School Blues!
Buzzy has the answer to "School Blues!" <br /><br />Comic description: After being discouraged by a bad report card, Joe thinks about quitting high school and starting a job. Joe meets with his school counselor, at his parent's suggestion, and his counselor enrolls him in a new course. Joe tells Buzzy that he likes his new course so much that he has decided to stay in school. His grades in all his other subjects have also improved. Buzzy reminds the reader to carefully consider important life decisions. <br /><br />[Image description: A text panel on the comic book cover reads: "How would you like a Superboy souvenir in your home? A memento of some great adventure or deed performed by the BOY OF STEEL? You'd like it, of course, but no more so than eager customers in Smallville, flocking to purchase mementos of their famed boy citizen! Everybody is happy-- except Superboy himself-- when he learns there is a mystery behind the Superboy Souvenirs!". The image on the cover shows superboy using his super-strength to place a giant meteor onto a petastal. The petastal has a sign that says: "Super Souvenir Meteor which Superboy Caught Before it Smashed into a City!". Next to Superboy is a man in a suit saying: "Thanks for pouring the concrete base and bringing the meteor here, Superboy! Now just one more little detail... building a wooden shelter over it!". A thought bubble by Superboy says: "Hmm! As a souvenir, this meteor is more trouble than it was as a menace! All I had to do then was to CATCH it!".]<br /><br />Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. <br /><br />Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with the National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
<span class="credit_label">Script: </span><span class="credit_value">Jack Schiff<br /></span><span class="credit_label">Pencils: </span><span class="credit_value">Win Mortimer<br /></span><span class="credit_label">Inks: </span><span class="credit_value">Win Mortimer</span><span class="credit_value"><br /></span><span class="credit_label">Letters: </span><span class="credit_value">Ira Schnapp</span>
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/56942" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Superboy: The Superboy Souvenirs no.36 OCT 1954</a> James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
DC Comics
1954 October
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The Case Against the Red Light
Venereal disease bulletin, no. 54. <br />Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary." <br /><br />Excerpt: <br /><br />"But every investigating committee that has reported on conditions in any large American city has condemned the whole buisness, although its members were often in favor of segregation when they began to investigate. <br /><br />The American army has tried all systems. General Pershing writes:<br /><br />Many of us who have experimented with licensed prostitution or kindred measures, hoping thereby to minimize the physical evils, have been forced to the conclusion that they are really ineffective, Abraham Flexner has argued the case so convincingly that on the scientific side it seems to me there is no escape from the conclusion that what he terms 'abolition' as distinguished from 'regulation' is the only effective mode combating this age-long evil. <br /><br />Don't be misled by underworld arguments.<br /><br />The <em>Evidence </em>is all against the red light."
American Social Hygiene Association, New York City
M 9 Box 54, Folder "Social Hygiene" <a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=oai/vcu/repositories/5/resources/279.oai_ead.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
United States Public Health Service cooperating with the State Board of Health, Richmond, Virginia
1920
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/social-work/some-social-causes-of-prostitution/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Some Social Causes of Prostitution (1914)</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><br />Annotate a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/files/original/90bc33cb3d935b38c3cd56ee055425fe.pdf" target="_blank" title="Annotatable PDF of this pamphlet" rel="noreferrer noopener">PDF of this pamphlet</a> with <a href="https://web.hypothes.is/" target="_blank" title="What is hypothes.is? How do I start?" rel="noreferrer noopener">hypothes.is</a>
Five Dollars Will Make the Dream Come True [editorial cartoon by Oscar Cesare]
Editorial cartoon by Oscar Cesare originally published in the New York <em>Sun.</em> Republished here in <em>Cartoons Magazine</em>, vol. 4, no. 3 (September 1913), p. 271. <br /><br />A poor mother kneels beside her sleeping child. She dreams of the "Mother's Home at Sea Breeze." Caption: "Five Dollars Will Make the Dream Come True."<br /><br />Sea Breeze Home, located at Surf Avenue and Twenty-ninth St., Coney Island, was a summer convalescent home for poor mothers and children who had contracted tuberculosis in the tenement neighborhoods of New York City. The institution was owned by the city. <br /><br />Many people were involved in the creation and expansion of the Sea Breeze Home and the Sea Breeze Hospital. They included Jacob Riis, Theodore Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, John Seely Ward, and the Association for Improving of the Condition of the Poor.
