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  • Tags: Poverty and Homelessness

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

Eleanor Roosevelt visits the National Youth Administraton in Maine.jpg
The First Lady visiting would have provided publicity for the National Youth Administration, but it also would have provided a morale boost for those in the program at the site.

United States National Youth Administration trainees.jpg
Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainees between the ages of seventeen and twenty-one learning to use lathes in preparation for jobs in the war industry. They work eight hours a day and get paid forty dollars a…

NYA-Cornerstone.jpg
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…

UNited_States_National_Youth_Administration_trainee_8d16912v.jpg
Buffalo, New York. United States NYA (National Youth Administration) trainee being trained to use a lathe in preparation for a job in industry. She is under twenty, works eight hours a day and gets paid forty dollars a month during training

The…

Training school for pickpockets.jpg
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…

Street boys sleeping on the docks.jpg
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…

He Should Pay The Taxes.jpg
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…

Mother has TB Father works for WPA.jpg
United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.fsaowi

The family in the above photograph would have been a…
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