c. early 1920's. 25 x 12 cm. (photo 18 x 13 cm.) Black and white mounted photo of women attending a National Grange festival. Beginning in the late 1800's, the Grange, formally known as the Patrons of Husbandry, was organized to assist farmers with the multitude of difficulties they experienced..... More

Binghamton, NY: 1950s-1970s. Hardcover. 22 X 15 cm. A personal culinary archive compiled by a Binghamton homemaker using a 1936 loose-leaf binder produced by the Blackwell Wielandy Company of St. Louis, Missouri. The binder contains fifty sheets for handwritten or pasted recipes, with ten special index pages designed for classification..... More

c. 1966-67. Glossy black and white photo, 10 x 8 inches. Ink stamps on verso 'Palace Duo' 'Bruno Rode/2710 53rd Street/Sarasota Fla./Tel.355-1674'. Now known as the Avalon Hollywood, the iconic nightclub was briefly renamed the Hollywood Palace in 1964 to host the new weekly broadcast variety show of the same..... More

Cleveland: 1915. Loose_leaf. 16.5 x 13 folded sheet of gently embossed canary yellow writing paper (with stamped envelope). Envelope address to Miss Mary Painter, of Coulter Pa. The letter, signed "Initial Crotchet Co." with a PO box return address in Cleveland was most likely a woman-run home business. The rise..... More

c. 1947. 6 x 6 cm. A collection of 18 black and white photos featuring individual women at work in a factory setting. All the women are well dressed and look to be fairly happy. Most likely some type of scientific operation. More

Portland, ME: A. S. Hinds, 1907. Staplebound. Unpaginated. [16 pp.] 15 x 8.5 cm. Hinds' Honey and Almond Cream was formulated in the late 1870's by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland Maine while working in a drugstore - it was a huge success and was bought out in 1907 by..... More

c. 1933. Hardcover. An unusual and unique all in one manuscript, partly typed, partly hand written. Sections include: Physiology, Geography, American History, Art History, World History, French, Archaeology, Religion, Literature, Physiology, Chemistry, Calorie and Nutritional tables, and recipes - pasted in, typed, and hand written. Most likely a homemaker in..... More

New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1960. Hardcover. 21 x 14 cm. 176 pages. Ruth Eleanor "Peg" Bracken was an American author of humorous books on cooking, housekeeping, etiquette and travel. During the 1960s and 1970s, Bracken's writing reassured women that they did not have to be perfect to have..... More

Brooklyn: c. 1962. Spiral bound. 146 pages. 22 x 14 cm. A community cookbook featuring recipes contributed by members of the Brooklyn Wellesley Club. The women represented here were an impressive group - many later became pioneering business leaders, lawyers, and educators. Proceeds from the volume supported the Wellesley College..... More

San Francisco: Synergistic Press, 1979. First Edition. Hardcover. 72 pages. 28.5 x 22 cm. Introduced by M.F.K. Fisher. Clancy's reminiscence of Paris' Gare de Lyon, 24 line drawings plus photographed ephemera from the French train station. Crisp, clean copy. Lacking slip case. More

Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1967. First Edition. Hardcover. 367 pages. 21 x 15.5 cm. Based in Berkeley, early 1960's, this is a story of three women and the different paths they took. Board and interior clean. Dust wrapper toned, chipped, with closed tears. More

New York: D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY, 1935. Hardcover. 102 pages. 19.5 x 13 cm. Elsie de Wolfe was known for her taste - taste in design, taste in travel, taste in food, and taste in how to live life. As she state in the beginning of this book: "This is not..... More

Philadelphia: DORRANCE & COMPANY, INC., 1930. First Edition. Hardcover. 93 pages. 20 x 13 cm. Issued as national Prohibition neared its close, this spirited collection of nonalcoholic beverages drew contemporary media notice, including a 1930 New York Times review. The book is organized by themed chapters, each introduced with lively..... More