‎Femmes (les)‎

‎Women in Sports‎

‎Women's Athletic Development and Basketball Team Culture Photograph Archive 1919 to 1932‎

‎1919. Unidentified photographers photograph archive of women's basketball teams 1919 to 1932 documenting the early development of organized women's athletics in the United States following the introduction of basketball as a women's sport in the 1890s. The material provides primary visual evidence of women's participation in competitive team sports supporting research into gender physical education and the expansion of athletic opportunities for women in the early twentieth century. These images capture institutional and team-based participation during a period when women's athletics remained contested yet increasingly visible.<br /> <br /> Archive of seven silver gelatin photographs depicting formal team portraits ranging from small groups of five players to a large team of approximately thirty-seven individuals. Photographs measure between approximately 3.5 x 5.5 inches and 8.75 x 10.75 inches. Players are shown arranged in rows often with a central figure holding a basketball marked with team initials and year. Uniforms include high-top athletic shoes short skirts and sailor-style tops reflecting standardized early women's basketball attire. Several photographs include handwritten identifications on the verso naming individual players while one larger image on matte paper bears the inscription "Basketball 1931-32" along with a studio stamp indicating production in Boston. The sequence of images demonstrates changes in uniform style and team size over more than a decade while maintaining consistent compositional formats typical of organized team portraiture.<br /> <br /> Seven photographs. Women's basketball introduced by physical educator Senda Berenson shortly after the sport's invention in 1891 became a significant avenue for women's physical activity despite ongoing debates about propriety and health. By the 1920s women's teams were established across schools and regional leagues reflecting broader acceptance of female athletic participation. This archive documents that period of expansion preserving visual records of team organization and identity prior to the formal institutionalization of women's professional basketball later in the twentieth century. Minor edge wear and light foxing to some prints; one duplicate image with tears and surface loss; remaining photographs clear and stable; overall very good condition. A concise visual record of early women's basketball teams and the growth of female athletic participation. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18511

‎Women in Science‎

‎Women's Entry into Medical Training in Nineteenth Century America: Eclectic Medical Society Gathering Photograph Worthington Ohio‎

‎1861. Women's in Sciences Sepia photograph circa 1860-1880 identified in manuscript at the upper left "State Eclectic Medical Society at Worthington" depicting approximately twenty five women alongside male practitioners in Worthington Ohio an early center of Eclectic medical organization just north of Columbus Ohio. The image documents a rare mixed gender professional gathering at a moment when women's participation in formal medical education remained severely restricted under prevailing institutional norms. Within the dominant nineteenth century medical establishment women were largely excluded from training and professional societies; however the State Eclectic Medical Society of Ohio and the broader Eclectic movement created alternative pathways into medical study. These networks were closely tied to reformist traditions that challenged orthodox practice and opened limited but meaningful access to women prior to the broader professionalization of female physicians following mid century breakthroughs such as the graduation of Elizabeth Blackwell in 1849.<br /> <br /> Original Photograph. C. 1860-1880. Sepia. Approximately 6" x 9" Inches. Written in black ink in the upper left corner "State Eclectic Medical Society at Worthington". Photo shows about 25 women along with their male peers. The the first woman graduated medical school in the 1850s. The Eclectic Medical Society was notable for accepting female students before most women were allowed to study medicine.<br /> <br /> The photograph reflects the intellectual and institutional culture of Eclectic medicine a distinctly American medical movement that drew on botanical therapies Native American knowledge systems and the herbal tradition associated with Samuel Thomson. In contrast to orthodox allopathic medicine Eclectic practitioners emphasized plant based remedies and a more flexible therapeutic philosophy which correlated with a greater willingness to admit women into study and practice. The presence of a substantial number of women within this group suggests not only participation but active integration within the society's professional sphere offering visual evidence of gender inclusion within an otherwise exclusionary nineteenth century medical landscape. As a primary source the photograph provides direct documentation of women's early entry into organized medical communities in the United States capturing both the social composition and institutional networks that facilitated their participation. It is particularly valuable for research in women's medical history alternative medical movements and the development of professional education outside orthodox channels illustrating how reformist medical systems functioned as critical entry points for women prior to broader legal and institutional change. Some creasing present; otherwise in good condition overall. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 17498

‎Women in Sciences‎

‎Women's Expanding Access to Scientific and Industrial Research Work in Early 1900s America‎

