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"The Street-Girl's End"
As the first act of “practical work” initiated by the CWC, clubwomen lobbied for day matrons to be placed in police stations for the protection and care of incarcerated women. Clubwomen continued to advocate for night matrons to be stationed in jails…

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When clubwomen encountered children in poorhouses and jails, they saw future paupers and criminals. The 1891 children’s illustration below depicts the doomed trajectory of troublesome children. The CWC tried to intervene in the process and place…

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Ink drawing published in Chicago Inter-Ocean. In 1892 a cholera epidemic raged in Europe, making some of the ships arriving in the United States a public health hazard. Republican president Benjamin Harrison approved a quarantine of several ships…

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Protesters in Chicago rally against the Salvadoran Civil War, March 1989.

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Proud alums in San Antonio

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Pappa Mullaghy sportin fanwear down in Florida. Forget you Michigan folks!

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Beginning of report on the Mexican province from Annuae litterae Societatis Jesu anni M.D.LXXXI-[M.DC.LIIII]...(Rome, 1583-[1656?])

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Students from the Casimir Pulaski Polish School in traditional Polish dress.
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