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[African Americana]: [Women]: [AME Church]: [Ohio] A M E
Minutes of the Twenty-Eighth -Ninth & Thirty-First Annual Session of the North Ohio Conference Branch Women's Mite Missionary Society of the African Methodist Episcopal Church Third Episcopal District
Cleveland 1927. Good. Three serial works: 432; 511; 471pp. All bound in original printed wrappers stapled. Mostly minor wear and dust-soiling to wrappers some chipping. Middle work worn and chipped with text block and both covers detached but present and no loss of text. A trio of works recording the minutes of three separate annual sessions of the North Ohio Conference Branch Women's Mite Missionary Society of the A.M.E. Church between 1924 and 1927. The meetings were held in Youngstown Cleveland and Alliance Ohio respectively. Each work prints the officers and members of the N.O.C.B.W.M.M. Society as well as each conference's daily activities the minutes of the Executive Board meeting various officer and committee reports and more. One of the more interesting features of the works is the two-page table which concludes each work listing the various societies throughout Ohio their president and corresponding secretary and detailed financial data. All three pamphlets also contain the text of the President's Report or Annual Address providing details on the leadership activities of the group. The first two pamphlets have an ownership signature on the front wrapper belonging to Miss Veetta Jackson of Alliance who almost certainly attended all three annual sessions and is listed in the Conference Branch Roll of the third year when the event took place in her hometown. OCLC records microfilm or digital records for a couple of years apparently 1922 and 1926 at a handful of institutions but does not report any copies for any of the annual reports present here in any format. unknown
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[African Americana]: [Women]
Program for a Theatrical Performance by Members of the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs Inc.
Miami 1971. Very good. 3pp. printed on rectos only. Original yellow illustrated covers stapled. Minor wear old folds owner's name and addressed written on back cover. The program for the August 13 1971 performance of The Many Faces of Eve by the Suitcase Players at the Miami Sheraton Four Ambassadors Hotel sponsored by the National Association of Negro Business and Professional Women's Clubs Inc. The performance took place during the organization's annual convention. The order of the program is illustrated with two small portraits picturing Jan Felton and Doris Johnson who were heavily involved with the performance. The program is followed by an excerpt of an Ebony article on the historical struggles of the slave woman. unknown
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[AFRICAN AMERICANA] [WOMEN] CHISHOLM, Shirley
The 51% Minority: An Address by Rep. Shirley Chisholm D-NY Delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment
Pittsburgh: Know Inc 1970. Slim octavo 21.5cm; pale yellow printed wrappers; i7pp. Mild toning to extremities with contemporary pencil price at upper right corner of front wrapper; Near Fine. Full text of the lecture Chisholm delivered at the Conference on Women's Employment in Chicago Illinois on January 24 1970 an event sponsored by the Chicago chapter of NOW. Shirley Chisholm 1924-2005 a New York City Democratic Congresswoman was the first major-party Black candidate to run for President of the United States. OCLC notes 6 holdings UC Davis UC Irvine Northwestern LSU U.Michigan BL. Know, Inc unknown
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[African Americana]: [Women]: [Education]
The Ritual of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority cover title
N.p. likely Washington D.C. 1939. About good. 476pp. of mimeographed text plus one leaf of sheet music. Original red printed wrappers brad bound. Substantial edge wear reinforced with cello tape repaired tear and large area of loss to rear wrapper some dust-soiling to covers. Ink ownership inscription on front blank belonging to Ruth W. Lee otherwise internally clean. A delightfully homespun pamphlet containing the revised edition of the various rituals of the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority one of the "Divine Nine" sororities of the HBCU community founded at Howard University in 1913 and still active today. According to the organization’s own website Delta Sigma Theta is "committed to sisterhood scholarship service and addressing the social issues of the time.and has become one of the preeminent service-based sororities with more than 350000 initiated members and over 1050 chartered chapters worldwide." The present work was issued by the Ritual Revision Committee whose names are listed here along with a note from the committee chairman Edna B. Johnson-Morris and a Preface from the committee which includes notes of gratitude to various members including honorary member Mary McLeod Bethune thanking her for "The Beacon Light." The body of the work contains chapters on conducting both grand chapter sessions and regular meetings the initiation ceremony the establishment of new chapters conferring honorary status the process of reinstatement the pledge ceremony the funeral ceremony the observance of memorials dedication exercises the order of business for chapter meetings and closing ceremonies for both types of meetings. Much of the work is literally comprised of the scripts for these various processes and ceremonies. These chapters are followed by the text of the DST "National Hymn" sheet music for "How We Love Thy Name" and the text for the sorority's prayer oath and the "Sorority Charge."<br /> <br /> "As a sisterhood comprised primarily of Black college-educated women the Sorority seriously considers the issues impacting the Black community and boldly confronts the challenges of African Americans and hence all Americans. Over the years a wide range of programs addressing education health international development and the strengthening of African American families have evolved. The major programs of the Sorority are based upon the Five-Point Programmatic Thrust: economic development educational development international awareness and involvement physical and mental health and political awareness and involvement" - Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. website. Printed works issued by the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority are exceedingly rare. OCLC reports just a few items of any type printed before 1970 along with just a few institutional collections relating to various chapters of the sorority containing material before 1950. The present work is not separately listed in OCLC and very likely not present in the chapter collections. unknown
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[African Americana]: [Texas]: [Women]
Two Programs for Annual Sessions of the Woman's Auxiliary of the Lone Star State Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association
N.p. likely Houston Tx 1946. 4; 4pp. Both in original printed wrappers stapled. Minor overall wear. Very good. A pair of very rare if not unrecorded pamphlets printing the events which took place at two different annual meetings of the Women's Auxiliary of the Lone Star State Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association a vitally important African-American health organization in Jim Crow Texas. The earlier of the two publications covers the June 6-8 1944 session held at Jarvis College in Hawkins Texas; the latter session was held at Charlton-Pollard High School in Beaumont. Both pamphlets print the schedule of events for the sessions along with a "Social Calendar" and a list of officers. The events included musical performances addresses devotionals readings of minutes and so forth. Interestingly the opening song of the 1946 session is listed as the "Negro National Anthem" also known as James Weldon Johnson's "Lift Every Voice and Sing." We are unable to find any holdings of these two pamphlets explicitly in OCLC but a couple of institutions hold collections of papers from various health professionals who were members of the organization which may include these two publications.<br /> <br /> "The Lone Star State Medical Dental and Pharmaceutical Association an organization of African Americans in the health field came into existence on August 25 1886 in Galveston. J. H. and L. M. Wilkins brothers and Galveston doctors with J. S. Cameron a San Antonio pharmacist and twelve men from nine towns met to establish the association the second organization of Black professionals in the medical field in the nation. The founders had approached the Texas Medical Association concerning participation but it refused to admit them. After sporadic activities in the 1880s and 1890s the association revived in 1901 through the efforts of six members who held a meeting in Austin. Thereafter it grew steadily to attain a membership of almost 300 by 1928. Its members-physicians dentists pharmacists and nurses-selected their first female president A. E. Hughes in 1934. Throughout its history the association emphasized discussion of medical practice and public-health education. It also reviewed hospitals and schools for nurses to provide information on standards. During the 1930s leaders successfully urged the establishment of a state-supported tuberculosis sanatorium for Blacks at Kerrville. After the TMA was opened to Blacks in 1955 the organization which had been retitled the Lone Star Medical Association remained active but declined from 250 members in 1959 to eighty in 1985 after a decision allowing dentists and pharmacists to form their own groups" - Handbook of Texas online. unknown
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[African-Americana – Women – Entertainers] Unknown Photographer
1936 Press Photo of Josephine Baker in New York City
