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16432Official Report of the Commission on Universal Suffrage National American Woman Suffrage Association 1910. In self wrappers 15 pages. New York French Chamber of Deputies on the Proposition to give Women the Right to Vote. New York:The pamphlet is a brief summary and translation of the report presented to the French Chamber of Deputies. The National American Woman Suffrage Association NAWSA was an organization formed on February 18 1890 to advocate in favor of women's suffrage in the United States. It was created by the merger of two existing organizations the National Woman Suffrage Association NWSA and the American Woman Suffrage Association AWSA. Its membership which was about seven thousand at the time it was formed eventually increased to two million making it the largest voluntary organization in the nation. It played a pivotal role in the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution which in 1920 guaranteed women's right to vote. Very good condition. unknown books
16411Cora Scott Pond Pope. Autograph letter signed . No date; likely pre-1891 when she married and took last name Pope. 1 sheet. 9 x 5.5 in. Black ink on lined paper. Lifelong suffrage advocate Cora Scott Pond writes to an old school friend encouraging her to join the women's movement and outlining outreach campaigns in local papers. <br/><br/>She writes in her hand In full: "Dear Carrie Do not consider this a $1.00 thrown away. It is through the efforts of Woman Suffragists that you and all of us young women are allowed to hold our position or to suffer ourselves. A little back glance of the suffrage movement will show you this. You ought to give your mite with the rest of us. I send you a paper it will give you a glance. We print it in the Sunday Herald. Yours with love and a classmates good wishes. My love to your mother. Cora S. Pond." Very good. An insightful letter showing the many ways in which women brought others to their cause. unknown books
195424336Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press 1954 1954. First edition one of 300 copies printed. Slipcase slightly worn at the edges; fine copy. 8vo original black cloth spine marbled boards printed paper label. Wood engravings by Paul Landacre. ¶ A charming journal kept by Una Jeffers the wife of poet Robinson Jeffers recording her return trip - but the first time as an adult - to Ireland where both her parents were born. Handsomely printed by Ward Ritchie and illustrated by Paul Landacre. <br/><br/> Los Angeles: Ward Ritchie Press, 1954 hardcover books
16434The Women's Social and Political Union. "Crowned with Honour." A Speech by Mrs. Annie Besant at the Royal Albert Hall March 28th 1912. No. 93. London: The Woman's Press 1912. In this speech Annie Besant condemns the imprisonment of suffragettes over property destruction framing the question of suffrage within the long view of history: "And when history in the future judges the struggle of the present;.looking back on the shameful story of today will crown with shame those who have used strength against the women imprisoned for suffrage activity." Besant was a labor activist and women's rights supporter who called for suffrage rights for women and brought up the unjust imprisonment of suffragists in the UK. The Women's Social and Political Union WSPU was known for its militant tactics and property destruction in bringing attention to the suffrage cause; setting it apart from most other groups which were far less radical. No other copies in institutional collection according to OCLC Worldcat. Very rare. Very good condition. unknown books
16085Early Women Education. Autograph Letter Signed on verso of a Handbill regarding Ragged Schools April 13 1868. Rev. H. Newton-Vicar of St. michael's Mission Schools Lant Street writes to a donor about the work of the Ragged schools. Verso is a broadside for "The Lant Street Ragged Schools for Boys and Girls Borough Southwark." Reading in part "These Ragged Schools are placed in the midst of the poorest populationin Southwark in are the largest with about 850 attendances daily and the most important in South London." Attendance shows girls far outnumbered boys in the school "Boys in the Lower School Room.167 Girls in the Upper School Room.243.Afternoon Boys.162 Girls.233. The attendants at the Evening School in which more grown persons of both sexes are taught to read and write number about.65." He has made notes in his hand on the broadside portion in part "Ragged Schools male & female." This rare handbill is absent from OCLC Worldcat and considerably more interesting for the first-hand manuscript content regarding the coeducational activities of the school. unknown books
