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1972143695Washington: AFL-CIO 1972. Pamphlet. 27p. stapled wraps 5.5x8.5 inches very good condition. AFL-CIO unknown books
S6275Dublin:: Alex. Thom n.d. 12mo. 143 1 pp. Black-stamped white cloth; covers a bit soiled. Very good. Printed after 1862. Alex. Thom, n.d. hardcover books
16740Women Education Girl student's laboratory notebook of 38 experiments and 30 scientific drawings at Wadleigh High School in 1903 only 16 years of existence New York City's first public high school for girls. 8 x 7 in. Original maroon boards. 142 pages first 97 pages filled with handwriting in pencil. All experiments dated 1903. "to be pasted on outside cover of note book. Borough of Manhattan New York City Wadleigh High School January 12 1904. This notebook contains the original notes of Sylvia DeGiorgio on laboratory work done under my immediate supervision. All numerical data and all notes descriptive of apparatus process and resulting phenomena were written in the laboratory at the time when the experiment was performed. Florence Hermann Teacher." Records 38 experiments that explore different topics in physical science such as: Verify the Law of Flotation Prove that a lever acts as if its mass were collected at one point Determine the mechanical advantages and law of inclined plane and Determine chemical action in a simple voltaic cell. Experiments contain tables to record data and observations with 30 scientific hand drawings in pencil to accompany lab notes. "I placed a 100g weight in such a position as that it would not roll and on it placed a meter stick and balanced it. I placed a 50g weight on the 17 cm mark and determined where a 20g weight should be applied to balance it. I then calculated the distance of 50 g or Force A from the fulcrum and also of 20g on Force B by subtracting the distance fo the position of A from the fulcrum and of B from the fulcrum. Then I multiplied the weight or magnitude of A by the calculated distance of A from the fulcrum and of B likewise the product was the moment of the force and the products of A and B should equal. I performed the same operation tree other times each time placing the weight-at different points on the stick. The movements of the forces acting on one part of the lever should equal the movement of the forces acting on another part of the lever."<br/><br/>Wadleigh High School was first founded in 1897 when secondary education for girls especially immigrants was considered highly novel; this important school led the way for other educational reforms in the country and also led to more job opportunities for women to work as higher level teachers. This student Sylvia DeGiorgio was from an immigrant family with several members born abroad in Italy Malta and Egypt and the school took pride in both the academic as well as social education it provided to its girls students taking pride in the "gentlewomen" who graduated from the school. 2 loose pages recount the births and deaths of family members. First 2 pages detached. Loose hinges. Boards worn at extremities. Clean crisp interior. Very good condition. unknown books
16862Women's Education Penn State First women enrolled in the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences at Pennsylvania State University. October 17 1934. Original silver gelatin print press photograph. 8 x 6 in. Original press caption typed on image verso. "Taking a Man's Course. Alexandra Tillson the first girl to enroll in the school of Mineral Industries at Penn State with Dean Edward Steidle who is showing her around the school's Museum of Minerals. Miss Tillson is taking the metallurgy curriculum which deals with the study of iron and non-ferrous metals. She is the daughter of Benjamin Franklin Tillson noted mining engineer of Montclair N.J. Miss Tillson can't be discouraged from pursuing a study which may eventually take her to the steel mills or to the mines. 10/17/34." The Steidle Building one of the most iconic pieces of architecture at Penn State was named in honor of Dean Steidle pictured with Tillson. Some wrinkling to center right edge. Good to very good condition. A groundbreaking woman pictured at the start of her academic career. unknown books
16758First Women's Education Movement Old Dominion Institute Catalog 1860-181. Pamphlet/ Volume 12 of 17:Annual Announcement of the Old Dominion Institute Catalog For The Year 1860-1861. Richmond VA. Contemporary Note on the first blank page. The Catalog includes a description of the school textbooks mode of instruction tuition and list of pupils of 1859-1860.Rare with No copy found among Institutional or library Collections according to OCLC Worldcat. <br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. unknown books
