{"id":28486,"date":"2022-04-27T12:02:23","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:02:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/?p=28486"},"modified":"2026-05-14T16:54:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T16:54:44","slug":"guernseys-auction-house-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/blog\/guernseys-auction-house-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Guernsey&#8217;s Auction House | New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"28486\" class=\"elementor elementor-28486\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-44fbc472 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"44fbc472\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-extended\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-39f9de03\" data-id=\"39f9de03\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-inner-section elementor-element elementor-element-115b1b93 elementor-section-full_width elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"115b1b93\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-no\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-66 elementor-inner-column elementor-element elementor-element-4a145738\" data-id=\"4a145738\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-246c8e47 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"246c8e47\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div id=\"fullBleedHeaderContent\"><div class=\"css-1wx1auc e89cr9k1\"><div class=\"css-sklrp3\"><div class=\"css-1u5onbp epjyd6m1\"><h3 class=\"css-165eim7 ey68jwv0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" aria-hidden=\"true\">THE STATEN ISLAND HOUSE WHERE BLACK HISTORY LIVES<\/h3><p>\u00a0<\/p><div class=\"css-233int epjyd6m0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><p class=\"css-aknsld e1jsehar1\"><strong><span class=\"byline-prefix\">The original story appeared on March 7, 2022, in The New York Times.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/03\/07\/nyregion\/black-history-artifacts-staten-island.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to view.<\/span><\/strong><\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\"><div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div class=\"css-53u6y8\"><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In Elizabeth Meaders\u2019s dining room, the horrors of slavery are displayed on the table: reward posters for the capture of people fleeing enslavement and the tools \u2014 a branding iron, wooden hobbles and a bullwhip \u2014 for punishing them.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In the room by her front door, an exhibit of military items used by Black soldiers includes headgear worn by Tuskegee Airmen in World War II and a parade helmet used by the famed buffalo soldiers in the 1800s.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">In the living room, the couch is flanked by a life-size wax figure of the baseball slugger Hank Aaron and shelves of items honoring Black athletes, including a pair of Muhammad Ali\u2019s tall white boxing shoes.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">From the outside, Ms. Meaders\u2019s home on Staten Island is unremarkable \u2014 a narrow, three-story box in the working-class neighborhood of Mariners Harbor. But to step inside, with her as your guide, is to journey through the Black American experience, from the horrors of slavery and the dream of the civil rights movement to the glory of stars like James Brown and Cab Calloway.<\/p><p>\u00a0<\/p><\/div><aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside><\/div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div id=\"story-ad-8-wrapper\" class=\"css-qlhgae\"><div>\u00a0<\/div><div id=\"story-ad-8-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\">The collection of roughly 20,000 items that Ms. Meaders, a retired New York City schoolteacher, has been building for more than six decades is one of the largest collections of African American historical artifacts in the country.<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<img class=\"e-image-base \" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-interaction-id=\"1c8b88b4\" \n\t\t\tdata-interactions=\"&#x5B;&#x5D;\"\n\t\t \n\t\t data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"1c8b88b4\" \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"14280\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/00nyblackhistory1-superJumbo-1.webp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twidth=\"500\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\theight=\"224\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-d0e6ae3 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"d0e6ae3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-full css-i9mk6q e1g7ppur0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\"><figcaption class=\"css-5qsc2a ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Clockwise from top left: A pair of Muhammad Ali\u2019s boxing boots; a branding iron used on enslaved people; an Army of the James Medal, given to Black American soldiers for bravery; a pro-Ku Klux Klan quilt; an anti-Jim Crow pamphlet handed out by Henry A. Wallace\u2019s campaign during his 1948 presidential run; a civil rights-era N.A.A.C.P. cap.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit\u2026<\/span>DeSean McClinton-Holland for The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Hundreds of items are arranged thematically throughout the house, turning it into something of a museum, if one that few people have ever seen in person.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cThis is just the tip of the iceberg,\u201d Ms. Meaders said recently while walking through the exhibits. Most of the collection, she added, is kept in storage crates in closets, the basement and the garage.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Ms. Meaders, a retired New York City schoolteacher, said she began collecting in her youth with mementos of Jackie Robinson and other Black athletes, then widened her collecting to \u201csurround myself with things that lifted my spirits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-9-wrapper\" class=\"css-qlhgae\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-9-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">But she is now 90, and with limited years and storage space left, she is finally\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.guernseys.com\/v2\/meaders_collection.