FAMOUS WOMEN AUTOGRAPHS

These Autographs were collected by my Father over his lifetime! Stowe Vintage will feature Autographs of Hollywood Stars, Political Autographs, President's Autographs, Sports Autographs, Military Autographs, Entertainment Autographs, Authors Autographs, Historical Autographs, and More! Comes with a COA. Contact us at 802-253-7000 or stovint08@gmail.com.

Susan Brownell Anthony (February 15, 1820 – March 13, 1906) was a prominent, independent and well-educated American civil rights leader who played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's rights movement to secure women's suffrage in the United States. She traveled thousands of miles throughout the United States and Europe, and gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's rights for some 45 years. Susan B. Anthony died in Rochester, New York, in her house on Madison Street on March 13, 1906, and is buried at Mount Hope Cemetery. For casting a vote in the presidential election held on November 5, 1872, in Rochester, New York, Anthony was arrested on November 18 and pled not guilty, asserting that the 14th amendment entitled her to vote because, unlike the original Constitution, it provides that all "persons" (which includes females) born in the US are "citizens" who shall not be denied the "privileges" of citizenship (which includes voting).

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Original Susan B. Anthony Autograph signed on Paper. In the top left corner is the following: RACHEL FOSTER AVERY, SOMERTON, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Regular Price - $ 2000.00 / Sale Price - $ 1250.00.

Baroness Maria Cheese Augusta von Trapp was born January 26, 1905 – died March 28, 1987. Maria was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family Singers. Her story and that of her family's escape from the Nazis after the Anschluss was the inspiration for the musical The Sound of Music. In the 1940s the family moved to Stowe, Vermont, where they ran a music camp when they were not touring. In 1944, Maria and her stepdaughters Johanna, Martina, Maria, Hedwig, and Agathe applied for U.S. citizenship. Georg never filed to become a citizen. Rupert and Werner became citizens by serving during World War II. Rosmarie and Eleonore became citizens by virtue of their mother's citizenship. Johannes was born in the United States. Georg von Trapp died in 1947 in Vermont from lung cancer. The Trapp family made a series of 78 rpm discs for RCA Victor in the 1950s, some of which were later issued on RCA Camden LPs. There were also a few later recordings released on LPs, including some stereo sessions. The family also made an appearance on an Elvis Presley Christmas record. In 1957, the Trapp Family Singers disbanded and went their separate ways. Maria and three of her children became missionaries in the South Pacific. In the mid-1960s Maria moved back to Vermont to manage the Trapp Family Lodge. Maria von Trapp died on March 28, 1987, of heart failure in Morrisville, Vermont, three days after surgery. She had survived her husband, who died before the book, musical, and films appeared, by 40 years. Maria, her husband Georg, Hedwig von Trapp, and Martina von Trapp are interred in the family cemetery at the Lodge.

Original Maria Von Trapp Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 Index Card. Regular Price - $ 195.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

OWEN, Ruth Bryan, (later Mrs. Borge Rohde, daughter of William Jennings Bryan), a Representative from Florida; born in Jacksonville, Morgan County, Ill., October 2, 1885; educated in public schools, Lincoln, Nebr.; attended Monticello Seminary, Godfrey, Ill., and the University of Nebraska at Lincoln; member of the executive committee of the American Women’s War Relief Fund in London, England; war nurse in the Voluntary Aid Detachment in the Egypt-Palestine campaign, 1915-1918; lecturer, Lyceum and Chautauqua lecture circuit, Miami, Fla., 1918-1928; board of regents of the University of Miami, Miami, Fla., 1925-1928; author; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-first and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1929-March 3, 1933); unsuccessful candidate for renomination to the Seventy-third Congress in 1932; delegate to the Interparliamentary Union at London, 1930; appointed Minister to Denmark (April 13, 1933-August 30, 1936); special assistant, Department of State, United Nations Conference, San Francisco, Calif., 1945; alternate delegate, United Nations General Assembly, 1949; member of the Advisory Board of the Federal Reformatory for Women, 1938-1954; member of the board of trustees of the Starr Commonwealth for Boys, 1941-1954; died on July 26, 1954, in Copenhagen, Denmark; interment in Ordrup Cemetery, Copenhagen, Denmark.

