Family & Education
ABAA-RBMS-2026,Women's Education in Boston,Scarlet Fever
Boston, Massachusetts: Munroe and Francis, 1831. A printed version of the report given at the annual meeting of the proprietors of the Boston Female Monitorial School, held in August, 1831. Provides invaluable information about the opportunities afforded to women at the time, as well as the challenges and tragedies they.....
Price: $325.00
Student Attendance,Teaching and Pedagogy,Data and Knowledge Organization,Penmanship and Calligraphy
New London, Connecticut: Bolles & Williams, 1846-1848. A meticulously kept manuscript register of student attendance, written in skilled penmanship by an unidentified teacher between 1846 and 1848 ("W.A. Gallup"?). Includes a title page with stylized typography. The register is designed in a grid, and records the following information: student name;.....
Price: $150.00
Boys' Camps and Camping,YMCA,Boyhood,Snapshots
Southwick, Massachusetts: 1910. A one-of-a-kind photo and narrative album memorializing the summer of 1910 at Camp Congamond. The camp was first held in 1908 for Y.M.C.A. boys, and was located at Congamond Lake in Southwick, Massachusetts. A later iteration would also be established for girls. The present photo album contains.....
Price: $475.00
1930s Birth Control,Marketing to Women,Sex Education
Chicago, Illinois: Lanteen Laboratories, Inc., 1934-1942. Seven (7) printed booklets advertising birth control products by Lanteen. Educates women about different birth control methods by describing which methods are safe and reliable and how they work. Unsurprisingly, it argues that the spermicidal jelly and cap diaphragm method by Lanteen is the.....
Price: $500.00
Family Photo Album,Birthdays and Milestones,Mothers and Sons
[Cleveland, Ohio]: 1965. A family photo album created by a mother as a 20th birthday gift for her son, including eleven (11) photos of the young man growing up from infanthood to adulthood. The photos are captioned lovingly by the mother in red ink. Shows what appears to be a......
Price: $275.00
Children's Dental Health,Health Education
[New York]: N.p, 1951. Photo-illustrated poster produced for New York State Children's Dental Health Week in 1951, featuring a large photo of a little boy smiling and proudly holding his toothbrush up for the camera. The caption reads: "I Want To Make My Mark!!! with the sparkle of healthy and.....
Price: $150.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Childhood Ephemera, Social History
New York NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1911-1913. Three (3) different 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" uncut sheet with a 6" paper doll with 5 costumes and 3-5 hats or wigs for each. Each costume is holding an object and includes a school outfit, party dress, night shirt, a coat and and.....
Price: $400.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Childhood Ephemera, Social History
New York NY: McLoughlin Bros. 1911-1913. Three (3) different 10 1/2" x 10 1/2" uncut sheet of paper doll with costumes and hats for each. Sheet A is a 2 1/2" infant with 7 outfits a carriage, bath tub and many accessories. Sheet B is a 5" little girl with.....
Price: $425.00
Christmas, Fairy Tale & Fantasy, Juvenile, Art Deco
New York: John H. Eggers or E Balleisen, 1924-1926. 12 pp. each. Vibrant color. Art Deco influenced imagery. Title and illustrations on front covers. Three of the books are published by E. Balleisen including Christmas in the Shoe, A Visit to Santa Claus, and Santa's Forty Winks. The fourth, Old.....
Price: $185.00
Domestic Work, Advertising to Women
Big Prairie, Ohio: The Monitor Sad Iron Co., c1910. "Save half the time, half the labor and all the worry of ironing day with the Improved Monitor Self-Heating Sad Iron", manufactured by The Monitor Sad Iron Co. Marketed towards homemakers and and domestic workers, this illustrated advertising bifolium includes a......
Price: $95.00
Hair Loss and Hair Supplements
United States: 1930s and 1940s. A group of four (4) booklets advertising remedies or treatments for baldness and thinning hair in the 1930s and 1940s. Provides and interesting window into how companies advertised products to Americans, and how highly thick hair was (is) valued in Western society. The items include.....
Price: $175.00
Child Welfare,Serials,Poverty,Child Labor,Education
Montgomery, Alabama: Child Welfare Department of Alabama, 1921. Volume I, No. 1 of "Alabama Childhood", the "official bulletin of the State Child Welfare Department of Alabama". The first issue of a new series published in 1921 to highlight the importance of child welfare, and to report on the activities of.....
