Lot includes: De Roosterfelt Book by Mr. George Washington Dabney (A Gent'man ob Color). Baltimore, 1935. 12mo in printed paper wraps, 22pp. Poetry in dialect, some concerning the dinner Booker Washington had with TR at the White House in 1901, just after Roosevelt became President on the death of McKinley. There is also a January/February 1990 issue of Black Ethnic Collectibles Magazine (Vol. 3, No. 5) with an article about many items generated by this dinner, both positive and negative. They point out that Washington had dined with President McKinley at the Chicago Peace Jubilee in 1898. He had eaten with Benjamin Harrison in Paris. He had taken tea with Queen Victoria. But Dr. Washington dining at the White House enraged the South, and they hammered Roosevelt on it for decades. The third item in the lot is a cartoon captioned "Colored Aristocracy" and features a man and woman dressed "to the nines" and he is saying, "De cullud folks am bon-ton sense Bookah Wash'n'ton dined at de White House." Condition: A few handling marks on the poetry book, surface soil. But internally in fairly good condition. Cartoon and magazine excellent.
Lot includes: De Roosterfelt Book by Mr. George Washington Dabney (A Gent'man ob Color). Baltimore, 1935. 12mo in printed paper wraps, 22pp. Poetry in dialect, some concerning the dinner Booker Washington had with TR at the White House in 1901, just after Roosevelt became President on the death of McKinley. There is also a January/February 1990 issue of Black Ethnic Collectibles Magazine (Vol. 3, No. 5) with an article about many items generated by this dinner, both positive and negative. They point out that Washington had dined with President McKinley at the Chicago Peace Jubilee in 1898. He had eaten with Benjamin Harrison in Paris. He had taken tea with Queen Victoria. But Dr. Washington dining at the White House enraged the South, and they hammered Roosevelt on it for decades. The third item in the lot is a cartoon captioned "Colored Aristocracy" and features a man and woman dressed "to the nines" and he is saying, "De cullud folks am bon-ton sense Bookah Wash'n'ton dined at de White House." Condition: A few handling marks on the poetry book, surface soil. But internally in fairly good condition. Cartoon and magazine excellent.
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