Women’s Education
Summer Camps, International Friendship
Risör, Norway: Camp Viking, 1920s. Advertising pamphlet for Camp Viking, a "Norwegian Camp run on American plan" created "to promote international friendship between girls". Includes two illustrations: one of Viking ship on cover, and one of the main camp building inside. Designed for girls ten years of age or older.....
Price: $150.00
School reports
New Haven: 1890-1892, 1903. A collection of 15 reports for Miss Alice Murphy, 1 excuse from examination card from 1903. Reports from Day School for Young Ladies and Girls, New Haven. Principals: Miss Orton and Miss Nichols. reports are signed A.K. Murphy. Examination excuse card is from 1903 and is.....
Price: $45.00
copy book, penmanship, composition notebook, morality, education, spelling, spelling test
New York, NY: Sheldon & Co, 1876. This composition notebook is especially designed for spelling exercises and spelling test with each page featuring three columns where one can list individual words. Some but not all of the pages appear to have been graded, and feature an 'X' besides words that.....
Price: $100.00
Charles Dickens, Essay, School Project
An 18 page handwritten report or essay with three (3) images from photographs and one drawing. Paper covers with ribbon binding. Titled Charles Dickens 1812-1870. Nellie M. Krehbiel. Embossed Victorian floral scrap affixed to front cover. Although it is structured as a school project the factual narrative is written subjectively.....
Price: $125.00
Fashion and Costume, Woman as Influencers, Silk, Gibson Girl, Language of Color
New York & Paris: M. C. Migel & Co., 1908. 8 french-fold pp. with silk screened crane on wraps. The paper for the cover is laid paper with chain lines. The paper for the booklet is more of a washi paper with chain lines. All quite striking. The booklet describes.....
Price: $150.00
yearbook, high school, tennis, dance, dance card
Chicago: Reilly & Lee, 1925. The scrap book album belongs to Dorothy Bradford who attended North Central High School, in Spokane, WA. A portion of the album also covers her time at Havermale Junior High School. The first third of the album is full of newspaper clippings dealing with either.....
Price: $400.00
Feminism, Literary Criticism, Public Speaking and Lectures, Suffrage
Brookline, Massachusetts: 1902. Printed card (2.25" by 3.75", verso blank) promoting a 1902 lecture by Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) in Brookline, Massachusetts. Howe was a poet, women's suffrage leader, and audodidact who may be best known today for penning the “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” published in the Atlantic Monthly.....
Price: $85.00
Nursing, Educational Booklets, WWII, Home Front Health
United States: 1942-1949. A grouping of ephemera related to nurses in training during World War Two. Includes five items, and a total of ten discrete objects within those items. The items include: 1. Ephemera of Ellen Ely Lane, nurse in training at the St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing, 1944-1945.....
Price: $650.00
Fortune Telling, Spiritualism, Prognostication, Games, Wheel of Fortune, History of the Romani people
[London?], England: 1840s. A hand-colored and visually striking fortune telling party game for young women called "The Original Norwood Gypsy", together with its original printed sheet of instructions: "When all the Company are assembled, then place the Wheel of Fortune on the Table, and each person must then come forward.....
Price: $600.00
Female Colleges, Women's History
1846-1900. A small collection o 12f promotional materials including catalogues, a circular, a journal, and announcements and letterheads. They date from 1846-1900 and are all from east of the Mississippi, They represent the following institutions; Of particular note is single-fold letterhead from Cooper Female Academy in Dayton OH from 1846.....
Price: $1,350.00
Education, Women's History, Social History
New London, CT: New London Literature and Science Institution, 1854-1878. A printed 8" x 5 1/4" form completed by M. J. Emerson for Ellen E. Fisher. The narrative discusses scholarship, attendance and cooperation with teachers. The student's information is recorded on Absences from Chapel exercises, Meeting on the Sabbath and.....
Price: $90.00
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
women's history, schools & universities, billheads and letterheads
Tuscaloosa, AL: Tuskaloosa Female College, October 1, 1866. This item is a tuition receipt for Miss Mary J. Nelson dated October 1, 1806. It is specifically stated on the receipt that it is for "literary tuition" for one term, at the cost of $39. Payment for the tuition was paid.....
Price: $50.00
WWII, History of New York, Wartime Women
Bronx, New York: U.S. Naval Training School, 1946. Photo-illustrated booklet promoting the U.S. Naval Training School, Women's Reserve, located in the Bronx in 1946. Includes a brief description of the training program, which includes lectures, physical education, drills and discipline, along with the following sections: "Replacing Men at Vital Tasks".....
Price: $150.00
Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and Suits, Misses' fashion, Junior Fashions
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Fall & Winter Fashion. Contains Coat Dress, Side-tiered Dress, Basque Dress, Self-Trimmed Wrap, Coats and Suits, Misses' fashion, Junior Fashions and more. Black & white fashion illustrations with multiple views often showing variations on a......
Price: $95.00
One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes, Junior Fashions, Millinery Fashions
Scranton, Penn: Woman's Institute of Domestic Arts and Sciences, Inc., 1923. Soft cover. Unpaginated. Woman's Springtime Fashion. Contains Variations of One-Piece Dress, Draped Dress, Costume Suit, Sports Apparel, Misses' Costumes, Junior Fashions, Millinery Fashions and more. Black & white fashion illustrations with multiple views often showing variations on a pattern.....
Price: $95.00
Due West Female College, women's history, religion, educational, schools & universities
Due West, Abbeville Country, SC: Associate Reformed Presbyterian Co., 1900. This school catalogue is for Due West Female College, which was a private Presbyterian women's college located in Due West, SC. This catalogue not only served as its annual catalogue for the 1900-1901 school year, but also the school's decennial.....
Price: $150.00
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
women, teaching, education, made by hand
Kalamazoo, MI: 1937. women, teaching, education, made by hand A school project done by Kalamazoo's Woodward Junior High's 14 year old Marian Eleanor Beattie (1923-2007) on what her future life and career would look like. The result of the project is a large, 81 page hand made book. As the.....
Price: $450.00
scrapbook, education, school, yearbooks, classmates, schooling, high school, female education
Chicago: The Reilly & Lee Co, 1919-1923. The very well documented high school years of Rebecca Hileman from Loda, Illinois are captured as Rebecca filled scores of pages with over 100 photographs of friends and family, name cards, souvenirs of school events, news clippings, letters and more. Includes some memorabilia.....
Price: $300.00
education, women, women's education, social history
Blairsville , PA: 1901. In 1851 Blairsville Female Seminary was founded by Presbyterian paster George Hill. The Seminary started out in a single building and eventually became a chartered college in 1893. This book is the history of the school and its mission to educate young women. The book is.....
Price: $95.00