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News service photograph of Jane Addams and Stanley Field after having received their honorary doctorates in law from the University of Chicago. Photograph: 8-1/2 x 6-1/2", black and white glossy photography with caption attached at lower edge. Blue stamp of International Newsreel at reverse. Some ruffling. About very good. The caption reads: "Miss Jane Adams [sic] and Mr. Stanley Field who were given honorary degrees by the Chicago University today in [its] winter convocation. Hono[rary] degrees of doctor of laws were confirmed upon the two distinguished Chicagoans" with the note: "sent to all bureaus, Hearts papers and Fast Mail". If Jane Addams had provoked controversy in earlier years, by 1930 American considered her an icon of much that was admirable and worth emulation. This news service photograph documents a particular moment in her long career and reflects the stature she achieved.
News Service Photograph: Jane Addams at the University of Chicago Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Law Degree
(Addams, Jane).
[Chicago, ILL: International Newsreel, Dec. 3, 1930.
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CARTE PORTRAIT, SIGNED
(Murdoch, Iris).
[London]: National Portrait Gallery, [ND].
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Pamphlet: THE MODERN CITY AND THE MUNICIPAL FRANCHISE FOR WOMEN
Addams, Jane.
{New York: National American Woman Suffrage Association, 1910].
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First edition. 1/1,000 numbered copies ("the first two hundred of which will be reserved by the Author for her fellow Suffragists"), this being copy no. 797. 8vo, <i-xvi>, 318pp; maroon cloth stamped in gilt with title and facsimile of author's signature on front panel; printed white dust jacket with photograph of the author at the front panel. Illustrated with 91 halftones after photographs of those women and men active in the suffrage movement in Rhode Island as well as nationally. White dust jacket has 1/2" tear at foot of spine with overall dustiness. The book is splendid and the jacket only lightly affected by age. Fine. Sara (Mrs. James W.) Algeo starts with a spirited account of the ratification in the state legislature on January 7, and the Victory Dinner (where she presided as toast mistress) on the evening of January 6, that preceded the formal signing. Sara Algeo calls herself and others who labored ceaselessly for many years in the cause of woman suffrage, a sub-pioneer. She states she is a feminist "first, last and all the time" ; and, the autobiographical sketch she gives portrays a woman who fought for equal rights from an early age. Algeo reprints speeches by Anna Howard Shaw, letters to various newspapers by herself and others, editorials on the subject of woman suffrage. in short, valuable material. The numerous illustrations, the firsthand accounts of state and national events make this a significant primary source. Krichmar 1412.
THE STORY OF A SUB PIONEER
Algeo, Sara.
Providence, RI: Snow & Franham Company, (1925).
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First edition. Inscribed presentation copy, with quote, at the front pastedown; signed in full, &#x93;Florence Ellinwood Allen&#x94; and dated September 3, 1909. 8vo, 49pp; green laid paper over boards, dark green shelfback. author and title printed in dark green at the front cover; paper label at the spine. Deckle-edges at fore-edge and lower edge. Label at spine a trifle chipped. Clippings regarding Allen at two final blank leaves. Very good. Florence E. Allen (1884-1966) had hoped to pursue a career as a musician, but an injury diverted her into another, the law. She earned her undergraduate degree from Western Case University in 1904 and then went to Germany for further studies in music. After returning to Ohio in 1906, she wrote for the Cleveland PLAIN DEALER as a music critic while working toward a master&#x92;s in political science and constitutional law. She continued her education at New York University of Law, and, with her law degree, once more established herself in Cleveland. Within a decade, she was elected to her first judgeship, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas and then to the Ohio Supreme Court. She was the first woman to serve on the a state Supreme Court. In 1934 President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed her to the federal Court of Appeals (Sixth Circuit), the first woman to serve as a judge in a federal court. She supported woman suffrage and women&#x92;s rights and the peace movement, writing on both. PATRIS is her only poetry title. Information on Judge Allen and her distinguished career is widely available on the internet. John A. Russ IV gives a very complete profile athttp://womenslegalhistory.stanford.edu/papers/flo.html#firsts.