16825Memory album with photographs newspaper clippings and rare mementos from a high school girl in 1930 in Ohio. 23 original gelatin print photos approximately 4.5 x 2.75 in. Signatures and handwritten inscriptions from over 100 classmates teachers and friends. "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" Designed and Illustrated by Louise Perrett and Sarah K. Smith. Chicago: The Reilly and Lee Co. n.d. 9 x 6 in. Original boards. "The Girl Graduate Her Own Book" in gilt and illustrations of flowers and a young lady on the front cover. 190 pages. Original owner's name and high school written on label printed inside front cover: Gertrude M. Avery Graduated from Bowling Green Senior High "1930". Table of contents include space for handwritten entries on: Class Yell or Motto Photographs Autographs Class Officers Teachers Class Prophecy Invitations Programmes Social Events Press Notices Gowns Presents Jokes and Frolics and the Baccalaureate Sermon. One newspaper clipping lists all of the graduates who were bound for college; notably 18 of the names listed are women.<br/><br/>75 signatures and handwritten inscriptions from classmates. Many include short lines about friendship and school memories. "School days are your happiest days Enjoy them while you're young And become old another day". "Count me as a brick in your chimney of friendship." Some write a shorter but more personal line: "A fellow sufferer in English". Many look towards their futures as wives: "May your life be bright and sunny and your hubby fat and funny." "Come and see me hubby April 28 1935". "When you are married and living at your ease Remember you have a friend who is single and does as pleases. -"Al" Aline Allison". Several sign off with colorful nicknames such as Zoot Midge and Bud. 18 photos of classmates. People are identified by given names although one is simply labeled "pals" though not the context. Many photos appear to be outside of a large school building and two images show "our bus" including the driver and all 28 students who rode it. Two show young ladies labeled "me" Elthel & Maria standing in slacks. Two others shows the subjects in costumes "Lyle & Sally" are dressed in vintage costumes and "Paul Smith" appears to wear a dress and pearl necklace on the following page. 15 additional signatures from classmates p. 120.<br/><br/>22 signatures from teachers and 3 photos. Also portrait of the album owner and photo of her and friend in their Graduation Dresses. 50 pieces of ephemera including programs for musical performances and school plays. Napkins paper flowers press clippings about school dances. Ticket to the Senior Day Steak Roast at City Park. 3 invitations including enveloped pasted in with commencement invitation inside. Includes a handwritten list of gifts received such as: Three Dollars Modernistic Vanity Looking Glass Fancy Hanger and Perfume Atomizer. 4 cards and letter that accompanied gifts pasted in. Scarlet and gray ribbons in school colors. Check receipts for items related to academic fees and class finances. Newspaper clippings list school events and graduation announcements. "Seniors Look Like Gay Nineties Making Whoopee Whoopee Whoopee!" Also a notice about a girls basketball tournament: ".the last game of the girls interscholastic basketball to be played in Bowling Green." Final pages include newspaper clippings of school friends marriage announcements from the years following their graduation. Light scuffs to cover. Some wear to interior front hinge. Very good condition. unknown books
16757English Women Suffrage Pamphlet. Pamphlet: Conference on Electoral Reform1917. Letter from Mr. Speaker To the Prime Minister Presented to both Houses in Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London: Published By His Majesty's Stationery Office. Only one copy could be confirmed among all Institutional Collectionsworlwide according to OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
