Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Prospectus for Brooks Seminary, a women’s non-sectarian boarding school in Poughkeepsie, New York. The school was founded in 1871 by Mary Bryan Johnson and subsequently..... Read More about Prospectus For 1877—‘78, and Record of 1876—‘77. Brooks Seminary for Young Ladies,...
Surprisingly scarce 1907 edition of a late 19th century title on women’s medical health, with an appendix of 22 drug prescriptions for urinary, menstrual, and..... Read More about A Doctor’s Talk with Maiden, Wife, and Mother
The daughter of slaves, Ida Barnett Well was an editor and antilynching activist. “For more than four decades Wells-Barnett’s militant voice brought worldwide attention to..... Read More about Crusade For Justice. The Autobiography of Ida B. Wells. [Inscribed and Signed by John Hope Franklin
An 1808 Bond and Articles of Agreement between Luke Prouty and his “natural mother,” Susanna Prouty, both of Salem, Washington County, in the upstate Hudson..... Read More about 1808 Washington County, New York Manuscript Bond and Articles of Agreement between a Son and His...
Two humorously illustrated letters sent to a schoolgirl in Pennsylvania from a young married couple in Salem, Oregon, Frank L. Willman, Sr. and Etta Willman..... Read More about 1892 and 1893, Two Humorously Illustrated Letters by Frank and Etta Willman of Salem, Oregon, One...
The illustrated dust jacket shows Harriet Tubman, rifle at her side, pointing and leading the way to her people from enslavement to freedom. Carter G...... Read More about Harriet Tubman
![The Eastern Girls [cover title]. The Eastern-Empire Lyceum Bureau](/pictures/thumb/3728735_1.jpg?v=1557936748)
The all-woman trio The Eastern Girls was comprised of a banjoist, a mandolin player, and a soprano singer. All the women sang. Here they are..... Read More about The Eastern Girls [cover title
Handsome concert announcement broadside for the popular Shaw Sisters of Philadelphia. The broadside as two blank spaces for location and date to be handwritten. The..... Read More about The Misses Mary & Rosina Shaw of Philadelphia, will give a Grand Vocal Concert [opening lines...
Exceedingly rare nineteenth-century commemorative album of 187 lithographic views showing religious houses and schools in Europe of the School Sisters de Notre Dame, a Roman..... Read More about Niederlassungen der armen Schulschwestern de Notre Dame diesseits des Oceans. Zur Erinnerung an...
C.1892 French chromolithographic poster for Le Pays de l’Or [The Golden or Promised Land], a comic operetta and spectacle set in America including the Western..... Read More about Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux
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Unrecorded pre-Second World War American trade catalog for food service, hotel and club, factory and machine shop, medical and hospital, and domestic workers. With ordering..... Read More about Uniforms by Angelica. Founded 1878–63 Years of Uniform Leadership [cover title
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on A.H. Wood’s play Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. The melodrama concerns a young single woman’s struggle..... Read More about Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name....
Entertainment advertising poster for a 1941 musical performance in Muncie, Indiana by African American singer Ethyl Fitzgerald and “Her Original Southern Play Boys.” Fitzgerald and..... Read More about Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from...
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 about 17th Century Pennsylvania Indenture of Richard Halliwell of Newcastle and Hannah Blake of...
![Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8. Nina Charlton,...](/pictures/thumb/3728083_1.jpg?v=1543437610)
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 about Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8
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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 about Dual Provenance:] Following the Color Line. An Account of Negro Citizenship in the American...
![1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book]. Amanda L....](/pictures/thumb/3727819_1.jpg?v=1543259255)
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 about 1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book
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 about Mary McLeod Bethune
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 about Young Pennsylvania German Girl’s c.1938–1940 Cartoon Drawing and Story Book with Text and...
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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
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 about Dining for Moderns with Menus and Recipes—The Why and When of Wining
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 about Über die Epilepsie und das Fortpflanzungsgeschäft des Weibes in Ihren Gegenseitigen...
“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 about New Orleans, Octoroons, Interracial Relations, Slavery:] L’Article 47, or Breaking the Ban
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 about The History of Woman Suffrage [with Lengthy Autograph Inscription on Men and the Issue of...
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 about The Negro Poets by Truda Weil. Thursday Afternoon ... 1932 ... The Literature Division of the...
