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50 issues' worth of corporate-sponsored Teen Topics, which include: "Social Krymes" (showing off, knowing too much, correcting others), the "mighty peculiar" subject of "boyology," how to push a boy's "button of Expectation," how to be a Man's Woman, and how to make any number of Adorable Hats. OCLC finds just one location (Cornell).

$450.00

2.

Charm school handbook for unfortunate girls of the early 1960s, by "Wendy Ward," phantom female avatar of the Montgomery Ward Corporation. Highlights include smile exercises ("With your upper lip alone, try to touch the tip of your nose") and rules for developing good taste ("Know what is bad about you and learn to disguise it.") Remember, "If you spend 85% of your time, or even 50% of your time in "Tom Boy" pursuits, entailing inherently masculine characteristics and attitudes, likely you will lose much of your feminine identity." A treasure-house of horrors.

$200.00

3.

An early photo album of Mrs. Dow's School for Girls (later Briarcliffe College, now part of Pace University), circa 1906. Included here are three interior views of the newly finished Dow Hall and several additional views of dorm rooms, gymnasium and other interiors. The remaining images of student groups and theater department productions are sharp, clear, and well composed, with theater shots exhibiting elaborate and unusual set and costume designs.  While  multiple copies of this album were likely produced, OCLC notes no similar holdings.

$875.00

4.

Photo album documenting summers at Girl Scout Camp Cardinal and Camp Tall Trees in the late 1920s. Campers and counselors alike pictured in uniform, in costume, and dressed for sport and recreation: Images include a snapshot of two Scouts in a dramatic embrace for "Stunt Nite" 1928, a precarious gymnastics pyramid, archery practice, and a joint GSA/BSA march for Armistice Day.

$575.00

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Student notebook from a New York state teacher's training course in the late 1890s. With sections on Corporal Punishment ("If a teacher wishes to punish a child she may do it without the parents' consent"); the Compulsory Education Law ("The law provides that parents may be fined or imprisoned or both"); and the Physiology Law (mandating instruction in "physiology relating to alcoholic drinks and other narcotics and their effects on the human system.")

$250.00

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Collection of original art from Faith Burrows' FLAPPER FILOSOFY which ran from the 1920s through the early 1930s. Burrows (1904-1997) was one of the earliest successful female comic strip artists in a business almost completely dominated by men. Distributed by King Features Syndicate and the O'Dell Newspaper Service, each single-panel comic features a fashionable flapper with a humorous caption. Burrows' strip helped establish the flapper look in the popular imagination, a movement that marked the beginning of what we know think of as youth culture. Subjects include Prohibition, the stock market crash, smoking, Hollywood, and other timely themes. A strip with clear proto-feminist themes from a pioneering woman in her field.

$950.00

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Two World War II-era department store programs for working women's fashion. The first promises to outfit women in "Red Cross uniforms, Civilian Defense uniforms, trimly tailored slacks, for everything from Canteen and First Aid to a class in Mechanics;" the second urges "business girls" to abandon caution and forget about budgeting, because glamour "strengthens your morale though it may weaken your cash reserve."  With special wartime lipstick colorways Firelight, Siren, and All Clear.

$150.00

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Photograph album of the women of the United Airlines 1945-46 training class, on and off duty: on holiday in Reno, on the beach in Santa Cruz, drinking and dancing with flight crew, sailors, and others. A record of the enthusiasm and freedom of young working women in the immediate post-war era.

$800.00