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Irving Female College, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania [1856 circular].

Circular letter announcing the inaugural session of Irving Female College, the first women’s college in Pennsylvania to grant degrees in arts and sciences. The school..... Read More about Irving Female College, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania [1856 circular

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3733422] 1887 to 1898 diary kept by Jennie M. Bromley Butler of Rockville in Tolland County,...

1887 to 1898 diary kept by Jennie M. Bromley Butler of Rockville in Tolland County, Connecticut.

Jennie M. Bromley Butler (1860–1940), daughter of Orrin Bromley, a machinist, maintained this modest diary during different periods in her twenties and thirties. She was..... Read More about 1887 to 1898 diary kept by Jennie M. Bromley Butler of Rockville in Tolland County, Connecticut

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3733323] “To the Women of Canada.” First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force recruiting...

“To the Women of Canada.” First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force recruiting broadside.

A recruitment leaflet issued by the Royal Grenadiers Overseas Battalion, 123rd Canadian Expeditionary Force urging women to shun and shame men refusing to fight in..... Read More about “To the Women of Canada.” First World War Canadian Expeditionary Force recruiting broadside

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3733222] Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of...

Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of “Trifles,” a feminist drama by Susan Glaspell.

Photograph of the soundstage and set of an experimental, early television production of Helen Glaspell’s one-act play Trifles. The 1916 play, based on a real-life..... Read More about Ca. 1950s Photograph of the soundstage of an experimental television production of “Trifles,”...

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3733198] First World War-Era Florida women’s display at the Hernando County, Florida...

First World War-Era Florida women’s display at the Hernando County, Florida Courthouse.

This unusual ca. 1918 photograph illustrates the home front contributions of Hernando County women to aid the war effort. The image shows an elaborate, prominently..... Read More about First World War-Era Florida women’s display at the Hernando County, Florida Courthouse

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3733001] A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson:...

A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson: Including the Constitution of the United States; a Statistical View of the Grand Federal Procession; Mr. Wilson’s Oration; Washington’s Farewell Address, & &.

Philadelphian John Hewson (1745–1821) has been described as the first calico printer in America. He served during the Revolution and was captured near Burlington, New..... Read More about A Brief History of the Revolution, with a Sketch of the Life of Captain John Hewson: Including...

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A Princess of The Stage.

Translated into English by Elise L. Lathrop. An unrecorded American dime novel edition of this tragic-comedic tale by Nataly von Eschstruth (1860-1939) involving “a romantic..... Read More about A Princess of The Stage

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3733151] Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the...

Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the fourth Florida District… [caption title]

News photo of Democratic U.S. Representative Ruth Bryan Owen, the first woman elected to Congress from Florida and later the first female American ambassador. A...... Read More about Congresswoman Takes to Air For Survey – Mrs. Ruth Bryan Owen, Congresswoman from the fourth...

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King Log and Lady Lea.

First edition, first impression. The second novel by this American-British suffragist and author. Scarce. London: Constable and Co. Ltd., 1929. 305, [1], [vi]pp. Octavo. Publisher’s..... Read More about King Log and Lady Lea

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Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces [1913-1927]. (Signed and inscribed by Carl Van Vechten)

First edition, firs printing. Volume III of the Yale Edition of the unpublished writings of Gertrude Stein, under the general editorship of Carl Van Vechten..... Read More about Bee Time Vine and Other Pieces [1913-1927]. (Signed and inscribed by Carl Van Vechten

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Dynevor Terrace: or, The Clue of Life.

First American edition of this two-volume tale by the English author Charlotte M. Yonge that chronicles the activities, and the extensive travels, of the Dynevor..... Read More about Dynevor Terrace: or, The Clue of Life

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She Shall Have Music.

An obscure 1920s American novel written by this suffragette who married Llewelyn Powys. Gregory was also an editor of The Dial magazine. Her first novel..... Read More about She Shall Have Music

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Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black.

First edition, first printing. A collection of stories published one year after the author’s death. Cookie Mueller starred in John Waters’s films, Pink Flamingoes and..... Read More about Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

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3732009] [The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873...

[The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional Ephemera].

An ephemeral record of the brief, exploited lives of the Fairy Sisters, two diminutive performers often touted as the smallest persons in the world. The..... Read More about The Fairy Sisters. Midget Performers Cassie and Victoria Foster, ca. 1872–1873 Promotional...

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A Marsh Island. [First Gay American Novel]

Dr. Don James McLaughlin at the University of Tulsa has proposed that Jewett’s work is the first gay American novel. “In A Marsh Island, the..... Read More about A Marsh Island. [First Gay American Novel

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Eighty Years and More (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.

First edition of Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s autobiography, an “account of her life as one of the leading thinkers and activists of American feminism [and] an..... Read More about Eighty Years and More (1815-1897): Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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3731503] 1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then...

1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then owned by her sister, Helen Osgood Kingman.

“Mrs. Kingman, If you please, Think of me, at twilight hour, And I will think of thee.” The Osgoods of Cincinnatus, New York, John Osgood..... Read More about 1836–1840 friendship album owned by Mary S. Osgood of Cincinnatus, New York and then owned by...

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This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed)

A member of the Chicago Black Renaissance, Margaret Walker (1915–1998) was the first woman to receive a national writing prize (1942) and her novel Jubilee..... Read More about This is My Century: New and Collected Poems. (Signed

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[Three Unrecorded Theatrical Pamphlets published by the School Publishing Co.].

Three play, pantomime, and stage dialogue scripts written by two obscure women writers and one anonymous author. School Publishing Company of Darrowville, Ohio printed a...... Read More about Three Unrecorded Theatrical Pamphlets published by the School Publishing Co

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Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories.

Ruth Clement was a Quaker physician. Where she earned her medical degree is unknown, but in her book —a mixture of poetry, short stories, and..... Read More about Under the Olive Tree. Songs and Stories

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Mrs. General Booth ... Salvation Army Publishing Department. [caption title]

Cabinet card photograph of evangelist Catherine Booth (1829–1890), wife of General William Booth, founder of the Salvation Army. She was a prolific writer for the..... Read More about Mrs. General Booth ... Salvation Army Publishing Department. [caption title

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Double Darling and the Dream Spinner.

The story of Double Darling, a girl who is “twice as good and twice as beautiful as other children.” With color illustrations, using black and..... Read More about Double Darling and the Dream Spinner

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Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems.

First edition. Scarce volume of self-published poetry by a retired schoolteacher and native of Sandy Creek, New York who removed to a farm in Gilboa..... Read More about Ballads of the Hard Hills and other Poems

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[Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers].

An almost life-size portrait of Phillis Wheatley (1753–1784), the eminent eighteenth-century American poet, issued by the Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C. The firm was..... Read More about Large Portrait Print of Phillis Wheatley, issued by the Associated Publishers

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England’s Girls and England’s Future.

A 1917 small pamphlet issued by the National Council for Combating Venereal Diseases; published as sex education to teach women of the ills of syphilis..... Read More about England’s Girls and England’s Future

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