Thursday, March 10, 2016

WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH

Last month, Bulls Room volunteers talked about how to recognize and observe International Women's Day (March 8) and Women's History Month (March). We decided to start by making a list women authors in the Bullis collection.

The spreadsheet is still in process and so far we have 245 items, which include well-known as well as lesser-known women authors. Here are some of the titles that have attracted our attention and are on our "must take a closer look" list:

Costumes of Colonial Times, Alice Earl (NY, 1894)
Gleanings from Old Shaker Journals, Clara Endicott Sears (Boston, 1916)
Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony, Ida Harper, (Ind., 1899)
Memoirs of the Emperor Napoleon, Madam Junot (Washington, 1901)
Tales of New England, Sarah Orne Jewett (Boston, 1895)
Life of Abraham Lincoln, Ida Tarbell (NY, 1900)

Our next step is to display these books (and others) in the case outside the Bullis Room. We hope to have that completed tomorrow, so please stop by and see these books as well as others because they represent one of the many, many achievements of women in the past two centuries.




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