“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>
[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
<span>¡</span>Los Amigos Conservan A Sus Amigos Con Vida!
Spanish-language educational comic book created for Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). <br /><br />Inside front cover contains a letter from Micky Sadoff, President, MADD National. <br /><br />Founded in 1980, Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD) is a nonprofit organization in the United States and Canada that seeks to stop drunk driving, provide services for those affected by drunk driving, prevent underage drinking, and work for stricter laws related to impaired driving.
<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
MADD/Custom Comic Services
1989
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Annual Report, Neighborhood House, Richmond, VA, 1916-1917
Selected pages from the 1916-1917 Annual Report of Neighborhood House, Richmond, VA. <br /><br />p.1 Listing of Chairman, Executive Committee, Directors, and Head Worker at Neighborhood House, 1916-1917. <br /><br />p.2 "Activities at the Neighborhood House October, 1916 - June, 1917" <br /><br />p.11 "Lectures October 1916 - May 1917" <br /><br />p.12 "Star Boy Scout Troop of the Neighborhood House <br />Mr. Harold Calisch, Scout Master" <br /><br />In the early 1900’s, non-resident settlement houses were created throughout the country to assist with immigrant adjustment to America. In 1912, the Richmond Section of the National Council of Jewish Women established Neighborhood House at <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/rfMyRcJVHNr" title="The building still stands today." target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">19<sup>th</sup> and Broad Streets</a>. Programs of social, recreational and religious activities were provided for the children of recent Jewish immigrants. <br /><br />Neighborhood House was eventually funded by the Richmond general community, offering activities for all immigrant children and their families. In April 1945, after attendance had declined, Neighborhood House was closed.
<span>The National Council of Jewish Women, Richmond Section collection, </span><a href="https://bethahabah.org/bama/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives</a>
1916-1917
Beth Ahabah Museum & Archives
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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
Better Babies [suffrage pamphlet]
National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) pamphlet on how woman suffrage improves children's health. <br />Cover editorial cartoon by Rose O'Neill. Originally published in <em><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=chi.21171404&view=2up&seq=132" target="_blank" title="The Woman Voter on HathiTrust.org" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Woman Voter</a>, </em>May 1916.<br /><br />Text excerpts: <br /><br />"300,000 babies die every year in the United States before they are one year old. <br /><br />The death of a baby in at least 50 per cent. of the cases is due to <strong>preventable causes.</strong><br /><br />Five times as many babies die in crowded tenement districts as in a well-to-do quarter of a city. Lack of air and sunshine, poor food, bad sanitation, overwork of the mothers, both before and after marriage, above all <strong>ignorance</strong> on the part of the <strong>mother</strong>, are responsible for most of these deaths....<br /><br />Isn't it evident that when mothers are represented in govenment and their opinions and interests are consulted, babies have a better chance? Isn't it proved that women with the ballot do <strong>not</strong> neglect their home and babies?<br /><br /><strong>Giving</strong> the <strong>ballot</strong> to <strong>women</strong> not only <strong>helps</strong> them to <strong>do</strong> their <strong>own work</strong> more <strong>effectively</strong>, but <strong>actually increases</strong> the <strong>wealth</strong> of the <strong>nation.</strong>"
<span>M 9 Box 49, </span><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
National Woman Suffrage Publishing Company, Inc., New York
c. 1916-1917
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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
Virginia Museum of History & Culture, Virginia Historical Society
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/exhibits/show/white-plague--tuberculosis/gallery" target="_blank" title="The White Plague: Tuberculosis" rel="noreferrer noopener">The White Plague: Tuberculosis</a>, Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal<br /><a href="https://socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/issues/poverty/tuberculosis/" target="_blank" title="Tuberculosis" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Project<br /><a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/browse?tags=tuberculosis" target="_blank" title="Materials related to Tuberculosis" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal <br /><a href="http://exhibits.hsl.virginia.edu/alav/virginia/" target="_blank" title="Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in Virginia" rel="noreferrer noopener">Tuberculosis Sanatoriums in Virginia: Catawba, Piedmont, and Blue Ridge</a>, Claude Moore Health Sciences Library, University of Virginia <br />France J. J. (1920). <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2622470/pdf/jnma00821-0024.pdf" target="_blank" title="PDF of this article" rel="noreferrer noopener">A Post-Graduate Course in Tuberculosis at the Piedmont Sanatorium, Burkeville, Va.</a> Journal of the National Medical Association, 12(2), 16–21. (link to PDF) <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015067921224&view=2up&seq=348&size=125" target="_blank" title="Clean-Up Week informational publication" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Rules of Good Health and Directions for Spring Cleaning.</a> Prepared and Issued at the Request of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia (1917 April 5). Virginia Public Health Bulletin, <em>IX</em>(2) Extra.