‎1910. Women in STEM Women's scientific and technical employment photo archive documenting female laboratory labor from the early twentieth century through the 1940s historically significant for showing how women entered academic industrial and commercial research settings in roles that ranged from student and aide to biologist technician and physician at a period when scientific work remained overwhelmingly male and women's access to professional authority was still sharply constrained. The group includes five press photographs and three non press photographs with women pictured not as incidental clerical staff but as active operators of instruments handlers of test animals readers of charts and participants in experimental procedure establishing direct visual evidence of women's expanding place within the infrastructure of American science industrial testing and laboratory employment.<br /> <br /> Photo archive of 8 silver gelatin photographs ranging from 3.5 x 5.5 to 8 x 10 inches various U.S. locations circa 1910 to 1940s. The archive spans classroom laboratory and industrial interiors. One 1910 photograph shows two men and one woman standing in a laboratory identified as "three scientists or science students" an early image of mixed gender scientific training. A 1937 press photo titled "aviation biologist works with hatchlings" shows Dr. Manisera in a lab coat hand feeding two week old canaries with a third bird perched on her head turning animal handling and experimental care into a public image of female scientific expertise. Another press photo shows Sally Wulff identified on the verso as an engineering aide with a science degree from the University of Iowa seated at a control bench calibrating experimental instruments at Wright Field. A 1938 non press image shows Dr. Marie D'Amour and Fred D'Amour studying a chart before a blackboard covered with formulas and technical notations linking the photograph to mammalian physiology research. A Hoboken New Jersey press photo depicts a female technician in the chemical division of the United States Testing Company operating a Fisher titrimeter "for performing volumetric analyses by electronic means" while a 1939 press photo from Newton Massachusetts shows a laboratory worker testing newly developed Permatron tubes used in high frequency welding and power transmission. Another press image captioned "A 'noise machine' used in experiments in the Colgate laboratory" shows a woman and man positioned on either side of the apparatus and a separate 1940s laboratory group photograph places a single woman among five men before a long demonstration bench and blackboard diagrams underscoring both women's presence and their numerical isolation within technical settings. Several versos retain typed caption slips editorial markings and reference stamps consistent with press photo circulation.<br /> <br /> Across the first half of the twentieth century women entered scientific work through normal schools universities wartime research demand industrial laboratories and auxiliary technical appointments yet their advancement was often channeled into subordinate or specialized designations even when their work required substantial training. This archive makes that structure visible through named and captioned examples of women conducting measurement instrument calibration physiological research electronics testing and experimental animal work across corporate academic and applied research environments. Minor residue on versos from former press labels or caption attachments; otherwise clean and well preserved. Overall very good condition. As a record of women's early technical labor the archive supplies concrete visual evidence of the pathways limits and visibility of women's participation in American scientific work before the full opening of postwar professional opportunity. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23132

‎Women in Sports‎

‎Women's Physical Education Class Albumen Photo 1902‎

‎1902. Original Albumen photograph of women in physical education class. 1902. Measures 9.75 x 8 inches. Mounted to photographer's board. Image shows 26 women and girls seated in tiers and posing with various early exercise equipment including dumbbells and large leather balls marked with the year. One man poses wiwth the women in suit and tie and two older men presumably instructors pose alongside the girls one of them extending a hand to touch the shoulder of the girl beside him who looks away. The women's eyes are turned from the camera expressions fixed and unsearchable. They appear to be in a school gymnasium a ladder hung like a track on the wall behind them and racks of free weights beneath it. Women's exercise was first introduced as calisthenics a European import in the 1830s which consisted of light choreographed movements not unlike dance steps. By the late 1800s exercise had been closely linked to women's educational reform. Educational activist Catherine Beecher advocated broadly for physical education as a safeguard for female health and for forming good physical habits in the young. Corner very slightly clipped on one side. Light sunning to image. Overall good condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18260

‎Women in Sports‎

‎Women's Sports Photograph Archive Documenting Female Athletic Participation 1910s-1930s‎