Original Ruth Bryan Owen autograph, hand signed on card stock. Written: Very Cordially Yours Ruth Bryan Owen. Regular Price - $ 175.00 / Sale Price - $ 95.00.

Rosa Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an African American civil rights activist whom the U.S. Congress later called "Mother of the Modern-Day Civil Rights Movement". On December 1, 1955, Parks became famous for refusing to obey bus driver James Blake's order that she give up her seat to make room for a white passenger. This action of civil disobedience started the Montgomery Bus Boycott, which is one of the largest movements against racial segregation. In addition, this launched Martin Luther King, Jr., who was involved with the boycott, to prominence in the civil rights movement. She has had a lasting legacy worldwide. Original Rosa Parks Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Price - $ 275.00.

Gloria Marie Steinem (born March 25, 1934) is an American feminist icon, journalist and women's rights advocate. She is the founder and original publisher of Ms. magazine. Steinem cofounded the Coalition of Labor Union Women in 1974, and participated in the National Conference of Women in Houston, Texas in 1977. She became Ms. magazine's consulting editor when it was revived in 1991, and she was inducted into the National Women's Hall of Fame in 1993. In 1991, Steinem founded Choice USA. Original Gloria Steinem Autographed Photo, Approx. Size 8 x 10 Black & White. Hand signed Gloria Steinem. Comes with a COA. Regular Price - $ 65.00 / Sale Price - $ 48.00.

Phyllis Diller was born Phyllis Driver on July 17, 1917. Diller is a Golden Globe-nominated American comedienne, considered to be one of the pioneers of female stand-up comedy. She created a stage character persona that was a wild-haired, eccentrically-dressed housewife who made jokes about a fictional husband named "Fang" while smoking from a long cigarette holder. Another distinct characteristic is her cackling laugh, one of the best-recognized in comedy. Diller is given credit for opening the doors for the stand-up comedy field to women such as Rita Rudner, Totie Fields, Joan Rivers, Lily Tomlin, Sandra Bernhard, Joy Behar, Rosie O'Donnell and Roseanne Barr. Diller, a longtime resident of Brentwood, California, credits much of her success to Bob Hope, in large part because he included her in the pictures and Vietnam USO shows mentioned above. She is an accomplished pianist as well as a painter. Diller has candidly discussed her plastic surgery, a series of procedures first undertaken when she was 55. The results have drawn numerous awards and acknowledgments from plastic surgeons and medical organizations. In 1993, she was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame. Diller has been married and divorced twice. She also dated Earl "Madman" Muntz, a pioneer in oddball TV and radio ads. She had five children from her marriage to her first husband, Sherwood Anderson Diller. One of Diller's daughters has suffered from schizophrenia for most of her life. Diller's second husband was Warde Donovan. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times in December 2006, Diller briefly mentioned that one (or possibly more) of her children had predeceased her, and that her youngest son Perry, now 55, oversees her affairs today. One of Phyllis's offspring is not actress Susan Lucci, despite an urban legend to that effect, often showing up in people's e-mailboxes as "Did You Know...?" trivia. Recently, Diller has suffered serious medical problems, including a heart attack in 1999. After a hospital stay she was fitted with a pacemaker and released. A bad fall resulted in her being hospitalized for tests on her head and pacemaker in 2005. She has since retired from stand-up comedy appearances. She wrote her autobiography in 2005, titled Like a Lampshade in a Whorehouse. A direct-to-DVD version of the project, complete with early live clips of Diller, and interviews with her showbiz colleagues including Don Rickles, among others, was released in December, 2006. A screenplay about Diller's early years in stand-up, according to blind items in the trades, is in preproduction with Patricia Clarkson slated to play the comedienne in a film due to be released in 2007. On July 11, 2007, it was reported by USA Today that she fractured her back and had to cancel a Tonight Show appearance, during which she had planned to celebrate her 90th birthday.

Original Phyllis Diller Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch index card. Regular Price - $ 44.95 / Sale Price - $ 39.95.

