Beauty on a Budget
The Gilette Co, 1955. Oblong 8vo, stapled booklet with pictorial covers, 16 pp, illustrated throughout. A midcentury guide to hairstyling and makeup for women using products manufactured by the Gilette Company.
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Club Life Anniversary Edition 1902-1928 Wisconsin University Settlement
Milwaukee, Wisconsin: 1928. 4to, 60pp, gilt and olive green decorative wrappers, numerous photographic illustrations throughout. A special 25th anniversary edition of "Club Life", a magazine produced by the settlement clubs of the University of Wisconsin. The first 25 pages of this issue commemorates the founding of Wisconsin University Settlement, an.....
The Evangeline Residence For Young Women
Circa 1920. Narrow 8vo, illustrated promotional brochure for a series of settlement house style residences for women run by the Salvation Army in Seattle, San Francisco, New York, Washington D.C., Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Chicago. One side of the brochure prints images of the three west coast residences, another panel contains.....
Hull-House Year Book Forty Second Year
Chicago: Hull House, 1931. Well illustrated annual for the women's home founded by Jane Addams in 1889, in original wrappers. Very good, soiling and spotting to covers.
In The Service Of The Queen Of The Queen Officers Of Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps.
Nottingham: Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by Thos. Forman & Sons Ltd, 1956. Stapled booklet measuring 8 x 5”, 15 pp. An informational booklet about service in Queen Alexandra’s Royal Army Nursing Corps, with info on short service commissions, permanent commissions, eligibility, how to apply, etc. An attractive copy with.....
Ladies Hand Book. The Last and Best Book on Knitting Crocheting Embroidery Art Needlework.
Boston, Mass. Brown, Durrell, & Co, [1880s]. A guide to knitting, crocheting, embroidery and art needlework issued as an advertisement for a corset vendor. The text contains illustrated instructions for making hats, mittens, infants' clothing, mittens, lace, and more, together with many pages of illustrated ads, mainly for corsets, but.....
The Margaret Louisa Home of the Young Women's Christian Association of the City of New York 14 and 16 East 16th Street
[New York]: 1897. Small octavo, 32pp, printed wrappers, string bound. History and description of the Margaret Louisa Home, founded in 1889 with funds donated by Margaret Louisa Vanderbilt Sheperd, the daughter of William Vanderbilt, to provide affordable, respectable housing to single women seeking to succeed in a city suddenly offering.....
Memorial Card for Frances E. Willard
Circa 1898. Photographic print of prominent Suffragist Frances Willard, affixed to pale blue card stock measuring 4.5 x 3.5", covered in tissue paper, with white ribbon bound at top. Chipping and tearing to tissue paper, toning and a bit of soiling.
Mrs. Archer's Personally Conducted SELECT VARIETY TOUR to EUROPE 1939
Omaha, NE: Archer Travel Service, 1939. Oblong folding brochure with six panels on each side, printing an itinerary and trip information for a two and a half month long European tour offered by a woman owned business in Omaha. One panel prints a description of the business, owned solely by.....
New Designs In Artistic Rockers and Ladies' Desk Chairs
Black River, N.Y. H.C. Dexter Chair Co., Circa 1900. 12mo, brochure folding out to have ten panels on each side, each panel with an illustration of a chair. One side features chairs for ladies' desks, while the other side features rocking chairs. A very good copy with minor soiling.
Pair of Photograph Albums by W.J. Beer, Official Photographer to the Girl Guides, Including an Album of Images of Lady Baden Powell at Home and an Album of the Waddow Hall Training Center
United Kingdom: 1950-1955. 1) String tied album binding measuring 6.75 x 4.5:, containing 35 photographs, with handwritten title on front cover as well as a manuscript title page reading "The Lady Baden Powell G.B.E. World Chief Guide At Home in Hampton Court Palace June 6th and 11th 1954," signed to.....
Photo Archive Relating to a Civil Defense Base, Documenting the Participation of Local Volunteer Barbara Aronson, a Ground Observer and Civil Defense Educator
Syracuse, New York: 1956-1962. A collection of 160 black and white photographs, with 95 photos measuring 8 x 10” (many stamped “Official Photo U.S. Air Force” on the backs), one photo measuring 7 x 6”, and 64 photos measuring 3 x 3.5” to 4.5 x 6.5”. The photos belonged to.....