‎1910. Archive of original photographs documenting women's participation in athletics and organized physical culture during the early twentieth century when women's sports and exercise programs increasingly became accepted within schools colleges camps and recreational organizations. The photographs show women engaged in archery synchronized gymnastics calisthenics and cheer leading during a period when female athletic participation expanded alongside broader debates concerning women's health education public visibility and social independence. The photographs provide visual evidence of the physical culture movement as it shaped women's recreational and educational environments in the United States and abroad preserving both formal athletic training and communal performance activities that contributed to changing expectations surrounding women's physical activity and public presence.<br /> Collection consists of seven original silver gelatin photographs dating approximately from the 1910s through the 1930s. The archive includes several photographs of women participating in organized physical education exercises and athletic activities while dressed in period sporting attire. One image dated July 5 1928 documents uniformed women performing synchronized gymnastic drills during a Sokol Festival dress rehearsal in Prague capturing rows of participants in coordinated motion during a major international physical culture gathering influenced by Central European nationalist and athletic traditions. Another photograph from the 1910s-1920s shows a group of young women posed with medicine balls Indian clubs and batons while wearing sailor-inspired gymnasium uniforms associated with school or collegiate athletic programs. A separate 1930s image depicts a cheerleading squad in matching lettered "S" sweaters posed in formation within a school auditorium. Archery appears prominently throughout the archive. One press photograph portrays Olympic diver and sportswoman Helen Meany Balfe standing with a bow on the grounds of White Sulphur Springs West Virginia as identified by a typed caption on the verso. Another image depicts Stella M. Ives identified in manuscript drawing a bow while dressed in full sporting attire. A vernacular photograph portrays four young women practicing archery in the hills above Troy New York including one identified as Louise Hatch of Troy with a handwritten verso inscription linking the group to Bridgewater Massachusetts. The final photograph shows a large assembly of young women gathered on outdoor steps beside a prominent archery target possibly at a camp or collegiate event emphasizing organized recreation and group participation.<br /> The archive documents the increasing visibility of women's athletic participation during the early twentieth century when organized exercise and sports became associated with women's education health reform and public modernity. Physical culture programs in schools colleges camps and civic organizations promoted athletics as both disciplined recreation and social training while sports such as archery and gymnastics offered women expanded opportunities for public competition and physical expression. Particularly notable is the range of activities represented from regimented calisthenic performance to recreational archery and cheerleading illustrating the broad spectrum of athletic environments available to women before the widespread professionalization of women's sports. Light wear and occasional handling marks consistent with age; photographs remain well-preserved overall in very good condition. A visually engaging archive documenting the growth of women's athletics and physical culture in the early twentieth century. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 21905

‎Women in Science‎

‎Early Photographs Women Scientists Conduct Experiments‎

‎Women in Science Two photos of women working with scientific laboratory equipment. Silver gelatin print photographs from 1930 and 1946. Image sizes 3.5 x 5.25" and 3 x 4". In both photographs women scientists work with glass test tubes pipettes and graduated beakers. One photo depicts two women in lab coats working with a series of test tubes standing outside c. 1930; this setting indicates this could possibly be part of an ecology or other environmental science lab. Second photo 1946 shows two women holding pipettes and smiling into the camera. The both wear white uniforms and their names are handwritten in pencil on image verso. During WWII women took up jobs in many sectors to support the country including science research and laboratory work. These women were essential in producing important medicines such as penicillin that were needed during wartime; this work helped pave the way for younger women scientists such as those pictured to have professional opportunities in the postwar period. These women may be in a specialized training program as they both wear all white uniforms. Both very good condition. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16877

‎Women in Science Oceanographic Study‎

‎Pre-Suffrage Oceanographic Study Photo Album of Marine Biologist Hope Hibbard‎

‎Marine Biologist Hope Hibbard. 1917 photo album of scientist Hope Hibbard during her marine biological studies at Woods Hole; an impressive and uncommon relic of an early female scientist working before American women's suffrage. <br/><br/>An album of biologist Hope Hibbard while on a research study program at Woods Hole Massachusetts in 1917. Containing 29 photos the majority of which focus on her study program. Hibbard was an acclaimed scientist specializing in biology cytology zoology and histology. She received numerous academic merits as well as renown for her dedication to promoting women in the scientific sphere and her involvement in associations that forwarded female roles in science and research such as the American Association of University Women AAUW. During her long academic career Hibbard taught at illustrious women's colleges Bryn Mawr and Elmira as well as the forerunner of coeducational colleges Oberlin. In this rare album annotated in white ink by Hibbard we see her as a young student conducting marine biological research from a floating biological laboratory. Hibbard's photos include according to her white ink annotation "Laboratory Launch at Woods Hole" which shows their floating laboratory departing from the harbor "Whitman Cottage where I lived" with other female students during the program her class dredging the ocean floor for samples "on a field trip" a rare photo of a young Hibbard in her college sweater and several labeled photos of Woods Hole locales which would have played a part in her studies including the Great Harbor Little Harbor Marine Biological Laboratory and the U.S. Fish Commission Buildings. Several photos also show Hope and her classmates on day trips and enjoying lobster or the bathing beach. A few photos at the beginning and end of the album show her family. Hibbard is viewed as a crusader for women in the scientific sphere. She held strong opinions about the untapped abilities of women due to both perpetuated stereotypes initialized by men and additional self-deprecating tendencies and she utilized her membership in several academic assemblies to express her viewpoints. Hibbard served as an avid member of the AAUW and the American Association for the Advancement of Science among others and wrote several discourses in which she urged women to integrate marriage and professional endeavors within science rather than abandoning one from the other. Examples of Hibbard's papers include "Vocations for Women and How College Can Prepare Them" 1935 "The Life of Oberlin Women Today" 1937 and "Women in Research." In these multiple dialogues Hibbard communicated her desire for women to overcome social boundaries concerning their position in science. She worked to encourage women to forge their paths independent of discouraging social views and to mold their own journey as both intellectuals and spouses as opposed to exclusively one of the two. Hibbard additionally spearheaded the Oberlin chapter of League of Women Voters while a professor at the institution. Photos and album are in very good condition. Silver gelatin prints lightly toned approximately 2" x 3" inches each. Pages and ink annotation clear and bright. 5" x 8" inch album with black leatherette cover and gold printed title "Photographs". Rubbed at top and bottom but over in very good condition. This is the only early relic we have seen from the life of an important early ambassador of Women in STEM. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16119

