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Domestic work
Lenape Birthing Practices, ca. 1000 to 1650, an illustration of a menstrual hut and other Lenape practices.
Lenape Pottery Making, ca. 1000 to 1650, a modern drawing depicting Lenape women making pottery.
1700 NJ Indian Mortar and Pestle .
1758 "Sleep Balmy Sleep," a poem by Annis Boudinot Stockton (1736-1801) written on the occasion of her husband's last illness, 1758.
1800 Letter from Gavin Scott of Elizabethtown to his brother in Alnwich, England, 1800.
1822 Painting of a scrubwomen by Baroness Hyde de Neuville (Anne Marguerite Henriette de Marigny Hyde de Neuville, unknown -1849).
1854 Mary Paul's letter from the North American Phalanx, describes her life and work in the community, 1854.
1865 "The Tress of Golden Hair," by Trenton poet Ellen Clementine Howarth (1827-1899), 1865.
1868 Patent model for a sieve invented by Mrs. John D. Jones of Jersey City.
c. 1880s Mary
Virginia Hawes Terhune (1830-1922), a novelist and writer on household
management was known to readers by her pen name, “Marion Harland."
1920 Night work for women. In the 1920s, the New Jersey Consumer’s League and the National Consumer’s League, studied the working conditions of women in the state of New Jersey and, in particular, the conditions in the textile mills of Passaic.
1921 Lillian Moller Gilbreth (1878-1972), an expert in scientific management.
1928 Whittier House Cooking Class.
1932 Domestic science class, New Jersey State Manual Training and Industrial School for Colored Youth, photograph, 1932.
1942 World War II Ration Book and Stamps, 1942.
c.1943 Buying Victory Garden Seed, c.1943.
1952 New Jersey Wage Discrimination Act. This act was New Jersey's first equal pay act, 1952.
1956 Food Relief for Striking Westinghouse Workers, 1956. A photograph of women collecting groceries for strikers.