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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.
July Morning, Emil Armin, 1940, Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project
July Morning, Emil Armin, 1940, WPA, screenprint printed in brown ink on wove paper, 11 × 14 inches. Gift of the Works Progress Administration, Federal Art Project, to the Detroit Institute of Arts.
Art work commissioned by the Works Progress…
Art work commissioned by the Works Progress…
Los Angeles, California. Aircraft Schools. Correspondence from the National Youth Administration offices in Arizona, Washington and Iowa answering queries from the California National Youth Administration office on the extent of out-of-state advertisement for students to enroll in fly-by-night aircraft schools in San Francisco and Los Angeles
Scope and content: Los Angeles, California. Aircraft Schools. Correspondence from the National Youth Administration offices in Arizona, Washington and Iowa answering queries from the California National Youth Administration office on the extent of…
Mary Winsor (Penn.) '17 [Holding Suffrage Prisoners banner]
A woman protesting the treatment of women who are suffrage prisoners. 4.25 x 7 in. 1917. This was taken the year before World War I ended. This shows the treatment of the women who wanted their suffrage, they were treated as if they were criminals…
National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center cornerstone. Now Woodstock School of Art.
National Youth Administration Woodstock Resident Work Center cornerstone. Now Woodstock School of Art. This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America.
Leaving a…
Leaving a…
New York Suffragettes Parade 1913
Women marching in a parade for Suffrage. Digitized photo. 1913. The year before World War I, most women did not work outside their home. There were many branches of the National American Women Suffrage Association in nearly all the states in the…
New York's Republican "standard-bearer"
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…
Officers of the National Women's Party
This a photograph of Alice Paul and other women of the Women's Rights Movement, specifically the National Women's Party. Digitized photograph. 1920. The nineteenth Amendment will be passed that same year. Women would not have wanted to support…
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…
Post office mural, Forest parkway, 11421
Mural commissioned by the Works Progress Administration
Artists were one of the groups most affected by the Great Depression as no one had the money to buy the artists works, or commission the artists for specific works. The Works Progress…
Artists were one of the groups most affected by the Great Depression as no one had the money to buy the artists works, or commission the artists for specific works. The Works Progress…