Ornately Prepared Album of Photographs Showing the Aftermath of a Storm in Curtiss, Wisconsin, 1905
by [Vernacular Photography - Disasters - Wisconsin]
Curtiss, 1905. Small album measuring 6 x 5 inches with seven photographs of storm damage in Curtiss, OK. One picture apparently missing, otherwise near fine. Very Good. A small album of photographs showing storm damage in the small town of Curtiss, Wisconsin, in June of 1905. The photographs are cut out in ornate patterns, which provide an odd juxtaposition with the subject matter.
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Cabinet Card Portrait of Ednah Dow Littlehale Cheney
by [Women – Abolitionism – Suffrage – Transcendentalism] [Cheney, Ednah Dow Littlehale] Warren Studios
Boston, Massachusetts: “Boston and Cambridgeport, Mass.” imprint on verso, N.d.. Albumen photograph on mount measuring 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. Contemporary pencil identification on verso reading “Mrs E D Cheney.”. Excellent tonal clarity. Excellent.. Oval bust portrait in profile, Cheney facing left, hair parted and drawn into a low chignon; wearing a dark dress with decorative buttons and a white lace collar. Born in Boston in 1824, Cheney was closely associated with the Transcendentalist and reform circles... Read More
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![Woman Suffrage Campaign Songs and Votes for Women. [Two Rare Ohio Women’s Suffrage Handbills]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/164/572/1716572164.0.l.jpg)
Woman Suffrage Campaign Songs and Votes for Women. [Two Rare Ohio Women’s Suffrage Handbills]
by [Women’s Suffrage – Ohio] Kauffman, Eunice H.; Smith, Helen; Session, Juliette
Ohio: Mohr & Carter, Printers; and N.p., 1917. One double-sided handbill measuring approximately 6 x 6 inches with small tear to lower right corner; one single-sided folded into a packet measuring approximately 3 ½ x 4 ½ inches. Overall Near Fine.. Two handbills promoting women’s suffrage in Ohio. “Woman Suffrage Campaign Songs” contains lyrics to three songs re-written to be about votes for women, by Eunice H. Kauffman, Helen Smith, and Juliette Session. The other is in the... Read More
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![Facts Worth Knowing and Isn’t It True? [Two Handbills Concerning Women’s Suffrage]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/056/572/1716572056.0.l.jpg)
Facts Worth Knowing and Isn’t It True? [Two Handbills Concerning Women’s Suffrage]
by [Women’s Suffrage – New York City] National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc
New York City: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc, 1917. Two handbills measuring 5 x 7 inches. Fine.. Two handbills printed by the New York City-based National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company. “Facts Worth Knowing” lists the differences in law between states where women did and did not have the vote, including that in two states without women’s suffrage, the age of consent was ten years old. “Isn’t It True?” makes the case that women’s suffrage would help women... Read More
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Two Carte-de-Visite Views of the Second Ladies’ Hall at Oberlin College, c. 1868
by [Women's Education - 19th Century - Oberlin College] Platt, J.C.; Platt and Hawley
Oberlin, 1868. Albumen photographs, 2 ½ x 3 ½ inches on larger mounts. Some fading to one of the photographs, other image with excellent contrast, near fine condition overall. Near Fine. An uncommon early pair of views of the Second Ladies’ Boarding House at Oberlin College in the 1860s, taken at a time when Oberlin was one of few coeducational colleges, having first admitted women in 1837. Oberlin’s Second Ladies Hall was built in 1861-1863 and featured Itlianate... Read More
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Group Portrait of Female Mill Workers, Lawrence, Massachusetts, c. 1880s
by [Women] [Labor] [Massachusetts] Greene, J.J.
