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Title page from Sex in Education

Period Politics: The 19th-Century Debate over Menstruation

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July 28, 2021
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Raechel Hammer, Chief Development Officer, interviews Emily Guthrie, the new Librarian at the Library Company

Interview with our New Librarian, Emily Guthrie

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April 30, 2021
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Prof. Michele Navakas (Miami University of Ohio) Delivered Women's History Month Lecture

Prof. Michele Navakas (Miami University of Ohio) Delivered Women’s History Month Lecture

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April 30, 2021
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Title page from Elisabeth Sweerts’s 1657 Dutch Bible

Women Get Things Done during COVID

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March 18, 2021
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White-Billed Woodpecker

Elizabeth Nodder and The Naturalist’s Miscellany

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March 4, 2021
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Second attempt, finished and sliced

Indian Pound Cake

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February 5, 2021
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Advertising broadside. The Chinese Lady, Afong Moy. Philadelphia: Jesper Harding, 1835. Detail.

Remembering Afong Moy

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February 1, 2021
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Croquettes, ready to eat

Augustine’s Chicken Croquettes

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January 15, 2021
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Christmas Blossoms – Mid-Nineteenth Century Juvenile Annuals

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December 17, 2020
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Vermicelli and cheese, served

Vermicelli and Cheese

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December 10, 2020
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Scorcher Sheet Music Cover Image

Featured Acquisition: The Scorcher (1897)

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December 4, 2020
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A slice of Barnard Cake, served

Barnard Cake

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November 13, 2020
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Women Get Things Done VIRTUALLY!

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November 13, 2020
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Serving a slice of the finished pie

Quarterly Meeting Pie

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October 21, 2020
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Benjamin Franklin and Alchemy

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October 21, 2020
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Charles Willson Peale and Titian Ramsay Peale, View of Peale’s Museum in the Long Room, Second Floor of the State House (Independence Hall), 1822, Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Director’s Discretionary Fund

Philadelphia’s Earliest Museums, 1774-1827: Reconstructing a City’s Visual Culture

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October 21, 2020
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Carte-de-visite portrait of Victoria Woodhull.

Victoria Woodhull: A Woman Who Dared to Be Outspoken

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September 17, 2020
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Cover of Wheel within a Wheel (1895) by Frances Willard. Purchased with the Davida T. Deutsch Women’s History Fund. Green cover with depicted a bicycle wheel with the text How I Learned to Ride the Bicycle.

“Myself and the World”: Women Empowered by the Bicycle

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September 17, 2020
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Stewing all the ingredients as the final step in preparing the pepper hash

Pepper Hash

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September 17, 2020
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Three containers of pickled cabbage left in different environments, the results of a pickling experiment

Pickled Red Cabbage

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September 17, 2020
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