New York City 1936. Single photograph measuring 8 x 9 ½ inches with editorial overpainting. Verso with “Tribune Engraving Room†stamp dated November 1937 two articles featuring the photo with stamps dated March 1936 and December 1937 barcode sticker and manuscript reading “Josephine Bakerâ€. Marginal wear; excellent. A photograph of Josephine Baker seated with two women identified verso as Countess de Roissey de Sales and “Mme. Schneiderâ€. Baker 1906–1975 was an American-born French dancer singer actress. She was born in St. Louis Missouri and performed as a young teen in the chorus line for several Broadway musicals. In 1925 she moved to Paris later telling a journalist that “I just couldn’t stand Americaâ€1 where her dancing quickly made her a star. In the mid-1930s Baker briefly returned to the United States where this photograph was taken; she opened a short-lived nightclub in Manhattan and starred in The Ziegfeld Follies without commercial success. She returned to France in 1937 married Jean Lion and renounced her American citizenship. Alongside her performances Baker would go on to work with the French resistance during World War II and for the American civil rights cause.<br /> <br /> 1 Tim Murari “Josephine Baker†Arts Guardian August 26 1974 6. unknown
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[African-Americana – Fashion – Women] Bruno of Hollywood and Others
Photo Album of African American Models with Many from Ophelia DeVore’s Grace del Marco Modeling Agency
New York City: Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers 1960. Photo album measuring 9 ¼ x 11 ¼ inches containing forty-seven photographs mainly 4 x 5 inches and smaller with some 8 x 10. Most photos loosely affixed with some having detached. Overall excellent. An album of photographs of African American models from the 1950s and 1960s many with stamps verso from Ophelia DeVore’s Grace del Marco Modeling Agency. DeVore’s was among the first agencies for African American models and was highly influential with talent including the first Black supermodel Helen Williams Shaft actor Richard Roundtree and pioneering actresses Diahann Carroll and Cicely Tyson. Identified models in this album include Trudy Daniels Haynes and Lourdes “Lulu†Guerrero. Guerrero was a cover girl for Ebony and Jet magazines and had a role on The Jackie Gleason Show in 1958 making her one of the first Black women to have a role as a regular performer on national television. Trudy Haynes had a brief modeling career before becoming the first African American TV weather reporter working with WXYZ-TV in Detroit in 1963. There is also a photograph of radio DJ Pat Connell; though not a fashion model Connell was the first African American hired as a staff announcer by CBS. Of interest to historians of African American fashion and media. Bruno of Hollywood and other uncredited photographers unknown
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[African-Americana – Women – Beauty Pageants] Unknown Photographer
Photo of Joyce Warner Miss Black America 1971
Tallahassee Florida 1971. Single photograph measuring 6 ¼ x 9 inches. Manuscript caption verso reading “Joyce Warner Tallahassee / Miss Black America†with newspaper article affixed and stamped “SEP231971â€. Near Fine. A press photo of Joyce Warner who was crowned Miss Black America in 1971. The Miss Black America competition was founded in 1968 by entrepreneur J. Morris Anderson as a protest of Miss America’s whites-only policy; the first Miss Black America competition was held in Atlantic City New Jersey on the same day and location as that year’s Miss America.<br /> <br /> As described in the newspaper article affixed to the back of the photo Joyce Warner refused to attend subsequent Miss Black America competitions alleging that the organizers had misled her about the prizes she claimed to have never received a promised $600 scholarship $5000 cash and trips to Haiti and the Catskills and used her photograph for cosmetics advertising without her permission.<br /> <br /> The Miss Black America pageant is still active; Miss America hosted its first Black contestant Sheryl Browne in 1971. unknown
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[African-Americana - Women - Georgia] Williams, Mable, Compiler
Photograph Album Belonging to Mabel Williams of Atlanta Georgia Documenting High-School Life at Booker T. Washington High School Friends and Family 1940s-1950s
Mostly Atlanta 1950. Leatherette album measuring 12 x 9 inches. With over 225 images most 4 ½ x 2 ¾ inches. Very well preserved and nearly complete with three empty slots about fine overall. Near Fine. A compelling visual record of the childhood of Mable Williams of Atlanta Georgia a high school student at Booker T. Washington High School in Atlanta the first public high school for African-American students in the state. Williams graduated from Booker T. Washington High School in 1953 per a newspaper article included here and would attend Spelman College. Composed mostly of snapshot photographs of her friends and family as a group the album provides a visual record of a vibrant network of family and friends in Atlanta during the time period. <br /> <br /> The album begins with a picture showing her as a girl alongside a picture of a house perhaps hers and traces her life through early adulthood through snapshots and family photographs. We find records of Williams performing at the Greater Atlanta Music Festival in 1950 as a representative of her high school. A newspaper article laid in shows Williams in a newspaper showing her graduation picture and stating that she will attend Spelman College in Atlanta in September of 1953. Pictures show her in New York City visiting a friend at N.Y.U. She would later marry Billy Reid a local jazz musician from Atlanta and would remain active in the Spelman community after graduating in 1957. <br /> <br /> Overall a very well preserved document of the African-American community in Atlanta during the 1940s and 1950s. unknown
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[African-Americana – Politics – Women – Post-Civil Rights Era] Chisholm, Shirley
Press Photograph of African-American Politician Shirley Chisholm With Caption
Washington D.C. 1971. Approximately 7 x 9 inches. Editorial mark to text recto World Wide Photos stamp verso. Fine. Shirley Chisholm 1924–2005 was a Democratic politician and the first Black woman elected to US Congress representing New York’s 12th congressional district from 1969 to 1983. In 1972 she became the first Black major-party presidential candidate and the first woman to run for the Democratic Party’s presidential nomination. <br /> <br /> Offered here is a headshot of Chisholm taken for news publication dated December 8 1971. Its caption quotes her as saying “of other black politicians: ‘They don’t understand power.’†It identifies her as “the first black woman to run for president†although Chisholm would not announce her run until January 1972. unknown
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[AFRICAN-AMERICANA -- WOMEN]. TRUTH, Sojourner [Isabella Baumfree].
Sojourner Truth: I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance. Original albumen cabinet card portrait photo of Sojourner standing against studio backdrop.
Detroit MI: Corydon C. Randall Photographer 220 Woodward Ave. c. 1864 1881-1882. One mounted albumen cabinet card photo sized 3.9 x 5.9 in. mounted on tan studio board sized 4.25 x 6.5 in. rounded corners printed caption below the image printed photographer’s imprint on verso minor age-toning minor spotting slight soiling to fore-edges old tiny pinhole evidenced at upper blank margin of mounted board not affecting the photograph very upper right w/ slight creasing & cracking of photo now neatly re-affixed still a VG exemplar of this very rare cabinet card image. A very scarce full-length albumen cabinet card portrait of Sojourner Truth 1797-1883 taken when she was 84-83 years old and used as a fund-raiser at her public events at the end of her life. This is one of Truth’s late portraits and she was quite unusual having acquired her copyright to her portrait during the Civil War giving her control over both the distribution of the CDV and Cabinet Card images and the revenues they generated. As one of the best-known African-American former slaves abolitionists and women’s rights advocates of the 19th-Century she traveled the country for decades giving lectures and attending conferences where she would sell her “Shadow†photographs as a primary means of support for her ongoing mission. According to extensive historical research by Darcy Grimaldo Grigsby Truth posed for Detroit photographer Corydon C. Randall’s camera on three occasions between June 1881 and April 1882. The finished albumen photos were prepared in both Carte de Visite 2.25 x 3.5 in. and Cabinet Card 4 x 6 in. formats and sold to Truth at .5¢ apiece. Randall’s studio records show purchases of 50 50 and 100 copies of each of the three separate poses which was “an astonishing order for a woman in her eighties†but considering they were some of the last photographs of Truth the editions size was quite small with the Cabinet cards scarcer than the CDV versions. Grigsby details this standing pose in her book: the photographs “stage her against a pedastal in front of painted seaside backdrop. The effect is unique among her portraits. She stands in what purports to be a natural scene her figure is smaller than the background suggesting a vastness of space we have not seen before. . . Even as we recognize its artiface we indulge in the illusion of space and air and natural light that it so economically suggests. . . In these late seaside portraits there is a soft winsome quality intensified when we realize that she is in her eighties and at the very end of a long arduous life of personal and political struggle.†Worldcat locates 1 copy of seated version CDV Boston Athenaeum; See: Grigsby Enduring Truths 2015 pp. 178-184. [Corydon C.] Randall, Photographer, 220 Woodward Ave., unknown
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[Albert-Montémont]
Histoire universelle des voyages effectués par mer et terre dans les cinqs parties du monde, sur les divers points du globe, contenant la description des moeurs, coutumes, gouvernements, cultes, sciences et arts, industrie et commerce, productions naturelles et autres. Revus et traduits par M. Albert-Montémont. Voyage en Amérique - Dix-neuvième siècle.
