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[BUSINESS]. Travel Guide of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses. Published by Afro-American Newspapers of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Newark, and Richmond, [ca 1942].
Estimate: $500-$700
Sold
$1,500
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American Historical Ephemera and Photography, Featuring African Americana
Location
Cincinnati
Description

[BUSINESS]. Travel Guide of Negro Hotels and Guest Houses. Published by Afro-American Newspapers of Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia, Newark, and Richmond, [ca 1942].


1 sheet folded to 4 1/4 x 8 1/2 in. pamphlet (wear consistent with age and use, soiling and creasing throughout, ink stamp and penciled markings). Provenance: Estate of African American photographer, Johnnie R. Crump (1905-1975) (ink stamp on back of guide).

Featuring a travel map compiled by the Afro Travel Bureau and a state by state listing of hotels and guest houses East of the Mississippi River. Also with a listing of YMCAs and YWCAs located throughout the US and large advertisement section.

Johnnie Crump, a self-taught photographer, documented the lives of Black subjects in Mississippi under segregation during the 1940s-1950s. Crump, who was friends with Medgar Evers, was very involved in the Civil Rights movement and was a member of the NAACP along with his wife Clara.  

This lot is located in Cincinnati.

Property from a 35-Year Collection from the Southern United States

Condition
Freeman's I Hindman strives to describe historic materials in a manner that is respectful to all communities, providing descriptive contexts for objects where possible. The nature of historical ephemera is such that some material may represent positions, language, values, and stereotypes that are not consistent with the current values and practices at Freeman's I Hindman.