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Outdoor Preaching RevivalThis painting depicts an outdoor 1819 preaching sermon organized by Methodists as part of the second great awakening.
Photograph of American writer Kate SanbornA profile photograph of Kate Sanborn taken while teaching at Smith College
Portrait of June Christy and Bob Cooper, 1947 or 1948Jazz musicians June Christy and Bob Cooper smile at each other as she puts on lipstick. She is bending towards the mirror with her lipstick in hand,…
Power of MusicThe Print shows an African American man playing a fiddle and, in reaction, the family dances.
Purity and Truth Self and Sex Series: What a Woman of Forty-Five Ought to KnowA small red advice book for middle-aged women on appropriate conduct, health practices, and relationships for a woman of about forty-five
Sample8.6x11 mossy green cloth covered book with red ink accenting. Ella Adelia Fletcher’s The Woman Beautiful represents a meaningful concern to how women…
A light blue, simply bound average sized text about 200 pages in length. Explains matching morality with sex.
Skin Deep.A small, black book discussing the dangers of contemporary cosmetic products popular among American women. The book offers information on the…
Social Culture: A Manual of Etiquette and DeportmentAnnie Randall White’s book is one of many popular etiquette manuals published during the Progressive Era that expounds on the appropriate behavior for…
Social Culture: An up-to-Date Book for Polite Society, Containing Rules for Conduct in Public, Social and Private Life, at Home and AbroadA green, decorated guidebook that gives advice to men, women, and children on conducting themselves in their public and private lives