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Books in the Women Aisle
Total Matching Books: 6, Displaying 1 - 6.
 The Metropolitan Washing Machine. [Caption title]
 [141976] (CONNECTICUT - WASHING MACHINES - WOMEN & WORK) [David Lyman & Le Roy & Co.].
[Hartford]: [Le Roy & Co.], [1858-1860]. Quarto, [4] pages. Illustrated circular. Browning, some stains; else very good. This item not on OCLC. OCLC 44272809 for similar. Excellent circular advertising this wonderful washing machine presumably patented by a Josee Johnson. ( We find other patents associated with Johnson for a clever book marker, brick machine improvements, a charge for fire-arms, more.) The circular boasts that the machine does not wear the clothes nor break the buttons. The circular is targeted specifically to counties in Connecticut and has numerous local testimonials. The testimonials are clever and speak of local wash maids who dislike the machine because it is so efficient and the maids are so accustomed to using the rub board. The labor-saving claims of the device are apparently marketed to women of a more gentile class; perhaps to connote a level of thrift to be earned by investing in the invention. Of note, a large cut, accompanied by smaller cuts, shows a young woman operating the machinery with explicit instructions stated. The back page lists further instructions and cites numerous agents in Connecticut selling the item. $100
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 The Young Lady's Friend.
[28433] (ETIQUETTE) Mrs. John Farrar .
New York: Samuel S. & William Wood, 1849. 12mo, xii, 386 pages. Revised ed. Bound in publisher's orig. stamped and ornamental cloth. Small wear to crown of spine; general foxing; a few pages with small paper flaws, a good copy. Mid-19th century etiquette book concerning domestic economy, dress, the treatment of “domestics and work-women,” female companionship, behavior to gentlemen, conduct at public places, dinner and evening parties, mental culture, etc. $45
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The Vacation Record.
[140943] (HARVARD [?] GIRL’S MINNESOTA VACATION) [F.M. Spiegle].
New York: Frederick A. Stokes, 1901. Small quarto, [20] ff. printed recto only. First Edition? Publisher's orig. cloth, AEG. With full-page color plates of young happy women's faces, all rather horribly rendered. Interspersed are partially illustrated pages, attractively executed, with captioned titles such as: “My Journeying,” “Outing Notes,” “Frivolities,” “Autographs,” “Important Events,” etc. with lines for manuscript entries, now filled. This souvenir book records a happy 1911 Minnesota in vacation, taken by an evidently well-off North East college [Harvard?] girl. Arriving in Minneapolis, she promptly sails and canoes Lake Minnetonka and Lake Harriet; lunches at the Commercial Club; attends numerous lawn parties, teas, and theater events; enjoys various sorority spreads and a Harvard Class Day. At another point within, she records leaving the Hotel Keewaydin to go to the Yacht Club's Hop, with much dancing and piano-playing. She also writes of a boat parade on the Lake of the Isles, and also an auto parade, and float parade, viewed from Scribner's and Moore's furniture store. Later, a chaperone takes her and various girlfriends, and some boys, to Cottage Lakes. The boys, out-numbered, are clever enough to put live frogs in the girls' beds while they are away, possibly in retaliation for a cited water pistol incident at 2 am, causing much imaginable mayhem. Many such other events are all recorded in manuscript, and many names are cited, all could enable future study and identification of this young woman and her pleasant vacation in full. Binding darkened, some scattered smudges internally, small front hinge break, close to very good. This souvenir book not on OCLC, which does record a similar effort illus. by Spiegle entitled “The Bride's Book,” is also published by Stokes. $85
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Pensive Recollections of a Darling Child.
[142196] (QUAKERS - WOMEN - ABOLITIONISTS) Lydia P. Mott.
Philadelphia: Printed for Benjamin & Thomas Kite, 1825. 32mo, 12 pp. First and only edition. Plain wraps, sewn. Foxed, stained, worn, front cover detached, else good. Not found in American Imprints. OCLC, one copy only. Memorial tribute to Jennett Mott (1803-1812) by her mother, Lydia P. Mott. Lydia P. Mott (1775-1862), Quaker, abolitionist, noted for establishing the Colored Orphans' Asylum in Cincinnati with Salmon P. Chase and others. Williams, “History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880…” pp. 143-145.] $150
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 Two Playlets ... A Suffragist Baby by Alice C. Thompson [and] Betty's Ancestors by Emma M. Hunting...
[140743] (WOMAN SUFFRAGE) Alice C[allender]. Thompson .
: , . [Chester County, Pennsylvania: West Chester State Normal School, March 14, 1917]. First Edition. Small handbill or circular. 8½" x 5" The first playlet by Thompson features a cast of four “Suffragists.” The play concerns the “dilemma of professional women who are no longer economically dependent on male support but cannot reconcile their new independence with the old desire to have children. Although the four young suffragists visibly participate in the campaign by wearing sashes and waving banners, the real concern of the play is the question of individual rights and the possibility of self-fulfillment for women.” [Friedl, p. 28.] The second playlet is of another theme, with “antique furniture kindly loaned by Mrs. William T. Sharpless.” Condition is very good. [Cf. Friedl, “On to Victory, Propaganda Plays of the Woman Suffrage Movement.”] $45
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A Reply to John Stuart Mill on the Subjection of Women.
[141677] (WOMEN - SUFFRAGE) [D. MacCaig].
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1870. Octavo, 242, [10] pages. First Edition. Bound in orig. publisher's cloth. Spine slightly sunned, binding lightly soiled. Text with scattered mild foxing or faint offsetting. An anonymous rebuttal to John Stuart Mill's “The Subjection of Women” (1869), a lengthy retort arguing against the unconditional rights of women and the platform of suffragettes. $150
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