[Women in Medicine][Rare] Blackwell, Elizabeth. Volumes I and II of Carpenter’s Zoology. Volume II owned and signed by Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Blackwell graduated first in her class from Geneva Medical College in 1849 and subsequently pursued further scientific training.....
[Women in Medicine][Rare] Blackwell, Elizabeth and Carpenter, William. Zoology; Being a Systematic Account of the General Structure, Habits, Instincts, and Uses of the Principal Families of the Animal Kingdom, written by William Benjamin Carpenter and published in 1857 to 1858. Vol. I owned and signed by Blackwell, the first woman.....
[Women History][Women in Military] [Joan of Arc] Archive of 115 French postcards, ca. 1890–1930, documents the visual construction of Joan of Arc as armored military leader and nationalist symbol during the decades surrounding the Franco-Prussian War, the Third Republic, and the First World War. , documenting the military image and.....
[Science and Medicine][Nobel Prize] Cori, Carl Ferdinand and Cori, Gerty Theresa. Large correspondence archive spanning the scientific ascent and forced displacement of a Central European Jewish intellectual family whose work reshaped twentieth-century biochemistry. The archive traces Carl F. Cori’s development from émigré researcher to recipient of the 1947 Nobel Prize.....
[LGBTQ] [Lesbian] Archive of 29 photographs, ca. 1930s–1960s, documents intimate companionship, romantic affection, and gender nonconformity among women in mid-twentieth-century America during decades marked by censorship, employment discrimination, and criminalization of homosexual conduct. The images preserve visual evidence of lesbian self-fashioning and relational life prior to organized lesbian liberation, supporting.....
Fuller Ossoli, Margaret et al. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1852, represents the earliest extended biographical construction of one of nineteenth-century America’s most prominent feminist intellectuals and reformers. Published two years after Fuller’s death in a shipwreck off Fire Island alongside her husband and child, the work became the best-selling.....
[Cross-Dressing][Women Military] Joan of Arc engraving archive depicting the French military leader and martyr Jeanne d’Arc in iconic images of battle, persecution, and faith, ca. 1770-1850s. The prints focus on Joan’s leadership during the Hundred Years’ War and on the gender-bending aspects of her identity and dress that contributed to.....
[Women] [Military] Archive of 17 silver gelatin photographs, 1930s–1950s, documents women’s military service across multiple national contexts during the period surrounding the Second World War. As global mobilization required women to fill combat-support, anti-aircraft, and logistical roles, these images record the transformation of gendered labor within armed forces. The archive.....
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.....
[WAC][Korean War] Women’s Army Corps photo album, compiled by Sgt. Elizabeth Adamek of Cairnbrook, PA ca. early to mid 1950s, extensively recording enlisted women in post-1948 U.S. Army administrative operations at Camp Zama, Japan during the Korean War period. Elizabeth Adamek, later Elizabeth Adamek Pierce (1932–2016), served approximately twenty years.....
[Fashion] Women’s fashion design sketches dated 1951 document the rapid transformation of female dress following the end of wartime rationing and the international adoption of Christian Dior’s “New Look” silhouette. These drawings show designers experimenting with narrow waists, structured bustlines, wide skirts, and dramatic outerwear styles that defined postwar femininity.....
Chisholm, Grace. Algebraic Group Theoretical Studies on Spherical Trigonometry. 1895. Scarce. Submitted in 1895 at the University of Göttingen, this dissertation marks the first doctorate awarded to a woman in any discipline by a German university. At a time when Prussian institutions largely excluded women from formal academic candidacy, Grace.....
Kemble Parochial School. Record Book, 1871–1904, constitutes a sustained documentary record of rural English education during the formative decades following the Elementary Education Act of 1870, commonly known as the Forster Act. Established in direct response to this legislation, which mandated compulsory elementary education for children aged five to thirteen.....
Lesbian friendship group depicted in vernacular photographs dating from the 1940s documents relationships and social life among a circle of women traveling through Arizona and California during the mid twentieth century. Photographs of queer women from this period remain comparatively uncommon because same sex relationships were widely stigmatized and often.....
Lesbian couples depicted in a group of vernacular photographs dating from the 1930s through the 1960s document intimate relationships between women during a period when homosexuality was widely stigmatized and frequently criminalized in many countries. Visual evidence of same sex relationships from the early and mid twentieth century remains comparatively.....
United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve service documented in photographs produced during World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area. The images record the participation of women in the Marine Corps Women’s Reserve program established in 1943, a wartime expansion of the U.S. armed forces that assigned women to.....
[Women History] [World War II] WWII Women’s Army Corps photo archive, documenting women’s military service during World War II and the expansion of women’s logistical and technical roles within the United States Army. The photographs record daily activity surrounding Women’s Army Corps personnel, including ambulance operation, vehicle maintenance, military training.....
WWII era Women’s Army Corps photo archive documenting servicewomen, including two African Americans,and four partially identified individuals. Creation of the WAC in 1942 marked the first permanent institutional incorporation of women into the U.S. Army, placing female personnel into administrative, communications, intelligence, and logistical roles across both domestic bases and.....
[Women's Sports] Women’s wrestling photograph archive documenting amateur competitions, gymnasium training, and professional wrestling performers between the 1940s and the 1970s. The images record women participating in a sport historically dominated by men, illustrating the gradual emergence of female wrestling as both an amateur athletic activity and a professional entertainment.....
Archive of Four Honorary Certificates Recognizing the International Disability Advocacy and Literary Contributions of Helen Keller, Including a Certificate Awarded toher teacher Anne Sullivan. 1936–1948. Four printed certificates with manuscript entries and applied seals, each mounted to period cardboard supports. Subjects: Disability rights; Deaf and Blind advocacy; Women reformers; International.....
[Feminism][Literature][Women's History][Philosophy] Fuller Ossoli, Margaret et al. Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, 1852, constitutes a central textual artifact in nineteenth-century feminist and transcendentalist history, assembling Fuller’s autobiographical writings with editorial commentary by Emerson, Clarke, and Channing. Issued shortly after her death, the biography shaped public understanding of Fuller as reformer.....
Birth Control News newspaper edited by Marie Stopes and associates in 1923 advanced public discussion of contraception, family planning, and reproductive reform in Britain during the early twentieth century birth control movement. The publication served as the official organ of the Society for Constructive Birth Control and Racial Progress, the.....
Women’s Royal Naval Service photograph album documenting life at HMS Royal Arthur, the Royal Navy’s training camp establishment at Skegness, where a prewar holiday camp was transformed into a military training and accommodation center during the Second World War. Named individuals throughout with handwritten identifications, the album follows Dorothy Gardner.....
United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve service of Lucille documented in photographs created primarily during the Second World War. The images provide direct visual evidence of women’s integration into the United States Marine Corps through the Women’s Reserve program established in 1943, which expanded military labor by assigning women to.....
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.....
