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

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

London: Dean and Son, 1854. Wraps. 72 pages. 16 x 10.5 cm. An in-depth instructional guide with advice on domestic duties - morning to night, both large and small concerns, when and how these duties should be carried out as well as special occasion tasks - always keeping in mind..... More

Washington DC: The American Red Cross, July, 1943. Loose_leaf. 28 x 20 cm. Official Red Cross, two-sided typed knitting instructions. Call it "Knitting for Victory" - The question asked during World War II was "What can I do to help the war effort?" The answer: Knit. Knitting gave people, particularly..... More