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">selling her collection<\/a>\u00a0in one bulk offering on March 15 at Guernsey\u2019s auction house in Manhattan.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI can\u2019t go any further \u2014 the collection is outgrowing the house and pushing me out,\u201d said Ms. Meaders, whose two daughters are not interested in taking it over. \u201cI\u2019m used up and the space is used up, so it has to be transferred into competent hands that can take it to the next level.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Meaders said she was hoping to attract a buyer who would make the collection accessible to the public and to scholars, at a museum or university, for example.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI hope the sale will give it a better life because it doesn\u2019t belong in anybody\u2019s house any longer \u2014 each piece needs a chance to sing its own song,\u201d said Ms. Meaders, whose real wish is that the items become the basis of an African American museum in New York.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Many objects lack documented details on their provenance, authenticity and historical significance, leaving Ms. Meaders herself as the sole authority. She has made long video segments detailing the collection.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<img class=\"e-image-base \" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-interaction-id=\"be87bd5\" \n\t\t\tdata-interactions=\"&#x5B;&#x5D;\"\n\t\t \n\t\t data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"be87bd5\" \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"14281\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/00nyblackhistory1-02-superJumbo.webp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twidth=\"500\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\theight=\"496\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-b5c8625 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"b5c8625\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-full css-i9mk6q e1g7ppur0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\"><figcaption class=\"css-5qsc2a ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Clockwise from top left: a parade helmet worn by buffalo soldiers; a Nazi flag captured by Black American troops during World War II; a Vietnam-era antiwar hat; an ankle block used to keep enslaved people from running away; an original reward poster for the capture of an enslaved person; a K.K.K.-branded toy water pistol.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit\u2026<\/span>DeSean McClinton-Holland for The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Arlan Ettinger, president of Guernsey\u2019s, said he knew of \u201cno other collection of this size focusing on Black history ever coming up for sale at auction before.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-10-wrapper\" class=\"css-qlhgae\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-10-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cCrammed into this simple home is a collection that tells the whole saga of African American history, from the scourge of slavery to the struggle of civil rights, to Black soldiers in all of our wars from the Revolution through Vietnam,\u201d said Mr. Ettinger, whose auction house has handled the estate sales of Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Rosa Parks and Joe Frazier, as well as some Apollo Theater material.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ephemerasociety.org\/tag\/diane-deblois\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Diane DeBlois<\/a>, a co-owner of aGatherin\u2019 ephemera sellers in West Sand Lake, N.Y., who appraised the collection at $10 million, said it was enhanced by the back story of a plucky schoolteacher who was resourceful enough to acquire items on a shoestring budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cShe had to go toe-to-toe with some pretty impressive collectors to outbid them,\u201d Ms. DeBlois said. \u201cShe raised money through bake sales and school raffles, all sorts of ways.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Ms. Meaders said she funded her acquisitions by working several jobs at a time, as well as buying items on installment plans and borrowing against the value of her house.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cI\u2019ve never been wealthy, but I refinanced my house a few times and ran up quite a bit of debt,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Randy F. Weinstein, founder of the\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/duboiscentergb.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">W.E.B. Du Bois Center<\/a>\u00a0in Great Barrington, Mass., appraised the collection at $7.5 million in 2009.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019ve seen great collections, but this was something in my wildest dreams I could never imagine, the vastness and depth of it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-873829f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"873829f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-full css-i9mk6q e1g7ppur0\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\"><figcaption class=\"css-5qsc2a ewdxa0s0\">\n<div class=\"css-hqodhm\">\n<div class=\"css-10zbysd\" data-has-expandable-block=\"false\" data-testid=\"document-block\">\n<h3 class=\"css-6fr66q\">TOUR A HOUSE FULL OF BLACK HISTORY<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<figure class=\"css-6q4bx5\" data-testid=\"byline\"><span class=\"css-1dcbjpv\" data-testid=\"author-name\">Corey Kilgannon<\/span><span class=\"css-1i82ydo\" data-testid=\"author-desc\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"emoji\" role=\"img\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/s.w.org\/images\/core\/emoji\/13.1.0\/svg\/1f4cd.svg\" alt=\"\ud83d\udccd\" \/>Reporting from Staten Island<\/span><\/figure>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6841521 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"6841521\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/8382cut-square320.jpg\" \/><\/p><div><section id=\"burst-ny-black-history-items\" class=\"interactive-content interactive-size-scoop css-1e1arri\" data-id=\"100000008236784\" data-source-id=\"100000008236784\"><div