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... Read More
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Portrait of Julia Marlowe. [Inscribed by Marlow to a Friend, 1940]
by [Women] [Suffrage] [Theatre] [Marlowe, Julia] Genthe, Arnold
New York: Arnold Genthe, 1920. Silver gelatin print, 6 ¾ x 9 ¼ inches on larger mount. Signed by Genthe on the mount, inscribed by Marlowe as Marlowe Sothern on the mount as follows: “To Jean: our little comrade on our walks in Beautiful Stockbridge. In remembrance also of 'Sun Yat Sen' and Choo-Chio Chow. September. 1940. Julia Marlowe Sothern. Very Good. An uncommon image of the actress, feminist and suffrage advocate Julia Marlowe, who adopted the name... Read More
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Cabinet Card portrait of Laura Smith Haviland
by [Women’s Rights – Abolition – Underground Railroad] Haviland, Laura Smith
Chicago, Illinois: C. D. Mosher, National Historical Photographer to Posterity, 125 State Street, 1885. Albumen photograph on printed “Memorial Portrait” cabinet mount, approximately 4 ¼ x 6 ½ inches. The elaborate printed verso advertisement promotes Mosher’s ambitious Centennial-era “Memorial Portraits” project and bears contemporary manuscript identifications reading “Laura Smith Haviland” and noting her authorship of A Woman’s Life Work. Very good condition with light surface wear.. A late-life portrait of the celebrated abolitionist and Underground Railroad conductor Laura... Read More
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Der Liebe Warnun / Les “Girondins” “Mourir pour la Patrie.”
by [Women – Music – Celebrity – 1848 Revolutions] Montez, Lola; Dumas, Alexandre; Ludwig I of Bavaria (attrib.)
New York: Atwill, 201 Broadway, 1848. Folio. Complete at 9 pages. Two songs, with lithographic portrait of Lola Montez by Sarony & Major. Soft rag paper. Light foxing, else very good.. A likely very early American printing of two pieces tied directly to the upheavals of 1848, issued just as news and personalities of the European revolutions were electrifying American audiences. The first, “Der Lieben Warnun” (Love’s Warning), is attributed to Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, whose abdication... Read More
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Lengthy Letter Between Two Cousins Discussing the Cold Yankee Character and the Differences Between New England and New Jersey, as Well as Current Events, 1838
by [Women - New England - Panic of 1837] Richards, Marion
Claremont, 1838. Stampless letter with circular Claremont, New Hampshire postmark and 18 ½ cent rate. Fine condition. Fine. An entertaining letter written by Marion Richards of Claremont, New Hampshire, defending the northern way of life and describing the relative calm in New Hampshire during the Panic of 1837, which apparently had been the subject of previous correspondence between the two. She makes an interesting reference to “female rights,” which she says she does not support, perhaps also in... Read More
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Collection of a Women’s Army Corps Technician Concerning VE Day, Reassignment to the Pacific Theater, and Processions for Roosevelt and Eisenhower, with Lyrical Descriptions of Paris on V-E Day
by [Women's History - World War II – Women’s Army Corps – VE Day – Pacific Theater] Bremer, Mary J.; Miller, June; Melotte, John
Paris, France; and Washington, D.C., 1945. Six 8 x 10 inch and smaller typed pages; one 4 x 5 inch card with two tickets; one twenty-six page 4 x 5.5 inch pamphlet; one six page 6 x 8.5 inch pamphlet; six 2.5 x 3.5 photographs and two 3 x 4.5 inch photographs. Of the printed matter, most is affixed to paper, some small tears and folds; overall excellent; photographs near fine. Mary J. Bremer (1917–2019) was a Technician... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Grace Greenwood (Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott), circa 1870
by [Women’s History – Abolition Movement – Women’s Rights] Sarony, Napoleon
New York City: Sarony, 680 Broadway, 1870. Albumen print on original mount with printed studio imprint. 2 ½ x 4 inches. Very good condition; strong tonal contrast.. Studio portrait of Grace Greenwood (1823–1904), the pen name of Sara Jane Clarke Lippincott: journalist, poet, lecturer, and one of the most widely read women writers of the nineteenth century. Greenwood was a committed abolitionist, contributing to antislavery newspapers including the National Anti-Slavery Standard and using her national platform to denounce... Read More
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Intimate Letter on Sorosis Club Stationery to the Snow Family of Rockland, Maine Discussing a Memorial for the Cary Sisters, 1871
by [Women’s Movement - Sorosis] Morse, Rebecca
New York, 1871. Folded letter, fine condition. Fine. A letter written by Rebecca A. Morse, the activist and member of Sorosis, to the Snow family in Rockland, Maine, in 1871. The letter concerns a fundraising venture that is likely for the Cary sisters - Phoebe and Alice - who both died in 1871 Morse writes, “I know you will sympathize with me in the desire to honor the memory of the sweet sister Singers, and more than that... Read More