16726Cleveland Female Seminary Catalog 1856-1857 Cleveland OH. Founded by Rev. Eli N. Sawtell. Sawtell the seminary opened on 3 May 1854 an earlier enterprise by the same name had been established in April 1837. Located in a new $50000 building the school commanded a hefty $300 annual tuition. The seminary had 2 major departments Preparatory which admitted girls under 12 years of age and Academic for those over 12. Emphasis was placed on teaching both languages and science so students could over 12. Emphasis was placed on teaching both languages and science so that students could acquire a wholesome mental discipline. In 1865 a Telegraph Dept was established to provide instruction in the principles of telegraphy for students in natural philosophy and chemistry It was reincorporated in 1871 as the Cleveland Seminary for Girls at which time it acquired the rights and privileges of a college including the authority to grant degrees but closed in 1883. Not in OCLC Worldcat. Women's Academy and Seminary Archive recording the first important movement of women into higher education in the United States seminary was synonymous with "academy" and did not have the religious connotation of today-This is an important point but seems awkwardly placed. Maybe either use the phrase "into secular higher education" in first sentence or in next sentence say "In the 1800's the Female Academy and Seminary Movement transformed American educational norms allowing women the opportunity to receive secular non-religious college-level education<br/><br/>Women's colleges proliferated in the mid- to late- 19th century to fill the void created by their exclusion from most institutions of higher education. The prevailing notion that women were too delicate for a rigorous academic education was openly challenged when Elizabeth Cady Stanton spoke at the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848 "Man's intellectual superiority cannot be a question until woman has had a fair trial.When we shall have had our colleges our professions our trades for a century a comparison then may be justly instituted." Young women were quick to step up to the challenge; as quickly as female colleges opened they filled up. This document dates less than a decade after Seneca Falls. Very rare with no copies of this program in any institution or library as per OCLC Worldcat. unknown books
200538801Princeton:: Princeton University Press. Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2005. Hardcover. 0691120579 . First printing. "Examination Copy" stamped on top edge else fine in a fine dust jacket. . Princeton University Press, hardcover books
1899031179Worcester: Worcester Society of Antiquity 1899. Pamphlet. Very Good. Ex-library with usual marks - library boards over original pamphlet wraps. Pamphlet itself in very good condition with one embossed library stamp to cover. Inscribed by author on cover. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 2 lbs 0 oz. Category: History; Inventory No: 031179. <br/><br/> Worcester Society of Antiquity unknown books
1990182370Albuquerque: the Center 1990. 15p. very good in staplebound wraps 5.5x8.5 inches. Introduction to the Center focusing on UN influence and intervention in the third world with annotated listing of its publications. the Center unknown books
194399523Washington: Congress of Industrial Organizations 1943. 32p. stapled wraps 5x7.75 inches wraps evenly toned else very good condition. On Social Security. CIO publication no. 90. Congress of Industrial Organizations unknown books
194592955Washington: Congress of Industrial Organizations 1945. Pamphlet. 32p. stapled wraps 5x7.75 inches very good condition; second revised edition first published in 1943. On Social Security. Congress of Industrial Organizations unknown books
186042284Boston: Marvin. Very Good. 1860. Pamphlet. Boston: T. R. Marvin & Son 1860. 43 plus 12 pages. The interior is bright and clean and the paper wrappers are crisp with light staining. Overall a very good copy. . Marvin unknown books
1979203855Fresno: C.A.B.E. 1979. Paperback. 109p. 5.5x8.25 inches detailed and extensive event schedule for the three day conference lists of attendees speakers panelists etc. very good program booklet in stapled pictorial wraps. C.A.B.E. paperback books
1682046918Dublin: Joseph Ray 1682. Second Edition. Hardcover rebound in leather. Very Good Condition. Rebound in contemporary leather extensive contemporary notes to front endpapers one endpaper with the upper right corner torn. Quite clean internally - in two parts a third was published in 1689. 14 70 8 154pp<br/><br/>The first and second parts of Ware's extensive and pernicious forgeries of church history intended to stir up anti-Catholic anti-Irish and anti-Jesuit sentiment. They played a large role in the absurd stories surrounding the Popish Plot and many of Ware's creations continued to pollute reformation history into the 19th 20th and even 21st centuries. Ware was the son of a prominent historian and used his father John's name to legitimize the documents that he "found" - one of the most long lived forgeries was a Cranmer letter at the beginning of part two which entered into Cranmer's works and was preserved for centuries through misattributions by historians such as John Strype and wishful thinking. Rare in commerce. Size: Octavo 8vo. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Religion & Theology; History. Inventory No: 046918. Joseph Ray hardcover books
