![Item #2442 [ADVERTISING] HINDS' Honey and Almond Cream; For the Face, Hands, Skin and Complexion....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2442.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1613594764)
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
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..... More
![Item #2527 [RADIO] Fun Fare; A Booklet of Party Plans - Games, Menus, and Recipes - For Groups...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2527.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1619813051)
N.D.C., 1939. Youngren, Max. Staplebound. 30 pages. 20 x 14 cm. Written by one of Chicago's women of the "Golden Age of Radio," Helen Stevens Fisher, best known as "The Little Lady of the House" who was featured on The National Farm and Home Hour (NBC) - one of the..... More
Mississippi: Mississippi Industrial Institute & College, 1889. Sewn binding. 16 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Commencement speech delivered for the graduating class of the first state-supported college for women in America. This university was originally called Mississippi Industrial Institute Institute and College for the Education of White Girls and was..... More
![Item #4080 [WOMEN] THE MORTARBOARD; Volume XXXV. Junior Class of Barnard College](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4080.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704475941)
New York: The Shilling Press, Inc., 1928. Hardcover. 244 pages. 25 x 24 cm. In 1889, Barnard became the first college in New York City to offer degrees to women. Zora Neale Hurston "28 (listed in the index without an address), was Barnard's first black graduate. Other persons of note..... More
![Item #2860 [ADVICE] Two letters on Ladies Home Journal Stationary. Eleanor H. Philips](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2860.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1642633837)
1916. Loose_leaf. Two letters (3 pages) 22 x 16 cm. Handwritten letters on stationary (The Ladies Home Journal - Independence Square - Philadelphia - Editorial Rooms) to a Mrs. Nash, offering advice on wedding etiquette including guidelines on monograms for silver and linens and what men should wear at weddings..... More
New Kensington, Pennsylvania: The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company, c. late 1940's. Staplebound. 35 pages. 23 x 15 cm. The Aluminum Cooking Utensil Company used the growing interest in science and technology after W.W.I.I. to help reinvent the role of the Homemaker following the need for women to help out in..... More
London: Michael Joseph, 1954. Rose, Sir Francis. First U.K. Edition, First Printing. Hardcover. 288 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. Born is San Francisco in 1877, Toklas made her way to France after the 1906 Earthquake. Toklas arrived in Paris in 1907 and immediately met Gertrude Stein - they would spend..... More
![Item #4104 [PHOTO ALBUMS] [HEALTH] [INDIA] [BANGLADESH] Health Relief Photo Albums; Dr. Lois H....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4104.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706652662)
1972-1974. Hardcover. Two Albums of photographs, most likely belonged to Dr. Louis H. Visscher (1914-2002). Visscher, born in Indianapolis and attended Mount Holyoke College and the University of Illinois at Urbana where she received her B.S. in Medicine (1938) and her medical degree with honors (1940) from the University of..... More
![Item #3719 [WOMEN] [JOURNAL] My Friends' At Homes; A Daily Record of the At-home Days of My Friends](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3719.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689279194)
London: Ernest Nister, c. 1910. Hardcover. 16 x 21 cm. 22 pages. New York; E. P. Dutton & Co. Unused day dairy. Includes blank pages from Monday through Sunday with a couple extra pages for Occasional Days, Notes, and Autographs. Poems and quotes throughout along with color illustrations. Cover and..... More
![Item #4212 [WOMEN] [SPORTS] [PHOTOGRAPHY] 1952 Women's Softball Photo Album](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4212.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1716320454)
Ohio: 1952. Hardcover. 39 pages. 26 x 34 cm. 132 photos (8 not present). Depending on where you lived in the United States, women's softball opportunities varied. By the 1940's, 50's and 60's, women's fast pitch softball became very popular, with teams playing around the country and in Canada. The..... More
Portland, ME: A.S. Hinds, c.1890's. Staplebound. 16 pages. (4 pp.) 14 x 9 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
![Item #2178 [WOMEN] Women's Strike Demonstration August 26. August 26 Strike Committee](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/2178.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1591299321)
