Women Camp Followers of the American Revolution.
“An Authentic Presentation of a Neglected Chapter in the Heroic Years of the Revolutionary War.” (dust jacket blurb) Philadelphia: George S. MacManus Co., 1952. 104pp... Read More
Women
Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![[1840 to 1846 Correspondence from Philadelphian Caroline Mitchell Burroughs. Much news of the city including the Nativist Riots of 1844]. Caroline Mitchell Burroughs, 1818–1892.](/pictures/thumb/3725190_1.jpg?v=1544633419)
[1840 to 1846 Correspondence from Philadelphian Caroline Mitchell Burroughs. Much news of the city including the Nativist Riots of 1844].
“I think that some of those Bank Men ought to be strung up.” (CMB). Collection of letters from 1840 to 1846 written by Philadelphian Caroline... Read More
![[17th Century Pennsylvania Indenture of Richard Halliwell of Newcastle and Hannah Blake of Philadelphia conveying Land in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Thomas Cartwrite]. Richard Halliwell, Hannah Blake.](/pictures/thumb/3724844_1.jpg?v=1544633418)
[17th Century Pennsylvania Indenture of Richard Halliwell of Newcastle and Hannah Blake of Philadelphia conveying Land in Chester County, Pennsylvania to Thomas Cartwrite].
Seventeenth-century Pennsylvania indenture conveying 250 acres of land on Chester Creek in Chester County originally deeded to Edward Blake by William Penn, Propriatary and Governor... Read More
![Private Hours. [Dorothea Dix; author]. Dorothea Lynde Dix, 1802–1887.](/pictures/thumb/3724758_1.jpg?v=1544633416)
Private Hours. [Dorothea Dix; author]
“When unable to teach, she turned to writing, producing Meditations for Private Hours (1828), American Moral Tales for Young Persons (1832), and several other short... Read More
Tuskegee to Voorhees. The Booker T. Washington Idea Projected by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright.
Elizabeth “Lizzie” Evelyn Wright (1872–1906) School founder, educator. A native of Georgia, she founded the Denmark Industrial Institute in Denmark, South Carolina, a school for... Read More
![Women’s work for Jesus. [First Edition]. Mrs. Annie Wittenmyer.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Women’s work for Jesus. [First Edition]
Scarce, self-published in Philadelphia first edition of these exhortations by this female author (and publisher and creator of The Christian Woman) to let women work... Read More
![[Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8. Nina Charlton, -in-Chief.](/pictures/thumb/3728083_1.jpg?v=1543437610)
[Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8.
Charming commencement issue from this African American college in Atlanta, Georgia, the oldest private historically black liberal arts college for women. Though not a yearbook... Read More
![[Dual Provenance:] Following the Color Line. An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy. Ray Stannard Baker, 1870–1946.](/pictures/thumb/3728065_1.jpg?v=1543874735)
[Dual Provenance:] Following the Color Line. An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American Democracy.
Important study on race in America written by journalist Ray Stannard Baker in the aftermath of the Atlanta race riot of 1906. This copy with... Read More
![[1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book]. Amanda L. Rockefeller, 1856–1919.](/pictures/thumb/3727819_1.jpg?v=1543259255)
[1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book].
Nearly five-year social diary and calling/visiting book kept by Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller of Glenco [Glenco Mills], New York. Rockefeller meticulously tracked—typically in one-line entries—the... Read More
Mary McLeod Bethune.
Juvenile biography of Mary McLeod Bethune (1875–1955), educator, organizer of black women, and civil rights activist. “This is the challenging and inspired true story of... Read More
![[Young Pennsylvania German Girl’s c.1938–1940 Cartoon Drawing and Story Book with Text and Dialog in Pennsylfawnish Dialect]. Catherine M. Weaver.](/pictures/thumb/3727775.jpg?v=1542302133)
[Young Pennsylvania German Girl’s c.1938–1940 Cartoon Drawing and Story Book with Text and Dialog in Pennsylfawnish Dialect].
Pennsylvania German girl’s cartoon drawing book capturing daily life and humorous childhood foibles in and around Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. The folk art manuscript was... Read More
An Autobiography. The Story of the Lord’s Dealings with Mrs. Amanda Smith The Colored Evangelist ... With an Introduction by Bishop Thoburn, of India.
