Click on "topics" and select 1900s. Search within the 1900s for child labor, sweatshops, fashion, etc.
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This is a great resource for Diptheria and Trachoma. You will also find articles, photographs and videos on the suffragist movement under "woman suffrage", International Ladies Garment Worker's Union, Statue of Liberty, and Ellis Island. For those researching other fire disasters in the U.S., search for 'Chicago fire of 1871'.
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This database has two extensive topic pages for those researching current sweatshops and child labor. Search for "Sweatshops" and "Child Labor".
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The Struggle for Womens' Suffrage (Library of Congress) |
This is a collection contains portraits of women who campaigned for women's rights, particularly voting rights and suffrage campaign scenes, cartoons, and memorabilia. Included is a women's suffrage timeline.
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This article discusses the history of child labor in early 1900s America.
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This website touches on the history of Ellis Island and the immigrants passing through.
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Read about the history of Ellis Island, as well as stories of people of who helped create Ellis Island, worked there and immigrants who passed through.
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This exhibit by the Library of Congress contains a selection of drawings by the artist Charles Dana Gibson, whose work illuminated women's increasing contributions to the public sphere of society at the turn of the twentieth century.
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This organization is dedicated to achieving dignity and justice for workers worldwide.
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Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization that publishes reports and briefings on human rights conditions in over 90 countries around the globe.
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The Great Chicago Fire & the Web of Memory is a joint project of the Chicago History Museum (CHM) and Northwestern University Information Technology (NUIT) Department of Academic and Research Technologies (A&RT).
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