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1914rif. 183001914. Miss Gill's School for Girls Diploma. 1914. Measures 16 x 21.5 inches. Awarded to Constance Madeleine McFadden for satisfactory completion of the subjects of Arithmetic History of Art French Physiology English Psychology and English History. Miss Gill's School in Philadelphia was founded by Miss Elizabeth Gill an educational activist who championed small class sizes and close student-teacher collaboration a nonhierarchical classroom model rare for its time. Unlike women's "finishing schools" Miss Gill's emphasized a rigorous curriculum individualized to students' needs. Creased where folded. Light toning to edges does not affect text. Overall very good condition. unknown books
rif. 18133Jorgensen Christine. The Christine Jorgensen Story 1970 an original promotional pressbook for the biographical film recounting the life of one of the first American transgender women to receive widespread publicity following gender-affirming surgery. Directed by Irving Rapper and starring John Hansen as Jorgensen the film adapted her 1967 autobiography for American movie audiences nearly two decades after her medical treatment in Denmark made international headlines. The pressbook documents Hollywood's presentation of transgender experience in 1970 emphasizing Jorgensen's physical transition romantic relationships and questions of sexuality through provocative advertising imagery and language. The Christine Jorgensen Story. 1970. Original film pressbook. Four pages uncut measuring 12 x 15 inches. Black-and-white promotional photographs depict scenes from Jorgensen's life as dramatized in the film including a pre-transition scene in which the central character kisses a woman and a later scene showing the character as a woman in bed with a man. Advertising copy includes the declarations "I couldn't live in a man's body" and "Could I ever love a man physically" The juxtaposition of these images and questions emphasizes the film industry's treatment of gender transition through bodily transformation and heterosexual romance. The pressbook preserves the promotional language used to introduce Jorgensen's story to mainstream audiences including the emphasis placed on her personal relationships rather than her public advocacy. Jorgensen became an international celebrity in December 1952 when newspapers publicized her medical treatment in Copenhagen. In a letter written following her 1951 operation she had described her transformation to friends: "Remember the shy miserable person who left America Well that person is no more." Although she had initially hoped to maintain a private life her return to New York in February 1953 attracted crowds of journalists and she subsequently established a career as an entertainer author and public speaker. Jorgensen used her celebrity to challenge misconceptions about transgender people and advocate for greater public understanding. Released in 1970 the film brought her autobiography to a new audience while its publicity relied heavily on the sensational treatment of gender and sexuality that had characterized newspaper coverage of her transition in the 1950s. The pressbook records those promotional conventions during an early period of transgender subjects appearing in mainstream American cinema. In very good condition. unknown books
1920rif. 181251920. California photograph and postcard scrapbook 1920s-1950s documents the development of regional identity tourism and youth leisure culture during a period of rapid population growth and national attention to the American West. The album captures informal social life alongside curated views of California's built and natural environments including missions urban centers and recreational landscapes. Images of camping excursions bathing scenes and staged outdoor portraits present a visual record of mobility and leisure that accompanied the expansion of automobile travel and the increasing accessibility of California as a destination. The inclusion of postcards depicting historic sites such as mission architecture and Olvera Street situates the scrapbook within broader efforts to frame California's past for visitors while candid photographs of young men and women emphasize social bonding performance of identity and recreation within emerging twentieth century youth culture. Scrapbook containing approximately 200 photographs and postcards dating from the 1920s through the 1950s primarily depicting locations and activities across California. Photographs and cards range in size from approximately 2 x 1.5 inches to 9 x 6 inches and include both candid and posed images. Notable sequences include a group of four young men on a camping trip in the 1920s shown cooking washing dishes outdoors with tin buckets and a camp stove posing individually before a shared tent and engaging in playful staging including one image of a figure standing on a rock over a stream partially covered by a towel. Additional sequences depict groups of young women in bathing caps and swimwear posed in coordinated arrangements. Postcards interspersed throughout the album depict missions streetscapes and scenic landmarks reinforcing the connection between personal travel experience and widely circulated images of California. Produced across decades that saw the rise of the film industry expansion of tourism infrastructure and continued migration into California the scrapbook offers a layered record of how individuals encountered and documented the state. The juxtaposition of personal photographs with commercial postcards reflects the intersection of private memory and public imagery in shaping perceptions of place. Camping and outdoor leisure scenes align with broader trends in early twentieth century recreation while the repeated use of specific sites and poses suggests intentional documentation of shared experience. Brown cloth boards with gilt title "Photographs" on front cover; album measures approximately 7 x 11 inches. Minor wear to boards and edges with typical age toning to some images; contents remain stable and intact. Overall very good. unknown books
