African slave Congo Dance in antebellum New Orleans

Heading: (African-American, 1820) Author: Lukens, Joseph Title: Letter from Pennsylvania trader visiting New Orleans, sees Sunday Congo Dances with its pre-Jazz Negro music Place Published: Williamsbu

Slavery Bill of Sale from Antebellum New Orleans for "Alfred, an orphan boy, aged about seven years" A legal document from antebellum New Orleans recording details about the sale of a 7-year-old slave

A very weathered and well handled old carved wooden mask with open face eyes and signs of handling and wear. Lega peoples, DRC/ Congo, Africa. The mask measures 9 x 5.75 inches. Provenance: Ex Charles

[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. KIMBALL, Myron H., photographer. Isaac and Rosa, Slave Children from New Orleans. New York, NY: George H. Hanes, 1863.  2 1/8 x 3 1/4 in. CDV on cardstock mount (spotting and

African Nsakara Throwing Knife, Democratic Republica of Congo/Zaire, steel, reptile hide, cloth, and leather, h. 17 1/2 in., w. 14 1/4 in. Provenance: Thomas L. Rosenzweig, New Orleans, Jan. 1972; Ex-

African Lega/Warega Rattle, Kivu Province, Democratic Republic of Congo/Zaire, wicker, seeds, wood, string and resin, l. 10 1/2 in. Provenance: Davis Gallery of Ethnographic Art, New Orleans, Apr. 199

This is a very rare old and field used dance mask with aggressive open mouth and well handled and worn edges suggesting years of field use. Kumu peoples, Congo, Africa. The mask was published in the S

Carved wooden shield with raised mask face and incised linear designs. Luba peoples, Kifwebe society, DRC / Congo, central Africa. The Shield measures 22 x 9 inches. Provenance: A Private New York Cit

Antebellum New Orleans Market Walnut Tester Bed, mid-19th century, the projecting cyma-molded cornice raised on tapering posts with chamfered corners, supporting a paneled headboard with a shell- and

Antebellum New Orleans Market Rosewood Triple-Section Armoire third quarter 19th century, attributed to the New Orleans warerooms of William and James McCracken, in the transitional Late Classical int

Antebellum New Orleans Market Rococo Revival Rosewood Half-Tester Bed, third quarter 19th century, attributed to the warerooms of Prudent Mallard, the serpentine arched tester with a conforming foliat

American Rococo Mahogany Full Tester Bed, mid 19th century, of the type crafted for the antebellum New Orleans market, the projecting cyma-molded cornice on tapered octagonal column posts supporting a

American Rococo Rosewood Full Tester Bed, mid 19th c., of the type crafted for the antebellum New Orleans market, the projecting ogee cornice on tapered cluster column posts supporting a paneled headb

Stephen Longstreet (American 1907-2002)- ''Sporting House, Private Dance - New Orleans '51''- watercolor and pen and ink, 1951, signed Longstreet in pencil lower right, handling creases, stamped on ve

Jewish Confederate Benjamin Signs Legal Document in Antebellum New Orleans Future Confederate Secretary of State and Secretary of War Judah P. Benjamin of Louisiana signed this legal document in a cas

Stephen Longstreet (American, 1907-2002)Private Dance, New Orleans, 1957Watercolor and ink on paperSigned lower right / titled and dated upper right20 in. h. x 26 in. w.

Serigraph Poster. Signed and designed by Rob Bechet. Numbered 12/1500. Image size- 32.75 x 22, Frame- 39.5 x 29.5.

Painting, oil on masonite, "Slave Market, New Orleans", signed Larry Edwardson, 18" by 23.75"

Jazz & Heritage Festival poster, signed and numbered 278/750, 31"x23"

Noel Rockmore (American/Louisiana, 1928-1995) "All Saint's Day, African American New Orleans Cemetery" oil on canvas signed lower right and with an "E. L. Borenstein Collection" catalogue sheet en ver

Original manuscript bill of sale for a 26-year-old enslaved woman named Tisha and her two children: Mary (5 years old) and Simon (3 years old). The bill is signed on June 20th, 1844 in Desoto Parish,

New Orleans Slave Market Bills of Sale Illustrate Internal Slave Trade [SLAVERY.] Two Manuscript Bills of Sale for slaves sold in New Orleans 1856, 1861. 7 pp., 8.5? x 14?. The second is a copy certif

Four (4) Civil War era Cartes de Visite depicting "slave children" from Union-occupied New Orleans. 1st-2nd items: Two (2) CDVs depicting Rebecca Huger, one captioned "Oh! How I Love the Old Flag", on

An important Carte de Visite (CDV) captures Rebecca, Charley, and Rosa, three white-appearing children who were marketed as "Slave Children from New Orleans." Photographed by Myron Kimball of New York