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Here the Works Progress Administration (WPA) has a large number of workers who assist in occupational and recreational therapy for patients of the hospital. Photo shows Works Progress Administration women attendants assisting in occupational therapy…

An advertisement that appeared in a copy of LIFE magazine in 1919. It utilizes an American soldier in order to sell Colt-branded firearms to civilians.

A political cartoon from the First Red Scare advocating restrictions on immigration.

An article containing not only the shell shock in veterans but psychology in other professions in the 50s.

Propoganda depicting children protesting their parents participating in the use of alcohol.

Wilson signed the National Child Labor Law on September 1, 1916.

An advertisement that appeared in a copy of LIFE magazine in 1919. It depicts an American soldier smoking a Chesterfield cigarette.

Breaker boys worked in the coal mines. Their main job was to separate chunks of coal by hand. As coal came down the conveyor belt, they would break up the coal into common sized pieces and also separate out any things like rocks, clay and soil. Boys…

This source goes through the history of Georgia, including the "bourbon Triumvirate"

After a thrilling chase through the busiest streets of Washington, ... a couple of bootleggers and their car come to grief at the hands of the Capitol police