184325566Philadelphia and New York: Various 1843. Three novels by these women writers individually published & separately paginated bound in one volume including: The Cadet De Colobrieres. A Tale of the Old Convents of Paris. Translated from the French of Madame Charles Reybaud. Complete in One Volume. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart 1847. 91 pages; with a one-page Preface by the un-named translator. Henriette Etiennette Fanny Arnaud Reybaud 1802-1871 French writer who wrote under the name of Madame Charles Reybaud and other noms-de-plume. Title page with the signature at top margin of V.E. Baudry May 1847. Cleveland: A Tale of the Catholic Church. New York: Burgess Stringer & Co. 1847. 105 pages printed double-column. Author is not noted on title page; by British writer Mary Anne Georgia Murray-Gartshore. d. 1851. Tipped on to the title page are two thin strips of paper with a clipped signature and date of V.E. Baudry Sept. 1847. Life in Sweden. The President's Daughters. Part II Nina. By Frederika Bremer translated by Mary Howitt. New York Published by Harper & Brothers 1843. 137 pages printed double column. Fredrika Bremer 1801-1865 Swedish writer feminist reformer; Mary Howitt Mary Howitt 1799-1888 prolific English author; nee Botham; published translations from Frederika Bremer and Hans Andersen and successful children's books. DNB. Previous owner small bookplate of S.M. DuPont on the front endpaper; binder's note in pencil on back free endpaper "Dupont ½ roan" Approx. 6" x 9 1/8" size; bound in blue & black striped & marbled paper covered boards black leather spine and corners gilt spine titles and simple rule-lines gilt. Much rubbing and wear to the boards & corners; some foxing and spotting to the contents; in good condition. . First Edition. Leather. Good. Various books
24458New York N.Y.: Not Published 1910. Group includes: Photography: C. 1915 6 ½" x 8 ¼" grammar school class photograph with very large flag back-drop. Evidence of the gradually changing demographic in New York City as black migration took place from the south and whites left for the suburbs. Edges chipped soiled; plate numbers at lower left; in good condition. Young Jewish man standing portrait; 6" x 9" overall size; H.Smith 109 Second Avenue N.Y. backstamp edges chipped a bit; in good condition. Group of well-dressed Jewish men in a meeting hall; some religious furnishings are visible candelabra lecturn cabinet. Approx. 7 ¼" x 9 ½" size; no photographer or studio identifiers. Group of 9 snapshots mounted on black paper album pages a couple identified of women at various locations circa 1920s. A circa 1915 photo-both strips; one having 2 poses the other four of a young Bertha Levy. The larger strip with the back stamp of Tarr 164 W. 126th St. A real-photo postcard of a larger photograph group-shot of a group of young girls between infant and young teen ages accompanied by 4 women. With the studio identifier of L.I. Harris The Pioneer Photographer of South Beach S.I. A group of 9 loose snapshots and a trimmed real-photo postcard. One identified on back as "Grandstand B.H.P. Sept. 30 1914" and another as taken at Garnerville Labor Day 1913. Ephemera: 13 Individual Rating Report Principal's Report on Teacher's Service for Bertha Liebovitz Levy at P.S. 68 and P.S. 70 1925 - 1943. Approx. 5 ¼" x 7 ¼" size. A couple of typed letters signed by Morris Scherer principal of P.S. 70 one regarding an award to be present to Ms. Levy the other a letter of condolence upon Ms. Levy's death. With 6 handwritten letters 1921 - 1941 complimenting Ms. Levy's kindness & teaching skills and also a request for information for details on a mutual friend's life. Condition: Some of the photographs with edge-wear creases others very good. Paper ephemera with old fold lines some ageing and wear. Overall the group in good condition. . Photgraphy. Not Bound. Good. Not Published Paperback books
1988182927New York: Oxford University Press 1988. Hardcover. VG/G covers show some wear/rubbing. Navy blue cloth covers; gilt lettering & art. 4 volumes : illustrations. The Schomburg library of nineteenth-century Black women writers. Edited by Joan R. Sherman. Contents: v. 1. Loew's bridge ; A Broadway idyl ; Poems / Mary E. Tucker Lambert -- Infelicia / Adah Isaacs Menken.<br/>v. 2. Magnolia leaves / Mary Weston Fordham -- Ethiope lays / Priscilla Jane Thompson. Gleanings of quiet hours / Priscilla Jane Thompson -- Songs from the wayside / Clara Ann Thompson.<br/>v. 3. Poems / H. Cordelia Ray -- Prejudice unveiled and other poems / Lizelia Augusta Jenkins Moorer.<br/>v. 4. Morning glories / Josephine D. Henderson Heard -- Poems / Eloise Bibb -- Virginia dreams : lyrics for the idle hour ; Tales of the time told in rhyme / Maggie Pogue Johnson -- Autobiography and poems / Mrs. Henry Linden. Oxford University Press hardcover books
1990W3016New York: Alfred A. Knopf 1990. Dust jacket price-clipped. A Christmas gift inscription by the author on the title-page. Depicts the life and work of the photographer Evelyn Cameron. A beautiful copy. Inscribed By the Author. First Edition. Cloth. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Evelyn Cameron. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Trade. Alfred A. Knopf Hardcover books