Paris, Armand-Aubrée, sans date (circa 1870) ; in-8, demi-veau glacé havane, dos lisse, faux nerfs dorés, fleurons décoratifs, titre doré ; (2), 451, (1) pp., 1 gravure aquarellée en frontispice.
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[ALASKA - WOMEN]. DAVIS, Mary Lee
Sourdough gold. The log of a Yukon adventure. With maps by the author and illustrated by photographs.
Boston: W.A. Wilde Co. 1933. 8vo. 351 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous plates 1 large folding map. Blue ribbed cloth dark blue & gilt lettering w/ d.j. minor chipping head of spine 1 very small closed tear NF/VG copy w/ 2 pp. ALS laid-in dated March 26 1934 tipped-in photo image signed by author on front pastedown from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition signed presentation copy by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy now known as the Mary Lee Davis House. The letter laid into this presentation copy outlines her unhappiness with being posted back to Washington D.C. by the U.S. Government as well as her struggles in writing the memoir. Scarce in dustjacket. See: Kurutz Klondike & Alaska Gold Rushes A Descriptive Bibliography 159 footnote. W.A. Wilde Co., hardcover
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[ALASKA -- WOMEN]. FORREST, Elizabeth Chabot
Daylight moon.
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Co. 1937. 8vo. x 2 340 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Beige publisher’s cloth pictorial maps on endpapers purple lettering on spine w/ d.j. vivid Art Deco cover art of dogsled team across the Arctic landscape minor chipping & edgewear to upper & lower fore-edges head & foot of spine still NF/G copy. Third printing of this insightful memoir by Forrest b. 1892 written during her three years working as a teacher with her then husband Earle Forrest amongst the Inuit community of Wainwright Alaska. The work is still cited as an accurate depiction of life in Alaska during the opening decades of the 20th Century and her artifact collection of Inuit Scrimshaw and Traditional tools were donated to the Museum of Man in San Diego while her notebooks which focused on Inuit culture cooking and foodways were donated to Bowling Green. This dustjacket cover art differs from the first printing. Frederick A. Stokes Co., hardcover
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[ALASKA -- WOMEN AUTHORS]. WILLOUGHBY, Barrett [BARRETT, Florence].
River house.
Boston: Little Brown and Co. 1936. 8vo. 6 389 1 pp. Black publisher’s cloth dark red lettering minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Anton Otto Fischer minor creasing edgewear couple slight closed tears still VG/VG copy. First hardcover edition of this Alaskan novel first serialized as “The Captive Bride†in The American Magazine. Willoughby 1886-1959 noted Alaskan author of romantic fiction and nonfiction who was bestselling author through the 1920’s and 1930’s. Little, Brown, and Co., hardcover
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[ALASKA -- ART/WOMEN]. JONES, H Wendy
The man and the mountain: the life of Sydney Laurence plus an anthology of Alaskan prose and poetry. . . .
Anchorage AK: Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press 1962. 4to. 1 xiii 76 pp. Photo frontisp. 50 plates & text illustrations including 42 of Laurence paintings. Illustrated softcovers cover art of Laurence painting blue lettering plastic comb-binding as issued minor shelfwear some very minor rubbing still VG copy inscribed on verso of front cover by Jeanne Laurence b. 1887-1980 artist and widow of Sydney Laurence author of “My Life with Sydney Laurence†as gift for Loma Underwood from Margaret Krogstad w/ ALS on illustrated stationery from Margaret to Loma dated 1962. First edition inscribed of this retrospective biography and catalogue of Sydney Laurence’s 1865-1940 foremost Alaskan painter whose artwork such as Going to the Potlatch and The Vanishing Race graced travel posters and brochures to Alaska for decades. Of additional interest is the inclusion of a wide range of 28 additional Alaskan authors and writers’ poetry and short writings including Sybil London Bates -- Jack London’s daughter Frances Anater Robert Atwood Shirley Barrett Carmen Compney Jr Edythe Corbin Anne Townsend and others. Alaskan Publishing Co. and Graphic Arts Press, paperback
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[ALASKA -- WOMEN]. DAVIS, Mary Lee
Uncle Sam’s attic: the intimate story of Alaska. Illustrated by author’s photographs.
Boston: W.A. Wilde Co. 1930. 8vo. xv 1 402 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Blue cloth gilt lettering map endpapers w/ d.j. chipping & tear head of spine upper corner front cover affecting a few letters minor scuffing couple closed tears still NF/Fair copy from the library of Wilma Burmester Bishop 1887-1969 widow of Roy T. Bishop 1881-1950 former owner of the Pendleton Woolen Mills. First edition of this anthology of stories personal accounts and historical references to Klondike Gold Rush figures Native America Eskimos traveling the Yukon River and more by this famed Alaska pioneering woman. Mary Lee Davis arrived in Fairbanks in 1917 on the steamer Alaska because her husband John had been assigned by the U.S. Geological Survey to create a mine experiment station in Fairbanks. Mary Davis purchased the famed arts & crafts bungalow built by Lucille McCarthy now known as the Mary Lee Davis House. W.A. Wilde Co., hardcover
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[ALMAN KÜLTÜR MERKEZI].
Türkische frauen in deutschen Medien.= Alman medyasinda Türk kadinlari.
As New English Paperback. Pbo. Mint. Cr. 8vo. (20 x 14 cm). In German and Turkish. [v], [1], 221 p. Türkische frauen in deutschen Medien.= Alman medyasinda Türk kadinlari. (Turkish women in the German media).
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[Americana] [Manuscript] [Women]
The Song of Songs. Original Manuscript.
America 1956. Hardcover. Near Fine. Cloth-covered boards backed in brown morocco; oblong 4to 340x265mm; approx. pp. 120 interleaved tissue and laid paper with untrimmed edges; composed of pen and ink drawings woodblock cuts and calligraphic text translating "The Songs of Songs" from Hebrew into English. A unique artist's book by an American woman impressively carried out. Some scuffing along spine else fine. <br/><br/>With colophon statement "This book was transcribed illustrated and bound by Beverly Wechsler September 1955-May 1956; bound in half leather and ornamental brocade cloth-covered boards gray endpapers edges uncut losses to leather backing corners bumped; two pressed botanical specimens tucked inside back board; 10 3/8 x 13 ¼ in. <br />The Cooper Union alumni records make mention of her graduating in 1956. One wonders whether this book created during the period of an average school term September to May was a senior thesis project. hardcover
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[APPLIANCES -- WASHING MACHINE/WOMEN]. MAYTAG, [Frederick Louis & MAYTAG, LB]. L B
Maytag Gyrafoam aluminum washer: emboyding the discovery and perfection of the Gyrafoam principle -- the ultimate in home laundering.
