Women's History
medicine, hospital, baby, home front, WWI, charity
New York, NY: Babies' Wards Post-Graduate Hospital, 1918. This booklet is the 1918 yearly report of a New York charity called Babies' Wards Post-Graduate Hospital. During WWI, a lot of local charities were just as hard up for cash as their overseas counterparts and as such the booklet starts with.....
Price: $125.00
Fashion, Advertising and Promotion, Women, Mod, Psychedelic
May Co., 1960s. A total of four (4) single-fold brochures from Vogue and the May Co. The first is fashion loves a leading lady and includes 44 styles and pattern information from early 60s pill box hat era and promotes Vogue pattern at the May Co. The second is sponsored.....
Price: $150.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York, 30 Beekman St. McLoughlin, c1868. Two-sided printing. 5 1/2" cut paper doll with with five (5)two-sided dresses and two (2) hats. With original envelope. Instructions within. Also includes advertisement for other McLoughlin Toy Books, Games &c.
Price: $150.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Social History, Women's History
Vienna Austria: H. F. Muller, 1840-1850. In the traditional German manner of the day the the set includes two (2) identical 6 3/4" paper dolls and eight (8) two-sided costumes. Each costume is printed on polished paper and involves an activity. Light egg wash finish. The costumes were dubbed Pretty.....
Price: $650.00
Made by Hand, Women, Watercolor
c1850s. Thirteen (13) different watercolor illustrations created by Christina Potts. One illustration depicts a fine well-appointed young girl in the foreground with a wonderfully out of perspective cow and a home in the background. A hedge with abstract stone wall at side. Excellent combination of yellows, ochre, blues and green.....
Price: $975.00
Gender, Feminine Wiles, Dating and Courtship
St. Louis, Missouri: The Psychology Press, Inc., 1937. Illustrated booklet advertising an eight-book course of study, "Fascinating Womanhood", in which the female reader "will learn how to make yourself desirable, how to attain those things in life which are your birth-right" (p. 5). In fact, "A man is clay in.....
Price: $175.00
Sexism in Victorian Advertising, Gender Roles
Buffalo, NY: Clay & Co., [1880]. A 10 1/2" x 8 3/4" printer's proof (note printer's marks top and bottom). It depicts a woman dressed in a gossamer top exposing the detail of her upper torso carrying a 60 pound case of laundry detergent with a washboard and tub at.....
Price: $750.00
Penny Dreadful, Vinegar Valentine, Social History
[1860]. An 8" x 5 1/4" color lithograph illustration of a statuesque and properly lady borders by embossed whimsical anthropomorphic heart characters surrounding the margins. It is captioned: "Stepped from a pedestal to take the air", You'd think she had, she looks so statuesque, Or ancient Heroine from who knows.....
Price: $125.00
Public Health, Uterine Cancer
Silver Spring, Maryland: American Cancer Society, c.1975. "Stay Healthy!" and "Know Cancer's Warning Signals!", urges this photo-illustrated folding pamphlet (7.25" by 3.25" folded) in four panels produced by the American Cancer Society. Includes detailed information on what uterine cancer is, who is susceptible to it, and how Pap tests work.....
Price: $85.00
Hair Loss, Remedies, Pharmaceuticals, Beauty
Cincinnati, Ohio: Mrs. Potter's Hygienic Depot, c.1905. A pamphlet advertising a line of hair dyes and hair loss remedies by Mrs. Potter's Hygienic Depot. Marketed towards women, it begins with a discussion of the causes of gray hair ("Premature gray hair is caused by Female Disorders", p. 3) and emphasizes.....
Price: $75.00
teacher, retirement, poem, humor, photograph, humor
Queens, NY: PS19, Jun-41. A memoir book presented to Rose A. Maguire, an elementary school teacher, upon her retirement in June 1951. She taught at a school located in Queens, NY called PS 19 Corona (now known as Marino Jeantet Elementary). The memoir book features over fifty pages of short.....
