Story of the Boston Nursery for Blind Babies
This pamphlet provides a brief history of the Boston Nursery for Blind Babies. The pamphlet is accompanied with photographs displaying the nursery with a few photos of the blind children it cared for, while providing information about those who operated the nursery and cared for the children.
Boston Nursery for Blind Babies
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c. 1910
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/blind/" target="_blank" title="articles from the history of services for the blind" rel="noreferrer noopener">Blindness</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://archive.org/details/annualreportofbo122bost/page/n9" target="_blank" title="Annual Report via Internet Archive" rel="noreferrer noopener">First Annual Report of the Boston Nursery for Blind Babies, 1901,</a> Internet Archive <br /><a href="https://www.perkins.org/history" target="_blank" title="Perkins History Museum" rel="noreferrer noopener">Perkins History Museum</a>, Perkins School for the Blind <br /><a href="http://www.afb.org/info/about-us/history/12" target="_blank" title="AFB website - history" rel="noreferrer noopener">More Than 90 Years of Advocacy and Support for People with Vision Loss</a>. American Foundation for the Blind
Memorial: To the Legislature of Massachusetts
Dorothea Dix’s 1843 speech petitioning the Massachusetts Legislature for funds to improve the living condition of people with mental illnesses at Worchester Hospital. Her speech includes detailed descriptions of conditions in state and privately funded asylums, prisons, almshouses, and poorhouses throughout the North East.
Dix, Dorothea Lynde
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Printed by Munroe & Francis
1843 January
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Learn more: <br /><a href="Miss%20Dorothea%20Dix%20(1802%20-%201887)%3A%20Teacher,%20Nurse,%20Social%20Reformer%20and%20Advocate%20for%20the%20Mentally%20Ill" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Miss Dorothea Dix (1802 - 1887): Teacher, Nurse, Social Reformer and Advocate for the Mentally Ill</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/mental-illness/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Articles and documents</a> related to mental illness, Social Welfare History Project
Here in Massachusetts [Massachusetts Child Labor Committee pamphlet]
Here in Massachusetts: A fund raising pamphlet issued by the Massachusetts Child Labor Committee to promote regulation of working conditions and employment for children. The pamphlet cites statistics on child labor and industrial accidents and argues that work detracts from education, offers no real future benefits, and impairs health.<br /><br />The first page shows a photograph of a boy with the caption “Worth a Chance? How Much is That Chance Worth to You!”<br /><br />The pamphlet includes a word puzzle, “An Old Problem and a New Year.: the Corner Stones of a Square Deal” The puzzle identifies play, work, health, and school as rights of childhood.
Massachusetts Child Labor Committee
<a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/resources/2432">Paul U. Kellogg papers</a>.<a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/505670">Child Labor Amendment, 1923-1927</a>. <a href="https://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/505670">Box: 22, Folder: 197</a>. Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
c. 1924
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
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An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Society for Suppressing Intemperance
Abiel Abbot, pastor of the First Church in Beverly, addresses the Massachusetts Society for Suppressing Intemperance at their third anniversary meeting.
Massachusetts Society for Suppressing Intemperance
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1815 June 2
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/religious/the-temperance-movement/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Temperance Movement</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Annual Report of the Refuge in the City of Boston and the Bethesda Society for the Year Ending February 1911 [selected pages]
This document details information regarding the Refuge's and the Bethesda Society’s yearly financial expenses, donations, and membership, while also documenting the number of “refugees” under their care. Additionally, this annual report and the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/423" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Annual Reports of the Refuge and Bethesda Society, 1912">annual report of 1912</a> (also available in the Image Portal), display the mission statements of the two societies and explain how, though being two separate organizations, their specific goals function in harmony with one another. <br /><br />List of Donations and Report of Work (sewing) are included.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 2 "In our 'House of Mercy' we offer a 'Refuge' to those fallen women who desire to return to the paths of virtue. <br />We desire to do greater good in the future than has been accomplished in the past, and for this purpose we ask the co-operation and the pecuniary aid of all who approve of and are willing to help forward this peculiar charity." <br /><br />p. 8-9 Donations listed on these pages include a variety of necessities and treats including <br />24 Bibles, barrel of apples, an evening's entertainment with Victor machine [phonograph], ice cream, year's subscriptions to <em>Ladies' Home Journal</em>, <em>Outlook</em>, and <em>American Magazine,</em> 12 boxes of strawberries, and many presents at Christmas time.
