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

Connecticut/California: 1940's-1960's. Cards. 21 pages. 25.5 x 17.5 cm. Handcrafted recipes book made up of decorated envelopes. Each envelope is decorated with pasted-on photos of food items which are labeled, and filled with recipes. Both handwritten recipes and recipes cut from magazine, periodicals, and food packaging. Some envelopes empty. Front..... 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. 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 building..... More

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

Ottumwa, Iowa: John Morrell & Co., 1928. Staplebound wraps. 8 x 5 in. 36 pages. Ida Bailey Allen, popularly known as The Nation's Homemaker dishes out advise on hosting Teas, Bridge Parties, Receptions, Midnight Suppers, Summer Sports Events, with advertisement for Morrell's food products. Some recipes include; Liver Cheese with..... More

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

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

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

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

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

Peking: Foreign Language Press, 1972. Paperback. [12] 78 pages. 18 x 7 cm. Profusely photo illustrated with black and white photos. Essays assembled during the Cultural Revolution highlighting the support for the "great leader" Mao Tse-Tung. Purportedly written by women in the hopes of promoting the idea of the "New..... More

Washington DC: 1936. Staplebound. Unpaginated (8 pages). 23 x 16 cm. A charming Program celebrating Eleanor Roosevelt by the Seventy Three Club on March 25, 1936 at the Mayflower Hotel; the wives of the members of the Seventy-third Congress. The 73rd Congress (1933-1935) passed an extraordinary burst of legislation to..... 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