Search Results: Titles starting with Y from Max Rambod Inc.

Y.M.C.A. - Y.W.C.A. Mixer. Iowa State College, Sept. 29, 1922. Set of 3 booklets, each 4 pages. Booklets in which one could record name and home addresses of new friends made at a social mixer between men and women's groups. These rare cards for a social mixer organized for the Y.M.C.A. and Y.W.C.A. All 3 cards are filled with pen and pencil signatures. Very good.

The Y.W.C.A. Crescent. July 1892. Vol. 2, no. 4. Young Women's Christian Association, 1892. Newsletter with the slogan "Our Aim is Progress," published by the Young Women's Christian Association. Covers are loose or separated from body of the newsletter. Very good.

[Anti-Vietnam War] Juan Farinas Defense Committee. Press release covering Cuban exile, Juan Farinas', arrest and associated anti-Vietnam War demonstrations. New York: the Committee, 1971. Size 8.5" x 11" inches. 8 pages. In December of 1968, twenty-three year old Columbia University worker, Juan Farinas, was tried and convicted on three counts of violating the Selective Service Act. According to the official press release, [Farinas'] only crime was to distribute a leaflet in opposition to the Vietnam War at the Whitehall Induction Center in the summer of 1968". In addition, he was prosecuted for refusing to report for and submit to the draft. In support of Farinas' diligent anti-war efforts, many labor unions, including Local 1199, helped to raise money for his trial defense and appeal process, conducting letter-writing campaigns and more. In a profound statement to the court, Farinas indicted the government and the U.S. prosecutor: 'You and your government may brand me as a criminal, but let me tell… Read More

French movie star. Signed Photo, glossy 9.5 x 7.5 photo of a young and beautiful Bardot and director Roger Vadim, signed in black felt tip,"Brigitte Bardot". In excellent condition.

Handwritten project book from primary school student. Story of the Pilgrims. 1905. Child's notebooks with original yellow card-stock boards, bound in green cloth. 7 in x 6 in. 17 handwritten pages. Gilt title on front cover and spine. Includes drawings and pasted images of Plymouth Rock, Native Americans, ships, and others. Charming handwritten project book from a child at the turn of the century. Handwritten report on "The Story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving". "There was a King that sent all the people of England to go to the Church of England but there were some people that did not like that at all and sometime they had a little meeting in their cellar so that they went tot Holland and all the Holland people welcomed the Pilgrims and the Pilgrims stayed in Holland for two years. Then the Pilgrims went over to America in the boat called the Mayflower and the Speedwell but the Speedwell broke down so that all the Pilgrims and the people in Holland were so sorry to have them leave...they… Read More

[Photo Album] [Girls Education] Photo album with 49 photos of a young girl and her friends around 1920. 49 small silver gelatin print photos. All approximately 1 1/4 x 1 in. Original green paper boards. 7 x 10 in. Ribbon tie binding. Gilt "Photographs" on front cover. 7 pages. Original owner's name on top right front cover in pencil. Handwritten captions identify the first and last names of most sitters. One hand-drawn pencil portrait on last page of a woman wearing a winged Dutch cap. Photographs of at least 35 different children. Small portrait photos from children with many different props used during daily activities, including sports equipment and theater costumes. All of the young girls have short bob haircuts, a popular style of the early 1920's, especially for those who played sports. Many of the girls are pictured with athletic accessories for tennis rackets, basketballs, and volleyballs. One picture even shows a girl in a top hat with what appears to be an (empty) alcohol bottle; 1920 was… Read More

High school girl's English notebook with handwritten, original essays on Shakespeare and George Eliot from 1920-1921 academic year. 10 x 8 in. Original black cloth boards. 116 pages. Entries from 1920-1921. Handwritten in ink on inside front cover "Nellie Johnson, CCHS '24". Clinton Community High School in Clinton, IL. First homework entry dated December 14, 1920. Includes chapters on grammar, literature devices, and poetry. 2 large hand-drawn literary analysis diagrams. Chapter book reports with teacher's corrections and very interesting, full-page hand-drawn "Diagram of Plots" on George Eliot's "Silas Marner". "At the New Year's party Priscilla said she was obliged to the same gowns and Nancy because she was five years older than her. And at the first sight of Godfrey Cass that Nancy saw and her arrival there, then the Squire came in and gave a loud greeting to her father..." Diagram highlights 3 major plot points: The Reward, The Substitute, and The Theft. Hand-drawn chart of rising action for… Read More

[Women Education] [Handwritten] Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems and essays. 119 handwritten pages, including a 2-page index at the conclusion. Entries dated 1873-1874. Original boards. Floral decorative pattern in white, blue, and gold on both covers, page edges gilt. 9 x 7.5 in. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" on first page. Filled with handwritten poems and essays, including work by Edgar Allen Poe, James Montgomery, William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Browning, Shakespeare, Washington Irving, and Oliver Goldsmith. Also short fiction such as "The Monk," part of Laurence Sterne's Sentimental Journey through France and Italy, first published in 1765 and reprinted several times in the 19th century for teaching elocution.  Copying essays, poetry, stories, and compositions was the standard teaching tool throughout the 19th century.  The exercise taught handwriting, spelling, grammar, knowledge of literature and other subjects of the material, and elocution. The… Read More

