[United States Congress] Third Congress of the United States: At the First Session, Begun and held at the city of Philadelphia, in the state of Pennsylvania, on Monday, the second of December, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three. Resolved by the Senate and the House of Representatives... that the Secretary.....
Vintage Original Woman Suffrage Wrist Watch from the New York Women's Political Union. New York, circa. 1914. The face of the watch features the iconic Clarion suffragette blowing a trumpet on the castle ramparts while holding a flag emblazoned with eleven stars, representing the states which allowed women to vote.....
Vintage Original Woman Suffrage Pocket Watch from the New York Women's Political Union. New York, circa. 1914. The face of the watch features the iconic Clarion suffragette blowing a trumpet on the castle ramparts while holding a flag emblazoned with eleven stars, representing the states which allowed women to vote.....
WILLARD, Frances. Archive of three letters and one cabinet card with engraved signature from American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Willard became the national president of Woman's Christian Temperance Union in 1879 and remained president until her death in 1898. Since domestic violence was co-morbid with substance abuse, the.....
"Illustrations of Political Economy, No. III: Brooke and Brooke Farm." Boston: Leonard Bowles, 1832. First American Edition. Quarto with cover in good condition. Interior pages with visible thumbing to edges and age related toning throughout. Occasionally staining, but overall text is unaffected. Part 3 of Martineau's 9 part series on.....
LIVERMORE, Mary. American journalist, abolitionist, and advocate of Women's Rights. She campaigned for the Lincoln- Hamlin ticket in 1860, and when the American Civil War broke out, she became connected with the United States Sanitary Commission in Chicago, performing a vast amount of labor of all kinds—organizing auxiliary societies, visiting.....
Photo album chronicling one woman's training and service in the United States Women's Naval Reserve known as WAVES. 372 photos total. 1942-1945. Silver gelatin photos range in size from 10 x 8 inches to 3.5 x 2.5 inches. Soft cover lack leather album measures 13 x 10 inches. Gold gilt.....
FELTHAM, Owen. Resolves. A Duple Century. Ye 3d Edition By Owen Felltham. Wth A Large Alphabeticall Table Therunto. | Resolves: Divine, Morall, Politicall. (One Volume) Third Edition. London: Imprinted [by Felix Kyngston] for Henry Seile and are to be sould at the Tygers head in St. Paules Church yard, 1628.....
Original Vintage Woman Suffrage Ladies' watch with NY suffrage “VOTE FOR WOMEN” face, circa. 1910. The timepiece face also features a yellow rose in center and the phrase “VOTE FOR WOMEN” is replacing the 12 numbers typically on a clock face around the watch face. The yellow rose became a......
[SUFFRAGE] Votes For Women Printing Block. 6" x 7.5", about 1" thick. Wood and metal. No date, but c. 1909. Printing block is headlined ROLL OF HONOR and shows a beautiful image of a suffrage pennant emblazoned "Votes for Women". Underneath the pennant an inscription reads "DISTINGUISHED PEOPLE WHO HAVE.....
16168 "The Handmaid's Tale". Boston, Houghton Mifflin, 1986. Advance reading copy. Softcover. Handwritten page numbers in the upper margins. Very good, almost fine condition. This seminal work of feminist fiction has seen a rise in popularity, and it is considered one of the most important dystopian novels written by a......
[SUFFRAGE] [WOMEN'S HISTORY]. Captioned on photo "Suffragette's Procession Moving Up Pennsylvania Avenue Showing The Capitol Building In the Background March 3-1913- Washington, D.C." Original Real Post Card Photograph. 3.5" x 5.25". Women Suffrage activists march down the wide street, with the Capitol Building in the background, at the famous March.....
D. C. Johnston. “Scraps No. 1.” Boston: D. C. Johnston, 1849. Large format, 10 ¾ x 13 ½ in. Four large plates with several smaller engravings relating to social and political topics. Plate 2 contains five engravings related to Women’s Rights; the images are satirical and show women behaving in.....
Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century; and kindred papers relating to the sphere, condition, and duties of woman. Edited by her brother, Arthur B. Fuller, with an intro. by Horace Greeley. Margaret Fuller [Ossili]. Published by Jewett, Boston (1855). Originally published in The Dial magazine in 1843; thus this.....
John Burns. Burns Principles of Midwifery Including the Diseases of Women and Children. I. Riley for W.W Buchanan: New York, 1810. Measures 8.25 x 5.5 inches. 484 pages. Revised and enlarged by the author with notes. Original brown calf boards. Book includes lengthy section on methods of abortion and treatment.....
WOOLF, Virginia. Memories of A Working Women’s Guild, Printed in in The Yale Review: A National Quarterly, Autumn 1930. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1930. Large quarto. Pages 121-138; 280 pages total. Original Wrappers, side-stapled in original blue printed wrappers. This was the very first printing of Memories of a......
Representation of the People Act, 1918. [8 Geo. 5. Ch. 64] Printed by Percy Lunch, Humphries & Co. Ltd. for Normal Gibb Scorgie, C.V.O., C.B.E., Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office and King’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. First edition. 161 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 6 in.....
Married Women's Property Act, 1882. U.K. Robert George, Printed Act of Parliament. Unbound and stitched. In fair condition, on aged paper. Ownership signature of 'R. G. Underdown' (Railway, General Manager) at head of first page. Passed 18 August 1882. The ten pages of the act are preceded by a two.....
[Women’s Education] Chapone, Hester; Gregory, John; Pennington, Sarah. Chapone on the Improvement of the Mind; Dr. Gregory’s Legacy to his Daughters; Lady Pennington’s Advice to her Absent Daughters; with an additional Letter on the Management and Education of Infant Children. London: Scott, Webster, & Geary, c. 1827. Marbled leather boards.....
2 pamphlets on New York State's 1970 decriminalization of abortion. Includes 4 page pamphlet analyzing New York State’s 1970 legalization of abortion up to the 24th week of pregnancy. Measures 8.5 x 11. Titled “Abortion Legislation in New York State: What Really Hppened, and What Can Be Learned From It.”.....
Johnson, Andrew. Supplemental Article to the Treaty of November 15, 1861 Between the United States of American and the Pottawatomie Tribe of Indians. Supplement to the Treaty of 1861, which saw the Potawatomi Tribe cede more of its land in Kansas Territory. The 1861 treaty initiated the process for acquiring.....
"On the Education of Women. A Paper Read by Mrs. William Grey, at the Meeting of the Society of Arts." William Ridgeway: London, 1871. Pamphlet. 64 pages. 5.5" x 8" inches. Maria Georgina Grey was a British writer and women's education advocate. In this paper she writes "The subject I......
Clarke, Ida Clyde [Editor] Women of 1924, International. New York: The Women's News Service Inc., 1924. Octavo, original red pebbled boards, gilt titles to cover. 386 pages. A remarkable compilation of women's achievement internationally. As the editor writes, "The record this book contains is presented to the public with no.....
Women's Liberation Poster. 21 x 14.5 inches. New York: Coalition for Abortion Rights and Against Sterilization Abuse. 1979. Lime green poster reads "March 31 International Day of Action A Woman's Right to Safe Contraception and Abortion No Forced Sterilization." Shows female gender symbol with circle made to look like a......
Sarah Josepha Hale. Woman's Record; or, Sketches of all distinguished women from Creation to A.D. 1854. New York: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, 1855. Second Edition. Original hardcover with gilt title and details on spine. 10 x 7 in. Illustrated by 239 portraits engraved on wood by Lossing and Barritt, including.....