Price: $275.00
Broadside, theater, New Orleans, The Daughter of the Regiment, opera, Anne Poinsot, Marietta Piccolomini
New Orleans, LA: Theatre d'Orleans, December 10, 1858. The item is a notice to the public by the Theatre d'Orleans for the performance of "The Daughter of the Regiment", a opera comique by Gaetano Donizetti. In the notice it states that "M'lle Poinsot is too unwell to appear this evening.......
Price: $100.00
Original Paper Doll Art
United States: 1870s. A handmade set of thirty-five (35) Victorian paper dolls including eight (8) men and twenty-seven (27) women. Each is already dressed in a variety of styles: mourning wear, day and evening wear, and night wear. There is even a male paper doll brandishing a knife in what.....
Price: $550.00
friendship, love, civil war, battle flag, dried flowers, in memoriam
New York: John C. Riker, c1860. A friendship album of Addie A. Allen who most likely lived in Connecticut as many of the entries note Connecticut towns in the closing. The album itself dates from 1858-1864, with the bulk of the entries dated between 1858-1860. The majority of the material.....
Price: $650.00
educational, women's work, teaching, circular
Hillsborough County, NH: Teacher's Institute, [1845-1848]. The first of the three circulars was published in May 1845 and discussed how to create and fund a previous proposal to establish a teachers institute in Hillsborough County, NH. The circular was specifically asking to propose an "experiment for three years, of sustaining.....
Price: $175.00
Patriarchy, Finance, Investments
Harvey Blodgett, c.1918. A pocket-sized guide emphasizing the necessity of trust accounts for women, who are "easily defrauded" and unqualified to handle their own investments: "A man would not endeavor to direct the management of the home after his wife had passed on--he'd engage someone qualified. Nor should his widow.....
Price: $75.00
Y.W.C.A., Social Programs, Girlhood, Social Development, Home Front
New York: 1925-1927. Two (2) items relating to the Girl Reserves, a nation-wide program initiated in 1918 by the Y.W.C.A. to help girls to grow and develop essential social and life skills in the face of the first World War. The program provided a safe space for young girls and.....
Price: $225.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Women's History
New York, 30 Beekman St. McLoughlin, c1868. A hand colored two-sided paper doll on 5 3/4" x 3" card. An uncut thread-stitched booklet with six uncut costumes and hats. All with elaborate detail and hand colored embellishments. The inside of the folder includes printed Directions for Making. From the Paper.....
Price: $450.00
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
Women's History, Victoriana, Social History
c1870. A 5 1/2" x 2" brass clip of sorts with a lock in the shape of a decorative heart . A brass circle at top to attach to a chain on a chatelaine. Used by Victorian women predominantly from the 1840s-1880s. Most often hung from a chatelaine for easy.....
Price: $225.00
Advertising, Promotion of Children, Women's Work, Advertising Trade Cards
1880s. Twenty-five (25) advertising trade cards flyers and pamphlets with illustrations of children easily and efficiently using a product to accomplish a task. The majority are focused on women's work . They include: Nine (9) food related cards of children preparing foods for Atmore's Mince Meat, Nestle's Milk Food, Hornby's.....
Price: $525.00
Dolls, Sewing Patterns, Germany
Germany: c.1900. German sewing patterns and instructions for making bathing costumes and accessories for a porcelain doll, housed in the original publisher's portfolio. The contents include: one loose chromolithographed plate with illustrations of the finished garments (7.25" by 5", verso blank); one [4] pp. printed instructions booklet (5.25" by 4.5");.....
Price: $225.00
Colonics, Health and wellness, Public health, women's health, constipation
New York: Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute, 1916. Photographically illustrated booklet promoting "Internal Baths", i.e. colonics, and advertising the J.B.L. Cascade treatment. Disease the treatment purports to treat or cure include appendicitis, eczema, indigestion, mental distress, obesity, painful childbirth, and "that tired feeling", among other afflictions. Includes several pages of testimonials from.....
Price: $185.00
Sewing Patterns, Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of five (5) items relating to Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion, including three catalogs of garment patterns and two catalogs advertising clothing and accessories sold by upscale department stores. All are illustrated with prices, and highlight the growing availability of fashion to the.....
Price: $250.00