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Progress of Female Virtue: Engraved by A. Cardon from the Original Drawings by Mrs. Cosway, 1800
[Creamer with an image of the Ladies of Llangollen]; [Ladies of Llangollen figurine], [1800s]
Letter to Mrs. Sarah Tighe, 30 July 1801
Deed of emancipation, Court held for Norfolk County, Virginia, 19 July 1803
Sabbath lessons, or, An abstract of sacred history: to which is annexed, a geographical sketch of the principal places mentioned in sacred history, 1810
Census directory for 1811: containing the names, occupations, & residence of the inhabitants of the city, Southwark & Northern Liberties, a separate division being allotted to persons of colour: to which is annexed an appendix containing much useful information, and a perpetual calendar, 1811
A portraiture of domestic slavery, in the United States: with reflections on the practicability of restoring the moral rights of the slave, without impairing the legal privileges of the possessor; and, a project of a colonial asylum for free persons of colour, including memoirs of facts on the interior traffic in slaves, and, on kidnapping: illustrated with engravings, 1817
Cosmographie, [ca. 1820s]
[Anti-slavery dessert service], [ca. 1820s]
Manuscript receipt for “printing certificates of spirits, wines & teas imported in the first quarter of 1823”, 2 April 1823
Murder: Whereas Robert Smith, Late of Deptford, Shoe-maker, Stands Charged with the Murder of his Uncle, Mr. James Smith, of Lewisham [. . .], [1823]
[Reward of merit for neatness and order given to Mary Morgan], 1823
Memorial de l'art des accouchemens, ou, Principes fondés sur la pratique de l'Hospice de la maternité de Paris et sur celle des plus célèbres praticiens nationaux et étrangers : suivis, 1° des aphorismes de Mauriceau; 2° d'une série de 140 gravures représtant le mécanisme de toutes les espèces d'accouchemens : ouvrage placé, par décision ministérielle, au rang des livres classiques à l'usage des élèves de l'Ecole d'accouchemens de Paris..., 1824
Appeal of one half the human race, women, against the pretensions of the other half, men: to retain them in political, and hence in civil and domestic, slavery; in reply to a paragraph of Mr. Mill's celebrated "Article on government", 1825
Geography for beginners, or, The instructer's assistant in giving first lessons from maps in the style of familiar conversation, accompanied with an atlas: being intended as the first, or introductory book, to a series of geographical works, by William C. Woodbridge, and Emma Willard, of which, the second book is entitled "The rudiments of geography," the third book, "Universal geography", 1826
The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby, [ca. 1830-1850]
The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby, [ca. 1830-1865]
Floriana or the Method of Constructing Artificial Flowers, [ca. 1830]
Manuscript medical certificate, 21 February 1831
Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus, 1831
An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans, 1833
Plates Illustrating the Geology & Scenery of Massachusetts, 1833
On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences, [1834]
Fanaticism: its source and influence, illustrated by the simple narrative of Isbella, in the case of Matthias, Mr. and Mrs. B. Folger, Mr. Pierson, Mr. Mills, Catherine, Isabella, &c. &c.: a reply to W.L. Stone, with descriptive portraits of all the parties, while at Sing-Sing and at Third street, containing the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, 1835
Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman, 1838
History of Pennsylvania Hall Which Was Destroyed by a Mob On the 17th of May, 1838, 1838
Susan P. Parrott account book, 1839-1846
[Flowers], [ca. 1840s]
Letter to Ellen Nussey, 12 November 1840
Letter to Robert Adams, 8 May 1843
[Poems and illustrations], 1846
The married woman's private medical companion: embracing the treatment of menstruation, or monthly turns, during their stoppage, irregularity, or entire suppression: pregnancy, and how it may be determined, with the treatment of its various diseases: discovery to prevent pregnancy, the great and important necessity where malformation or inability exists to give birth: to prevent miscarriage or abortion: when proper and necessary to effect miscarriage when attended with entire safety: causes and mode of cure of barrenness, or sterility, 1848
Letter to Thomas and Mary Ann McClintock, 26 August 1849
Plas Newydd: Near Llangollen, [1850?]
