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World War I poster by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952). "She is doing her part to help win the war." Poster showing a woman cooking with corn meal, oats, and barley. Girls too young for paid jobs learned how they could help the war effort. …

This is Chapter 11 in the book Twentieth Century Etiquette. It explains the roles young women and young men can have when entering society in the early twentieth century. It reviews how women should dress and behave at social events. This chapter…

This text is a medical guide written by a female medical doctor for adult, middle-class white American women to instruct on the proper maintenance of her home’s state of health. It caters to topics of gynecology, obstetrics, pediatrics, beauty, and…

This is a small, green, hardcover, book. It is intended to provide instruction for women on how to care for one’s body.

This small book with a pastoral scene on the cover contains a series of autobiographical essays by Kate Sanborn who describes her two years spent living on and managing her own farm and gives advice to those looking to do the same.

WSPU leaders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst advocating for voting rights for women in 1908.

This is a recipe for a skin-whitening lotion that contains arsenic. Eighteenth and nineteenth-century women often mixed toxic ingredients into their homemade cosmetics, oblivious to the danger.

Illustration of the story of the Beauty and the Beast

Bernrarr Macfadden, and American publisher and strongman poses as Michelangelo's "David" statue.

L. Maria Child published, Biographies of Good Wives, for both the husbands of ‘good’ wives and aspiring ‘good’ wives in 1846. This collection of biographies was created to serve as an example to affluent, white women across America in the 17th…