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

Twelve pamphlets pertaining to Women's health and reproduction issues targeting married or soon to be married, educated white women. Well written and illustrated - focucing on the language of science, while attempting to stay away from the religious aspects of reproduction - these pamphlets were some of the first educational..... 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: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. First Edition. Staplebound. 15 pages. 15 x 6 cm. Pamphlet argues that the Soviet Union is the only place women have equality/parity with men. Full page advertisement for The Working Woman, a monthly magazine published by the Communist Party USA Central Committee Women's Department..... More

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

New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1931. Taylor, Alfred E. First American Edition, 1st Printing. Hardcover. 159 pages. 19.5 x 12. 5 cm. Brimming with practical advice and some obsolete, but thought provoking, guidance. Frank Crowninshield, known for shaping Vanity Fair into a magazine about and for the talented, brilliant..... More

Chicago: 1930. Loose_leaf. Envelope - 9.5 x 16.5 cm. Autograph card, affixed onto airmail envelope dated May 13th, 1930, dated shortly after Laura Ingalls broke an aviation record - addressed, in print, to Mr. York Briddell of St. Petersburg, Florida - Director of the American Air Mail Society. Accompanied by..... More

Chicago: National Women's Trade Union League of America, 1914. Staplebound. Unpaginated [6 pages]. 23 x 15.5 cm. Printed pamphlet published by the WTUL at the height of influence under the leadership of Margaret Dreier Robins. Detailed information regarding working women's wages - extracted from The Federal Report on the Condition..... More