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.....
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.....
Garment factory photographs documenting women’s industrial sewing labor, machine based apparel production, and managerial oversight in the postwar United States, circa 1950s, with direct evidence of how mass clothing manufacture depended on large sewing rooms, specialized equipment, and gendered factory work. Archive documents the production floor as a working system.....
Women’s wartime factory labor photo archive depicting rubber molding, inspection, precision trimming, packing, and bench production in the United States during the World War II era. More than six million women took wartime jobs in American factories, and wartime labor needs moved women into industrial work involving machinery, inspection, aircraft.....
Wells, Lyn. American Women: Their Use and Abuse. Boston, New England Free Press, 1969. First edition. 17 pages. stapled wraps, 8.5x11 inches, wraps lightly worn, pages evenly toned, else very good condition. Early feminist pamphlet on women's status and a how-to manual on building a movement with an emphasis on.....
The New American Cook Book: Amply Illustrated. Springfield, OH: The Crowell & Kirkpatrick Co., 1899. First edition. 383 pages. Illustrated with black-and-white engravings, including decorative section headers and utensil diagrams. Illustrated wrappers with vignette of a woman flanked by an eagle, crossed swords, and laurel wreaths. This turn-of-the-century cookbook was.....
