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In Pursuit of a Grand Cause

Banner exhibit highlighting students and faculty of the Northwestern University Woman’s Medical School

Banner Images

  • Edmonston Studio. In a room like this in an industrial plant, a little injury is deprived of its chance to be a big one. From the points of her starched cap to the points of her scissors, the industrial nurse is a discouragement to the germs of infection, while her sympathetic interest, her willingness to do everythi. C. 1920. Photograph. Records of the National Woman's Party, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Available from Library of Congress: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mnwp.160064

  • Bain News Service, publisher. Dr. Alice Hamilton. C. 1915-1920. Glass negative. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Available from Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/item/2014710146/

  • Hine, Lewis Wickes. Group of oyster shuckers working in canning factory of Dunbar, Lopez, Dukate Co. All but the very smallest babies work. All began at 3:30 A.M. expected to work until 5 P.M. The little girl in center working. Her mother says she is a real help to her. About 300 workers. Location: Dunbar, Louisiana. March 1911. Photograph. National Child Labor Committee collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Available from Library of Congress: https://lccn.loc.gov/2018676355

  • The Industrial Nurse visiting the home of a factory worker where there is illness. June 28, 1919. Glass negative. American National Red Cross photograph collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.

Available from Library of Congress: https://lccn.loc.gov/2017668669