Newton IA: The Maytag Company 1923. 4to. 16 pp unpaginated. title in purple & black colour frontisp. purple decorated borders & decorated initials pen & ink illustrations & plates. Embossed gray softcovers yapp edges blind-stamped embossed company logo & purple decorative border steel engraved Maytag Guarantee Bond mounted on inner rear cover minor dustsoiling edgewear still VG copy w/ former ownership marking at lower fore-edge. First edition of this very scarce 1920’s promotional brochure extolling the advantages of the newly developed Maytag Gyrafoam Washer which had been designed and introduced by Howard Snyder the inventive genius at the head of Maytag’s Research & Development Department. The revolutionary new design cut down on wear and tear of clothing in mechanical washing machines by forcing water through a vaned agitator mounted on the bottom of the tub rather than drag clothes through the water with a lid dolly. Introduced in 1922 this washing machine proved to be a game changer in home appliances and a key labor saving device. Worldcat locates 1 copy Winterthur; See; Owens A Brief History of Maytag Gas Engine Magazine Feb. 1 1990. The Maytag Company, paperback
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[April 2 Committee, SF NOW (San Francisco National Organization for Women)] S F
Drop title March and Rally for Women’s Equality / Women’s Lives. Keep Abortion Safe Legal & Accessible
San Francisco: National Organization for Women 1989. Light handling wear with a few wrinkles and smoothed out creases. Two small spots along left edge. Lower left corner darkened. Better than Very Good.<br /> <br /> Photo-illustrated flyer / handbill promoting a national march and rally in San Francisco on April 2 1989 and another in Washington D.C. the following week. Organizers and participants in the march sought to protect women’s rights to freedom of choice and privacy and to uphold protections provided by the Roe v. Wade decision. The flyer also calls for the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment pay equity and an end to all discrimination including against gay and lesbian families. Organizers estimated that approximately 30000 people participated in the march and rally at that time believed to be the largest “pro-choice†gathering ever held in the Bay Area. A list of endorsers included the Coalition of Labor Union Women the California Abortion Rights Action League Planned Parenthood the National Organization for Women the American Civil Liberties Union and the California Teachers Association. The bottom of the flyer includes a small section intended to be cut off where people could opt to endorse the march give a monetary contribution and/or provide other forms of help.<br /> <br /> A great piece of Bay Area feminist ephemera! National Organization for Women unknown
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[ARCHITECTURE -- WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS]. [RICHARDS, Annie Louise].
Souvenir presentation album of unidentified mansion and nicely appointed gardens in the popular summer resort village Magnolia Massachusetts featuring nine well-composed mounted silver print photographs.
Boston MA: Annie Louise Richards 394 Beacon Street August 1895. Oblong folio. 15 x 12 in. 9 leaves on thick card stock w/ mounted silver print photographs sized 6.5 x 8 in all carefully annotated on verso in manuscript w/ negative numbers identification and Richards’ address. Contemporary three-quarter red morocco over pebbled red cloth gilt borders raised bands on spine chipping wear front hinge split endpapers removed still good exemplar w/ all photos in excellent condition. The album includes a series of images of a stately Queen Anne Victorian summer home in Magnolia Massachusetts featuring a wide well-shaded veranda & wraparound porch climbing vines and plantings growing up the porch pillars well-appointed surrounding gardens beautiful balcony with curved canvas shade as well as an extra cottage nearby. Following the Civil War Magnolia MA grew into a popular summer village for well-to-do Boston families attracting celebrities as well and families often situated their homes with views of Kettle Cove. Annie Richards b. 1853 was the daughter of Calvin Richards 1828-1892 noted Boston merchant and later director of the Metropolitan Street Railroad. He retired in 1887 to become a real estate developer and landlord of the “Richards†office building at No. 114 State St. Annie worked as a photographer and artist as well as served as companion to her mother Ann Babcock Richards 1832-1923. The 1900 & 1910 census records list Annie Richards working on her “own account†out of 394 Beacon St. and although she is listed in several street directories along with her mother we could find no death record for her. Annie Louise Richards, 394 Beacon Street, hardcover
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[ARCTIC -- WOMEN]. RITTER, Christiane
A woman in the Polar night. Translated from the German by Jane Degras. . . .
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc. 1954. 8vo. 223 1 pp. Frontisp. map illust. title page 23 text illustrations. Pictorial gray & blue boards very minor shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art by Ritter slight edgewear slight rubbing head & foot of spine still NF/VG copy. First American edition in English of this bewitching memoir by the Austrian/Czech artist as she recounts her visceral experiences of following her husband Hermann who had traveled to the Norwegian Arctic on a scientific expedition and stayed to become a fur trapper during the endless months. This absorbing classic memoir still in print in German relates in vivid language the desolation of Svalbard -- Spitsbergen covered in snow and rock and the few shrubs animals and impact of the unearthly Moon looming over the landscape. Ritter 1897-2000 was a watercolour artist and her paintings of the Arctic are now housed in the Svalbard Museum in Longyearbyen after being donated by her daughter Karen Ritter in 2018. See: John Hamilton Book Review: ‘A Woman in the Polar Night’ Callaway Climate Insights Aug. 14 2023. E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., hardcover
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[ARCTIC -- WOMEN]. DIEBITSCH-PEARY, Josephine & PEARY, Robert E
My Arctic journal: a year among ice-fields and Eskimos. With an account of the Great White Journey across Greenland. . . .
New York NY & Philadelphia PA: Contemporary Publishing Co. 1894. 8vo. 4 240 2 pp. Photo frontisp. colour plates photo plates text illustrations maps. Gray-green publisher’s cloth red lettering & ruling front cover gilt decoration & lettering on spine minor soiling dustsoiling shelfwear very minor bumping & wear to lower right corners still VG- copy. First edition of this memoir of her experiences by Josephine Diebitsch-Peary 1863-1955 accompanying her explorer husband Robert Peary’s early Arctic explorations across Greenland in 1891-1892 where he gained much of the experience used in his later treks to conquer the Pole. Diebitsch-Peary actively participated in the expedition nursing and guarding Robert Peary after he broke his leg when ashore in Greenland from the Kite hunted reindeer ptarmigan cooked for the expedition and aided in fighting off walruses who later attacked them in the expedition. She and her husband were both aided by noted African-American explorer Matthew Henson 1866-1955 longtime companion of Peary’s who on the expedition served as navigator craftsman and adaptor of Inuit Eskimo survival methods. Contemporary Publishing Co., hardcover
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[ARCTIC -- WOMEN]. HUTCHISON, Isobel Wylie
Stepping stones from Alaska to Asia. . . .
London & Glasgow UK: Blackie & Son Ltd. 1937. 8vo. x 246 pp. Colour frontisp. 3 colour plates 16 photo plates 1 large folding map. Blue publisher’s cloth silver gray lettering front cover & spine double-page map edpapers w/ d.j. wraparound cover art by author 5’ price label on spine couple minor closed tears slight creasing shelfwear price cropped from front flap still NF/VG copy. First edition of this remarkable travel and scientific memoir of the noted Scottish polar explorer and botanist collecting specimens for the Royal Horticultural Society & Kew Gardens through the Aleutian Islands with stops at Kiska and Attu Kodiak Island the Pribilof Islands observations of the seals and more. These scientific voyages also included stops in Japanese-controlled Korea and China as well as stop in Russia and Japan itself. Hutchison 1889-1982 was a noted artist naturalist studied horticulture and later explored Iceland Greenland along with expeditions to Alaska and Arctic Canada collecting specimens and seeds. She was awarded the 1934 Mungo Park Medal of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society for her Arctic ventures documented in “North to the Rime-ringed Sun.†Scarce in original dustjacket. Blackie & Son, Ltd., hardcover
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[Association for the Defence of Personal Rights; Committee for amending the law in points wherein it is injurious to women] Alex
Printed pamphlet. Report of the Committee for amending the Law in Points wherein it is Injurious to Women. Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for the Defence of Personal Rights Held in Liverpool November 14th 1871.
Association for the Defence of Personal Rights. Manchester: A. Ireland & Co. Pall Mall. 1871. 24pp. 8vo. In good condition lightly-aged no wraps disbound. Four copies on COPAC and two copies on OCLC WorldCat. No other copy currently on the market. [Association for the Defence of Personal Rights.] Manchester: A. Ireland & Co., Pall Mall. 1871. paperback
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[ASTORIA -- WOMEN BINDING DESIGNERS]. IRVING, Washington
Astoria; or anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains. Tacoma Edition.
