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Photograph of University of Alberta student, Edith McKinnon, Home Economics.

A group portrait of the Edmonton Women's Press Club. Miriam Green Ellis is at the far right.

The domestic science movement, which arose in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and encouraged women to apply scientific knowledge to their household work, is exemplified by this American textbook. This edition was used at the…

I enjoy adding these sorts of books to the social history portion of my collection. Many nineteenth-century children’s stories feature fish (or children who transform into fish) that stray from the safety of their homes and parents. Some children,…

The lovely front wrapper of Elsje bij de Visschen was protected for over 100 years by the custom dust jacket created for the book not long after it was published.

The twenty-eight volumes of the Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une societé de gens de lettres(also known as the Encyclopédie) was originally published in Paris between 1751 and 1772. The edition of the…