Women's History
Fashion, Department Stores
Boston, Massachusetts: A. Shuman & Company, 1880. Handbill advertising the Grand Re-Opening of Boston department store A. Shuman & Company, featuring a charming "Historical Plate, Showing Costumes from the 1st Century to Present Date". Lithographically reproduced from the original French plate titled "Grand Panorama Historique de la Mode", the illustration.....
Price: $150.00
Made by Hand, Parlor Game, Memory and Concentration
A handmade parlor game housed in a blue paper covered pressed board box not original to the set. The top card reads "Keep Your Temper". All cards have hand penned borderlines. The game consists of 15 matching sets of four designs. The designs appear to have been cut from hand.....
Price: $650.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade paper doll with original watercolor artwork of a young Victorian woman in day wear, evening wear, and outerwear, including a feathered bonnet. Original pencil and watercolor, doll measures 5.25", includes doll and 8 (eight) separate outfits.
Price: $375.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: c.1890. An elegant handmade paper doll with original art depicting a young woman in upper-class late Victorian clothing. Doll is accompanied by eight (8) outfits including day wear, evening wear, and outerwear. Three of the outfits show her holding a book, a kitten, and white roses. Each outfit.....
Price: $450.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1930s-1940s. Original paper doll artwork for a stylish modern woman, "Etta", with twenty (20) outfits, one (1) large matching hat, and one (1) pink fur-lined wrap. Etta's style is very Hollywood glam. Original ink, colored pencil, and watercolor on paper, each outfit with tabs to secure onto the.....
Price: $275.00
Watercolor, Newspapers and Periodicals
United States: c.1824. Handmade scrapbook filled with newspaper clippings and original watercolors, the second captioned "Cornucopia or Horn of plenty". The book itself has been handmade from scrap paper including manuscript waste with arithmetic lessons, as well as repurposed newspaper (The Mercury, 1818). There are two large watercolors of flowers.....
Price: $325.00
Made by Hand, Love and Friendship, Paper with a Secret
[1880]. A 2.25" x 2.25" hand made "cobweb" or "beehive", an applied scrap of a cherub holding a bird anchoring the fringed pull and adorning the sliced paper cover. When lifted it exposes two women who are obviously friends; one is doing needlework. Reverse is blank. Token of love or.....
Price: $225.00
Advertising, Fashion, Women, Business
Cincinnati, Ohio: Queen City Suspender Company, [1880s?]. Advertisement for Mrs. Smith's Skirt Suspenders, sold by the Queen City Suspender Co. of Cincinnati, with confident claims: "The most desirable and beneficial article ever invented for the relief of women, many of whom have suffered long years of miserable health, caused solely.....
Price: $175.00
Beauty, Anti-Aging, Hollywood
Trenton, New Jersey: Wings Products Co., 1940s. "Lines Vanish" and "Youth Returns" with Hollywood Wings, a box of "medicated frown and wrinkle eradicators" that describe themselves as "the secret of Hollywood beauty". The twenty (20) unused adhesive wings are housed in the original illustrated box (approx. 2.5" by 1.25" by.....
Price: $150.00
Home Front, Women's Work
New York, NY: 1918. An 18 pp report. wraps. Illustrations and floor plans throughout. The purpose of the report was to recommend apartment building style accommodations for women working in industrialized areas in an effort to support the work. It discusses how the Girls should be grouped 1. Younger girls.....
Price: $125.00
Public Health, Breast Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland: American Cancer Society, c.1975. Printed tri-fold pamphlet (9" by 3.75" folded) with an illustrated three-step guide to performing a self breast exam. Encourages the reader to perform a self examination monthly, and details warning signs and what to do if a lump is located. Includes black ink.....
Price: $85.00
Amateur Journalists, Women's History
1902. 14 deckled edge pp. (54-68) booklet with illustrated covers and string tie binding. The first page has a tipped in photo of the first president of the association in 1876. The book is structured with side-note captions in red print along with inkdrops in black print. The editorial titled.....