16708Friendship album with 18 handwritten entries in multiple hands to a young woman from 1859-1892. Philadelphia: Hayes & Zeld n.d. 7.5 x 5 in. Original black leather boards. Embossing and gilt detail to spine and front cover. 240 pages. 18 handwritten entries dated 1859-1892 from locations in Pennsylvania Lebanon Reading and Virginia Manassas Middlesex County Richmond. Lines for Miss Mary: "Then while this book is filling up and while still exhausting life sweet life; You will perceive that all intend; to leave a token from a friend. Then when you turn from leaf to leaf And when your heart is free from grief Forget not then a thought to lend; That this was written by a friend." Friendship albums were popular at this time amongst young women and they gathered entries from classmates at female academies and young male admirers alike. <br/><br/>A Wish to Miss Mary Titus "May all the days forever be Just as the healt of man Be all life's roses offered thee Without our piercing thorn May earth's best blessings on the rest To thee may peace be given And be they every moment bless With all the smiles of heaven As is this wish I wish again That life to you may be the same." Not all entries were poems; some were short messages with a signature while other include longer essays. "Good nature is the very air of a good mind the sign of a large and generous soul and the peculiar soil in which virtue prospers. May you my dear Mary evermore seek to cultivate it. Then rest assured that like the . which when exposed to the sun is said to drink in and regain the rays of light and reflect them in the dark the gloomiest walks of life lill be irradiated by the thinning beauties of Good Nature sanctified." Full title page with publisher information heavy toning and discoloration. unknown books
1654046147Amsterdam: Joannis Blaeu 1654. First Edition. Hardcover Full Leather. Very Good Condition. Early mottled calf three volumes in one the last printed 1652. Modest wear and some surface marks and scars to calf very neatly rebacked some time ago a very attractive binding overall. Scattered mostly minor foxing mild age toning small dampstain in the gutter of title and first few pages generally quite clean internally with numerous genealogical tables many folding and two folding maps. i-lxxxi 13 Index 2 errata corrigenda i; x 2 errata 439 450 i.e. 440 cxxx 6 Index; viii 109 ii Relentlessly unsentimental about mythology and illegitimate historical material Blondel is most famous for discrediting the Sibylline Oracles the Pope Joan story and the origins of the fleurs de lis. This work meticulously refutes Jean-Jacques Chifflet's claims as to the supremacy of the genealogy of the Spanish kings over the French. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Over 3 kilos. Category: History; Inventory No: 046147. <br/><br/> Joannis Blaeu hardcover books
18703389United Kingdom 1870. Geography notebook of Mary Barker: Quarter black roan over marbled boards measuring 9 x 7 inches. Comprised of a calligraphic title and frontis plus 59 hand drawn-and-colored maps done by a young woman in her first three years of teacher training. Throughout Mary annotates on the margins which year and term she is in and occasionally notes that the map was drawn "From Memory"; and each map has penciled corrections and assessments. <br/><br/>with Geography notebook of Allison Jane Gillespy: Quarter cloth over marbled boards. Calligraphic title page and 35 intricately hand drawn maps from the British Empire Europe and the Middle East. <br/><br/>A pairing of beautiful and research-worthy notebooks documenting teacher training in the late nineteenth century as well as providing a look into how geographies changed across time and how British educators were being trained to perceive and educate the young about other parts of the world and how they connected to the British empire. With nearly 100 pages combined the notebooks offer scholars important comparative opportunities and means for better understanding the rising number of women educators and authors publishing works that engaged geography and international cultures during the Victorian era.