Various Places: 1940-1942. A collection of correspondence, plus a photo album, documenting the lives of a young Rhode Island couple between 1940 and 1942. Includes 45 letters sent by Pauline Pickett to her sweetheart, George Harrington, documenting her time working at the United Rubber Factory in Providence at the outbreak.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

[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.....

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.....

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.....

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.....

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.

Conshohocken, PA: 1869. Folding fan comprised of 18 pieces of wood held together with blue ribbon. The fan belonged to Sallie Cresson of Conshohocken, Pennsylvania, and each rung of the fan is inscribed by one of her friends with a brief note, dated 1869. A handwritten song is written in.....

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.....

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.....

New York and London: Harper & Brothers, 1941. Hardcover, no dust jacket, red cloth, 440 pp plus index. Third edition. Memoir of life on wartime Europe's frontline by a trailblazing female reporter. Very good with mild discoloration to covers, toning to pages, owner inscription to front endpaper.