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Five Manuscript Documents Regarding Chinese Women Indentured Laborers in Cuba.
Unusual documents describe Chinese women in Cuba. Women accounted for less than 1% of Chinese indentured laborers.
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(Cuba) (Indentured Labor) (China) (Yucatan) Five Registers of Chinese and Yucatecan Workers. 1860-1869
Exceedingly rare documents of colonial labor management and control.
Collection of 81 Vintage Photographs of Federal Public Housing Projects, Mounted for Exhibition. ca. 1945-1946
(Photography) (Public Works Administration) (United States Housing Act)
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Mi opinión: disertación sobre las libertades de la mujer; "Amor libre"; [...]. 1913
Signed edition of Puerto Rico’s first feminist manifesto by anarchist Luisa Capetillo.
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El Eternauta II. Nos. 1-17 [all published]. 1977-1978
First edition of the landmark work of Latin American science fiction, written and illustrated clandestinely during the last Argentinian military junta. The author, Héctor Germán Osterheld was disappeared before the final issues were published.
Sinergia. Nos. 2 (otoño 1983), 4—12 (otoño 1987).
Argentinian sf zine featuring well-known Latin American sf authors, most never translated or anthologized.
La Mulata. 1893
Celebrated play about race and passing by Eva Canel, praised by contemporary Afro-Cuban reviewers as a “redeemer and defender of women oppressed by their color”.
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Archive of Drawings, Notebooks, Correspondence, Exhibition Photographs, and Instructional Materials by a Chilean Embroidery Artist and Educator. 1970s-1980s
Carmen Benavente’s archive is a unique primary source for scholars of folk art, women's work, Hispano-American studies, and transnationalism.
La Vida Manda: Novela. 1929
Signed first edition of a controversial homoerotic novel by the feminist Ofelia Rodriguez Acosta, possibly the earliest description of lesbian desire in Cuban literature.
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Sammelband of 12 Buenos Aires Urban Planning and Municipal Policy Pamphlets. 1900-1916
Early 20th-century urban planning in Buenos Aires with unrecorded folding plate of plans for worker housing and extensive reports on prostitution.
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ephemera
Tivoli Circo Ecuestre. Temporada 1906-1907.
(Circus) (Art Nouveau) (Women Olympians)
Archive of Drawings, Notebooks, Correspondence, Exhibition Photographs, and Instructional Materials by a Chilean Embroidery Artist and Educator. 1970s-1980s
Carmen Benavente’s archive is a unique primary source for scholars of folk art, women's work, Hispano-American studies, and transnationalism.
Grand Torneo Internazionale di Lotte Feminili al Salone Margherita 1912
Otherwise unrecorded promo for women's wrestling tournament, Rome.
Publicité Divers (Sample Album). 1939
90+ Examples of Vintage French Art Deco Graphics.
Poem 1 and Poem 2. From Penny Poems, No. 31. 1959
Claes Oldenburg's first published writing?
On the Question of Homosexuals and the Party. ca. 1973
Communist homophobia - a marxist repudiation of homosexuality documents the mixed history of communism and LGBTQ rights.
Magdalena y Aurora Mira. 1953
The earliest monographic study of the Chilean painters Magdalena (1859-1930) and Aurora (1863-1939) Mira. Extra-illustrated?
Direcções Telefonicas. [1938]
Beautifully designed, unused Portugese telephone directory with peppy promotional slogans for socks on each index page.
Books
Vérascope, Taxiphote, Glyphoscope. 1918
(Trade Catalogue) (History of Photography) (WWI) This example unrecorded.
Otoño Imperdonable. 1947
Signed presentation copy of Walsh's first book, published when she was just 17.
Donne piemontesi nella lotta di liberazione 99 partigiane cadute, 185 deportate, 38 cadute civili. ca. 1945
(Italian Resistance) (Women) (Holocaust)
Sous la jupe: illustré. ca. 1933-1935
Detourned fetish photography from Studio Biederer and Diana-Slip (Brassaï, Kertesz, and Schall, et al.).
Cultura Doméstica; Cultura Femenina (all published). 1933-1935
Complete run (24 issues) of an uncommon Spanish Republican women’s serial.
Skema. Mensile fotografico d'attualità (all published), 1969-1974. 1969-1974
Complete run of a rare photographic serial covering urgent political, social, environmental, and economic issues during the 'anni di piombo.'
Instruction chrétienne pour l'éducation des filles. 1687
On the Christian education of girls, dedicated to the scandalous second wife of Louis XIV, the Madame de Maintenon.
Rauschenberg: Selections. [1968]
Experimental 'collage' catalogue essay in an early and uncommon catalogue.
Aire. No. 1 (Junio 1937) through No. 4 (Primavera 1938) (all published). 1937-1938
A highlight of Spanish Civil War print culture, rare complete.
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Nosotros: [Revista Mensual Anarquista]. Nos. 1 [Oct. 1937] and 5 (Feb. 1938). 1937-1938
Valencian anarchism and the arts.
fine art & photography
Collection of 81 Vintage Photographs of Federal Public Housing Projects, Mounted for Exhibition. ca. 1945-1946
(Photography) (Public Works Administration) (United States Housing Act)
Collection of 31 photographs of Chilean modern dance pioneer Andrée Haas. ca. 1930-1940
Vintage photos of the founder of Chile's first modern dance program.
Berta Singerman. 1925
Early signed publicity photograph of the Jewish Argentinian actress and singer.
Nineteen Press Photographs of Havana Riots, President Céspedes, and La Pentarquía. 1933
Images of the violence that marked the end of the Machado regime, the brief Céspedes presidency, and the establishment of the Pentarchy.
Untitled Lithograph from Pel & Ploma.
A color plate, loose as issued, celebrating the new year.
Nine Photographs. ca. 1965
Vintage prints by Antonio Caballero, a pioneer of the fotonovela genre.
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