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M. Carey Thomas

Portrait of M. Carey Thomas, an American educator, suffragist and the second president of Bryn Mawr College. For years, Carey maintained and intimate…

Lydia Maria Child Portrait

A portrait of Lydia Maria Child

Jane with Mary Rozet Smith, ca. 1896

Portrait of Jane Addams, America's premier social reformer and Mary Rozet Smith, her companion. Jane and Mary were in a committed and loving…

Jane Addams c.1926

Portrait of women's rights activist, social reformer and pacifist Jane Addams. Bain News Service took this picture in 1926.

Jane Addams

Moffet Studios, a Chicago based photography studio, took this picture of social reformer Jane Addams sometime in 1914. The picture reiterates Addams…

Idle Moments

Side view of young woman lying on her stomach in front of mirror; reflection in mirror shows her full face.

An all encompassing book for the aid of hair related issues (largely lack of hair growth, but also many other hair related problems). Also answers…

Gymnastic Class

A stereoscopic image of women engaging in physical education in order to stay healthy

Gowland's Lotion

This freckle-removing lotion recipe contains mercury. Nineteenth and twentieth-century Women often unknowingly added poisonous ingredients to homemade…

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…