19 cent Women Education. Henry M. Pierce, “Address to the Second Graduating Class of the Rutgers Female College; delivered in The West Presbyterian Church, (Rev. Dr. Hastings’,) on Sabbath Evening, May 31st, 1868. By Henry M. Pierce, LL.D., President of the College. New York: Agathynian Press. 1868. Inscribed on inside.....
[Early Women Education] ALS : Autograph Letter Signed by John Howard. Preston. To his daughter Sarah (“My Dear Child.”)Nov. 29, 1823. Autograph Letter Signed 3 pages, folded from a large sheet, with the 4th page showing the original stampless address panel. Usual holes where original wax seal was torn off.....
[Nurses] [Photo Album]. This photo album which dates back to the 1920s depicts a crew of young women both studying and working as nurses in Chester, Pennsylvania. Archive of 40 silver gelatin photographs ranging in size from large format photos of 5" x 8" to 2.75" x 3.75". Album is.....
[19th c. Women Education] Handwritten letter to 2 women teachers from former instructor. December 22, 1893. 2 pages with original mailing envelope. 9.5 x 5.75 inches. On Western Theological Seminary letterhead, with fine engraving of the school building on both sheets. To “Miss Ellsworth and Miss Gore” from L.M......
[19th c. Women Education] Handwritten letter from the superintendent of the Young Ladies’ Athenaeum in Jacksonville, IL. June 24, 1879. On official letterhead for the school with a large engraving of campus buildings. 2 pages. 10 x 8 inches. Superintendent of the school William Sander, writes to recommend a graduate.....
[Women Education] [Handwritten] Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems, essays, and stories. 111 handwritten pages. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" and dated “9-6-75” on first page. Entries date to 1875. Original boards. 9 x 7.5 in. Decorative green and purple flower design on covers, page edges gilt. Includes.....
Philis, Mr. Report of the Commission Charged to Examine Memoirs Relative to the Education of Women. Third Subject: Morality. 1827. This 1827 manuscript records one of the earliest sustained formal debates advocating systematic education for women across social classes. Structured as a commission evaluation of submitted memoirs, the text advances.....
METCALFE, A.E. Woman's Effort: A Chronicle of British Women's Fifty Years' Struggle for Citizenship (1865-1914). Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1917. Frontispiece and 6 illustrated plates. Woman's Effort is a history of the struggle for political citizenship, as told by Agnes Edith Metcalfe. She gives a granular history of the parliamentary actions.....
Representation of the People Act, 1918. [8 Geo. 5. Ch. 64] Printed by Percy Lunch, Humphries & Co. Ltd. for Normal Gibb Scorgie, C.V.O., C.B.E., Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office and King’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. First edition. 161 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 6 in.....
[African American] Archive of 63 vernacular photos of African American women c. 1950s-90s. Images are in color and black and white with measurements ranging from 5" x 7" to 2" x 2" in. One color photo shows 4 generations of Black women posed on stairs outside a large concrete building.....
Vintage Silver gelatin photo. Approx. 4" x 6" . C. 1920s. Portrait of an African American female graduate in her cap and gown .Inscribed in ink "to my cousin from Herlin". Very god condition.
Woman Suffrage: History Arguments and Results. New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1913. Maule Bjorkman (editor). Original blue cloth boards. 4 x 6.5 in. Known amongst suffragists as the "blue book," this collection of seven essays on suffrage was published together to serve as a resource for suffrage speakers.....
[Women Education] Photo album from all girls’ school with 23 images of sports, leisure, and extracurricular activities. Gelatin silver print Photos dated 1916-1918. Original green cloth boards with “Photo Sketches” on the front cover. 14 card-stock pages. 6.25 x 7.5 in. Original black and white photos in various sizes, from.....
Women factory workers posed in repeated group portraits outside an unidentified industrial building, circa 1940s, documenting female industrial labor during the World War II home front mobilization that brought large numbers of women into wage work in factories, warehouses, and production sites. The archive depicts women wearing high-waisted slacks, short-sleeved.....
Bertha von Hillern. Autograph Letter Signed Describing a Pedestrienne Performance in Maine. Four-page autograph letter signed, written in Bucksport, Maine, and dated August 12, 1877, from a woman identified as Caitlin to her parents. The letter provides a vivid firsthand account of a public endurance-walking exhibition by Bertha von Hillern.....
Women Suffrage: Original UK Parliamentary Franchise (Extension of voting rights to Women). A proposed Bill for extending the Parliamentary Franchise to Women. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 2 February 1900. 2 pages, 13 ¼ x 8 ½ in. At this time, England was under the rule.....
[Feminism and Women's Rights]Early [Women's Education] Three House Commons bills on women's education, 1875-1911. London: House of Commons Printing Office, 1875, 1910, 1911. First printings. This archive charts incremental but foundational legal reforms to ensure British women’s access to university education, teaching professions, and public educational funding across the late.....
[African American] Small Photo archive of 6 sepia-toned Kodak prints of African American women posing beside the foundation of a small building. 1952. Measure 5" x 3.5" inches. Photos show 4 subjects alone or, in one image, 2 in a pair, standing in an open field with trees lining the.....
[African American] [Mug Shots] [Women] Photo archive of 4 African American Women mug shots. Two date from the 1960s in Miami and two date from the 1940s in Cleveland. 4 Silver gelatin photographs. The two from the 1960s measure 4" x 5." while the two from the 1940s measure 2.75".....
Black women’s labor photo archive depicting agricultural work, nursing, hospital training, clerical employment, service labor, and street protest from the turn of the century to 1960. Black women’s labor photo archive depicting the long movement of Black women into paid work beyond domestic service and agricultural labor, from cane-processing and.....
[Women in Sciences] United Hospital and Dispensary, Baldwin Place, Boston. Typed signed letter inviting to joining hospital advisory board and information sheet about the board. Letter dated May 18, 1887. Notable for the time, the membership board for United Hospital and Dispensary lists several woman doctors and emphasizes that here.....
This January 1804 session laws volume preserves the enacted statutes of the Massachusetts General Court, including the original incorporation of Bradford Academy, an institution that became one of the earliest centers of advanced education in the Commonwealth and a foundational site in the history of women’s education in New England.....
[19th c. Women] [Physical Education] C.L. McCluer Stevens. “A Unique School,” for girls that focuses on physical education described in an original 1897 article from The Windsor Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, Volume 6, 1897. Unbound. p. 589-594. 9 x 6.5 inches. Article about a school for girls that focuses on.....
Women Suffrage Early pamphlet, from the "California Federation of Women’s Clubs. A Survey of the Results of Woman Suffrage in California". Made by the Committee of Political Science Mrs. Seward A. Simons, Chairman. 1916-1917. This large early 4 page pamphlet, 12 ½ x 9 ½” (sheet unfolded). Gives updates on.....
[Women History] [Women's Education] Caroline Dall. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to Education, Labor, and the Law. Printed in Boston: Lee and Shepard (1867). Early ownership signature of James Gould dated 1867 to ffep. The College, the Market, and the Court; or Woman's Relation to.....