1972706441972. A small archive of photographic negatives with contact sheets showing a protest in New York of the headquarters of the Olivetti typewriter headquarters in 1972. The protest was a response to an unfortunate advertising campaign promoting "brainy" typewriters that were supposed to eliminate the typing errors made by incompetent secretaries. A TV commercial showed a secretary as a vacuous pin-up girl who found that she could attract men by becoming an "Olivetti girl". This infuriated a group of New York City secretaries backed by members of the National Organization of Women which picketed Olivetti's headquarters at 500 Park Avenue "Rebel Secretaries" Time 20 March 1972. The photographs shot in black and white by an unknown photographer show women with protest signs outside the headquarters. Additional photos show a man setting up the "Olivetti Weary Protestors Relief Bar" where "the liberator" was being served: "one part orange juice one part Cointreau one part champagne." The Italian typewriter company founded in 1909 is credited with manufacturing the first programmable desktop computer the Programma 101 launched at the 1964 World's Fair. unknown books
16743Women of the United States for the Women of the Philippines. Petition. Cambridge Massachusetts 1899. Standard legal 8.5" X14.5" inches. Light toning down the middle and very slight creasing on bottom right edge. Slight tear on the third original fold but very good condition overall with neat handsome print displaying a variety of fonts. A moving entreaty from the women of the U.S. to protest American imperialism. This petition calls upon "every American citizen woman no less than man" to "earnestly protest against the war of conquest into which our country has been plunged in the Philippines Islands." Price. The women circling this petition addressed to President William McKinley were working in support of the Anti -Imperialist League which included such well-known members as steel magnate Andrew Carnegie former president Grover Cleveland and writer Mark Twain." "We do not intend to free but to subjugate the people of the Philippines" Twain wrote " and I am opposed to have the eagle put its talons on any other land." As this petition testifies however women's monetary donations labor networks and reputations were integral to the Anti- Imperialist League's activities. down to "Miss F.L. Abbot" the circler of this document. The petition includes a slot for name city or town and state proving that the "Dear Madam" addressed at the top was one of any number of women across the nation working to "cease at once this war of "criminal aggression" against brave people fighting for their independence as our forefathers fought for theirs and ours." Very rare with no copies of this broadside in any institution or library as per OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
593278vo - 4to v.p. v.d. 1960-1991.<br/><br/> Artists include Nancy Spero Joan Mitchell Jenny Holzer Lee Krasner Hedda Sterne Anne Ryan Dorothy Gillespie Nancy Grossman Katherine Porter Grace Hartigan Mary Hambleton Helen Frankenthaler Kate Kollwitz Nora Speyer Audrey Flack Patricia Johanson Sonia Gechtoff.<br/><br/> unknown books
16320This document was created with the intent of finding employment and for women contracted on temporary terms to work in government-appointed positions during World War I. The Committee advised that women have options to become permanent members of the government workforce and be treated equally with male colleagues i.e. equal pay not having additional clerical duties etc. Ministry of Reconstruction. Women's Advisory Committee. Report of the Sub-Committee Appointed to Consider the Position after the War of Women Holding Temporary Appointments in Government Departments. Presented to Parliament by Command of His Majesty. London: Published by his Majesty's Stationery Office 1919.Modern blue card wrappers with paper label. 8 page folio. Very good condition. The sub-committee which wrote this was composed of six women and two men demonstrating the interest and respect for women's work and labor contributions during World War I. unknown books
190726490München: Albert Langen 1907. mit 446 textillustrationen und 60 Beilagen. 1 vols. 4to. Original grey felt cloth pictorial stamp of a woman of fashion on upper cover. Almost fine. mit 446 textillustrationen und 60 Beilagen. 1 vols. 4to. Albert Langen unknown books
