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2. Funeral fan. HILLCREST CEMETERY ON HIGHWAY 70 SOUTH OF RALEIGH - RALEIGH'S MOST BEAUTIFUL COLORED CEMETERY. OFFICE: 312 SMITHFIELD ST.
RALEIGH, N.C. PHONES 3-1676 - 3-1677. New York: New York Imp. Co., 1946.

Title from verso of fan. Front of pictorial fan shows Booker T. Washington, George Washington Carver, Tuskegee Institute's Creed, etc. The wooden handle is labeled: FINGER GRIP HANDLE PAT. APPL'D FOR.
$ 85.00

3. SIGNED BY ZOOK Zook, George Frederick. THE COMPANY OF ROYAL ADVENTURERS TRADING INTO AFRICA.
Lancaster, Pa.: Press of the New Era Printing Company, 1919. v,105 pp.

First edition. Offprint from The Journal of Negro History, Vol. IV, No. 2, April 1919. Original green cloth with gilt lettering on spine. Inscribed by the author "With memories of a year in London / George F. Zook." A near fine copy of the author's first work. Born in Fort Scott, Kansas Zook had a distinguished government career: U.S. Commissioner of Education (1933-34) ; president of the American Council on Education (1934-50). He was a leading and influential advocate of expanding government aid to higher education and of developing junior colleges. This work was Zook's Thesis ( Ph. D.) at Cornell University, 1914. The Company of Royal Adventurers was a British commercial trading company established by Charles II in 1660. It was to secure a colony on the west African coast to counter the Dutch monopoly in the region that had grown up during the preceding 20 years of English political unrest. One of the Royal Adventurers chief exports was African slaves for the West Indies. Bibliography: p.97-102. WORK p.266.
$ 275.00

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