New York: August 26 Strike Committee, 1970. Loose_leaf. 27.5 x 21 cm. Leaflet printed for the New York demonstration marking the 50th anniversary of the passage of woman suffrage - the Women's Strike for Equality March, led by the National Organization for Women (NOW), calling for new rights: free childcare..... 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: Charles Tappan, 1846. First Edition. Hardcover. 190 pages. 19 x 12 cm. Scarce first edition of one of America's early books on domestic science. Owner's signature in pencil on front free end paper, dated August 1847. Although ragged condition, it can easily be restored. Rear cover detached, shaken, foxed..... More
![Item #1595 [HOME ECONOMICS] Safe Washing; The New American Beauty Porcelain Washer. Getz Power...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/1595.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1579552711)
Morton, Illinois: Getz Power Washer Co., c.1920. Paper. Color illustrated advertisement for washer/ringer. Before the enclosed electric washing machines, homemakers battled the dangerous washing tub/wringer device. This particular porcelain model claims to be "Silent as a kitten's purr" with "quick action...churning up millions of soap bubbles that are forced through..... More
![Item #4828 [ALS] Letter from Grandaughter to Grandmother. Virginia Gray](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
Vineland, NJ: 1865. Loose_leaf. 20 x 13 cm. Folded lined paper. Ginnie Gray was 12 years old and living in Vineland, NJ with her mother Elizabeth and Father Eugene when she wrote this letter to her Grandmother in Ipswich, MA. Using beautiful penmanship, Ginnie writes in detail about her recent..... More
c. 1920. Cards. Color illustrated advertisement for Johnson's Wax Electric floor Polisher. Targeted to "Discriminating people", and reminding the homemaker - "Keeping your floors in perfect condition will become a pleasure." Pristine. More
New York: Atheneum, 1976. First Edition. Hardcover. 371 pages. 24 x 16.5 cm. With over 250 recipes, Kamman introduces the reader to the different women important in her life: her grandmother, a cousin, a friend, the countrywoman who took her in when as a child she was evacuated from wartime..... More
![Item #4103 [ARTIST] [ARCHIVE] Letters, Exhibition Openings, Job Offerings. Edna May Martin](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4103.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706652561)
Providence, RI & Seekonk, MA: 1910-1925. Edna May Martin (1896 - 1996) was a young artist who graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1918 and worked under Eliza Gardiner, a painter, printmaker and educator. Ms. Martin taught at RISD just after her graduation until she secured..... More
![Item #3888 [SCRAPBOOK] [WOMEN] [PREP SCHOOL] Anna L. Schaeffer, Talbot House, Capen School; CAPEN...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3888.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1694688391)
Northampton, MA: 1911-1913. Hardcover. Unpaginated [50 pp.] 30 x 45 cm. An extraordinary look into a young woman's life at preparatory school - Miss Capen's School for Girls, Northampton, MA. - a school for young women who were interested in enrollment at Smith College. Anna L. Schaeffer (1893-1984) was from..... More
![Item #3477 [TEXTILES] My Own Kenmore Sewing Scrap Book. Roebuck and Co Sears](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3477.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1678397378)
Sears, Roebuck and Co., c. 1960. Wraps. Unpaginated [20pp.] 22 x 28 cm. Sewing instructional book filled with completed assignments. Handwritten instructions along with completed pieces of work, pinned in to the pages. A wonderful example of the various home economics courses that made up most high school curriculum in..... More
Garden City: Anchor Books, 1960. Rose, Sir Francis. Paperback. 305 pages. 18 x 10.5 cm. Born is San Francisco in 1877, Toklas made her way to France after the 1906 Earthquake. Toklas arrived in Paris in 1907 and immediately met Gertrude Stein - they would spend the rest of Stein's..... More
New York: Harper & Row, publishers, 1984. Rose, Sir Francis. Hardcover. 288 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 30th anniversary reprint edition featuring a nine page forward by M.F.K. Fisher. Born is San Francisco in 1877, Toklas made her way to France after the 1906 Earthquake. Toklas arrived in Paris in..... More
New York: Harper & Row, publishers, 1984. Rose, Sir Francis. Hardcover. 288 pages. 21.5 x 14.5 cm. 30th anniversary reprint edition featuring a nine page forward by M.F.K. Fisher. Born is San Francisco in 1877, Toklas made her way to France after the 1906 Earthquake. Toklas arrived in Paris in..... More