Refuge and Bethesda Society
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1911
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/CharitiesCollection/CC016.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid to The Orchard Home School records">Guide to the The Orchard Home School (Boston, Mass.) records, 1828-1948</a>, Simmons University Library <br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Penitent+Females%27Refuge+Society+(BOSTON,+Massachusetts)%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="publications available through Google Books">Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies</a> publications, Google Books <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455495;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Section listing charitable and beneficient organizations assisting "fallen women"">Fallen Women</a>. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficient Organizations of Boston, 1886, HathiTrust
Annual Report of the Refuge in the City of Boston and the Bethesda Society, 1912 [selected pages]
This document details information regarding the Refuge's and the Bethesda Society’s yearly financial expenses, donations, and membership, while also documenting the number of “refugees” under their care. <br />Additionally, this annual report and the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/422" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Annual report of the Refuge and Bethesda Society ">annual report of 1911</a> (also available in the Image Portal), display the mission statements of the two societies and explain how, though being two separate organizations, their specific goals function in harmony with one another. <br /><br />A "Time Schedule" (p. 12) outlines daily activities by day of the week, including sewing, school, gymnastics and recreation.<br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p. 17 "However beset with difficulties any human life may be, whether from evil inheritance or corrupt surroundings, we believe there is no human being who with the grace of God cannot be reformed, if that grace be accompanied by human forces. This belief must always be the foundation stone of all successful efforts against evil in this world, and it is nowhere more needed than in just the work we are trying to do here." <br />"The great motive of all our efforts is to reform the transgressor, not to punish."<br /><br />p. 18 "We offer them first of all a cheerful, comfortable and refined home, and bring them under the influence of kind and judicious matrons....Here are combined the influences of a home, a school, a church--the three great forces of changing character."<br /><br />p. 20 "During their sewing hours, and often in the evening, the matrons read aloud to the girls from books which are received from the Pulic Library Deposit Station--fifty books of suitable reading matter being left at a time, that the girls may be supplied with desirable books which they can read during their leisure hours."<br /><br />pp. 20-21 "To secure the best results, it is considered necessary for the girls to remain with us at least two years and then, unless relatives or friends have provided for them they are not allowed to leave our home until desirable situations are found for them where they can still be under our watchful care."
Refuge and Bethesda Society
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1912
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://beatleyweb.simmons.edu/collectionguides/CharitiesCollection/CC016.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid to The Orchard Home School records">Guide to the The Orchard Home School (Boston, Mass.) records, 1828-1948</a>, Simmons University Library <br /><a href="https://www.google.com/search?tbo=p&tbm=bks&q=inauthor:%22Penitent+Females%27Refuge+Society+(BOSTON,+Massachusetts)%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="publications available through Google Books">Penitent Females' Refuge and Bethesda Societies</a> publications, Google Books <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044024455495;view=2up;seq=60" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Section listing charitable and beneficient organizations assisting "fallen women"">Fallen Women</a>. A Directory of the Charitable and Beneficient Organizations of Boston, 1886, HathiTrust
Society for the Entertainment of Shut-ins, 1908 [annual report]
The Society for the Entertainment of Shut-Ins (SESI) was founded in 1901 by the Rev. George W. Shinn, D. D. in Boston, Massachusetts. <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Shinn%2C+George+W.+%28George+Wolfe%29%2C+1839-1910%22" target="_blank" title="books by the Rev. G. W. Shinn on Internet Archive" rel="noreferrer noopener">Shinn</a> was the rector of <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/fFVBeVbA8d22" target="_blank" title="Grace Episcopal Church, Google Maps" rel="noreferrer noopener">Grace Episcopal Church</a>, Newton, Ma. <br /><br />According to these documents, the Society aimed “to relive the monotony and pain of a shut-in life…Its original plan included giving entertainments in hospitals and other institutions…the present work is chiefly among isolated invalids, and almost entirely with chronic sufferers, 'whom the Lord has shut in.'” <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />p. 4 "Many invalids would be glad to dispose of their handiwork and orders for needle work of all kinds, paper flowers, painting, etc., can be filled. It would be a great help if some of the members of the society would undertake a sale of this work, thus helping the Shut-Ins to help themselves." <br /><br />p. 8 "In January, 1907, this Society became affiliated with the Shut-In Society, and a number of invalids were made members of the larger organization, whose scope is world-wide but whose mission of cheer is largely carried on by correspondence, and which as a society does not give any material assistance. From the first the two have worked in harmony although not officially connected."
Shinn, George W.
