An unusual indenture binding a young German immigrant woman to the chief warden of the New Orleans city jail, where she was employed for her “understanding of the household business.” This remarkable indenture specifies the financial arrangement and terms of employment for one Annah David of Anspach, Germany—aged twenty-three and.....
An interesting catalog for a New Jersey girls’ school, revealing details of student life in the 1860s. Outlined herein is the Course of Instruction for “Fourth Class,” “Third Class,” Junior, and Senior classes, with offerings—many named for the textbooks used—such as Sargent’s Speller, Watt’s Improvement of the Mind, Greenleaf’s Natural.....
A scarce pamphlet offering practical advice on uterine and vaginal disorders, and promoting Davis’s Vaginal Syringes and Wafer Pour Les Femmes. Orin Davis M.D. (1823–1911) was a pathbreaking medical reformer who organized the very first class of female medical students in Rochester, New York, which included his wife. In 1854.....
An unrecorded promotional newspaper produced by ballooning couple, Carl Myers and Mary Myers, the latter known as “Carlotta, the Lady Aeronaut” and “the mistress of the winds,” issued to advertise one of her ascensions. Inviting the public to “an afternoon visit to the clouds,” this newspaper promotes a “Grand Balloon.....
An unrecorded broadside promoting a six-part lecture series near the end of the Civil War, featuring William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass, author and suffragist Frances Harper, and others, the series organized by William Still, a leading black businessman in Philadelphia and a key figure in the Underground Railroad. This course.....
A scarce advertising circular featuring an appeal from the women of the United Garment Workers of America to union men to buy the union-manufactured trousers of Sweet, Orr & Co. in order to support the organization and ensure humane working conditions. The cover illustration depicts a carpenter at work wearing.....