Women's Work
Women's Work, Gender Roles, Social History
1865-1949. Historically, ingrained by print media, from early childhood females are depicted as being responsible for domestic matters and chores...
Price: $1,000.00
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...
Price: $95.00
Patents, Inventions, Domestic Life and Labor
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: G.S. Harris & Son, 1876. Advertising handbill for the American Air Churn, described as "The Greatest Labor-Saving Machine...
Price: $100.00
collections & archives, food & wine, recipes, women's work, advertising
United States: Various, 1919-1949. A seven (7) piece collection of recipe books relating to weird and unusual food. This strangeness...
Price: $300.00
Cross-stitch and Embroidery, D.M.C., ABC, Gender Roles
Munich, Germany: Bibliothek D.M.C., Verlag von Th. de Dillmont, Dornach, c.1905. An alphabet book for embroiderers, including patterns for shaping...
Price: $175.00
advertisement, recipes, cooking, women's work, soap, Dobbins Electric Soap, testimonials
Philadelphia, PA: I. L. Cragin & Co., [1890]. An advertising booklet for Dobbins Electric Soap, a laundry soap produced by...
Price: $65.00
Music Prodigies, Women's Work, Performing Arts, Vocal Arts and Elocution
New York, New York: Fannie Naegeli, 1890. Booklet advertising performances of American child prodigy Fannie Naegeli: "Little Fannie Naegeli, The...
Price: $225.00
African American, Fraternal, Get Rich Quick
New York City. A 2 1/2" x 4" business card for Days Work -- of all Kinds, by Trained Workers...
Price: $32.00
Sewing Samples, Watercolor, School Girl Project
300. 18 leaves, including covers. A watercolor decorated sewing sample book. The book is designed with page cut-out for textile...
Price: $750.00
teacher, education, vermont, gender roles
Caledonia Country, Vermont: L W Rowell (St. Johnsbury, VT), May 6, 1883. The printed questions for the written exam for...
Price: $60.00
correspondence, teacher, education, courtship, cut outs, programs, invite, invites, invitation...
Belmont, NY: 1897 - 1911. Blanche Annis Leavitt (1881 - ?) was a teacher at Belmont Grammar School in in...
Price: $115.00
Photography, W.W.I, Home Front, Women's History, Social History, Women's Work
Allentown PA: Wint Studios, 8-Apr-18. Three different 7 3/4" x 9 3/4" photos on larger mounts. The first photo depicts...
Price: $650.00
Public Health, Parenting, Working Mothers
Texas State Dept. of Public Welfare, 1959. An educational booklet for mothers published in 1959 with information about choosing the...
Price: $75.00
Women and Religion, Service, Charitable Work, Women's Work, Education, Deacons...
[Philadelphia]: [Women's Missionary Society, the United Lutheran Church in America], [1930s?]. Published by the Women's Missionary Society of the United...
Price: $125.00
fire, fire safety, french canadian, kitchen fire, cooking, public works...
Quebec, Canada: Ministry of Public Works, 1940s. A fire-safety postcard distributed by the Ministry of Public Works in Quebec. The...
Price: $55.00
sewing, women's work, embroidery, rug, rug patterns, catalogue, advertising, women's...
Boston, MA: E. S. Frost & Co.'s Turkish Rug Patterns, 1881. An advertising booklet for E. S. Frost & Co.'s...
Price: $110.00
advertising, sewing, women's work, beauty
Philadelphia, PA: Universal Company, 1900. Two-sided advertisement for Duke's Thread-Cutting Thimble, which "is the greatest invention of the age... the...
Price: $100.00
Promotional Brochure
Boston: Fullerton Hall, 1914. A single-fold 11" x 8 1/4" promotional brochure for The Lady of The Decoration" with Miss...
Price: $125.00
Exercise and Fitness for Women, YWCA, Baseball
Bureau of Social Education of the National Board, Young Women's Christian Association, 1919. Combat sluggish digestion, bad circulation, flabby muscles...
Price: $325.00
Women and Beauty, Hair makes a difference, scalp treatment for...
Springfield MA: John H. Breck , Proctor & Gamble, etc. 1920s-1950s. A small collection of seven booklets stressing the importance...
Price: $500.00
health & welfare, first aid, Lysol, advertising, propaganda, women's work...
Bloomfield, NJ: Lehn & Fink Products Corp. 1941. The Home Defense Course was broken up into three lessons: 1. How...
Price: $175.00
household & furnishing, advertising, women's work, trade catalogue, food &...
Lowell, MA: Woods, Sherwood & Co., 1878. A catalogue for items of "wire ware" which essentially means any item in...
Price: $225.00
Letters Patent, Woodcut, Women's Work
New Becker Washing Machine. A 19" x 11 1/2" Letters Patent broadside announcing the transfer of patent with an illustration...
Price: $275.00
Literary Poster, The Boston Sunday Herald, Women
Boston, MA: The Boston Sunday Herald, [1895]. A 19" x 12" poster promoting The Boston Sunday Herald newspaper. It depicts...
Price: $250.00