‎Women in Science Original photograph‎

‎Original photograph of Women Students in Chemistry Lab at Northwestern University 1926‎

‎Women Education Science Original photograph of Female students conduct experiment in chemistry lab at Northwestern University. Three women students and their instructor cook an egg through chemical reaction of liquid oxygen and ice. 8 x 10 in. Original press caption pasted to verso: "Frying And sic Egg Over Burning Ice. Using liquid oxygen for fuel and the hollow of a block of ice for a container Miss Virginia Trelease Chemistry student at Northwestern University Evanston Ill. is here pictured frying an egg over the unique stove. A cupful of liquid oxygen made in a Heylandt liquefier which has been used for the first time in America by Northwestern permits the manufacture of liquid oxygen right in the classroom in full sight of the students sic." Northwestern University first admitted women students in 1869 educated hundreds of women in their college and the affiliated Women's Medical College. Very good condition. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16669

‎Women in Science Photo‎

‎High School Girls Conducting Science Experiments Early 1900s‎

‎Education. Photograph Female Students in High School Science Laboratory 1900s. Gelatin silver print Black and white photograph of eight high school students conducting experiments in a science laboratory. 3.25 x 4.75 in. Overall good condition with clean crisp image with black ink stamp from Culver Pictures Inc. center verso and some adhesive residue along verso bottom edge. Small ¼ in. tear in bottom left corner. Girls at the time were discouraged from pursuing a scientific education and those who did found their contributions minimized. Despite the obstacles these original period photos reveal the true existence of women in the sciences in the beginning of the 20th century. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16203

‎Women in Science Photo‎

‎Only Woman in Laboratory - Pharmacological Class with One Woman Student 1900‎

‎Education. Photograph Woman Student in Laboratory 1900. Photo of nearly all male laboratory with one female science student present 20 years before women's suffrage in the United States. Silver gelatin print. 5"x7" photo mounted on 8"x10" card. This photograph shows a 1900 pharmacological laboratory with one woman and ten men. Photo in good condition with some slight surface abrasions and a small puncture in the center. A demonstration is happening at the front of the classroom yet the lone woman in the lab directs her piercing gaze at the viewer. Girls at the time were discouraged from pursuing a scientific education and those who did found their contributions minimized. Despite the obstacles this photo shows a young woman eager to obtain a scientific education. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16204

‎Women in Science Tuberculosis‎

‎Women Scientists Research Tuberculosis c. 1920s‎

‎Women in Science Original Photo of Two women and four men work in a laboratory. Photo portrays women research staff work in a tuberculosis laboratory. c. 1920s. 8 x 10 in. Verso handwriting reads: "Dr. Philip Hillkouritz in background presd. of J.C.R.S. directs the research staff of organization in the fully-equipped laboratory." The Jewish Consumptive Relief Society JCRS was founded in Denver Colorado in 1904 as a non-sectarian sanatorium to treat tuberculosis patients in all stages of the disease. For decades patients flocket to Dever from all over North America and were admitted free of charge. In the early years the sanatorium was headed by Phillip Hillkowitz as president 1904-1948. In 1954 the institution changed its mission to cancer research becoming the American Medical Center. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16667

‎Women in Sciences Education‎

‎Original Photograph of Female Students Studying Electricity 1905‎

‎Women's Education. Photograph: High School Girls Conducting Electricity Experiments 1905. Large sepia press photo. 8.5" x 7". Handwritten note on verso states the photograph is for an article on public schools. Creasing on upper right and left hand corners tiny tears and nicks along the top and bottom of the image. Very good condition overall. Approximately eighteen girls conducting experiments on electricity using conducting boxes at an unspecified public high school in New York. They sit on tall stools around long tables wearing expressions that vary from concentration to vexation. High school gave girls the opportunity to advance beyond a rudimentary education and become versed in subjects such as history their rights as citizens and advanced science. The US was the first nation to provide the general public with secondary education and in 1900 there were 6000 public schools. Only a fraction of those however were open to women. These girls were part of the first generation taught science a right denied to their mothers and grandmothers. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 16190

