First Edition. The most detailed 19th century directory of Humboldt County, a remote region in far northwest California that at the time was only reachable by ship. This is also one of the only Western directories compiled and published by a woman. The first 126 pages are mostly devoted to the.....

A commercial studio portrait of two Newhaven fish wives, the women who gutted and prepared fish and hauled the results to market in the village of Newhaven, just north of Edinburgh. The fish women were popular subjects for painters and photographers because of their distinctive vertically striped dresses. This image shows.....

A portrait of two unidentified women holding strands of yarn. They are wearing distinctive uniforms of thick gathered skirt over a second, stiff, horizontally pleated skirt; a tunic over a blouse, and a flat cloth head covering that seems to tie in a large bow around their necks. On the.....

A gelatin silver print image of women working in a munitions factory assembling aerial bombs. A man, possibly the supervisor, stands on the opposite side of the table. A 48-star American flag hangs above them. Your cataloguer has no expertise in identifying bombs, but these seem somewhat more advanced than.....

One of Holmes' (a second generation British photographer working in Pakistan in the early twentieth century) finest art prints, a platinum print of a studio portrait of a young Pastun woman taken in the North-West Frontier Province of India (near what is Peshawar, Pakistan, today). Holmes is best known for.....

First Edition. The text of a speech given by one of the vice-presidents of the Women's National Indian Association at their annual meeting in December 1894. The group of (white) women advocated for Native American rights and encouraged Native assimilation and conversion to Christianity. The gist of the speech is.....

First Edition. With a foreword by Katherine Dunn, the author of Geek Love. Denfeld, an amateur boxer, takes on traditional notions of women's peacefulness. 182 pages. First edition (first printing, with a numberline ending in 1). A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This copy is signed by both.....

A circa 1870s carte-de-visite photograph (CDV) of the first woman to run for President in the US. 2-7/16 by 4-1/16 inches. Thick mount; rounded corners. This CDV shows Victoria Woodhull in profile from the waist up wearing a ruffled gown and a matching cap. The verso of the photograph is blank.....

A head-and-shoulders profile portrait of the first woman to practice medicine in Cincinnati, Ohio. This image was used for Dr. Howard's entry in A Woman of the Century (1893). Howard (nèe Robinson?; Shelby, Ohio, 3 May 1841 – Covington, KY, 8 August 1921) attended medical school at the New York.....

An original mounted albumen photograph of a woman making tortillas outdoors on a stone pavement. In the photograph she is leaning over a stone metate, grinding corn. To the left (her right) is what appears to be a flat metal sheet for cooking. She is surrounded by clay ollas and.....

First Edition. A classic tale of white pioneer settlement in Washington, by one of the founders of Lynden, Washington. The book was self published a few months before the author died, based on the journals she kept, starting during her overland crossing in 1853. The book remains in print today.....

In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (sic) "the best bearded woman in the business" (see February 15 issue). Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the most prominent bearded woman in the.....

First Edition. An important work in the history of gynecology and feminism—a scientific argument by one of the first American women doctors against the standard prescription of total rest for women during their periods. This medical practice sidelined middle- and upper-class women for several days each month (poor women have.....