<br/><br/>"The Wesleyan Methodists had a school for ministers' daughters at Trinity Hall Southport.which admitted both boarders and day girls.to educate ministers daughters and train teachers" Roach. Pupil teacher programs like the one Mary Barker was enrolled in had become a popular method of producing teachers at a time when the public's access to education expanded and the demand for instructors was at a high. Such programs functioned like an apprentice system taking a senior pupil typically thirteen years old and putting her in a five year assistantship to her own instructor. Pupil teachers typically took on responsibility for teaching lower classes observing their superiors educate the more advanced students and completing their own educations. By the 1870s these programs had become standardized to ensure proper preparation for instructors Robinson. <br/><br/>Mary's maps trace this process. As she moved from her first to her third year in this notebook the quality and care she puts into her work improves. Her handwriting and attention to detail matures. And her assessments move from Fair to Good and Very Good. Maps in the notebook include nearby locales such as Ireland Scotland and the British Isles as a whole; European nations including Sweden Norway and Prussia as well as eastern Europe and Russia. Mary also maps out "Arabia" and the "Chinese Empire" as well as "Further India" revealing a wide array of changing borders and shifting cultural attitudes. <br/><br/>While Allison does not leave any marker of her class age or school the level of intricacy in her maps suggests she was a senior student or finished instructor. These appear to be fair copies not done from memory but prepared as examples for students or as teaching aids.<br/><br/>Together the two provide a comparative opportunity to study the history and politics of mapping nineteenth century girls' education pedagogy and pedagogical training and geography. unknown books
1692044549Lyon / Grenoble: Claude Naulot; Faure et Fils 1692. Hardcover Quarter Leather. Very Good Condition. Later leather backed boards spine rubbed hinges cracked. The Geometrie Pratique bound here last is a quite rare book on surveying but missing the final page - the text seems to end on 48 but other copies show 49 pages and the folding plate. Accompanying it are two almanacs from Dauphiné a region in the Southeast of France. xliv 179pp plus privilege and table; 242pp; xx 48pp. The Geometrie is prefaced by un extrait du droit François & L'Invention des Arbres. Geometrie trimmed a bit close at the top including on the title. Size: Octavo 8vo. Scattered foxing but text mostly clean. Previous owner's signature in ink. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Mathematics; History. Inventory No: 044549. <br/><br/> Claude Naulot; Faure et Fils hardcover books
1611044067Venice: Alessandro Vecchi 1611. Early Edition. Hardcover Vellum. Good Condition. Full contemporary vellum lacking the front endpaper and inner joint cracked a few mild creases and tears light to moderate foxing scattered light damp staining to bottom margin four pages in early or contemporary manuscript apparently a printing error pages 114 115 126 and 127. 27 366 2 296pp 175 leaves. With 26 full page woodcuts with a few repeated and numerous in text woodcuts. The first book is festooned with cuts with a few in the second and smaller vignette illustrations in the third book. A very attractively illustrated work - it went through a number of editions with similar illustrations from 1604 to the late 17th century. Size: Quarto 4to. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Antiquarian & Rare. Inventory No: 044067. <br/><br/> Alessandro Vecchi hardcover books
17071Emily Hodgson. Women's education and suffrage activist. Autograph Letter Signed by Hodgson on December 31 1863. 14-page letter on from the seminary days of author Emily Hodgson profiled by close friends and suffragists Frances Willard and Mary Livermore in A Woman of the Century 1893. 8 x 5 inches. 14 pages of lined white stationary. At this time Hodgson was a student at the prestigious Ipswich Female Seminary an early school for girl students where she wrote in lively prose about the New Year's party she prepares to surprise her classmates and hints at her early literary ambitions. About living in a dormitory and celebrating New Year's Eve with other students: "Such a gay time as the six damsels that board in this house are having tonight! As we are all ''young ladies" Mrs. Cowles has given us permission to sit up till quarter past twelve. I was commissioned to provide refreshments arrange the table etc. and really I feel quite proud. None of the girls except my assistant have as yet seen it and I know they do not expect to see quite such a grand affair grand for Boarding school . " New Years Eve don't come but once a year" I hear one of the girls exclaiming. I know they are coming to see why I am so long- Sure enough- and now they are gone." <br/><br/>About her early writing attempts: "I have had a letter come from an old teacher of mine. And I know you won't think me vain if I send it to you for as you fly so hard to have me do well and are the means of my enjoying myself so much and giving what enjoyment I am able to others around me I know it will please you to see that I sometimes succeed . she like Mrs. B is not ordinary woman . she is a very finely educated lady. and I feel pleased that she should like my feeble endeavors. The lady Miss Briggs who writes the note enclosed has been composition teacher here for a long time. You would hardly judge from this not which is far from a good letter from her that was very easy and elegant with her pen. She has written three or four prize essays and won the prizes."