PATRIS
Allen, Florence [Ellinwood].
Cleveland: Horace Carr, 1908.
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THE HISTORY OF WOMAN SUFFRAGE Vol. IV. 1883-1900
Anthony, Susan B., and Ida Husted Harper, Editors.
Rochester, NY: Susan B. Anthony, [1902].
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First edition. Narrow 8vo, 75pp; + endmatter; decorated light brown paper over boards with wine cloth spine stamped in gold; printed beige dust jacket. An essential reference on this subject. Fine.
NOTES ON WOMAN PRINTERS IN COLONIAL AMERICA AND THE UNITED STATES 1639-1975
Barlow, Marjorie Dana.
New York: The Hroswitha Club, 1976.
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First edition. Limited, signed issue: no. 45 of 135 copies on Japan vellum. Signed at the colophon as called for. Small 8vo: 7-9/16 x 5-1/8", 73pp; grayish-green laid paper over boards with white shelfback; printed paper label at front and spine. Fine. The central character, young Lottie Thompson, yearns for the beautiful and chafes at the strictures of duty preached by her mother and her friends: &#x93;A child should be taught obedience, respect, and attention. Lottie just simply acts as if she doesn&#x92;t hear what is being said to her&#x94;. Lottie defiantly declares: &#x93;When I grow up I am never going to do anything that is my duty. All the nice things are naughty. But I am just going to do the things I like. And I shall love all the pretty things, even if they are naughty&#x94;. When her attachment to surface rather than substance first seduces and then betrays her, Lottie emerges with an understanding of how purpose renders its own kind of beauty. The play, like others of the period, suggests a feminism which wishes women to question conventional roles and to see possibilities beyond the conventional. Gerv&#xE9; Baronti published a number of books, novels, poetry, a memoir, and nonfiction, from 1917 to 1950. Several titles are set in India where she lived (for how long is obscure) and where she studied with Tagore.
A MODERN PHENIX
Baronti, Gerve [pseud., Mrs. Paul R. Danner].
Boston: The Cornhill Company, (1917).
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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED
Barton, Clara.
[Washington, DC]: [To Harriette Reed], Monday Jan 16. 93.
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WOMAN'S WORK IN MUNICIPALITIES National Municipal League Series
Beard, Mary Ritter.
New York and London: D. Appleton and Company, 1915.
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OF MEN AND WOMEN
Buck, Pearl S[ydenstricker].
New York: The John Day Company, (1941).
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First edition. 8vo, 313pp; (including Index); wove blue cloth stamped in gold at the front and spine. Institutional copy with stamps at the title page (lower right) and front pastedown, fittingly &#x93;Packard Commercial School&#x94; (Packard Junior College). Title page separated along gutter (1-1/2&#x94;). Some spotting and rubbing to spine. About very good. Helen Campbell (1839-1918), author and reformer, married a surgeon in 1860 and two years later divorced him. It suggests the remarkable self-possession which characterized her even at age 23. She wrote children&#x92;s stories and then novels and eventually began contributing weekly pieces to THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE. She appreciated the myriad difficulties which beset women in the work place and in 1887 collected the TRIBUNE essays in PRISONERS OF POVERTY. Professor Richard Ely introduces WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS by saying, &#x93;The importance of the subject with which the present work deals cannot well be over-estimated&#x94;. Campbell provides a salient look at women laborers in the United States from the Colonial period on, discussing factory labor, the rise and growth of trades, labor bureaus, etc. and contrasting working conditions in Europe with those in the United States. She concludes by reviewing the abuses women are subject to and offering &#x91;remedies and suggestions&#x92;. The inequality of wages between men and women, not surprisingly, is a key component of her discussion. The volume also prints three appendices, the third a &#x93;Bibliography of Woman&#x92;s Labor and of the Woman Question&#x94;. THE FEMINIST COMPANION, p. 175. Krichmar, 2297.
WOMEN WAGE-EARNERS: Their Past, Their Present, and Their Future
Campbell, Helen [Stuart].
Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1893.