1900rif. 168731900. Three female nurses at work circa 1900 documents women performing routine clinical duties during the formative decades of professional nursing. One nurse prepares or dispenses liquid into a bottle another sits at a table writing in what may be a patient record or other hospital register and a third stands with her back to the camera giving the scene an unusually work-centered rather than posed character. The image belongs to a period in which hospital-based nurse training was expanding and nurses were increasingly organizing around formal standards of education and practice; the first modern nurse-training schools in the United States opened in 1873 followed by national professional organizations in the 1890s concerned with nursing education and professional standards. Original gelatin silver photograph. Circa 1900. Approximately 4 x 7 inches. The three women wear white caps and aprons over floor-length striped dresses with prominent leg-of-mutton sleeves. Their activities provide specific visual evidence of the knowledge-based and administrative dimensions of nursing work: preparation of medicine or supplies written documentation and coordinated activity within a hospital interior. These functions were increasingly central to trained nursing as late nineteenth-century hospitals incorporated new practices surrounding hygiene antisepsis asepsis and patient observation. Historical scholarship on nursing education during this period likewise emphasizes that trainees were taught developing medical practices concerning infection control and wound care rather than serving merely as informal caregivers. The photograph also belongs to a broader history of women's changing access to professional medicine. Women had entered American medical schools during the nineteenth century but continued to encounter institutional exclusion; in 1870 only a small proportion of women medical students attended regular medical schools with many relying upon separate women's medical colleges and gender barriers remained significant thereafter. Nursing meanwhile developed into a heavily female profession and offered an important avenue into skilled medical employment although access and advancement were also shaped by race and class. Census-based research shows that by 1900 the category of professional nurse in the United States was already overwhelmingly female and disproportionately white. Surface abrasion along the lower left edge; otherwise light handling wear good condition. A candid visual record of women's skilled hospital labor at a formative stage in the professionalization of modern nursing. unknown books
1944rif. 147961944. Bloom Barbara C. Typed Letter Signed to WAVES officer's mother and accompanying photographs 1944 documents United States Navy WAVES service during World War II and the recognition of women's military labor within the wartime home front. The material captures the relationship between enlisted women's service and familial acknowledgment situating women's naval participation within the broader Allied military campaigns against Germany and Japan. The letter explicitly ties the daughter's service to active wartime offensives while the accompanying photographs provide visual evidence of WAVES personnel in both formal and informal settings offering insight into daily life camaraderie and presentation of women in uniform during the final year of the war. Bloom Barbara C. Typed Letter Signed. Office of Naval Procurement December 1944. One page. Accompanied by six black-and-white photographs of Navy WAVES stationed aboard USS Hunter. The letter addressed to Mrs. Cadman praises her daughter's contribution to the war effort stating: "You have the right to be very proud of what your daughter has done in speeding our recent offensive ever closer to the heart of Germany and Japan" and includes statements attributed to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Ernest J. King recognizing the WAVES' service. It further references the daughter's conduct discipline and contribution to the reputation of the organization. The six photographs depict groups of uniformed WAVES women aboard USS Hunter including posed portraits group formations and informal off-duty scenes in which women are gathered socially. One larger photograph bears period handwritten identifications on the reverse naming the women pictured. Image sizes range from small personal formats to larger prints capturing both individual and collective representation. The Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service WAVES program established in 1942 expanded the role of women within the U.S. Navy by assigning them to non-combat duties thereby releasing male personnel for deployment. By 1944 WAVES had become an established component of naval operations with thousands