Women's History
Elizabeth S. Tucker, Paper Dolls, Queen Victoria
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1895. A single paper doll set with the same character and costumes as included in "Famous Queens and Martha Washington" a larger boxed set. Illustrated by Elizabeth S. Tucker. It includes Queen Victoria and three period costumes. The doll is wearing a white petticoat.....
Price: $500.00
Arts and Culture, Scrapbooking, Connecticut College, Performing Arts, Concerts and Plays
New London, Connecticut: c.1925-1937. An expansive scrapbook of over 200 individual pieces of ephemera collected by Ethel Cook (c.1908-2006) while she was a student in New London, Connecticut, in the late 1920s. Types of ephemera include periodical clippings, hotel stationary, printed programs and playbills, club meeting ephemera, song sheets, correspondence.....
Price: $550.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Social History, Women's History
1908-1913. Color newspaper paper dolls series of a good little girl who is always very careful about her dress. Printed on newspring. Each segment includes at least one paper dolls with costumes and accessories and a narrative promoting good behavior, caring and living in a perfect world. A segment captioned.....
Price: $375.00
Sunday Supplement, Pretend Play, Advertising
Philadelphia: The Press, 1896. A 10" by 16.5" uncut cut-out and construct 3-D circus tent complete with performers. Copyright 1896 by Forbes Co. Boston and NY. Among the acts are a dining dressed elephant, a pig pulling a cart, an acrobat on a horse, circus clowns, entrance to the sideshow.....
Price: $225.00
Women, Methuselah, Biblical figure, Maxims
New York: Frederick A Stokes Company, 1907. 108 pp. with applied litho covers. Illustrations, decorations and cover design by Louis D. Fancher. The book is a humorous rendition, in scriptural verse, of the great patriarch's views on the wiles of women. There are four charming color illustrations, along with red.....
Price: $40.00
Women's History] [trade unions leagues] [dissertations
New York: Columbia University Press, 1942. 283 pp. light green soft printed cover, 8 chapters, 6 appendices, bibliography and citations. "Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of doctor of philosophy in the Faculty of Political Science Columbia University" The book discusses trade union leagues created to.....
Price: $30.00
address book, commonplace book, rowley, business history
Massachusetts: [1919-1930]. A one of a kind commonplace address book, that belonged to Harriet Sophia Rowley (1853-1943), which includes not only the addresses of her family and friends, but also that of local businesses she likes. Sometimes these notes are by the business name or type, but other times it.....
Price: $225.00
paper dolls, woman's history, fashion, school girl
Racine , WI: Whitman Publishing Co., 1943. Two punch out dolls, Peg and Dot, with six (6) uncut color costume pages. Each outfit on the pages is label the correct corresponding doll. The outfits are designed around the appropriate attire for teens to wear at different times of the day.....
Price: $150.00
high society, daily life, weddings, new york, gender roles
New York: 1841-1848. A diary/common place book from New York in the 1840s. It belonged to a young woman named India Allen. Not much biographical information is known about India, beyond the fact that she lived at 6 Washington Square, New City. Based on her writing it is clear that.....
Price: $500.00
Overlay, Metamorphosis, Made by Hand, Social History, Women's History
1805. A 3.5" x 3" watercolor bust of a women gazing slightly to the right on 6" x 5 1/4" card stock. Finely detailed face. Inscribed on reverse "Miss Millett with J.P..W's love". This is accompanied by sixteen (16) different overlays of costumes for women of various stations, nationalities and.....
Price: $3,200.00
Calendar, American Revolution, Louis Prang, Designed by a Women
Boston: Lamson, Wolffe, and Company, 1896. Chromolithograph calendar lithographed by L. Prang & Co. for 1896. It was issued under the auspices of the New York City Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR). Designed at the New York School of Applied Design for Women Coated stock die-cut.....
Price: $300.00
Watercolor, Brothel, Social History
1930s-1940s. A 12 1/2" x 19" watercolor that at first appearance gives the impression of an elegant rooming house for young women. Well appointed with refined furnishing of the day, various wall papers and decorative area rugs. But wait, do salacious women lounge on the carpet in slinky streamline revealing.....
