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[Women's Employment] MABEL, Robert F. Our Working Women and Their Earnings. [United States, 1887]. First Edition. 13 pages, measuring approximately 6" x 10" inches. At the time that this description is being written, no copies are recorded in American institutions. OCLC search results are at best an estimate and can.....
Women and Young Persons (Employment in Lead Processes). London: House of Commons, 1920. First Edition. 12.75" x 8" inches. This bill bars the employment of women and children from working in certain processes of lead manufacturing. It was presented by Sir John Baird and its provisions were outlined by the.....
To the Right Honorable Richard Assheton Cross, M.P., Secretary of Sate for the Home Department. 4 pages. 8 x 5 in. In this document, women workers express fears regarding proposed labor regulations that would limit their ability to earn and would “restrict the paid labour of all women…or even make.....
Ladies Home Journal, 1918. Loose pages show female innovators in business, section titled "Going Girls And Winning Women, The Who's WHo Of The WOmen Of To-Day and To-Morrow". Measures 16" x 10.25" inches. The page give profiles of various women in business including a filmmaker and producer, two women who.....
[Women in Nursing]. Photo archive of 7 albumen photos of early uniformed nurses. The 7 Photos range from 3.75" x 2" to 8" x 5" inches. Circa 1880’s -1930. Locations include Freeport, Illinois, Collingwood, Ontario, Oakland, California, Aberdeen, Chicago. The photos are mostly mounted on photographers boards. The women wear.....
Silver gelatin press photo of Shirley Chisholm receiving calculator in a patronizing attempt at humor.1980. 9" x 8" inches. Three white men present Chisholm, the first black Congresswoman , with a calculator as a joke the morning after her homestate New York took longer than Texas to count votes. Shisholm.....
DALL, Caroline. The College, The Market, and the Court, or Women's Relation to Education, Labor, and Law. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1867. Dedicated to early feminist and abolitionist Lucretia Mott. Ex Libris. 498 pages. Comes in original green boards with gilt lettering on spine. The College, the Market, and the.....
Red Wing News includes story about Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English channel. August 6, 1926. Measures 17 x 22 inches. Comple paper, 15 pages. Story reads in part, "Gertrude Ederle, American girl swimmer, has conquered the English Channel, the first woman to ever swim that turbid.....
Archive of 2 Hartford Female Seminary Catalogue and Circulars. 1876 and 1877. Measure 7 x 4.5 inches. 12 pages. Original soft wrappers, brown and green respectively. Catalogues include list of trustees, faculty, calendar, fees and students. The Hartford Female Seminary was established in 1823 by Catharine E. Beecher and based.....
Original Parlement Printing for the maternity benefits in the UK's historic National Insurance Act fo 1946. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1952. 9.5" x 6" inches. 40 pages. Original blue wrappers. This pamphlet covers the specific characteristics of the maternity provisions within the National Insurance Act. It covers the policies.....
[Photographs] Teacher’s scrapbook from academic year 1945-1946 at primary school in Detroit, MI with 38 handwritten notes from students, photos, and ephemera from school dances. Typed label on first page: “School Functions of the Marion Law School / September 1945 - June 1946”. Original green boards. 11.5 x 8.25 inches.....
Autograph letter signed from Hannah L. Gowdy, a 19th century teacher who was part of the first wave of women entering the profession. 4.5" x 7.5". Gowdy, at this point old and impoverished, writes to an autograph collector, Frank Bohrer, about a business dealing:... having no cards, [I] send you.....
[Women at Work] Albumen photo of women at work in a small factory. Photograph measures 7.75" x 5.5" inches and is on gray photographer's board measuring 8.5" x 6.5" inches. Circa 1900s. Albumen print. Women sitting at long wooden tables in small manufacturing shop. Palm-sized rings hang in loops from.....
Why is She Away? The Problem of Sickness Among Women in Industry. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office, 1945. 21 pages. 8.25" x 5.25" inches. This pamphlet produced by the Industrial Health Research Board of the Medical Research Council is part of a series "Conditions for Industrial Health and Efficiency." This.....
Original vintage Flyer from the National Union of Clerks that calls upon clerks to "think about their wages, their office conditions, and how things can be improved." London: Twentieth Century Press, 1912.Double sided. 8" x 5" inches. The flyer warns of the inevitable danger of undercutting wages in the absence.....
Original Pamphlet titled "Why Is She Away? The Problem of Sickness Among Women in the Industry". London: His Majesty’s Stationary Office, 1945. 8.25” x 5.5” inches. The pamphlet includes statistics and studies regarding women’s absences from work with an interest on how much time is lost cumulatively due to illness.....
Broadside that calls for women’s participation in a mass demonstration to protest cuts to the WPA (Workers Progress Administration). 8.5 x 11 in. The WPA provided jobs for thousands of Americans as part of FDR’s New Deal to revitalize the American economy after the Great Depression. Funds were cut in.....
Original vintage photograph of a large group of women seamstresses and tailors at their sewing machines in a factory setting. Sepia. Approximately 5" x 8" with back matting. Rows and rows of women sitting in front of sewing machines gaze into the camera. While single women faced barriers to employment.....
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.....
Autograph letter signed from a male doctor, E. C. Houston, practicing out of Memphis, TN to a woman doctor, Lydia Bailey, located in Philadelphia. 6 pages, 7 ¾ x 5 in. Houston addresses the letter “Dear Doctor” and goes on to write about his interest in finding a wife who.....
(Women Employment). [Photograph]: Original vintage photograph of operating room and surgery team. Photograph shows eleven figures dressed all in white, standing around a patient in an early operating room. While most of the medical workers are men, two women stand at the edges of the group, and the woman standing.....
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.....
Miss Gill's School for Girls Diploma. 1914. Measures 16 x 21.5 inches. Awarded to Constance Madeleine McFadden for satisfactory completion of the subjects of Arithmetic, History of Art, French, Physiology, English, Psychology and English History. Miss Gill's School in Philadelphia was founded by Miss Elizabeth Gill, an educational activist who.....
Albumen photo of women doing factory work. C. 1890s. Measures 9 x 7 inches. Photo shows 4 women working over a large industrial machine, two on either side so they face one another. 2 wear dark smocks over their dresses, sleeves rolled to the elbows as their hands work the.....
[Women's Employment] Workingmen Want this Bill! An Act To Amend the Labor Law Relative to Hours of Labor. Utica: Utica Trades Assembly, n.d. Measuring 9.5" x 6" on tan paper. A women's labor broadside calling attention to the modification of "labor laws relative to the hours of labor" for women.....