Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
![Scottish Institution for the Education of Young Ladies [1836 broadside caption title]. Lady...](/pictures/thumb/3729228_1.jpg?v=1582068572)
STEM in 1836; a broadside prospectus for the Scottish Institution for the Education of Young Ladies, conducted by “Miss Murray, Lady Superintendent.” The school curriculum..... Read More about Scottish Institution for the Education of Young Ladies [1836 broadside caption title
![Shadow and Sunshine. [cover title: Shadows and Sunshine]. Eliza Suggs, Elizabeth Gertrude Suggs](/images/noimage-req.png)
Memoir of African American author, poet, and temperance lecturer, Eliza Suggs of Nebraska. Physically disabled, Suggs writes about her impairment and stunted growth from brittle..... Read More about Shadow and Sunshine. [cover title: Shadows and Sunshine
Five programs from African-American churches in Chester, Marcus Hook, and Linwood in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Four of the programs are for the “Annual Women’s Day”..... Read More about 1922–1948 African-American Church Programs for Annual Women’s Days etc
Salesman’s sample book, dummy, or canvassing book heavily illustrated and with plates for the popular women’s professional and business career guidebook which poses the question..... Read More about What Can a Woman Do; or, Her Position in the Business and Literary World. [Salesman’s Sample...
Souvenir trade folder or brochure aimed at women from the World’s Columbian Exposition held in Chicago in 1893. Thomas Harper of Redditch, England advertises and..... Read More about Souvenir of the World’s Columbia Exposition, Chicago, U.S.A. [1893 Chicago Wold’s Fair sewing...
![Signed by Rosa Parks et al:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February...](/pictures/thumb/3729202_1.jpg?v=1580939229)
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 et al:] “Rosa Parks Wouldn’t Budge” within American Heritage, February...
![Five Photographs Showing Women Rifle Shooting and Camping in the Country]. Unkwn](/pictures/thumb/3729201_1.jpg?v=1581355750)
Silver process photographs showing a group of women in a rural setting enjoying camping and firearms. Three images show women rifle shooting or proudly posing..... Read More about Five Photographs Showing Women Rifle Shooting and Camping in the Country
Cabinet card photograph—possibly by an amateur woman photographer—showing a woman’s bedroom dresser, her personal belongings and mementos carefully arranged in an intimate scene of daily..... Read More about C. 1880s Cabinet Card Photograph of a Woman’s Bedroom Dresser, Possibly taken by a Woman...
Late Victorian-era to Edwardian-era child’s die stamped or rolled brass bracelet. The stamping depicts a panoramic scene of barnyard animals, including chickens, a cat pouncing..... Read More about Antique Brass Child’s Bracelet with Designs of House, Farmyard Animals; the Name “Nancy”...
![Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Portrait of Woman holding a Letter]. Anon](/pictures/thumb/3724701_1.jpg?v=1582587707)
Attractive mid-19th century watercolor portrait of a woman seated at a table or writing desk and holding a letter. Her face, coiffure, and lace-trimmed, black..... Read More about Nineteenth-Century Watercolor Portrait of Woman holding a Letter
Eighteenth century Philadelphia reprint of the autobiography of Richard Davies, a Welsh Quaker classic with early crude binding repairs. Laid in is a fragment, 1½..... Read More about An Account of the Convincement, Exercises, Services and Travels, of that Ancient Servant of the...
Lengthy and peculiar letter by a woman traveler, E.W. Carpenter, written to her nephew and niece in Lebanon Springs, New York, recounting a 7,000-mile journey..... Read More about 1890 Woman’s Autograph Letter Signed describing Her Being “Poisoned” and Fearful of Being...
Manuscript articles of agreement, first proposed in 1794 at Newburyport, Massachusetts, for the organization of an upper New England-wide millennial church; subscribed to by a...... Read More about An agreement first proposed at N. Port (Mass.)...for ye purpose of lifting our devout prayers to...
The fourth volume in writer, poet, and civil rights activist Maya Angelou’s autobiography, chronicling events taking place between 1957 and 1962 including her work for..... Read More about The Heart of a Woman
Glass lantern projection slide showing two African American women working in a nursery room as childcare caretakers for white children. A handwritten caption reading “Children’s..... Read More about Glass Lantern Slide Showing African American Women Caretakers in a Day Nursery with White Children
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. [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...
From the Dedication, in part: “To My Wife, Alyse. This is the book you help me to do,—the one that the white publishers would not..... 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
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
