Women's Work
World War I, Homefront, Women's History
United War Work Campaign, 1918. An 11 3/4" x 8" paper window display depicting an eagle atop a banner. It reads " A girl from this home has enrolled in the VICTORY GIRLS to earn and give to make our fighters fit". United War Work Campaign surrounds the banner. Reverse.....
Price: $150.00
ABAA-WINTER-2024, Women in the Military,U.S. Navy,20th Century Career Women
United States: U.S. Navy, 1950s. A recruitment booklet promoting careers for women in the Navy, featuring a photo of a smiling and sharply-uniformed young woman walking towards the camera with battleships in the background. When the booklet is fully unfolded, it reads in large letters, "JOIN THE WAVES". Offers brief.....
Price: $325.00
Women's Organizations,Women's Advancement
Boston, Massachusetts: Women's Educational and Industrial Union, 1957. A printed February, 1957 bulletin for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union, including a list of lectures and events for the month, with a form of bequest for donations. The Women's Educational and Industrial Union was formed in 1877 by the woman's.....
Price: $175.00
home economics, periodicals, magazines, women's history, religion, charity, women's work
Elmira, NY: Banner Publishing Company, March 1897. A magazine that was a Christian, educational and patriotic periodical that was published on a bimonthly basis devoted to the ideals of "Christianity, culture and civism" in women. The magazine provided the reader with articles on a variety of topics, such as charity.....
Price: $85.00
Social History, Women's History
Camp Hill, ALA: 1915. Two letters from Alice G. Teele, an instructor at The Southern Industrial Institute, for the Training of White Youth writing to Mrs. Eugene Howlett, Charleston SC. The content relates to what appears to be the socially prominent of the area and there comings and going; politely.....
Price: $95.00
Domestic Work, Women and Work, Domestic Sphere , ABAA-RBMS-2023
Boston, Massachusetts: American Unitarian Association, 1912. An article acknowledging the importance of women's domestic work in the form of domestic service, and discussing the complex relationship between maid and mistress: "The fact is that, both mistress and maid occupy a sphere where honor and trust and disinterested hard work must.....
Price: $250.00
woman guide, housekeeping guide, cookbook, recipe, american housekeeper
New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1873. 482 pp. Decorative green cloth covers with gilt stamp."Approved by Physicians of All Classes", this book was part cookbook, part health manual, and part domestic guide. It sought to codify and simplify the information and skills needed to efficiently and effectively run any.....
Price: $60.00
Prostitution, Public health, sex education, sexually transmitted diseases and infections, World War I, venereal diseases, sex and gender, misogyny, stereotypes
YMCA, 1918. An informational pamphlet discouraging servicemen from having sex with prostitutes, published towards the end of the war for the Sex Education Bureau of the National War Work Council of the YMCA. It begins by asserting that "Nearly every prostitute is diseased" (p. 1), and that, given the consequences.....
Price: $125.00
pocket diary, daily life, women's history, journal, social & cultural
Oneida Castle, New York: 1868. A pocket diary belonging to E. M. Cole, an unidentified woman living in Oneida Castle, NY. The diary starts of with several printed pages of general information, such as the calendar for the year, including phases of the moon, church holidays, postal money orders, and.....
Price: $175.00
History of Charleston, American South, Women Authors
Charleston, South Carolina: William G. Mazyck, 1870. "Days of Yore" is a historical account of Charleston, South Carolina, divided into four "letters" penned "By the Ancient Lady" (i.e. Elizabeth Anne Poyas), and includes excerpts of poetry, biographical and genealogical information, and musings on local history. Poyas had a distinctive writing.....
Price: $175.00
women's history] [women's wages] [dissertations
New York: Columbia University Press, 1919. 179 pp. light green paperback printed cover, introduction plus 9 chapters. "Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the faculty of political science Columbia University. Includes the wages, factors affecting,cause and effect of minimum wages, vocation.....
Price: $30.00
Nannies and Nurses,Drawings by Children,Drawing Family
Ocean Grove, New Jersey: 1900. A charming children's drawing of a nurse taking her young charge for a walk in a pram, offered together with original photographs of both. The drawing has been helpfully captioned in ink by an adult: "Allen Anderson and his nurse Alice Sennel drawn and colored.....
Price: $150.00
Women's Work, Paper Dolls, Advertising to Children, Pretend Play
Lynn, MA: Geo. E. March Co., M.F. Tobin (litho), c1888. Two (2) uncut 7" x 4" advertising paper doll sheets and three (3) cut paper dolls from the Busy Housemaid series presented by Good-Will Soap. Beneath the Busy Housemaid title is a list of days and related activities for the.....
Price: $175.00
social & cultural, classes and movements, women's work, women's history, religion, Ngoi-Mani Mission, Belgian Congo
Ngoimani, DR Congo: Ngoi-Mani Mission, 1932. The annual report of the women's work being done at the Ngoi-Mani Mission, which was located in a small valley by the name of Ngoimani just north of a town called Mwanza in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It should be noted that in.....
Price: $90.00
friendship, autograph, poetry, verse, gender roles
Ligonier, Pennsylvania: 1881-1887. Matilda J Peterson was born in 1866 in Ligonier, Pennsylvania and died in1958 (according to a note at the back of the album). This album was given to her by W. A. Peterson for Christmas in 1881. The album is partially filled with short notes, generally in.....
Price: $95.00
Land Promotion, Women's Work, Louisiana
Louisiana Building, 1882. 4 pp promoting the city of Lake Charles and the surrounding area. The cover depicts an image from a photograph of tropical fruit and verses by Longfellow and Townsend. Presented by Miss Della A. Neal, Parish Delegate. Includes information on Rivers, Timber, Prairie, The lay of the.....
Price: $225.00
education, women, nurse, sanitarium, Seventh-Day Adventist
Melrose, MA: 1905. A three page invite for the graduating class of 1905 for the New England Sanitarium, Training School for Missionary Nurses. Located along the border between the two Massachusetts towns of Stoneham and Melrose, the sanitarium and nursing school were apart of a Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The sanitarium.....
Price: $55.00
scrapbook, works by children, education, teacher, principle, copper
New York: 1949. Anna Louisee Nufer retired as Principle of New York PS 86 on September 19, 1949. On that day she was presented with a scrap book made by the teachers and students of PS 86. The covers are green leather with a tooled copper illustration of the story.....
Price: $325.00
food & wine, women's work, home economics, brewing, recipe
New York, NY: Robert Sears, 1848. A book for housewives containing numerous receipts, or recipes, as they are now called. Both words are derived from the Latin verb 'recipere' which means to 'receive or take'. The book provides 'receipts' for a variety of items, from over two dozen different types.....
Price: $75.00
Camp Fire Girls, Scouts, Youth Groups, Women and Friendship, Pen Pals, Elizabeth II, Royal Family
Hood River, Oregon: 1946-1952. A binder filled with ephemera and manuscript material that comprises a remarkable record of one girl's time as a Camp Fire Girl in the mid- to late-1940s in Hood River, Oregon. Belonging to Sue Murphy, the binder (11" by 9.5") is made of green cloth and.....
Price: $600.00
Family Magazine,Gardening
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 1881. A monthly periodical published with content for the whole family, including a charming "Juvenile Department" with stories for children. This particular issue is of note for an article that mentions "animalcules", an early conception of microorganisms, and explores their role in the potability of water ("Are the.....
Price: $125.00