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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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
Social Welfare History Archive, University of Minnesota Libraries
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Chores of Modern Health Crusaders
Poster depicting the eleven Chores of Modern Health Crusaders. These eleven health chores set out the essentials of tuberculosis prevention and general hygiene. They were part of a public health campaign devised by Charles De Forest of the National Tuberculosis Association.<br /><br />The chores include:<br /><br />1. I washed my hands before each meal to-day.<br />2. I washed ot only my face but my ears and neck and I cleaned my fingernails to-day.<br />3. I kept fingers, pencils and everything likely to be unclean or injurious out of my mouth and nose to-today.<br />4. I brushed my teeth thoroughly after breakfast, and after the evening mean to-day.<br />5. I took ten or more slow deep breaths of fresh air today. I was careful to protect others if I spit, coughed or sneezed.<br />6. I played outdoors or with windows open more than thirty minutes to-day.<br />7. I was in bed ten hours or more last night and kept my windows open.<br />8. I drank four glasses of water, including a drink before each meal, and drank no tea, coffee, nor other injurious drinks to-day.<br />9. I tried to eat only wholesome food and to eat slowly. I went to toilet at my regular times.<br />10. I tried hard to-day to sit up and stand up straight; to keep neat, cheerful and clean-minded; and to be helpful to others.<br />11. I took a full bath on each of the days of the week that are checked (x).
<a href="http://archives.lib.umn.edu/repositories/11/archival_objects/790851" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">National Recreation Association records. Playground and Recreation Association of America. Board of Directors Minutes, 1924-1931</a>, (Box 2), Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
1919 September 24
Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
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Learn more:<br /><a href="https://archive.org/stream/modernhealthcrus00natirich#page/n1/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="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/311" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Anti-tuberculosis play at Lyric Theatre</a>, Social Welfare History Image Portal
Conventions Which Protect
This poster was part of "Youth and Life" a 48-poster series published by the American Social Hygiene Association. The series was designed to educate teenage girls and young women about the dangers of sexual promiscuity and urged them to embrace moral and physical fitness. It was adapted in 1922 by the American Social Hygiene Association from "<a href="http://gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/swha_keeping_fit" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Keeping Fit</a>", a similar series for boys and young men.<br /><br />In A Strange City <br />For suitable place to stay and for other information ask the "Traveler's Aid" woman, the station matron, or a police man or woman.<br />
<a href="http://purl.umn.edu/71600" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">American Social Health Association Records 1905-1990</a>, Social Welfare History Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries
1922
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Dennis the Menace Takes a Poke at Poison
This giveaway comic book seeks to educate children and their parents about the poisonous nature of many items commonly found in the home. It urges parents to "Poison Proof Your Home."<br /><br />A publication created by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Food and Drug Administration.<br />HHS Publication No. (FDA) 81-7005. <br /><br />Text on back cover:<br /><br />"Most products are made to look attractive so people will buy them--even products that can be poisonous. But things made attractive for consumers are also attractive to children. Many poisonings that occur involve children who are too youg and innocent to 'know better.' Children often can't recognize danger signals such as label warnings, strange odors, or peculiar tastes. Actually many poisonous things are attractive to children because the taste or smell GOOD, such as lemon scented furniture polish."
<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
1981
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Escape from Fear
Giveaway comic book distributed by Planned Parenthood Federation of America Publications. Revised edition of a 1956 publication. <br /><br />Fear of an unwanted pregnancy makes intimacy stressful for the Harpers. Learning about contraception from Planned Parenthood helps them plan for children and eases their fears.<br /><br />Cover teaser "Joan and Ken Harper's marriage was on the rocks--because they loved each other!"<br /><br />Final panel: Joan Harper says, "Planned Parenthood helped us save our marriage. Someday when our children are older, we may want another baby. That's why planned parenthood is so wonderful. It doesn't mean not having children-it means spacing them so they come when we can give them the kind of love and care they deserve!"<br /><br />Back cover lists six regional Planned Parenthood-World Population centers. The address for The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood (2009 Monument Ave., Richmond 20, VA.) is stamped at the bottom of the page.<br /><br />"This publication was prepared by the Planned Parenthood Federation of America under the supervision of Dr. Gordon W. Perkin, Associate Medical Director, for the use of persons who are married or 21 years or older. If you want birth control advice consult your doctor, your public health department, the clinic at a hostpital or the doctor at your local Planned Parenthood Center...."