Simple directions in needle-work and cutting out: intended for the use of the National Female Schools of Ireland: to which are added specimens of the work executed by the pupils of The Female National Model School, 1850
Medical morals, illustrated with plates and extracts from medical works: designed to show the pernicious social and moral influence of the present system of medical practice, and the importance of establishing female medical colleges, and educating and employing female physicians for their own sex, 1853
Manuscript blurb for Sojourner Truth’s Narrative, [1853?]
Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828, 1853
Woman's Rights Commensurate with Her Capacities and Obligations: A Series of Tracts, 1853
Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands, 1857
An Introductory Lecture to a Course on Physiology, will be Delivered by Mary J. Scarlett, M.D., [1858?]
Telescope teachings: a familiar sketch of astronomical discovery: combining a special notice of objects coming within the range of a small telescope, illustrated by the author's original drawings: with a detail of the most interesting discoveries which have been made with the assistance of powerful telescopes, concerning the phenomena of the heavenly bodies, including the recent comet, 1859
Our Nig; or, Sketches from the life of a free Black: in a two-story white house, North, showing that slavery's shadows fall even there, 1859
Legends of North Wales and Reminiscenes of a Short Visit to the Vale of Llangollen, [ca. 1860]
The Slave’s Appeal, 1860
[Coal barons at the Savage Mine, Virginia City, Nevada], [ca. 1860-1880]
[Portrait of Lucretia Mott], [1861]
The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom, [1864]
I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance [cabinet card], 1864
Madame Restell’s Mansion on Fifth Avenue [stereoview], [ca. 1865–1876]
Te Deum Laudamus, [1868]
The Revolution, 1868-1872
[Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe], [ca. 1870]
[Portrait of Emily Faithfull], [ca. 1870s]
[Portrait of Martha Maxwell from “Mrs. M.A. Maxwell’s Rocky Mountain Series”], [ca. 1870s]
Letter to Judge Henry R. Selden, December 1873
Rights of Women under the Late Constitutional Amendments, 1873
Letter to Mr. Strickland, 6 December 1875
The Alpha, 1875-1888
On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made her Natural History Collection, 1879
Lucifer: The Light-Bearer, 1883-1907
Jennie Nuttall autograph album, 1884-1895
Discourses to Women on Medical Subjects, 1887
[Portrait of Emma Goldman], [ca. 1890]
Madame Restell!: her secret life-history from her birth to her suicide: full details: showing how she became rich: who her victims were, and how she held them in her power: her tricks and devices: what she did and how she did: all about her: "the most terrible being ever born", [1890?]
[Virginia Woolf’s writing desk], [1890s]
[Portrait of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton], [1891]
The Fairy-land of Science, 1893
The reason why the colored American is not in the world's Columbian exposition: the Afro-American's contribution to Columbian literature, 1893
Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women, 1895
The Value of Race Literature: An Address Delivered at the First Congress of Colored Women of the United States, at Boston, Mass., July 30th, 1895, [1895]
Letter to Sarah M’Clintock, 31 March [1897]
Geburtshilfliches Taschenphantom zur Darstellung des Beckenausgangs-Mechanismus der Kopflagen und der Operationen bei denselben nebst einer Besprechung der Eintheilung, Diagnose, Pathologie und Therapie der Kopflagen, 1899
Am I Not a Woman and a Sister, 1838
Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter, 1805
Miss M. A. Honeywell […] Fine Cutting and Embroidery, on Paper, Executed by Herself, without Hands, [ca. 1830s?]
Roach St. School 4th Grade Class, 1896
February 28, 2019 – June 15, 2019Duke University Libraries
December 11, 2019 – February 8, 2020Grolier Club, New York City