183346011Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1833. First American Edition. 12mo 15cm.; publisher's blue cloth printed paper spine label; 170pp. Spine cloth a shade faded endpapers toned due to inferior stock light foxing throughout else a Very Good and fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism this specifically addressed to members of the Catholic Church. Martineau raised in a Unitarian household began her career writing articles for the Unitarian journal "The Monthly Repository" though she later left the Church for more information see Ruth Watts "Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition of Education" in "Oxford Review of Education" Vol. 37 no. 5 October 2011 pp. 637-351. Leonard C. Bowles unknown books
183346010Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1833. First American Edition. 12mo 15.5cm.; publisher's blue cloth printed paper spine label; 2177pp. Light wear to extremities spine cloth a bit faded corners bumped light foxing throughout else a Very Good quite fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism this specifically addressed to "Mohammedans" and written in the form of a dialogue between friends Havilah a Muslim and Eber a Christian. Martineau raised in a Unitarian household began her career writing articles for the Unitarian journal "The Monthly Repository" though she later left the Church for more information see Ruth Watts "Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition of Education" in "Oxford Review of Education" Vol. 37 no. 5 October 2011 pp. 637-351. Leonard C. Bowles unknown books
15983National American Woman Suffrage Association Pierson Alice. The National Grange in Favour of Votes for Women. New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company Inc. 1915.<br/><br/>First Edition of the leaflet page size: 6-1/4 x 7 inches single sheet of newsprint folded in half 4pp; self-wrapper; some rumpling and creasing but generally very good. "The following sweeping endorsement was passed at the Convention held in Oakland California November 1915 . " The Grange advocates unqualified backing of suffrage supporting any universal suffrage movement by amendment of the Federal Constitution and charges its Legislative Committee with taking charge of the campaign work. Includes opinions and testimonies from leaders of granges in 10 states. With testimonials from the Grange State Masters in Wyoming Oregon Montana Idaho Maine South Dakota and Nebraska this pamphlet published by the NA WSA was<br/>part of the campaign of 1915. The National Grange as well as numerous state granges voted every year to support woman suffrage. The NA WSA gratefully noted in their annual meetings the support of the Grange starting in 1907. The second president of NA WSA Dr. Anna Howard Shaw was herself a member of the Grange. Not in Krichmar. Harper THE HISTORY OF WOMAN<br/>SUFFRAGE Vol. V pp. 206 247 392. unknown books
1946630New York; Bethesda; Washington D.C.; Philadelphia 1946. About very good. Scrapbook; 28 leaves filled with a variety of printed and photographic materials. Original embossed cloth boards string tied. Items affixed to album leaves with tape; many items loose and laid in. Leaves tanned; light wear to contents. A scrapbook of diverse materials compiled by a woman named Annelle Hutton while she served in the Naval Hospital Corps on the Eastern seaboard during World War II. Hutton was a member of the WAVES Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service and specialized in aural rehabilitation. The materials in her scrapbook comprise original and commercial photographs news clippings of stories about Hutton and her colleagues printed ephemera from her training and service as well as from social events she attended and other leisure activities. unknown books
17141Women's Suffrage Germany P. Aug. Rosler. "Wahre und Falsche Frauen Emanzipation Truths and Lies: Women's Emancipation". Written in German. Stuttgart und Wien: Dof Roth'sche Verlagshandlung 1899. Printed by Hieronymus Muhlberger in Augsburg. 60 pages. 9 x 6 in. Original paper wraps. Very rare with 0 institutions or libraries in the US holding this volume per OCLC Worldcat. An early German language treatise regarding popular myths on women's suffrage and the Women's Question die Frauenfrage. The volume lists the Madonna mother of Christ as one example of virtuous women whom all respect. German women were granted the right to vote and be elected from November 12 1918 immediately after the Armistice of WWI. Handwritten ink annotation on front cover. Front and back cover are detached; pages 1-16 detached; pages 49-60 detached. In good condition. unknown books
