American Historical Ephemera & Photography

The World's Congress Auxiliary of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893...Department of Woman's Progress. Chicago: N.p., 1893. 8vo. Original wrappers (minor soil, short marginal tear). FIRST EDITION of a pamphlet reporting from the week-long convention held during the Chicago World's Fair. During the week, 81 meetings were held with speeches given by nearly 500 women from 27 countries and attended by over 150,000 visitors. Many notable women attended the Congress including Jane Addams, Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Auguste Förster. RARE: OCLC locates only 2 copies, at the University of Illinois at Chicago Library and the Chicago History Museum.

[With:] KELLEY, Nicholas. Early Days at Hull House. Reprinted from The Social Service Review. Vol.XXVIII, No. 4, December 1954. 8vo. -- Hull House Theater. [Chicago]: N.p., [after 1918]. -- Together, 2 items from Hull House, founded by Jane Addams. [Also with:] MacLEISH, Archibald. A Tribute by Archibald MacLeish on the Occasion of the 100th Anniversary Observance of the Birth of Jane Addams. Chicago: Carson Pirie Scott & Co., 1960.

[With:] 2 copies. Chicago Froebel Kindergarten Association. [Chicago]: N.p., n.d. 8vo. 2 copies. -- Manuscript translation of Froebel's work by Mrs. Blatchford. 22 pages. -- Together, 2 items related to the Kindergarten movement pioneered by Mrs. E.M. Blatchford in Chicago. She opened the first free kindergarten in Chicago in 1879, inspired by the work of German education reformer Friedrich Forebel. 

[With:] Illinois Woman's Press Association. N.p.: N.p., 1898. 3 3/4 x 5 in. handbill. -- BLAINE, Anita McCormick. Address Delivered Before the Child Welfare Exhibit on 24 May 1911. N.p.: N.p., 1911. 8vo. -- Annual Register. Jan. '78 to Jan. '79. Highland Hall. Highland Park, IL: C.E. Southard, 1879. 3 3/8 x 6 in. pamphlet. Highland Hall was "a preparatory and collegiate institution for young ladies." -- Augusta Female Seminary! [Staunton, VA]: N.p., n.d. 10 x 12 1/2 in. broadside (adhesive residue to verso, creasing, toned). Advertises various rules for students. Founded in 1842, the school was renamed Mary Baldwin Seminary in 1895, and to Mary Baldwin College in 1923. -- Together, 5 items related to women and education, condition generally very good. 

[Also with:] The Spiritual Review. Vol. I, No. 6. Chicago, 9 February 1867. Folio, 16pp. "Devoted to Radical Reform." -- The Temperance Educator. Vol. I, No. IV. Chicago, April 1882. Folio, 4pp. newspaper. Front-page article on "Prohibition in Kansas." -- [WILLARD, Frances (1839-1898)]. Photograph showing a portrait of Frances Willard, Abraham Lincoln, and various pro-Temperance sentiments. N.p., [ca 1933]. Willard was an advocate of women's suffrage and the National President of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union.  -- Together, 3 items related to women's suffrage and temperance, condition generally very good.