Annette Alison. The Power of the Alumnae. Oakland: Everette S. Dowdle, 1920. First edition signed and inscribed on front endpaper "For the student's library Wheailand Hospital/ Fraternally Annette Allison, R.N. Oakland Cal., Dec. 9 1921" Original cream boards, 94 pages, 5.25 in x 7.5 in. Annette Alison writes about the.....
[Women History] [Medicine] Early woman surgeon and hospital staff perform an operation. 6 doctors and nurses operate on a patient; notably, five of the staff members are women. c. 1920. Original silver gelatin print. 6.5 x 8.5 in., mounted on 8 x 10” board. Two surgeons were masks and appear.....
[Women's Rights] HORSLEY, Victor. Sir Victory Horsley's Reply to Sir Wright. Original handbill. No date. A spirited defense of women's rights from a medical practitioner. No other copies in any library or institution worldwide per OCLC Worldcat. 8.5" x 10.5" inches. Reprinted from THE TIMES. This letter to the editor.....
University of Michigan Medical School, Class Portrait, includes 4 Women, one Indian doctors in 1928. A large photo Measures 22" x 17.5" inches. The large image is made of smaller portraits of students and faculty, each measuring 1.5" x 1" inches with students names below each one. Of the over.....
D'ORBIGNY, Charles [Ed.] Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle. 1849. Size 9.5" by 6." This original hand colored Arabian horse lithograph hails from the first edition of Dictionnaire Universel d'Histoire Naturelle, which is considered one of the premier encyclopedias of natural history of 19th century. Image of a strong Arabian horse in.....
Norman Ernest Borlaug (/ˈbɔːrlɔːɡ/; March 25, 1914 – September 12, 2009) was an American agronomist who led initiatives worldwide that contributed to the extensive increases in agricultural production termed the Green Revolution. Signed Photo Approximately 8x10, black and white. He is sitting at his desk holding a pen.
Brassey Thomas, 1st Early, Lord Warden of Cinque Ports. ALS, Jan 3rd, 1888 —Preston Hall, Aylesford, Kent Letterhead. 3 pages, folded from a single sheet. To Miss Smith, thanking her for “taking an interest in the education of my dear daughter Muriel. She has had a very different childhood from.....
Tail-gunner on the Enola Gay, plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed, "George", 2 pages, on lines paper, dated April 7, 1993, 8 1/2"X11", to deceased autograph dealer Joe Fawls. Caron writes, "...Haven't heard from you in awhile - hope...your selling lots of autographs. ..I've.....
[Vaccines] [Women in Medicine] Original silver gelatin print photograph of a Vaccination clinic in rural European village. 1922. size is 3.5 x 5.5 in. Outdoor vaccination clinic administered by women, who are cleaning and preparing the equipment. Six figures stand around a table filled with glass vials, test tubes, and.....
[Women in Science] [Medicine]. Circa 1900. Original Dry plate negative, black and white. 7" x 5" inches. The image is showing a group of 8 nurses working in a medical laboratory circa 1880s. Comes with modern reprint photograph. The women wear nurses' caps, aprons, and gowns. Their caps have slightly.....
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.....
[Women Suffrage] These New Jersey Officials and Prominent Citizens are for Woman Suffrage. Are You? Vote Yes on the Suffrage Amendment, Oct. 19. New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association. 1915. Handbill prominently lists Thomas Edison in all capitals at the top of the list, before other notable New Jersey men who.....
Tail-gunner on the Enola Gay, plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima. Handwritten Autograph Letter Signed, "George", 2 pages, August 5, 1993, 8 x 11", Caron writes in his hand "...The news about your son must have been devastating ... Goddamn drugs are a curse to mankind ..my concern.....
[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.....
(Education). [Photograph], Woman Student in Laboratory, 1900. Photo of nearly all male laboratory, with one female science student present, 20 years before women’s suffrage in the United States. Silver gelatin print. 5”x7” photo mounted on 8”x10” card. This photograph shows a 1900 pharmacological laboratory with one woman and ten men.....
The Abortionist. Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1962. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 216 pages. Original blue dust jacket with the title. Gray cloth boards. Published 11 years before the passage of Roe v Wade which would legalize abortion until overturned.....
The Abortionist. Dr. X as told to Lucy Freeman. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1962. Measures 6 x 8.5 inches. 216 pages. Original blue dust jacket with the title, shocking for its time, repeated in bold script from top to bottom. Gray cloth boards. Published 11 years before.....
Agnes Morgan and Irene Hall. Experimental Food Study. Designed "for use in the beginning course of foods in the Department of Household Science at the University of California". Presumed First Edition. Quite a bit of chemistry. Appendix; 2 indices. . 8vo. Agnes Fay Morgan (May 4, 1884 – July 20.....
An interesting circular slide rule for measuring contamination from an atomic explosion. Radiac Calculator No. 1 Circular Slide Rule. There are two moveable discs that can calculate contamination for land or sea. Comes in the case which states, CALCULATORS RADIAC No. 1 Z8 / 6665-99-911-0117 and 6665-99-911-0118 underneath the flap.....
Naomi Mitchison TLS, Oct. 10 [n.y. but circa 1900] --Letterhead of River Court, Hammersmith Mall, W.6. To “Miss Finnemore.” 1 page on a single sheet. Most likely her recipient is Emily Pearson Finnemore, noted authoress active around the turn of the century. “I am always glad to hear of new.....
[CONTRACEPTION] So Close To Nature. [Chicago]: Mead Johnson & Company, 1966. Measures approximately 4.5" x 6.5" inches, original illustrated wrappers. 9 pages. Original 2 staples at spine. Instruction manual for taking Oracon, the first sequential oral contraceptive. Tellingly, the illustrations on the wrapper depict a bride in virginal white, and.....
[Women in Science] [Medicine] [Education]. A set of 15 silver gelatin photos kept by a female Johns Hopkins medical student in 1943. 4.5" x 3.25" inches. Black and white. This set is special as it was taken during the nadir of 20th century female medical participation. The scenes depicted here.....
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.....
Margaret Todd. Life of Sophia Jex-Blake. London: MacMillan and Co., Limited, 1918. First Edition. 574 pages. Original cloth board. 9 x 6 in. Frontispiece portrait of Jex-Blake. Sophia Jex-Blake was the first practicing female doctor in Scotland and one of the first in the wider United Kingdom. She led the.....
[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.....