PHOTOGRAPH ALBUM OF A NEW JERSEY GIRLS CAMP
New Jersey: 1922. 95 photographs in a suede string-tied album binding stamped “Del. Water Gap. PA. Photographs”. Binding worn, some fading to photographs. The photos are all captioned in white ink—“Buckwood Lodge, 1922” is noted on the first leaf. An advertisement in the 1921 Outlook Magazine lists Buckwood Lodge as.....
Theatre Presented by the Agora Society...A Patriotic Play called, The Pretender
Wellesley, MA: 1920. Broadside measuring approx 13.5 x 9.5", advertising a play at Wellesley College in 1920, presented by the Agora Society. Creased, bit toned, torn and chipped along edges.
Thoughts on Personal Beauty As Aided by Nestle Lanoil Home Outfits
New York City: Nestle Lanoil Company, Circa 1920s. 8vo, stapled pictorial wrappers, 16 pp, illustrated. Promotional guide to hair curling issued by an early manufacturer of an electric curling and waving kit. In nice condition with a bit of toning.
Woman's Centennial Congress November 25, 26, 27 1940
New York City: Mail & Express Printing Co., Inc, 1940. 8.75 x 5.5", green printed wrappers, 213 pp. Proceedings of the Woman's Centennial Congress, a celebration of the "Women's Century" (1840 to 1940) organized by Carrie Chapman Catt. Damp staining to lower portion of pages, toning to covers, paper abrasions.....
The Palfreys. A Tale.
Boston: Abel Tompkins, 1838. First Edition. 6.25 x 4", original brown cloth with gilt cover title, 69 pp. The first book by Sarah Carter Edgarton Mayo, an early American woman author who edited The Rose of Sharon annual between 1840 and 1848. The book is a moral tale for children.....
Healthful Exercises for Girls
London: George Philip & Sons, [1886]. 8vo, green cloth with gilt titles, [2], iv, [5], 6-92, [4] pp. Uncommon exercise manual for girls, by Alexander Alexander, the director of the Liverpool Gymnasium. The introduction begins: "it will perhaps be allowed that girls have very little opportunities for physical recreation, although.....
The Woman's Doctor
New York: The Macaulay Co, 1933. 8vo, original brown cloth with red titles to cover and spine, in the original dust jacket illustrated by Gretta. Second printing, published a month after the first. A novel about the experiences of two Toronto gynecologists, who eventually come into conflict after one is.....
All for Beauty
New York: Harriet Hubbard Ayer, 1933. Small 8vo, gilt decorated wrappers, 48 pp, illustrated. A guide and price list issued by the cosmetics company initially founded by Harriet Hubbard Ayer. Text covers skin, hair, and nail care making use of a wide variety of the company's products. In excellent condition.....
Lessons In Parliamentary Law with Table, Diagram of Precedence of Motions; Charts, Drills, Review Lessons and Index. Designed especially for members of Women's Clubs, Societies, etc., but adapted as well to the needs of members of Men's Organizations and students generally.
Mobile, Alabama: W.B. Delchamps Printing Co, 1914. 8vo, 175, [4] pp, brown printed wrappers, staple bound, errata slip tipped in and errata leaf bound in, includes a full page "Diagram of Parliamentary Motions." The author was a prominent Alabama civic leader, advocate of child labor and education reform, and suffragist.....
Woman's Wrongs: A Counter-Irritant
Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1868. First edition. Octavo, contemporary green cloth with gilt spine title, 212pp. A book by Mary Abigail Dodge, a prominent writer and essayist who wrote under the pseudonym Gail Hamilton. Here, Dodge weighs in on the ongoing debate over women's suffrage. Dodge believed strongly in equal.....
A Companion, Or Supplement To The Ladies' Diary For The Year 1791
[London]: [1790]. 12mo, [2] 99-144 pp, disbound text block. Supplement to a popular 18th century English ladies' Almanack. The majority of the text consists of answers to riddles and mathematical questions asked in the almanac as well as new "enigmas, rebuses, charades, queries and questions, to be answered next year.".....
Myomata of the Uterus
Philadelphia and London: W.B. Saunders Company, 1909. 4to, original green cloth with gilt spine lettering, 723 pp. First edition. Color plates and black and white illustrations within text by August Horn and Hermann Becker. A study of myoma, or non-cancerous growths that may develop in or around the uterus, by.....
Confessions of a Grass Widow
New York: Broadway Publishing Company, 1904. Octavo, original beige cloth with printed paper front cover, 301 pp plus ads. Novel about a "grass widow," or a woman who spends most of her time away from her husband. The author, Kate Thyson Marr, was a popular turn of the century author.....