“3 Bound to Grand Jury in Welfare Dinner Row” — this article discusses that three of the people who solicited money for welfare mothers at a banquet for the Iowa Welfare Association and were arrested are now chatged with interfering...
Titled “Stubborn Refusal to Aid Poor” the article states: “The Fayette County Board of Supervisors has remained firm in its refusal to sanction food programs for the poor. Despite appeals by the Oelwein mayor, Chamber of Commerce, local clergymen and...
The article is titled “The Villains of Society,” written by Donald Kaul. He writes that, to the police, “the villains of American society are Welfare mothers.” His tongue-in-cheek article states that, when the welfare mothers and Charles Knox walked into...
The article in full states “Mrs. Katherine Bryson, president of Mothers for Dignity and Justice, a group of welfare mothers, Friday, told how she and Mrs. Pat Auch were arrested at Hotel Savery Thursday night during a welfare banquet. Mrs....
A yellow cardboard stereoview of a swampy setting in Florida shows two men, one Black and one white, rowing a boat filled with product while two men rowing empty boats look on. The caption read: “4180 Jacksonville butcher rowing to...
This announcement, printed on one side of a thin sheet of paper, states: East Des Moines Booster Club Picnic at South Union Park Monday, August 20, 1934 Basket Picnic; Free Barbecue. Free Ice Cream for the Kiddies. As host to...
A commercially produced postcard. Front b/w photo shows WACs outdoors in Fort Des Moines with buildings, crossing the street to go to a meal. The caption below the photo states “Mess Time–W.A.A.C. T. L. Ft. Des Moines, IA.” back: written...
Curved stereoview photo shows Black troops in line for mess. they are walking up wooden steps to a wooden building. The caption says “19106–Come On Boys! Every Man is On the Job at Mess Time. Colored Troops” The left margin...
Curved stereoview photo shows a line of Black soldiers going to Mess. The buildings look like those at Camp Upton, NY. The caption says “19099– Colored Boys Awaiting Dinner Call–Engineers of the Signal Corps Lining Up for Mess, National Army.”...
Picture shows two boys in overalls and hats with a stack of paper or something like it. Ink writing at bottom of photo “Delivering 15000 for additions to M E church{ on top of photo ink writing says “xxx F....
Photo postcard front shows an outdoor scene of 18 cooks posing for their photograph. Most of the men are Black; One looks White. Written in pencil on the back of card: “Cooks Iowa National Guard Governor’s Day Encampment. Camp Logan....
Used menu from the Fount’n Grill at Katz Drug Company in Des Moines Iowa. Katz Drug Store was a regional chain of pharmacies in the Midwestern United States. In 1914, two brothers named Ike and Mike Katz opened two drug...
Image of the “sewer Banquet” in Waterloo, Iowa held in October 1903. Postcard is postmarked December 8, 1910, and was sent to “Miss Thresia Hoffman Lamotte” in Jackson County, Iowa. “So unique was this banquet in a sewer (no rats...
E.E. Neal, Keota, Iowa postcard of a boy feeding chickens near a barn.Mailed to West Liberty Iowa.
Press photo shows a White woman, Katherine Rush, sitting on the steps of the Iowa capitol building in Des Moines, gazing down and leaning against the wall. On her lap is a large handwritten sign: “Leon Iowa Curtis and Schmidt...
Postcard photo of black man with chef’s hat leaning out of window with shutter like a place of business. Back: handwritten: “Clinton, Iowa”
This issue is filled with information about the imprisonment of Huey P. Newton; the creation of a free breakfast program for children; the persecution of Nevada Indians; Slavery in South America, among other issues.
This hand-tinted stereoview shows a group of Black American women and children posing on a rice raft, standing with their arms crossed in front of their bodies, looking straight at the camera. The photo is captioned: “A Rice Raft, South...
Not a member? Create your account.