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8.6x11 mossy green cloth covered book with red ink accenting. Ella Adelia Fletcher’s The Woman Beautiful represents a meaningful concern to how women can be the healthiest and most beautiful individuals possible, while functioning under very specific…

512 p. Illus. 21 cm

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

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 many general questions regarding medical understanding and anatomy of hair. 1920s

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 small guidebook addresses young women’s questions regarding their bodies, their minds, and their futures.

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.

A satirical photo from 1901, with the caption "New Woman — Wash Day". Shown is a woman wearing knickerbockers and knee socks — traditional male attire — and smoking a cigarette, supervising as a man — who appears to be wearing a dress and apron —…

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. …

Women belonging to the Committee on Arangements for National W.C.T.U. Convention