class=\"css-17ih8de interactive-body\" data-sourceid=\"100000008236784\"><div class=\"css-14s2amu\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><section><article id=\"RGlzcGF0Y2g6NTYxNg==\" class=\"css-1v2o655 burst\" role=\"region\" data-testid=\"dispatch\" aria-label=\"carousel\"><div class=\"css-33safc\"><section class=\"css-vwg9yb cards\" data-testid=\"cards\"><div class=\"swiper css-1ifox8w\" data-scrolled-index=\"3\" data-testid=\"swiper\"><div class=\"css-1sbww8d\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><div class=\"css-oj8xhe basic-card\" data-index=\"0\" data-dispatch-id=\"RGlzcGF0Y2g6NTYxNg==\" data-items-length=\"7\" data-card-type=\"basic\" data-is-active=\"false\" data-testid=\"card\"><div class=\"css-90o6mk\" data-has-expandable-block=\"true\" data-testid=\"document-block\"><p class=\"css-1xh7jop\">A walk with Elizabeth Meaders, 90, through her home \u2014 which houses one of\u00a0<strong class=\"css-193g24a\" data-testid=\"bold\">the largest collections<\/strong>\u00a0of Black historical artifacts in the country \u2014 is a riveting master class in African American history.<\/p><p class=\"css-1xh7jop\">We visited her home on Staten Island, where she showed us some of her most prized items \u2192<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"css-1sbww8d\" aria-hidden=\"false\"><div class=\"css-oj8xhe basic-card\" data-index=\"3\" data-dispatch-id=\"RGlzcGF0Y2g6NTYxNg==\" data-items-length=\"7\" data-card-type=\"basic\" data-is-active=\"true\" data-testid=\"card\"><div class=\"css-90o6mk\" data-has-expandable-block=\"true\" data-testid=\"document-block\"><p class=\"css-1xh7jop\">Meaders, a retired New York City schoolteacher, has a group of items on the\u00a0<strong class=\"css-193g24a\" data-testid=\"bold\">Revolutionary War hero Crispus Attucks<\/strong>.<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/article><\/section><\/div><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0<\/p><\/div><\/section><\/div><div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\"><div class=\"css-53u6y8\"><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Ettinger said he had already been in discussions with potential buyers, including several universities, and that it was possible a deal could be struck before the auction.<br \/><br \/><\/p><section id=\"burst-ny-black-history-items\" class=\"interactive-content interactive-size-scoop css-1e1arri\" data-id=\"100000008236784\" data-source-id=\"100000008236784\"><div class=\"css-17ih8de interactive-body\" data-sourceid=\"100000008236784\"><div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\"><div class=\"css-53u6y8\"><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Often, he said, a philanthropist might buy such a collection to donate for the public good; that happened with the Rosa Parks estate, which was bought through Guernsey\u2019s by the Howard G. Buffett Foundation in 2014 for a reported $4.5 million and donated to the Library of Congress.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Meaders, a history buff, said her collecting began with fan material related to her teenage idol, Jackie Robinson, who broke professional baseball\u2019s color barrier when he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1947.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">She began visiting sports memorabilia shows and then buying items honoring other Black athletes, like the boxer Joe Louis. An image of Crispus Attucks, believed to be the first American killed in the American Revolution, sparked an interest in Black military items, \u201cand little by little I just expanded, and it became a labor of love,\u201d she said.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ms. Meaders\u2019s ancestors, she said, include servants in abolitionists\u2019 households in the 1700s and the last slave freed on Staten Island, in the mid-1800s.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her grandfather, William A. Morris, owned an auction house on Staten Island and\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silive.com\/specialreports\/2011\/03\/civic_leader_william_a_morris.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">founded<\/a>\u00a0the island\u2019s N.A.A.C.P. branch, she said. He later had a middle school named after him where Ms. Meaders taught history.<\/p><\/div><aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside><\/div><div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><div id=\"story-ad-12-wrapper\" class=\"css-qlhgae\"><div id=\"story-ad-12-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\">\u00a0<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\"><div class=\"css-53u6y8\"><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI\u2019ve struggled to tell a history that\u2019s been either ignored or not told correctly, and it\u2019s a history that\u2019s directly related to me,\u201d she said. \u201cThe more I found, the more I wanted because the whole thing became a huge puzzle and I began obsessively trying to fill in the missing pieces.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">A main goal was to educate people on forgotten Black stories.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThis is a motherlode of information, with so many stories that have never been told,\u201d she said. \u201cThat\u2019s the purpose of my collection: to educate, heal, inspire and empower.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/swann-galleries-african-americana-_n_1311880\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wyatt Houston Day,<\/a>\u00a0an historian and appraiser who has visited Ms. Meaders\u2019s home, agrees.<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe thing that makes her collection so unique,\u201d said Mr. Day, who is also a former specialist in African-Americana sales at Swann Auction Galleries in Manhattan, \u201cis that she has a lot of the connective tissue that fill in the gaps in other accounts, small things you won\u2019t find in other collections but that add the important details.\u201d<\/p><p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">For example, he said, \u201cpeople talk about African Americans in the military, but she has an actual musket that would have been carried from a Black Civil War soldier.