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1908
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18900504.2.103&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1" target="_blank" title="Newspaper article, 1890" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Shut-in Society. An association of invalids who correspond with one another.</a> San Francisco Call, Volume 67, Number 165, 4 May 1890, California Digital Newspaper Collection <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/old-age-assistance-an-overview/" target="_blank" title="Old Age Assistance: An Overview" rel="noreferrer noopener">Old Age Assistance: An Overview</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/aid-for-the-aged/" target="_blank" title="Aid for the Aged: Title I of the Social Security Act" rel="noreferrer noopener">Aid For The Aged: Title I of the Social Security Act</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br />Achenbaum, W.A. and Carr, L.C. <a href="https://www.asaging.org/blog/brief-history-aging-services-united-states" target="_blank" title="Brief History of Aging Services in the U.S." rel="noreferrer noopener">A Brief History of Aging Services in the United States</a>, American Society on Aging
Society for the Entertainment of Shut-ins, 1909 [annual report]
The Society for the Entertainment of Shut-Ins (SESI) was founded in 1901 by the Rev. George W. Shinn, D. D. in Boston, Massachusetts. <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=creator%3A%22Shinn%2C+George+W.+%28George+Wolfe%29%2C+1839-1910%22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="books by the Rev. G. W. Shinn on Internet Archive">Shinn</a> was the rector of <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/fFVBeVbA8d22" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Grace Episcopal Church, Google Maps">Grace Episcopal Church</a>, Newton, Ma. <br /><br />According to these documents, the Society aimed “to relive the monotony and pain of a shut-in life…Its original plan included giving entertainments in hospitals and other institutions…the present work is chiefly among isolated invalids, and almost entirely with chronic sufferers, 'whom the Lord has shut in.'”<br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 2-3 "It is, however, in the subtler forms of cheer, in the building up of hope and courage, infinding new interests or reviving old ones, in bringing good books or new ideas, in carrying 'golden gossip' to those who have drifted into an eddy of petty interests, in giving comfort at times of especial suffering or grief, that the Society does its best work."<br /><br />p. 6 "A helpless invalid who lies alone all day in a cheerless tenement because she and the sister who supports her cannot bear to be separated, has had much brightness brought into her sinularly desolate life, and is exceedingly grateful." <br /><br />p. 8 "This Society is closely affiliated with the Shut-In Society, which publishes the 'Open Window,' a monthly magazine which serves as a means of communication between its members who are scattered throughout the world although chiefly in the United States."
Shinn, George W.
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1909
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://cdnc.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/cdnc?a=d&d=SFC18900504.2.103&e=-------en--20--1--txt-txIN--------1" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Newspaper article, 1890">The Shut-in Society. An association of invalids who correspond with one another.</a> San Francisco Call, Volume 67, Number 165, 4 May 1890, California Digital Newspaper Collection <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/old-age-assistance-an-overview/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Old Age Assistance: An Overview">Old Age Assistance: An Overview</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/public-welfare/aid-for-the-aged/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Aid for the Aged: Title I of the Social Security Act">Aid For The Aged: Title I of the Social Security Act</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br />Achenbaum, W.A. and Carr, L.C. <a href="https://www.asaging.org/blog/brief-history-aging-services-united-states" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Brief History of Aging Services in the U.S.">A Brief History of Aging Services in the United States</a>, American Society on Aging
The History of Trade Unionism among Women in Boston.
A brief historical overview of the relationship between unionism and working women in Boston. This approach attempts to identify the causes for the wage and employment disparities of working women in comparison to working men, and therefore suggesting this inequality as the central reason for Boston’s working women link with unionism. <br /><br />Additionally, the booklet touches upon a handful of various labor unions organized exclusively by working women that lived and operated within the city of Boston during the turn of the century. <br /><br />These three pages represent an excerpt of a larger work. The <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044004319224;view=2up;seq=6" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="read the entire publication">entire 33-page publication</a> may be read through HathiTrust.org.
The Women’s Trade Union League (WTUL)
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1906
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Little Wanderers’ Advocate.