Eva Samano Bishop was born on May 5, 1910 - died January 7, 1984. Eva was originally from Tierra Caliente in the state of Guerrero, was the wife of ex-president Adolfo López Mateos and First Lady of Mexico from 1958 to 1964. He was known as the "National Mother," "Great Protection of Children" and "The Mistress of Mexico." It was earned the Doctor Honoris Causa by the University Women of the Philippines and the University of Florida. In the year 1925 a meeting was held at the home of the poet toluqueña Lolita Becerril de Plata, which Adolfo López Mateos was invited. Among the guests most beautiful Eva Samano stressed. From the first time they were both left perdidamente lovers. Then begin a courtship that would last twelve years and culminating with marriage at the insistence of Mrs. Elena Mateos, mother of Don Adolfo. The link was made on October 7, 1937 in a church in the state of Toluca. Before, during and after, Lopez Mateos had love affairs. The couple moved to the capital, where she began to practice teaching in poor schools while Don Adolfo stood by the rungs of politics. From this union was born one daughter. In the six-year term of Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Lopez Mateos was secretary of Labor. In the year 1957 happens to be the "capping" of the Institutional Revolutionary Party for the upcoming presidential elections, in which the triumphs and December 1 of 1958 takes office as president of Mexico. Since the beginning of the six-year term, Lopez Mateos expressed the willingness of government to protect children. His wife was shown to handle this work, because in his opinion the children are the future of a country and it is necessary to save time. It was for this reason it decided to resume and strengthen the Association for the Protection of Children and commanded him to construct a building whose foundation stone was placed by herself on November 30, 1959. In 1961, by presidential decree, that body became the National Institute for Child Welfare (INPI), whose board was chaired by Ms Eva. The most important activity of that institution was to strengthen and expand the program division of balanced and nutritious school meals. Festivals were held with prominent artists charities, for example, Frank Sinatra came to Mexico to sing and Marilyn Monroe made a gift. Ms Eva also made deliveries of clothes and toys, which were traditional. They took aid to earthquake victims when the campaigns were launched and legalization of unions that marriage ceremonies were performed in large groups. In addition became involved in the campaign to promote and defend the textbook free. Eva Samano was present at the official ceremonies as First Lady that he fell: her first official act was to vote in elections when her husband was a candidate and later, on Dec. 1, 1958, he arrived with his daughter at the Palacio de Bellas Artes, the enclosure in which conducted the swearing-in. In the mid-six-year term, Don Adolfo and Ms Eva were separated. Lopez Mateos married teacher Angelina Gutierrez Sadurní. When the ex-president's health began to worsen, Ms. Samano was at his side at the sanatorium. At the funeral, Mrs. Eva banned Angelina and her children to be present. Ended the government of Lopez Mateos, Mrs. Eva thought that it would continue with the work of social assistance, but it did not happen. Bother much, either, which distanced itself from the next First Lady Guadalupe Borja, who did not invite any act again and neither would greet him when they find themselves. But that did not stop Ms Eva. Taking advantage of its position and to fulfill his dream of having a school itself, were sent to build on land by Coyoacan. Named "Heroes of Liberty" and was opened in 1964, shortly before the end of the administration of her husband. Ten years Ms Eva stayed at the helm of this institution. In 1975, Eva Samano was withdrawn. The number of strokes he suffered from times of the presidency of her husband and her strong arthritis prevented him from doing so much effort. He stayed in his house and devoted himself entirely to respond to its unique and beloved granddaughter. She died on January 7, 1984 at the Military Hospital in Mexico City, two months with kidney and lung ailments. She was buried beside her husband in the Pantheon Garden of the capital. Years later, President Carlos Salinas de Gortari ordered to move and remove the remains of both Boksburg de Zaragoza, Mexico State, in a monument erected in honor of the graduate Lopez Mateos. Original Eva S. de Lopez Mateos Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Regular Price - $ 49.95 / Sale Price - $ 29.00.