M 333, Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00108.xml" target="_blank" title="Finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood records, 1935-2004.</a> James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
Planned Parenthood Federation of America
1965
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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
Give Your Pet All the Breaks!
Binky says "Give Your Pet All the Breaks!" <br /><br />Comic Description: Binky's friend named Allergy worries that his dog, Sport does not seem to like him. They learn from their friend Jim that there is a lot involved in taking care of a dog. They take a trip to the library in order to read more about caring for a pet dog. Later sport is running and playing and licking Allergy on the face. Allergy says: "Look Binky! I guess he likes me after all!".<br /><br />[Image description: Comic book cover shows Superboy struggling to hold up part of a broken highway overpass. A crowd below looks on in horror. Superboy yells to the crowd "Quick -- send for help! (Puff-Puff) I-- I can't support the bridge any longer!". A man in a suit, top hat, and white gloves looks up at Superboy with a sinister expression. The man thinks to himself: "My plans are working! Soon I'll have superboy helpless as a babe!".]<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."
Script: Jack Schiff
Pencils: Win Mortimer
Inks: Win Mortimer
Letters: Ira Schnapp
<a href="https://gallery.library.vcu.edu/items/show/56941" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Superboy: The Luckiest Boy in the World no.28 O/N 1953</a> James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
DC Comics
1953 October-November
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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>
The Valentine
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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
The Valentine
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Interracial News Service, vol. 11, no. 1. January 1940
A news digest published by the Department of Race Relations, Federal Council of Churches, New York, NY. <br /><br />The Federal Council of Churches was an ecumenical association of Protestant denominations in the United States founded in Philadelphia in 1908. It merged with other ecumenical bodies in 1950 to form the present day National Council of Churches. <br /><br />Masthead: "Gleanings from press releases and other sources to inform busy but sincere people of some of the things affecting the lives of racial minorities. Let's do away with walls ! 'We are all one in Christ Jesus.'<br />The Material in the News Service is given for information and is not to be construed as declarations of official attitudes or policies of the Department of Race Relations or the Federal Council of Churches." <br /><br />This issue takes a look back at 1939, noting important stories and trends. Topics include lynchings, jobs and organized labor, peonage, housing, civil rights, health, law, spots, arts, religion, literature, World War 2, and science.<br /><br />Selected notices:<br />p. 1 "The Department of Records of Tuskegee Institute lists only three lynchings for the year 1939, a sharp decrease from former years. In eighteen instances law enforcement officers were credited with preventing lynchings, saving twenty-five persons from 'the hands of mobs,'" <br /><br />p. 2 "The right to vote has been sought with new vigor by Negroes in Southern states. The Klan was revived in an effort to terrify Negroes and keep them from registering in Florida and South Carolina...." <br /><br />"The refusal of library service was dramatized in Alexandria, Va., where the public librarian called the police to remove five colored youths who sought service in this public institution. Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Director of Negro Affairs for the NYA reported at a meeting of the Southern Education Foundation that only 14 per cent of 509 public libraries in 13 Southern stataes provided service for Negroes."<br /><br />"Health facilities for Negroes are notably lacking. A study in Mississippi made by the American Medical Association showed that there was only one Negro physician for each 14,221 colored persons and only 731 beds in general hospitals for the entire Negro population of more than a million in the state. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the deaths from tuberculosis are Negroes but only 40 beds are available for their care. This represents the worst type of situation." <br /><br />p. 3 "Joe Louis world's heavyweight champion, defended his title four times in 1939." <br /><br />"Marian Anderson, internationally known contralto, soared to new heights when she sang to 75,000 and a nationwide radio audience from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, after exclusion by the D. A. R. from using Constitution Hall." <br /><br />"The threatened growth of anti-Semitism has intensified the study of race relations and many church groups have broadened their consideration of race to include this problem." <br /><br />"The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues issued a statement declaring that experiments showed no characteristic inherent psychological differences to distinguish so-called 'races.'" <br /><br />"From the American Jewish Committee, New York...<br />Stimulated by the meeting between representatives of the Jewish press and Negro organizations held at the end of September, the Jewish press in the United States has undertaken a systemic campaign to improve relations between Negroes and Jews."
