Fraternal organizations (8 risultati)
Altre immaginiLingua: Inglese
Editore: Kappa Beta Omega Sorority, Vallejo, California 1986
- Brossura
- Prima edizione
Da: Blank Verso Books, ABAA, Mill Valley, CA, U.S.A.Blank Verso Books, ABAA
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 5 stelleCondizione: Usato - Buono
EUR 130,15
EUR 5,66 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. 1st Edition. Kappa Beta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Presents "FASHIONETTA" 1986, 1988, and 1990 DEBUTANT BALL PROGRAMS THREE SOUVENIR PROGRAMS, published by Kappa Beta Omega, Vallejo, California, 1986, 1988, 1990. First editions. Illustrated softcovers, 11" x 8.5", pink tinted paper,… 208, 142, 151 pages respectively, featuring the b& w portraits of the Debutantes, their escorts, short biographies of each of the Debutantes that showcase their service to the community and educational activities, also Advertisements, many illustrated, from family, friends, community members, and local businesses in support of this group of young Black women. The Ball culminates in the crowning of "Miss Fashionetta." Also included are some invitations, programs and tickets. The 1986 and 1988 programs are in VERY GOOD CONDITION: just some light wear from age and use, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked, as are the invitations, program and ticket. The 1990 Program is in GOOD CONDITION: with nail polish stains, corner creases and chips on the covers, internally some light wear from handling and some corner-tip creases, otherwise tight, bright, clean and unmarked. An uncommon group of vintage programs documenting the young Black Sorority Women of the San Francisco Bay Area's East Bay region. Alpha Kappa Alpha was the first Greek sorority founded by African American women. Established on January 15, 1908 at Howard University by nine Black students wishing to create an organization for college educated women that would support their academic and personal goals. The Vallejo California's Kappa Beta Omega Chapter in the Bay Area's Solano County is known for their community service and sponsorship of Fashionetta, an annual event during which African American high school girls in their senior year compete for college scholarships by engaging in various academic and civic activities. The Ball is a fundraiser for the Kappa Beta Omega chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Debutante program is open to a select group of young Black ladies who are high school seniors or local college freshmen.
Altre immaginiEditore: Joint May Day Conference of Silver Bow County, [Butte, MT] 1939
Da: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Bolerium Books Inc.
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EUR 50,72
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Broadside, 9x12 inches, print on one side only, all text, paper browned and chipped on edges with a few closed tears, else good condition.
Editore: Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing, New York 1908
- Manoscritto
Da: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.Capitol Hill Books, ABAA
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EUR 134,64
EUR 3,92 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Condizione: Very Good. New York: Ullman Manufacturing and Bergan Publishing, 1908. Three different Masonic promotional broadside posters. Printed recto only. 6 3/4" x 9 3/4"; 7 3/4" x 9 3/4". Light rubbing to edge; short closed along edge of "I dearly love a Mason." "Let's End All Discontent" undated but the style and typeface m…atches the other Bergen poster.
Editore: American 1910
Da: Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB, Marlboro, VT, U.S.A.Auger Down Books, ABAA/ILAB
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EUR 179,52
EUR 3,49 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Condizione: Very Good. A photograph of a fraternal group in faux-Native American costume, likely a meeting of the Improved Order of Red Men or a similar organization. Spectators line the hill in the background. Silver gelatin photograph measuring 6 x 8 inches on larger mount. Some hand coloring to costumes. Some fading, chips an…d wear to mount, very good overall.
- Manoscritto
Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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EUR 201,96
EUR 8,71 spedizioneSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
[African American] [Fraternal Organizations] African American fraternal organization, Prince Hall Freemasons, official ribbons from 1936-1949. From Atchison, Pittsburg, and Kansas City, Kansas. Collection includes 3 ribbons measuring 6" x 2". Prince Hall Freemasonry, founded in 1784, played a vital role in the African American s…truggle for self-determination, fostering leadership in business, education, and civil rights. Historically, Freemasonry was exclusive to people of color, and women. Prince Hall was founded in order to give Black men and women a sense of camaraderie and social responsibility in their local communities. This collection provides an invaluable historical record of the rituals, leadership, and social impact of Prince Hall Freemasonry, particularly in the post-civil rights era. Minor edge wear and threading to cut edges. Overall very good condition.
Altre immagini- Foto
Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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EUR 435,34
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Omega Psi Phi fraternity photographs documenting various groups of African American fraternities taking part in a group performance in the American Southwest, April 1975. An unidentified Omega Psi Phi member appears to have assembled the group, with several images centering fraternity dance routines, banquet proceedings, and off…-site travel that includes Arizona and Las Vegas, where he is also pictured with a woman who appears to be his girlfriend. By the 1970s, Black fraternities had become firmly established institutions within African American professional, collegiate, and civic life, extending far beyond campus initiation into organized social worlds that linked brotherhood, public ceremony, intercity travel, and long-term community formation. Photo archive of 20 color photographs, measuring 3.5" x 5", Arizona, Nevada, and the broader Southwest, April 1975. Several photographs show synchronized dance or step-style performance in a banquet hall, with men in coordinated yellow, purple, and white shirts with their fraternal organizations' shields. The men are shown moving in lines across a parquet floor before a seated audience, some being professional photographers which insinuates a wider regional or national ceremony. Other views show a large banquet crowd at round tables, a speaker at a podium labeled "Town House," and audience members dressed in jackets, hats, and patterned shirts of the era. Multiple photographs place the compiler on a road trip, including views beside a "Welcome to Arizona" sign, at Hoover Dam, and in front of a large sign reading "Las Vegas Hiltons Cab Drivers Oasis." Two images show the compiler alone before that sign, and another shows him posed with a woman in casual dress against a desert or dam landscape, many with handwritten penmanship en recto with affectionate phrases giving personal insight into this fraternity member's life outside of school. Omega Psi Phi, founded in 1911 at Howard University, belonged by 1975 to a mature generation of historically Black fraternities whose influence extended through alumni chapters, civic programming, social events, and professional networks across the United States. Light surface wear and mild toning; inscriptions en recto. Overall very good condition. A record of how Black fraternity culture functioned outside the classroom in 1970s America.
