Women's Work
Women's Work, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Gender Roles
[1860]. The 6.75" paper doll is printed on polished paper applied to card stock. Her occupation is yarn winding. Each of her costumes, sit atop the paper doll and demonstrate a different female occupation of the day. Definitely all considered women's work for the aristocratic set. The occupations include tatting.....
Price: $2,350.00
Mother's Helper
1920s. A hard cover folio with a watercolor of an elegant lady holding a feather fan on the front cover. The insert is a Ladies' Laundry List booklet. It includes approximately 75 unused pages of items to be laundered. The left side is the laundry list to be retained by.....
Price: $95.00
sewing, sewing cards, women's work, business history,
Cedar Falls, IA; Huntington, WV; Memphis, TN: J. S. Latta Inc., ? A set of four sewing cards were produced by the J. S. Latta Company, which sold a variety of school products. These four were a sample of the 30 different sewing patterns. The cards come with their original.....
Price: $85.00
Women's History, Social History, Women's Liberation
Boston: c1977. An 8 1/2" x 11" two-sided typewritten and mimeographed newsletter. Includes information on New Study Groups, Equal Rights Panel, M.O.R.A.L. Teach-In, Females and Self-Defense, Washington Conference, Street Rallies, B. U. Women's Center, and Self-Defense. This is followed by a Calendar of events for October 13-18. The group was.....
Price: $90.00
Feminism, Literary Criticism, Public Speaking and Lectures, Suffrage
Brookline, Massachusetts: 1902. Printed card (2.25" by 3.75", verso blank) promoting a 1902 lecture by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) in Brookline, Massachusetts. Howe was a poet, women's suffrage leader, and audodidact who may be best known today for penning the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” published in the Atlantic Monthly.....
Price: $85.00
Breast Cancer,Self Examination,American Cancer Society
United States: American Cancer Society, 1952. An informational pamphlet for nurses, encouraging them to instruct female patients to perform self examinations to screen for breast cancer. Includes detailed directions for how to perform a self exam with diagrams. Emphasizes the importance of knowing local resources for women seeking medical help.....
Price: $225.00
Nursing, Educational Booklets, WWII, Home Front Health
United States: 1942-1949. A grouping of ephemera related to nurses in training during World War Two. Includes five items, and a total of ten discrete objects within those items. The items include: 1. Ephemera of Ellen Ely Lane, nurse in training at the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, 1944-1945.....
Price: $650.00
Silk embroidery, embroidery, needle point, needle artwork
New London, CT: The Brainerd & Armstrong Company, 1898. 76 pp. A guide with comprehensive descriptions of items sold and instructions on how to utilize them in order to make embroidery or the like. The cover is in color, designed to look like an embroidered rose. There are 21 color.....
Price: $70.00
Anson Randolph, American Paper Dolls,
New York: Anson D.F. Randolph, 1857. The family is all together with the seven members: Father, Mother, Miss Adelaide, Clara, George, Baby, and Bridget the Nurse. Each doll has multiple hand- colored costumes that match with their age and character. Most with three costumes, two with two costumes, Miss Adelaide.....
Price: $500.00
Teachers and Educators,Pennsylvania Dutch,Women in Teaching
Lancaster, Pennsylvania: 1877. An 1877 provisional certificate inscribed in ink for Annie Hissler of Lancaster Pennsylvania, signed by the Superintendent of the district's schools, B.F. Shaub. It certifies that the newly qualified teacher "is a person of good moral character, and has passed an examination" in the subjects of orthography.....
Price: $175.00
Entertainment, Women's Work, Quartette
Boston, MA: Holland (photographer), 1880s. A 9 3/4" x 13 1/4" photograph on card on a slightly larger mount captioned "Ariel Quartette". Depicts the four singer in a parlor scene, perhaps the studio, presumably in performance attire as each of their light colored dresses is adorned with floral garlands. A......
Price: $225.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Workforce,8-hour Work Day
Washington, D.C. Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor, 1921. A scarce bulletin issued in 1921 by the Women’s Bureau of the U.S. Department of Labor. The bulletin notes a recent rise in women entering the workforce, and argues that women are physiologically unable to labor the same number.....
