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"She is doing her part to help win the war." World War I poster by Howard Chandler Christy (1873-1952).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,…
"Going into Society"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…
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…
1895 Guidebook, Talks Upon Practical SubjectsThis is a small, green, hardcover, book. It is intended to provide instruction for women on how to care for one’s body.
Adopting an Abandoned FarmThis small book with a pastoral scene on the cover contains a series of autobiographical essays by Kate Sanborn who describes her two years spent…
Annie Kenney and Christabel PankhurstWSPU leaders Annie Kenney and Christabel Pankhurst advocating for voting rights for women in 1908.
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…
Beauty & The BeastIllustration of the story of the Beauty and the Beast
Bernarr MacfaddenBernrarr Macfadden, and American publisher and strongman poses as Michelangelo's "David" statue.
Biographies of Good WivesL. Maria Child published, Biographies of Good Wives, for both the husbands of ‘good’ wives and aspiring ‘good’ wives in 1846. This collection of…