serving in administrative technical and logistical roles. The letter reflects official efforts to frame women's service as both militarily essential and socially respectable emphasizing family pride moral conduct and national duty. The photographs reinforce this narrative through visual presentation of uniformed discipline and group cohesion. Together the materials provide direct documentation of women's participation in wartime service and the integration of that service into domestic and public recognition structures during World War II. Light edge wear and minor foxing to photographs; one image with handwritten identifications on verso; letter with docket holes at top margin not affecting text; overall very good condition. A cohesive grouping linking official wartime communication with visual documentation of WAVES personnel. unknown books
1919rif. 162951919. Three Sisters photograph album 1918-1927 documents the daily lives leisure activities and social environments of three young women growing up in the American Midwest during the interwar period. The album captures their progression from childhood into early adulthood recording domestic settings recreational outings and educational experiences across multiple locations including suburban Ohio the shores of Michigan and the Ozarks. The majority are captioned in white pencil or white ink with the name of the person in the photo and a brief description like "Sunday best"; some are a little ironic tone such as "Seeking sunburn" underneath a photo of two of the sisters sweaty and bare armed in a row boat and "No water but our tongues" under a picture of the sisters as little children in bathing suits on their porch pulling silly faces. We follow the women from childhood through early adulthood through their schools and summer camps across suburban Ohio the shores of Michigan and the wooded Ozarks. The private lives of these young girls are revealed to be impish spirited and silly in these intimate photographs; At the same time they were growing up in a period of great change. With the passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 they were the first generation of women to come of age in a time when they could exercise the right to vote. Bumping at corners and a half-inch tear at top of spine otherwise clean. First page separated. A fascinating cultural artifact of a historically significant period for women's rights. The material provides direct visual evidence of middle-class female youth culture during a period of expanding civic identity for women following the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Photograph album titled "Photographs." Midwest 1918-1927. Oblong octavo format containing 230 black-and-white and sepia snapshots in a range of sizes from approximately 1.5 x 2.25 inches to 7 x 5 inches. The images depict the three sisters in a variety of settings including posed portraits in "Sunday best" informal outdoor scenes such as rowing excursions and lakeside bathing and groupings at schools and summer camps. Recurring subjects include the sisters alone together and with peers often engaged in leisure activities such as boating hiking and social gatherings. Many photographs are captioned in white pencil or ink identifying individuals and adding commentary; captions range from straightforward identifications to humorous remarks such as "Seeking sunburn" beneath an image of the sisters in a rowboat and "No water but our tongues" accompanying a childhood porch scene in bathing attire. The album presents consistent attention to social presentation dress and gesture with repeated visual emphasis on companionship and informal expression. The period covered by the album corresponds with significant shifts in women's legal and social status in the United States particularly as young women of this generation reached maturity following the expansion of voting rights in 1920. The images document not political activity but lived experience within this changing context showing how leisure education and mobility shaped female identity in middle-class environments. The album's sustained chronological scope allows for observation of changes in dress posture and social grouping over nearly a decade. Brown cloth boards with tie binding; light bumping at corners and a short tear at the head of spine; first page detached; occasional minor silvering and slight edge wear to photographs with a few images torn at folds; overall good to very good condition. A cohesive visual record of girlhood and early adulthood in the interwar Midwest. unknown books
1932rif. 010837Shanghai: Kelly and Walsh Limited 1932. Book. Very Good. Cloth. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First Edition. 21 cm.; 8 129 pp. Includes 15 photographic plates. Bound in original green cloth with gilt-stamped spine and blind-stamped title on cover. Light shelf wear. Bump at top edge of rear board. Foxing to edges and rear endpapers. Condition: Very Good. With the original dust jacket in Very Good condition. Toned with worn edges. Chipped spine head. Some damp staining and pencil marks present on the spine and rear panel. Presentation CopySIGNED AND INSCRIBED in ink by the author on front endpaper "With very best wishes to our friends Mr. & Mrs. Monion. From - Lillie S. Bousfield. China 1893 to 1937. Woolwich. Nov. 1st 1943." A scarce locally published narrative documenting the lives hardships and social structures of the Hakka population in the Sun-Wu district of Southern Jiangxi. Authored by medical missionary Lillie Snowden Bousfield who spent approximately 16 years stationed in Sun-Wu with her husband who was a Baptist physician. Through a missionary perspective Bousfield offers a distinct lens on the experiences of a rural marginalized demographic. Amidst chapters on the Hakka frontier and the Communist Revolution Bousfield focuses on the lived realities of the Hakka women such as domestic struggles bodily autonomy female agency and the educational shifts for women in rural China. . Kelly and Walsh, Limited hardcover books
