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Jane Addams Hull House.
Image of Jane Addams Hull-house museum. The museum and the building of Hull house. The house was founded by Jane Addams.
A tenement-house alley gang : Candidates for crime
Illustration shows children and teenagers gathered on and around a wagon in a dilapidated alley. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal…
A training-school of crime; Boys playing pickpocket in an alley.
Illustration shows boys rummaging through a sleeping man's pockets. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal experiences among the poor…
Patrick Kieley - age 11 [graphic] ; As found half starved by the Society's officers. Face cut and body bruised by inhuman parents.
Illustration shows emaciated, wounded boy standing next to barrel. Illus. in: Darkness and daylight: or, Lights and shadows of New York life. A woman's narrative of mission and rescue work in tough places, with personal experiences among the poor in…
Street boys sleeping on the docks
Illustration shows two boys sleeping huddled together next to barrel.
The image shows the living conditions of those who live on the street. It would have been better to stick together for children than to be alone. Children were homeless and…
The image shows the living conditions of those who live on the street. It would have been better to stick together for children than to be alone. Children were homeless and…
The tournament of today - a set-to between labor and monopoly
Print shows a jousting tournament between an oversized knight riding horse-shaped armor labeled "Monopoly" over a locomotive, with a long plume labeled "Arrogance", and carrying a shield labeled "Corruption of the Legislature" and a lance labeled…
"All aboard for the millennium!"
Print shows "Captain Bill McKinley" standing at the bow of a steamboat labeled "High Protection" and "Monopoly & Co. builders" that has been patched in several places, listing to the stern, and is overloaded with passengers; Mark A. Hanna is standing…
The old story
Proof for a published image in which a clothed wolf wearing a top hat labeled "Socialism," carries the book Progress and Poverty by H. George in his coat pocket. Red Riding Hood stands beside him on a path in the forest. Caroline and Erwin Swann; The…
Democracy's opportunity
Print shows a man labeled "Republican War Record" standing in a pond labeled "Republican Corruption Water", yelling to an Irishman wearing a hat labeled "Democracy", gathering up the Republican's clothing labeled "Tariff Reform, Free Canal, [and]…
Postcard from Ehrich Weiss to his mother
At the age of twelve, Ehrich Weiss ran away from home in an effort to earn money and to alleviate his family's grinding poverty. This is the earliest sample of Houdini's handwriting in the collections of the Library of Congress and it is supplemented…