\u201d<\/p><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section><\/div><\/div><p>\u00a0<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t<img class=\"e-image-base \" \n\t\t\t\t\tdata-interaction-id=\"e0f5787\" \n\t\t\tdata-interactions=\"&#x5B;&#x5D;\"\n\t\t \n\t\t data-e-type=\"widget\" data-id=\"e0f5787\" \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tid=\"14283\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrc=\"https:\/\/rcourihay.com\/staging\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/00nyblackhistory1-03-superJumbo.webp\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\twidth=\"500\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\theight=\"224\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tsrcset=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\talt=\"\"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3cca32f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"3cca32f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"meteredContent css-1r7ky0e\">\n<div>\n<div class=\"css-79elbk\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"css-1a48zt4 e11si9ry5\" data-testid=\"photoviewer-children\">\n<figure class=\"img-sz-full css-i9mk6q e1g7ppur0\" style=\"text-align: justify;\" role=\"group\" aria-label=\"media\"><figcaption class=\"css-5qsc2a ewdxa0s0\"><span class=\"css-16f3y1r e13ogyst0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">Clockwise from top left: a statue of Ida B. Wells; a Jim Crow-era sign ordering Black people to the back of the bus; a candle holder depicting the abolitionist John Brown; a bust of Paul Robeson, the performer and activist; a whip used during slavery;\u00a0 a World Ambassador award given to the Harlem Globetrotters.<\/span><span class=\"css-cnj6d5 e1z0qqy90\"><span class=\"css-1ly73wi e1tej78p0\">Credit\u2026<\/span>DeSean McClinton-Holland for The New York Times<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n&nbsp;\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Ms. Meaders said she did very little buying online since the specialized items she was seeking were best found by looking through sale catalogs at auctions and constantly calling dealers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">She was also a regular at shows for antique vendors and sellers of historical, military, sports and other memorabilia.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-13-wrapper\" class=\"css-qlhgae\">\n<div id=\"story-ad-13-slug\" class=\"css-l9onyx\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">At many sales, she said, \u201cI was often the only Black woman there, and I was considered an oddball.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Ms. Meaders has devoted her life to the collection, Mr. Day said: \u201cWhen she started, no one knew who she was, and now she\u2019s legendary in collecting circles \u2014 everybody knows Elizabeth.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">There were some items that her limited budget made out of reach. For example, when bidding by phone on one of the pens used to sign the 1964 Civil Rights Act, Ms. Meaders reluctantly withdrew when the bid went up to $8,000 with no installment plan available.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">She still regrets it. \u201cThat would have been the highlight of my civil rights collection,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Down a narrow, creaky stairway to her basement is an exhibit that she calls \u201cCivil Rights and Civil Wrongs.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">There is a Ku Klux Klan grand dragon robe and a K.K.K. brand water pistol for children. Next to the boiler are posters from Harlem\u2019s famous Apollo Theater and a rocking chair that belonged to\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/baseballhall.org\/hall-of-famers\/paige-satchel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the pitcher Satchel Paige<\/a>. Nearby is a golf bag that belonged to the\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pgatour.com\/players\/player.02091.charles-sifford.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pioneer Black golfer Charlie Sifford<\/a>.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">A treasured piece is an\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/nmaahc.si.edu\/object\/nmaahc_2012.37ab#:~:text=After%20the%20battle%20of%20New,specifically%20for%20African%20American%20troops.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Army of the James Medal<\/a>\u00a0given by the white Civil War general Benjamin Butler to one of his Black soldiers.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Asked about the possibility of fire or burglars, she shrugged. \u201cI hate to tell you,\u201d she added, \u201cbut there aren\u2019t too many people who would even know what they were looking at.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Many items are one-of-a-kind, such as the hand-carved wooden mantelpiece depicting the\u00a0<a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.britannica.com\/biography\/John-Brown-American-abolitionist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">abolitionist John Brown<\/a>. One item Ms. Meaders holds dear is a medal honoring Crispus Attucks that she said she acquired from a \u201ctop dealer who\u2019s well known as a crank.\u201d<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"css-s99gbd StoryBodyCompanionColumn\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cI had to go through hell to get it, but it was worth it,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">Selling her collection will finally get Ms. Meaders some living space, but she admitted that it might not completely halt her collecting.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">When a desired item came up at auction recently \u2014 a Ku Klux Klan robe made for a child \u2014 she resisted and instead implored a fellow collector to buy it.<\/p>\n&nbsp;\n<p class=\"css-axufdj evys1bk0\">\u201cI think that even when I\u2019m in my coffin and something comes up for auction,\u201d she said, \u201cI\u2019ll probably toss a bid out.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"><\/aside><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<div class=\"bottom-of-article\">\n<div class=\"css-1ubp8k9\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">Corey Kilgannon is a Metro reporter covering news and human interest stories. 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