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An Amendment to the Constitution is Needed to Give the United States Power to Safeguard the Child Life of the Nation.
Pamphlet advocating for theChild Labor Amendment,passed in 1924, but never ratified.Text from back of pamphlet: A federal minimum will give to American Children all the advantages of our federal form of government.Every state may wish to give its…
Dare to Do Right! Temperance mass meeting handbill.
Handbill advertising a Grand Temperance Mass Meeting held in Illinois (likely Dixon, IL) on Thursday Evening October 25, 1866. "Addresses by Rev. G.R.Vanhorne, Rev. S.S. Waltz and Prof. Ferris. A large delegation from the Red Ribbon Club of Amboy…
Tags: social welfare history, temperance
Sabrina Squire
Sabrina Squire at a VCU College of Humanities and Sciences Welcome Week event, August 22, 2012
Rob Wittman
Congressional portrait of Congressman Rob Wittman, 112th Congress.
Hunter "Patch" Adams
Hunter "Patch" Adams at a medical conference in Anaheim, Calif., May 15, 2008. Photo by Craig Y. Fujii