‎Women in Transition Inc‎

‎Women in Transition: A Feminist Handbook on Separation and Divorce Emblem edition‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 0684142570.G ISBN : 0684142570 9780684142579

‎Women in Textile Mills‎

‎Women's Textile Factory Labor and Industrial Safety During the First World War Era: Photo Archive 1918 to 1922‎

‎1918. Women's industrial labor in an American textile finishing mill photographed likely between 1918 to 1922 documenting the inspection folding hemming and stamping of finished blankets and sheeting in the years around the First World War. The work shown belonged overwhelmingly to women who by 1920 made up about a fifth of the American labor force and were concentrated in exactly this kind of semiskilled textile work. The wartime labor shortage had pulled women deeper into industrial production and these images catch that expanded workforce on the floor before the 1919 recession and returning soldiers pushed women's share of factory labor back down. The conical galvanized fire buckets stenciled "Fire" mounted on posts in several frames date the images and tie them to the workplace fire safety reckoning that followed the 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist fire in which 146 workers most of them young women died.<br /> Photo archive of eight silver gelatin photographs approximately 6.5 x 8 inches mounted to card stock each measuring 12 x 10 inches with one smaller image American textile mill circa 1918 to 1922. Seven photographs show the mill interior: long finishing floors lined with cast iron columns and overhead pipe runs electric pendant lamps and tables stacked with uniform folded and rolled white goods tied with string. Women predominate at every station. They sit at inspection benches turning over folded cloth stand at long tables rolling and bundling sheeting and run a row of treadle and electric sewing machines hemming finished pieces with thread spools and machine heads sharp in the foreground. One worker operates a rack of hand stamps the date and numbering stamps used to mark finished goods before shipment. A few older men in vests dark suits and detachable collars stand among them as foremen and supervisors. One frame shows the shipping area with finished goods crated in wooden boxes stenciled for transport. The classroom image stands apart from the mill series: teenage students seated at ornate cast iron school desks a wall clock and a chalkboard covered in arithmetic. The eighth and largest subject is a full staff group portrait of roughly eighty workers overwhelmingly women posed on the production floor against stacked bundles of finished cloth with a length of white sheeting unrolled across the floor at their feet.<br /> The years these images were made were among the most volatile in American labor history. In 1919 more workers went on strike than in any year before some four million people twenty-two percent of the workforce and in June 1920 Congress created the Women's Bureau within the Department of Labor by Public Law 66-259 the first permanent federal agency charged with the welfare of wage-earning women which began studying the eight-hour day for women in 1921. The textile finishing trade these women worked in had been built on female labor since the start of the industrial revolution and the staff portrait records the scale and the gender composition of one such workforce directly. These photographs showing women's industrial work the fire buckets the stamping rack the sewing line the crated shipment ties the archive to specific developments in labor safety and women's employment law. Overall in very good condition with the mounts showing minor edge wear and some en verso pencil markings. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 23435

‎Women in the American West A collection of 410 titles‎

‎VAST COLLECTION OF 410 WORKS ON WOMEN IN THE AMERICAN WEST: Books and Ephemera from the Collection of Dorothy Sloan‎