Cesare, Oscar Edward
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1913 September
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/public-health/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a><span>, Social Welfare History Project </span><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=tuberculosis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a><span>, Social Welfare History Image Portal</span><br />"Sea Breeze Home Opened.; More Than 300 Mothers and Children Sent to the Beach for Rest." <em>New York Times</em>, June 14, 1919, p. 19. <br /><a href="https://css.cul.columbia.edu/catalog?action=index&controller=catalog&f%5Bsubject_names%5D%5B%5D=Sea+Breeze+Hospital+%28New+York%2C+N.Y.%29&results_view=true" target="_blank" title="Sea Breeze Hospital photographs" rel="noreferrer noopener">Sea Breeze Hospital</a>, Community Service Society Photographs, Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Columbia University<br />Connolly, Cynthia A. (2008). <span>Saving Sickly Children : The Tuberculosis Preventorium in American Life, 1909-1970. </span>Rutgers University Press.<br />"Sea Breeze Home Ablaze" <i><a href="http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn83030431/1919-06-01/ed-1/seq-14/" target="_blank" title="The Sun, June 1, 1919" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Sun</a>.</i> (New York [N.Y.]), 01 June 1919. <i>Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers</i>. Lib. of Congress. <br /><a href="https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/006069447" target="_blank" title="Annual reports" rel="noreferrer noopener">Annual report of the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor</a>, Hathi Trust. <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=cartoon">Editorial cartoons</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
The Sheppard-Towner Bill: For the Protection of Maternity and Infancy
A pamphlet in support of the Sheppard-Towner Bill (S. 1039, H. R. 2366) for the Protection of Maternity and Infancy. This bill "permits the formation of an advisory committee consisting of the Commissioner of Education, the Surgeon-General of the U.S. Public Health Service, and the Secretary of Agriculture" to improve "instruction in the hygiene of maternity and infancy through public health nurses, consultation centers, and other suitable methods." The pamphlet outlines what the bill is, what it is not, what it costs, and why it is necessary.
Children's Bureau
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
U.S. Department of Labor
c. 1921
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Learn more: <br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/programs/child-welfarechild-labor/childrens-bureau-a-brief-history-resources/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Children's Bureau - A Brief History & Resources</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="http://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/federal/lathrop-julia-clifford/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Julia Clifford Lathrop (1858-1932)</a>: First Chief of the Children’s Bureau and Advocate for Enactment of the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Act of 1921
Influenza virus vaccines for Richmond region
<p>After the influenza virus was finally identified in 1933, researchers immediately started to develop a vaccine. The first flu vaccine was approved for U.S. military use in 1945 and for civilian use in 1946. <br /><br />Unfortunately, the flu has several types, and many types come in multiple strains—each of which has to be included in a vaccine to provide protection. Each year, scientists make their best prediction as to which flu variants will circulate that year and prepare a vaccine that treats a combination of the most likely strains. Sometimes the match is a good one, but sometimes unexpected strains mean the vaccine is less effective. Immunity also wears off and different strains emerge—which is why it’s important to get a flu shot every year.</p>
Clark, Wallace Huey (photographer).
<p>V.85.37.2477, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection</a>, The Valentine</p>
1976 September 30
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The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 3 [Mississippi Issue]
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South. <br /><br />As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name <em>The Southern Frontier</em> alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time.<br /><br />The “Mississippi Issue” contains contributions by:<br />J. Morgan Stevens<br />M. M. Hubert<br />A. J. Finch<br />R. L. Hunt<br />Theodore D. Bratton<br />P. H. Easom<br />Anselm Joseph Finch<br />Horace Mann Bond<br />R. B. Eleazer<br />Will W. Alexander<br /><br />Articles include:<br /><br />“The South’s Problem Number One” – An article discussing poverty and over-population in the South.<br /><br />“The Wm. Johnson Community Center, Jackson, Miss.” – An article discussing a church-owned clinic serving the African American communities of Jackson, Mississippi.<br /><br />"Jim Crow Legislation" - An article about the defeat of Jim Crow amendments to a Mississippi Free Text Book Bill. State Senator H. L. Davis of Oxford is quoted as saying, "Under the Constitution the Negro is a citizen and of course we know and accept that. But he can never expect to be given the same educational and social privileges with the white man and he doesn't expect them. The best education we can give him is to use his hands, because that's how he must earn his living. It always has and it always will be."<br /><br />"An Oscar for Hattie" - An article about Hattie McDaniel's Academy Award for her role as Mammy in "Gone With the Wind."
