The Josephine Long Wishart Collection: Mother, Home, and Heaven
Dublin Core
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United States -- Social life and customs
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Collection Items
Common Sense in the HouseholdA guide written by a woman for women working in the household. Most of the book consists of recipes but there is also several sections on keeping a…
Social Culture: An up-to-Date Book for Polite Society, Containing Rules for Conduct in Public, Social and Private Life, at Home and AbroadA green, decorated guidebook that gives advice to men, women, and children on conducting themselves in their public and private lives
Purity and Truth Self and Sex Series: What a Woman of Forty-Five Ought to KnowA small red advice book for middle-aged women on appropriate conduct, health practices, and relationships for a woman of about forty-five
Adopting an Abandoned FarmThis small book with a pastoral scene on the cover contains a series of autobiographical essays by Kate Sanborn who describes her two years spent…
Twentieth Century Etiquette
Talks Upon Practical SubjectsA manual written by a woman for women to assist in everyday tasks.
Book: "Fighting Modern Evils That Destroy Our Homes"A small green book that discusses marriage and divorce in the context of the early twentieth century.
Food in War Time
1895 Guidebook, Talks Upon Practical SubjectsThis is a small, green, hardcover, book. It is intended to provide instruction for women on how to care for one’s body.
What a Young Woman Ought to Know - ReligionThis small guidebook addresses young women’s questions regarding their bodies, their minds, and their futures.