary
of State, becoming the first official
RUP candidate in the state (10 by 8
inches, dated September 20, 1970).
United Farm Workers
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l to r: nos. 11,,
12, 13 (top)
and 14
11. Lewis, Jon [photographer]
photographer. His archive of some
11,000 photographs, most taken be[Portrait of Cesar Chavez]
tween 1966 and 1968, are in the BeiDelano, CA: Jon Lewis, 1966. Gelatin necke Library, at Yale. Very few
silver print, 8 by 10 inches. A few
vintage prints of his photographs are
short cracks to image, some discolor- in private hands. A rare vintage print
ation to margins, else very good, with from the most important photograextensive markings on the verso, in- pher of the UFW.
cluding Lewis’s stamp in the upper
12. [Cesar Chavez, July 5, 1969]
left corner. Date stamped June 14,
1966. (51163)
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Gelatin silver print, 8 by 10 inches.
Very good. With the typical stamps
Lewis began volunteering with the
and markings of press photographs.
United Farm Workers in 1966 and
(51164)
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became the union’s de facto official
A closely cropped version of a photograph described by the Associated
Press as: “United Farm Workers leader Cesar Chavez stands beside the bed
in his union headquarters in Delano,
Calif., as work goes on for the second
season of what Chavez and his workers hope will become a nationwide
consumer boycott of California table
grapes, June 5, 1969. Chavez is convalescing from spinal bone disease
and a kidney ailment.”
United Farm Workers
13. Buresh, Dave [photographer]
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15. White, John G. [photographer]
[Cesar Chavez Addresses Rally in
[United Farm Workers
Denver Indian Center]
Organizer Len
Denver: Denver Post, 1974. Gelatin
Avila...Talks with Strikers]
silver print, 9.5 by 8 inches. Very
good. Typical press markings on verso. (51162)
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14. Fisher, Don [photographer]
[Cesar Chavez Exhorts Laneco
Employees]
Denver: Denver Post, 1973.
Gelatin silver print, 6 by 9
inches on larger sheet. Near
fine, with typical press markings on the verso. (51165)
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At the time this photograph
was taken, Magdaleno RoseAllentown, PA: The Morning Call,
Avila was leading the UFW
1985. Roughly 13.5 by 8 inches, on
strike against Finerman Co., a
larger sheet of photographic paper.
lettuce grower in Saguache
Gelatin silver print dated May 7,
County, south of Denver. He
1985. A near fine image, with a few
was later the director of the
crop marks in the margins and
Cesar E. Chavez Foundation,
stamps and notes on the verso.
and he is currently the direc(51346)
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tor of the Office of Immigrant
Chavez was rallying workers who had and Refugee Affairs for the
walked off the job at the Laneco chain City of Seattle.
of supermarkets more than a month
earlier. Wendell Young, president of
the United Food and Commercial
Workers, is visible in the background.
The strike was settled on May 16, after 46 days.
United Farm Workers
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16. Lenahan, Jack [photographer]
farmers. A total of 4500 workers from
Mexico will be brought to Colorado
Denver: Denver Post, 1945. Two vinthis spring.” The left image shows
tage gelatin silver prints, both roughfour of the leaders of the group; the
ly 5 by 7 inches. Crop marks on front,
right is described as “A scene inside
else very good. Stamps and markings
Chicago: Field Enterprises, 1974. Gel- typical of newspaper photographs on one of the cars of the special train.
The workers are shown making victoatin silver print, 10.5 by 8.5 inches.
verso. (51167)
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ry signs with upraised fingers. They
Near fine vintage print, with usual
The
caption
used
when
these
images
feel their farm work is a blow at Hitnewspaper labels and stamps on the
ran
in
the
Denver
Post
is
pasted
on
ler.”
verso. (51168)
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the back of one of the photographs:
The Bracero Program, started during
A wonderful image of Chavez running “Soldiers of the fields is what these
off mimeographed flyers at the Chica- Mexican nationals called themselves the Second World War, attempted to
regulate and give legal status to Mexigo headquarters of the UFW.
when they arrived in Denver Saturday
can field workers. The waning of the
on a special train to work on western
program in the early 1960s led to the
farms—mostly in the beet fields.
formation of the UFW.
