![[C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note]. Benjamin F. Butler.](/images/noimage-req.png)
[C.1880 Uncle Sam Satirical “Greenback” Political Bank Note].
Political memorabilia satirizing the “Greenback” Party likely issued during the U.S. Presidential election of 1880. The small, printed leaf imitates the shape and design of..... Read More
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![[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection]. Social Security Board Federal Security Agency.](/pictures/thumb/3727673_1.jpg?v=1538000966)
[1939–1940 Social Security Pamphlet Collection].
The Social Security Act of 1935 was amended in 1939 to provide workers with dependents benefits and survivors benefits. These five pamphlets issued by the... Read More
Proceedings of the Second National Conference on the Problems of the Negro and Negro Youth…
Proceedings of a Depression-era conference examining the role of the federal government to help African Americans in such areas as social and economic security, education... Read More
Memorial Edition of The Life of Richard Trevithick [cover title].
Memorial biography of early 19th century British railroad and mining engineer, Richard Trevithick (1771–1833). The biography was published under the auspices of the Richard Trevithick... Read More
The Negro Worker in Minnesota. A Report to Governor Edward J. Thye of Minnesota by The Governor’s Interracial Commission.
Report from a special interracial commission exploring why industrial Minnesota denies employment to black workers and how this might impact the post-World War II state... Read More
The Negro American Artisan.
One of a series of studies of “so-called Negro problems” co-edited by African-American sociologist and academic W.E.B. Du Bois (1868–1963) and his student, Augustus Granville..... Read More
Forced Labor in the United States.
Comprehensive study of prisons in America specific to all aspects of convict labor; polemical and written as an expose to the many brutalities committed (“The..... Read More
![Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]. Woodrow Wilson, 1856–1924.](/pictures/thumb/3728280_1.jpg?v=1548270571)
Mine More Coal, President Wilson Demands Coal to Win the War. [caption title]
WWI-era poster calling on operators and workers “to assume the burden of producing an ample supply of coal” to win the war: “The existing scarcity..... Read More
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