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The Woman’s Medical Companion and Guide To Health: A Practical Treatise on the Diseases of Women and Children, with Full and Definite Directions for their Treatment, Giving the Causes, Symptoms, and Means of Prevention of Cure with the Latest and Most Approved Methods of Treatment Adopted by All Schools of Medicine; Their Doses and Modes of Administration Carefully Prescribed
VanityIn this painting, a woman sits before her vanity, looking at herself in the mirror. She wears a long, velvety dress and holds a pearl necklace.…
"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,…
Outdoor Preaching RevivalThis painting depicts an outdoor 1819 preaching sermon organized by Methodists as part of the second great awakening.
Blossoms from over the seaCover art for the song, "Blossoms from over the sea," incorporating a woman, a swan, and a harp
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…
Book, "Building Your Boy: How to Do It How Not to Do It"This book instructs parents, or more accurately fathers, how to raise their young boys in the early twentieth century.
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…
Brief History of the Condition of Women:The first of a two-volume series, Brief History of the Condition of Women examines the historic role of women in societies in Europe, North America,…
Idle MomentsSide view of young woman lying on her stomach in front of mirror; reflection in mirror shows her full face.