New York NY & London UK: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1897. Two vols. Thick 8vo. xxi 5 389 1; xvi 2 391 1 pp. Illustrated titles in sepia & green in both volumes photogravure frontisp. in both vols. w/ tissue guards numerous photogravure from drawings and photographs all w/ printed tissue guards decorative sepia tinted text borders throughout in both volumes. Maroon-coloured publisher’s illustrated cloth over beveled boards elaborate and intricate cover design w/ feather and arrowhead motifs both covers created by the famed book designer and artist Margaret Armstrong w/ her initials in lower right of each cover t.e.g. slight scuff on spine to vol. II hinges starting but still secure in vol. II still a VG bright clean set. The “Tacoma edition†printed of this exceptional version of the famed history and enhanced by text drawings by R.F. Zogbaum. This account of the adventures and exploits of John Jacob Astor’s fur trading enterprise includes Wilson Hunt’s overland expedition from St. Louis to the Astoria settlement at the mouth of the Columbia River along with much first-hand material as well as the notes of Astor himself. See: Tweney The Washington Eighty-Nine 34 Note. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
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[Augustana Lutheran Church Women]; Mrs Alvar L Nelson (Foreword)
Our Favorite Recipes
Minneapolis MN: Augustana Lutheran Church Women 1963. First Edition First Printing. Spiral Bound. pp. 221. 8vo. measuring 14 x 24 cm. Illustrated textured teal card covers held with black plastic spiral binding. Comprises of a rich selection of recipes as compiled by Augustana Lutheran Church Women all recipes accompanied with the names of their respective contributors. Sections include: Bread and rolls Cakes and frostings Casseroles and meat dishes Cookies and bars Desserts and pies Salads Vegetables etc. Remarkably well-preserved showing no detectable flaws to the extremities contents equally without blemish; fine. See OCLC #1104147981 indicating only one institutional holding at time of cataloguing. <br/><br/> [Augustana Lutheran Church Women] unknown
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[AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL & WOMEN -- LINCOLN HIGHWAY]. GLADDING, Effie Price
Across the continent by the Lincoln Highway. Illustrated by photographs.
New York: Brentano’s 1915. 8vo. ix 1 11-216 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates 1 large folding route map. Pictorial gray publisher’s cloth cover art map and decorative border touting the Lincoln Highway minor sunning to spine minor shelfwear slight rubbing uniform interior toning as usual still VG- copy. First edition of this well-illustrated and excellent memoir documenting amenities and sights along the Lincoln Highway considered one of the first full length travel accounts on transcontinental motoring of their 1914 trip. The Lincoln Highway was newly inaugurated as one of the first transcontinental highways and the association ramrodded by Carl Fisher and then Henry Joy had launched the coast-to-coast rock highway for visitors to the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in 1915 later to be enjoyed by automobile travelers during the Roaring 20’s. Effie Price Gladding 1865-1947 details their arrival from a three-year round the World Tour via Asia and Hawaii into San Francisco Bay and subsequent drives along 600 miles of the El Camino Real and then continuing Eastward through Nevada Utah Wyoming Colorado Nebraska Iowa Illinois Ohio Pennsylvania and eventually to New York. She has included many tips to women travelers at the rear of this account and would later write the foreword to the Lincoln Highway association’s first road guide directed to women motorists. Brentano’s, hardcover
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[AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- PHOTO ALBUM/WOMEN]. [HARRIS, Kate & Arthur, WADSWORTH, Mrs & PICKETT, Joseph F (Chauffeur)].
Grand automobile tour. Extraordinarily well documented photo album filled with 416 original images by an American woman on tour with her husband and friends through Europe in the summer of 1911. Her wry manuscript notes compliment the skillful photos revealing the sweeping pre-World War I landscapes architectural details locals in native costumes as well as the trials and tribulations of the road including punctures flat tires poor road conditions ferries and frequent picnics alongside the roadways.
n.p.: Kate Harris 1911. Oblong 4to. 12.75 x 10 in. 204 pp unpaginated. on gray paper stock w/ 416 original silver gelatin black & white photos tipped-in sized 2.75 x 3.5 up to 3.75 x 6 in. including as well over 100 panoramic photos sized mostly 2.8 x 7.5 in. all w/ extensive manuscript notes in neat printed hand following manuscript presentation preface preliminary and end leaves with chipping & fraying to fore-edges some creasing soiling minor tears affecting a few notes 9 photos removed at some point. Recent gray cloth gilt lettering to spine gray paper endpapers presented by Mrs. Harris to Joseph F. Pickett b. 1887 a professional New York driver and chauffeur who drove the group through Europe on Dec. 25 1911. This exceptional photo travelogue details the motoring adventures by Kate Harris her husband Arthur their friend Mrs. Wadsworth and chauffeur Joseph Pickett through Europe just three short years before the devastation of World War I. This album not only demonstrates the level of interest in the burgeoning automobile tourism fad of the Edwardian era but also offers an excellent snapshot of scenic areas throughout Europe. The Harris’s not only brought their luggage and chauffeur via ocean liner in July 1911 but also their 1910 Pierce-Arrow 48-SS Seven-Passenger Touring Sedan fitted with special luggage racks on the rear to haul the many trunks bags picnic & camping equipment as well as a special spare tire bracket on the side which held three spares at any one time often needed. Mrs. Harris appears to have been an enthusiastic amateur photographer and writes that when they drove through an Austro-Hungarian military road she had to lock up their Kodaks. Carefully documenting punctured tires pubs & hotels for lunches and stays and even the mileage covered the group begins their travels in England view the Roman Walls stop in Durham Cathedral Raby Castle onto York Cathedral stop over in Oakham and then down to Cambridge. They stop over in Lofts Hall travel the 51 miles to the London Ritz Hotel and the next day drive the 72.3 miles to Folkestone where the auto was loaded on the 5 PM Boat. They begin their drive in Boulogne with views of the docks the hotel and street scenes included sheep herders moving their flocks out of the way in Hucqueliers young girls hauling bundles of straw and then onto Sedan to visit Franco-Prussian battlefields including the Chateau of Bellevue where Napoleon III surrendered to William I during the Franco-Prussian War. They motor onto Luxembourg Trier view the Porta Nigra Roman gate drive along the Moselle River to the Rhine with stops in Mainz Wurzberg Rothenberg often taking photos of peasants harvesting in the fields children playing under the fountain or in the village streets and even giving locals the remains of their lunch which were gratefully accepted. The drive through the Austro-Hungarian Empire includes stopovers in Prague Iglau Moravia Jihlava including a wonderful image of a young couple with wall of contemporary exhibition and advertising posters plastered behind them; followed by a hair-raising drive up the Styrian Seeberg Pass pilgrims traveling down to Mariazell Leoben Eisnerz Mauterndorf and photos of Tyrolean hunters in local dress. They experience a number of punctured tires as they ascend the Tyrolean and Italian Alps include splendid panoramic photos of the Pasterze Glacier withing the Glockner Group in Carinthia the perilous switchback highway down to Cortina Italy numerous views of the treacherous roads tunnels and scenery along the roads and Alpine villages of the Dolomites including two excellent photos of hemp workers bundling the plants in Storo Italy. The tour continues to Lake Como then the Gondo Gorge and finally along the Simplon Road into La Brique in the southern French Alps and then St. Claude France. The last part of the album concludes with the troupe leaving Bolougne Sept. 14 1911 loading the automobile onto the steamship waiting for Sarah Bernhardt at Folkestone; and then a winding drive through Cornwall including the Dartmoor National Park forest The Lizard St. Michael’s Mount Penzance Lands End St. Ives Tintagel a traffic jam in Stratton viewing Glastonbury and finally panoramic views to roads leading to Chester. The couple and their chauffeur departed from Liverpool on Sept. 23 1911 sailing on the RMS Mauretania later arriving in New York. Kate Harris, hardcover
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[AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- WOMEN]. BEDELL, Mary Crehore
Modern gypsies: the story of a twelve thousand mile motor camping trip encircling the United States. . . .
