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Reenactment of printing newspapers in 18th-century colonial America. This list of women printers and publishers before 1800 includes women active as printers or publishers prior to the 19th century. Before the printing press was invented, books were made from pages written by scribes, and it could take up to a year or two for a book to be ...
Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic event (women's golf tournament at the 1900 Paris Games); she was the first American woman, and the second woman overall to do it. [52] Carro Clark was the first American woman to establish, own and manage a book publishing firm (The C. M. Clark Company opened in Boston). [53] 1905
What Is a Book?: The Study of Early Printed Books. University of Notre Dame Press. Diringer, David (1982). The book before printing : ancient, medieval, and oriental. New York: Dover. ISBN 0-486-24243-9. Eisenstein, Elizabeth (2005). The printing revolution in early modern Europe. Cambridge UK; New York: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521 ...
Snugli and Weego were invented by nurse and peacekeeper Ann Moore first in the 1960s. Pertussis Vaccine A pioneering female American doctor, medical researcher and an outspoken voice in the pediatric community, the supercentenarian Leila Alice Denmark (1898–2012) is credited as co-developer of the pertussis (whooping cough) vaccine. [citation ...
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Caslon typefaces quickly became popular among colonial printers in the mid-18th century up to the American Revolution. Books, newspapers and broadsides were mostly printed in Caslon old style types, while many important works were also printed with newer Caslon types, including the first printed version of the Declaration of Independence, by ...
Simon J. Bronner (ed.), "Book Clubs", Encyclopedia of American Studies, Johns Hopkins University Press, OCLC 213273863 + "Print Culture" Rare Book School (in Virginia) bibliographies: History of the Book in America: A Survey from Colonial to Modern; History of the Book in America, c. 1700–1830; American Book in the Industrial Era, 1820–1940
Inventing the American Woman: An Inclusive History (2001) vol 2 online edition [dead link ] Archived 2011-06-28 at the Wayback Machine; Woloch, Nancy. Women and The American Experience, A Concise History (2001) Zophy, Angela Howard, ed. Handbook of American Women's History. (2nd ed. 2000). 763 pp. articles by experts