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Parks Sausage Company

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Parks Sausage Company photograph and ephemera collection

 Collection
Identifier: PP 0344
Abstract

The Parks Sausage Company was founded in 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland by entrepreneur Henry G. Parks, Jr. and became the first African American-owned business to be publicly traded on the New York Stock exchange. The collection consists of black and white photographs and ephemera related to the company and Henry Parks from 1960-1983.

Dates: circa 1960-1967, 1983