[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’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.....
Lockwood, Belva A. Autograph Letter Signed, April 30, 1903, documents the continued public presence of the first woman to appear on a United States presidential ballot and a central figure in nineteenth-century woman suffrage and legal reform. Written from Washington, D.C. to Mark Bennitt, publicity director of the 1904 St.....
Bombay red light district photographs of women seated in brothel doorways, gathered in interior rooms, and receiving male visitors, circa 1958, recording the sex trade as it operated in post independence India under the combined pressures of urban poverty, migration, and state regulation. Drawn from a merchant marine album and.....
American women’s wartime service photo archive belonging to an unidentified WAC member depicting women in US military and hospital uniforms during World War II, as mobilization opened military and medical assignments previously closed to women. Congress established the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps through Public Law 77-554 on May 15, 1942;.....
Cowgirl imagery in late nineteenth and early twentieth century American visual culture documents the public fascination with women performers and riders associated with rodeo culture, Wild West exhibitions, and frontier mythology. Eighteen postcards dating from approximately the 1880s through the early 1920s depict cowgirls mounted on horseback performing actions associated.....
Gibson, J. The Emancipation of Women, 1894, political and social reform text advocating the expansion of women’s rights in late nineteenth century Britain during the period when organized campaigns for women’s suffrage and legal equality intensified. The book addresses the historical subordination of women under British law and argues that.....
[Aviation] [Women's Employment] Women’s aviation mixed archive spanning 1910 to 1978, documenting how female aviators entered public view through early parachute imagery, press photography, formal licensing, and later commemorative print culture. Notably, the 1930 British Empire aviator’s certificate issued to Beatrice Garvan Sheridan and the 1932 Associated Press photograph of.....
Bookbinding factory image archive documenting women’s labor inside an early twentieth century printing and bindery plant, showing how blank book and stationery manufacture had been divided into specialized departments by the 1900s. Caption labels on the versos identify the coordinated production chain through printing, cutting and trimming, office and accounting.....
[African American] [Medical History] [Women’s History] [Photography] Unidentified photographer, Harlem maternity ward photographs, 1940s document nursing practice, infant care, and racial dynamics within hospital settings in New York during a period of segregated and unequal healthcare delivery. The images provide direct visual evidence of clinical environments in which Black mothers.....
[Women's Labor][Union Organizing] Women telephone workers on strike press photo archive documenting labor organization, picket lines, arrests, and union settlement efforts in New York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Seattle, St. Louis, and Cleveland, 1945-1950. The images illustrate the postwar labor conflict in the American telephone industry as women workers fought for better.....
[Labor Organizing] Ford River Rouge plant press photographs documenting labor conflict, picketing, and union organization at the largest industrial complex in the United States from the early UAW recognition battles of 1941 through the major Ford walkouts of 1949 and 1967. The River Rouge plant in Dearborn employed tens of.....
Women and civic institutions photo archive documenting the professional and volunteer labor supporting Clearwater, Florida during its rapid postwar expansion, 1951 to 1952, with photographs of nurses, teachers, blood bank workers, women's organizations, public employees, hospital auxiliaries, schools, arts education, and college recruitment. Made during a period when American culture.....
Promotional materials and photographs documenting burlesque and nightclub performance in the United States between the 1920s and 1950s record the visibility of women performers within commercial entertainment industries centered in cities such as San Francisco and Las Vegas. These materials identify venues including Chez Paree, the Colony Club, Queen Night.....
[WWII] Duke University women’s student life photo album depicting Woman’s College dormitory life, sorority culture, Southern travel, wartime campus changes, and nursing training from freshman arrival through graduation, 1938-1944. Duke established the Woman’s College in 1930, with East Campus serving women students while West Campus served men, creating a coordinate.....
Addams, Jane. Twenty Years at Hull House, 1910 autobiographical account documenting the development of the settlement house movement and the expansion of women’s leadership in Progressive Era social reform. Written by a central figure in American social work and later recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize, the text provides a......
American pioneer and naturalist Martha Maxwell portrait photograph, 1876 documents one of the earliest widely recognized American female naturalists and taxidermists during the year of the United States Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia. Maxwell gained national attention in the 1870s for assembling large natural history displays drawn from wildlife she hunted.....
Stone Martin, David. Strong In The Strength of the Lord We Who Fight In The People's Cause Will Never Stop Until That Cause Is Won, 1942, a U.S. government wartime poster that articulates the ideological pro-America push on the American home front during World War II. Produced in the first.....
Women in military press photograph archive, 1938–1950, documents the expansion of female participation in armed services across Britain and the United States in the years surrounding the Second World War. The images provide direct visual evidence of recruitment, training, and institutional integration of women into military structures prior to and.....
Black women’s labor photo archive depicting agricultural work, nursing, hospital training, clerical employment, service labor, and street protest from the turn of the century to 1960. Black women’s labor photo archive depicting the long movement of Black women into paid work beyond domestic service and agricultural labor, from cane-processing and.....
Women in laboratory sciences photo archive, circa 1900 to 1946, documenting women’s movement into chemistry, bacteriology, hospital medicine, and classroom experiment at a time when scientific training and professional advancement remained largely organized around men with barriers of entry for women. The group begins with a pharmacological laboratory where one.....
[Women's History] Women’s labor photo archive documenting women at work across millinery, laundry, commercial kitchen, precision bench, and wartime relief settings, preserving a concentrated visual record of how female labor was publicly pictured in the years immediately preceding and overlapping World War I. Several photographs bear Brown Bros. New York.....
Women in American entertainment scrapbook, primarily 1950s, documenting the public beauty, sexuality, celebrity, and performing identities of burlesque dancers, pinup models, actresses, and other women whose images circulated widely in postwar popular culture. The compiler places women from burlesque, Hollywood, modeling, nightclub performance, and glamour photography, emphasizing the female performer.....
Diahann Carroll Julia paper doll archive, 1968 to 1971, documenting the translation of one of American network television’s earliest Black female starring roles into children’s mass market play. NBC’s Julia, which premiered September 17, 1968, cast Carroll as Julia Baker, a widowed nurse raising her son Corey and placed a......
Anonymous photographs of Black nannies caring for white children, produced c. 1920s–1940s, document the racialized structure of domestic labor in the United States during the Jim Crow period and provide primary-source evidence for the study of African American women’s work, childcare, and social relations within white households. The images show.....
