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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…

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…

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…

Photograph taken eight years after Jane Addams founded Hull House in Chicago. The image shows three people walking down a row of deteriorating buildings, likely houses. It is living conditions, like those shown in the above photograph, that would…

Women worked in munitions making, typically a man's job, during World War I. 12.6 x 17.7 cm. Gelatin silver print. 1914. World War I will begin soon for the rest of the world, and when will be albe to vot in six years. Women were working in muntions…

A poster to convince women to become trained nurses for the war effort. 76 x 54 cm. Lithograph. 1917 or 1918. World War I is happening and the war effort needs women to treat soldiers. The government wanted women for the war effort, and the poster…

An American nurse treating a soldier during World War I. 5 x 7 in. Glass negatives. 1914. The United States of American had not officially entered World War I and would not do so until 1917, but the United States of America did fund their Allies and…

A Photograph of a women standing outside the White House with a banner demanding that Woodrow Wilson give women suffrage. 5x 7 in. Digitized photograph. 1917. The year before the end of World War I and soon after the Nineteenth Amendment giving…

A map with the dates of states giving women suffrage. Digitization of a map. 1914. World War I begins that year, female suffrage had been started in the west to bring in more settlers. The states that have given suffrage to women are next to each…

Alice Paul is sewing a star on a flag to represent another state ratifying the Nineteenth Amendment. 4 x 5 in or smaller. I negative: glass. 1920. The Nineteenth Amendment was ratified in 1920. This flag represents how closely women followed the…