‎V.p. 1996. A collection of 410 titles concerning Women in the West. Condition Statement: Overall most of the books in the collection are in "good" or "good" condition which typically describes a book that is sufficiently worn the binding soiled scuffed stained or spotted and may have loose joints hinges pages etc. To a lesser extent there are books in "fair" condition namely a well-worn book that has complete text pages including those with maps or plates but may lack endpapers half-title etc. The binding and/or jacket may also be worn. Women in the American West: Books and Ephemera from the Collection of Dorothy Sloan. SEE DETAILED FINDING AID on our website. <br/><br/>Dorothy Sloan b. 1943 is justly considered to be one of great scholar-booksellers of Western Americana Texana and Latin Americana. Dorothy Sloan Rare Books auction catalogues are recognized as models of their kind and feature an unusually broad array of printed books maps manuscripts and ephemera and are particularly strong in 19th-century materials. In many instances Sloan's bibliographic descriptions have become the description of record.<br/>She began her career at John Howell in San Francisco and thence to Jenkins Company in Austin. She issued her first rare book catalogue in 1984 and her first auction catalogue in 1994. Suffice it to say that as a woman she was literally a pioneer in such an endeavor. <br/><br/>Over the years she built a collection of Women in the West which is described in the 29-page Inventory below. Here is a collection of both women authors and women as the subject of historical and literary narrative. Most of the collection was kept in storage for the last twenty-eight years awaiting cataloguing and eventual sale. As we all know "Life" often interferes with our plans particularly as we grow older. <br/><br/>When Dorothy retired last year we acquired the collection of Women in the West. We are pleased to offer it en bloc for the price of $8200 which includes free shipping in the Continental United States. <br/><br/>Of the 410 titles in the collection nearly 25% are more than a century old. The earliest book in the collection is Sally Hastings' Poems on different subjects. To which is added a descriptive account of a family tour to the West. Lancaster 1808. The author describes her travels from Lancaster County to Washington PA. through the Alleghenies and gives an account of the Ohio River at Pittsburgh.<br/><br/>Only a handful of titles in the collection were published in the last 30 years the "newest" one dated 1996 namely: Anne Butler and Ona Siporin Uncommon common women. which contains culturally and ethnically diverse accounts of women who lived in the American West.<br/><br/>The physical size of the collection is considerable. Without any packing material it would encompass 15 large boxes. There are photographs gum cards engravings various inscribed books plays of the California Gold Rush memoirs and captivity narratives travelogues captivity narratives autobiographies Western novels pamphlets private press material a few 'zines journals catalogues and magazines. It is the culmination of decades of labor spanning all genres in the Western Americana tradition. The collection represents women's voices of a myriad of ethnicities including various Native American tribes African and African-American women Hispanic women prostitutes madams cowgirls ranchers pioneers and their struggles in the face of physical social and cultural adversity. <br/><br/>We are reluctant to mention "highlights" as it would suggest that "lowlights" do not merit attention from scholars and bibliophiles alike. We invite readers to peruse the Inventory of the collection capably prepared by Hunter Corb to allow readers to make that determination for themselves. <br/><br/>Included is the first edition of Miriam Colt's autobiography which describes her ill-fated expedition to Kansas Went to Kansas 1862 in which she traveled more than 1300 miles to establish a communal vegetarian colony. Colt provides vivid and frightening details of a family's ordeals on the frontier landscape including severe illness and encounters with lawless gangs. Defrauded of their investment in the Vegetarian Settlement Company the Colts left Kansas in the fall of 1856. Colt's husband and son died en route leaving only mother and daughter to return to New York. <br/><br/>Another work of interest is Sarah Hopkins's Life Among the Piutes an autobiography written at the encouragement of Ralph Waldo Emerson. This is considered to be the first book written and published in English by a Native American woman. It provides "extensive information about pre-White northern Paiute culture the types of foods marriage and other social practices as well as political leadership" Paher while simultaneously increasing awareness and sympathy for the plight of Native Americans. <br/><br/>Melinda Rankin's Twenty Years Among the Mexicans describes her missionary labor in south Texas and Mexico. Herein are depicted the experiences of the first Protestant woman missionary in Latin America. Although laws in Mexico at the time forbade the introduction of any form of Protestantism into the country Rankin traveled there in 1852 and established the first Protestant mission in Northern Mexico continuing her work there for a few decades before returning to the United States due to health problems. This narrative describes not just Rankin's missionary labors but also many dramatic events in Texas and Mexico including revolutionary turmoil the American Civil War and her capture by the notorious military leader rancher and outlaw Juan Cortina.<br/><br/>From early settlers of the West during and shortly after the American Revolution; to ranchers and pioneering women in the early days of the Republic of Texas and the fight for independence; to overland travels in covered wagons on the famed Oregon Trail at the outset of the American Civil War; to excursions into Mexico and Latin America at the end of the 19th and into the 20th centuries. Over two hundred years of women's experiences can be found within this collection and as such there is something for every student and subject matter.<br/><br/>SEE DETAILED FINDING AID ON OUR WEBSITE which enumerates each and every one of the 410 titles:<br/><br/>https://www.michaellaird.com/cat.phpid=307. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 3406

‎Women in the West‎

‎'Hat rock above McLeod cabin at Shenstone'‎

‎Estes Park CO 1900. Large format gelatin silver photograph 17 cm x 12 cm on a plain gray mount 25 cm x 20 cm view chipped at upper left corner and coming up from mount on the left side. Image of two women and a boy in jaunty hats sitting atop of a rock ledge with a forested canyon beneath them.<br/><br/>Manuscript note on the reverse "Hat rock above McLeod cabin at Shenstone 19 Keith McLeod Bertha McLeod Aunt Florence Stewart. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 1968

‎Women in Wartime Caroline Kirkland Loyal Publication Society‎

‎A Few Words on Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States by One of Themselves‎

