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[Archive of Original Photographs from the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland and Additional Photographs and Documents From Its Later Merger with Lake Park Methodist Church] by [Japanese Americana]: [California]

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Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC

Title: [Archive of Original Photographs from the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland and Additional Photographs and Documents From Its Later Merger with Lake Park Methodist Church]
Author: [Japanese Americana]: [California]
Seller: The Joe Fay Company LLC (United States)
Condition: Good.
Description: [Oakland, 1986. Good.. Seven substantial photographs, measuring between 6 x 9 inches and 7.5 x 36.75 inches, plus approximately four linear inches of programs, newspapers, additional photographs, holograph notes, financial records, and more. Varying levels of wear, soiling, chipping, and repairs to the photographs. A rare collection of substantial images picturing members of the Oakland Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church in the early-to-mid 20th century, first at what appears to be a converted home in the city, and later at their larger, more traditional church on West 10th St, with an additional image of an outing to Piedmont. The incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII led to the temporary closure of the church. During this time, one of its halls was used to store the possessions of incarcerated Japanese and Japanese American citizens; after the war, it served as a hostel for returning members. In 1967, the church sold the land and moved, at the invitation of Lake Park Methodist Church, to the latter's premises, and in 1968, the two churches formally merged. The second portion of the archive relates to the Lake Park Methodist Church both before and after this merger. The photographs present here depicting the earlier years of the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church are as follows, in chronological order: 1) Oakland Japanese M.E. Church. Sept. 30, 1917 [caption title]. 7.5 x 9.5 inches. A handsome black-and-white group photograph outside the church, captioned in the plate in English. The wooden sign for the church is mounted above the entrance and reads, "Japanese M.E. Church." An American flag flies above the sign. Evidence of construction paper adhesion to verso; clear tape to upper corner; light soiling. 2) Methodist Ministers' Conference [caption title in pencil on verso]. 6 x 9 inches. Similar setting to the photograph above, this black-and-white group photograph, features a group of almost forty ministers of the Methodist Church, most of whom are not Japanese American, but apparently met in conference at the Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church in Oakland circa 1917 (though a pencil note on the verso reads, "1912?"). Formerly mounted, with tape remnants to verso and one corner, some creasing, a few short closed tears. 3) Japanese Methodist Episcopal Church of Oakland. Dedicated Feb. 24th, 1918 [caption title]. 12 x 20 inches. A substantial black-and-white group photograph outside the church, featuring a couple hundred members presumable posed for the church building's dedication. Two newspaper clippings of ministers of the church are taped to the upper corners, small semicircle of loss and tape to middle of bottom margin, tape to corners and verso. 4) [Uncaptioned Panoramic Photograph Featuring Church Members in 1925]. Tsuji Studios (stamp on verso and embossed blind stamp in lower margin). 7.5 x 36.75 inches. Pictures the church membership of over a hundred Japanese American men, women, and children in the midst of the Roaring Twenties. Heavy dampstaining and damage to left side, obscuring about five inches of the image. Accompanied by another example of the same photograph, also with Tsuji Studios stamps, this copy with damage to the right side. This second example has an ink inscription in Japanese on verso and a computer-printed date taped to the bottom margin and reading, "1925." The chipping on each side of the two photographs obscure some of the subjects, but taken together, these two images record all of the information contained in the photograph. 5) Church Outdoor Ceremony at the Piedmont Hills [caption title in Japanese]. 8 x 32 inches. A striking sepia-toned panoramic photograph capturing an outdoor excursion to the Piedmont hills in 1927 (four captions in the negative printed in Japanese). Tsuji Photo Studio stamp on verso, along with a short manuscript caption in pencil in Japanese. Light marginal staining; toning. 6) Farewell Ceremony for Pastor Arima and His Family. January 8, 1933 [caption title in Japanese]. Tsuji Photo Studio. 7.75 x 9.5 inches. Handsome sepia-toned group photograph of a farewell gathering for Pastor Arima and his family in early 1933 (captioned in the plate in Japanese). An ink inscription on the verso confirms the caption in the negative and reads, "Farewell photograph taken on January 8, 1933 prior to the departure of Rev. Arima & family to Japan." Rough patch to lower corner and lower edge, likely from tape removal, slightly affecting the extremities of the image. 7) Final Service at the West 10th Methodist Sanctuary. Feb. 5, 1967 [caption title]. Utsumi Studio. 8.5 x 14 inches. An informative black-and-white group photograph depicting the congregation at the West 10th Methodist Church location after it was sold in 1967. Small chip and closed tear to bottom margin, affecting part of caption, tape to verso. The later portion of the archive documents church life and activities at Lake Park Methodist Church, the vast majority of which emanates from prior to the merger of the two churches. This earlier material includes a notebook of board meeting notes from 1967, numerous typed board meeting agendas from the 1960s, two issues of the Lake Park Methodist Church newsletter called Spotlite, church programs and fliers, a few Methodist newspapers such as the United Methodist and Lake District Reporter, and numerous photographs picturing Anglo-American members of the church. The post-merger material includes a dual-language newsletter and calendar for October 1972 (listing the minister as George Uyemura), a folder of financial records from the Lake Park United Methodist Church School from 1969-70, and two newsletters from November 1968. An important record of Japanese American religious life in Oakland before, during, and after the collective trauma of WWII incarceration, as well as a peek into the development of a particular California Methodist Church later in the century.

