Gender Roles
Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series, Board games, dice games, games for girls
New York: McLoughin Brothers, 1870. 16 pp, (including covers) Game of croquet, Game of spider and the fly, Game of pearl fisheries, Game of falconry, Game of fishing, and Game of naval engagement. Each game is a board game, with an illustration. A part of Aunt Louisa's Big Picture Series.....
Price: $175.00
paper doll, women's travel
1940s. Betty Sue, a curly blond with blue eyes, has outfits that include a skating outfit and sled, golfing equipment, and a school dress. There is a cut out suitcase with her name. Measures 10 1/2" x 9 1/2": Whitman Publishing Co. Illustrated: Florence Winship1941. 1 Doll, 4 costume pages.....
Price: $70.00
Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera
London (Printed in Germany): Raphael Tuck & Sons Co., Ltd, [1894]. Paper Doll, Pretend Play, Paper Playthings, Childhood Ephemera A 9 1/22" x 5 3/4" litho on paste board box depicting Gentle Gladys on the cover. Includes the 9" die-cut Gladys with attached head and easel back and her four.....
Price: $350.00
Paper Dolls, Pretend Play, Wedding Party, Gender Roles
A 9 ¾” x 17 ¾” uncut paper doll sheet c1900. It is The Bridal Party Series “The Maid of Honor” Dressing Doll Sheet No. 107 Published by Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd. This set may be more familiar in the die-cut boxed verse, but was among a series of.....
Price: $50.00
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 common school teachers in Caledonia Country, Vermont. The took place on Saturday, May 6, 1883, and when from 9:30 AM to 2 PM. The printed exam starts by listing the.....
Price: $60.00
Methodist, Australia, nursing, gender roles, England
Washington, DC: 1900- 1913. A collection of 14 letters, written to Eliza Grace Jeffries (1840-1917). While originally born in England, Eliza and her younger brother, Rev Peter Jeffries immigrated to America in 1899. Peter served as pastor to several congregations of the next sixteen years in the Virginia, Baltimore and.....
Price: $350.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, Paper Playthings
London: Raphael Tuck & Sons Ltd., [1920]. A complete set with four (4) die-cut dolls with their trunk, suit case and bag. They have eight (8) interchangeable costumes and three (3) hats. The dolls are permanently affixed to a two-fold folder with a lithograph of the sand and ocean in.....
Price: $550.00
Paper Dolls, Made by Hand, Pretend Play, Marie Antoinette, Women's History
c1900. An elegantly designed 6 1/8" handmade watercolor paper doll in the style of Marie Antoinette and her eight (8) elaborately detailed costumes, six (6) with accompanying hats. Predominantly court dresses; one is "playing a guitar". Reverse is blank. "Marie Antoinette paper dolls - Costumes copied from portraits and paintings".....
Price: $1,500.00
Peter G. Thomson, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play
Cincinnati: Peter G. Thomson, 1880s. The paper dolls were part of a series of uncut small format penny paper dolls each with one doll and three costumes with matching hats and a cover. This group includes Alice, Mary Bell, Rhoda, and Sallie. They are all uncut and complete sets. Closed.....
Price: $825.00
Paper Doll, Social History, Entertainment, Women's History
Chicago: Merrill Pub. Co., n.d. c1940s. A 13" x 11" uncut paper doll book with three Greer Garson paper dolls in different poses. Illustrated by Fredric C. Mada. Includes eight (8) costume pages with costumes from various roles. Each page has a vignette with an image from the photograph of.....
Price: $95.00
Handmade Paper Doll,Bow Ties,Male Paper Dolls
United States: N.p., 1930s. Dapper, charming, and fashionable, "Bill" is a unique handmade paper doll from c.1930s with five full outfits, two overcoats, and a matching hat. Notable for the artist's attention to detail (two separate tiny bowties, including one for the tuxedo which is tucked under the white lapels).....
Price: $226.00
Paper Plaything, Pretend Play, Paper with a Secret, Social History, Gender Roles
New York: Henry Heininger Co., 1919. A set of four die-cut wraparound paper dolls with movable arms and eyes. They are the Happy Family - Mr. Al Ways Happy, Mrs. Eve R. Happy, Miss Vera Happy and Little O. So Happy. Each with a rhyming verse beneath their name encouraging.....
