Colored man is no slacker [graphic]

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  A free man [graphic], 1868

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  A watercolor and graphite drawing depicting a formerly enslaved Black family with their animals outside their home. Illustration is centered by a Black man in the foreground chopping a log of wood to add to a pile of logs and kerosene. To his right is a small dog, and presumably his two children, a young Black girl dressed in red, and a Black boy in yellow holding a red bucket. The left side of the illustration is partially torn but depicts a horse in a fenced enclosure looking towards the family. The background includes a cabin with a smoking chimney in front of a hilly enclosure. The drawing's paper is fragile and deteriorating on all edges; a signature and date by the artist is partially visible on the lower right corner, reading, "Caleb Brown, 1868." Titled, "A Free MAN" towards the lower center of the drawing. Verso of drawing includes a partial portrait of a woman titled "Eliza," lithographed by James Baillie.

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  Read pink marsh "the lansimous boy."

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  Image of an advertisement for Pink Marsh featuring a well-dressed African American couple; both the man and woman wear bowler hats.

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  "Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" [graphic] / Interlandi

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  An ink drawing by Frank Interlandi for the Los Angeles Times. The drawing is a paste-up which included a glued clipping of a revolver (now loose), originally placed on top of a drawn column labeled "God." Additional loose clippings include a typed paper slip of the title, and another typed slip reading, "Below Olympus... By Interlandi." The cartoon is signed and dated by Interlandi on the left corner of the image. Signed text towards the lower right of the image also reads, "With best wishes, from Frank Interlandi." The title, "Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" is written in blue pencil below the image. Verso of drawing includes a blue note from the Los Angeles Times with information regarding the original order request.

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  Birds of America [graphic]

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  A set of six giclée prints printed in 2023 of art created from 2015 to 2018 by artist John LaMacchia and illustrators Daniel (Dan) Cole and Peter David Scott. Each print includes images of birds reminiscent of John James Audubon's illustrations in Birds of America (1827) but are set in modern natural environments that have been littered by humans with garbage and plastic waste such as helium balloons, convenience store bags, prescription pill bottles, syringes, six-pack rings, and other examples of packaged goods and products. Titles include: Eastern Towhee (2015); Blue Jay (2016); Red Knot (2016); Double-Crested Cormorant (2016); Great Blue Heron (2016); and The Mourning Dove (2018). The prints are titled and labeled in cursive, and each print includes the edition number in the top-left corner, the printer's name in the bottom-left corner, and the illustrator's name in the bottom-right corner. Dan Cole is signed as the illustrator for five of the prints, and Peter David Scott is signed as the illustrator for one print, The Mourning Dove. The lower-right corner of each print also includes a chop (printer's mark) blind embossed with John LaMacchia's name and initials. This is the tenth edition out of the fifty that were printed.

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  A couple

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  A couple, two young boys, and an elderly man posing by a wall below a house.

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  Entrée des alliés dans Pékin, le 22 Octobre 1860 : Entrance of the allyed in Pekin, the 22nd of October 1860

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  A hand-colored lithograph view print depicting the capture of the Chinese Summer Palace near Peking, China. The image includes Chinese soldiers in varying military attire and queue braids while armed with swords, bows and arrows, dragon shields, and talismanic demon portraits. The French military is depicted in the center of the print dressed in blue uniforms with epaulettes, bayonets, and rifles on horseback while waving a flag with a French imperial eagle finial and flag. The right of the image depicts crowds of men in uniform fighting, and one of the men is illustrated in a red coat, likely referring to the British army. Background and foreground illustrate the Chinese soldiers as falling in defeat. The title is printed in French and English below the image. Signed by printer, "Lith: H Jannin, Paris" in the lower right corner. Signed by the publisher, "Paris chez Codoni, rue Grenier St. Lazare, 20," in the lower left corner. Signed by artist "Albert" in stone in the image's lower right corner.

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