Born a slave, her freedom eventually purchased by her father, Amanda Smith lived as a domestic servant until becoming a Protestant evangelist. As such, she... Read More
![I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]. lyrics Ruth Florence, Johnny Noble, music King Kalakaua, 1892–1944, 1836–1891.](/pictures/thumb/3727825_1.jpg?v=1540930806)
I’ll Come Sailing Home to You. [Hawaii; King Kalakaua]
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
Labors Greatest Conflicts. [Inscribed, Signed, and Annotated Copy]
Inscribed presentation copy of a memoir of the Colorado labor wars of 1903–1904 and the forming of the United Mine Works of America union. Author... Read More
Dining for Moderns with Menus and Recipes—The Why and When of Wining.
Recipes and menu suggestions from the Woman’s Exchange Restaurant, founded in New York City in 1919. The restaurant was an outgrowth of the Woman’s Exchange... Read More
Über die Epilepsie und das Fortpflanzungsgeschäft des Weibes in Ihren Gegenseitigen Beziehungen. Eine Historisch-Kritische und Klinische Untersuchung.
German-language medical treatise on epilepsy, gynecology, and obstetrics by Dr. Hermann Nerlinger, medical assistant at a sanatarium in Pforzheim in southern Germany. Entitled Über die... Read More
![[Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi]. Laurence C. Jones, 1882–1975, The Cotton Blossom Singers, Piney Woods School.](/pictures/thumb/3727789_1.jpg?v=1542124820)
[Cotton Blossom Singers of the Piney Woods School in Mississippi].
C.1950s Musical concert program broadsheet for the all-girl “The Cotton Blossom Singers” of Piney Woods School, an historically black boarding school in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The... Read More
[New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban.
“The octoroon despised, spurned, penned up in scornful coolness, liable to public sale and scourge—the colored woman you see yonder, kept a white man for... Read More
![“The Rights of Woman” [Profound Influence on the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments] within The New World, Vol. II, No. 19, May 8, 1841]. E P. Hurlbut, Park Benjamin, 1807–?, 1809–1864, Elisha Powell Hurlbut, Park Benjamin Sr.](/pictures/thumb/3726549_1.jpg?v=1539123807)
“The Rights of Woman” [Profound Influence on the Seneca Falls Declaration of Sentiments] within The New World, Vol. II, No. 19, May 8, 1841].
New York attorney and legal reformer E.P. Hurlbut’s article “The Rights of Woman” appeared in the May 8, 1841 issue of The New World newspaper... Read More
![[Women at War:] Homemaker’s War Guide ... Victory Begins At Home. Do Your Part. Office of War Information.](/pictures/thumb/3727773_1.jpg?v=1539037964)
[Women at War:] Homemaker’s War Guide ... Victory Begins At Home. Do Your Part.
A remarkable Second World War war-effort poster with extraordinary design and excellent modernistic infographic delivery. The whole design matrix is almost that of a present-day... Read More
Power of the State to Exclude Foreigners from its Limits, and to Prevent Their Landing, on Account of the Immorality of Their Past Lives, Considered. Opinion of Mr. Justice Field, of U.S. Supreme Court…In the case of Ah Fong, a Chinese Woman…
In the matter of Ah Fong, a Chinese woman immigrant, an 1874 opinion for the U.S. District Court of California. The opinion was written by... Read More
![The History of Woman Suffrage [with Lengthy Autograph Inscription on Men and the Issue of Women’s Suffrage, Signed by Susan B. Anthony]. Susan B. Anthony, 1820–1906, 1840–1920, 1835–1922, Susan Brownell Anthony, Marilla M. Ricker, Lyman Abbott.](/pictures/thumb/3726484_1.jpg?v=1537990236)
The History of Woman Suffrage [with Lengthy Autograph Inscription on Men and the Issue of Women’s Suffrage, Signed by Susan B. Anthony].
Important association copy of the separately published fourth volume of The History of Woman Suffrage, inscribed at length by co-editor/publisher Susan B. Anthony to New... Read More
The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the Woman’s Club.
Advertising card for a public reading of African American poetry, given by Truda T. Weil at the Woman’s Club of Reading, Pennsylvania. The program consisted... Read More
Annual Women’s Day at Mt. Hebron A.M.E. Church ... Linwood, Pa., Sunday April 4, 1948
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
![[Female Poisoners:] Speech Delivered at the Court of Oyer Terminer of Bucks County, Upon the Trial of Mrs. Lucretia Chapman for the Murder of Her Husband:—February 25th 1832. David Paul Brown.](/pictures/thumb/3727732_1.jpg?v=1537378146)
[Female Poisoners:] Speech Delivered at the Court of Oyer Terminer of Bucks County, Upon the Trial of Mrs. Lucretia Chapman for the Murder of Her Husband:—February 25th 1832.
McDade 170. A knock on the door by a stranger in Andalusia, near Philadelphia. Lucretia Chapman, the wife of a Pennsylvania school teacher, becomes taken... Read More