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 outdoosr 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.....

A double portrait of Dr. Kaku Sudo (1861–1963), the first Japanese American woman physician, and her colleague Dr. Hana Abe (1873–1922). The two Japanese women studied medicine at Laura Memorial College in Cincinnati in the mid-1890s. This photograph was used as the basis of an illustration in the Chicago Tribune.....

"This 618-page work, which required ten years to write, was the first 'definitive textbook' of congenital heart defects, a subspecialty of pediatrics that Taussig created."—Garrison-Morton Bibliography of the History of Medicine no. 2878. Taussig founded the field of pediatric cardiology and was the first woman elected to be the head of.....

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 prominet bearded woman in the.....

Three carte de visite (CDV) photographs of women employed in coal mining at Wigan and vicinity in the 1880s. Pit brow women (or lasses, formerly) worked at the top of British coal shafts, sifting coal and removing rocks, which was some of the most physically demanding work done by women anywhere.....

First Edition. A feminist classic and one of Woolf's most popular novels, a satyric account of English literary history through the adventures of the title character, a very long-lived poet who begins the book as a man and ends as a woman several centuries later. Woolf incorporated details from the.....

10 leaves, printed on one side only but numbered to 19. 8-1/2 by 9-1/2 inches. An edition of 200 copies. Colección Trébol. An essay about the Argentinean author's grandmother and other women who influenced her. Mimeographed text, with paper collage elements and handcoloring. Designed and illustrated by Violeta Naranjo with colorful.....

First Edition. A brief biography of a British Quaker prison reformer, told in part through extended quotations from her writings. Fry was honored in the UK with her picture on the 5-pound note. This is an adaptation of a book published by the London Tract Association. 94 pages. 4-1/8 by 6-1/4.....

Viola E. Myers (6 June 1854 to 24 April 1931) was born in Wilcox, Pennsylvania and in the 1870s and 1880s was the best-known bearded woman in the US. In 1883, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch declared Madame Meyers (as she was also known) "the best bearded woman in the business".....

A compelling but unidentified vintage cabinet card of two women wearing elaborate striped dresses, fringed hats and cross necklaces while holding playing cards. Just visible at their feet are the bases of stands used by the photographer to hold them in place during the long exposure needed for the photograph.....

First Edition. 276 pages. An autobiographical account of a radical anti-abortionist's escape from jail and his use of an anthrax scare to disrupt hundreds of abortion clinics following 9/11. Waagner, now serving a long prison sentence, is associated with the Army of God, perhaps the most militant wing of the.....