Price: $650.00
Social & cultural, Beauty, beauty standards, women's history, gender roles
New York, NY: Bonomo Culture Institute Inc., 1964. 'How to Beautify You Bust Contour' was a six week course meant to improve a women's breast designed by Joe Bonomo (1901-1978), an American weightlifter, strongman, film stunt performer, and actor. "Down through the ages the human female bosom has exercised a......
Price: $175.00
Sexual Health and Education, Public Health
New York, New York: American Social Hygiene Association, 1939. Printed sex education pamphlet distributed by the New Jersey State Department of Health titled "Some Information for Mother". Penned by a man, the book presents itself in the form of a story in which a humble fisherman explains the birds and.....
Price: $150.00
Morocco, Gold Tooling, Ladies' Fashion
Heidelberg, Germany: 1853. Fine gilt morocco glove box made for Louise Sommer by Joseph Sommer of Heidelberg. A beautiful example with cream silk and crushed red silk interior. Measures 9.5" by 6.25" by 2"; ticket of Joseph Sommer to interior.
Price: $550.00
Fairs & Expositions, Art Deco, Women
Vienna, Austria: J. Weiner, 1929. A 35" x 23 1/2" vividly colored poster for the Vienna Fair in 1929. A striking and bold allegorical depicting of what appears to be a powerful woman crusader wearing a crown and holding the key. Captioned Feria de Viena 1a8 de Septembre de 1929.....
Price: $375.00
Made by Hand, Original Artwork, Folk Art, Watercolor
1901. A particularly charming 1901 album of paper dolls, outfits, and accessories with original watercolor artwork by L.C. Ball. The album includes: (9) paper dolls (three of which are tiny paper dolls for the bigger paper dolls); over seventy (70) outfits; and over forty (40) accessories (including a charming bulldog.....
Price: $550.00
New York: World, 1969. Illustrated cloth boards, in text black and white illustrations, 7 color plates, 544 pp, size 9.5 x 6.5.
Price: $125.00
civil war, union soldier, president Lincoln, mourning dress, soldiers coming home
Waterloo, Iowa: May 2, 1865. Waterloo, Iowa. May 2, 1865. A heartfelt letter from a young woman reflecting the sentiment from the homefront at the end of the war; surviving emotionally on roamers and hearsay. It expresses the understanding of the need for the war but the ambivalence associated with.....
Price: $500.00
Comic Strip, Original Art, Newspaper Paper Dolls, Gender Roles, Pretend Play, Women
Boston: 1940s-1950s. A collection of 14 different original works created by Lucy Eleanor Leary created for the Boston Sunday Post. Each strip includes a theme and captions for the garments all telling a story, additionally there are vignettes relevant to the theme. All are in black and white with the.....
Price: $2,300.00
Lydia Pinkham, Patent Medicine
1932-1934. 160 pp of select radio scripts from the pen of the "Voice of Experience" Heard Daily Over More Than Sixty Stations, Coast to Coast, Under the Sponsorship of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Housed in a leatherette binder provided for the purpose of saving scripts. They include topics such.....
Price: $175.00
Original Art, Children's Illustrated Literature
c1950s. An 11" x 8 3/4" watercolor on illustrating board depicts Louis Xiv and Maria Theresa of Spain with a young boy servant. It is captioned "Costumes of the time of Louis XIV - Wax figures in Musee Carnavalet". Pinks, reds and black. Presumably done after wax figures at a......
Price: $225.00
social & cultural, classes and movements, women's work, women's history, religion, Ngoi-Mani Mission, Belgian Congo
Ngoimani, DR Congo: Ngoi-Mani Mission, 1932. The annual report of the women's work being done at the Ngoi-Mani Mission, which was located in a small valley by the name of Ngoimani just north of a town called Mwanza in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It should be noted that in.....
Price: $90.00
friendship album, poetry, song, drawing, white star social club
Jersey City, NJ: 1873-1877. A friendship album belonging to Martha Durand Tibbetts (1859-1929), which is completely full of entries by her friends. The bulk of the entries date from 1873-1877, with a few outliers until 1910, and most of the authors of the entries are from Jersey City, NY, or.....
Price: $225.00