Keller, Helen. Inscribed Color Photograph, mid-twentieth century. This presentation photograph documents Helen Keller in later life, dressed in academic regalia, accompanied by a handwritten manifesto-like inscription articulating her philosophy of collective disability rights. As the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree and an international lecturer on.....

Elliott, Ellen known as “Captain Jack,” female prospector, gunfighter, and frontier entrepreneur whose life became part of Colorado mining folklore, early twentieth century real photo postcards documenting a woman who gained notoriety in the American West through silver mining, armed self defense, and public storytelling about frontier life. Elliott emigrated.....

Lagerlöf, Selma. Autograph letter signed, 1904, documenting authorial control over translation and publication during a formative period in the career of the first woman awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Written in German, the letter records Lagerlöf’s response to the unauthorized publication of portions of her work Osynliga Länkar and.....

Keller, Helen. Program for first public lecture in New York City, 1913, documenting a pivotal moment in the public emergence of Helen Keller as a speaker and advocate for disability education and communication. Issued after two decades of instruction under Anne Sullivan, the program marks Keller’s transition from private study.....

[Early Women's Education] Roger Ascham. “The English Works of Roger Ascham, Preceptor to Queen Elizabeth.” Printed for T. Davies, in Russell-Street, Convent-Garden, and J. Dodsley, in Pall-Mall. 1761. Roger Ascham was an English scholar who tutored Princess Elizabeth in Latin and Greek for two years from 1548 to 1550. In.....

Archive of illustrated and photographic postcards documenting the popular image of the American cowgirl in late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Western visual culture. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material traces how women participating in rodeo, equestrian performance, and frontier-themed entertainment were presented to mass audiences during a period.....

[African American] [Pulp] Demetre, Margaret. Unchained Desire. New York: Comet Press Books, 1959. First edition. Original cloth binding in illustrated red and cream dust jacket featuring a stylized nude female figure. 188 pages. 8vo. A provocative novel published under Comet Press’s “Milestone Book” imprint, Unchained Desire typifies mid-century erotic fiction’s.....

Women, War and Fascism. New York: The American League Against War and Fascism, 1935. Original paper wrappers. 18 pages. "A protest against the use of women as cheap labor in factories and offices, in the U.S. as well as in the fascist states. Munitions plants employ women at dangerous tasks.....

Archive of five annual reports issued by Homerton College, Cambridge, covering the academic years 1900–1905. Octavo pamphlets measuring approximately 7" x 5", ranging from 11 to 24 pages each. Illustrated with seven black-and-white photographs depicting campus buildings, classrooms, and college administrators, along with an engraved view of the college. The.....

Henry Jones. [Mabel Atkinson] ALS, July 18, 1901--Letterhead of The University, Glasgow. 2 pages on both sides of a single sheet. Jones was a professor of Moral Philosophy at Glasgow University. Only recently, the University opened the degree to women. The top student to graduate in a cohort of over.....

[Women History], [Social Activis] tHelen Keller. Our Duties to the Blind. Presented by Helen Keller at the First Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Association for Promoting the Interests of the Adult Blind, January fifth, 1904. First Edition. Perkins Hall. Boston, Thomas Todd: 16 pages. 6 ¼ x 3 ½ in.....

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.....

Drury College Yearbook, “Sou’wester 1908.” Springfield, Missouri. Measures 10.75” X 8” inches. Gray boards with red ¼ with silver text and red pressed illustration of what appears to be a cannon. Yearbook includes class and faculty rosters and photos, lists of organizations and committees, student literature, illustrations and songs. The.....