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
<a href="https://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3050" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jessie Daniel Ames Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching collection, 1930-1944</a><span>, Austin Seminary Archives, Stitt Library, Austin Presbyterian Seminary Library</span>
1940 March
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The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 5 [Texas Issue]
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), <em>The Southern Frontier</em> was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South.<br /><br /> As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name <em>The Southern Frontier </em>alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time.<br /><br />“The Texas Issue” contains contributions by:<br /><br />Lulu Daniel Ames<br /> Mary E. Branch<br /> J. L. Brock<br /> C. H. Bynum<br /> Thomas W. Currie<br /> John M. Hanna<br /> Francis R. Weber<br /> Lynn Landrum<br /> J. L. Brock<br /> Gordon B. Hancock<br /> Frederick D. Patterson<br /><br />Articles include: “Texans Look Into Negro Education” – An article detailing the meeting of the Texas State Department of Education, the Texas Interracial Committee, and the Texas State Colored Teachers Association to discuss plans to provide in-state graduate education for African American Texans.<br /><br />“Holy Cross Clinic, Austin, Will Open in Early July” – An article detailing the opening of the Holy Cross Cross Clinic, a clinic caring for African Americans on small wages.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
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1940 May
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The Southern Frontier, vol. 1, no. 9
Published by Commission on Interracial Cooperation (CIC), The Southern Frontier was a monthly newsletter, first issued in January, 1940. Aiming to share the stories overlooked by traditional newspapers, the newsletter published stories of social progress, as well as stories of racial injustices faced by African Americans across the American South. <br /><br />As described by the then President of the CIC Howard W. Odum, the name The Southern Frontier alludes to the need for even greater pioneering and progress in the social and cultural frontiers, the American South being the most turbulent field in reference to race relations and progress at the time.<br /><br />Vol. 1, No. 9 contains contributions by:<br /><br />John A. Kenney<br />Carter Wesley<br />Lee M. Owen<br />Homer F. Sanger<br />A. W. Dent<br /><br />Selected articles are:<br /><br />“Shortage of Negro Doctors” – A column by editor Carter Wesley of the Houston (Texas) Informer, highlighting the severely disproportionate ratio of African American doctors to African American citizens living in the south, prompting Wesley to further call for a lowering of the training standards needed to become a doctor. <br /><br />“What Negroes are Saying about National Politics” – An article featuring campaign promises from the Republican Party of Philadelphia and the Democratic Party of Chicago as well as selected quotes from African American citizens in advance of the 1940 national elections.
Commission on Interracial Cooperation
<a href="https://www.austinseminary.edu/page.cfm?p=3050" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Jessie Daniel Ames Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching collection, 1930-1944</a>, Austin Seminary Archives, Stitt Library, Austin Presbyterian Seminary Library
1940 September
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“Open-air” classroom at Moore Street School, 1113 W. Moore Street, Richmond, Va.
<p>In the early-20th century, Europe and the U.S. saw the rise of “open air” schools intended to create healthy environments to combat tuberculosis using the principles of sanatoria. Sometimes purpose-built, and sometimes converted spaces, open air schools provided fresh air and extra nutrition for at-risk youth. <br /><br />In the May 1917 issue of <em>The Modern City</em>, John H. Ferguson wrote about Richmond’s 16 open air schools: “Each school has a capacity of 20 children; and each one is always crowded, with a long waiting list. The children are selected from the entire public school system of the city by the school physician…Few of these children have tuberculosis even in its non-communicative forms, but they are all below par, physically, just in the right receptive condition to be fertile soil for the development of the disease.” <br /><br />A <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch </em>notice of March 2, 1915 (p. 7) noted fundraising activities of "prominent society women" in support of the open-air schools. These women served as tearoom hostesses in the palm garden of the Jefferson Hotel. Indoor golf was a popular activity for which "two handsome silver cups" were to be awarded at the conclusion of the season.</p>
Cook, Huestis P. (photographer)
Cook 1657, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cook Collection</a>, The Valentine
1916
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/public-health/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=tuberculosis" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br />Carr, Laura (2017). <a href="https://thevalentine.org/open-air-schools/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Open air schools: The fight against tuberculosis</a>. The Valentine (blog) <br /><a href="https://eric.ed.gov/?q=open+air+schools&id=ED542176" target="_blank" title="Open-Air Schools, 1916" rel="noreferrer noopener">Open-Air Schools</a>. Bulletin 1916, No. 23. Bureau of Education. Department of the Interior. via ERIC <br /><a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/search/?q=LOT%205338&fi=number&op=PHRASE&va=exact&co!=coll&sg=true&st=gallery" target="_blank" title="Goldsberry collection of open-air school photograhs, LoC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Goldsberry collection of open-air school photographs</a>, Library of Congress <br /><a href="https://retronaut.com/content/1930s-open-air-schools" target="_blank" title="photos of Open-Air Schools in the UK" rel="noreferrer noopener">1930s: Open-Air Schools</a>, Retronaut <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=nyp.33433081662318;view=2up;seq=888" target="_blank" title="Does Cold Weather Sharpen a Schoolboy's Wits?" rel="noreferrer noopener">Does Cold Weather Sharpen a Schoolboy's Wits?</a> The Scrap Book, 1908. pp. 883-884. via HathiTrust.org <br />Nierenberg, A. (2019 October 27). <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/27/us/outdoor-classroom-design.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="article on outside classrooms to prevent the spread of disease">Classrooms without walls and hopefully covid</a>. <em>New York Times.</em><span></span>
Anti-tuberculosis play at Lyric Theatre, 901 E. Broad Street, Richmond, Va.