Price: $300.00
Recipes, Cooking Schools
Hartford, Connecticut: The Hartford Courant, 1937. "Food Fashion Review" serves as a published compilation of recipes "demonstrated at the third session" of the 8th annual Hartford Courant-sponsored cooking school held at the Horace Bushnell Memorial Auditorium. Contains thirty-one recipes that employ meat or meat-derived products, as well as two full-page.....
Price: $100.00
Beauty, Anti-Aging, Hollywood
Trenton, New Jersey: Wings Products Co., 1940s. "Lines Vanish" and "Youth Returns" with Hollywood Wings, a box of "medicated frown and wrinkle eradicators" that describe themselves as "the secret of Hollywood beauty". The twenty (20) unused adhesive wings are housed in the original illustrated box (approx. 2.5" by 1.25" by.....
Price: $150.00
Humor, Vinegar Valentines
United States: c.1885. A most charming and humorous mechanical: when the tab is pulled, the young lady applies copious amounts of rouge to her cheeks in front of her mirror. The verse below decries the amount of makeup young ladies wear to obscure their natural features: "False are the roses.....
Price: $250.00
chap book, poetry, gender roles, Redfield's Toy Books
New York: Kiggins & Kellogg, [1856]. A chap book for young children, filled with poetry of a moralistic nature, often encouraging good behavior. This book is a part of the Redfield's Toy Books series, which consisted of four series of twelve books each. Twelfth book, second series. Reprints of books.....
Price: $36.00
Photography, Barn Raising, Communities, Masculine Bonds
United States: 1880s. Original photograph of two dozen or so men in rural America participating in a barn raising in the late nineteenth century. A barn raising was when male members of the community would gather to build (or rebuild) a barn for one of their own, who would go.....
Price: $100.00
Paper Doll Greeting Cards,Travel,Traditional Dress,International Friendship, Gender Roles
United States: c.1930. A scarce intact example of a paper doll greeting card from c.1930, with a cut paper doll of a little girl who can be dressed up in two different outfits and inserted into the front of the card to show her driving. The two different outfits are.....
Price: $125.00
chap book, short stories, birds, animals, morality, Redfield's Toy Books
New York, NY: Kiggins & Kellogg, [1856-1866]. This book is a part of the Redfield's Toy Books series, which consisted of four series of twelve books each. Fifth book, first series. The books were reprints of books first published in 1850 by J. S. Redfield, another New York Publisher. This.....
Price: $50.00
Sex Education, Teaching Aids, Public Health, Propaganda, Venereal Disease
London, England: British Social Hygiene Council, c.1930. Three (3) sex education booklets, each imparting the facts of life to one of three groups: parents, young women, and young men. Published as a part of a public health and education initiative by the British Social Hygiene Council, each booklet aims to.....
Price: $300.00
Y.W.C.A., Social Programs, Girlhood, Social Development, Home Front
New York: 1925-1927. Two (2) items relating to the Girl Reserves, a nation-wide program initiated in 1918 by the Y.W.C.A. to help girls to grow and develop essential social and life skills in the face of the first World War. The program provided a safe space for young girls and.....
Price: $225.00
Made by Hand, Paper Dolls, Watercolor, Fashion
A 6 1/2" handmade paper dolls with fine brown ringlets dressed in pantaloons and a slip (pencil drawn) and brown watercolor shoes. Her top fold costumes are pink and rose dress with a white pinafore. One with faint polka-dots; the other plain - each with different ruffle at base of.....
Price: $250.00
Pretend Play, Paper Dolls, advertising to Children, Coffee
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: John Hoffmann & Sons Co., [1895]. A 5 1/2" x 7 1/2" uncut paper doll printed on card stock. Depicts a 5 1/4" self-easel paper doll and two (2) costumes and hats. Promotional info on body of the doll for Hoffmann's Old Time Coffee. Reverse is blank...
Price: $85.00
Watercolor, Paper Dolls, Pretend Play
[1905]. Affluence abounds in this pretend play family of three (3) watercolor children with costumes and their governess or nurse. The infant has three (3) watercolor outfits. Note how the governess can securely hold the baby given the position of her arms. The older girls have four (4) and five.....
Price: $375.00