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First edition. Copy of suffrage activist May Brayton Briggs with her signature at the front free endpaper. 8vo, 100pp; (including Appendices); navy blue vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gold front and spine; pale blue dust jacket printed in black. The jacket displays minor fading and some wear around the spine ends. The book is fine. The presence of the original dust jacket is unusual. Catt has compiled documents related to "why an amendment to the Federal Constitution is the most appropriate method of dealing with the question" of woman suffrage. Of the six chapters, Catt has written or compiled those entitled, "Why the Federal Amendment?"; "Election Laws and Referenda"; "The Story of the 1916 Referenda" and "Objections to the Federal Amendment". Mary Sumner Boyd and the Hon. Henry Wade Rogers, Judge of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, NYC, contributed the two chapters focusing on state issues. Appendix A reviews suffrage in other countries; Appendix B classifies the "36 male suffrage states" according to how state constitutions are amended and how difficult passage of woman suffrage according to the NAWSA. Woman suffrage had received a disheartening setback in 1915 when Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania all voted down state referenda on the question. Anna Howard Shaw's faltering presidency finally ended and Carrie Chapman Catt succeeded her to the head of the NAWSA. She developed a two-prong campaign which came to be known as Mrs. Catt's "Winning Plan" [NAW] and which sought passage of a suffrage amendment while continuing to push for winning suffrage for women on a state level. Her tact and statesmanship won over Woodrow Wilson and other influential politicians. [Robert Booth Fowler's essay "Carrie Chapman Catt, Strategist" in ONE WOMEN, ONE VOTE is invaluable for its fine analysis of Catt's political skills. He emphasizes how controversial her "winning plan" was when Catt insisted that suffrage be pursued on the federal level.] 1917 proved the pivotal year in this long campaign. This book underscores Catt's insistence on persuasion by reason. (Though Catt also cleared the path for the 19th Amendment by leading the NAWSA in a campaign in 1917 to unseat four unsympathetic senators. As a politician and a general she was quite prepared to promulgate a 'take no prisoners' policy when necessary.) Here, the dry titles of the articles provide intentional camouflage; in fact, the book is a decisive plan-of-action conceived and executed by a skilled and determined strategist of the first order. May Brayton Briggs became a supporter of woman suffrage, as she wrote, "not because I desired and decided to be, and then sought props to support my position but because my reading, observing and thinking, gradually brought me to the conclusions which I found were in harmony with those held by the advocates of equal suffrage". The Kroch Library at Cornell University now holds various manuscripts which Briggs wrote during the campaign for women suffrage in Massachusetts: notes for speeches, verses on anti suffrage complaints and being on the stump, etc. She was a lively, energetic voice on behalf of women's rights. NAW I, pp. 309-312 (re Carrie Chapman Catt). Weatherford, A HISTORY OF THE AMERICAN SUFFRAGIST MOVEMENT. Wheeler, ONE WOMAN, ONE VOTE, pp. 295-314. Krichmar 1517. A copy exceptional for its provenance and condition.
WOMAN SUFFRAGE BY FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT compiled by Carrie Chapman Catt
Catt, Carrie Chapman (ed).
New York: National Woman Suffrage Publishing Co., Inc., 1917.
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WOMEN & MADNESS
Chesler, Phyllis.
Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Co., Inc., 1972.
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First edition. (Issued simultaneously in hard cover). Inscribed by the artist at the half-title page, "For / All best, / Judy Chicago / 1980". Large 8vo, 287pp; (including endmatter); glossy black wrappers with photograph of "The Dinner Party" at the front cover. Light overall wear with cracks in black at the spine, along edges and tips. Very good. "The Dinner Party" celebrates women and women's history. The work itself. a table with embroidered runners and place settings "symbolizing 39 women representing different aspects of women's history from primordial goddesses to contemporary writers and artists", was a collaborative effort organized by Judy Chicago. AMERICAN WOMEN ARTISTS, pp. 376, 379, 407-413. TIMELINES OF AMERICAN WOMEN'S HISTORY, p. 381. THE WOMEN'S CHRONOLOGY, p. 662.