Price: $175.00
Gender Roles, Women's History
Dansville NY: Fowler & Whitaker, Dry Goods, [1874]. Palmer's Patent 1869. A 7 3/4" x 4" A leaflet promoting the Jacqueline Corset. Trademark images at top. It begins "Every Lady should exercise the utmost care in the selection of her Corsets. No article of a Lady's wardrobe is more important.....
Price: $115.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York: McLoughlin, 1892. Two-sided printing. 9 1/2" cut paper doll with with five (5) two-sided dresses and four (4) hats With original envelope with directions for making the doll on envelope flap. Not pictured, nor described in Howard.
Price: $150.00
drawings, watercolor, poetry, poem, flower, plants, fairy tales, retellings
c1880. 68 pg journal filled with poetry and watercolors of flora. There are a total of 25 poems in the journal, as some cover multiple pages, however this is a watercolor piece on every page depicting various flowers. At times one can see the pencil the artist used to sketch.....
Price: $525.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Social History, Boxed Set
Germany: Unknown, c1850s. A 6 1/2" x 4 1/2" paper covered pressed board box with applied hand colored litho cover depicts a group of little girls in an outdoor setting. Applied gilt border decoration ox top. The content includes two (2) identical 4 1/2" two-sided paper dolls of the same.....
Price: $725.00
Women's Lingerie
Boston, Massachusetts: La Jeanne, 1930s. Photographically illustrated advertising pamphlet for La Jeanne brand lace control garments, including prices and fabrics for each of the five different models available. Options available for both "the Slighter Figure" and "the Larger Figure". Tri-fold pamphlet (6.25" by 3.25" folded, 9.25" by 3.25" unfolded), photographic.....
Price: $115.00
advertising, women's history, beauty, make-up, Lady Claire Face Powder, face powder, product sample, business history
Toledo, OH: Lorenz & Co., [1887-1890]. A small collection of four (4) pieces of materials relating to Lorenz & Co. a perfumatory and maker of cosmetic products in Toledo, OH. The first item in the collection is a small envelope housing a product sample of Lady Claire Face Powder, which.....
Price: $150.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York: McLoughlin, c1875. Two-sided printing. 7" cut paper doll with with four (4) two-sided dresses and no hats With original envelope with directions for making the doll on reverse of envelope. From the Series No. 2 - Medium Sized Dolls found in the 1875-76 Catalogue of Toys Books, Paper.....
Price: $215.00
Women's Suffrage, Ellen H. Clapsaddle
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Wolf & Co., 1910s. A rather charming women's suffrage-themed Valentine postcard, with artwork by Ellen H. Clapsaddle (1865-1934) depicting a baby girl wearing a bright yellow "Votes for Women" sash and the tagline "Love me, Love my Vote". Measures 5.25" by 3.5". Contemporary pencil inscription to verso: "Eva.....
Price: $150.00
Crinoline, Satire, Mockery, Social History, Women's History, Fashion and Costume
London: S. Marks & Sons, 1850s. Title caption reads Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame on him who thinks ill of it”.) (Motto of the Order of the Garter). A hand colored lithograph depicting a woman tying her shoe causing her crinoline to rise and expose her other leg.....
Price: $250.00
Crinoline, Satire, Mockery, Social History, Women's History, Fashion and Costume
London: S. Marks & Sons, 1850s. Title caption reads Honi soit qui mal y pense (Shame on him who thinks ill of it”.) (Motto of the Order of the Garter). W. H. Harrisoon illustrator. A hand colored lithograph depicting a woman playing with a hoop and dog; the edge of.....
Price: $250.00
peter pan, celebrity
Akron, OH: Saalfield Publishing, 1942. Mary Martin is perhaps most famous for her role as Peter Pan in the televised stage production of Peter Pan. Outfits include a wide variety of styles, from the more modern to historical. The dolls need to be cut out from the front cover. Authorized.....
Price: $65.00
Albums, Memento Albums, Victorian, Love & Friendship
New York: J.E. Riker, c.1850 - 1870s. A memento album belonging to Miss Miranda C. Frost of West Cambridge [Massachusetts], dated 1853, partially filled with 15 entries by mostly family and family. Most of the entries are from the 1830s with one exception; one penned to "Mother" in 1870. The.....
Price: $225.00