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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $600.00
Socialist Party of America, Socialism, Women and Socialism, American Social...
United States: 1910. An official Socialist Party of America Membership Card, recording the membership of Connecticut resident Clarissa Louisa Pendleton...
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...
Price: $100.00
nurse, nursing, medical, medical journal, nursing journal, medicine, women in...
New York: Lakeside Publishing Co, Sep-26. 111 pp journal on nursing. The 'Trained Nurse and Hospital Review' was the pioneer...
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...
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...
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...
Price: $225.00
WAC, Women's Army Corps, WAAC, Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WAVES...
Wilson Jones Co, c1945. A collection of blank Honorable Discharge papers for female service members of the Armed Forces. These...
Price: $450.00