New York: Brentano’s 1924. 8vo. 262 pp. Photo frontisp. 34 photo plates. Pictorial green black & orange publisher’s binding auto camping scene by Decorative Designers on front cover gilt lettering on spine minor shelfwear slight lean w/ d.j. photo cover art of Yosemite map of couple’s auto transcontinental auto trip on back cover minor dustsoiling edgewear tear affecting part of lettering w/ minor loss on front cover minor chipping head & foot of spine still VG/G- copy inscribed by the author on the title to Marcel & Quinta Kersell. First edition inscribed of this fascinating memoir of Mary and Fred Bedell’s trek across the perimeter of the United States in 1922 following World War I in their Hupmobile over some of the worst driving conditions imaginable including impassable roads holdup bandits in Texarkana tornadoes through Texas while featuring camping stops at Yosemite Crater Lake Mount Rainier Glacier National Park Yellowstone Banff and more. Political and racial upheaval make infrequent appearances as she often refers to the plight of African-Americans or Native Americans but she and her husband were particularly appalled at the prevalence of the Ku Klux Klan across the South and into Arizona “taking the law into its own hands and wearing masks to prevent detection. Could anything be more cowardly or more at variance with our constitution.†Bedell 1870-1936 was an active photographer while her husband Frederick Bedell 1861-1958 was a noted physicist at Cornell specialist in alternating currents audiologist specialist and later professor at Caltech. Exceedingly scarce in original jacket. See: Bliss Autos Across America 41. Brentano’s, unknown
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[AUTOMOBILE TRAVEL -- WALES/WOMEN]. STAWELL, Mrs Rodolph [Maud Margaret Key Stawell, Frances Rodoph Stawell].
Motor tours in Wales & the border counties. With photographs by R.De S. Stawell.
Boston: L.C. Page & Co. 1909. 8vo. x 2 280 pp. title in red & black. Double-page colour frontisp. map photo frontisp. numerous photo plates. Pictorial dark green publisher’s cloth Arts & Crafts cover art illustration of road & cottages in white & black gilt lettering t.e.g. illustrated endpapers very slight shelfwear NF bright copy from the library of former California State Librarian Gary Kurutz. First edition of this informative Brass Era automobile travelogue through Shropshire North Wales South Wales Wye Valley and the heart of Wales. Stawell 1865-1949 was an Australian-born artist book illustrator and early motorist perhaps best remembered for her compilations including Fabre’s Book of Insects featuring illustrations by Detmold and Fairies I have Met with Edmund Dulac illustrations. L.C. Page & Co., hardcover
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[AVIATION -- WHITEHEAD/WOMEN]. RANDOLPH, Stella
Lost flights of Gustave Whitehead.
Washington DC: Places Inc. 1937. Tall 8vo. x 11-95 1 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo illusts. maps. Black silk moire gilt lettering on front cover & spine slight shelfwear w/ d.j. cover art illustration of Whitehead’s machine in flight by Liebowitz still F/F copy. First edition first issue w/o reviews on back cover of this fascinating work which was the first to put forward the arguments that Gustave Whitehead 1874-1927 had achieved power flight 2 years before the Wright Brothers in 1901. This controversy has reemerged in the recent years because the editor of Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft chose to support the claim while most including the National Air & Space Museum Curator feel that the evidence is very sparse. In addition there have been recent teams in 1986 and 1998 constructing experimental reproductions of Whitehead 21B at the Experimental Association fly-in and in Germany but these have been disputed as well because they have used some modern materials such as fiberglass and modern engines. Randolph b. 1895 was initially drawn into researching the flights of Whitehead during the Great Depression as a free-lance writing assignment and would eventually accumulate a substantial collection of correspondence affidavits articles and interviews now held in the Special Collections History of Aviation Collection Univ. of Texas at Dallas ID # H001-71. Places, Inc., unknown
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[AVIATION - WOMEN]. GRAY, "Jack" [Edith Jacqueline] Stearns
Up. A true story of aviation.
Strasburg VA: Shenandoah Publishing House 1931. Tall 8vo. xv 1 384 pp. Photo frontisp. numerous photo plates decorated initials. Blue ribbed publisher’s cloth silver metallic lettering & illustration on front cover w/ d.j. cover art photo of “Jack Stearns Gray by C.R. Wood illust. in metallic silver & black slight dustsoiling NF/NF copy signed by the author on ffep. First edition signed 1st issue w/ pictorial jacket of this unique and fascinating memoir of the first woman from Virginia to fly from Virginia soil. The author and her husband - George A. Gray -- were barnstormers all over Virginia and the East Coast in their Wright Model B. Gray 1890-1961 took her first flight in 1912 knew most of the aviation pioneers including Amelia Earhart Charles Lindbergh Glenn Curtis the Wright Brothers and many others. She details many of the women fliers from her flying days including Elinor Smith Ruth Nichols Ruth Elder Camp Opal Kunz and many others. Shenandoah Publishing House, hardcover
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[AVIATION -- WORLD WAR II/WOMEN]. [WOOD, Jesse R, JOHNSON, Dorothy, JONES, Virginia, STEPHEN, Louise & WHITSON, Frank].
Wings for the U.S. Army Air Forces: activities and achievements of the Continental-Denver Modification Center July 1942 - August 1945.
Denver CO: Continental Air Lines Inc. 1945. 4to. ix 76 18 leaves. With photos tables charts. Beige textured softcovers cover art of B-17 & B-29 bombers lying over the globe plastic comb binding as issued minor dustsoiling edgewear minor bumping to corners still VG copy. First edition of this very rare report on Continental Air Lines efforts in modification of aircraft during World War II. Due to personnel shortages women were trained in large numbers with the Emily Griffith Opportunity School who also received training in sheet metal fabrication welding and metal casting to handle bomber retrofits for over 2500 B-17 and B-29 bombers as well as 25 P-51 Mustang fighters and 6 additional experimental B-29 bombers. The airport facility in Denver erected two 600 x 400 foot hangers and continued hiring skilled labor. Worldcat locates 1 copy History Colorado; See: Gail Beaton Colorado Women in World War II 2020 pp. 146-149. Continental Air Lines, Inc., paperback
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[BALLET -- PETER PAN/WOMEN]. [HIGGINS, Susan (Artistic Director); PERRY, Anita (Composer); & ELSNER, Dan (Technical Director).]
Peter Pan -- a children’s ballet. . . children and young adult ballet students from the Cascade Athletic Club pre-professional dancers from the Oregon Concert Ballet Company. Artistic Director’s manuscript performance notebook with stage notes Perry’s musical score and updates along with choreography notes.