EMBROIDERING OUR HERITAGE The Dinner Party Needlework Written and Illustrated by Judy Chicago Needlework background provided by Susan Hill Designed by Sheila Levrant de Bretteville
Chicago, Judy with Susan Hill.
Garden City, New York: Anchor Books, 1980.
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LETTERS OF L. MARIA CHILD with a Biographical Introduction by John G. Whittier and An Appendix by Wendell Phillips
Child, L[ydia] Maria.
Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, [ca. 1890].
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Only edition. Trade catalogue: 6-3/4 x 5-1/8", 32pp; buff card stock covers, front cover embossed with decorative frame setting off the title; yellow cotton cord tie binding text and covers. Small shallow stain at upper forecorner of text. Tiny puncture to front cover; pin scratch to rear cover; mild overall age-toning/dustiness. Very good. In-text illustrations in bluish-green throughout including diagrams of various sewing stitches. Author's facsimile signature appears at the end of the story. In addition to "A Fairy at School", the trade catalogue prints "In Praise of Needlework" with topics such as "What Sewing Teaches"; "A Cure for Kinks"; "What Annie Keary Thinks of Sewing"; "Needlework in History and Literature"; "Princess Alexandra's Jacket"; and "A Teacher of Economy". The catalogue appears to have been issued as a promotional piece for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition; the final paragraph quotes GREAT AMERICAN INDUSTRIES, BLUE AND GRAY which speaks of "the mighty World's Fair which is ever going on". Although published posthumously, the story, clearly commissioned by the manufacturer, tells of how Titania, queen of the fairies, requires lovely, idle Idola to learn how to be useful. Titania transforms the sullen fairy into a cotton plant and the story then traces how raw cotton becomes delicate thread. Illustrations depict a thread mill, very likely Willimantic, with effusive descriptions of the building, the happy girls who work the machinery and the amenities afforded them: "the carders and combers were tended by alert and active girls, dressed with simple neatness, glowing with health, and showing in every look intelligence and capacity"; a "long, wide hall" is a reading room, "the sides set with cases full of books, the shelves above ornamented with busts, and at the convenient tables eager and intense faces reading papers, pamphlets, magazines"; and at work's end, the young women go to "great swarming houses full as a May hive; [and] some to a group of quaint and pretty cottages". Once Idola's translation from sprite to thread is complete, Titania declares she has gone to be of "use to the world". Rose Terry Cooke (1827-1892) wrote verse, short stories and occasional prose pieces such as her profiles of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Harriet Spofford in OUR FAMOUS WOMEN. Scholars and critics now consider her a pioneer of the local color school, using dialect and homely detail to create a sense of authenticity. This merging of fiction and advertising must have been among the last of her writings. Not noted in BAL. OCLC records seven locations: Connecticut Historical Society; Harriet Beecher Stowe Center, Yale University; American Textile History Museum Library; Harvard University (Baker Business Library); Philadelphia University; and, the University of Wisconsin at Madison. In addition, although not noted by OCLC, the Library of Congress holds a copy.
[Trade Catalogue] "A Fairy at School"
Cooke, Rose Terry.
[Willimantic, Conn.: Willimantic Thread Co., ca. 1893].
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THESE WERE THE HOURS Memories of My Hours Press, Reanville and Paris, 1928-1931
Cunard, Nancy.
Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, (1969).
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Printed Letter of Appeal ["Dear and beloved friends"]
Day, Dorothy.
New York, N.Y.: St. Joseph's House, St. Joseph's Day [March 19], [19]71.
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Black-and-white photograph: 7-1/4 x 9-1/2", with the stamp of the French Press & Information Service at reverse (in English and in French) with the number "1726" in ink (handwritten and stamped); also pasted to the reverse, is the typed legend: "1726 Simone de Beauvoir, Professor of Philosphy and author of "Sang des Autres" and "Bouches Inutiles". Upper right hand tip lacking (3/8" triangular piece); evidences of mounting at reverse. About very good. A handsome image of this formidable feminist.
NEWS SERVICE PHOTOGRAPH
de Beauvoir, Simone.
New York: French Press & Information Service, Dec. 12, 1945.
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