![Item #4903 [ACCOUNT BOOK] Timber Mill Account Book](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4903.jpeg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1772132585)
Bucksport, Maine: 1836-1866. Hardcover. 177 pages, with 54 pages utilized. This volume offers a window into the daily and season operations of a mid-19th-century timber mill. The proprietor(s) record work involving spruce, hemlock, pine, and both "soft" and "hard" woods over the years. Timber frequently serves as currency, exchanged for..... More
![Item #3449 [GERMAN COOKBOOK] [MANUSCRIPT] Illustrirtes Kock-Notis-Buch for gute Hausfrauen](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3449.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1674570771)
Leipzig: J.G. Bach, 1887-1930. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 18.5 x 13.5 cm.Translation: Illustrated Cooking Notebook for Good Housewives. Illustrated notebook filled with handwritten recipes - two separate hands. Dates indicate this was used between the years 1887 to 1930. Four separate handwritten recipes laid in along with a hand written letter in..... More
Hardcover. Unpaginated. 22.5 x 17 cm. Classic homemaker's binder including index tabs, ruled paper, and envelopes to store loose recipes, unfilled. Toning to paper, otherwise pristine. More
![Item #3973 [WOMEN] [LABOR] [PHOTOGRAPHY] Photos of Factory Workers](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3973.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1699483268)
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
Boston: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1852. Revised Edition. Hardcover. 369 pages. 19.5 x 12 cm. Catherine Beecher was the eldest daughter in one of the most remarkable families of the 19th century. Catherine was the daughter of Lyman Beecher and the sister of Henry Ward Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe..... More
New Jersey: Prentice-Hall Inc., 1967. 189 pages. 24 x 16 cm. Alice in Womanland takes you on a funny and wild journey into 20th Century American Womanland. Clean copy. Dust wrapper lightly soiled. Ex-libris, library stamp on half title page. Covered in protective mylar. More
![Item #4078 [WOMEN] THE SPECTRUM - 1932 - AN ANNUAL; Published by THE STUDENTS of. GEORGIA STATE...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4078.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704475941)
Milledgeville, GA: GEORGIA STATE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, 1932. Hardcover. Unpaginated. 27.5 x 21 cm. From the Alma Mater of Flannery O'Connor and Julia Roberts, the Georgia State College For Women prepared young women for teaching and business careers. Housed on a large campus in the center of Milledgeville, the former..... More
Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1888. Hardcover. 176 pages. 18 x 13 cm. Parthenia Antionette Hague (1838-1914) was born in Georgia. During the civil war Parthenia was a teacher in Eufaula, Alabama. In this first hand account of what life was like under the Northern Blockade, Parthenia describes the various..... More
Tokyo: Charles E. Tuttle Company, 1964. First Edition. 166 pages. 28 x 22.5 cm. Early American founders of iron were highly instrumental in the country's national independence. Documenting the craft of blacksmiths, whitesmiths, farriers, edge toolmakers, cutlers, locksmiths, gunsmiths, nailers, wheelwrights, and tinsmiths. Board and interior pristine. Dust wrapper and..... More
NESCO, [1930-1938]. Form No. 1039. staplebound. 32 pages, 15 x 12.5 cm. Featuring recipes for tons of staple dishes and sides, New Modern Way of NESCO Electric Cooking primarily advertises the two models of NESCO Electric Casseroles and Roasters, some of the first crockpots to hit the market. They use..... More
Ithaca: ILR Press - New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1982. Paperback. 160 pages. 21.5 x 14 cm. Author signed business card - "Thanks Lee, Georgia". Nielsen describes how the process of unionization raised professional awareness among the flight attendants, and she recounts how the..... More
Youngwood, PA: Robertshaw Thermostat Co., [1920s]. Staplebound. 8 pages, 21.5 x 14 cm. "Don't Spend Your Time in the Kitchen", this advertising booklet exclaims, "Let the AutomatiCook Do the Cooking". The AutomatiCook was an early device that allowed for temperature control of the oven when cooking-- a huge transformation in..... More
New York, NY: Royal Baking Powder Co., 1902. Staplebound. 44 pages, 20.5 x 13 cm. This copy of Royal Baker and Pastry Cook, published in 1902, seems to have been distributed at purchase by the grocer. It has a stamp on the back reading “Lydecker Bros. Co. Dealers in Staple..... More
![Item #3215 [APPLIANCE] [REFRIGERATION] COLDSPOT; The Pace Setter, For Modern Home Conveniences....](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3215.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715966136)
Evansville, IN: c. 1940. staplebound. 18 pages, 13 x 19 cm. This electric blue COLDSPOT advertisement booklet carefully lays out all of the amazing features of the their refrigeration product, including a shiny double-action door hinge and concealed lamp! It also describes the inner workings of the early home fridge..... More
