This photograph shows protesters at a welfare rights demonstration. The photograph is not identified, but it may show one of the demonstrations in Albany, New York organized by the Downtown Welfare Advocacy Center.
Created:
1978 - 1984
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Members of the National Association of Black Social Workers and the National Welfare Rights Organization protest at the National Conference on Social Welfare.
Created:
1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This photograph shows a social worker giving clothing to a woman and man as a form of "unemployment relief." Faced with a flood of unemployed and impoverished clients, local welfare agencies often resorted to food and clothing assistance or exchanging work for food. This was particularly evident in the early years of the Great Depression, before...
Created:
1930 - 1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This photograph shows a social worker conducting a case interview. The client may be an unemployed transient person seeking assistance form a local social agency.
Created:
1930 - 1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This photograph shows a visiting district nurse reviewing a map of her service area in the Mohawk Brighton District of Cincinnati, Ohio. The nurse is part of an experimental neighborhood service and citizen participation zone, called the "Social Unit," which was developed by social workers Wilbur C. Philips in 1914.
Creator:
Longley, Charles H.
Created:
1914
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This photograph shows a woman holding a child while doing piece work. The photograph was taken by reformers to document the living and working conditions of families in New York City tenements.
Created:
1910?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This photograph shows boys learning to cane chairs and make wastebaskets. The photograph was taken at the Orphan Asylum Society of the City of Brooklyn.
Created:
1890?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Early leaders of the settlement house movement in the United States: Helen French Greene, Helena Dudley, John Lovejoy Elliot, Meyer Bloomfield, Mary K. (Mary Kingsbury) Simkhovitch, Ellen Coolidge, Cornelia Bradford, Jane Addams, Lillian D. Wald, Elizabeth Williams, James Hamilton, Graham Romeyn Taylor, Mary McDowell, and Robert Archey Woods.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
An index card containing research data collected as part of the National Federation of Settlements study of unemployment conducted in 1929. Staff at community centers around the United States interviewed unemployed clients to collection information on the causes and consequences of unemployment. This card shows information relating to an African...
Creator:
Hall, Helen
Created:
1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
A summary report describing the situation of an unemployed family. The report is part of the National Federation of Settlements study of unemployment conducted in 1929. Staff at community centers around the United States interviewed unemployed clients to collection information on the causes and consequences of unemployment.
Creator:
Hall, Helen
Created:
1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This cartoon series from the annual report of the Minneapols Associated Charities, contast old fashioned charity with scientific charity organization. Helping In shows a figure representing "Individual Charity" lowering a basket of food and drink down to the poor, who are represented as being trapped in a pit of poverty. Helping Out shows a figu...
Creator:
Minneapolis Associated Charities
Created:
1911?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
