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First four pages of Rachel Crothers' typed manuscript copy of her play A Man's World, first published in 1910.

Half-length portrait photograph of a young Rachel Crothers taken against a studio backdrop in Bloomington, Illinois. Crothers is facing left with her hand on her hip while wearing a dark-colored cape and high-necked dress.

Signed typed manuscript copy of a speech given by Rachel Crothers at the White House upon receipt of a Chi Omega National Achievement Award in April 1939. The ceremony was attended by Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt.

Selected pages from a lecture by Rachel Crothers titled "Construction of a Play" published in the 1928 anthology The Art of Playwriting: Lectures Delivered at the University of Pennsylvania on the Mask and Wig Foundation.

The first page of an essay in both manuscript and typescript form by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "Training Teachers of Appreciation."

Article by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "The Girl and the Library," published in vol. 2, no. 1 of The Educational Bi-Monthly on October 1, 1907.

An article titled "Some Often Forgotten Aspects of the Relation of Women to the Industrial World" by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby excerpted from the February 4, 1908 issue of the ISU student…

Five-page manuscript essay by Illinois State University Department of Literature faculty member Dr. J. Rose Colby titled "Through Literature to Life," written on November 22, 1935.

Short essay by Celestia Colby in which she recounts an incident in the life of her young daughter J. Rose Colby. The poem they reference is Locksley Hall by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Transcript: Little Rose was busily engaged to night watching the…

In this undated and unfinished manuscript essay, Celestia R. Colby begins to explain what rights she and other 19th century women seek in American society.

Transcript:

Written For The Mayflower

Some Things We Want
By Mrs Celestia R.…