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There is no date on either the slides or the booklet, but the Women's Temple in Chigago, completed in 1892, provides the earliest date. The set held by the Rubenstein is numbered 1239 in the lecture booklet. Most of the missing slides are from this group.

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The series ends with romantic images of ideal women, chiefly through the lens of courtship and beauty. The booklet's lecture notes refer to problematic social conditions for women, particularly regarding marriage, as well as changing social norms as the 20th century begins.

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Titles are present on the edges of most of the glass slide mounts, and are listed in full in the booklet. There is one slide of the Women's Temple in Chigago, headquarters for the Women's Christian Temperance Union from 1892 to 1926. The 'Emancipated Woman' series includes an actress, a group of nurses, and women mountaineering. The series 'Woman the Breadwinner' includes agricultural, craft, and industrial scenes, and a slide of women nurses attending to patients. There are portraits of women with high social status, married women, and women in courtship there are women depicted in their homes, women with children, and in roles of subjugation which the lecture suggests are little more than slaves. The women in the portraits represent races, cultures and nations around the world, among which British Guiana, China, Iceland, India, Japan, Netherlands, the Philippines, Russia, Switzerland, Tonga, Tunisia, and the U.S. The slides and lecture notes were originally arranged in six series, retained in this description: Woman in Society The Domestic Woman Woman in Subjection Emancipated Woman Woman the Breadwinner and Angelic Woman. The slides measure 3 1/4 inches square (83 x 83 mm). The titles and lecture script contain historical terms and language that may be offensive to modern-day audiences. All titles are original, as is the slide order. Titles are also printed along the mount edges of each slide but are obscured in a few cases by black repair tape. The series is incomplete: numbers 28, 47, 48, 51, 53, and 54 are not present. The booklet lists 53 slides in this set, and contains detailed lecture-format captions which would be read aloud as the slides were projected. A lecture to accompany a series of 54 photographic transparencies for the optical lantern.' The price appearing on the booklet is sixpence. The original printed booklet accompanying the set bears the full title, 'Woman: the world over. Acquired as part of the Lisa Unger Baskin Collection at Duke University.Ĭollection consists of a nearly complete lecture set of 48 hand-colored glass lantern slides published in England. All titles are original, as is the slide sequence. Lecture notes refer to problematic social conditions for women, particularly regarding marriage, and changing social norms as the 20th century begins. There is one slide of the Women's Temple in Chigago, headquarters of the Women's Christian Temperance Union. Other slides show women working in agricultural, service, and industrial settings, and gambling and climbing mountains. Subjects include women of different classes married women and women in courtship there are women depicted in their homes, with children, and in roles which the lecture suggests are little more than slaves. The women in the portraits represent nations around the world. The original printed booklet accompanying the set lists 53 slides in all, and contains detailed lecture-format captions. Collection consists of a commercially produced set of 48 hand-colored glass lantern slides entitled 'Woman: The World Over,' published in 1901 by Riley Brothers in Bradford, England.