<p>French bacteriologists Albert Calmette (1863–1933) and Camille Guérin (1872–1961) finalized the Bacille Calmette-Guérin (BCG) vaccine for tuberculosis in 1921. The vaccine remains the only tuberculosis vaccine in use today. While not perfect, it is one of the most widely used vaccines and reaches more than 80 percent of all children in countries where the disease is common. <br /><br />The BCG vaccine was a major weapon in public health efforts to fight tuberculosis—an ongoing battle dramatized by Richmond children in this 1921 play. In this panoramic photograph, a "Modern Health Crusader" brandishes a sword shaped like the double-barred cross that was the emblem of the crusade. The crusader carries a "Modern Health Crusader" shield and fights "Tuberculosis" who is dressed all in black. <br /><br />The Modern Health Crusaders campaign was devised by Charles De Forest of the National Tuberculosis Association.</p>
Cook, Huestis P. (photographer)
<a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Cook Collection</a>, The Valentine
1921
The Valentine
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Learn more:<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/194" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Chores of Modern Health Crusaders</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://archive.org/stream/modernhealthcrus00natirich#page/38/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Modern Health Crusade. A National Program of Health Instruction in Schools</a>, Internet Archive<br /><a href="http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/alav/seals/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Stamping out tuberculosis with Christmas Seals.</a> University of Virginia. Historical Collections at the Claude Moore Health Sciences Library<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/public-health/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Project
Casualties of Child Labor: Ten Children Illegally Employed in Pennsylvania and What Happened to Them
Pamphlet issued by the Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania as an exposé of workplace accidents involving children. The authors make an appeal to regulate child labor, and “To break down the conspiracy of silence” (p. 11) about illegal child employment. <br /><br /> The cover summarizes the cases discussed in the pamphlet:<br /><br /> "Two killed – one smothered to death and one blown to pieces<br /> Six seriously injured – hands crushed, fingers amputated, leg mangled<br /> Two of the injured permanently incapacited<br /> Two injured more or less seriously”
De Lima, Agnes <br />McConnell, Beatrice, 1894-1985
<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
Consumers' League of Eastern Pennsylvania
1924 December
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Let's Talk About It
Informational comic book "created as an educational component of the American Psychiatric Association 'Let's Talk About Mental Illness' public awareness campaign, produced through an educational grant from The Upjohn Company, Kalamazoo, MI." (from back cover)<br /><br />As the reader follows the story of Sara, a high school student suffering from depression, this comic book discusses mental and emotional health as important components of our overall health.
Deschaine, Scott, writer <br />Benton, Mike, writer
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/8635" target="_blank" title="Comic Arts Collection" rel="noreferrer noopener">Comic Arts Collection</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
American Psychiatric Association/Custom Comic Services
1990
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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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I've had my chest x-ray [pinback button]
<p>"I've Had My Chest X-Ray" button with red double-bar cross that was the emblem of the National Tuberculosis Association anti-TB crusade. </p>
<p>People can be exposed to tuberculosis bacteria and become infected. Some who are infected go on to develop active TB disease; those who do not are said to have latent infection. <br />Latent infection can be found through a skin test or a blood test; however, a chest x-ray and laboratory testing of a mucus sample are needed to determine if someone has active TB disease. <br /><br />In 1946, the Richmond Health Department worked with medical and civic organizations to launch the city’s first chest x-ray campaign.</p>