Grace Abbott was born November 17, 1878 - died June 19, 1939. Grace was an American social worker who specifically worked in advancing child welfare. Her older sister was social worker Edith Abbott. Abbott was born in Grand Island, Nebraska. Abbott graduated from Grand Island College in 1898. Before embarking on her future career in social work, she worked as a high school teacher in her home town through 1906. In 1902, she started graduate studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. In 1907, she moved to Chicago, where she began her career in social work. She took up residency in the Hull House, an urban center for women engaged in early proto-feminism and social reform, as well as a safe haven for the poor. In 1909, Abbott received a Ph.M. in political science from the University of Chicago. Abbott served on several committees and organizations for advancing the societal cause of the child welfare, including the Immigrants' Protective League (1908-1917), Child Labor Division of the U.S. Children's Bureau (1921 to 1934), and was also a member of the Women's Trade Union League. Abbott was an author of several sociological texts, including The Immigrant and the Community (1917) and The Child and the State (1938, 2 volumes). She was also responsible for incorporating social statistics and research into legislative policy-making as well as investigating child labor violations in shipbuilding plants and other factories across the United States. Abbott pioneered the process of incorporating sociological data relating to child labor, juvenile delinquency, dependency, and statistics into the lawmaking process; she spent much of her time as a political lobbyist for social issues in Washington, D.C. She was associated with the Social Security Administration from 1934 until her death in 1939; during that time period, Abbott helped in the drafting of the Social Security Act and chaired several government committees on child welfare and social issues. During a 1938 health checkup, doctors discovered that she was suffering from multiple myeloma. The disease caused her death one year later. Abbott is a member of the Nebraska Hall of Fame. Original Grace Abbott Autograph, signed on Cut Paper. Approx. size 3 3/8 x 5 1/4 inches. Written: Grace Abbott November 9, 1933. Regular Price - $ 80.00 / Sale Price - $ 36.00.