The Woman Movement in America by Squire, Belle

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Seller: Whitmore Rare Books

Title: The Woman Movement in America
Author: Squire, Belle
Seller: Whitmore Rare Books (United States)
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Chicago: A.C. McClurg & Co, 1911. First edition. Near Fine. Original publisher's cloth binding stamped in black to spine and front board. A just nearly Fine copy on account of some wear to the cloth near the foot of spine. Internally an exceptionally bright, fresh copy. Contemporary gift inscription to the front endpaper reads: "With love for Annie Blitz from Frances J. P. Xmas - 1911." A beautiful example and the only first edition on the market of this scarce history the women's movement, written by Ida B. Well's collaborator and fellow co-founder of the Alpha Suffrage Club. Two years after the publication of this book, Belle Squire would join forces with the legendary journalist and activist Ida B. Wells to found the Alpha Suffrage Club in response to the racism of majority-white national women's rights groups dominating the movement. Squire, herself a white woman, would throughout her career use her privilege to amplify the voices of Black activists; the two would, indeed, walk side-by-side in the 1913 National Suffrage Demonstration in Washington, DC as part of the Illinois delegation, defying the organizers' demand that all Black activists march at the rear of the parade. "It only required that our women should be as firm in standing up for their principles as the Southern women are for their prejudices," a contemporary reporter remarked (McCullough). The present work reflects Squire's deep awareness of systemic misogyny and racism in the U.S. as well as her commitment to an intersectional activism that incorporates all Americans in the pursuit of equality. And The Woman Movement in America never shies from the complex entanglements and fractures that Black men, Black women, and women more generally experienced in their missions of overturning white male hegemony. Assessing the failures of the 14th Amendment, for example, and the rampant poll taxes and intimidation that continued preventing Black men's votes, she exclaims, "If freedom without the ballot was a mockery to the black man, what good was freedom without the ballot to black woman? Of what use is ballotless freedom to a woman born a blonde? What should be said of men who would reason thus?...What an opportunity to have missed! They could have made it Humanity's Hour." A history from Wollstonecraft to her present moment, including the work of prominent queer women and people of color, and acknowledging that only when all people are enfranchised can there truly be liberty. Near Fine.

The Tragedy of Tolstoy by Countess Alexandra Tolstoy

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Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA

Title: The Tragedy of Tolstoy
Author: Countess Alexandra Tolstoy
Seller: Appledore Books, ABAA (United States)
Condition: Very Good
Description: London: George Allen & Unwin Ltd, 1933. Cloth. Very Good. WARMLY INSCRIBED IN YEAR-OF-PUBLICATION BY COUNTESS ALEXANDRA TOLSTOY on the front free endpaper. A solid copy to boot of the 1933 1st UK edition, translated into English from its native Russian by Elena Varneck. Tight and VG in its light-green cloth, with mild soiling to the front panel, light fading along the spine and very mild bowing to the covers. Light foxing to the preliminaries as well and an even cut across the front free endpaper's top-edge, just above Countess Tolstoy's inscription. Octavo, a number of crisp black-and-white photographs complementing the text. Countess Alexandra Tolstoy (1884-1979) was Leo Tolstoy's youngest daughter and his secretary to boot and, as such, was perfectly positioned to write this memoir of the final years of one of the giants of all of Russian literature.

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