![Item #4090 [TEXTILES] NEEDLEWORK SAMPLE BOOK - LENCERIA MUESTRARIO; ACADEMIA MENDIA. Emilia Sobun](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4090.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1704984504)
Buenos Aires: 1934. Hardcover. Oblong folio (21.6 x 36 cm.) Six unumbered pages with 13 samples (of 14). These "Lingerie" samples show intricate needlework, each about 16.5 x 16.5 cm. - including a small circular stamp, or the Academia, behind each sample. Owner's handwritten title page with school stamp. Interior..... More
![Item #4285 [WOMEN] [POLITICS] Vote Socialist Workers in '70 - the Women's Liberation Campaign;...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4285.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1719513929)
New York: 1970. Loose_leaf. 10.5 x 7 cm. A political sticker advocating the Women's Liberation Campaign and the Socialist Workers Party for the 1970 election. Clean, crisp copy. More
Le Roy, NY: The Genesee Pure Food Company, 1920. staplebound. 14 pages, 10.5 x 15.5 cm. The recipe booklet Jell-O, America's Most Famous Dessert, features a young and nicely dressed woman in an apron on the cover sitting at her table, checking through an account book, with boxes of Jell-O..... More
Springfield, Mass: The Home Correspondence School, 1901. Staplebound. 31 pages. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. An overview of the course that studies Plants, Soil, Tillage, Drainage, Irrigation, Manures, Fertilizers, Crop Rotation, Mowing and Pastures, Seed and Plants, Animal Husbandry, Stock Breeding, Dairy Husbandry, Stock Feeding, and Poultry Farming. Front and back..... More
![Item #4575 [COMMUNITY COOKBOOK] COOK BOOK of the Ladies' Aid Society of the Evangelical Lutheran...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4575.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1744745963)
St. Louis, MO: Volkening, 1922. Second Edition. Hardcover. 171 pages. 23 x 15 cm. Recipes attributed to members, although, as was the custom at the time, most of the club members used their married name (ex. Mrs. Wm. Voertmann), although unmarried women were refered to as Miss. Filled with period..... More
![Item #4840 [WOMEN] WORKING MOTHERS AND THE NEED FOR CHILD CARE SERVICES. UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT...](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4840.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1769697780)
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF LABOR - WAGE AND LABOR STANDARDS ADMINISTRATION, 1968. Staplebound. 20 pages. 26 x 20 cm. Facts and statistics with reference to working mothers and child care in the late 1960s. Previous owner's stamp on front cover, otherwise clean. More
New York: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS, 1988. Paperback. 267 pages. Exploring the place of women in the socioeconomic system formulated in the Mishnah, a book of legal rules compiled by Jewish sages in second-century Palestine, this study reveals a fundamental ambiguity in women's role. Excluded from the life of mind and..... More
Tarrytown, NY: General Foods Corp. 1931. Staplebound. 31 pages, 19.5 cm x 12.5 cm. The Calumet Baking Book begins with a letter from the editor of the book, Marion Jane Parker, a General Foods Corporation employee at the time. This letter and the next 5 pages all serve as advertismets..... More
![Item #4202 [CONNECTICUT] [QUARRY] [FISHING] Shaler Family Brownstone & Shad Fishing Archive](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/4202.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1715720964)
1803-1918. A fascinating archive of nearly 60 individual pieces of paper spanning the beginning of the 1800's all the way to the early 1900's. Located on the Connecticut river, the area around Haddam was first known to the Native American's as a good place to fish for shad in the..... More
![Item #3340 [DAY BOOK] [NAVY] [HAWAII] Homemaker's Daily Ledger; Navy Spouse](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3340.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1667951606)
Honolulu, Hawaii: 1927-1928. Hardcover. 105 pages of handwritten notes. As the US Navy was working to build up the Naval Station at Pearl Harbor, personnel along with their families carved out a life in the area. This dairy/day book gives us a glimpse into the daily lives of these families..... More
![Item #3720 [DOMESTIC SCIENCE] Sani-Flush Advertisement; The Most Important Cleanser in Your Home](https://lizzyoungbookseller.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/3720.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1689279194)
Canton, Ohio: The Hygienic Products Company, 1930's. Pamphlet. 15 x 17 cm. opened. Advertised as "The Most Important Cleanser in Your Home - Always Proof of a Tidy Housewife" Cleans toilet bowls as well as automobile radiators. Due to environmental concerns, this product was discontinued. Printed for the MARSH AND COMPANY..... More