Women's History
Perfume and Toiletries, Women's Fashion, Beauty
United States: Lynas Perfumer, 1920s. "Milady's Toilet": a 6 pp. tri-fold advertising pamphlet with chromolithographed illustrations for Lynas brand perfumes and toiletries, a company that "for over fifty years has been helping to beautify and glorify American women" (p. [1]). Includes descriptions and illustrations of the brand's products, as well.....
Price: $110.00
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
Literary Poster
A 17 5/8" x 12" literary poster for The New York Sunday World - Sunday, Feb 16th (c1895) 3 Magazines Combined iwht all the News bedised. - McDougall ll up in a Balloon (Albuquerque balloon festival), Eight Colored Comic Pages, Fully of Breezy Features and Escape of the Crooks...
Price: $375.00
anti-Semitism, Nazi, Paper Doll, Goering
London: Sunday Mirror Magazine Section, 1935. A two-page newspaper spread with an image from a photograph of Emmy Sonnemann, an illustration of Esther, Niece of Mordecai and Goring as a paper doll with five (5) Nazi and other costumes. The editor's note indicates the Sunday Mirror had recently confirmed Gorings.....
Price: $400.00
Paper with a Secret, Novelty Valentine, Women, Love and Friendship, Gender Roles
124 Cheapside, London: F. Passmore, [1890]. A single fold lace paper valentine titled "The requisite Contents of a Ladys' Dressing Case? Without these Articles none can be Complete The case is a paper grid with 20 presumed beauty with a larger casket at center. Includes items as Best Court Plaister.....
Price: $650.00
Women's Work, Work and Leisure, Employment, Telephone Operator, Switchboard Operator
New York: New York Telephone Co., c1910. A pamphlet (6" by 3.5") advertising employment opportunities for young women as telephone operators for the New York Telephone Company: "To young women 16 years of age or over, Telephone Operating offers important, fascinating and permanent work, in wholesome, refined surroundings and under.....
Price: $125.00
Women and Charitable Causes, History of New York, Prostitution and Fallen Women
New York, New York: The Institution, 1862. Vol. VI, No. 2 of the Monthly Record of the Five Points House of Industry, a society formed to counteract rising crime and poverty rates in New York in 1851. The recipients of the society's charity were often fallen women and prostitutes who.....
Price: $150.00
Overlay, Metamorphosis, Made by Hand, Social History
France: 1830s. A 3 1/2" x 2 1/2" watercolor bust of a women - side profile on a 9 1/4" x 7 1/8" card stock. This is accompanied by fourteen different overlays of costumes for women ranging from high fashion to region costumes. Intricate designs, all with hats. The hats.....
Price: $2,700.00
Women's History, Osteopathic, Osteopathic medicine, medicine, periodicals
Chicago, IL: American Osteopathic Assn, Jan-28. A volume of the journal of Osteopathic Health that focuses on women's health and how osteopathy can help. Osteopathy is a system of medical practice based on the theory that diseases are mostly due to loss of structural integrity of the body which can.....
Price: $65.00
Pretend Play, Children's Literature, Paper Dolls, Made by Hand
[1860]. Over 40 handmade water color paper dolls created after characters found in literature. Mostly people with a few animals. Some with self-stands others with make-do stands created for large checkers. A portion are two-sided. Some have varnished exteriors. They were created in the 1860s mostly after materials published in.....
Price: $3,400.00
Sentimental Novels, Female Characters, Toys Based on Books, Female Authors and Scribbling Women, Original Artwork
United States: c1860. A charming paper doll depicting the character Gertrude Flint from "The Lamplighter" by Maria Susanna Cummins, together with six overlays showing her in different circumstances: as "A School Girl"; "Nan Grant's Dependent"; "Mr. Armory's Daughter"; "Miss Emily's Friend"; "With the Kitten the Lamplighter Gave Her"; and "The.....
Price: $450.00
Georgia, the South, Women's Life, Reconstruction Era
Atlanta, Georgia: 1868. The double sided letter to the writer's mother shares an update about their life and gossip. The letter is written on Memphis and Charleston Railroad Letterhead from Atlanta, Georgia during the period of Reconstruction. The writer discusses recent illness, a bad cold, and general news about the.....