The first 16 pages of this item describe the origin, mission statement, constitution, and founding board members of the Union Mission and Home for Little Wanderers. <br /><br />Union Mission & Home for Little Wanderers formed by ten Boston businessmen to care for children orphaned by the Civil War. They were inspired by the Howard Mission of New York. <br /><br /><em>The Little Wanderers' Advocate </em><br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p.3 "One Word to the Widowed Mother.<br />Do not send your child to the poor-house. We will take and provide a good home for it. You may know where it is placed and be at liberty to write to it or visit it at proper times. We shall deal with your child as if it were our own." <br /><br />p.5 "What we Propose to Do. <br />Take every child of sorrow, of every age, and feed, clothe, instruct, and thus prepare them for homes, where they shall enjoy all the influences of good society, and thus grow up to become useful men and women. <br />In almost every instance we can place a boy into a home where they have no boy, and a girl where they have no girl. <br />Can we do this? <br />For several years past we have been taking children to homes. We have committees over the West, and in the New England and other States, and receive applications for more children than we can possibly furnish. <br />Conditions: We bind no child to any person; there is no slavery in the matter, all is voluntary between the child and the one who takes it, we reserving the right to remove any child who is not properly treated."<br /><br />p.7 "Soldiers' Children<br />The children of those noble men who have fallen during this unholy rebellion, shall be the objects of peculiar care. They shall be doubly welcome. We owe them a debt that the kindest treatment can never pay. They are not in the strict sense of the word objects of charity, but they have claims upon the public that demand our noblest response. Come to the Union Mission and Home for the Little Wanderers, and what we can do to place you in situations where all that society, friendship and love can do for you will be done. And when the Stars and Stripes shall again wave over this entire land, a grateful people will remember that it was the blood of your fathers that puchased liberty to all, the price of our natonal redemption."
Union Mission and Home for Little Wanderers
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c.1865-1866
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://www.thehome.org/site/DocServer/history_of_service_page.pdf?docID=2889" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Timeline of institutional history">History of Service [PDF]</a>, Home for Little Wanderers, Boston, Ma. <br /><a href="https://historyengine.richmond.edu/episodes/view/2193" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="War Orphans">War Orphans</a>. History Engine. <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/orphan-trains/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Orphan Trains">Orphan Trains</a>, Social Welfare History Project
A State Program on Education for Citizenship
This pamphlet written by Martha E. D. White, Civic Director, Massachusetts League of Women Voters, is a program of events about citizenship and calls on women to become more actively engaged in the Education for Citizenship. As described by White, Education for Citizenship seeks " to furnish information, to awaken the sense of personal responsibility, to stimulate interest, to arouse the social conscience, and to quicken sympathy..." This educational work carried out by the State League of Women Voters falls under three categories: citizenship, politics, and legislation.
White, Martha E. D.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Massachusetts League of Women Voters
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/education/americanization/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Americanization</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/immigration/national-council-on-naturalization-and-citizenship/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">National Council on Naturalization and Citizenship</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Miss Margaret Foley The Well Known Suffragist Will Speak [broadside]
Broadside publicizes two presentations by suffragist <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Foley_(suffragist)" target="_blank" title="biographical information on Foley" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Foley</a>: Hampton Court House on Wednesday, April 12, 1916 and in Newport News on Thursday, April 13, 1916. <br /><br />"Miss Margaret Foley <br />The Well Known Suffragist <br />Will Speak on Votes for Women...<br /><br />Miss Foley is the only woman who ever spoke in the Harvard Stadium and a most popular speaker. <br /><br />ALL ARE WELCOME<br />Come and Hear What She Has to Say<br /><br />Under the Auspices of the Hampton and Newport News Equal Suffrage Leagues"<br /><br />Handwritten note at top of page, <br />[?] liked Miss Foley "the best yet"<br /><br />Addition handwritten note gives Newport News location as Knights of Columbus Hall.
M 9 Box 233, <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" title="finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1916
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Learn more: <br /><br />Photograph of <a href="https://www.loc.gov/resource/mnwp.150016/" target="_blank" title="LoC photograph of Foley" rel="noreferrer noopener">Margaret Foley distributing the Woman's Journal and Suffage News</a>, Library of Congress <br /><br /><a href="https://hollis.harvard.edu/primo-explore/fulldisplay?context=L&vid=HVD2&search_scope=everything&tab=everything&lang=en_US&docid=01HVD_ALMA211768465180003941" target="_blank" title="archival collection" rel="noreferrer noopener">Papers of Margaret Foley, 1847-1968 (inclusive), 1909-1929 (bulk)</a>, Harvard Library <br /><br />McDaid, J. D. (2019, September 12). <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Equal_Suffrage_League_of_Virginia_1909-1920#start_entry" target="_blank" title="Article on the ESL" rel="noreferrer noopener">Equal Suffrage League of Virginia (1909-1920)</a>, <em>Encyclopedia Virginia</em>