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Image of Jane Addams Hull-house museum. The museum and the building of Hull house. The house was founded by Jane Addams.

Print shows waves of veterans marching through a memorial arch on "Decoration Day", carrying banners that state "We will continue to save the country, so long as there is a dollar in the Treasury" and "Army of Pensioners". On the right, Uncle Sam…

Mrs. Robinson Brown;

The political cartoon was contemporary to Hull House. The image depicts three wealthy men pointing to an impoverished man. The wealthy men are implying that the poor man should not only pay taxes, but the added the in front…

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…

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…

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]…

Print shows Levi P. Morton with cane, holding a "Check Book", and his left arm around a standard that states "Down with the Iniquitous Democratic Party!! It has the Impudence to Tax Prosperity Instead of Poverty!!", and Thomas C. Platt who has his…

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…

Illustration shows child huddled on door stoop wearing ragged clothing.

The above image shows the mental and emotional toll poverty has on all those it affects, but especially children. There is also clearly no one reaching out to help the child…

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…