2025-01 Raynors Historical Collectible Auctions
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 1/25/2025
Documentary Photo Aids was an educational supplier of reproduction photographs covering various periods of American history. Each professional photo has a printed caption describing the image. Additionally, when bought in topic groups, DPA would include a Teacher’s Guide providing the history of that period. These are 14” x 11”, c1960-1970. Unlikely they could be used in public schools today. A group of FIVE photos. The first, Sojourner Truth, a former slave who escaped to freedom, 1826. Smithsonian listed her as one of the "100 Most Significant Americans of All Time." ... plus, Frederick Douglass, who after escaping from slavery in Maryland in 1838, became a national leader of the abolitionist movement in Massachusetts and New York and gained fame for his oratory and incisive antislavery writings. ... plus, W.E. B. Duboiswho was its first African American to earn a doctorate, and rose to national prominence as a leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of black civil rights activists seeking equal rights. He was one of the founders of National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909. ... plus, George Washington Carver, Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. Together with other agricultural experts, he urged farmers to restore nitrogen to their soils by practicing systematic crop rotation: alternating cotton crops with plantings of sweet potatoes or legumes, such as peanuts, soybeans and cowpeas. These crops both restored nitrogen to the soil and were good for human consumption. Carver developed techniques to improve soils depleted by repeated plantings of cotton. Together with other agricultural experts, he urged farmers to restore nitrogen to their soils by practicing systematic crop rotation: alternating cotton crops with plantings of sweet potatoes or legumes, such as peanuts, soybeans and cowpeas. These crops both restored nitrogen to the soil and were good for human consumption. ... plus, Malcolm X (1925-1965) was an African American revolutionary, Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a prominent figure during the civil rights movement until his assassination in 1965.
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