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1800s

Progress of Female Virtue: Engraved by A. Cardon from the Original Drawings by Mrs. Cosway

Maria Hadfield Cosway — artist and educator

Progress of Female Virtue: Engraved by A. Cardon from the Original Drawings by Mrs. Cosway

[Creamer with an image of the Ladies of Llangollen]; [Ladies of Llangollen figurine]

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby — the Ladies of Llangollen

[Creamer with an image of the Ladies of Llangollen]; [Ladies of Llangollen figurine]

Letter to Mrs. Sarah Tighe

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby — the Ladies of Llangollen

Letter to Mrs. Sarah Tighe

Deed of emancipation, Court held for Norfolk County, Virginia

Susannah Mallory — purchased her freedom

Deed of emancipation, Court held for Norfolk County, Virginia

Sabbath lessons, or, An abstract of sacred history: to which is annexed, a geographical sketch of the principal places mentioned in sacred history

Elizabeth Peabody — writer and educator

Sabbath lessons, or, An abstract of sacred history: to which is annexed, a geographical sketch of the principal places mentioned in sacred history

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

Jane Aitken — printer, publisher, and bookbinder

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

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

Ann Williams — freed her family

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

Cosmographie

Emma Lascal — student

[Anti-slavery dessert service]

Anti-slavery fairs

[Anti-slavery dessert service]

Manuscript receipt for “printing certificates of spirits, wines & teas imported in the first quarter of 1823”

Lydia Bailey — printer

Manuscript receipt for “printing certificates of spirits, wines & teas imported in the first quarter of 1823”

Murder: Whereas Robert Smith, Late of Deptford, Shoe-maker, Stands Charged with the Murder of his Uncle, Mr. James Smith, of Lewisham [. . .]

Elizabeth Delahoy — printer

Murder: Whereas Robert Smith, Late of Deptford, Shoe-maker, Stands Charged with the Murder of his Uncle, Mr. James Smith, of Lewisham [. . .]

[Reward of merit for neatness and order given to Mary Morgan]

Emma Willard — educator and historian

[Reward of merit for neatness and order given to Mary Morgan]

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...

Marie Anne Victoire Gillain Boivin — midwife

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...

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"

Anna Wheeler — philosopher

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"

Miss M. A. Honeywell […] Fine Cutting and Embroidery, on Paper, Executed by Herself, without Hands

Martha Ann Honeywell — cut-paper and wax miniaturist, embroiderer, and business owner

Miss M. A. Honeywell […] Fine Cutting and Embroidery, on Paper, Executed by Herself, without Hands

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby — the Ladies of Llangollen

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby — the Ladies of Llangollen

The Rt. Honble. Lady Eleanor Butler & Miss Ponsonby

Floriana or the Method of Constructing Artificial Flowers

Madame de Rhinfield — artificial flower artist

Floriana or the Method of Constructing Artificial Flowers

Manuscript medical certificate

Alsy — enslaved woman

Manuscript medical certificate

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley — writer

Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

Lydia Maria Child — abolitionist, social reformer, and writer

An Appeal in Favor of That Class of Americans Called Africans

Plates Illustrating the Geology & Scenery of Massachusetts

Orra White Hitchcock — geological and botanical artist

Plates Illustrating the Geology & Scenery of Massachusetts

On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

Mary Somerville — scientist

On the Connexion of the Physical Sciences

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

Sojourner Truth — abolitionist and writer

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

Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman

Sarah Moore Grimké — abolitionist and suffragist

Letters on the Equality of the Sexes, and the Condition of Woman

History of Pennsylvania Hall Which Was Destroyed by a Mob On the 17th of May, 1838

Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women

History of Pennsylvania Hall Which Was Destroyed by a Mob On the 17th of May, 1838

Susan P. Parrott account book

Susan P. Parrott — seamstress

Susan P. Parrott account book

[Flowers]

Charlotte Brontë — writer

Letter to Ellen Nussey

Charlotte Brontë — writer

Letter to Ellen Nussey

Letter to Robert Adams

Sophia Foord — abolitionist and teacher

Letter to Robert Adams

[Poems and illustrations]

Mary B. Tuckey — abolitionist

[Poems and illustrations]

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

Madame Restell — birth control and abortion provider

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

Letter to Thomas and Mary Ann McClintock

Lucretia Mott — suffragist and abolitionist

Letter to Thomas and Mary Ann McClintock

Plas Newydd: Near Llangollen

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby — the Ladies of Llangollen

Plas Newydd: Near Llangollen

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

Seamstresses

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

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

Need for female physicians

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

Manuscript blurb for Sojourner Truth’s Narrative

Sojourner Truth and Harriet Beecher Stowe — abolitionists and writers

Manuscript blurb for Sojourner Truth’s Narrative

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828

Sojourner Truth — abolitionist and feminist

Narrative of Sojourner Truth: A Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828

Roach St. School 4th Grade Class

Woman teacher

Roach St. School 4th Grade Class

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

Mary Seacole — nurse and businesswoman

Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands

An Introductory Lecture to a Course on Physiology, will be Delivered by Mary J. Scarlett, M.D.

