Rare books from the Ward M. Canaday Center for Special Collections
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Jane Addams. Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes. New York: MacMillan Company, 1925. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Mary Antin. The Promised Land. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1912. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Catharine E. Beecher and Harriet Beecher Stowe. The American Woman’s Home: Or, Principles of Domestic Science. New York: J. B. Ford and Company, 1870. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Christopher Dresser. Principles of Decorative Design. New York: Cassell Petter & Galpin, 1873. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Godey’s Lady’s Book. Philadelphia, Pa.: L. A. Godey, 1840-1892. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Constance Cary Harrison. Woman’s Handiwork in Modern Homes. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1881. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Mrs. C. S. Jones and Henry T. Williams. Beautiful Homes and How to Make Them. Rockford, IL: Rockford Publishing Co., 1885. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Jacob A. Riis. The Battle with the Slum. New York: MacMillan Company, 1902. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Jacob A. Riis. How the Other Half Lives: Studies Among the Tenements of New York? New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1890. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford. The Servant Girl Question. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1881[Find it at UT Libraries]
Edith Wharton and Ogden Codman Jr. The Decoration of Houses. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1897. [Find it at UT Libraries]
Mrs. Julia McNair Wright. The Complete Home. Philadelphia: J.C. McCurdy & Co., 1879. [Find it at UT Libraries]