<br/><br/>Ipswich Female Seminary was founded in Massachusetts in 1828 and the school's focus was on preparing girls for careers as teachers and missionaries. It offered a "rigorous curriculum" including study of English arithmetic geography chemistry human physiology history the natural sciences religion vocal music and calisthenics and placed an emphasis on "standards of personal conduct and discipline." As part of their preparation students practiced teaching with guidance from school instructors. Mild toning and a few light stains. All sheets except 1 have minor tape repairs at folds. In very good condition. A unique and personal piece of early Female Education history. unknown books
16813Girls' Education Handwritten original essays on literary figures from a female high school student. 25 illustrations of literary historical figures and their homes including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow John Greenleaf Whittier Charles Dickens Paul Revere Sir Walter Scott and James Russell Lowell. c. 1912. Original black boards and red cloth spine. 84 pages. 9 3/4 x 8 inches. Illustration all 8 x 5 1/2 in. "Freshman English and Sophomore English Note-book. Mildred Benjamin" written on first page in blue pen. Handwritten biographical reports of all those with aforementioned portraits. Also includes incomplete entries for Tennyson and George Eliot. "John Greenleaf Whittier was born in Haverhill Mass.the house still stands in which Whittier was reared.Whittier was taken with illness while visiting at the home of his friend.he had a slight paralytic stroke which produced a difficulty in taking food o medicine and it was plain that he could not be removed to Annesbury where he had always hoped to die. He was conscious to the last and was grateful to everyone. He had little acute pain. He lay all night in peace and died in the morning."Charles Dickens: "The boy Charles was not strong but nevertheless before he was ten years old he was obliged to earn his own living. He was placed in a blacking warehouse an old ramshackle house near the Thames. The scenes in which he was brought up were the most degrading ones possible.During this time he spent much of his time in the reading room of the British Museum.In 1842 he made his first trip to America. Just before going he wrote Oliver Twist in which he exposed the abuses of the poor law system." Press clippings on final pages for articles on Charles Dickens and John Greenleaf Whittier. Images of Longfellow's birthplace in Maine Whittier's birthplace and homes in Massachusetts "Gadshill" Dickens's home Sir Walter Scott's estate and "Elmswood" Lowell's home in Cambridge MA. Final press clipping contains a chapter of Ralph D. Paine's novel The Cross and the Dragon published 1912. Cover and spine detached from pages. First and last page toned foxing on first portrait of Longfellow else clean. Very good condition. 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
194068740Los Angeles: The California State Department of Education 1940. First Edition. Wraps. Good. This pamphlet is in no sense a treatise on placer mining. It is intended to give simple practical instructions and advice to the inexperienced placer prospector and miner more particularly residents of the state who are more or less acquainted with conditions here and who must live as cheaply as possible with some chance at least partly to support themselves." 47 p. mimeographed with textual illustrations. Quarto. Stapled and bound in printed paper wrappers with a cloth tape spine. Some general toning and wear along the extremities. A rather scarce WPA publication OCLC locates only six copies. The California State Department of Education unknown books
1953152682Washington: CIO 1953. 16p. wraps 8.5 x 11 inches charts very good condition. Critique of gerrymandering and its effect on legislation affecting workers. CIO unknown books
1940MMRM1139Chicago:: University of Chicago Press 1940. 1940. 8vo. xvi 304 pp. Green gilt-stamped cloth. Near fine. The Commission included 20 members among them: Willard C. Rappleye Fred L. Adair Arthur C. Bachmeyer Donald C. Balfour Robin C. Buerki and others. University of Chicago Press, 1940. hardcover books