1966rif. S14097Oxford:: Pergamon Press 1966. 1966. Series: Journal of atmospheric and terrestrial physics special supplement no. 3. 8vo. vii 1 208 pp. Figs. 1 folding tables. Original navy gilt-stamped cloth. Very good. CONTENTS OF VOLUME 7. Introduction by A. BEER – Megalithic Astronomy: Indications in Standing Stones by Alexander THOM 1894-1985 Formerly University of Oxford; The Hill Dunlop. Ayrshire – Astrophysical Investigations utilizing Objective Prisms by Charles Bruce STEPHENSON 1929-2001 Warner and Swasey Observatory Case Institute of Technology Cleveland Ohio – Spectroscopic Studies of Late-Type Stars by Yoshio FUJITA 1908-2013 Department of Astronomy Faculty of Science University of Tokyo Japan – Magnetic Stars and Metallic-Line Stars by MARGHERITA HACK 1922-2013 University Observatory Trieste Italy – Statistical Population Indices by Wilhemina IWANOWSKA 1905-1999 Astronomical Observatory N. Copernicus University Torun Poland – The Stellar Luminosity-Function by S. W. McCUSKEY Warner and Swasey Observatory Case Institute of Technology Cleveland Ohio – Some Problems of Star Formation by Vincent Cartledge REDDISH 1926-2015 Royal Observatory Edinburgh – INDEX. / Arthur Beer was a German astronomer who worked at Cambridge University. / "In the early 1950s Arthur committed himself to a voluminous and thorough survey of current astronomy. Ultimately 215 scientists mathematicians and historians contributed to what was to become the multi-volume Vistas of Astronomy covering both historical and current topics for which he was a writer and editor-in-chief 1955–1956 for the first two volumes. The series outlived Beer Volume 42 appearing in 1998 before its functions were taken over by the New Astronomy Reviews and the Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage." Pergamon Press, 1966. hardcover books
2024rif. 225289Lyons Press 2024-05-07. paperback. Good. 6x0x9. Clean has a good binding no marks or notations. Only minor wear. Lyons Press paperback books
1972rif. 009695New York: The Macmillan Co 1972. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Printing. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE in 1st Printing and in dust jacket. Very Good black cloth boards stained several pages noted with tidy scholarly notations in pencil at margins. In a Very Good dust jacket small chips and tears along top edgeForman was Executive Secretary of SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and Minister of Education for the Black Panther Party/. The Macmillan Co, Hardcover books
1911rif. 009173Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 1911. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. ASSOCIATION COPY presented by the author to his brother the noted actor Marcel Boulenger inscribed at the half-title page - "A Marcel Boulenger. par Jacques Boulenger". Finely bound in half crushed tan morocco over marbled boards five raised bands with gilt lettering back marbled end papers top edge gilt. Near Fine front hinge starting to open at top edge small rubs at corners. Librairie Hachette et Cie Hardcover books
1782rif. 008766A Amsterdam: No Publisher 1782. Book. Very Good. Full Calf. New Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Four volumes bound in two Tomes I-IV published Amsterdam 1782 no publisher no author. The new and definitive edition of Louis-Sébastien Mercier's masterpiece. The first two volumes were published in 1781 by Samuel Fauche in Neuchâtel without the author's name and the first complete edition in 12 volumes was published without author's name between 1782 and 1788 with the mention "à Amsterdam" without a publisher's name. 188 208 208 192 pages chapters listed at the end of each volume. A Very Good Plus set bound in contemporary full calf black morocco labels and gilt floral decorations back lovely textured marbled end papers silk markers. light wear at edgesm small inked inscriptions widely scattered light toning. Handsome and well-bound. No Publisher Hardcover books
1839rif. 008416Londini: Richard Bentley 1839. Book. Very Good Plus. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Two volumes in contemporary maroon polished calf the backs with five raised bands two black morocco labels with gilt lettering. Engraved steel plates of Edward Vol. I and Mary Vol II. Very Good Plus a few small rubs to calf moderate toning at end papers up to title pages old bookseller's description pasted to front end page Vol. I the interiors clean and bright. Tytler is best known for his History of Scotland published between 1825 and 1843. A rather uncommon title particularly in handsome binding. Richard Bentley Hardcover books