Ruth Westheimer was born June 4, 1928. Dr. Ruth is a sex therapist and author. Best known as Dr. Ruth, the New York Times described her as "a cultural icon in the 1980s. The Sister Wendy of sexuality, she ushered in the new age of freer, franker talk about sex on radio and television—and was endlessly parodied for her limitless enthusiasm and for having an accent only a psychologist could have." Westheimer was born as Karola Ruth Siegel in Frankfurt, Germany, the only child of an Orthodox Jewish couple. In 1939 she was sent to Switzerland by her mother and grandmother after her father was taken by the Nazis. There she came of age in an orphanage, and stopped receiving her parent's letters in September 1941. In 1945, Westheimer learned that her parents had been killed in the Holocaust, possibly at the Auschwitz concentration camp. Westheimer decided to immigrate to the British Mandate of Palestine. There, at 17, she "first had sexual intercourse on a starry night, in a haystack—without contraception." She later told the New York Times that "I am not happy about that, but I know much better now and so does everyone who listens to my radio program." Westheimer joined the Haganah in Jerusalem. Despite her diminutive height (4'7"), she was trained as a scout and sharpshooter. Westheimer was seriously wounded in action by an exploding shell during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948, and it was several months before she was able to walk again. In 1950, Westheimer moved to France, where she studied and then taught psychology at the University of Paris. In 1956, she immigrated to the United States, settling in Washington Heights, Manhattan. She still lives in the "cluttered three-bedroom apartment in Washington Heights where she raised her two children and became famous, in that order," because the two synagogues she belongs to, the YMHA she was president of for three years, and a "still sizable community of German Jewish World War II refugees" remain in the neighborhood. She earned a master's degree in sociology from Columbia University and an Ed.D. from Teachers College, Columbia University. She completed post-doctoral work in human sexuality at New York-Presbyterian Hospital. She is multilingual, speaking English, German, French, and Hebrew. Westheimer has written several books on human sexuality, including Dr. Ruth's Encyclopedia of Sex and Sex for Dummies. Westheimer has given commencement speeches at the Hebrew Union College seminary, Lehman College of the City University of New York, and, in 2004, at Trinity College (an Episcopalian institution, although Westheimer is associated with Judaism) She has also taught courses and seminars at Princeton and Yale. Westheimer was the guest speaker at the Bronx High School of Science in New York in commemoration of Yom HaShoah 2008. She spoke about her life story and the audience of 500 sang "Happy Birthday" in honor of her 80th birthday. Westheimer has been married three times. Her third marriage, to Manfred Westheimer, lasted until his death in 1997. She has two children, Miriam and Joel, and several grandchildren. Dr. Ruth speaking on October 4, 2007 at Brown UniversityIn 1980 WYNY-FM was NBC Radio's New York City owned-and-operated station. The struggling Adult Contemporary station had recently gone through a makeover in an attempt to build an audience. Part of this rebuild was adding specialized talk shows to the evening and weekend hours. Maurice Tunick was recruited from New York's leading talk station, WOR where he was talk show producer. As WYNY's Program Coordinator he was responsible for developing new talk shows. Betty Elam was WYNY's Community Affairs Manager. Her job was to work closely with community groups and the station's public affairs programming. Betty was one of dozens of radio station Community Affairs managers attending the NYMRAD ascertainment day which had Westheimer as a speaker, and came back raving about her. Betty was taken in by Westheimer's passion, information, sense of humor and personality and suggested that WYNY ought to do something with her. She was invited to be a guest on a taped Sunday morning public affairs program twice. Following that, WYNY's General Manager, Dan Griffin suggested Maurice find a way to develop a public affairs show for her. Maurice was given Sunday night at midnight for 15 minutes. Being a novice in radio, Westheimer thought it would be a good idea to have guests covering urology, neurology, gynecology, etc. — all areas which could have an effect on sex. While that would be important, Tunick thought a better show would be to not have guests at all but to directly answer listeners' questions. NBC was reluctant to allow live phone calls for a sex advice show, which was considered very risqué in the early 1980s, but Tunick suggested soliciting questions via mail. By people submitting their questions, Westheimer could control the questions and read them on the air with her answers. Typically each question could begin with, "I have a letter from a listener who asks..." The show, Sexually Speaking, using the name "Dr. Ruth, was taped in an NBC Radio studio at 30 Rockefeller Center, NBC's radio and TV headquarters on Thursday mornings at 11:00 a.m. for airing on Sunday nights at midnight. All NBC studios at 30 Rock were accessible from other studios and many offices around the building. A couple of weeks into recording, it was reported that work was stopping in many places in the building on Thursdays at 11 as people were gathering to hear this "cross between Henry Kissinger and Minnie Mouse," as the Wall Street Journal would later describe her. After just two months, despite the initial concerns over a live show, it was decided that Westheimer could go live for an hour taking phone calls (with a delay). Within a year "Dr. Ruth" had a larger audience on Sunday night at midnight on this struggling New York station than many NY stations had in morning drive. As "Dr. Ruth", Westheimer became nationally known after several appearances on "Late Night with David Letterman" in the early 1980's. In less than two years, Dr. Ruth became a household name and was being heard on radio stations across the country. Her pioneering TV show, also called Sexually Speaking, first aired in 1982 as a 15-minute taped show on Lifetime Cable. It has since increased in popularity and has been nationally syndicated, as has her radio show. She is known to be candid and funny, but respectful. In recent years, Westheimer has made regular appearances on the PBS Television children's show Between the Lions as "Dr. Ruth Wordheimer" in a parody of her therapist role, in which she helps anxious readers and spellers overcome their fear of long words.

Original Dr. Ruth Westheimer Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Regular Price - $ 58.00 / Sale Price - $ 24.95.

Helen Gurley Brown (b. February 18, 1922 in Green Forest, Arkansas), is an author, publisher, and businesswoman. She was editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan magazine for 32 years. Brown's father died in an accident when she was young, and her sister was a polio victim. She was raised in Little Rock, Arkansas. From 1939 to 1941 she attended Texas State College for Women and Woodbury Business College. After a stint in the mailroom at the William Morris Agency, she went to work for a prominent advertising agency as a secretary. Her employer recognized her writing skills and moved her to the copywriting department where she advanced rapidly to become one of the nation's highest paid ad copywriters in the early 1960s. In 1959 she married David Brown who was producer of Jaws, The Sting, Cocoon, Driving Miss Daisy, and other motion pictures. In 1962, at the age of 40, Brown authored the bestselling book Sex and the Single Girl. In 1965 she became editor-in-chief of Cosmopolitan and reversed the fortunes of the failing magazine. During the decade of the 1960s she was an outspoken advocate of women's sexual freedom and sought to provide them with role-models and a guide in her magazine. Brown claimed that women could have it all, "love, sex, and money". Due to her advocacy, the liberated single woman was often referred to generically as the "Cosmo Girl". Her work played a part in what is often called the sexual revolution. In the mid 1990s Brown was ousted from her role as the US editor of Cosmopolitan and was replaced by Bonnie Fuller. However, Brown stayed on at Hearst publishing and remains the international editor for all 59 international editions of Cosmo. Original Helen Gurley Brown Autographed Black & White Photo, Approx. Size 8 x 10. Hand written: For Jami Agars All my best wishes Helen Gurley Brown. (visible smudging) Regular Price - $ 85.00 / Sale Price - $ 45.00.