[Women Education] [Handwritten] Composition book of young lady filled with handwritten poems, essays, and stories. 111 handwritten pages. Signed "Miss L. Sargeson" and dated "9-6-75" on first page. Entries date to 1875. Original boards. 9 x 7.5 in. Decorative green and purple flower design on covers, page edges gilt. Includes several verses from Shakespeare, including a few lines from A Midsummer's Night Dream: "Night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger, At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards." Includes an excerpt about "The Moon" from John Milton's epic poem Paradise Lost: "Rising in clouded majesty, at length, Apparent queen unveiled her peerless light, And o'er the dark her silver mantle threw." Notably, women writers are also represented in the composition book. She includes "Continuance of Moral Education" by Harriet Martineau, the British social theorist who is often cited as the first female sociologist. Also… Read More

[Women Education] 19th Century Handwritten composition notebook of a young woman filled with poems and verses in many hands, dating from 1862-1863. Includes poetry about studying for school examinations and writing compositions. 7 1/2 x 6 1/2 in. Original green boards. 78 pages full of handwritten poems and verses. Handwritten on front end page: "Katie E. Kimmens. Providence 11th Mo., 1862." "A week before Examination" "One has a headache, one a cold, One has her neck in flannel rolled; Ask the complaint and you are told, 'Next week's examination'...One bangs the books then grasps them tight, And studies morning noon and night, As though she took some strange delight, In these examinations/ The books are marred, defaced and thumbed, The brains with midnight tasks benumed, Still all in that account is summed, Next week's examinations" "Compositions" "Some have a lesson hard to get, And have not even seen it yet, Ask when what tis that makes them fret, "Oh dear, tis Composition Day"!/ One's last and… Read More

[19th cent Women ] Friendship album with poems and inscriptions written in many hands, to a New England young lady. 1825-1830. Original paper boards. 7.5 x 6 in. 92 pages of handwritten inscriptions from numerous different individuals. Entries dated from 1825-1894. Friends included their location when they made the entry, listing cities and towns from all over New England, including Boston, Amherst, and Burlington (VT). Mary Newton, a young lady. Many of the entries are title "To a Friend" or "To Miss Newton." "Joy cannot claim a purer bliss, Nor griefs den from stain more dear, Than female friendship's meeting kiss, Than female friendship's parting tear". Some, such as "Song" are rhyming lines of poetry: "It is not for your eagle eye, Though bright it glance may be, It is not for your sunny smile, That, Mary, I love thee-". The poems were usually not original, but would have heavy themes of memory and sentimentality. "I looked and behold! A dark cloud met my sight, But soon its thick mantle was… Read More

Edward Freeman. Autograph Letter Signed. April 2, 1873, Somerleaze, Wells, Somerset England. 4 pages on a single sheet folded. To "My Dear Lord" (possibly a Bishop) About a teacher who is too talented to be a governess, whose name he puts forward as a candidate for headmistress of a new girls' school. Stating in part, "I see your name as a "Patron of the new Girls School to be set up at Manchester." I do not know whether that word is to be taken in the ecclesiastical sense, as employing that you have a voice in disposing of offices in it. If so, I would venture to recommend a candidate for the place of Head Mistress, which I hear that the Committee are going about to fill, one whom I am sure you will find it a great gain to put at the head of the new institution. This is Miss Macarthur, who has been governess in my house for nearly five years and who is just now leaving us because all my daughters are now grown up. She is in correspondence with Miss Vernon, to whom Mrs. Kitchener first spoke of her,… Read More

Spain-A 10 pesetas revenue stamp imprint in a license granted to a 21 year old female teacher for primary school education on vellum with ornate border, coat of arms Castilla y Leon, by order of His Majesty The King and the "Governing Queen of the Kingdom." Madrid 1891. This license was granted during the unstable period between the First and Second Republic, when the Monarchy ruled with a tenuous grasp and educational reform remained in constant flux between the agendas of liberals and conservatives. Secondary and higher education received the most true reform, however, all would later fall into the iron grasp of General Primo de Rivera and his military government in 1923. For nearly a century leading up to the time this license was issued, Spain had struggled to fulfill a promise to its people to provide education. Like most nations during the 19th century, it found the fulfillment in that promise to lie in employment of female teachers.

Young Women's Christian Association. Employment Agency Branch. York: Young Women's Christian Association, [1890s]. This pamphlet In self wrappers, details the policies for the Employment Agency Department issued by the Young Women's Christian Association. The World Young Women's Christian Association (World YWCA) is a movement working for the empowerment, leadership and rights of women. Very good.