Price: $300.00
Female Preacher, Evangelist, Healer, Proselytizing
1920-1930. A 17 1/2" x 10" heavy card stock poster The title reads Come Hear Mattie Crawford - The great woman preacher tell the story of Jesus in simplicity and power. This is followed by a somewhat ethereal appearing image from a photograph of Crawford in a white dress holding.....
Price: $425.00
Parenting, Children
United States: Little Toidey, 1924-1955. A grouping of seven (7) booklets advertising toilet training products, Little Toidey by Juvenile Wood Products, Inc., published between 1924 and 1955, marketed towards wives and mothers. It was designed to sit atop of an adult toilet. Exemplifies the evolution of the product over 30.....
Price: $550.00
Nursing Education,Nursing Schools
White Plains, New York: Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing, 1918. Printed rule book for the Bloomingdale Hospital School of Nursing in White Plains, published in 1918. An important view into the daily life of a nurse in training, one of the few careers paths open to women outside the home.....
Price: $150.00
Bookbinding, Salesman Sample, History of the book.
Baltimore, MD & Chicago, IL: Baumgarteg & Company AND Banghart & Fischer, [September 13, 1915]. A resale company has has sent salesman sample pieces of book binding supplies to an art teach as noted in the correspondence below. The first item is a singular sample of "Russet Crepe" which has.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-RBMS-2023, Sewing Sample Book,Learn to Sew
United States: c.1918. A notebook with sewing and fabric samples created by a student named Esther Cope for two courses, "Sewing 111" and "Sewing 112". Includes fifteen (15) samples of her sewing work, and twenty-five (25) fabric samples for learning about different kinds of textiles (e.g. silk, chiffon, linen, gingham.....
Price: $600.00
Socialist Party of America, Socialism, Women and Socialism, American Social Movements, Nurses , ABAA-RBMS-2023
United States: 1910. An official Socialist Party of America Membership Card, recording the membership of Connecticut resident Clarissa Louisa Pendleton. On the verso are twenty (20) official Socialist Party stamps, showing that Pendleton has paid dues for each month; there is also a larger "special stamp" issued as a "Special.....
Price: $600.00
Newspaper Supplement, Cookery, Community Cookbook
c1910. A 32 pp what appears to be a newspaper supplement printed on newsprint. The front cover depicts a woman in a kitchen preparing a recipe. Illustration marked D. C. Rudolph. The forward is titled Recipes by Famouse Clevland Cooks, Published by The Cleveland News for Distribution Among Its Readers.....
Price: $100.00
nurse, nursing, medical, medical journal, nursing journal, medicine, women in medicine
New York: Lakeside Publishing Co, Sep-26. 111 pp journal on nursing. The 'Trained Nurse and Hospital Review' was the pioneer nursing publication in American and it ran from 1893 to 1950. This item is the September 1926 issue. The front cover features a photograph of Stella Boothe Vail (a prominent.....
Price: $65.00
Silk embroidery, embroidery, needle point, needle artwork
New York: M Heminway Sons Silk Co., c1900. 107 pp. A comprehensive guide to various patterns for needle point utilizing the manufacturer's products to make them. This catalog is the 8th in the series. It starts with a beginners guide to needlepoint, along with B&W photographs of the various stitches.....
Price: $50.00
Fibers and Textiles, Doilies, Tatting, Lace, Handmade
United States: 1900. Two (2) handmade books by the same anonymous maker displaying twelve (12) handmade "fibre doyleys". Each doily is unique and measures approx. 5.5" in diameter; the fiber used appears to be a very, very fine organic fiber . Displays the anonymous maker's remarkably fine hand skills. Each.....
Price: $475.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, WWII,Home Economics,Textile Rationing and Conservation in WWII,The American Homemaker
United States: c.1943. Two (2) items documenting textile rationing on the homefront during the Second World War, in which cottons and other fabrics were conserved to support the troops abroad. The first item is a printed wrapper used to wrap around a bed sheet for sale by Pepperdell Manufacturing Company.....
Price: $225.00
WAC, Women's Army Corps, WAAC, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WAVES, Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service, United States Naval Women's Reserve, SPARS, USGS, United States Coast Guard, United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve, MCWR, World W
Wilson Jones Co, c1945. A collection of blank Honorable Discharge papers for female service members of the Armed Forces. These services branches include the Army's Women's Army Corps (WAC, formally known as Women's Army Auxiliary Corps WAAC), the Navy's Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVE), the Marine's United States.....
Price: $450.00