Chevalier D’Eon. La vie militaire, politique et privée de mademoiselle Charles-Geneviève-Louise-Auguste-Andrée-Thimothée d'Éon de Beaumont. Paris: Chez Lambert, 1779. Havana half-sheepskin bound, smooth spine adorned with gilt fleurons, title label on spine, marbled boards. Ex Libris. Three engraved bookplates. Approximately 5" x 7.5" inches. 247 pages. Text is in French. Often.....
One, The Homosexual Viewpoint. January 1961. One, Incorporated: Los Angeles, CA. 31 pages. Measures 5.5" x 8.5" in. Includes short story by Ann Bannon which is a deleted scene from her Lesbian pulp fiction novel, Women in the Shadows. One was a homosexual magazine published from 1952-1967. Issues were siezed.....
This photo archive consist of 35 photos depicting nurses from the 1890s until the early 1920s. All photos are Black and white silver gelatin pints or Albumen prints. Photos range in size from 3.5" x 2.5" to 7" x 5" inches and come in varying formats, including two cabinet cards.....
Vellum-bound handwritten mathematical notebook dated from 1797 to 1799. Written in a very meticulous hand by G. Firth, a young student who attended Butterwick School in the county of Lincolnshire. The notebook contains about 70 handwritten pages of calculations; the student has carefully divided the text under attractively written titles.....
Early 1900s illustrated printed postcard reads "We Want You Men to be with Us" with two children, a young girl with a suffragette's "Votes for Women" sash around her torso, pinning a "Votes for Women" sign to a young boy. Measures 3.5" x 5.25". These postcards were likely created in.....
Large Archive including a photo album with 154 black and white silver gelatin photos, and 66 letters and postcards, several official Navy documents commending the subject, Mrs. Dorothy Scholten (nee McCarthy), for her service in the Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES) unit and granting her honorable discharge, and.....
Two Historic San Francisco Drag Club Finocchio's Drink Menu Flyers. San Francisco, CA. Circa 1960s. Measure Founded in 1936, Finocchio's is often credited as the birthplace of American drag--even predating the term 'drag' itself. While Finocchio's was originally a speakeasy, the nightclub flourished post-Prohibition into a cultural hotspot and tourist.....
Archive from The Ladder, the first nationally distributed lesbian publication in the United States. 9 issues of The Ladder 1954-1968; measuring 8.5 x 5.5 inches and averaging 26 pages each issue. The Ladder included poems, essays, short stories, editorials and news from a community of lesbians nationwide without previous access.....
We, Too, Must Love. Ann Aldrich. Fawcett Publications: 1958. First edition. Measures 4.5 x 7 inches. 188 pages. Soft front cover shows a woman seated naked, from behind, her lower half covered in a bedsheet, hair falling to cover her face, spine outlined in red. The book is a candid.....
Forbidden. J.C Priest. Jack Woodford Press: 1952. First edition. Measures 4.5 x 7 inches. 188 pages. Soft cover shows one woman in bra and pants, leaning against a doorframe and gazing at another woman sitting on an unmade bed in blue nightgown. Text beneath the image reads, "The gripping story.....
The Strange Women. Miriam Gardner. Monarch Books: 1962. First edition. Measures 4.25 x 7 inches. 138 pages. Soft cover shows a young woman in yellow silk nightgown sitting with an older woman stands behind her, gazing down with one hand at the top button of her blouse. Text across top.....
Strange Embrace, Ben Christopher. Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation: 1962. First edition. 160 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7" in. Ben Christopher is the one-time pseudonym of Lawrence Block who only used it for this text. The book is a pulp fiction murder mystery with lesbian romance elements. Attractive red cover.....
Taylor, Valerie. Whisper Their Love. First edition. Fawcett Publications: New York, 1957. The book's mass market appeal was a shock to the conservative market, selling two million copies. 176 pages. Measures 4" x 7.5" inches.Cover shows a young woman in lace nightgown resting her head on the lap of an.....
The Gay Detective, Lou Rand. Saber Books: 1961. First edition. 161 pages. 4.25" x 7" in. Attractive soft red cover shows two men in suits helping a blonde woman covered only in a blanket down a flight of stairs, the woman holding her head while the two men look at.....
Strange Embrace, Ben Christopher. Universal Publishing and Distributing Corporation: 1962. First edition. 160 pages. Measures 4.25" x 7" in. Ben Christopher is the one-time pseudonym of Lawrence Block who only used it for this text. The book is a pulp fiction murder mystery with lesbian romance elements. Attractive red cover.....
[LGBTQ ] - Ann Bannon . I Am a Woman In Love With A Woman Must Society Reject Me?, First edition, second printing. Fawcett Publications Inc: 1959. Measures 4.25"x 7" in. Written by Ann Weldy under the pseudonym Ann Bannon, the book is one in a series of six lesbian.....
[LGBTQ ] - Ann Bannon . I Am a Woman In Love With A Woman Must Society Reject Me?, First edition, second printing. Fawcett Publications Inc: 1959. Measures 4.25"x 7" in. Written by Ann Weldy under the pseudonym Ann Bannon, the book is one in a series of six lesbian.....
GARRELS, Robert Ernest. Manual of Instructions of operation the ballasting control system: Tank Landing Craft, LSD 1-8 (Formerly APM 1-8); Marked "Restricted" on cover. Manual of instructions...; Ballasting: valve operating procedure & [carbony copy of TLS fro mRobert Tate] to Moore Dry Dock Company, Oakland Branch, San Francisco & Oakland.....
Archive of 326 silver gelatin photos of a Chinese American family in various parts of Northern California dated between 1915-1926. The photos are affixed to thin tan paper album pages. Some photos are loose. Images are crisp and clear. Photos measure between 1.75" x 2" to 4" x 6" pasted.....
Tintype showing Mexican woman's seated portrait. Circa 19th century. Measures 2.5" x 3.5". Image shows a seated Mexican woman wrapped in traditional Aztec patterned sarape blanket. Her expression is stoic and her gaze intense. Her hair is pulled back with a ringlet peaking from her left, a common hairstyle in.....
Photo album of 69 black and white silver gelatin photos the life of people of many backgrounds in various parts of the southwest and Cuba dating between the 1920s-1930s. Images are crisp and clear. In original cloth covered board photo album held by cord with gilt lettering "Photographs". Album measures.....
DAVIS, Angela. Measuring 28.5" x 39". Black and white portrait of feminist, activist, and Black Panther Angela Davis in the early 1970s. During this period, Angela Davis was arrested and held on trial on the charges of murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. Davis had not been present but was alleged to.....
WWI Photo archive of 65 photos of war in France, including many of American soldier Frank Holder from the 185th Aero Squadron, an airborne division of the US Army Air Service. Holder's photos are taken in the postwar occupation of France, with the rest of the photos being captioned images.....
Tintype photograph of a well dressed African American woman. 19th century. Measures 2.5 x 3.5". The woman wears a full white dress in Victorian style with white hat perched across her coifed hair, hands clasped on her lap, just visible above the folds of her skirt . Tintypes, original photographic.....
Tintype Photograph of a beautifully dressed African American woman. 19th century. Measures 2.5 x 3.5". This Image shows an African American woman in white Victorian style dress and hat, hands clasped before her on the heart-shaped ledge of a huppah fashioned from branches as part of the studio set. A......