Women's History
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
Violence Against Women,History of Film,Silent Movies,Starlets of the Silver Screen,Chastity,Male Savior Syndrome,Triangle Motion Picture Company,Racism,Anti-Arab Sentiment
[Minneapolis, Minnesota]: Friedman Film Corporation, [1915]. Modesty is kicked to the curb in this flashy illustrated advertisement for a showing of "Wars' Women", a self-described "stupendous" 1915 silent film starring Enid Markey denouncing violence towards the "weaker sex" in times of war. "Wars' Women" appears to be a lost film.....
Price: $100.00
Perfumes,Marketing to Women,Handkerchief Extracts
New York, New York: Wenck Perfumes, c.1900. A c.1900 advertising handbill for Wenck Perfumes, marketing their perfume to well-off women as "handkerchief extracts" to lightly perfume a handkerchief. Features an illustration of their elaborate bottle design for "Gilsey House" perfume. Lists the dozens of scents available, ranging from "Acacia" to.....
Price: $85.00
Women's Organizations,Political Education and Engagement
Dallas, Texas: National Association of Pro America, c.1940. A 1930s pamphlet promoting the Dallas Chapter of the "Pro-America", a "national volunteer educational organization for women, dedicated to the preservation of the Constitution ... It includes in its membership Republicans, Constitutional Democrats and women who have never before been interested in.....
Price: $175.00
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
Vietnam War,Anti-Draft/Conscription,Statement Pins and Buttons,Feminism,Human Rights,Social Justice and Causes,Anti-War Protest
New York, New York: Women Against Daddy Warbucks, 1970. On July 2nd, 1970, five members of the all-female coalition "Women Against Daddy Warbucks" broke into the midtown Manhattan office that held important 1-A draft files, denoting men who would soon be drafted into the Vietnam War. They destroyed these documents.....
Price: $425.00
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 Work,Labor and Unions
London, England: Trades Union Congress, 1965. An extensive and valuable printed report for 1964-1965 of the Trades Union Congress Women's Advisory Committee, given at the 35th annual conference of Unions Catering for Women Workers in Great Yarmouth, 1965. Offers valuable statistics and demographics related to women's work in England during.....
Price: $225.00
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
Sewing Patterns,Women's Clothing
New York and Paris: 1871-1904. A group of four (4) catalogs of Victorian and Edwardian women's fashion. All are illustrated with prices, and highlight the growing availability of fashion to the general public. Items include: "Mme. Demorest's Pocket portfolio of Fashions for the Million". New York: Emporium of Fashions.....
Price: $250.00
Beauty and Body Image,Marketing to Women,Skin Care,Hair Care
United States: 1929-c.1955. A small grouping of ephemera advertising beauty products to women, spanning the dates 1929 and c.1955. Includes an actual trial package of hair waving compound in the original envelope Provides interesting insight into what has, and has not, changed about beauty standards in America for women, as.....
Price: $850.00
Women's Suffrage, Postcards, Political Cartoons
New York, New York: Roth & Langley, 1911. An amusing political cartoon postcard depicting a woman squeezed into a single pant leg humorously captioned, "A Present from Brother!". Lithographed postcard (5.5" by 3.5"). Addressed and sent, postmarked 1919, with message in contemporary ink.
Price: $105.00
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
Literary Poster, Bostonian Magazine, Women's History
Boston, MA: Bostonian, [1895]. An 18" x 12 1/2" literary poster for Bostonian magazine for June (presumably 1895) depicting a young woman holding a diploma. An ethereal light and a garland of roses are overhead. "June" is in the background --graduation month. Reverse is blank.
Price: $250.00
women's history] [suffrage
New York: The Woman's Press, 1923. 139 pp. Blue fabric cover with gilt title, Printed white dust jacket with author's photograph, frontispiece of author. Contents include six chapters entitled; The World at the Crossroads, Christian Patriotism, Women's Service to the Race, Women's Service to Theology, The Law of Life, and.....
Price: $50.00
Horoscopes, Advertising and Promotion, Advertising Premium, Women's History
Chicago: Cruver Manufacturing Co., 1913. 28 pp. booklet. Illustrated wraps. The cover depicts an astronomer gazing at the heavens. Designed with advertisments printed on the left and the introduction and horoscopes by sign printed on the right hand page. The horoscope pages are in color and present an overview for.....
Price: $55.00
Private Printing, Women's Health, Satire, Facsimiles, Illustration
1930s. A quirky illustrated facsimile of an eighteenth-century treatise written as a hoax. The disgruntled author had been rejected by the Royal Society for membership in 1750, and his response was to publish proof "that a Woman may conceive, and be brought to Bed, without any Commerce with a Man".....
Price: $150.00
Glamour, Charm Gender Roles, Women's History
New York, NY: Personal , Bryant Press, Inc. Improvement Guild, 1939, 1946. A boxed set of 10 booklets. Includes 40 different chapters and 247 pp. Each with identical illustrated wraps; each marked with a different book number. Contents include - The Laws of Allure, Mystery and Charm, Voice, Brains, First.....
Price: $225.00
Women's Clubs, Americans in London, Social History
London: c. 1924. The guide to the American Women's Club of London house gives a quick view into their work and the space. 16 pages. The first two pages give an overview of the facilities, cost, as well as a brief description of the American Women's Club philanthropic activities. The.....
Price: $75.00
correspondence, deathbed, morality, death, goodbye
Alexandria, NJ: 1900. In 1900 Annie Pegg wrote a letter to her husband and two children Sarah and James on her supposed deathbed (she would actually live until 1914 and have another child, Elizabeth). It is unknown if she was actually severely ill or just over dramatic, however the letter.....
Price: $50.00