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Photograph of Ruth Hale, Possibly at the Pendleton Round-Up, C. 1922-1923
by [Women’s History] Hale, Ruth
Oregon, 1923. Silver gelatin photograph mounted to cardstock measuring 6 ¼ by 4 ⅞ inches. Press marks verso. Some wear, very good overall. Very Good. An image of the women’s rights activist and author Ruth Hale, likely taken at one of her well-publicized trips to the Pendleton Round-Up in Oregon in 1922 or 1923. Hale is shown on horseback in western attire. Hale was very active during this period in efforts to allow women to keep their names... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Tennessee “Tennie” Claflin
by [Women’s History – Suffrage Movement – Finance] Claflin, Tennessee
N.p., 1870. Albumen print, 3 ½ x 2 ¼ inches on larger mount. Excellent.. An uncommon contemporary portrait of Tennie Claflin. This photograph was taken during the brief period that Claflin operated her brokerage firm with her sister, Victoria Woodhull—the two are the first women to open a Wall Street brokerage firm. The sisters opened the firm in the winter of 1870 with the support of Cornelius Vanderbilt, who was drawn in by Claflin’s claims of magnetic healing... Read More
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![Respectfully Dedicated to All Who Want The Fashions. [Lithographic Advertisement for Women’s Hats Accompanying Sheet Music for J.B. Westendorf’s Come One, Come All, or, A Plea from your Milliner.]](https://d3525k1ryd2155.cloudfront.net/h/891/244/1299244891.0.l.jpg)
Respectfully Dedicated to All Who Want The Fashions. [Lithographic Advertisement for Women’s Hats Accompanying Sheet Music for J.B. Westendorf’s Come One, Come All, or, A Plea from your Milliner.]
by [Women] [Advertising] [Fashion] [Lithography] Taylor, Thomas & Co.; Westendorf, J.B.
Chicago: J.B. Westendorf, 1877. Folio, 10 ½ x 14 inches, 6 pp. Very Good.
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Carte-de-Viste Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe, c. 1870
by [Women – Authors – Abolition Movement] Howell, William [Stowe, Harriet Beecher]
New York: Howell, 1870. Carte de viste portrait on larger mount, with printed studio imprint “Howell, 807 & 869 B’way” on mount. 2 ½ x 4 inches. Excellent condition and contrast.. Three-quarter bust portrait of Stowe, facing slightly left, wearing a dark dress with ruffled trim and a cameo brooch at the collar; her hair arranged in tight ringlets framing the face, one of at least two poses from this sitting that were published. The Broadway address dates... Read More
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Carte-de-Visite Portrait of Florence Nightingale
by [Women’s History – Medicine – Crimean War – Early Photography] Kilburn, William Edward [Nightingale, Florence]
N.p., 1870. Carte After the original photograph by William Edward Kilburn (1818–1891), taken circa 1854, with later CDV issue, probably circa 1870s. Albumen print mounted on card; sitter identified in print beneath image. Standard carte-de-visite format (approximately 2½ x 4 inches). Excellent contrast with light surface wear.. Seated three-quarter portrait of Nightingale in dark silk dress with white collar, hands folded over a paper, posed beside an upholstered Victorian chair. The image derives from a sitting arranged in... Read More
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A Company Presentation Album with 101 Photographs of Early American Steel Hoists in their Installed Locations. V.p., circa 1900
by [Industrial Photography] Reading Crane and Hoist Works
Reading, 1900. Oblong 8vo, black cloth covered boards. With 101 prints, 70 on silver and 31 on printing out paper. Each picture captioned. Near Fine. The Reading Crane and Hoist Company, later Roeper Hoist and Crane Works, installed cranes throughout the Northeast, many of which are pictured here. Many pictures show designs patented in the late 1890s, making the production date most likely circa 1900-1910. The photographs are well composed, proto-modernist and quite detailed. Unrecorded in OCLC. One... Read More
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Looking Back. [A World War II Memoir by Annemarie Bliwernitz]
by [World War II – Germany – Nazism] Bliwernitz, Annemarie
St. Petersburg, Florida: unpublished, 1974. Ninety-four typed and photocopied pages measuring 8 ½ x 11 inches in a soft binding. Binding with wear; pages generally excellent to Near Fine. Overall excellent to Near Fine.. Annemarie Bliwernitz (1905–2005), née Entz, was born in Notzendorf, East Prussia. In 1952, after surviving both World Wars, she and her husband Bruno (1900–1992) immigrated first to Canada and then to the United States. Offered here is Annemarie’s unpublished memoir, written between 1972 and... Read More
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Three Illustrations by Cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th Engineering Combat Battalion for Thanksgiving 1945
by [World War II – Occupied Japan – Art] Smith, Cpl. Perring F.
