Search Results: Women from Little Sages Books, ABAA

Washington DC: Bureau of Labor Statistics , U.S. Department of Labor , 1913. Wraps. Good. 92p., 16 plates: women operating ironers (1 African American), laundry machinery. 9" x 6" in printed wrapper. Lacking lower wrap, upper chipped, few pencil marks in text. Power laundries were an industry that primarily employed women. Marie Louise Obenauer completed this study of 31 laundries, evaluating both the working conditions and the physical demands placed on women. She includes a statistical analysis of the age, ethnicity, work experience, pay, and hours of work for over 500 of the women.

New York, 1920. Letter. Very good. 4p. letter: My dear Eunice, I called up the Hospital soon after I reached home and found that Miss Maxwell would prefer a personal interview but would not be home until October. Can you meet me this Saturday in the morning. Take the subway to 42nd St. and then the Madison ave. car which will take you to the door at 70th St. and Madison Ave. I will meet you there at about 11:30 am. Go in up the steps and you will find a settee facing the door, wait for me there: If you cannot come and want to write me, send letter the following address: 103 E 86th St. to Mrs. J. W. Lapsley. I am on duty at this address so that is the reason I am meeting you at the Hospital. Your age will be all right and they could not accept you until next September which is what you wanted. If this is not satisfactory will try and arrange a later date. Very Sincerely, Carolyn Stryker. Creaselines.

New York: Care of Spenser Publishing , 1900. Leaflet. Very good. 3p., How to look well until 80, Rest, Voice, False Standards, Working Women, Domestic Service, Open Church Doors, King's Daughers, Trained Nurse. Folded leaflet, 4.5" x 3.5. Lightly creased. Spenser was a New York City based Victorian era public speaker and author. None apparently recorded, nor any material by Freeland.

Bridgeton: COWAN Printing , 1952. Staplebound. Good. Pierson . Stapled booklet, 9" x 6", creased with light soiling, check mark in blue pencil. 16 pages, halftone painting by Elizabeth Willis Pierson, 'Punch surveys Commerce and Laurel [streets]', halftone of sheep in field, advertisements. Articles on reform care for the mentally ill, travel to Columbia, 'earning your wings' in which women note first flight. Issues held at Stockton and Rutgers University.