suffrage
Meet Author, Suffragist, and Minister Phebe Hanaford
Daughters of America is a book in our Digital Library that I find myself turning to time and again when researching blog posts or highlighting 19th-century women on our social media platforms. This book contains the biographies of First Ladies and genteel writers that you might expect from a publication of the time, but also women scientists, inventors, doctors, lawyers, abolitionists, and suffragists.
In the library, Progressive Club from The woman's book.
Practical Cooking and Dinner Giving
This well-used volume, in its original, gold-decorated publisher's binding, provides the reader with simple rules to cook and present meals. Its preface states: "The aim of this book is to indicate how to serve dishes, and to entertain company at breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as to give cooking receipts.