Mary J. Scarlett — physician and professor

An Introductory Lecture to a Course on Physiology, will be Delivered by Mary J. Scarlett, M.D.

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

Mary Ward — naturalist and artist

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

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

Harriet E. Wilson — writer

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

Legends of North Wales and Reminiscenes of a Short Visit to the Vale of Llangollen

Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby — the Ladies of Llangollen

Legends of North Wales and Reminiscenes of a Short Visit to the Vale of Llangollen

The Slave’s Appeal

Elizabeth Cady Stanton — abolitionist and suffragist

The Slave’s Appeal

[Coal barons at the Savage Mine, Virginia City, Nevada]

Women philanthropists

[Coal barons at the Savage Mine, Virginia City, Nevada]

[Portrait of Lucretia Mott]

Lucretia Mott — abolitionist and suffragist

[Portrait of Lucretia Mott]

The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom

Enslaved women

The Gospel of Slavery: A Primer of Freedom

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance [cabinet card]

Sojourner Truth — abolitionist and feminist

I Sell the Shadow to Support the Substance [cabinet card]

Madame Restell’s Mansion on Fifth Avenue [stereoview]

Madame Restell — birth control and abortion provider

Madame Restell’s Mansion on Fifth Avenue [stereoview]

Te Deum Laudamus

Emily Faithfull — publisher

Te Deum Laudamus

The Revolution

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony — abolitionists and suffragists

[Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe]

Harriet Beecher Stowe — abolitionist and writer

[Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe]

[Portrait of Emily Faithfull]

Emily Faithfull — publisher

[Portrait of Emily Faithfull]

[Portrait of Martha Maxwell from “Mrs. M.A. Maxwell’s Rocky Mountain Series”]

Martha Maxwell — naturalist and taxidermist

[Portrait of Martha Maxwell from “Mrs. M.A. Maxwell’s Rocky Mountain Series”]

Letter to Judge Henry R. Selden

Susan B. Anthony — abolitionist and suffragist

Letter to Judge Henry R. Selden

Rights of Women under the Late Constitutional Amendments

Susan B. Anthony — abolitionist and suffragist

Rights of Women under the Late Constitutional Amendments

Letter to Mr. Strickland

Lydia Maria Child — abolitionist and social reformer

Letter to Mr. Strickland

The Alpha

Helen Douglass — abolitionist and suffragist

On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made her Natural History Collection

Martha Maxwell — naturalist and taxidermist

On the Plains, and Among the Peaks, or, How Mrs. Maxwell Made her Natural History Collection

Lucifer: The Light-Bearer

Women's rights and birth control

Lucifer: The Light-Bearer

Jennie Nuttall autograph album

Lizzie Borden

Jennie Nuttall autograph album

Discourses to Women on Medical Subjects

Anna Longshore-Potts — physician

Discourses to Women on Medical Subjects

[Portrait of Emma Goldman]

Emma Goldman — anarchist, social reformer, writer, and publisher

[Portrait of Emma Goldman]

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"

Madame Restell — birth control and abortion provider

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"

[Virginia Woolf’s writing desk]

Virginia Woolf — writer

[Virginia Woolf’s writing desk]

[Portrait of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony — abolitionists and suffragists

[Portrait of Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton]

The Fairy-land of Science

Arabella B. Buckley — scientist

The Fairy-land of Science

The reason why the colored American is not in the world's Columbian exposition: the Afro-American's contribution to Columbian literature

Ida B. Wells — journalist and social reformer

The reason why the colored American is not in the world's Columbian exposition: the Afro-American's contribution to Columbian literature

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

Elizabeth Blackwell — physician

Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women

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

Victoria Earle Matthews — political activist and journalist

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

Letter to Sarah M’Clintock

Elizabeth Cady Stanton — abolitionist and suffragist

Letter to Sarah M’Clintock

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

Women's reproductive health

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

Am I Not a Woman and a Sister

American Anti-Slavery Society

Am I Not a Woman and a Sister

Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter

Amelia Opie — writer and abolitionist

Adeline Mowbray, or The Mother and Daughter

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February 28, 2019 – June 15, 2019
Duke University Libraries

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December 11, 2019 – February 8, 2020
Grolier Club, New York City

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