WALKER, Mary. HIT. Published by The American News Company, New York, 1871. First edition of this collection of feminist essays by the great abolitionist, suffragist, dress-reformer, battlefield surgeon, and onetime prisoner of war. Original red cloth, stamped in black, with black and gilt spine decoration. Olive-grey coated endpapers. 177, [1].....
WOOLF, Virginia. Orlando. New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. One of 800 signed copies, of a total edition of 861 printed on pure rag paper. Signed by Woolf. 333 pages, as well as colophon, frontispiece, and 7 inserted illustrations. Black cloth with gilt publisher's device to cover, flat spine gilt decorated.....
Archive of 8 silver gelatin press photos showing migrant workers in America. 1950-1967. Photos measure roughly 8 x 10 inches. Images show men, women and children, at home in small, one-room shanties and at work in fields. Most of the workers shown are Latino. In one image taken in 1950.....
American Negro in the World War. Emmett Scott. 1919. Bound in red cloth with black and gilt decoration. 608 pages. A complete account from official sources of the participation of African Americans in World War I including their involvement in war work organizations like the Red Cross, YMCA, and the.....
Kutcha-Kutchin Native American Tribesmen Colored Plates from 1851 Arctic Expedition, A collection of 8 prints from text on the arctic expedition, A Journal of a Boat Voyage Through Ruperts Land and the Arctic Sea. Sir John Richardson. London: 1851.All 8 color plates from text are included and each measuring 5.....
The Seven Ages of Woman. Elizabeth Parker M.D. Johns Hopkins Press: Baltimore, 1960. First edition signed. 609 pages. Measures 6.25 x 9.25 inches. Author's inscription in blue ink on front free endpaper reads, " To Col. Mary A Hallaren with admiration and appreciation for her service to womankind-and her country.....
Porgy: A Play in Four Acts. Dorothy and DuBose Heyward. Doubleday, Page and Company: New York, 1927. First edition of first theatrical version based on the novel of Dubose Heyward. 203 pages. Measures 5 x 7.5 inches. Front and back boards with original orange wrappers, The Theatre Guild Library insignia.....
A Autograph Letter from ranch employee to his employer, an F.H. Bull, on the sale of cattle and horses in Wyoming. 1890. Includes sketches of cattle brands in black pen. Includes bills of sale. 2 pages measuring 8 x 10.5 on company letterhead reading "F.H. Bull, horse and cattle grower...Medicine.....
Archive of documents and ephemera related to the French Liberation movement during World War II. 1944-45. 6 unique items ranging in measurement from 10 x 7 to 4 x 3 inches. All items in French. This archive includes National Liberation Movement Manifesto which reads in part, "as today intends tomorrow.....
Two wood engravings by Cesare Vecellio. Giovanni Bernardo Sessa: Venice, 1598. Each measure 4.75 x 7 inches. One engraving shows a woman from Scandinavia, an early Italian representation of Viking women, with what seems like a weapon in one hand and fire coming out of her mouth. Scandinavian women did.....
Gaspard-Hermann Cotty.{ Essay on the manufacturing of Portable Arms of war] Memoire sur la Fabrication des Armes Portatives de Guerre. Magimel: Paris, 1806. First edition. Octavo. 229 pages. In French, A detailed account of Napoleonic era and American Revolution era weapons manufacturing and use. Including saber, muskets, the muzzle-loaded long.....
Political cartoon of a woman doctor taking the pulse of a male patient seated in an armchair. This Wood engraving is after G. Du Maurier, 1865. Published in Harper’s Weekly. January 1866. Caption reads, “Lady physicians. Who is this interesting invalid? It is young Reginald de Braces who has succeeded.....
HAMMETT, DASHIEL. The Maltese Falcon. New York: Knopf, 1930. FIRST EDITION. Octavo. Original grey cloth, titles to spine and falcon design to front cover in green and black, publisher's device in black to rear cover, top edge grey, others untrimmed. Early ownership signature to front free endpaper. Cloth lightly soiled.....
[Civil War] Hand-colored albumen photograph of a vivandiere. This is a scarce large image in an antique oval frame measuring 11.5 x 13.5 inches. Studio portrait of a young lady wearing a red, white, and blue vivandiere's costume with patriotic crown, one hand holding an American flag. Vivandiere were woman.....
[African Americana] Our Colored Heroes Lithograph. E.G. Renesch: Chicago, 1918. Measures 14.5 x 11.5 inches. Title and copyright in lower margin. This lithograph was produced to commemorate the actions of two African American soldiers, Henry Johnson and Needham Roberts, who were cited for bravery and presented with the Croix de.....
[African Americana]. Civil War Outdoor tintype of a uniformed African American man with white men also in uniform. Civil war or reconstruction 19th century Era. Measures 2.25 x 3.25 inches. Image shows an outdoor gathering, possibly a militia encampment as the men are in military dress. An African American man.....
The Negro Cowboys. Philip Durham and Everett L. Jones. Dodd, Mead and Company: New York, 1965. First edition. 278 pages, Hardcover Measures 6 x 8 inches. Original dust jacket shows a group of men on horseback, their faces obscured in shadow. The text begins, "Now they are forgotten, but once.....
Photo album chronicling one woman's training and service in the United States Women's Naval Reserve known as WAVES. 372 photos total. 1942-1945. Silver gelatin photos range in size from 10 x 8 inches to 3.5 x 2.5 inches. Soft cover lack leather album measures 13 x 10 inches. Gold gilt.....
Scott, Emmett. American Negro in the World War. Self-published, 1919. Pencil inscription on front free endpaper "Purchased September, 5th, 1919 from Lt. T R Stewart, agent". Bound in red cloth with black and gilt decorations. 608 pages. Scott was a Special Adjutant to the Secretary of War and author of.....
The Detroit News. Saturday, April 13, 1963. Measures 23.5 x 14.5 inches. 22 pages. Front page story on the growing civil rights movement in Birmingham titled "Call Negro Students to Join Protest." Story reads in part, "Negro students are being asked to help continue racial demonstrations in this industrial city.....
The Vermont Journal. November 16, 1849. Measures 23 x 17.5 inches. 4 pages. Advertisement on paper's back page reads "Daguerreotype Miniatures, Alonzo G. Amsden would inform his friends and the public that he has taken rooms over the New York Store where he is prepared to execute Daguerroeotype Likenesses set.....
The Woman’s Tribune. October 1887. 18 x 24 inches. 6 pages. Clara Bewick Colby, Editor and Publisher. Beatrice, Nebraska. Founded in 1883 and in print through 1909, The Woman's Tribune was a newspaper connecting radical feminism with women's culture throughout the American Midwest. Where other suffrage papers focused on politics.....
Woman’s National Weekly. February 1914. University City, St. Louis, MO. “This is the official journal of the woman’s republic American State of the International Commonwealth.” 8 pages. 22 x 16 inches. 1914 saw various women's groups coalescing to form a national, unified party advocating before the House Judiciary Committee and.....
A Page from The Victorian era Graphic newspaper. December 1887. 12 x 16 inches. shows engraving of a group of Indian women posing with two white men, text beneath the image reading “Lady Dufferin's Fund, For supplying female medical aid to the women of India-some of the women doctors and.....
Lot of 3 items related to women in college. 1861-1919. Includes page from Ladies Home Journal and Harper's Weekly. Items measure aprox 11 x 16 inches. Essay from the Ladies Home Journal December 1919 titled “Without Benefit of College” by Esther Everett Lape reads in part, “Have you ever read.....