‎New York: Wm. C. Bryant & Co Printers 1863. First edition. Very Good . Original paper wraps. 23 pages. Number 10 in a series of 17 pamphlets addressing the causes and outcomes of the Civil War. One of two variant printings with no priority assigned this with page 23 beginning "attempt at corrupting." Some separation to the foot of spine with text block holding well. Soiling and edgewear to front wrap; rusted imprint of paperclip affecting top of pages 13-15. Small blot to text of page 13. Else a solid copy of this important work which suggests that all women who have survived the Civil War deserve credit for their strength and sacrifice. <br/><br/>While at its release A Few Words was anonymous an 1865 publication by the Loyal Publication Society attributes the work to Caroline Kirkland Mrs. C. M. Kirkland. Kirkland a writer educator and abolitionist brought a unique perspective to the debate on women's roles in the Civil War. A Northerner by birth she spend the years leading up to the war living with her husband on a homestead in Michigan. Her experience living in the North and West and traversing the South informs her response to the accusation being made by men on both sides: that the strength of Southern women and the apathy of Northern women had contributed to seccession and the duration of the conflict. According to Kirkland's argument women on both sides nursed sick soldiers rationed and experienced the losses of husbands brothers and fathers. Yet Kirkland argues that women of the South are implicated in the evils of slavery. "They having seen slavery felt it known its horrors suffered under its attendant evils and learned.its incompatibility with God's benign law of love have deliberately lent themselves.to the perpetuation of so awful an evil." As an abolitionist and a women's rights activist Kirkland highlights the cognitive dissonance involved in promoting the strength of women who refuse to recognize that their fight for equality is tied to that of all oppressed Americans. She concludes with hope from the West where she comments that strong-minded women have rejected courtships and shunned deserters who refuse to stand their ground. A rare and interesting work documenting a Union woman's perspective on American women's responsibilities in wartime.<br/><br/>History of American Women. Very Good . Wm. C. Bryant & Co Printers unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 2488

‎WOMEN JOREEN pseud. Jo Freeman‎

‎51% Minority Group: A Statistical Essay‎

‎Pittsburgh: Know Inc 1970. First Edition. Quarto 27.75cm.; green and white self-wrappers staplebound at top left-hand corner; 6pp.; printed from typescript. Fine. One of the author's most important pieces published at the height of the second wave feminist movement arguably second only to her classic "Bitch Manifesto" 1969. OCLC locates 11 copies. Know, Inc unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 29440

‎Women Labor Massachusetts Greene JJ. J. J.‎

‎Group Portrait of Female Mill Workers Lawrence Massachusetts c. 1880s‎

‎Lawrence 1880. Albumen photograph on card stock 7 ¾ x 4 ½ inches. Good. Working conditions were notoriously bad in Lawrence one of the industrial hubs of the textile industry in the late nineteenth century after the harnessing of the Merrimack River's water power in 1845. The city was a hub of immigration - mostly Irish - and many immigrants who were familiar with mill work flocked to the city in the 1850s. In 1860 an accident at the Pemberton Mill killed 145 workers. The Bread and Roses strike of 1912 also known as the Lawrence Textile Strike was the culmination of decades of poor working conditions. This uncommon occupational photograph of female mill workers gives scant clues as to the background of the workers or specifics of the factory. We find no record of the photographer a J.J. Greene based in Lawrence. The seven women pictured are mostly looking off-camera suggesting that the photographer had a companion. The date is unknown but the albumen cabinet card format and general feel suggest a date of 1880s-1890s. <br /> <br /> An uncommon occupational photograph of women in Lawrence's mills. Good condition overall fading to image and some light foxing verso with tears from tape removal. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : LIST124

‎Women Liberation‎

‎Women Liberation in China‎

‎1974. Chinese Women's Communist Revolution Archive of 2 item . "Women hold up half the sky" is the famous quote by Mao Zedong proclaiming the importance of women's role in upholding Chinese society. One of the primary goals of the People's Republic of China was to create a stronger nation which brought into light women's liberation as Chinese women were bound to patriarchal rule for centuries prior. While the PRK progressed women's status during the revolutionary era women were still seen as second class citizens. Women's equality is still a topic that amasses a wide variety of critique and theory. This archive includes 2 paperback pamphlets on women's liberation from a communist lens during the 1970's. The items are:<br /> <br /> -"Women in the Chinese Revolution". Laurie Landy. New York: International Socialists. 1974. Softcover 49 pages. Measures 8.5" x 5.5". Laurie Landy discusses the origins of women under imperialism through Communist China and adds her own criticisms. Minor soiling to edge of cover. Overall very good condition.<br /> <br /> -Women's Liberation: A Communist View. Chicago: October League Marxist-Leninist 1976. Softcover 16 pages. Measures 8.5" x 5.5". One photo depicts anti-imperialist International Women's Day march in New York City 1975. "In solidarity with the Third World struggles for independence demonstrators targeted imperialism as the enemy of women with the theme: IMPERIALISM-NOT-OVER-POPULATION--CAUSES HUNGER UNEMPLOYMENT WAR & INEQUALITY." Illustrated with black and white photos of Women's Day marches in China. Both items overall in very good condition. unknown‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 18449