1899rif. 008375London: Macmillan and Co Limited 1899. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. Third Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. In contemporary full blue calf signed by Bickers & Son five raised bands with four gilt floral decorations back marbled end papers top edge gilt. Very Good spine sunned evenly to gray small gift inscription front end page verso. Third Edition revised throughout and greatly enlarged. xxv 640 pp. Numerous illustrations. Macmillan and Co, Limited Hardcover books
1858rif. 007869London: Richard Bentley 1858. Book. Very Good. Full Calf. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Nicely bound in contemporary full polished calf back ornately gilt with red morocco label lettered in gilt marbled end papers and edges Very Good small tear to calf at head of spine edges of covers a bit rubbed a handsome and clean copy. of this SCARCE title. Richard Bentley Hardcover books
1912rif. 007416New York: Columbia University Press 1912. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus in original red cloth gilt lettering and devices top edge gilt 144 pp publishers ads. light rubbing to cloth at the tips bottom corners small bumps small faint spot front paste down contents are clean tight and unmarked. Columbia University Press Hardcover books
1896rif. 007413New York: Columbia University Press 1896. Book. Very Good Plus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good Plus top edge lightly soiled stray pencil mark bottom edge front hinge 1/2" separation at bottom edge. In original brown cloth gilt at spine bright uncommon in such lovely condition. Columbia University Press Hardcover books
1921rif. 007649London: Macmillan and Co Limited 1921. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Limited Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Finely bound in half blue morocco over blue buckram boards the spine lettering and emblems stamped in gilt gilt rules top edges gilt marbled end pages the binding signed by Dickers & Son. London. One of 750 copies printed in the Edition Deluxe. Near Fine the spines sunned to an even gray. Macmillan and Co, Limited Hardcover books
1956rif. 2222157First edition so stated. Octavo. Portrait; map. Pictorial dust jacket unclipped designed by Gilbert Etheredge. Very good. 511 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Housed in a custom red morocco and matching cloth slipcase and cloth wraparound. The Macmillan Company hardcover books
1918rif. 007151Chicago: Great Lakes Athletic Association 1918. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. SCARCE. 14 monthly issues with great illustrated covers bound in quarto green cloth gilt lettering at spine marbled end pages Very Good cloth rubbed hinges cracked yet binding holding well some small creases and small tears to pages. Published monthly by the Great Lakes Athletic Association devoted to the interests of the United States Naval Training Station at Great Lakes Illinois the Navy's largest training installation and the home of the Navy's only Boot Camp. Great WWI era magazines numerous black and white photographs lots of articles and photos about athletic teams and wonderful color rear cover ads for Wrigley's gum. The Great Lakes Navy Bluejackets football team compiled a record of 7-0-2 and won the 1919 Rose Bowl featuring three players George Halas Jimmy Conzelman and Paddy Driscoll who were later inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. The Feb. 1919 issue features a team photo with those three pictured. Great Lakes Athletic Association Hardcover books
1969rif. 2221968Enlarged edition. 4to. 50 b/w illustrations 41 figures. Dust jacket clipped designed by Miriam. Very good. 312 pages. No signatures or bookplates. Includes three additional articles. Da Capo Press hardcover books
1930rif. 006702Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin 1930. Book. Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Very Good in the original green cloth no jacket paper label at spine with slight fade end pages uniformly browned prior owner name front end page contents are clean tight and unmarked. Houghton Mifflin Hardcover books
1890rif. 006432Washington D.C.: Government Printing Office 1890. Book. Very Good Minus. Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. "With the Compliments of Edward O. Leech Director of the Mint" slip tipped in at title page. Leech was appointed by President William Henry Harrison. With period Indianapolis Public Library attached front paste down identifying this copy as being a gift of The Director of the Mint. Only other library indications are a small label at spine and a small stamp at title page hidden by the tipped in slip. Overall Very Good Minus tear to cloth and loss of cloth at spine ends and tips of boards. Binding sound contents are clean tight and unmarked. Government Printing Office Hardcover books
1899rif. 006466Madison WI: University of Wisconsin Press 1899. Book. Very Good Plus. Printed Wrappers. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE. Very Good Plus small chips light soiling prior owner name in ink front cover pages of text are uncut and clean. PHD Thesis. 130 pp. University of Wisconsin Press Paperback books
1914rif. 005778Staten Island NY: Privately Printed 1914. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. SCARCE. Hines Annual for 1914. 80 pp. illustrated with several photographs. Original paper-covered boards black leather spine paper label at spine rubbed Very Good boards bumped and rubbed at corners. Bookplate of Dr. George W. Nash front paste down "Compliments of the Brothers Hine" book plate with Mrs. Dr. George W. Nash in ink. New York History. Privately Printed Hardcover books
