Payson’s Indelible Ink.
Antebellum bottle on indelible ink for marking textiles manufactured by A. Lyman Williston (b.1834) of Northampton, Massachusetts, a noted temperance and anti-slavery advocate and benefactor... Read More
Women
Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series. Charles E. Blaney, 1866–1944.](/pictures/thumb/3728226_1.jpg?v=1545247772)
Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. A Novel Founded Upon the Great Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
Women’s pulp fiction novel based on Charles E. Blaney’s play Lottie, the Poor Sales-Lady; or, Death before Dishonor. The melodrama concerns a young single woman..... Read More
![Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series. Grace Miller White, 1868–1957, 1870–1951, Albert H. Woods.](/pictures/thumb/3728225_1.jpg?v=1545247771)
Nellie the Beautiful Cloak Model. A Thrilling Story. Founded Upon the Play of the Same Name. [within:] Play Book Series.
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
![Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from Louisville, Kentucky…1st Northern Tour. [African American Female Singer]. Ethyl Fitzgerald.](/pictures/thumb/3728224_1.jpg?v=1547575457)
Breakfast Dance Hit of the Year, Ethyl Fitzgerald and Her Original Southern Play Boys from Louisville, Kentucky…1st Northern Tour. [African American Female Singer]
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
![[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
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
![[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
![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
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
Pictures and Biographies of Brigham Young and His Wives: Being a True and Correct Statement of the Birth, Life and Death of President Brigham Young, Second President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and Brief Biographies of His Twenty-Six Wives…
Flake 2590 provides the publication date of 1893. As titled, biographical profiles and portraits of Brigham Young’s numerous wives. Buildings significant to the Mormon faith... Read More
![Charlotte Cushman Club. All Star Benefit…Walnut Street Theatre [cover title]. The Charlotte Cushman Club.](/pictures/thumb/3727633_1.jpg?v=1537378145)
Charlotte Cushman Club. All Star Benefit…Walnut Street Theatre [cover title].
Rare, unrecorded 1921 Program for a benefit musical performance in aid of The Charlotte Cushman Club, Inc. held at at Philadelphia’s Walnut Street Theatre. The..... Read More
The Reel Smith College.
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