Altre immagini- Foto
Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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EUR 1122,00
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IBPOEW travel photographs of Cleveland, Ohio African American Elks members and women auxiliaries en route to Denver and Detroit, circa 1910s, documenting Black fraternal community and the public demonstrations of lodge life well before the Civil Rights Act. The Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World was fo…unded in 1897 after Black applicants were excluded from the white Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, and it quickly grew into one of the largest African American fraternal orders in the United States, combining mutual aid, ritual, convention life, civic identity, and public ceremony. Women were central to that structure through the Daughters of the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World, organized by Emma V. Kelley in Norfolk in 1902 and publicly active by 1903, with formal recognition as the women's auxiliary following in 1916. Photo archive of 13 silver gelatin photographs, ranging from 2" x 2.75" to 2.5" x 4.5", Ohio, Colorado, Michigan, circa 1910s. Manuscript versos identify the group's movements and affiliations with specificity, including "Trip to Denver Convention," "Clevelands coming home from Denver," "In line for last Detroit Mich," "Cleveland Ladies Elks," "On way home from Denver Colorado," and "Way up in the mountains on a big rock," fixing the photographs within lodge travel between Cleveland, Denver, Detroit, and Colorado mountain stops. The images show African American women and men posed beside or leaning from a train, women gathered in broad-brimmed hats, a Black woman with her male companion at the railcar entrance, and two women looking from a train window identified with Cleveland. One of the most captivating images center on women in public fraternal dress marching in parade down a street with the caption "Cleveland Ladies Elks." Another shows two Black women in capes and caps with large tassel-like sash or regalia elements standing before a tent while male band or lodge members gather nearby, one with a trombone visible. Additional images place women outside urban buildings and in outdoor excursion settings, extending the archive from parade and convention into travel, leisure, and intercity movement. These photographs show how African American fraternal organizations created organized travel, convention attendance, ceremonial dress, and women's public participation during the Jim Crow era, when national fraternal orders offered mutual aid, prestige, and institutional belonging otherwise denied in many white civic spaces. The inclusion of women matters especially here; appearing as visible agents within Elks public ceremony and civic duty. Overall very good condition. A surviving archive encompassing Black fraternal organization and women's participation in the early twentieth-century.
Altre immagini- Foto
Da: Max Rambod Inc, Woodland Hills, CA, U.S.A.Max Rambod Inc
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EUR 1122,00
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Interracial student life at Canterbury College in Danville, Indiana appears throughout this mid twentieth century photograph archive documenting activities of the Psi Chi sorority and campus organizations during the 1950s. The photographs record the presence of African American students within a predominantly white liberal arts…college environment during the era of legally enforced segregation across much of the United States. Two Black students identified in captions, Lyn Henry and Gloria Oglesby, appear repeatedly among white sorority members and teammates in campus settings, providing visual documentation of interracial participation in collegiate organizations at a moment when educational and social integration remained highly contested nationally following the Supreme Court decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The images therefore document everyday interactions between Black and white students in a Midwestern college community during the Jim Crow era. Archive of more than fifty original silver gelatin photographs taken at Canterbury College in Danville, Indiana during the 1950s, ranging in size from approximately 5 × 7 inches to 2.5 × 3.25 inches. Many photographs bear handwritten captions on the versos identifying students, campus events, and locations. The archive centers on activities of the Psi Chi sorority and includes candid photographs of social gatherings, dormitory interiors and exteriors, campus celebrations, and athletic events. Lyn Henry and Gloria Oglesby appear in multiple images among white classmates, including group portraits of the women's basketball team and photographs labeled "chow time at Psi Chi rush party" and "performance of spectators at basketball and tennis game." Additional images depict group dinners at sorority gatherings, students seated around tables with checkered cloths, outdoor athletic competitions, and campus celebrations such as homecoming rallies and bonfire events. One photograph records a parade concluding near the Royal Theater where students line the street during a public celebration. The photographs provide visual evidence of interracial social participation at a small Midwestern college during a period when racial segregation and discrimination remained widespread in housing, employment, and educational institutions across the United States. While Indiana did not maintain the same statutory segregation systems as many southern states, African American students frequently encountered exclusion and social barriers within predominantly white institutions. The repeated identification of Henry and Oglesby within captions grounds the archive in specific individuals whose presence within sorority life, athletics, and campus events illustrates how Black students navigated white majority collegiate environments during the decade of early civil rights activism. Together the images document daily life, student organizations, and interracial interactions within a Midwestern college community during the 1950s. Photographs show light handling wear with occasional edge wear consistent with mid century vernacular prints. Overall condition very good.