L. J. Imber Co.
V.83.158.20, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">The Valentine</a>
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Suggestions for Visitors to County Poorhouses and to Other Public Charitable Institutions
Cover title: Suggestions for Institution Visitors.<br /><br />A small volume that offers guidelines or suggestions for those undertake the investigaton of county poorhouses, public hospitals, asylums for the insane, children's homes, and industrial schools (homes for wayward girls and boys). <br /><br />A chapter titled "Homely Hints" supplies remedies for typical institutional problems such as bedbugs, roaches, vermin, ringworm, scabes, and sore eyes.<br /><br />The final chapter addresses the need for standards by which such institutions may be evaluated. <br /><br />Throughout, Lathrop encourages the visitor/inspector to keep an open mind while being friendly, knowledgeable, confident and persistent. This advice was very much in keeping with Lathrop's own methods. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 6 "If you meet superintendents in a candid and friendly spirit, they will probably meet you in the same spirit. They usually want to do their duty and they doubtless have many difficulties you do not see. Like the rest of the world, they will probably welcome the visits of intelligent, good-natured, reasonable persons who want to know them and who through various avenues of influence may be able to help them.<br /><br />Try to understand, then, first of all, the official point of view and the official difficulties. A critical, suspicious bearing will defeat your purpose to learn the facts."<br /><br />p. 7-8 "In many counties the superintendency of the county poorhouse and farm is let annually to the lowest cash bidder. In some counties the care of the poor is contracted for at a set price per head--the contract going to the lowest bidder....It is not Utopian to look forward to a period when the superintendent of such an institution shall be specially trained for such work, appointed on his merits and kept as long as he is a good officer."<br /><br />p.31 "There is a growing feeling that the State should recognize its own profound responsibility toward every child who, because of defect, or neglect, or poverty, or delinquency, cannot be protected and reared by its natural guardians. Any institution for children which is supported by public funds in whole or in part, or which solicits funds from the public, should welcome intelligent scrutiny."<br /><br />p.37-38 "It may be noted that corporal punishment is the one form of discipline which every inmate has probably known before entering the institution, and that it has, <em>prima facie,</em> failed of a satisfactory result."<br /><br />p. 44 "And, finally, may we offer this legend: To be good-tempered, to be just, to be patient, to be persistent, to be courageous and, again, to be good-tempered." <br /><br />
Lathrop, Julia C.
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Public Charities Committee of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs
1905
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Waiting for the Verdict [Dr. Friedman and The Great White Plague]
<span>Editorial cartoon by C. R. Macauley, originally published in the New York <em>World.</em> Republished here in <em>Cartoons Magazine</em>, vol. 3, no. 4 (April 1913), p. 226. <br /><br />A skeletal spectre waits outside an office with a plaque labelled "Dr. Friedman." <br /><br />Friedrich Franz Friedmann was a tuberculosis researcher in Berlin who came to New York City in 1913 to give what he called the "turtle vaccine" to people who came to his clinic. The New York City Board of Health rejected his claims and the clinic was closed.</span>
Macauley, Charles Raymond
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1913 April
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National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc. Hiking the Health Road for Others
Informational pamphlet about the National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc. <br /><br />The National Health Circle for Colored People developed out of the Circle for Negro Relief, an organization that helped meet the needs for black soldiers and their families during World War I. In 1919 the Circle was reorganized as a peace time program for the promotion of public health work in African American communities. <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320084&view=2up&seq=238" target="_blank" title="photograph of Belle Davis" rel="noreferrer noopener">Belle Davis</a>, a graduate of Fisk University, served as the Circle's executive secretary. Davis made over <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320084&view=2up&seq=236" target="_blank" title="Pathfinders, by Adah B Thoms" rel="noreferrer noopener">25,000 visits</a> in nine years to promote public health and welfare and raise awareness of the needs of black communities. <br /><br />The National Health Circle for Colored People also worked to recruit, educate and place African American public health nurses. They raised money for scholarship loans and at one time provided office space for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Association_of_Colored_Graduate_Nurses" target="_blank" title="NACGN in Wikipedia" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses</a>. <br /><br />This pamphlet list six "Objects of the Organization" and speaks to public health conditions, their causes, and the remedy. An appeal to both white and black citizens for membership is followed by endorsements from Theodore Roosevelt, R. R. Moton, Haven Emerson, M.D., and C. Everit Macy. <br /><br />Dr. Will W. Alexander of the <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=Commission+on+Interracial+Cooperation" target="_blank" title="materials related to the CIC" rel="noreferrer noopener">Commission on Interracial Cooperation</a> is listed as a member of the Board of Directors. <br /><br />The Circle notes that "tuberculosis kills eleven times as many Negro boys between the ages of ten and fourteen as white boys, and about eight times as many colored girls as white girls." Life expectancy of blacks was less than that of whites, and as many as 96 out of every 1,000 African American babies died before their first birthday. <br /><br />Pictured on the front cover are two Scholarship Nurses of the Circle, Alice Alvenia Sightler, R.N., graduate of Mercy Hospital, Philadelphia (left) and Agnes Boozer, R.N., graduate of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlem_Hospital_School_of_Nursing" target="_blank" title="Harlem Hospital School of Nursing" rel="noreferrer noopener">Harlem Hospital School of Nursing</a> (right).
National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc.
