Pittsfield, MA: Eaton Paper Corporation, 1962. Second Edition. Staplebound. 33 pages. 20 x 13 cm. "Are you the girl with 'career sparkle' in your eye? Is becoming-or remaining-a perfect secretary your objective? Or, like many young women today, are you proving that 'two can live as cheaply as one' -... More
Cardboard covers. 20.5 x 18 cm. Circa 1920's. Booklet from a Home Economics class, featuring 22 samples, tipped in, of various colors and patterns. Miss Humphreys seems to have been given the number "29" in her class, as all her samples are marked in pencil. More
New York: Triangle Communications, Inc., October, 1978. Glossy pictorial cover. 194 pages. 28 x 20.5 cm. 13-year-old movie star, Brooke Shields, adorns the cover of YOUNG AMERICA'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE. Four page spread focusing on Brooke's beauty regimen, exercise routine, and account of "Life on the set" during filming of "Wanda... More
Chicago: HMH Publishing Co. Inc., July 1964. Staplebound. The hows, whys and with whoms of the business world's seduction rites. A particularly interesting 5 page article written by the author of Sex and the Single Girl (1962). Brown's observations seem dated in one sense, but clever in another, especially considering... More
Boston: 1931. Staplebound. 35 pages. Boston YWCA was the first in the nation, incorporated in 1867. What began as a boarding house for working women, grew into an employment service and eventually expanded into educational and domestic training. Halftone photos of library, reception room, kitchen, and class in gowns. Includes... More
New York: Con Edison. Pamphlet. 27.5 x 29.5 cm. Mid 1950's. With the suburbs of New York expanding, Con Ed welcomed the new homemaker and her family to update their kitchens with the help of this planning kit. Includes 44 plastic forms - cabinets, stoves, refrigerators, sinks, washing machines, etc.... More
Oshkosh, Wis. Castle-Pierce Press, c. 1930's. Staplebound. 24 pages. 28 x 24 cm. Illustrated sales catalog featuring detailed descriptions of the ironing machines offered by the American Ironing Machine Co., Algonquin, Illinois. A distinctive feature of this catalog is the visual portrayal of women operating the machines throughout the history... More
Scranton, PA: Hornbaker Photography, c. 1924-26. Cards. 113 x 11 inch frame (approx. 10 x 8 inch photo). Sepia photo - WKKK group photo. Seemingly mostly women (hard to tell with the cloaks, but shoes give it away), taken in what seems to be either a school room or municipal... More
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, Inc., 1938. First Edition. Hardcover. 223 pages. 23 x 16 cm. Satirical observations on men (and women), by an assortment of female authors. A counterpart to The Bedroom Companion; "a joyous symposium of thoughts about women (by men). Illustrated. Dust wrapper heavily chipped. Board and book clean. More
1776. Loose_leaf. 10 pages. 9.75 x 7.5 inches. Watermarked laid paper, with seal 'Cen D'Orleans" stamped on two pages. Contract details agreement between Joseph Denir and Marieanne Grosboir on the 6th of February, 1776. This contract was approved by the royal notary, with a seal bearing the name 'd'Orleans', a.... More
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