Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Rare books, pamphlets, manuscripts, letters, correspondence, journals, archives, ephemera, etc. concerning: Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny Noble,...](/pictures/thumb/3727825_1.jpg?v=1540930806)
Sheet music for Ruth Florence’s I’ll Come Sailing Home to You with music for piano and ukulele by King Kalakaua and Johnny Noble, both honorees..... Read More about I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua
Post-war “Annual Women’s Day” program detailing activities at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church in Linwood, Pennsylvania. Listed are all of the officers, secular music performed, numerous..... Read More about Annual Women’s Day at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church ... Linwood, Pa., Sunday April 4, 1948
From “Freshman” to “Sophomore”—a prospectus for Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, cleverly designed to imitate a strip of movie film with each “cell” depicting a...... Read More about The Reel Smith College
Hannah Smith received a letter written on November 26, 1871 from her cousin who survived the Great Chicago Fire—“…never again do I want to behold..... Read More about 1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire...
![Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait]....](/pictures/thumb/3727109_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Miniature tintype photographs, also called “gem” photos for their diminutive size, were a popular and inexpensive photographic format in the Victorian era. Here a portrait..... Read More about Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait
![The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of Psalms…. Bible](/pictures/thumb/3724735_1.jpg?v=1534362293)
American publisher’s de luxe bookbinding with bright gilt decoration. The red morocco hand-volume—a combination New Testament and Psalter—was owned, according to the inscription, by “Mary..... Read More about The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of Psalms…
![Female Dwarves] Presented by “Princess Susanna” as a Souvenir to the Lady and Children...](/pictures/thumb/3726609_1.jpg?v=1534362424)
Listed in Guinness World Records as the longest-lived dwarf on record, Susanna Bokoyni (1879–1984) was a Hungarian centenarian and circus performer. Princess Susannah toured with..... Read More about Female Dwarves] Presented by “Princess Susanna” as a Souvenir to the Lady and Children...
An apparently unrecorded funeral memorial to Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge (1777–1837), sister to American architect, Charles Bulfinch. Elizabeth Coolidge was the daughter of Thomas Bulfinch and..... Read More about Died Jan. 17th, 1837 — Mrs. Elizabeth Coolidge, Aged 60 Years. [Elizabeth Bulfinch Coolidge,...
Rose Terry Cooke (1827–1892), woman poet and author of New England fiction. In this very brief letter, Cooke requests “...two sets Prayer - Book +..... Read More about 1889 Autograph Letter Signed by Rose T. Cook, Author and Poet
A Civil War-era eulogy for Carolina S. Fitz who served as a Sunday school teacher and was the wife of the Reverend Daniel Fitz of..... Read More about A Sermon preached in the South Parish, in Ipswich, January 15, 1862, at the funeral of Mrs....
![Abigail Physick and Physick Family of Philadelphia, 1808 to 1849, Small Manuscript Archive]....](/pictures/thumb/3725835_1.jpg?v=1646712321)
This collection consists of 12 items, by chronology: 1. 1808 manuscript receipt attesting Abigail Physick has bought a share of the Frankford Turnpike Stock for..... Read More about Abigail Physick and Physick Family of Philadelphia, 1808 to 1849, Small Manuscript Archive
![Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des...](/pictures/thumb/3725799_1.jpg?v=1534362322)
This pamphlet on nursing and charity work by German philanthropist and social reformer Amalie Sieveking (1794–1859) reports on the activities of the Weiblichen Vereins für..... Read More about Women’s Association for the Poor and the Sick] Siebenter Bericht über die Leistungen des...
![Fannie Burke Character Dancer [printed title]. Fannie Burke](/pictures/thumb/3725608_1.jpg?v=1642471486)
She is the picture of late Victorian America. She wears a fancy dress with rosettes, puffy sleeves and broad shoulders. Leaning against a carved chair..... Read More about Fannie Burke Character Dancer [printed title
Isabel Fiske Conant a.k.a. Isabella Fiske Conant Three typed sonnets and a typed letter by prolific late 19th and early 20th century poet Isabel Fiske..... Read More about MacDowell Colony Poem, other Sonnets, and a Typed Letter by Isabel Fiske Conant; accompanied by...
![The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy]. Alfred Noyes, Childe Hassam,...](/images/noimage-req.png)
World War I poems by English poet Alfred Noyes, finely printed and bound, published by the Book Committee of the Art War Relief in New..... Read More about The Avenue of the Allies and Victory [Zelia Hoffman; her copy
An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...
From Wisconsin Territory to Warwick, Massachusetts, news of the death of Sewell Holman, classical scholar, and “a literary genius, [who] printed with his pen the..... Read More about 1844 Autograph Letter Signed by Mrs. M. A. Stebbins of Janesville, Wisconsin Territory to Emily...
![Women Entrepreneurs, Edith L. Snyder:] Demonstration Here. April. 13–14. With E. L. Snyder’s...](/pictures/thumb/145887_1.jpg?v=1534362281)
Colorful American advertising display banner announcing a public demonstration of E. L. Snyder’s oil watercolors and stencils. Edith L. Snyder of Johnstown, Pennsylvania held the..... Read More about Women Entrepreneurs, Edith L. Snyder:] Demonstration Here. April. 13–14. With E. L. Snyder’s...
