New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1969. Hardcover. 1112 pages. 18 x 12 cm. Over one hundred years after the first edition of Beeton's Book of Household Management was first published, this first facsimile copy brought this classic cookbook back into American homes. Mrs. Beeton's advice to 'the Mistress', for..... More

Boston: c. 1919. Loose_leaf. 24 x 18.5 cm. Broadside expressing the infuriating position women find themselves in without the right to vote. "We are forever being told that the place of woman is in the HOME." But in reality, all of the tasks and achievements of women are dependent on..... More

Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1991. Hardcover. 327 pages. 23.5 x 16 cm. The author skillfully combines oral interviews and extensive archival records to show how waitresses adopted the basic tenets of male-dominated craft unions but rejected other aspects of male union culture. Dishing It Out contends that the..... More

Lynn, MA: Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., 1928. Staplebound. 32 pages. 17.5 x 11.5 cm. Advertising booklet from the Lydia E. Pinkham Co. utilizing the concept of teaching sewing techniques while targeting women to convince them of the merits of their products: Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Herb Medicine, Pills..... More

c. 1920's. Spiral_bound. Unpaginated. 19 .5 x 14 cm. Unique handmade cook book fashioned from a lined, tabbed, loose leaf binder, covered with heavy waxed wallpaper or waxed cloth. Alice has both typed the various recipes along with her hand written recipes. It appears Alice may have gone back and..... More