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A light blue, simply bound average sized text about 200 pages in length. Explains matching morality with sex.

In this photograph Elizabeth Arden is seated and holding a stack of papers. She wears a veiled hat and a jacket over her black dress. Her face is tilted upwards, and she is laughing.

A green, decorated guidebook that gives advice to men, women, and children on conducting themselves in their public and private lives

Annie Randall White’s book is one of many popular etiquette manuals published during the Progressive Era that expounds on the appropriate behavior for middle-class and upper-class men, women, and children “in public, social, and private life, at home…

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

Photograph shows social reformer Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940). Starr co- founded Hull House with Jane Addams and was first committed long time romantic companion.

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

The Gibson Girl was a glamorous version of the New Woman, shown here keeping her back turned to her suitor as they both pretend to read.

Charles Dana Gibson - Reproduced from an original print included in a set of the artist's work

Satirical cartoon by Charles Dana Gibson that argues against the practice of arranged marriages, particularly on grounds of wealth or aristocratic title.