Price: $250.00
Serials,Newspaper Clippings,Albums,History of Connecticut
Vernon, Connecticut: 1880s. An album of newspaper clippings compiled by what appears to be one individual in Connecticut (most likely Vernon or Tolland) in the 1880s. Each of the clippings has been pasted onto the pages of a bound "Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture" dated 1881. The clippings range.....
Price: $750.00
Kindergarten Art,Froebel,Paper Cutting
United States: c.1900. A collection of sixty (60) examples of Kindergarten paper cutting art, displayed on forty-two (42) folding panels housed in a cloth-covered album. There are 42 examples made from blue paper, and 18 examples of multicolored paper. Of special note are two of the final examples in the.....
Price: $1,200.00
Teaching Associations,Education in America
United States: American Institute of Instruction, 1851. Engraved membership card certifying that "Levi W. Leonard is a Member of the American Institute of Instruction" in 1851. It has been finished and signed in ink by the President and Secretary of the organization. The American Institute of Instruction was founded in.....
Price: $100.00
Sex and Parenting Education,Motherhood,The American Family
Cooperstown, New York: The Arthur H. Crist Co., c.1910. A group of fourteen (14) parenting education booklets published for American parents by the Arthur H. Crist Co., publishers of "American Motherhood" magazine. Accordingly, the majority are addressed to mothers, and emphasize the importance of the mother as the center of.....
Price: $1,350.00
Sunday School, Sabbath, Christian Education, Christianity
Chelsea, [Massachusetts]: 1863. Printed program including hymns and order of events for the 1863 anniversary of the Chestnut Street Congregational Sabbath School in Chelsea, Massachusetts. Features an address by the Rev. J.C. Fletcher, and ends with prayer and benediction. Bifolium (7.75" by 5"), pp. [4], illustrated with an image of.....
Price: $125.00
Physiology,Medical Education
New York, New York: American Book Company, [1897]. Illustrated prospectus for an upcoming 1897 book on advanced physiology, including sample diagrams and illustrations, a chapter list, and a brief description of scope and content. Also includes a brief physical description: "Cloth, 12mo, 432 pages, with numerous Diagrams and Illustrations". Diagrams.....
Price: $250.00
Advertising Supplements,Furniture, Broadside,Price List
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Mann Brothers, 1885. A large (16.5" by 23") illustrated supplement advertising furniture manufactured by Mann Brothers, including solid wooden chairs, cribs, high chairs, and baby carriages. Twelve of the items are illustrated, with pricing for twenty-five different models total, all with pricing.
Price: $175.00
Kotex,Puberty,Teen Girl,Menstrual Health,Women's Health,Advertising to Women,Hygiene
Chicago, Illinois: Kotex, c.1942. A scarce set of advertising ephemera charting a marketing campaign by Kotex targeting teen girls on the cusp of womanhood. Includes a guide to puberty and menstruation titled "As One Girl to Another", as well as ten (10) printed leaflets promoting Kotex and the booklet. Provides.....
Price: $600.00
Urban Development,Workers and Labor,Industrialization,Pittsburgh,Foundries
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Trafford Improvement Co., c1910. Printed pamphlet advertising homes for rent in Trafford City, incorporated in 1904 after operations at the Trafford Foundry began in 1903. Workers at the Foundry would have received this pamphlet, which shows fifty homes recently built for their families. The homes are marketed as.....
Price: $150.00
Autographs, Calligraphic Drawing, Riverhead NY
Riverhead, Long Island: c.1878. The autograph book of Addie [Raynor?], resident in Riverhead, Long Island, New York c.1878. Includes a very fine calligraphic drawing by Usher B. Howell done in ink and gilt; Howell would go on to be President of the Riverhead Bank. Four leaves of loose autograph leaves.....
Price: $400.00
Baby Book
New York, New York: 1914. The baby book of Elwood Williams III (1914-1982), housed in the original box. It was gifted to his parents by his father's employer, James A. Hearn & Son, with an engraved label on the upper lid that reads in part that they "extend with this.....
Price: $200.00
Baby Books, Childhood, Post-Mortem
United States: 1929. A lovingly produced and heartbreaking baby book with hand-painted silk album cover for Richard Elton Chalker (1929-1930), a baby who died at the age of 7 months of bronchial pneumonia and whooping cough. The book includes: a two-page typewritten account of the baby's illness and subsequent death.....
Price: $275.00