![Mrs. Barney’s Letter to Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. [Textile Broadside]....](/pictures/thumb/3728673_1.jpg?v=1555967241)
Mrs. Barney’s Letter to Andrew Jackson, President of the United States. [Textile Broadside]
“The natural timidity of my sex vanishes before the necessity of my situation; and a spirit, sir, as proud as yours, although in a female.....
Women
Women Writers, Women’s Rights, Women’s Suffrage, Working Class Women, Etc.
Standards of Relief: an Analysis of One Hundred Family Case Records.
A notable Black American First. In 1937, Baltimore-born Anna Roselle Johnson a.k.a. Anna Johnson Julian became the first black American woman to receive a doctorate.....
![The Messenger Bird. [Friendship Album, published c. 1850s with 1859–1882 entries]....](/pictures/thumb/3728649_1.jpg?v=1555520833)
The Messenger Bird. [Friendship Album, published c. 1850s with 1859–1882 entries].
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...
![Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title]. Unkwn., and, 1850–1920, Charles Garvice.](/pictures/thumb/3728555_1.jpg?v=1555520828)
Confessions of a French Stenographer [cover title].
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.....
[1860 Maine Temperance Manuscript Address mentioning Slavery and discussing the Role of Women in Temperance Associations].
Temperance address delivered by Thomas Small, Esq. of Andover, Oxford County, Maine¹ at the annual meeting of the Union Temperance Association of Woodstock, in the.....
[1854 Document Signed concerning the willing of the Infant Slave Elizabeth, the Child of Enslaved Woman Amanda in Wake County, North Carolina].
Slaves being distributed to their heirs, including one infant child: A Document Signed proving and registering the release of a claim by the heirs of...
Album of Love [Mystic, Connecticut Friendship Album, published c. 1850s with 1859–1861 entries].
Album of Love is an apt title for this friendship album from Mystic, Connecticut. From the poetical Dedication inscription written by E. S. Stanley: This...
Niederlassungen der armen Schulschwestern de Notre Dame diesseits des Oceans. Zur Erinnerung an das Fünfzigjährige Profeß-Jubiläum unserer Ehrwürdigen Mutter General-Oberin Maria Margarita von Cortona Widemann am 17. April 1889.
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...
Rachel. A Play in Three Acts.
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.....
Art of Massage.
A thinly-clad smiling woman, bosom exposed, graces the cover of this curious patent medicine booklet. Targeted at women, the product of the day was Dr...
![Little Lady [cover title of McLoughlin Bros. Paper Doll “Toy Book”]. Manfr McLoughlin Bros.](/pictures/thumb/3728602_1.jpg?v=1554937774)
Little Lady [cover title of McLoughlin Bros. Paper Doll “Toy Book”].
Unused toy or paper doll book with both chromolithographic and hand-colored illustrations, published by McLoughlin Bros., noted New York City children’s book publisher and toy.....
The Baby’s Mind: A Study For College Women. A paper presented to the Association of Collegiate Alumnæ...Oct. 27, 1894.
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...
![Miss Nellie H. Rawson ... Dealer in Human Hair ... All shades of Hair Purchased ... [trade card]....](/pictures/thumb/3728521_1.jpg?v=1554937771)
Miss Nellie H. Rawson ... Dealer in Human Hair ... All shades of Hair Purchased ... [trade card].
Trade card for Paris Hill, Maine dealer in human hair, Miss Nellie Rawson. Rawson’s product line included “Switches, Braids, Puffs, Curls, Frizzes, Front Pieces, Wigs.....
[1813 Writ of Detention concerning the Surrender of the Slave Woman Lucy and the Slave Girl Nancy in Orange County, North Carolina].
War of 1812-era partly printed writ of detention concerning two female slaves in Orange County North Carolina. Court Clerk John Taylor orders the sheriff to.....
Le Pays de L’Or. Pièce à Grand Spectacle en 3 actes et 14 tableaux.
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.....
[1822 Writ of Detention concerning the Surrender of a Two Slave Girls Named Lucy and Nancy in Orange County, North Carolina].
Partly printed writ of detention, with imprint, concerning two slave girls in Orange County North Carolina. Court Clerk John Taylor orders the sheriff to convey.....
![Uniforms by Angelica. Founded 1878–63 Years of Uniform Leadership [cover title]. Angelica...](/pictures/thumb/3728448_1.jpg?v=1551119228)
Uniforms by Angelica. Founded 1878–63 Years of Uniform Leadership [cover title].
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...
![Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]. Rosa Parks, with Jim Haskins.](/pictures/thumb/3727568_1.jpg?v=1552928941)
Rosa Parks: My Story. [Signed by Rosa Parks]
Autobiographical memoir by this icon of the American Civil Rights Movement during the 1950s, made famous by her refusal to give up her seat to...
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.....
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.....
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.....
[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...
![[Spelman College:] Campus Mirror. Commencement Issue. Volume XX. 1944 Number 8. Nina Charlton,...](/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...
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[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...
![[1880–1885, Miss Amanda L. Rockefeller Daily Diary / Calling and Visiting Book]. Amanda L....](/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.....