Women's rights ephemera collection, ca. 1850-1989.

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Women's rights ephemera collection, ca. 1850-1989.

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This portion of the collection contains more than 160 business and trade advertising cards of 19th and early 20th century women working as dressmakers, hairdressers, shop and storekeepers, photographers, and other businesswomen, many embossed or with illustrations in color; trade cards, including many of Mrs. Potts Sad Irons, Lydia Pinkham, other women entrepreneurs, and advertisements of products for women. Includes 16 match book covers of women in the military, pilots, and women's clubs; 793 first day covers celebrating woman's suffrage and famous women (Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt), including New York N.O.W. collection; seven bills of Confederate money with the image of Lucy Petaway Holcombe Pickens, the first woman to appear on American currency, and Florence Nightingale on a British ten pound bill; a binder of 912 U.S. and foreign postage stamps honoring women, especially women in sports. Includes playing cards promoting suffrage; seals (suffrage, armed forces recruitment, women's organizations, philatelic societies, and sports); and buttons (political campaigns, suffrage, ERA, women flyers, and other women's issues).

1970 items.

Penn State Harrisburg Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7388734

Penn State Harrisburg Library

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