Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![Fashion Welts [cover title for Raymond Loewy designed Saks-Fifth Avenue trade booklet]. Saks-Fifth Avenue.](/pictures/thumb/3727769_1.jpg?v=1537910635)
For women golfers, and tennis players, an elegant piece of 1920s women’s fashion advertisement with cover art by “Loewy” i.e., Raymond Loewy (1893–1986), famed Franco-American... Read More
![[C. 1930s Cairo, Egypt Tourist Map and Perfume Shop Ephemera]. Ahmed Soliman, Abou Taleb El-Helw & Said Abdel Latif, Shepheard's Hotel Cairo.](/pictures/thumb/3727756_1.jpg?v=1537910631)
English-language tourist ephemera from 1930s Cairo, Egypt with a focus on exotic Middle-Eastern goods and all the amenities of home in a foreign city. Of... Read More
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
Unrecorded in OCLC, C.1903 Advertising booklet for Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound, an herbal-alcohol tonic for women’s gynecological health, sold by The Lydia E. Pinkham... 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, Susan Brownell Anthony, 1820–1906, Marilla M. Ricker, 1840–1920, Lyman Abbott, 1835–1922.](/pictures/thumb/3726484_1.jpg?v=1537910624)
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
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
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
With compelling illustrations by Lois Mailou Jones, an American history book for African American youth, written by two African American women from Washington, D.C. Each... Read More
Scarce in dust jacket, his copy presented in 1957 by legal will from Nell Blount Davis to Joseph Blount Cheshire III. Nell Blount Davis (1893–1956)... 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)
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
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)
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
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
![[Needlework Stamping Patterns plus Circular issued by August Bernard of New York City, successor to Leon Cendrier, Designer, Manufacturer & Importer of Perforated French Stamping Patterns]. August Bernard, Leon Cendrier, Mrs. T. G. Farnham.](/pictures/thumb/3727676_1.jpg?v=1536790445)
Late Victorian portfolio of 83 French-styled stamping patterns or stencils used to facilitate the decoration of textiles with braiding, appliqué, and embroidery. The patterns were... Read More
Curious, rare, unrecorded. A cook book/shopping directory hybrid aimed at college women in the Boston–New York corridor. The cooking recipes, mostly for candies and desserts... Read More
![Jennie Carroll’s Selected Company! ... The Poor Factory Girl, Or, All That Glitters Is Not Gold… [lines from illustrated broadside]. Jennie née Melville Carroll; 1843–?, Thomas Morton; 1803–1879 and John Maddison Morton; 1811–1891.](/pictures/thumb/3727585_1.jpg?v=1536618658)
Rare, unrecorded c.1860s–1870s broadside for a Williamsport, Pennsylvania theater production of The Poor Factory Girl, written by playwrights Thomas Morton (1803–1879) and John Maddison Morton... Read More
The Women’s Committee of Louisiana demanded to be heard. A 1934 Political pamphlet issued by them attacking controversial U.S. Senator Huey Long of Louisiana (1893–1935)... Read More
![[1871 Autograph Letter Signed; Anna M. Bartlett’s Eyewitness account of the Great Chicago Fire of 1871]. Anna M. Bartlett.](/pictures/thumb/3727518_1.jpg?v=1535581735)
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
![[Envelope with Inset Miniature Tintype Portrait of Isabella Jane Hawthorn]. Isabella Jane Hawthorn.](/pictures/thumb/3727513_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Here, a “gem” tintype portrait of young Isabella Jane Hawthorn, with her hand-tinted rosy cheeks, is conjoined with another Victorian custom of calling cards and... Read More
![[Victorian Calling Card for Mrs. John Mowle with Inset Miniature Tintype or “Gem” Portrait]. Mrs. John Mowle.](/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
![[Carte de visite Photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln]. Mary Todd Lincoln; 1818–1882.](/pictures/thumb/3727108_1.jpg?v=1535409018)
Carte de visite half-lenth portrait photograph of First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln, wife of President Abraham Lincoln, made by Boston photographer Edward L. Allen. The... Read More
![[De Luxe Binding:] The New Testament of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ… [and] The Book of Psalms…. Bible.](/pictures/thumb/3724735_1.jpg?v=1534362293)
Remarkably fresh, American publisher’s de luxe bookbinding with bright gilt decoration and a woman’s ownership inscription. The red morocco hand-volume—a combination New Testament and Psalter—was... Read More
![20th Century-Fox presents Gregory Peck and Susan Hayward in David and Bathsheba [promotional movie program]. et. al 20th Century-Fox; Gregory Peck.](/pictures/thumb/3726762_1.jpg?v=1534362465)
“The Warrior ... The Woman ... The World of David and Bathsheba.” As told by 20th-Century Fox, in this promotional piece, this is the story... Read More
Very pleasing example of one of Dick & Fitzgerald’s 25¢ “Western Plays.” Crawford’s Claim is the tale of heroine Nugget Nell, a Western mining claim... Read More
![[African Americans in Georgia] Grand Opening! State Teachers’ Ass’n Held at Cotton Avenue A.M.E. Church, [Macon, Georgia] June 21 ... [1892]. Various.](/pictures/thumb/3726620_1.jpg?v=1534362429)
A rare unrecorded program announcing the grand opening of the State Teachers’ Association at the A.M.E. Church on Cotton Avenue in Macon, Georgia in 1892... Read More