‎WOMEN LIVERMORE Mary Ashton‎

‎The Story of My Life or the Sunshine and Shadow of Seventy Years‎

‎Hartford: A.D. Worthington & Co. Publishers 1898. Early printing. Octavo 23cm; burgundy cloth with titling and decorations stamped in gilt and fleur-de-lis design and decorative border embossed to front cover; floral-patterned endpapers; xxxiv35-7304pp ads; with portrait frontispiece and 121 illustrations throughout the text. Spine gilt just starting to dull tiny bruise to rear cover with thin partial crack to gutter at copyright page and title page nearly separated; Very Good to Very Good. Handsome copy of the American journalist abolitionist and women's rights advocate's memoir including annecdotes regarding her experiences during the Civil War where she became involved with the United States Sanitary Commission. KRICHMAR 4843. A.D. Worthington & Co., Publishers unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 47551

‎Women Living Under Muslim Laws‎

‎Knowing Our Rights: Women Family Laws and Customs in the Muslim World‎

‎paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book. paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 8186706690.G ISBN : 8186706690 9788186706695

‎Women Making Art: Women in the Visual, Literary, and Performing Arts since 1960 Deborah Johnson & Wendy Oliver‎

‎Women Making Art: Women in the Visual Literary and Performing Arts since 1960‎

‎<p>‎ Peter Lang 2001. 267 pages. New Soft cover sealed. 9.0"x6.0". be31.</p> Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers paperback‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : b1167 ISBN : 0820444383 9780820444383

‎WOMEN MARTINEAU Harriet‎

‎The Faith As Unfolded by Many Prophets: An Essay‎

‎Boston: Leonard C. Bowles 1833. First American Edition. 12mo 15.5cm.; publisher's blue cloth printed paper spine label; 2177pp. Light wear to extremities spine cloth a bit faded corners bumped light foxing throughout else a Very Good quite fresh copy. One of three lengthy essays authored for the Committee of the British and Foreign Unitarian Association as an introduction and promotion of Christian Unitarianism this specifically addressed to "Mohammedans" and written in the form of a dialogue between friends Havilah a Muslim and Eber a Christian. Martineau raised in a Unitarian household began her career writing articles for the Unitarian journal "The Monthly Repository" though she later left the Church for more information see Ruth Watts "Harriet Martineau and the Unitarian Tradition of Education" in "Oxford Review of Education" Vol. 37 no. 5 October 2011 pp. 637-351. Leonard C. Bowles unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : 46010

‎Women Massachusetts Haverhill‎

‎Eight Journals Documenting Life in Haverhill Massachussetts 1890-1925 Meticulously Assembled from Cut Photographs and Postcards‎

‎Haverhill 1940. First Edition. Seven journals each approximately 70 pages with pages measuring 4 ½ x 2 ½ inches. Near Fine. These journals by an unnamed member of the Dean family of Haverhill were assembled around 1940 from collected family and historical photographs. Taken as a whole they provide a richly detailed social history of the region from the perspective of a well-to-do military family with many ties to the local business community. They bridge the gap from the post-Civil War era with reference to G.A.R. reunions and the like to the late 1920s. The author's perspective - conservative sometimes horribly bigoted with a penchant for underlining key passages of her own writing - is on full display throughout. We have not identified the author though she is shown in several photographs. <br /> <br /> Much of the journals recount the details of civic-minded local life often with surprising detail. On an evening in city hall she writes "the walls hung with banners - flags and scrolls of all descriptions front of boxes were elaborately draped the stage represented a campground. " Two entries for 1886 log a fire in Music Hall followed by an account of the "First Hebrew Jew Wedding" about which she writes "too bad it wasn't the last no doubt the people of Haverhill would have been just as well off and I believe better." Some entries show the way in which information from the outside world was filtered by various family members who left Haverhill. An account of a family member's adventures in the Alaskan gold fields " It was very interesting to hear them tell of their experience.the picnic parties and good fishing for salmon and trout in the summer when the weather is warm and nice. Also the Ways of the eskimo. the gold nuggets nice to look at too;" <br /> <br /> Interspersed with the diary entries are many cut photographs and postcards some of family and some of the region and the author weaves her entries onto the versos of the photographs from the diary paper. The photographs are meticulously trimmed in a uniform rounded edge with an impressive aesthetic result. The diaries were likely assembled in the late 1930s or early 1940s as one mentions the hurricane of 1938. Overall they show an uncommonly detailed and lengthy account of a family's life in Massachusetts with much information about the civic history of the Haverhill region. Well preserved in near fine condition with minimal normal wear. unknown books‎

Referenz des Buchhändlers : List329