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between 1926 - 1929
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Learn more: <br /><br />Organizing Black America: an encyclopedia of African American associations (2001). New York: Garland.<br /><br />Thoms, A. B. (1929). <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015012320084&view=2up&seq=234" target="_blank" title="See p. 191 for info on the National Health Circle for Colored People, Inc." rel="noreferrer noopener">Pathfinders: a history of the progress of colored graduate nurses</a>. New York: Kay Print House.<br /><br />Hine, D.C. (1989). Black women in white: racial conflict and cooperation in the nursing profession, 1890-1950. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.<br /><br /><a href="http://archives.nypl.org/scm/20744" target="_blank" title="Finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Association of Colored Nurses records, 1908-1958</a>. New York Public Library.<br /><br />Hodson, Jane (1911). <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.c029406304&view=2up&seq=10" target="_blank" title="How to become a trained nurse" rel="noreferrer noopener">How to become a trained nurse</a>. 3rd ed. New York, W. Abbatt. See p. 255, "Schools for Colored Nurses (Exclusively)."
Women in the Home [suffrage handbill]
Handbill published by the New York State Woman Suffrage Association. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /> <br />"WOMEN IN THE HOME <br /><br />We are forever being told that the place for women is in the HOME. Well, so be it. But what do we expect of her in the home? Merely to stay in the home is not enough. She is a failure unless she does certain things for the home. She must make the home minister, as far as her means allow, to the health and welfare, moral as well as physical, of her family, and especially of her children. She, more than anyone else, is held responsible for what they become. <br />SHE is responsible for the cleanliness of her house. <br />SHE is responsible for the wholesomeness of the food. <br />SHE is responsible for the children's heath. <br />SHE, above all, is responsible for their morals, for their sense of truth, of honesty and decency, for what they turn out to be. <br /><br />How Far Can the Mother Control These Things?" <br /><br />Handbill goes on to argue that the elected city officials control many of the conditions that threaten children and families. These officials are elected by men, who must therefore share in the responsibility for these unsafe conditions.<br /><br />"In fact, MEN are responsible for the conditions under which the children live, but we hold WOMEN responsible for the results of those conditions. If we hold women responsible for the results, must we not, in simple justice, let them have something to say as to what these conditions shall be? There is one simple way of doing this. Give them the same means that men have. LET THEM VOTE.<br /><br />Women are, by nature and training, housekeepers. Let them have a hand in the city's housekeeping, even if they introduce and occasional house-cleaning."
New York State Woman Suffrage Association
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Programme of Social Hygiene Legislation of the National League of Women Voters
This pamphlet was created by Dr. Valeria H. Parker, National Chairman of the Social Hygiene Committee of the National League of Women Voters, and outlines outlines the League's general platform and stances regarding the abolition of commercialized prostitution, venereal disease control, and "delinquents, minors and defectives." Similarly, this pamphlet includes legislation and congressional appropriations endorsed by the National League of Women Voters. <br /><br />"The Social Hygiene Committee of the National League of Women Voters believes in the right of the individual to knowledge of laws of physical, mental and racial health, and stands ready to lend its support to public appropriations for agencies qualified to disseminate such education."
Parker, Valeria H.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National League of Women Voters
1920, February 16
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Candlelight AIDS memorial vigil on E. Grace Street, from St. Paul's Episcopal Church to Capitol Square, Richmond, Va.
<p>In 1981, Dr. Michael Gottlieb of UCLA identified a new disease that, among its many signs, severely weakened the immune system. Named acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), this disease was initially seen among gay men in large cities. <br /> Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), identified in 1985, is transmitted through blood, genital fluids (such as semen) and breastmilk. <br /><br />The earliest confirmed case of AIDS in the U.S. was in 1968, with the first case in Virginia reported in 1982. With no known cure, HIV/AIDS was initially a death sentence for those infected. <br /><br />Participants in this 1987 candlelight AIDS memorial vigil walked down E. Grace Street from St. Paul's Episcopal Churh to Capitol Square in Richmond, Va.</p>
Pennell, Don (photographer)
V.88.68.144, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Richmond Times-Dispatch Collection</a>, The Valentine
1987 May 25
The Valentine
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Bond, Piedmont Sanatorium
Bond, issued in 1917 in return for a donationof $1.00 toward the construction of Piedmont Sanatorium. <br /><br />The Piedmont Sanatorium was established in Burkeville, Virginia, in June, 1918. At that time, tuberculosis was one of the leading causes of death for African Americans, but segregated health care in Virginia dictated that blacks could receive treatment in only two facilities—Central State Hospital (a mental health facility) and the state penitentiary. <br /><br />The <a href="https://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/negro_organization_society" target="_blank" title="Negro Organization Society" rel="noreferrer noopener">Negro Organization Society</a> initiated discussions with the State Board of Health, particularly Agnes D. Randolph, the Director of the Bureau of Tuberculosis Education. Randolph was instrumental in convincing the state government to establish a facility for African Americans. <br /><br />The Negro Organization Society continued to be heavily involved with the issue, from raising public awareness to donating funds to improve the facility. Piedmont Sanatorium had closed by 1965, when black patients began to be sent to Blue Ridge Sanatorium, near Charlottesville. <br /><br />Excerpt: <br />"This Bond is issued for the purpose of cooperation with the Negro Organization Society to erect and to equip one Building to be used for the patients and to include rooms for visiting Doctors who shall from time to time be invited for study to the Sanatorium. The purchaser hereby receives a share in the benefit and happiness to be derived."
