![HANDMADE] [MANUSCRIPT] [COOKING] Recipe Binder; with personal ephemera](/pictures/thumb/1931.jpg?v=1576791026)
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
New York: Dodge Publishing Company, 1910. 92 pages. 16.5 x 24.5 cm. Highly stylized Guest Book and journal, for use in recording guests, holidays, etc. organized by month. Unused, clean crisp copy. More
![KKK] [WOMEN] [PENNSYLVANIA] PHOTO of Auxiliary WKKK](/pictures/thumb/1614.jpg?v=1551388084)
Scranton, PA: Hornbaker Photography, c. 1924-26. Cards. 113 x 11 inch frame (approx. 10 x 8 inch photo). Sepia photo - WKKK group photo. Seemingly 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..... More
![MANUSCRIPT] [COOKERY]; "From Home"](/images/noimage.png)
1861. Wraps. 28 pages. 5 pages pinned in. Handwritten recipe book, mainly baked goods. Most likely from the New York area as one pinned in recipe is written on a printed page from the Home Insurance Co. New York. One of the recipes is for Harrison Cake, a spice cake..... More
![TEMPERANCE] The Ladies' Delight Cook Book; Number One](/pictures/thumb/1527.jpg?v=1570832703)
Boston: A. P. Ordway & Co., 1886. First Edition. Wraps. 32 pages. 18 x 12 cm. An abundance of lovely recipes. Endorsed by Mrs. S. Louis Barton - Missionary Morgan Chapel, Shawmut Avenue, Boston; "friends of temperance". Recipes accompanied by testimonials for Doctor Kaufmann's Sulpher Bitters, and miraculous cures -..... More
![IRONING] Simplex - The Recognized Leader; The Most Complete Line of Ironers in America. American...](/pictures/thumb/1734.jpg?v=1551365237)
Oshkosh, Wis. Castle-Pierce Press, c. 1930's. Staplebound. 24 pages. 28 x 24 cm. Illustrated sales catalog featuring detailed descriptions of the ironing machines offered by the American Ironing Machine Co., Algonquin, Illinois. A distinctive feature of this catalog is the visual portrayal of women operating the machines throughout the history..... More
Newton, MA: Shepard Worsted Mills, 1917. Wraps. 36 pages. 24.5 x 18.5 cm. Illustrated with color folding frontispiece and twenty-five black and white plates. 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
Brooklyn: 1911. Sewn binding. Unpaginated (8 pages). Program for the Brooklyn Heights Seminary Club performed at The Brooklyn Academy of Music, April 28, 1911. Featured in the program are the daughters of the social elite including: Eunice Beecher (granddaughter of Henry Ward Beecher), and members of the Van Brunt, Cropsey..... 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
![COMMUNIST PARTY] Women and Equality. Margaret Cowl](/pictures/thumb/2034.jpg?v=1570050439)
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
![HOME ECONOMICS] [SEWING] Sewing Sample Book. Annie Humphreys](/pictures/thumb/1815.jpg?v=1553268454)
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
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
![PSYCHIATRIC] [HARTFORD] Handwritten Letter Requesting Help. Winifred A. Johnson](/pictures/thumb/2054.jpg?v=1578157865)
Hartford, CT. 1862. Loose_leaf. 20 x 12.5 cm. Three page letter, folded. A poignant handwritten letter from Winifred A. Johnson (1820-1887), a patient at the Hartford Retreat, to her lawyer Theron Carey, suggesting her Doctor, the notable John S. Butler, MD (1803-1890), proposes the release from her present confinement. Winifred..... More
Cincinnati: The Williamson Heater Company, 1927. Staplebound. 17 pages. 23 x 10 cm. Before the clothes dryer as we now know, there was a half step improvement for homemakers: a cabinet where one would hang clothes, after using the wringer, which basically operated like a large hair dryer. The logic..... More
Cincinnati: The Procter & Gamble Co., 1918. Wraps. 68 pages. 18 x 13 cm. In case anyone has forgotten the drudgery of housework and especially laundry, this booklet will certainly be a reminder. Filled with scientific and practical laundry solutions. One chapter - Practical Laundry Work, conjures up the back..... More