Portland & Gresham OR: Susan Higgins Ballet Instructor & Artistic Director Cascade Athletic Club; Oregon Concert Ballet Co. 1984. 4to. Approx. 250 pp sections separately paginated and unnumbered some numbered in ink several with duplicate numbering consisting of typescript musical score and illustrations many of the pages with extensive ink and/or pencil annotations some updates photocopies with additional revisions many pages with updates taped onto the musical score approx. 200 pp. preserved in archival mylar sleeves remainder 3-hole punched at gutter margin and inserted. Contemporary black vinyl 3-ring binder minor scuffing edgewear still VG exemplar. A wonderful original ballet director’s art direction notebook for the Peter Pan ballet staged in 1984 intended to offer young up-and-coming ballet students at the time to experience live performances and to unify Eastside/Westside Royal Academy of Dancing trained students. It would be 5 years before the Oregon Ballet and Pacific Ballet Theater would consolidate under the direction of James Canfield to form the Oregon Ballet Theatre. This ballet featured four acts divided into The Nursery Neverland Ship of the Pirates and Conclusion featuring solos by Wendy Tinker Bell Peter and Captain Hook over the length of the production. Dancers 4-5 years old were featured as the Neverland Fairies 5-7 years old with 2 years of training and pre-primary Royal Academy examinations behind them played Forest Fairies; Lost Children were 6-9 years old and had performed Barre and footwork; followed by the Pirates and soloists including Wendy Heather Miller Peter Pan Laura Spradlin Captain Hook Elizabeth Johnson and the mermaids drawn from the Lake Oswego School of Ballet under the directorship of Christine Donald. The original score by Anita Perry b. 1960 an up-and-coming Canadian composer out of British Columbia where she had studied piano with Lee Kum Sing and composition with Cortland Hultberg. In her early 20’s M. Perry had already won several composition awards was known for her original ballet works and wrote this score with orchestration for a variety of instruments “lending to the performance. . . a more closely approximated real environment experienced by professional dancers.†Peter Pan as a ballet required a fair amount of athleticism and as indicated here in Higgins’s artistic director’s notebook required extensive choreography changes scene adjustments and revisions by M. Perry. Higgins studied and danced at the British Royal Ballet later with Elvie DeMarko 1924-1989 of Ballet Russe and then with Robert Barnett of the Atlanta Ballet. No similar notebooks or programs survive for this 1984 ballet and there are no recordings or printed musical scores this cataloguer could uncover. Susan Higgins, Ballet Instructor & Artistic Director, Cascade Athletic Club; Oregon Concert Ballet Co., unknown
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[BARBER SHOP CATALOGUE/WOMEN]. [PAIDAR, Emil J]
Paidar beauty parlor equipment. Catalog Number 46.
Chicago & New York; Dallas TX: Emil J. Paidar Company; E.A. Fretz Co. Beautician’s Supplies & Equipment 403 No. Akard St. 1938. Oblong 4to. 12.4 x 9.4 in. 83 1 pp. Illustrated title in red & black illustrations & photos throughout coloured in green or tan wood-grain. Blue-printed softcovers preserved and mounted in recent black pebbled cloth binding slight scuffing soiling to softcovers still NF copy. First edition of this scarce trade catalogue filled with beautifully designed Art Deco chrome trimmed beautician fixtures cosmetic bars facial chairs booth units and more all meant to evoke the Ocean Liners of the 1930s. The Paidar Company swept up in Art Deco design elements introduced a line-up of modernist influenced waiting room settees chairs and davenports side tables and barber chairs. These beauty shop fixtures featured such names as The Hollywood trimmed in Hazelwood with Walnut Stain The Normandy featuring Hazelwood veneers with Walnut Stain and many others all complete with the measurements and floor plans for installation. The manicure tables appoint desks display cases shop sterilizers facial couches and others could be fitted with wood panels chrome elements and beautifully appointed equipment. Paidar was one of the most important manufacturers through the first half of the 20th century of Barber’s Chairs Beautician’s equipment and furnishings and were noted for their striking upholstery colours superior design and high product quality. No copies located in Worldcat. Emil J. Paidar Company; E.A. Fretz Co., Beautician’s Supplies & Equipment, 403 No. Akard St., paperback
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[Bertin (Théodore-Pierre)] :
La Comiphonie, ou les femmes dans le délire. Ouvrage enrichi d'une gravure en taille-douce. Par F. L. Miséthos.
Paris, Debray, de l'imprimerie de Gille, An XI-1803 ; in-12, demi veau blond glacé, dos à nerfs décoré "à la grotesque", pièce de titre vert empire, non rogné (reliure un peu postérieure) ; (4), 146 pp. , frontispice gravé par Dien.
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[BEAUHARNAIS (Fanny, comtesse de)].
Les Noeuds Enchantés, ou la Bisarrerie des destinées.
A Rome, de l'Imprimerie Papale, 1789. 2 parties en 1 vol. in-12 de 144-116 pp., basane marbrée, dos lisse orné, pièce de titre en maroquin vert (reliure de l'époque).
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[BEAUTY, HAIR CARE & COSMETICS -- WOMEN]. MURRIN, Ruth
Good skin care; Make-up foundations; Good handwork; Beauty masks; Before and after your permanent. . . . Beauty Clinic Guide; Good hair. . . In: The Powder Puff; A buying guide: cosmetics and pharmaceuticals tested and approved by Good Housekeeping Bureau. . . .
New York: Good Housekeeping Magazine 1940. Seven pieces. 6 - 12mo.; 1 - 8vo. 154 pp separately paginated numbered & unpaginated. First five as 12mo. w/ text illustrations & diagrams colour-printed softcovers w/ die-cut window to illustration on title; 6th mimeographed text stapled at gutter margin w/ pink & white litho cover art by Felten 7th - 12mo. Blue & black printed softocovers NF all. First editions of these exceedingly scarce Good Housekeeping cosmetics beauty and hair-care from the noted columnist and editor of Good Housekeeping magazine’s Ruth Murrin. Although she lacked a medical degree she established her professional status and credentials by overseeing the magazine’s Beauty Clinic which was a practical laboratory run by women and specialists in order to offer correct health advice and beauty tips to their readership. She was a key advocate of the Good Housekeeping Bureau which had originally been founded by Harvey W. Wiley considered the “Father†of the Federal Pure Food and Drug Acts. The guide included here encompasses hundreds of cosmetic and pharmaceutical products available for women on the eve of World War II. No copies in Worldcat 1 copy located of similar Buying Guide half the size in 1938 -- Harvard; See: Kim Chuppa-Cornell Filling a Vacuum: Women’s Health Information in Good Housekeeping’s Articles and Advertisements 1920-1965 The Historian Vol. 67 No. 3 Fall 2005 pp. 454-473. Good Housekeeping Magazine, paperback
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[BIG GAME HUNTING -- ALASKA & BRITISH COLUMBIA/WOMEN]. SHELDON, Charles
The wilderness of the North Pacific Coast Islands: a hunter’s experiences while searching for Wapiti bears and Caribou on the larger Coast Islands of British Columbia and Alaska
Toronto: The Copp Clark Co. Ltd. 1912. 8vo. xvi 246 pp. Photogravure frontisp. by Carl Rungius 3 photogravure plates by Rungius numerous photo plates 5 maps 1 folding. Publisher’s blue-green cloth gilt illust. of Grizzly Bear & lettering front cover gilt lettering on spine t.e.g. minor shelfwear slight rubbing occasional light spotting still VG bright copy. First Canadian edition of this well-illustrated and documented account of hunting and observing on Vancouver Island Montague Island Queen Charlotte Islands and includes a chapter of his wife Louisa Walker Gulliver Sheldon’s b. 1880 experiences bear hunting on Admiralty Island. Sheldon 1867-1928 trekked by steamboat canoe pack horse and on foot with other explorers and hunters such as Frederick Selous William H. Osgood and Carl Rungius hunting caribou grizzly bears moose and other big game as well. The Copp, Clark Co., Ltd., hardcover
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[Boxe], Archipel de Tonga, scène de Pugilat entre deux femmes.
[Boxe], Archipel de Tonga, scène de Pugilat entre deux femmes.
[Boxe], Archipel de Tonga, scène de Pugilat entre deux femmes. Gravure vraisemblablement issue d'un livre, dessiné par Danvin (?) gravé par Massard. 125*205mm. [189-2] 15
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[BRITISH INDIA - WOMEN TRAVELLERS] POSTANS, MRS (MARIANNE)
Cutch; or Random Sketches Taken During a Residence in One of the Northern Provinces of Western India; Interspersed with Legends and Traditions.
