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Smoke (View 2)
Smoke. Amy Pirkle. Perkolator Press, 2006. -
Lettere d'Isabella Andreini Padouana
Isabella Andreini was the most celebrated commedia dell’arte actor of her time, and with her husband managed and was a member of the celebrated Gelosi theatrical troupe. Andreini was admitted into the Accademia degli Intenti in Pavia, and though she was involved in theater, she still managed to cultivate an image of a virtuous woman. -
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Letter to Judge Henry R. Selden
Judge Henry R. Selden had advised Susan B. Anthony that she had the right to vote. When she was subsequently arrested for voting, Selden represented her in court. In this letter, Anthony urges him to send the text of his argument so that it could be published in time for the upcoming National Woman Suffrage Association convention. She wrote the postscript to the letter on a flyer for a mass meeting of the New York Woman’s Suffrage Society. The collection includes Judge Selden’s own copy of the final printed version of his argument. -
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The XII Books of Marcus Aurelius Antoninus the Emperor
Jessie R. MacGibbon was a member of the Guild of Women Binders. She worked this binding in natural undressed goatskin, depicting a unique image—her self-portrait. She is framed within the structure of her book press, needle in hand, sewing the gatherings of her book. Her initials are arranged in the top frame; below she states her profession, “Binder.”Tags Bookbindings -
Connected View of the Whole Internal Navigation of the United States.
Lincoln’s adolescence was spent in Indiana. He later wrote that he had received less than a year’s schooling there—total. He was raised doing physical labor. He cleared trees for the family’s farm and was later employed to ferry flatboats of farm harvest down the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Poor roads in the West made river access indispensable, as Armroyd’s navigational map shows. On these trips and others, Lincoln encountered large slave markets, as well as the vibrant Black culture in New Orleans.Tags lincoln-section-1 -
Dr. Trent Army Medical Library Certificate
Picture of Dr. Trent's certificate from the Army Medical Library naming him as an honorary consultant. -
Final Report of the Task Force on Black/White Relations
A task force report created by ASDU (Duke's student government) to research the current state of black/white race relations on campus during the early '80s. -
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Some Reflections upon Marriage
English philosopher Mary Astell was one of the earliest feminist philosophers in the modern age. In this work she provides a witty but harsh critique of women’s disadvantages within contemporary marriage, famously asking, “if all Men are born free, how is it that all Women are born slaves?” -
Haec homo: wherein the excellency of the creation of woman is described, by way of an essay
English barrister William Austin advocated for legal and public liberties for women. The woodcuts shown here reference Leonardo da Vinci’s iconic Vitruvian Man, an image that defined ideal human proportions. Here Austin replaces the figure with the female body. Though diminutive, the images are monumental in spirit. Austin dedicated the book to Mary Griffith. It was published posthumously by his widow Anne. -
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Mme. Baclet née Gaugain, No. 24332, Brocanteur
Mme. Baclet was a brocantuer, or a dealer in second-hand goods. Many street and pushcart vendors were women who sold a range of goods. This badge was her license to sell legally on Paris streets. The police enforced the licenses. Vendors without a badge were limited to being “basketwoman” who might quickly slip away when the police drew near.Tags Trades -
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Manuscript receipt for “printing certificates of spirits, wines & teas imported in the first quarter of 1823”
Sister of two printers and married to another, Lydia Bailey was an experienced printer when she inherited a struggling shop upon the death of her husband in 1808. Industrious and enterprising, she printed for the Presbyterian church and numerous charitable organizations, including the Female Tract Society. From 1813 she was Printer to the City of Philadelphia, and master printer at one of the busiest printing shops in the city, employing over forty workers. The business printed almanacs, annual reports, bookseller catalogues, broadsides, and chapbooks. She was a printer for fifty-three years. -
Dean Ball of the Woman's College expresses a desire to move forward on creating an African American Studies curriculum
The idea of creating an African or African American Studies program was discussed for years before it eventually came into being. In 1968, Dean Ball of the Woman's College sent this memorandum to try to push the issue a bit further. Trinity College of Arts and Sciences, Office of the Dean records, 1911-2003.
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