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For Girls.A small, yellow/green/brown book containing etiquette for young, unmarried women living during the American Progressive Era (1890-1920). This is one…
Arsenical Cosmetic LotionThis is a recipe for a skin-whitening lotion that contains arsenic. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century women often mixed toxic ingredients into their…
For Girls, Corset PagePages 88 and 89 of the For Girls advice book of 1886. These pages contain illustrations of corsets, a fashion item of the period, and descriptions of…
Skin Deep.A small, black book discussing the dangers of contemporary cosmetic products popular among American women. The book offers information on the…
What a Young Girl Ought to KnowMary Wood-Allen, an American doctor wrote this advice book for young girls on appropriate conduct, health practices, and relationships.
Jane Addams c.1926Portrait of women's rights activist, social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams. Bain News Service took this picture in 1926.
Maud Rittenhouse MayneBlack and white portrait of Isabella Rittenhouse Maud while she was a young woman, between the years of 1880 and 1900.
Jane AddamsMoffet Studios, a Chicago based photography studio, took this picture of social reformer Jane Addams sometime in 1914. The picture reiterates Addams…
Susan B. AnthonySusan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist crucial to the women's suffrage movement. Anthony never married and chose…
Carrie Chapman CattCarrie Chapman Catt was a prominent member of the American women's suffrage movement who served as the president of National American Woman Suffrage…