192347267Philadelphia: Harry J. Lincoln Music Co 1923. First Edition. Quarto 31cm; photo-illustrated wrappers; 51pp. Light wear to extremities touch of dust-soil to wrappers with a short closed tear at lower spine-fold; Very Good. Attractive copy of this suffrage-themed sheet music a march two-step dedicated to the "Girls of America" published three years after the ratification of the 19th amendment. The front wrapper features a photographic portrait of five suffragettes dressed as Lady Liberty in all white robes bearing sashes that read "Justice" "Equality" "America" "Liberty" and "Victory." OCLC notes a single holding Natl. Library of Australia. Not in CREW Suffragist Sheet Music. Harry J. Lincoln Music Co unknown books
1666019th century Handwritten Composition book filled with handwritten poems and verses from a young lady in Lancaster County Pennsylvania 1880-1883. Original cloth boards. 8 1/4 x 7 in. "Compositions" embossed on front cover. 100 pages. Each page filled with handwritten poems and reflections including writing about attending school and nostalgia for being a student. "Mary A. Dunlap Willow Grove School 1880" written on first page. Original poems such as "Away to School" and "The School House on the Hill" "Fond memory paints the scenes of other years Green be their memory still And bright amid those joyous scenes appear the school house on the hill. // Cho. Oh I never can forget no I never can forget The old school house on the hill. // There hands the swing upon the maple-tree Where you and I once swung; There flows the spring forever flowing free As when we both were young. // There climb the vines and there the berries grow which once we prised so high; And there the ripe nuts glisten in the glow Of rich October sky."<br/><br/>Includes original history reports on American Literature and The Colonial Period 1640-1760. "The Colonial Age was mainly one of fighting and manual industry.The drama then the most popular form of literature in England was not tolerated by the Puritans and did not flourish therefore in America. Libraries were few and the means of communication but scant; hence the age was not favorable to literary development and the growth of American literature was slow indeed." Includes list of prominent American writers including: Thomas Jefferson John Greenleaf Whittier and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Excerpts from several of Shakespeare's most famous works including Twelfth Night "Music/ That strain again; it had a dying fall; Oh it came o'er my ear like the sweet south That breathes upon a bank of violets Stealing and giving odor" and As You Like It. "Sweet are the uses of adversity; Which like the toad ugly and venomous Wears yet a precious jewel in its head". Seven drafted letters at end of book regarding dinner invitations letters of condolence and a subscription to The Atlantic Monthly. Last several pages are ledger book of loans and debts. Brown stain in upper inside corner of book affecting last 40 pages. Very good condition. unknown books
16574Women Employment Lucy Wilson. "Women and Legislation." Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. June 20 1874. Original paper wrappers. 4 pages. First edition. 8 1/2 x 5 in. A Letter addressed to the Editors of the Leeds Mercury. "These measures all point to one conclusion that motherhood is a crime. The woman who is guilty of it unless.she is rich and independent shall not eat bread for six months thereafter or twelve as the House may determine." In this open letter Wilson decries legislation which would forbid new mothers from working yet fails to provide any public assistance for them to care for their families. "No Act has been passed decreeing that such women shall not suffer cold or hunger or to 'deem that they commit an offence' if they are hungry." Vigilance Association for the Defence of Personal Rights was a British organization dedicated to watching restraining and influencing legislation especially in matters affecting the interests of women and the personal rights and liberties of the people. Small losses along spine. Very good condition. unknown books
16700Tucker Henry St. George. Women Suffrage by Constitutional Amendment. First Edition Signed and Inscribed. New Haven: Yale 1916. First Edition. Small 8vo pp. viii 204. Inscribed by the author a very nice copy. Kruchmar 2068. 40111 These lectures were delivered in the William L. Storrs Lecture Series before the Law School at Yale University. Tucker 1853-1932 was a Congressman from Virginia. He argues that a Constitutional amendment providing for women's suffrage would violate the division between state and federal powers. According to Tucker the right to vote is not a federal issue but a local one. unknown books