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4 (ANDERSON, Marian.) Signed 10 × 8 inch glossy studio portrait. [With:] Ebony magazine promotional poster. Early 1940s and 1947 Original silver gelatin photograph (image 238 × 188 mm; overall 250 × 207 mm), numbered in the negative, wet stamp on verso “Marian Anderson”. Original Ebony magazine point-of-sale poster (337 × 258 mm) on heavy card stock, printed in colour to recto. Photograph: light signs of handling with a few small creases and nicks to extremities, else in excellent condition. Post- er: a little rubbed at extremities, else near-fine. Two striking portraits of the renowned African American contral- to, the original photographic portrait inscribed by Anderson in ink on the image, “To Mr Harry L. Aiken best wishes Marian An- derson”. The recipient was president of the Crucible Steel Casting Company of Cleveland and a patron of the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Cleveland Orchestra: Anderson gave a recital at Public Hall, Cleveland, in November 1942. In 1955 Anderson (1897–1993) became the first African American to perform at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. She is also remembered for her Lincoln Memo- rial concert (1939), having previously been refused permission to sing in Washington’s Constitution Hall because of her race, and her performances at the inaugurations of Presidents Eisenhower (1957) and Kennedy (1961). The studio portrait is a delightful “off guard” image: Anderson appears full-length wearing an ornate gown, one arm raised to ar- range and admire the flowers in the vase to her left, but her atten- tion drawn instead to the right as she smiles at someone beyond the camera. The same session which resulted in a much-reproduced image which was used for the cover of the 1942 RCA 10-inch disc Songs and Spirituals . The present image is slightly blurred, however, and almost certainly not used for regular promotional purposes. It is accompanied by the promotional poster for the Ebony magazine April 1947 issue, featuring Anderson as she appeared on the cover. £750 [130557]
to arrest women offenders, attend them at police stations, and es- cort them to prison and give them proper care” while serving these terms ( ODNB ). Following a subsequent period of illness Allen was forbidden by Emmeline Pankhurst from participating in any further militant activities and was the first woman to be awarded a hunger strike medal from Mrs Pethick-Lawrence in August of that year. Allen joined the WPV in the rank of constable in November 1914. During the First World War she assisted in the training of police- women for munitions factories across the country, for which she was appointed OBE in February 1918. £1,750 [131558] 3 AMBROSE, Alice. Fundamentals of Symbolic Logic. New York: Rinehart & Company, 1948 Octavo. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt on black ground. Ink ownership stamp to front free endpaper. Spine slightly sunned, faint rubbing to extremities. A near-fine copy. first edition of the classic textbook on logic and mathematical philosophy. American philosopher Alice Ambrose (1906–2001) completed her post-doctoral research at Cambridge University, where she studied alongside G. E. Moore and Ludwig Wittgenstein, and became a close disciple of the latter. Ambrose, along with fel- low academic Margaret MacDonald, was instrumental in the re- cording and circulation of Wittgenstein’s 1932–5 lectures—their notes were published as Wittgenstein’s Lectures, Cambridge, 1932–1935 in 1979—and she was one of two students (the other being Francis Skinner) to whom Wittgenstein dictated the Brown Book. £125 [125537]
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