Philadelphia and London: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1912. First Edition. Hardcover. Review copy, with the publisher’s slip tipped in on the front flyleaf. From the library of journalist Elizabeth Brough (1867-1943), with her signature to the..... More
Santa Cruz, California: American Graphic Press, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Special Edition, numbered (no limitation stated) and signed by Cooney. Published on the 85th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, and in collaboration..... More
An undated, two-page letter handwritten by Anne Seymour Damer at her London house, No. 27 Upper Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, to Mrs. Alexander Baillie (Marianne Baillie, née Wathen, 1788-1831). Presumably written at the end of..... More
London: Victor Gollancz Ltd., 1962. First Edition. Hardcover. Inscribed by Rappaport to Mrs. Ruth Proskauer Smith (1907-2010), a reproductive rights advocate who worked for the Massachusetts chapter of Planned Parenthood, along with two holographic letters..... More
Los Angeles: Women’s Christian Temperance Union of Southern California, 1966. Wraps. A reprint of this official history, which was commissioned to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the WCTU’s Southern California organization. Includes profiles of the..... More
Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Presentation copy, inscribed by Grace on the title page to Paul B. Scott, a noted temperance collector and former President of the Board of Trustees..... More
Walnut Creek, California: AltaMira Press, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. "...elucidates what the rules for women were during this time, while also discussing health habits, household remedies, theories on conception, the care of children, the making..... More
Barbara Brown Packer, 1990. Hardcover. A thesis presented to the faculty of the Graduate School of Education of Harvard University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Education. Quarto. Original..... More
New York: The William-Frederick Press, 1949. Hardcover. Second printing. "...the somewhat unorthodox account of the pungent doings in some state governments as observed by a civil service stenographer." Octavo. Original tan cloth binding, with gilt..... More
Oakland, California: West Coast Printing Company, 1913. First Edition. Hardcover. Covers the establishment and organization of the WCTU in the Golden State in great detail, as well as its efforts following the 1906 San Francisco..... More
Raleigh, North Carolina: Edwards & Broughton Printing Co., 1920. The “Susan B. Anthony Amendment” granting women the right to vote became the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in August 1920. This anti-suffrage broadside was..... More
This question is posed on an original poster, produced by the university’s admissions department, announcing that women would be admitted in 1972 for the first time since the Catholic university’s founding in 1842. A historic..... More
A small archive of letters from various South Dakota and Missouri women’s suffrage leaders to Reverend David V. Bush, mostly relating speaking engagements, as well as at his congregational church in Webster, South Dakota. Bush..... More
An archive of photographs, flyers, brochures, newspaper clippings, sketches, letters, and mimeographed reports associated with United Service Organization (U.S.O.) programs supporting women in the military in Southern California during the 1940s. The materials were gathered..... More
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. First Edition. Hardcover. "...examines how photographer Lee Miller, filmmaker Leni Riefenstahl, writer Gertrude Stein and journalist Janet Flanner interpret, dramatize and exploit Hitler, Göring and Pétain. Within their own artistic..... More