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BLACK HISTORY MONTH THROUGH ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
Dateline: December 15, 2006 ... Yonkers, NY
Contact Name: Bob Snyder, Cohasco, Inc.
Contact Phone: 914-476-8500
Contact Fax: 914-476-8573
E-mail: info@cohascodpc.com
Web Address: http://cohascodpc.com or http://dpc.nu
YONKERS, NY - December 15, 2006 - Kicking off Black History
Month, a New York auction held on January 3, 2007, will include a
selection of unusual African-American documents and artifacts.
An original manuscript from 1755 tells the story of Jenny, who
was allowed to escape by her white jailkeeper in New York City.
Slave documents from New York City, still under the rule of the
King, are rare. It is estimated by auctioneer Cohasco, Inc. at
0-300.
Reflecting slave rage and punishment in the Old South, a letter
dated 1852 recounts the hanging of a Negro woman who had killed
her owner's wife (0-200).
A particularly striking document is a bill of sale for "a Negro
girl named Louise". In the closing days of the Confederacy, when
cash was scarce, she was paid for with "3 bushels of peas (and)
300 pounds of lard". It is estimated at 5-175.
School integration after the Civil War is discussed in a New
Orleans letter circa 1877. Black and white universities began
their first joint session there just six days later (5-175).
From World War I, a wool jacket of a soldier of the Army's all-
Black "Buffalo Division" still has his medals affixed (0-950).
The original jacket of an African-American truck driver in the
Red Ball Express, which braved dangerous roads to resupply troops
in World War II, bears their famed insignia (0-1,150).
Such documents and items are used for educational purposes, to
teach history with first-hand materials.
Among over 600 other lots of collectibles in the auction are:
- Actual drawings of the engine of the first mass-
produced car in America. It wasn't a Ford or GM - but the
Duryea of the 1890s. After winning the first auto race in
America in 1895, Duryea made a total of 13 vehicles, in
Springfield, Mass. The drawings are part of the world's
most comprehensive private collection relating to the
Duryea brothers. The archive also contains over a hundred
other rare items tracking Duryea carmaking in a dozen
later cities, including Reading and Philadelphia, PA.
(5,000-150,000)
- A Custer newspaper volume covering his adventures
through the fateful year of 1876, with blood-curdling
details of Little Big Horn (0-600)
- A letter of John Rowe, the man whose tea was thrown
overboard in the Boston TeaParty (0-450)
- A unique manuscript from the year 1147, where a
hunchback knight witnesses a mother sending her four sons
on the Crusade to combat Muslims in Jerusalem. They may
never have returned (,000-15,000)
- 99 inches of AP teletype unfolding the drama of
Kennedy's funeral and Oswald's shooting, as it happened
on Nov. 24, 1963 (,900-5,000)
- And many other unusual items
Photo-quality images and other details are available upon
request. For more information, please contact Cohasco, Inc. at
P.O. Drawer 821, Yonkers, New York 10702.
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