There were 693 of them—all expert
[Juan Chavez, 36 Yrs. Old, Striking Farm Worker from California, Working on a Press at
United Farm Workers Hdqrs]
17. [Soldiers of the Fields, 1945]
United Farm Workers
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20. Zermeno, Andrew
Huelga! Strike!
[Tarzana, CA], (2010). 154 pages. 8.5
by 11 inches. As new. Velobound with
a clear acetate cover. (51936) $60
19. [United Farm Workers]
HHH Si! Si! Si!
18. [United Farm Workers Flag]
Rougly 36 inches square, double-sided; 1960s. Constructed from burlap
dyed red, with a white circular field
cut with pinking shears, and a black
eagle cut from thin black cloth. Minor
soiling, a few loose threads, otherwise,
very good.
A very nice example of a vintage
homemade flag for the United Farm
Workers. According to the person we
acquired it from, he obtained it on the
boycott lines in Texas in the late
1960s. (53558)
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[Delano?]: [United Farm Workers],
[1968]. Original screenprint poster,
20 by 14 inches. Near fine. (52954)
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The UFW strongly supported Hubert
Humphrey in the 1968 election and
adopted this slogan based on his triple-H initials.
A self-published collection of short
stories written and illustrated by the
main graphic artist for the UFW,
known for creating the political cartoons the appeared in El malcriado.
As in Zermeno’s political cartoons, the
stories here—perhaps closer to a
graphic novel in form—are populated
by metaphorical types: El patron, el
coyote, the Filipino or Mexican farmworker, the scab, etc.
United Farm Workers
This is a poster for the April 11, 1969,
performance of a play by El Teatro
Campesino on the UC Berkeley campus. The Shrunken Head was Luis
Valdez’s first full-length play, written
when he was a student at San Jose
State University in 1964. It was influenced by the nascent magical realist
movement in Latin American literature and involves surrealist elements,
including a talking head. The characters are send-ups of Chicano stereotypes: a drunken father, a criminal
son, an unwed daughter with a child,
and a set infested with cockroaches (a
theme adopted a decade later by Oscar
Zeta Acosta in his Revolt of the Cockroach People). After college, Valdez
joined the United Farm Workers
movement and formed El Teatro
21. Valdez, Luis and El Teatro
Campesino (The Farmworker TheCampesino
ater). His troop, drawing on agitprop
The Shrunken Head of Pancho
traditions, performed for striking
Villa [poster]
farmworkers and soon evolved into
[Berkeley]: Committe for Arts and
the first (and still oldest) Latino theLectures, 1969. 11 by 15 inches; print- ater group. El Teatro Campesino
ed offset in three colors. Tiny piece
(ETC) material from the 1960s is quite
missing from one corner and a fold at scarce. The inventory of posters in the
one corner neatly strengthened on
ETC archive at UC Santa Barbara lists
verso; a couple of pin-holes and a date only one poster from the 1960s, and
stamp on the back suggest a campus
then only as a slide.
bulletin board. (52940)
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22. South Central Farmers Committee
The Delano Grape Story...from
the Grower's View [cover title]
Delano, CA: South Central Farmers
Committee, (n.d. but ca. 1968). First
edition. 8.5 by 11 inches. [20] pages
reproduced from typescript including
five pages of photographs at the end.
Somewhat uncommon. Fine in stapled
wrappers. (51120)
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A response to the union organizing
efforts of the UFW, including an argument that Delano was the first place to
be organized because the farm workers there had the highest pay in the
country and thus the best ability to
pay union dues.
California Spanish Land Grants
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agreement between Emeric and the
Alvarados, dated January 7, 1867.