Piedmont Sanatorium
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1917
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Typhoid fever study, Richmond, Va. [lantern slide]
<p>Lantern slide. Image taken in Richmond, Va in 1907. <br /><br />The Richmond Health Department formed in 1906. One of its early initiatives (1907) was to investigate 433 cases of typhoid fever, creating the city’s first systematic study of infectious disease. In 1908, Dr. Ernest C. Levy (1868–1938), head of the Richmond Health Department, published the survey findings in <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076672446;view=2up;seq=336" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery</em></a>. Dr. Levy discussed the generally declining rate of typhoid fever cases in Richmond from 1880 to 1907 but noted several outbreaks of the disease in 1881, 1884 and 1900.<br /><br />While one cluster of outbreaks in Church Hill was determined to come from a typhoid-infected confectioner, a larger proportion of cases were from properties on the outskirts of the city that generally used well water and lacked sewage systems. </p>
Richmond Health Department
V.81.99.08, <a href="https://thevalentine.org/exhibition/pandemic-richmond-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
1907
The Valentine
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Learn more:<br />Levy, E. C. and Freeman, A. W. (1908). <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015076672446;view=2up;seq=336" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Certain conclusions concerning typhoid fever in the south, as deduced from a study of typhoid fever in Richmond Virginia.</a> <em>The Old Dominion Journal of Medicine and Surgery</em>, <em>VII</em> (5), November 1908, 315-338. <br />Carr, Laura (2014).<a href="https://thevalentine.org/typhoid-fever/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Typhoid fever!</a> The Valentine (blog).<br />Hughes, Megan (2018). <a href="https://thevalentine.org/typhoid-fever-2/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Typhoid fever!</a> The Valentine (blog).<br />Society for the Betterment of Housing and Living Conditions in Richmond, Virginia (1913). <a href="https://archive.org/stream/reportonhousingl00socirich#page/n3/mode/2up" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Report on housing and living conditions in the neglected sections of Richmond, Virginia</a>.
Richmond School of Social Economy, First Annual Announcement, 1917-1918. Bulletin No. 1
First <em>Bulletin</em> of the <a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/making-vcu/early-social-work-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="online exhibit of school history">Richmond School of Social Economy</a>. This school would change names at several points in its history, becoming the School of Social Work and Public Health, the Richmond Professional Institute, and, after merging with the Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University. <br /><br />Stamped on cover: "Name changed from Richmond School of Social Economy to Virginia School of Social Work."<br /><br />Address also changed with a stamp from "<a href="https://www.google.com/maps/@37.540251,-77.4386129,3a,75y,278.2h,118.74t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sNAutB6LXUUJ1LdXXZW804g!2e0!7i16384!8i8192" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="View this location in Google Street View">6-8 North 6th Street</a>" to "1112 Capitol St." Richmond, VA.<br /><br />This bulletin describes the classes, curriculum, and field work offerred by the new Richmond School of Social Economy along three tracks: general, public health nursing, and recreation. Entrance requirements, registration, fees, scholarships, library facilities, board and other matters are outlined. The names of the Board of Directors, Administrative Officers, Faculty and Special Lecturers are listed. <br /><br />An <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/?p=23775&preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="ad from the Richmond Times-Dispatch, July 22, 1917">advertisement</a> for the first term declared: "Usual Opportunities Offerred For specialization in Public Health Nursing, Church Work, Medical Social Work, Juvenile Court and Playground Work."<br /><br />Field work in the first year included the <a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/corrections/virginia-home-and-industrial-school-for-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="history of the institution">Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls</a>, a reform school in Bon Air, Va. The superintendent, Anna M. Petersen taught eugenics at the RSSE. <br /><br />---<br /><br />Transcriptions of <em>Richmond Times-Dispatch</em> articles describing the events surrounding the establishment of the school may be found at the Social Welfare History Project. These describe the period from October 1916, when serious conversations about starting a school began to be reported in the press, to July 1917 when Howard H. Hibbs, began as the school's first director. <br /><br />The efforts of Richmond and Petersburg citizens such as Orie Latham Hatcher, Virginia McKenney (later Claiborne), Father Charles Hannigan, Nannie Minor, the Rev. J. T. Mastin, May Lansfield Keller, Katherine H. Hawes, the Rev. H. C. D. Maclachlan, and Agnes Randolph were important in the movement from felt need, to the idea of a school, and finally to the reality of classes and field work. <br /><br />Additional transcriptions in the Social Welfare History Project concern reporting of the school's opening and first term. <br /><br />Excerpts from the <em>Bulletin</em>: <br />
