Hershey, PA: Hershey Country Club, 1991. Paperback. [228] p.: color illustrations; 27 cm. Paperback. Includes the 1991 issue of Fairway: The Official Publication of the LPGA. The Lady Keystone Open was a golf tournament on the LPGA trou from 1975 to 1994; it was held at Hershey Country Club in..... More
1890. 1 handwritten document. Elijah Stover (1827-1878) and David S. Stover (1836-1916), executors of the will of their father, Jacob K. Stover (1800-1875), late of Towamensing Township, Montgomery County, Pa., present an account of the funds they handled as the trustees of their sister Hannah Stover Harley (1829-1900). From 1876..... More
New York: American Wheelman, 1896. Paperback. 274 p., 1 leaf of a color plate: many illustrations; 33 cm. Stapled; lacking wrapper. Issued weekly -- states "Published every Thursday." Includes a wealth of information about bicycles, racing, and clubs; as well as: an interview with Helen Baldwin and information about other..... More
New York: Marion Press, 1900. Hardcover. 94 p.: tables; 18 cm. Light blue cloth with dark blue stamped cover title: The Packer Collegiate Institute 1899-1900. Some pages are unopened. The Packer Collegiate Institute is a college preparatory school founded in 1845 as the Brooklyn Female Academy. It has always been..... More
New York: Jemima M. Mason, 1840. Hardcover. 716 p.; 23 cm. Contemporary half calf with marbled paper over boards. Six spine compartments between double gilt rules. Gilt-tooled title on red leather label in second compartment: "Blackwood's Magazine." Remains of small paper label at head of spine. Five issues bound together..... More
London: Eglington & Co., 1892. 1 leaf (4 x 15 cm.) from The Theatre, Nov. 1892, with a carbon print photograph of Mabel Love (12 x 9 cm.) attached. Photographed by The London Stereoscopic Co. The subject, Mabel Love (1874-1953), was an English dancer and actress who first appeared on..... More
1915. 5 typescript leaves in blue folded cover stamped "May 17 1915." Charles Muehlhauser died intestate on Dec. 24, 1874, leaving his widow, Mary Muehlhauser, and seven children. Mary Muehlhauser died on 3 April 1915 and by this document her remaining heirs released the dower rights to four tracts of..... More
Durham, N.C. Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co., 1943. Paperback. [8] p.: illustrations; 23 cm. Printed in black and white. An advertisement for Chesterfield cigarettes and Fred Waring and his Pennsylvanians. Includes photographs of Waring and various performers with the Pennsylvanians, as well as advertisements for Chesterfields. Among the performers profiled..... More
New York: Crusader, 1957. 15, [1] p.: illustrations; 35 cm. Printed in black and red. Includes the program for the upcoming American Baptist Convention to be held in Philadelphia from May 29 to June 4, 1957. The cover photograph is of Tabea Korjus, a missionary for Christian Friendliness in New..... More
1906. 1 printed and handwritten deed (36 x 22 cm.), folded. The form is identified as Deed No. 1, from the Legal Blank Pub. Co., Lansdale, Pa. On 2 April 1906 Willoughby Brey of Tylersport, Montgomery County, Pa., and Sarah, his wife, sold to Jacob B. Kline, of the same..... More
Philadelphia: Merrihew & Thompson, printers, 1849. Paperback. 31, [1] p.; 22 cm. Yellow wrappers with black wrapper title. The Union Benevolent Association was established in 1831 to provide assistance to Philadelphia residents by lending stoves to help heat their homes during a harsh winter, along with wood and coal. The..... More
Bristol, U.K. Intellect, 2003. Paperback. [2], 83-175, [1] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback. ISSN: 14660407. Contents: Missing a beat: Story-making and the absent president on September 11 by Jeff Smith -- Henry Adams, scientific historian by Freda J. Fuller-Coursey -- Gertrude Stein and Jules Laforgue by Emanuela Gutkowski -- 'I..... More
Lynn, Mass. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., 1930. Paperback. 32 p.: illustrations; 18 cm. Stapled; wrappers printed in yellow and black with a front wrapper photograph of a girl in a nurse costume taking care of her patient collie, signed: Anne Shriber. No date of publication but there is a...... More
Paris: Folie Bergere, 1958. Paperback. [48] p.: illustrations (some in color); 32 cm. Stapled dark brown velvet cover with gilt-stamped cover title and illustration. No date of publication; includes Micheline Roine, who replaced Yvonne Menard in 1958. The choreography was by Georges Reich. Performers shown include: Frederic Rey, Rita Cadillac..... More
New York: Girl Scouts of the U.S.A., 1955. Hardcover. [8], 278 p.: illustrations; 21 cm. Grey cloth spine with grey and green paper over boards. Green spine and cover titles. Brown patterned endpapers. Former owner's name on half title page, covered by a small label bearing the name of another..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. 91, [5] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Homage to Jane Austen by Marianne Langner Zeitlin -- My Father Dying [poem] by Barbara Elovic -- Elizabeht "Grandma" Layton: A Drawer of Pictures by Lynn Bretz -- Six Poems by Doris..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1984. Paperback. 93, [3] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: A Candle for Edna Millay by Robert Erwin -- Three Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A Portrait [poem] by David Ray -- Three poems by Ruth Whiteman -- Alice Pole..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1985. Paperback. 178, [6] p.: illustrations; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: The Black & White Legacy of Käthe Kollwitz by Carol Jacobsen -- Flying in Your Own Food by Padma Perera -- Dreams & Rhubarb by Katherine Mansfield -- An Interview with Maxine..... More
Kansas City, Mo. Helicon Nine, 1982. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: illustrations, record; 25 cm. Paperback with illustrated cover. Contents: Georgia O'Keeffe and the Feminine Experience by Katherine Hoffman -- Notes on a Morning Gory: Mary Lou Williams an appreciation by Terry Teachout -- The Architecture of Julia Morgan by Richard..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1980. Paperback. 96 p.: illustrations, music; 28 cm. Paperback. Contents include: Centipede by Kathleen St. John -- A Critical Approach to the History of Women in Music by Jeannie G. Pool -- The Unquestioned Answer by Laurie Spiegel -- An Interview with the Sybil of the..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1981. Paperback. 94, [2] p.: illustrations, plans; 28 cm. Paperback. Contents include: Women's Environmental Rights: A Manifesto by Leslie Kanes Weisman -- Street Museum by Sharon Sutton -- Seven Hypotheses on Female and Male Principles in Archiecture by Margrit Kennedy -- Sweat Equity and the Women..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1981. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Contributors: Su Friedrich, Helle Thorning, Vanalyne Green, Nancy Huston, Summer Brenner, Sondra Segal, Camilla Decarnin, Hattie Gossett, Joan Nestle, Pat Califia, Seph Weene, Eunice Golden, Harmony Hammond, Irare Sabasu, Paula Webster, Sandi Fellman, Batya Weinbaum, Mary Winston..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1981. Paperback. 96 p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Contributors: Joan L. Griscom, Donna Henes, Ynestra King, Victoria Garton, Christine Oatman, Rocky Olguin, Catherine Riddle, Hattie Carthan, Lorna Salzman, Margaret Benyon, Milagros Padilla, Anne Pitrone, Chris Domingo, Janet Culbertson, Lucy R. Lippard, Ruby Rohrlich, June Nash, Cecilia..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1983. Paperback. 95, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Includes: Nicaragua Journal by Victoria Schultz; Three-Minute Heroes by Annie Goldson; Born in Flames by Lizzie Borden; Lois Weber's Sacred Duty by Lisa L. Rudman; The Women behind the Camera by Julianne Burton and Zuzana Pick; Reinventing..... More
New York: Heresies Collective, 1985. Paperback. 96, 31, [1] p.: illustrations; 28 cm. Paperback. Includes: The Graphic Ordering of Desire: Modernization of a Middle-Class Women's Magazine, 1914-1939 by Sally Stein; War, Women, and Lipstick: Fan Mags in the Forties by Jane Gaines; One Mother of a Mountain by Sandra Joy..... More