What Women Have Done

Lynn, Massachusetts: Lydia E. Pinkham Company, 1910. Good to very good. Toned with dust soiling and short tears, including one larger short tear to head of spine. Wrappers chipped and worn.. A look into the contributions of women in history, advertising remedies by Lydia E. Pinkham (1819-1883), an American businesswoman who became well-known for marketing remedies for female ailments. Subject headings include Woman "in Medicine", "as Nurse", "as Educator", "in Business", "as Novelist", "in Law", "as Artist", "on the Stage", "in Music", "in Philanthropy", "as Sculptor", "in Science", "in the Home", "in Politics", and "in Religion". Includes a Table of Occupations of Women in the rear, with stats for the number of women in different fields (actors, lawyers, teachers, etc.) in 1880 and 1910.

16mo (7" by 4.5"), 32 pp., illustrated, stapled in original illustrated wrappers with Joan of Arc on the front. Ink stamp of The Owl Pharmacy on lower wrapper.