Anna Jarvis - the founder of Mother's Day - was born in this wooden two-story structure in Taylor County, WV on May 1, 1864. The house was built in 1854 by her father, Granville E. Jarvis. It became a focal point of the Civil War when General George B. McClellan used it as his headquarters. During the war Anna's mother - Ann Marie Reeves Jarvis - was instrumental in saving thousands of lives by teaching women the basics of nursing and sanitation which she had learned from her brother, physician James Reeves. After the war, Mrs. Jarvis soothed ill feelings among opposing families by holding a service for soldiers and their families and uniting communities torn apart by the war. It was her wish that a day be set aside to honor all mothers. Her daughter, Anna Jarvis, established the first internationally celebrated holiday - Mothers Day - in her honor, using the anniversary of her mother's death as its date.

Original Anna Jarvis Autograph, Signed on 3 1/3 x 5 1/2 Card Stock. Written on the Card: Anna Jarvis, Founder Mother's Day - 11/07/(sorry can't read the year). Regular Price - $ 249.00 / Sale Price - $ 175.00.

Carrie Chapman Catt (January 9, 1859 – March 9, 1947) was a woman's suffrage leader. She was elected president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) twice; her first term was from 1900 to 1904 and her second term was from 1915 to 1920. Catt, born Carrie Lane in Ripon, Wisconsin, spent her childhood in Charles City, Iowa and graduated from Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. She became a teacher and then superintendent of schools in Mason City, Iowa in 1883. In 1885 Catt married newspaper editor Leo Chapman, but he died in California soon after. Eventually she landed on her feet but only after some harrowing experiences in the male working world. In 1890, she married George Catt, a wealthy engineer. Their marriage allowed her to spend a good part of each year on the road campaigning for woman's suffrage, a cause she had become involved with in Iowa during the late 1880s. Catt also joined the Women's Temperance Union. Catt became a close colleague of Susan B. Anthony, who selected Catt to succeed her as head of the NAWSA. Catt led the woman suffrage movement over the next twenty years. From her first endeavors in Iowa in the 1880s to her last in Tennessee in 1920, Catt supervised dozens of campaigns, mobilized numerous volunteers (1 million by the end), and made hundreds of speeches. After the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, Catt retired from NAWSA. Catt founded the League of Women Voters in 1920. Catt was also a leader of the international woman suffrage movement. She helped to found the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (IWSA) in 1902, serving as its president from 1904 until 1923. The IWSA remains in existence, now as the International Alliance of Women. Catt was active in anti-war causes during the 1920s and 1930s. During this period she was frequently recognized as one of the most prominent female leaders of her time. Beginning around 1913, a conflict was in the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). Catt supported those already in power. Her strategy was to support Woodrow Wilson as the country entered World War I. Alice Paul, who would later become the leader of the National Woman's Party (NWP) led a parade to protest Wilson's lack of support for the suffrage movement one day before his inauguration. In light of these differences, a split developed and the NWP was started. Catt died of a heart attack in March 1947 at age 88.

Original Carrie Chapman Catt Autographed Black and White Photo. Approx. Size 8 1/2 x 8. Written on Photo: Carrie Chapman Catt June 28, 1937. Difficult to find / Rare! Regular Price - $ 795.00.

