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ETUMBA (6-12 October 1968) (Brazzaville, Congo)
As it says — and you don’t really need to speak French to understand — “Organe de combat du Mouvement National de la Revolution”. Grade: 2
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Voice of Africa (19 January 1961)
This little screed, in the form of a mini-newspaper, came from Ghana in the early 1960s. We’re reserve comment on the nationalistic and anti-imperialstic elements of it, and just say that we have a few issues spanning about one year that we will list one-by-one. Their conditions are roughly the same, aged, and some with written notations and others without. They’re not long, usually four pages each; and not large, measuring about 7″ x 10″. The price we show is for each individual copy, but if you want all of whatever we’ve still listed, let us know and we will make a deal with you so as to keep them together. In general, Grades: 2
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Voice of Africa (22 February 1961)
See description for our entry 50000006. We have seven copies of this issue.
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Voice of Africa (8 December 1961)
See our entry for 50000006.
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Voice of Africa (5 January 1962)
See our entry for 50000006.
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Voice of Africa (1 October 1962)
See our entry for 50000006. We have two copies of this issue. We also have another date (8 February 1962), not shown here.
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Voice of Africa (15 November 1962)
See our entry for 50000006.
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Voice of Africa (1 December 1962)
See our entry for 50000006. This issue is the last of what we have.
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(Partial) Daily Nation, Nairobi (6 June 1968)
Pages 1-4, and 21-24, of this early edition of Nairobi’s Daily Nation newspaper. Their press deadline, as it turned out, was both narrow and unfortunate. Grade: 3
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The China Lantern (30 March 1945)
This was a newspaper for U.S. Forces in the China Theater of Operations during World War II, published (we think) in Kunming. It’s all 12 pages of Vol. 3, No. 8, “Precensored for Mailing” and completely original. Though its condition is fragile and poor, it’s intact and apparently a scarce artifact. Grade: 4
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Los Angeles Times (9 November 1960)
President Kennedy had three more years and a tumultuous life up to the end. Original front page, aging. Grade: 2
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Los Angeles Times (10 November 1960)
Original front page reporting the Presidential election of John F. Kennedy. Highly aged. Grade: 2
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Los Angeles Times (17 December 1960)
Not the first, and definitely not the last, air crash in New York City. Original front page, aging. Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Times (13 April 1961)
Though it all started with Sputnik a few years before, by now humans were getting involved — and who could have imagined what would happen after that. Original, aging, front page. Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Times (18 April 1961)
We bet the editors would like to recall this headline, if they could. Original front page, aging, with Oscars as a bonus. Grade: 2
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San Francisco Chronicle (7 August 1961)
Original front page, aging like others of this vintage. Americans were transfixed by what was beginning to happen above them. Grade: 2
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Los Angeles Times (21 February 1962)
On the day, this was a Very Big Thing. John Glenn went on to significant political and national fame, well-deserved and hard-earned. Original front page. Grade: 2
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The Nationalist (Southern Rhodesia) (7 October 1962)
Very highly aged full copy (except for a torn area on the back page) of Vol. 1, No. 1 of this newspaper from Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia. Fragile but we will protect it when we mail it. Grade: 4
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Le Petit Journal de Brazzaville (Rep. of the Congo)
From 12 October 1962, a small, heavily-aged and fragile item but it’s all there. Grade: 4
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Los Angeles Times (3 June 1963)
Original front page chronicling the passing of Pope John XXIII. Heavily aged. Grade: 2
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Los Angeles Times (4 June 1963)
Next day, original front page announcing Pope John XXIII passing. Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Times (29 August 1963)
In that most momentous year, this (original) front page of the L.A. Times headlined the blocking of a railroad strike but also provided a massive photo of the crowd in Washington that would have seen Rev. Martin Luther King give his “I Have a Dream” address. Aging but can be preserved. Grade: 2
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Togo Presse (21 October 1963)
Original pages 1-6 of this tabloid-sized daily. In French, aging but sturdy, and with some extra markings on the front, for filing. Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Times (15 December 1963)
Heavily aged, original front page reporting a major dam burst in the Baldwin Hills section of Los Angeles. We knew someone whose home was destroyed due to that. Grade: 2
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Los Angeles Times (15 March 1964)
Maybe appropriate that this was reported on the Ides of March … Jack Ruby assassinated Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated President John Kennedy. Controversy over all this persists to this day. Original front page, aging. Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Times (28 March 1964)
It was a big earthquake in Alaska indeed. Original front page, aging. Grade: 3
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Los Angeles Times (10 November 1965)
Original pages 1-2 and 35-36 of this report of probably the most famous power outage in American history. Grade: 2
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Los Angeles Times (16 December 1965)
Continuing the fascination with space travel in the 1960s. Original front page, aging. Grade: 3
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East African Standard (Nairobi) (26 September 1967)
Single sheet pages 1-2 with a rapturous headline favouring President Jomo Kenyatta and warning basically everyone not to demonstrate during the impending visit of Malawi’s President Banda. Very heavily aged paper, but authentic. Grade: 4
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Los Angeles Times (28 January 1967)
One of the worst incidents involving astronauts in U.S. (or any) space history, captured on this original but aging front page. Grade: 2
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University of Southern California Daily Trojan (Los Angeles) (28 March 1967)
Pages 1-4, maybe all there was, of this occasionally prestigious university’s daily newspaper, back in the day. Grade: 2
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University of Southern California Daily Trojan (Los Angeles) (26 April 1967)
An odd page numbering system on what we think might be the complete issue for this date. By the way, “Hackford” in the headline went on to become a famous and successful film director. We were also proud to be included in that issue, but for a different reason. Grade: 2
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East African Standard (Nairobi) (21 May 1968)
Page 1-2 (single sheet) and very heavily aged. The feature headline and massive photo refers to Jomo Kenyatta’s return to Nairobi from a working holiday in Mombasa. Imagine if he had returned from overseas. Grade: 4
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East African Standard (Nairobi) (27 September 1967)
Such a rapturous welcome for such a small man, Hastings Banda. Original front page, aging. Grade: 3
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Uganda Argus, Kampala (2 December 1967)
The newspaper was founded in 1955, seven years before Uganda achieved independence from the British colonial government in 1962. In 1971 it became the New Vision Newspaper. This heavily aged copy from 1967 has eight pages and may be complete unless there was a second section we don’t know about. Grade: 4
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The Nigerian Observer (Lagos) (15 October 1968)
Folded pages 1-2 and 15-16 of this issue. Grade: 3
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The Zanzibar Voice (24 December 1967)
A weekly newspaper published in English and Gujerati. We believe this is the entire issue. Heavily aged and becoming fragile. Grade: 3
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East African Standard (22 August 1968)
Cataclysm in Czechoslovakia, as reported in eastern Africa. Original front page, aging. Grade: 3
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The Daily Telegraph (London) (21 July 1969)
Pages 1-2 and 21-22 (single sheet) of the Air Mail Edition, on flimsy paper. Grade: 2
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East African Standard (11 November 1968)
We kept the whole newspaper because we were working in Sotik at the time, and this accident happened walking distance from our house. We always suspected that bridge was going to take a toll at some point, and so it did. Victims were then laid out on the lawn of the Post Office in the centre of that small village. R.I.P. Original newspaper, aged. Grade: 2