London.: Smith Elder and Co. Cornhill. 1839. Engraved handcoloured frontispiece opposite the additional engraved title page sketch map and 7 other full-page illustrations one folding and 5 hand-coloured text illustrations 2 half-title xvii including both the engraved and printed title pages 283pp; original blind-stamped pebbled green cloth boards 23 x 14.5 cms re-backed mounting the original gilt-lettered backstrip endpapers renewed scant spotting the boards faded and the backstrip chipped at the foot with the neat inked inscription of a previous owner but in very good condition. Scarce. Pioneering account beautifully illustrated after sketches by the author. Marianne Postans travelled to India in 1833 with her husband Thomas Postans a Captain in the 15th Regiment of the Bombay Native Infantry where he was posted to Cutch Kutch the northwestern region of modern-day Gujarat. They both shared a deep interest in the people and traditions of India. Marianne's account attempts to describe the culture of the region its bards and bardic literature including specific songs and stories of Kutchi bards arts and crafts and agriculture and trade. She also describes in detail rituals such as infanticide and the practise of sati. <br>The beauty of the Rann awed her: “The distant aspect of the Runn resembles that of the ocean at ebb tide; and as some water always remains on it the refraction of light produces the most beautiful and mysterious effects decorating it with all the enchantments of the most lovely specimens of mirage whose magic power exerting itself on the morning mists indues this desert tract with the most bewitching scenes…”. . Smith, Elder and Co. Cornhill. hardcover
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[BURAGLIO, ARROYO, CANE, RANCILLAC] Opus International
Opus International 66/67.
Ed. Georges Fall 1978 revue - In-8, broché couv. illustrée, illustrations et photographies en n. & b., 112 pp. Bon état.
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[CALIFORNIA -- WOMEN]. AUSTIN, Mary & PALMER, Sutton (Artist).
California: the land of the Sun. Painted by. . . described by. . . .
New York & London: The Macmillan Company Adam and Charles Black 1914. Tall 8vo. viii 178 pp. Tipped-in colour frontisp. 31 tipped-in colour plates 1 large folding sepia-coloured map at rear. Pictorial cloth publisher’s binding striking Arts & Crafts cover art by Henry Hunt Clark on front cover & spine gilt lettering t.e.g. slight shelfwear very slight age toning still NF bright copy from the library of Julia Ripple Nevin 1839-1920 noted gardening enthusiast and naturalist and Pennsylvania book collector w/ bookplate on front pastedown. First edition of this vividly worded work extolling the beauty of the California landscape hinting at Austin’s pioneering support for environmentalism Native Americans and awareness of the extremes in the Western landscape. Issued the year after Los Angeles had bought up much of the Owens River Valley diverting the water to Southern California turning the previously verdant “Switzerland of America†into a dust bowl the work nonetheless paints a beguiling portrait of the State with Sutton Palmer’s paintings. Austin 1868-1934 is perhaps best remembered for her classic “The Land of Little Rain†whose success allowed her to move to Carmel CA freed her from a loveless marriage to Wallace Austin as well as caring for her physically and mentally disabled daughter Ruth who was consigned to an institution where she remained until her death in 1918 from the Spanish Flu Pandemic. See: Inman A&C Black Colour Books 649; Joy Lanzendorfer Searching for Mary Austin Alta California Book Club 2025. The Macmillan Company, Adam and Charles Black, hardcover
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[CALIFORNIA POETS - WOMEN]. WELLER, Ella Fraser
Nestlings. A collection of poems. Illustrated by K.A. Fraser from pictures of children in the author's immediate circle of friends.
San Francisco: California Publishing 1892. 8vo. 6 46 leaves. Photo frntsp. numerous photo plates. Illust. tan cloth mnr rubbng & bmpng to crnrs shlfwr sml clsd tear to title still a nice copy. First edition of this scarce work by the Los Angeles poet. A scarce San Francisco imprint of a charming book. California Publishing, hardcover
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[California]. [Women]
Seventeenth Annual Announcement the Woman's City Club of Long Beach California
Los Angeles 1928. Very good. 66pp. Original blue wrappers printed in gold stapled. Minor soiling and wear. Internally clean. With membership ticket laid in. Annual handbook for the Woman's City Club of Long Beach whose aims were "the social civic and economic welfare of our city." The present work includes a list of officers past and present as well as a list of committees program events for the year the by-laws committee reports and an alphabetical directory of the membership with names and addresses which comprises half the volume. We locate no copies in OCLC. unknown
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[CALIFORNIA -- WOMEN]. AUSTIN, Mary
The land of little rain.
Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co. 1903. 8vo. x 6 280 2 pp. Frontisp. illustrated title border & text illustrations plates. Tan pictorial cloth w/ cover art illustration in green & brown very minor shelfwear slight rubbing still VG copy. Early “New Sierra Edition†of this noted group of essays revealing Austin’s pioneering support for environmentalism Native Americans and awareness of the extremes in the Western landscape of the Owens River Valley and the American Southwest enhanced by the artwork of E. Boyd Smith. In 1913 much of the Valley was purchased and the water divered to Southern California turning the “Switzerland of America†into a dust bowl. Austin’s 1868-1934 success with this work allowed her to move to Carmel CA freed her from a loveless marriage to Wallace Austin and supplied financial resources for her physically and mentally disabled daughter Ruth who was consigned to an institution where she remained until her death in 1918 from the Spanish Flu Pandemic. See: Zamorano 80 No. 2; Joy Lanzendorfer Searching for Mary Austin Alta California Book Club 2025. Houghton Mifflin Co., hardcover
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[CALIFORNIA WOMEN [MONTEZ, Lola, Countess of Lansfeld, Eliza Gilbert].
The lectures of . . . with a full and complete autobiography of her life as well as her celebrated lectures. . . .
Philadelphia: T.B. Peterson & Brothers 1858. 8vo. 292 pp. plus vi pp. of ads preceding the text 8 pp. following. Steel-engraved portrait frontisp. w/ tissue guard. Recent binding gilt lettering on spine minor foxing to first few leaves very faint tidemark at upper corner gutter margin through first couple signatures occasional thumbing still a VG copy. First edition of this fascinating biography of Lola Montez 1821-1861 -- i.e. Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert courtesan dancer and also believed to have been the major inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler and the “Scandal in Bohemia.†After nearly bringing down the government of Bavaria and King Ludwig I by living with him as her mistress with the newly granted title Countess of Landsfield and as unofficial consort wielded political power urging for reform which the 1848 Revolutions swept away and she fled. Later bigamously marrying Cornet George Heald in 1849 she began her very successful career as dancer during the California Gold Rush although she never trained to dance and married for 2 weeks Pat Hull California Newspaperman in Grass Valley. She is perhaps best remembered for tutoring the famed Lotta Crabtree dancer and acting sensation from Grass Valley. This volume also contains her lectures on Beautiful Women Gallantry Heroines of History Comic Aspects of Love Wits & Women of Paris and Romanticism which Montez used to challenge societal norms about the roles of women in society and instead of cosmetics recommended that women pursue temperance exercise and cleanliness. See: Blasefield Hellraisers Heroines and Holy Women pp. 149-150. T.B. Peterson & Brothers, unknown
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[CALIFORNIA WOMEN - MONTEZ, Lola]. HOLDREDGE, Helen [O'Donnell].
The woman in black. The life of Lola Montez.
New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons 1955. 8vo. x 309 1 pp. Numerous illustrations & photos. Half-red cloth over patterned boards w/ d.j. cover art portrait of Montez slght edgewear couple very small closed tears slight sunning to spine VG/VG-. First edition of this fascinating biography of Lola Montez 1821-1861 -- i.e. Elizabeth Rosanna Gilbert courtesan dancer and also believed to have been the major inspiration for Arthur Conan Doyle’s Irene Adler and the “Scandal in Bohemia.†After nearly bringing down the government of Bavaria and King Ludwig I bigamously marrying Cornet George Heald in 1849 she began her very successful career as dancer during the California Gold Rush and married for 2 weeks Pat Hull California Newspaperman in Grass Valley California. Holdredge 1898-1986 studied at the University of Oregon debuted as an opera singer in 1919 touring until the 1920’s and spent much of her later career writing on noteworthy San Francisco women. G.P. Putnam’s Sons, hardcover
Riferimento per il libraio : 40543
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