Japan, 1945. 8 x 10 ½ inch double-sided mimeographed sheet with damage to margins and tape at corners; very good plus. With one 3 ¾ x 3 ¼ inch photograph of an illustration; Fine. Overall excellent.. Three illustrations—two of which are for a Thanksgiving menu—by cartoonist Perring Smith of the 1689th Engineering Combat Battalion, stationed in occupied Japan. One side of the Thanksgiving menu has caricatures of several men in the unit and the menu for Thanksgiving dinner... Read More
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Two Press Photographs Relating to the 15th Infantry
by [World War One][15th Infantry, Known as the “Harlem Hellfighters”]International Film Service / Underwood and Underwood, Photographers
New York: Underwood and Underwood, 1919. First Edition. Gelatin silver prints, 7 ¾ x 5 ½ inches each on 11 ½ x 7 inch black paper mounts, captioned with affixed text. Very Good. Two WWI-era press photographs related to the Negro 15th Infantry Division of the New York National Guard (a.k.a. the 369th US Infantry Regiment) and their white commander, Colonel William Hayward. One photograph shows the division on parade in New York following their return from combat... Read More
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Letters Home from an American Professor Working in the Ottoman Empire in the Aftermath of World War I.
by [World War I – Ottoman Empire – Turkish War of Independence] “H.C.”
Constantinople, New York City, and others, 1922. Four letters totaling seven pages. Folded, else fine.. A small collection of letters from “H.C.”, who seems to have been an American university professor in Constantinople, to his “Darling Clementine” back home. H.C. may have taught at Robert College, a Christian college founded in 1863, now a prestigious private highschool. It is not clear when H.C. first arrived in Constantinople, but he had been there for several years already by... Read More
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Burt C. Buffum’s Photograph of Guy Holt Riding “Steamboat,” September 1903
by [Wyoming – Rodeo] Buffum, Burt C.
Laramie, Wyoming, 1903. Single photograph measuring 6 ½ x 8 ½ inches. Manuscript caption verso. Wrinkling, slight damage; left corners missing. Very good plus.. A photograph, taken by University of Wyoming professor Burt C. Buffum, of rodeo cowboy Guy Holt riding “Steamboat.” The caption reads: “Guy Holt Worlds Champion bronco buster riding ‘Steamboat’ (said to be the hardest horse to ride known.) Laramie Wyo, Sept 22 – 03. Photo by B.C. Buffum.” Steamboat rode for fifteen years around... Read More
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Letters to a Dancer from Friends Concerning Life as Artistic Young People in Post-War California
by [Youth Culture – 1950s – Dance] Lawrence, David
California, 1940. Approximately 248 total pages: 149 8.5 x 11 inches and smaller (three typed) and ninety-nine 5 x 8 inches and smaller. Most undated; those with dates ranging from 1944 to 1958. Ninety-two pages from Nancy Gotthart and eighty-six pages from Helen Gotthart; the remaining from various friends either unsigned or with first name only. Many letters missing pages. Generally fine. David Lawrence was part of a cohort of young dancers in Southern California; he modeled and... Read More
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