23. [Rancho de San Pablo
Archive]
An archive of six documents related
to Juan Bautista Alvarado. Alvarado
was governor of California for six
years during the Mexican period and
one of four signatories to California’s
1836 declaration of independence
from Mexico. After California became
part of the United States, Alvarado
moved to the land grant property in
Contra Costa County owned by his
wife’s family. The property, in the
present-day cities of San Pablo and
Richmond, became subject to one of
the most complex ownership disputes
in American history. The case took
nearly 40 years to settle. All documents with old folds. Generall very
good. (51612)
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5) 8 by 12.25 inches, two pages. Secretarial copy of a contract between
John B. Felton and Thomas W. Mulford and Thomas R. Horton, transferring a portion of Mulford and
2) 7.75 by 12.5 inches, one page. Man- Horton’s interest in the Rancho to
uscript order dated February 6, 1873, Felton in exchange for legal services.
for the start of a trial between Joseph
6) 8 by 12 inches, 3 pages, in pencil.
Emeric and Juan B. Alvarado, et al.
Manuscript notes, apparently from a
(the Emeric-Alvarado dispute was
one of the most contentious portions deposition of Antonio Castro about
the original 1856 partition of the Ranof the extended series of lawsuits).
Signed by judge Samuel H. Dwinelle cho, which set off the decades-long
and acknowledged with signatures on court case. Hard to decipher.
the back by 14 attorneys.
Signed by the Father of
California Independence
Gov. Juan Bautista Alvarado
3) 8 by 13.75 inches; one page, on
blue paper. Manuscript agreement dated April 18, 1863,
from Edward W. F. Sloan,
1) 8 by 12.5 inches; 3 pages, with revan attorney for the Alvaraenue stamps on both sheets. Manudos, accepting 1/20th of the
script copy of an indenture selling
Rancho de Santa Fe (889
1100 acres of Rancho de San Pablo,
acres) as payment for legal
dated November 26, 1869. Signed by
services in the case. Signed by
Juan B. Alvarado, his daughter Maria
Sloan, with his wax seal and a
Victoria Delfina Alvarado, and his
revenue stamp. A short tear afwife, Martina Castro de Alvarado.
fects one word of text.
The contract is witnessed by noted
California author and attorney Theo- 4) 7.75 by 12 inches, six pages on
four leaves. Secretarial copy of an
dore Hittell.
Chicano Outsider Art
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25. [“Droopy”]
Untitled Paño
Avenal State Prison, 2005. 15.5 by 16
inches. Ink on a handkerchief. Near
fine. The pen work is quite fine.
(51130)
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24. Green Angels
(Rialto, CA): (Green Angeles), (n.d.
but ca. 1984). [48] pages. Fine in
wrappers. (17551)
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The first and apparently only issue of
this periodical inspired by the lowrider culture mag Teen Angels—this devoted to Mexican Americans in the
military. The content is mostly letters
from and photographs of soldiers,
along with drawings and collages of
military images. Uncommon.
26. Henry, Martha V. and Peter David
Joralemon (editors)
Art From the Inside: Paño
Drawings by Chicano Prisoners
Brooklyn, CT: New England Center
for Contemporary Art, 2005. First edition. 56 pages, including 24 full-page
reproductions, some in color. Near
fine in wrappers. (53567)
$25
Paños are the dominant form of Chicano prison art, typically ballpoint pen
The only book on the subject; with a
drawings on cotton handkerchiefs.
critical introduction, a list of 119 exThis is a particularly interesting exhibited paños , and a dictionary of freample, attributed to “Droopy” by its
quently-used symbols. The gallery
former owner, who acquired it in Ave- closed soon after this show and copies
nal State Prison in 2005. The central of the catalog are scarce (not shown).
image is an Aztec warrior in a feathered headdress, with a stone temple in
the background. Other figures include
a grinning skull, the head of a man in
a bird headdress, a woman in a crown,
and a central shield with a face in Aztec style. At the top and bottom are
stylized Aztec eagles, and on the left
and right borders are headless UFW
eagles. The incorporation of the United Farm Workers’ logo is unusual,
though in recent years some Chicano
gangs have co-opted it.
Chicano Outsider Art
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Boog (pronounced as in boogie), also Reproducing the tattoo flash from
three well-known Chicano tattoo artknown as Boog Star and Boogstar
DiNero, is undeniably the most influ- ists.
ential and popular practitioner of the
Chicano style of tattooing. Boog (his
real name could not be determined by
this cataloguer) was born about 1973
in the Dallas Metroplex. He began tattooing at 14 years old, working on the
streets as a “scratcher” with improvised needles and ink. Today, he tattoos by private appointment only.