<p>The Richmond School of Social Economy was incorporated April 17<sup>th</sup> with the following Board of Directors;</p>
<p>Mr. J. J. Scherer, Jr. … President <br />Mr. Wortley F. Rudd … Vice-President <br />Miss Virginia S. McKenney ... Secretary <br />Mr. F. B. Dunford … Treasurer</p>
<p>(Names of board members follows)</p>
<p>Administrative Officers <br />Mr. J. J. Scherer, Jr., Chairman <br />Miss Virginia McKenney <br />Mr. F. B. Dunford <br />Dr. H. D. C Maclachlan <br />Mrs. Roy K. Flannagan <br />Dr. O. L. Hatcher <br />Father Chas. Hannigan <br />Dr. F. T. McFaden <br />Mr. W. F. Rudd</p>
Richmond School of Social Economy
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
1917
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/corrections/virginia-home-and-industrial-school-for-girls/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="history of the reform school">Virginia Home and Industrial School for Girls</a>, Social Welfare History Project <br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/?p=23775&preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="early accounts of the foundation of the RSSE">Richmond School of Social Economy - Beginnings. October 1916 - July 1917</a>. Social Welfare History Project<br /><br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/?p=23840&preview=true" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="newspaper articles related to the first term">Richmond School of Social Economy. Opening Term. Fall 1917.</a> Social Welfare History Project
The Amazing Spider-Man vs. The Prodigy! [Marvel/Planned Parenthood Federation of America comic book]
Informational comic book aimed at teenagers provides basic facts about sex, reproduction and birth control, as well as suggested sources to learn more.<br /><br />Story: The Amazing Spider-Man discovers that the alien villain, the Prodigy, is convincing teenagers to have unprotected sex. Prodigy plans to use the resulting children as child laborers on his home planet, Intellectia. Spider-Man unmasks the villain in front of TV cameras to thwart the plot.<br /><br />From title page: "This comic was produced by Marvel Comics Group in conjunction with Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Inc."<br /><br />"Stan Lee presents: A special Planet Parenthood issue of The Amazing Spider-Man.<br /><br />Ann Robinson, writer<br />Ross Andru, artist<br />Mike Esposito, inker<br />Jan Cohen, colorist<br />Joe Rosen, letterer"<br /><br /><br />Story dialog: <br /><br />Prodigy: "Remember, all those people who tell you DON'T--'Don't do it'--'Don't get into heavy stuff'--they just try to scare you into thinking it's easy to get pregnant. But I say, how else can you prove you're a man: How else are you going to get a man?"<br /><br />Spider-Man: "My webbed head! I'm no Marcus Welby, but there's gotta be some way these kids can get the RIGHT info.*<br /><br />*(See page 16--Stan.)<br /><br />Spider-Man: "I see it all now!...He wants them to be baby machines! Changing diapers, going nowhere in dead-end jobs...Sitting home every night trying to find the time and money to go to a movie or buzz out to the burger stand."
Robinson, Ann, writer
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/8635" target="_blank" title="Comic Arts Collection" rel="noreferrer noopener">Comic Arts Collection</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
1976
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/comics/gallery" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="Discovery Set: Comics on a Mission">Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
[Virginia Public Health disease prevention illustration]
A public health graphic created to educate the public about avoiding the spread of disease. Published in the <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=600" target="_blank" title="Virginia Health Bulletin via HathiTrust.org" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Virginia Health Bulletin</em></a> in 1918 during the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_flu" target="_blank" title="1918 Spanish flu pandemic" rel="noreferrer noopener">Spanish flu</a> pandemic.
Rostrup, Carl Johann
<a href="http://search.library.vcu.edu/VCU:all_scope:VCU_ALMA21397764960001101" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia Health Bulletin</a> Health Sciences Library, VCU Libraries
Tompkins-McCaw Library for the Health Sciences, VCU Libraries
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Learn more: <br /><br />Influenza Catechism (1918), <a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=604&size=125" target="_blank" title="Advice from the Virginia State Board of Health, 1918" rel="noreferrer noopener"><em>Virginia Health Bulletin</em></a>, (<em>X,</em>10). <br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/395xRj3" target="_blank" title="materials related to influenza in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Influenza</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=public+health" target="_blank" title="materials related to public health in the Image Portal" rel="noreferrer noopener">Public health</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal