Four quit-claim deeds dating from the 1880s involving women in property transfers at a time when women’s property rights were severely restricted nationwide. A deed dated September 17, 1885, recorded the purchase of a lot..... More
Small album containing 42 original photographs shot at the Salisbury Teacher Training College, circa 1918, along with a dozen earlier images from the Wiltshire Secondary School. Nearly all the photographs measure 2 1/2" x 1..... More
Washington, D.C. The National Tribune, 1920. Wraps. January Edition. Founded in 1883, the Women's Relief Corps (WRC) was designed to assist the Grand Army of the Republic and provide post-war relief to Union veterans. The..... More
A broadside advertising an article written in the October 1915 issue of The Ladies Home Journal with an answer to the question “Why should our servants live with us?” from Mrs. Christine Frederick. The author..... More
Three catalogues for the Jacksonville Female Academy, one of the earliest educational institutions for women in Illinois. Founded in 1830, it merged in 1903 with Illinois College to become a co-educational institution. The Academy..... More
An 1897 letter of admonishment from a Pennsylvania justice of the peace warning a local man against further physical abuse against his stepmother. The letter was written by John Meredith Vanhorn (1845-1921) of West Providence..... More
Single-page manuscript from an 1839 deposition filed on behalf of an Ohio woman swearing she was of “good moral character and chaste conduct”. The reasons for the deposition are not made clear; however, it..... More
[San Francisco]: R.H. McDonald & Co., circa 1870. Four-page newsletter, published by the patent medicine company owned by temperance advocate R.H. McDonald. In this piece, McDonald claimed that intemperance was behind the 40,000 people..... More
Washington, D.C. [United States Navy], 1945. Standard magazine size (8" x 10 7/8"): [8] pp. including the staple-bound wrappers, with photographic illustrations and a map of the Pacific Offensive. Faint toning along the extremities, with..... More