Price: $65.00
Costume, C. Bennette Moore, Photography
New Orleans: C. Bennette Moore, 1930s. A 13 3/4" x 10 3/4" photograph of two young women, perhaps sisters wearing identical gowns with matching oversized capes. Adorned with large applique four leaf clovers and long silk tassels at the collar of the cape. Unusual background with two archways or similar.....
Price: $375.00
Friendship Token, Plaited Hair, Love & Friendship
Galway: 1851. A 4" x 3 3/4" friendship sentiment with an eternal ring of plaited hair with a pink ribbon at base "In future years when turning to survey, The happy joys of many a well spent day. Recalling scenes of pleasure long gone by. If on this lock of.....
Price: $150.00
dream interpretation, horoscope, make up, cosmetics, advertising, astrology
Memphis, TN: Plough Chemical Company, 1927. An advertising booklet for Plough Chemical Company, a maker of cosmetics. 32 pp. Pictorial wraps. In addition to advertisements for their various products they also provide the horoscope for each astrological sign, as well as a method of interpreting one's dreams. They list a......
Price: $100.00
History of Bicycling, Invitations, Events
Upper Sandusky, Ohio: Wyandot Wheelmen, 1892. The Wyandot Wheelmen was a jovial group of cycling enthusiasts that hosted events for fellow bicyclists and their families. The present invitation invites "Yourself and Ladies" to their Second Select Ball, which featured a "Grand March" and music by Brauns' Orchestra. The invitation features.....
Price: $175.00
Ladoga Female Seminary, education, program, women's history, schools & universities
Ladoga, IN: Ladoga Female Seminary, October 29, 1860. A program for a recital to celebrated the second anniversary of the Bureau Society at the Ladoga Female Seminary. The program lists the essays given by the members, some of which were entitled "Wonders of the Deep", "Night in Eden" and "Let.....
Price: $75.00
Ladoga Female Seminary, education, program, women's history, schools & universities, graduation
Ladoga, IN: Ladoga Female Seminary, June 27, 1861. A program for the celebration of the sixth anniversary of the Ladoga Female Seminary as well as its graduation ceremony. The program lists what appear to be recitations of poems or essays by the students, interspersed with music between them. Some of.....
Price: $75.00
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Concerts and Recitals, Mendelssohn Quintette Club
Boston, Massachusetts: F.A. Searle, Printer, 1864. Program for a "grand organ concert" featuring Mrs. L.S. Frohock, and "Introducing the New Instrument, the 'Saxophone'". Originally developed in 1840 by Adolphe Sax, the instrument did not catch on in popularity in the States until the 1860s. Composers featured in this program include.....
Price: $150.00
Female Colleges, Women's History
1846-1900. A small collection o 12f promotional materials including catalogues, a circular, a journal, and announcements and letterheads. They date from 1846-1900 and are all from east of the Mississippi, They represent the following institutions; Of particular note is single-fold letterhead from Cooper Female Academy in Dayton OH from 1846.....
Price: $1,350.00
Social Welfare] [Menu
A single-fold 8 1/4" x 5 1/4" paper menu with printed outside cover and mimeographed bill of fare within. Well-rounded fare with prices ranging from 25 cents for a lettuce sandwich to $2.25 for Broiled Rump Steak. The significance of this menu is spelled out on the back cover "To.....
Price: $45.00
drawing books, friendship albums,Women's Army Auxiliary Corps, WWI, World War I, Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps
A astonishing friendship album filled with quotes, verses, and drawings belonging to Amelia Isabel Mackenzie, a member of the W.A.A.C. The Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (1917–1918), which later became known as Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps (1918–1920) was the women's unit of the British Army during and immediately after the.....
Price: $275.00
Beauty, Consumerism, Gender and Society, Body Image
United States: 1925-1969. Eighteen (18) items relating to women and beauty, with a particular emphasis on consumerism's insidious role in fueling the quest for beauty and physical perfection. Types of materials include advertising booklets and pamphlets, as well as one mailer with enclosed product sample. Nearly all advertise some kind.....
Price: $1,350.00