Original Carrie Chapman Catt Autographed Typed Letter. Letter is typed on Carrie Chapman Catt 120 Paine Avenue New Rochelle New York Letterhead. Dated June 29,1937. Addressed to: Mrs. Anna White, Presbyterian Hospital, 39th and Filbert Street, West Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Mrs. White: I am sorry you must suffer and be confined to a hospital, but the right way to look at it is that you should be thankful that there are surgeons and hospitals today to take care of you. I am an old lady myself and do not have many pictures, but I confess they look very much as I do these days. Hoping for your recovery, I am, Sincerely yours, Carrie Chapman Catt Regular Price - $ 650.00 / Sale Price - $ 495.00.

Sydney Biddle Barrows was born on January 14, 1952. Sydney biddle Barrows is known as the Mayflower Madam, was a modern American madam. After her escort service was exposed and disbanded, she gained worldwide notoriety, in part because she was part of the upper-class Biddle family of Philadelphia and is a Mayflower descendant. During her years as a madam, she used the alias Sheila Devin. She is also related to the Drexel banking family of Philadelphia which includes St. Katharine Drexel. After a short career in fashion (after graduating from New York's Fashion Institute of Technology), she was introduced to the world of high-class prostitution and started her own escort service named Cachet, which existed in New York City from 1979 to 1984. Unlike other escort agencies, Cachet offered an unparalleled service at the time, focusing on delivering a classy and elegant experience to the wealthy and powerful who either visited or lived in New York City. Some of its clients included industrialists, high-powered business executives and lawyers, foreign diplomats and Arabian oil sheiks. Barrows was well-known for treating her "ladies" with respect and dignity while also maintaining strict codes of conduct to preserve high standards and a reputation for outstanding service with elegance. In her book, Mayflower Madam, Barrows imparted the advice that made her service so exclusive and successful. "Hire good people and pay them what they are worth" is her first rule of good business. In October 1984, her escort service was shut down and she was charged with promoting prostitution by the New York City District Attorney's Office. After she pled guilty, she published a best-selling autobiography, Mayflower Madam, which later became a television movie of the same name starring Candice Bergen. She has written two subsequent books on modern sexual etiquette. In late 2008 Barrows finished "Uncensored Sales Strategies", co-authored with well known "No BS" marketing expert Dan Kennedy. Since the mid-late 1990's, Barrows has run a sales consulting business with a focus on customer service and Experience Strategy. Referred to in business circles as "Madame Experience", Barrows has been married to "attorney of last resort" Darnay Hoffman, whose clients include Joel Steinberg since May 14, 1994. She currently lives in New York City. Original Sydney Biddle Barrows Autograph, signed on a 3 x 5 inch Index Card. Regular Price - $ 84.00 / Sale Price - $ 39.95.

Angela Yvonne Davis was born January 26, 1944, in Birmingham, Alabama. Angela Davis is an American political activist and university professor who was associated with the Black Panther Party for Self Defense and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Davis was also a notable activist during the Civil Rights Movement and a prominent member and political candidate of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). Since leaving the CPUSA, she continues to identify herself as a democratic socialist and is currently a member of the Committees of Correspondence for Democracy and Socialism. She first achieved nationwide notoriety after Judge Harold Haley was abducted and murdered during an effort to free a black convict, James McClain, who was being tried for the attempted retaliatory murder of a white prison guard who killed three unarmed black inmates. Davis had purchased the firearms used in the attack, including a shotgun which had been sawed-off since its purchase two days prior. She fled underground and was the subject of an intense manhunt. She was eventually captured, arrested, tried, and acquitted in one of the most famous trials in recent U.S. history. Davis is a graduate studies professor emerita of history of consciousness at the University of California and holds a University of California Presidential Chair at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She retired in the spring of 2008, and now works for racial, gender equality, gay rights, and prison abolition. Davis is a popular public speaker, nationally and internationally, and the founder of the grassroots prison-industrial complex-abolition organization Critical Resistance.

Original Angela Davis Autograph, signed on Cut Paper. Approx. size 3 x 4 3/4 Inches. You also receive the 8 1/2 x 11 Inch Color Internet Print. Regular Price - $ 155.00 / Sale Price - $ 85.00.