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1940 January
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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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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
Migrant Children and Youth
Sent to Congressman W. R. Poage (Texas) with a <a href="https://images.socialwelfare.library.vcu.edu/items/show/316" target="_blank" title="read this letter" rel="noreferrer noopener">cover letter</a> signed by Betty Jane Whitaker of the Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers.<br /><br />This paper was written by Florence R. Wyckoff, Chairman of the Subcommittee on Families Who Follow the Crops, California Governor's Advisory Committee on Children and Youth. It was originally prepared for The National Conference on Problems of Rural Youth in a Changing Environment held in Stillwater, Oklahoma, on September 22-25, 1963. This copy was reproduced by the Texas Committee on Migrant Farm Workers. <br /><br />Wyckoff's paper was written to educate people about migrant workers and their status. The author discusses families of migrant workers, and why they migrate, as well as the effect of high mobility on migrant children and youth. Wyckoff's intent was to inform the politicians who may be unaware of the struggles of migrant workers, but are writing bills affecting them and their families.<br /><br />Excerpts:<br /><br />p.2 "There are many kinds of migratory workers in America, but we are mainly concerned with the agricultural migrant and his family because 'agricultural labor' is specifically exempted from much protective legislation covering other types of workers who move about, such as construction workers or lumber workers. For example, workers employed in agriculture are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act, Federal Wage and Hour Law. All states except Hawaii exempt them from unemployment insurance and all but California exempt them from disability insurance. Only a limited number are covered under social security. Residence requirements make it difficult for them to qualify for assistance benefits."<br /><br />p.3 "Economically, the migrant farm worker occupies the lowest level of any major group in the American economy."
Wyckoff, Florence R.
<a href="https://www.baylor.edu/lib/poage/doc.php/251040.pdf" target="_blank" title="W. R. Poage papers finding aid" rel="noreferrer noopener">Box 241, f. 13</a>, W. R. Poage Papers, The W. R. Poage Legislative Library Political Collections, Baylor University Libraries
1963 September
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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)."
Negro Organization Society. Programme 12, 13, 14 November 1924. Fredericksburg, Va.
Program for the twelfth annual session of the Negro Organization Society, held in Fredericksburg, Virginia. November 12-14, 1924.
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The Saint Luke Press. 900-2-4 St. James Street, Richmond, Virginia.
1924
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New York State Department of Mental Hygiene presents Chic Young’s Blondie
Educational comic book promoting sound emotional health, particularly within families. A letter written by Newton Bigelow, M.D., Commissioner of Mental Hygiene for the State of New York is printed inside the back cover. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br />"As Blondie said, there is no magic formula, no set of rules for mental health. BUt there are some underlying principles that it helps to know about, especially in our relations with our children and with other people....applying them wherever possible to ordinary everyday situations, you may find that life is more satisfying, a little pleasanter for you, your children and the people around you.<br /><br />You will understand yourself and others a little better and you will feel more inner contentment."<br /><br />From front cover "The New York State Deptartment of Mental Hygiene presents Chic Young's Blondie in Scapegoat; Love Conquers All; Let's Face it; On Your Own. Produced by Joe Musial"
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King Features
1950
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Please,..I don't want to leave them
Pamphlet describing the work of the Virginia League for Planned Parenthood. <br />Cover art by Corporal <a href="https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1957&dat=19991227&id=8ERGAAAAIBAJ&sjid=6ecMAAAAIBAJ&pg=1452,6714606&hl=en" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Percy Lee</a>.<br /><br />[Image description: The image on the pamphlet above the text is a drawing of a mother on her deathbed sourounded by her four children.]<br /><br />Transcription:<br /><br /><strong>"This Mother is Dying Because She Wasn't Well Enough to Have Her Last Baby</strong> <br /><br />Perhaps she was already exhausted from too frequent or complicated pregnancies. Perhaps she had developed tuberculosis, anemia, heart or kidney diseses which made it dangerous for her to have more children, yet, as in so many cases, no advice was given. <br /><br />Though all she asked was to be able to care for her living children and hold her home together, her life is forfeited. Planned Parenthood measures, under medical direction, can reduce our high maternal and infant death rates, ensure better health for the mother and child, and bring better living conditions for the family. <br /><br />Planned Parenthood can also reduce the number of transmissable and hereditary diseases in the next generation. <br /><br /><strong>We Need Your Contribution to Help End the Waste in Human and Material Resources Resulting from Unplanned Parenthood.</strong> <br /><br />The Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc., Richmond, Virginia"
Virginia League for Planned Parenthood, Inc.
M 333, Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00108.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Virginia League for Planned Parenthood Records, 1935-2004</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
c. 1940-1944
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/health-nutrition/birth-control-wins/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Birth Control Wins</a>, Social Welfare History Project