In the short introduction to this book,
he writes, “There are many names for
the style depending on what you think
of it. Whether you like it or not or respect [it] can be determined on what
you call it: jailhouse, ghetto, penitentiary style, urban art, chicano. It’s definitely street in nature. How about
just [call it] art.”
27. Boog
From the Street with Love
Milan, Italy: Mediafriends, 2007. First
edition. 152 leaves, printed on one
side only. 16 by 12 inches; ringbound.
140 sheets of mostly black-and-white
tattoo flash. Fine. (47146)
$300
28. Lopez, Jose; Adrian ‘Spider’ Castrejon; and Tattoo Tony (Anthony Rodriguez)
Lowrider Tattoo Flash
Milan, Italy: Mediafriends, 2010. First
edition. 96 leaves. 15-1/2 by 12 inches,
mostly printed on one-side only. Fine
hardcover. (47147)
$300
Chicano Outsider Art
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An anthology of 55 artists working in
the Chicano style, including Chuey
Quintanar, Boog, Placaso, Carlos Torres, Dr. Lakra, Juan Puente, Manuel
Valenzuela, Steve Soto, and Jose Lopez.
The goal for this book was to “display
the most interesting interpretations of
great tattoo artists, not only those belonging to the Chicano culture, but also other international artists who have
been influenced by this important artistic movement. Originating primarily on the U.S. west coast, Chicano
tattoo culture has strongly impacted
the rest of the U.S., Mexico, Europe
and Japan.... ‘Real’ Chicano can be
recognized by its fast and rough
strokes that reflect the street and the
barrio; it’s a style which focuses more
29. Vialetto, Miki and Daniel O. ‘Dan- on the subject than on the picture’s
ny Boy’ Sawyer (editors)
overall appearance.”
Con Safos: Chicano Style Tattoo
Art
30. Yaya
Milan, Italy: Mediafriends, 2012. First
[Amateur Art by a Chicana]
edition. 142 leaves, most printed on
one side only. 11-3/4 by 15 inches. 120 [No location, but acquired in San
sheets of black and gray tattoo flash.
Francisco], 2001-2002. In a black zipNear fine in silver boards printed in
pered portfolio case. Contents generblack; no dust jacket, as issued.
ally very good. (52749)
(47148)
$300
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An archive of amateur art by a young
Chicana, Yaya [last name withheld],
including more than 30 drawings and
two paños. The artwork is not especially good, but it is interesting for the
following reason: Yaya is working in
the urban/prison Chicano style, which
is typically very male dominated.
Included here are two paños (the exhibition, Art from the Inside [see no.
25], included 118 pieces, all by men).
Yaya’s paños include roses and the
tragedy-comedy masks typical of the
form. The other drawings, many with
the usual school-girl captions—“Yaya
Loves Steve”, for example—are done
in the style of Chicano tattoo flash.
Chicanos Behaving Badly
31. [Divorce Complaint]
which she reportedly replied that “as
to when and with whom she had
In the Superior Court of the State
been, it was none of his damned busiof Californa in and for Monterey
ness.” Nineteenth century material
County. Domingo Mendez, Plain- related to Mexican Americans is very
tiff vs. Manuella Mendez, Defen- scarce (not shown).
dant
Three leaves, mimeographed typescript, with numerous manuscript
additions. Generally good to very
good in original paper docket, titled
in ink. Base of third page, where the
notary has signed, is tattered but
complete. (26041)
SOLD
A divorce complaint filed to dissolve
a marriage between two Mexican
Americans. According to the 1880
census, Domingo’s father was born
in Mexico and his mother in California and Manuella's parents were
both native Californians. Domingo
seeks a divorce on the grounds that
Manuella is a wild woman who “has
been in the habit...of attending Mexican and Indian Fandangos or
‘bailes’ ” and of returning home “after 32. [Gallagher, Bertrand E.]
the hour of midnight, accompanied
Utah’s Greatest Manhunt: The
by a City policeman in a beastly inTrue Story of the Hunt for Lopez
toxicated condition.”
by an Eye Witness [cover title]
Domingo asked his wife to behave
and inquired as to her companions, to
19
Salt Lake City: B. E. Gallagher, 1913.
First edition. 142 pages. Illustrated.
Very good in wrappers (paperback),
with preliminary leaf beginning to
tear. Printed on thin, acidic paper,
browned as usual. (17492)SOLD
An account of Rafael Lopez, a Mexican American who killed several men
in Utah, holed up in a mine, and
somehow evaded a massive man
hunt. According to the author of this
book, Lopez was from northern Arizona and had little patience for discrimination or prejudice, frequently
erupting into violence when he was
slighted. Gallagher writes, “Lopez,
being a native of this county, it is likely that if taken advantage of...or
looked upon and treated as a full
blooded Greaser, might resent it to
such an extent as to cause him to
commit the crimes he did.”
See also Adams, Six-Guns 1362 and
the Wikipedia entry for Red Lopez.
Chicanos Behaving Badly
20
drape coat is part of a $75 suit, while
residue on back. AZO back with four
upward triangles (1904-1918). (17552) the peg-top trousers, very full at the
knees and narrow at the cuffs, are part
SOLD
of a $45 suit. The pancake hat features
The post card reproduces a typewrita feather at the rear. Tellez, who said
ten caption and Sanchez’s mug shot.
he was en route to see his girl when he
According the Sheriff Charles Ward,
was arrested, holds a medical dis“This mexican killed another on the 15
charge from the Army.” On June 10,
of Feb. 1915,” and Ward seeks more
following the Zoot Suit Riots in Los
information from other law enforceAngeles, hundreds of newspapers rement agencies.
printed this wire photo, catapulting
Sanchez is described as a “chollo”, a
the defining costume of pachuco style
relatively early American use of this
into the national spotlight. Every surslang term (usually spelled with one
vey of the zoot suit refers to this imel) for a Mexican American.
age.
34. [This Is the Zoot Suit]
33. Ward, Chas. F.
Los Angeles: Associated Press, 1943.
Roughly 8 by 11 inches. AP Wirephoto. Very good, with minor crazing to
the surface of the image. Datestamped on the back, with other
markings. (51347)
SOLD
Captioned on the right hand margin:
“Los Angeles, June 9--This is the Zoot
Suit--Frank H. Tellez, 22, held in
county jail on a vagrancy charge,
San Bernardino: Charles F. Ward,
1915. Real photo postcard, roughly 3.5 shows what the Zoot Suit, conspicuby 5.5 inches. Old ink check mark be- ous badge of roving bands of juveniles
who have been engaged in rioting with
tween two mug shots; glue and ink
servicemen here, looks like. His long
[Gregorio Sanchez Mugshot
Postcard]
Zoot Suits
21
35. Valdez, Luis
36. McEver, A. C.
Zoot Suit [Broadway program]
[First Zoot Suit on Record]
New York: Schubert Organization,
1979. First edition. [24] pages, 8.75 by
11.75 inches. Very good in wrappers
(paperback). (52717)
SOLD
(N.-pl.): (World Wide Photo),
(1943)
6.5 by 8 inch image on 7 by 9 inch
paper. Black and white copy-print
A program for the Broadway produc- photograph with a separate mimeographed caption. Image slightly
tion of Luis Valdez’s play, Zoot Suit,
which includes a longish essay by Val- wavy, else near fine with expected
dez on the origin of the play. Illustrat- production and date stamps on the
verso (back). Caption also near
ed with stills from the production.
SOLD
Zoot Suit had a record-breaking run at fine. (51129)
the Mark Taper Forum, and then at
News photo used to illustrate the
the Aquarius Theater in Hollywood,
most widely circulated story about
where it ran for many months. It was the origin of the zoot suit style in
less successful in New York, lasting
the immediate aftermath of the
just five weeks at the Winter Garden. Zoot Suit Riots in Los Angeles.
Uncommon.
This image is a photograph of a
half-tone illustration from the February 1940 issue of Men’s Apparel Reporter. Acccording to the caption,
Clyde Duncan, a busboy [actually
Clyde Duncan Rakestraw, a bellhop, if
we want our facts right] in Gainesville,
Georgia, ordered this suit from the
tailor A. C. McEver. McEver thought it
was ridiculous and sent the picture to
a trade magazine.
When the Zoot Suit Riots brought the
long coat and baggy pants style to na-
tional attention, this photograph was
republished in hundreds of newspapers around the country (including
the front page of The New York
Times).
Black Civil Rights
37. [The Bourbons Got the Blues:
A Social Review]
[New York]: Negro Cultural Committee, [1938]. 8.5 by 11 inches. Promotion flyer printed in dark blue ink on
light blue paper. One corner creased,
edges tanned, date in pen at bottom
edge, else near fine. (52655)
SOLD
A promotional piece for the May 8
(and perhaps the only) performance
of this revue that “offered historical
sketches of black life from slavery to
the Depression, presented by actors
and playwrights in the WPA Negro
Theatre”—Mark Naison, Communists
in Harlem During the Depression, p.
203.
The black playwrights Carlton Moss
and Dorothy Hailparn wrote most of
the skits and enlisted Georgia Burke,
Duke Ellington, Juanita Hall, Rex Ingram, Arthur Wilson and Frank Wilson as performers. By all accounts,
the most memorable acts was Miriam
Blecker and Anna Sokolow’s satiric
ballet, Filibuster, in which the dancers played senators opposing the antilynching law while actors read from
the politicians’ actual filibuster
speeches. Scarce.
22
Black Civil Rights
23
Hilliard was involved in the shootout
with Oakland police that left the teenage militant Bobby Hutton dead, two
police officers wounded, and Eldridge
Cleaver and Hilliard under arrest.
While out on bail, Cleaver fled the
country; Hilliard went to prison.
A True Story of the Christiana
Riot
Nearby farmers came to help their
neighbors and a gun battle ensued,
leaving the slave owner dead and several of his men wounded. The black
farmer and the escaped slaves fled to
Canada.
Quarryville, PA: Sun Printing House,
1898. First edition, first issue? Two
variants are known to this cataloguer,
one with 154 pages followed by a
blank leaf; the other with 154 pages, a
blank leaf and a conjugate index leaf
at the end. This is the former, A near
The “riot” became a national issue
and ultimately 38 men were arrested
(36 of them black) and were charged
with treason! The first trial resulted
in an acquittal and the charges
against all the defendants were
dropped.
39. Forbes, David R.
38. Free David Hilliard Chief of
Staff, Black Panther Party. Free
All Political Prisoners
Quaker village in Pennsylvania. A
southern slave owner arrived in the
town with a posse, surrounded the
home of a free black farmer, and demanded the return of two of his
slaves hiding inside.
“The most violent incident of African American resistance to the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850”
—Junius P. Rodriguez (ed.),
Slavery in the United States, vol. 2, p. 222.
[Oakland]: [Black Panther Party],
1971. 14 by 20 inches. Original poster,
silkscreened in red and black. Edges fine copy with mild bumping to the
toned, corner bent not affecting imspine ends. Printed review slip glued
age, a touch of soiling. Generally very to first blank. (51645)
SOLD
nice. (52968)
SOLD
The events unfolded beginning on
September 11, 1851, in Christiana, a
This account was written by the editor of the Quarryville Sun Times, a
newspaper in the area, based on interviews conducted with surviving
witnesses. It first ran in installments
in the newspaper and then was re-
Black Civil Rights
24
bored slaves on the Underground
Railroad and who stood up to federal
marshals seeking to arrest black men
hiding on his land after the Christiana riot.
Left: Item 39. Right: Item 40
printed in book form. A somewhat
uncommon book. The last copy sold
at auction made $400 in 2000.
This copy, however, bears an interesting inscription: “To Moses Dunmore,
compliments of S. M. Collins.”
40. another copy, with an interesting provenance
Dunmore (1842–1920) was a free
black child living in Cecil County,
Maryland, in 1850. During the Civil
War, he served in the 3rd US Colored
regiment for Pennsylvania.
First edition, second issue, with the
index leaf. Very good, with considerably white spotting to the back board.
Collins was the son-in-law of Samuel
(51644)
SOLD
Bushong, a Quaker farmer who har-
Black Civil Rights
41. Young Communist League, New
York State
(52707)
25
43. Erie County Communist Party
Danger!-Lynchers Loose
(N.-pl. but Buffalo): Erie County
A Mixed RegiCommunist Party, (n.d. but 1948).
ment: More Power Small broadside, 8.25 by 11 inches, on
for America!
newsprint. Near fine. (52711).SOLD
(New York): (Young
A plea for passage of H.R. 3488, an
Communist League, anti-lyching law introduced in ConNew York State),
gress in 1947. This chapter of the
(1942). Three-fold
CPUSA argued that Southern viobrochure. Paper
lence against African Americans detanned, else fine.
pressed the wages of black workers to
SOLD
the detriment of all.
Arguments for the end of segregation
in the armed forces.
42. Because His
Skin Was Black
New York: Harlem
Council of the Civil
Rights Congress,
(n.d. but 1948).
Three-panel brochure. Minor chipping. (52713) SOLD
Black victims of police brutality.
44. 5th Ward Branch, Communist
Party U.S.A
An Open Letter to Wall Street
Buffalo: 5th Ward Branch, Communist Party U.S.A., 1939. Broadside,
8.5 by 11 inches on newsprint. Edges
browning, else fine. (52710) SOLD
An anti-war, anti-descrimination flyer, purportedly written by a black CPmember referring to “loud mouthed
promises of Democracy for our Race.”
Black Civil Rights
26
Press photos of the Freedom Riders
Ralph Diamond, a black union official, and Francis Randall, a white college professor, having lunch at the St.
Petersburg Greyhound Station on
June 16, 1961.
Diamond was the vice president of
the United Auto Workers Local 259,
in New York. Randall, a specialist in
Russian intellectual history, was
teaching at Columbia at the time.
This was the last stop on the Organized Labor / Professional Freedom
Ride, which began in Washington,
DC, on June 13. Their ride was relatively peaceful, but 13 others who
made the same journey were arrested
in other Florida cities.
45. Ramsdell, Jack [photographer]
[Freedom Riders Arrive in St.
Petersburg]
(St. Petersburg, FL): (St. Petersburg
Times), (1961). Nine vintage 8-by-10inch gelatin silver prints. Photographer’s stamp and date on the verso of
each photograph. Generally near fine,
one or two with bent corners. (53550)
SOLD
These photographs demonstrate that
in the South during the early
1960s, the simple act of a white
man and a black man sitting in
public sharing a meal together
brought a large crowd of gawkers
and the press.
One of these images ran in the St.
Petersburg Times; another, in digital form, is the 1961 entry in the
paper's online history, Images of
the Florida Century. The other seven are unpublished.
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Wrappers Are Not Hip-hop Artists
The terminology of the book trade can be a little off-putting to those new to the
sport. Here are few definitions for new collectors. WRAPPERS, or wraps, refer
to the covers of paperback books and pamphlets. FIRST EDITION is used in
the long-established sense of first edition, first printing. Publication details are
given as PLACE: PUBLISHER, YEAR. Any of this information not found on
the title page is enclosed in parenthesis, to conform with standard
bibliographical practice. (Why this is standard practice is beyond the ken of the
cataloger. He does what he is told.) If the publisher omits some of this data, that
fact will be indicated with (N.-pl.), (n.p.), and (n.d), for no place, no
publisher, and no date, respectively.
What Condition My Condition Is In
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gently used book. GOOD is the bookselling euphemism for not so good, but still
acceptable. We know what the words SIGNED and INSCRIBED mean and
use them correctly (please check your dictionary). There are no (intentional)
SINS OF OMISSION in this catalog. If a book is not described as priceclipped, it isn’t. If a previous owner’s name is not mentioned, then the previous
owner was kind enough to not scribble that in the book.
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Catalog Numbering
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fourth as Eureka Books, for a combined tally of 29.
Where Are All the Books?
It’s already passé for booksellers to issue lists of items that aren’t actually books,
but we’re usually well behind the times. So here’s the first of what may be
several similar lists (if this one proves worth the effort). If it doesn’t work, we’ll
go back to cloth and boards.