![SCRAPBOOK] Young Woman's Photo & Scrapbook - Sterling College; Future Professor. Winifred Eastwood](/pictures/thumb/2387.jpg?v=1611363988)
Sterling, Kansas: The Reilly & Lee Co., 1928. Hardcover. 60 pages. 20.5 x 15 cm. 1920's - 1930's. Well organized, early twentieth-century young woman's scrapbook revealing a spirited social life overflowing with handmade cards/invitations, letters, ribbons, menus, and over 150 neatly labeled photos. The scrapbook, entitled, It's All Over Now!..... More
![AFRICAN AMERICAN] Presentation of Debutantes Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority Incorporated - Washington,...](/pictures/thumb/2413.jpg?v=1611359360)
Washington DC: 1969. Staplebound. Unpaginated. (8 pp.) 28 x 21.5 cm. Photo illustrated programs for Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., a historically African American Greek lettered sorority. Honorary Chairman - Elizabeth Duncan Koontz (1919 - 1989), Civil rights leader, special education advocate, labor president, and the first African-American Director of..... More
![EDUCATION] [WOMEN] Laws and Regulations of the Ladies' Department of Oberlin College. Oberlin...](/pictures/thumb/2412.jpg?v=1611359359)
Oberlin, Ohio: Oberlin: R. Butler, Printer, 1870. Sewn binding. 13 pages. 13.75 x 10 cm. Rules and regulations set forth for the women attending Oberlin College within the Ladies Department in the years following the Civil War. Detailing the many ways in which female students were specifically regarded under fairly..... More
![DOMESTIC SCIENCE] LE LIVRE DE LA MAITRESSE DE MAISON The Book of the Housewife; Méthode Nouvelle...](/pictures/thumb/2404.jpg?v=1611085863)
Paris: E. Thirion, 1895. Paperback. 237 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Filled to the brim with information on organizing, directing, and running a household. Chapters on foods proper usage, how to prepare meats, vegetables and fruits, kitchen guides with menus for dinner parties with wine and alcohol pairing suggestions, instructions..... More
![GERMAN] [COOKBOOK] [DOMESTIC SCIENCE] Die gute Hausmannskost & Manuscript; Ein Kockbuch unter...](/pictures/thumb/2396.jpg?v=1610745072)
Munich: Carl Aug. Sefried and Comp. Hardcover. 134 pages. 19 x 12 cm. Translation: The good Home Cooking Cookbook with special consideration to gas kitchen with advice and instructions for housewives and mothers. Laid in handwritten recipe book - 48 pages. 16 x 10 cm. All text in German. Book..... More
New York: Moore and Payne, 1833. Chazal, Antoine. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 186 pages. 26 x 17 cm. Illustrated with 82 plates [COMPLETE]. Previous owner's inscription, John Birchard Rice (1832-1893), Representative from Ohio, graduate from the medical department of the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor in 1857..... More
New York: Electrolux Corporation, 1952. Staplebound. 48 pages. 24 x 17 cm. The graphics in this vacuum cleaner Users Manual are quintessential 1950's. The lady of the house is impeccably dressed, in heels, while dusting, vacuuming, washing floors, polishing, shampooing rugs, you name it, she is flawless. Covers lightly rubbed..... More
![COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] Recipe Card Cook Book. The United Methodist Women of The First United...](/pictures/thumb/2349.jpg?v=1606258444)
Ozark, Alabama: The United Methodist Women of The First United Methodist Church, c. 1960's. Cards. 11 x 14 cm. Over 150 recipe cards, color-coded featuring fun and resourceful mid-century recipes. Cheese balls, salads encased in gelatin, casseroles, candy, and cakes all attributed to members of the community. Bound in two..... More
![TEXTILES] The Young Ladies' Journal Complete Guide To The Work-Table; Containing Instructions in...](/pictures/thumb/2329.jpg?v=1604084298)
London: E. Harrison, 1886. Third Edition. Hardcover. 136 pages. 22.5 x 16.5 cm. Overflowing with instructions along with illustrations. Four color supplements tipped in. Eight pages of period advertising. Spine cracked but holding. Light spotting internally, but clean. Boards rubbed and stained. More
![TEXTILES] Exercises in Knitting; Authoress of A Manual Of Knitting, Netting, and Crochet Work;...](/pictures/thumb/2317.jpg?v=1604084224)
London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1846. 124 pages. 11.5 x 15.5 cm. A shrewd business woman, Cornelia Mee, along with her sister Mary wrote crochet and knitting manuals to take advantage of the new availability of Berlin Wool in the UK which they sold in their shop - C. Mee's..... More
![ORIGINAL ARTWORK] The Coming Man; A Tragedy. N B](/pictures/thumb/2151.jpg?v=1601481460)
1859. Sewn binding. Unpaginated, [8]. This extraordinary love missive, artfully illustrated, given to John Lemson Flagg on his 24th birthday - one year before his marriage to Ellen H. Brown - is inscribed on the front free end paper: John L. Flagg/From N.B./11 of September 1859. The question is, who..... More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf/Harper Collins, 1988/1993. First Edition. Hardcover. 193 & 224 pages. From the collection of the late bookseller Barbara Farnsworth (1934-2018). Laurie Colwin, a novelist and short stories writer, was well known for her wit and especially for her food columns in Gourmet Magazine. Colwin died suddenly..... More
![AVIATION] [WOMEN] [AUTOGRAPH] Autograph Card of Pilot Laura Ingalls Affixed to Envelope; with...](/pictures/thumb/2280.jpg?v=1599835626)
Chicago: 1930. Loose_leaf. Envelope - 9.5 x 16.5 cm. Autograph card, affixed onto airmail envelope dated May 13th, 1930, dated shortly after Laura Ingalls broke an aviation record - addressed, in print, to Mr. York Briddell of St. Petersburg, Florida - Director of the American Air Mail Society. Accompanied by..... More