Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Sweeping novel of the post-Civil War history of African Americans told through the eyes of a fictional woman character, Beulah Jackson. Author, Dr. Charles H.... Read More about Historical Romance of the American Negro
Angelina W. Grimké (1880–1958), African-American female poet, reclusive celibate lesbian, born into the noted biracial Grimké family, with its strong social and community connections to..... Read More about Rachel. A Play in Three Acts
Advertising broadside for an American-invented “baby jumper” or children’s hanging exercise apparatus designed to safely entertain “…in a manner highly conducive to health, and calculated..... Read More about Patent Elastic Infant Gymnasium, or Baby Jumper [opening lines of broadside
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...
“We ask you, Mr. Roosevelt…Haven’t you made us suffer enough without Enslaving Our Colored Women, The Mothers Of Our Children?” 1936 U.S. presidential campaign broadside..... Read More about Colored Voter, Stop!—Before You Vote—Read! [caption title of WPA-critical and anti-Franklin...
![Signed by Rosa Parks:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February 1972....](/pictures/thumb/3728821_1.jpg?v=1565122196)
February 1972 issue of American Heritage magazine featuring the article “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” about her key role in the second phase of the African..... Read More about Signed by Rosa Parks:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February 1972
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
![Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword]....](/pictures/thumb/3728723_1.jpg?v=1557940084)
Superb Association Copy. Autobiographical memoir of Irish-American woman criminal May Churchill Sharpe, born Mary Anne Duignan (1871–1929), better known as “Chicago May” or “The Queen..... Read More about Chicago May Her Story. [Signed by the author and her defense attorney who wrote the foreword
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...
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Friendship album kept by Sallie J. Elliott during the years 1859 to 1882, likely before and after her marriage. Entries, which can be light at... Read More about The Messenger Bird. [Friendship Album, published c. 1850s with 1859–1882 entries
![Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title]. Unkwn., and, 1850–1920, Charles Garvice](/pictures/thumb/3728555_1.jpg?v=1555520828)
C.1920s pulp romantic fiction magazine aimed at women comprising two titles, one of which was copyrighted in 1898 by noted dime novel publishers, George Munro’s..... Read More about Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title
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...
A child psychologist, Californian Millicent W. Shinn was the first woman to receive a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley. At hand, a bibliographical... Read More about The Baby’s Mind: A Study For College Women. A paper presented to the Association of Collegiate...
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...
