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Scholarly Sources

Abbot, E. (1936). The Tenements of Chicago: 1908-1935. University of Chicago Press. 

Bates, Julia. 2016. “The Role of Race in Legitimizing Institutionalization: A Comparative Analysis of Early Child Welfare Initiatives in the United States.” The Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth 9 (1): 15-28. DOI: https://muse.jhu.edu/article/611004  

Cinotto, S. (2006) ‘” Everyone would be around the table”: American family mealtimes in historical perspective, 1850-1960′, New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 2006(111), pp. 17-33. URL: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/cd.153   

Cope, Meghan. 2019. “Historical Geographies of Childhood through Early 20th C. Archives.” Children’s Navigation of Institutions and Institutionalization. https://blog.uvm.edu/mcope-childhoods/files/2020/01/Cope_Critical-Historical-Childrens-Geographies_SSHA2019.pdf

Cope, Meghan (Forthcoming) Working and Schooling: A critical geography of child labor and compulsory education laws in early twentieth century United States. In Howerton, Gloria & Purdum, Leanne (eds.), Intersections of Youth, Politics, and Law in the United States, West Virginia University Press.

Costin, L. B. (1992). Cruelty to Children: A Dormant Issue and Its Rediscovery, 1920-1960. Social Service Review, 66(2), 177–198. http://www.jstor.org/stable/30012161

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Primary Documents/Photos

Du Bois, W. E. B. (1899) African American family posed for portrait seated on lawn. Georgia, 1899. [or 1900] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99472441/.

Hine, L. W., photographer. (1930) An independent farmer and landowner in the foothills of the Ozarks, near Damascus, Arkansas, who is prosperous in normal time, but now “on the Red Cross”. Arkansas, 1930. [or 1931] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/90711863/.

Hix, L. (n.d.). From boy geniuses to mad scientists: How americans got so weird about science. Collectors Weekly. Retrieved May 9, 2022, from https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-americans-got-so-weird-about-science/

Lee, R., photographer. (1941) Kitchen in crowded Negro apartment. Chicago, Illinois. United States Cook County Illinois Chicago, 1941. Apr. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017788840/.

Illinois Department of Visitation of Children Placed in Family Homes. 1910. “Fifth Annual Report of the Department of Visitation of Children Placed in Family Homes.” Board of Administration of the State of Illinois. https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uiug.30112121878562&view=1up&seq=2&skin=2021

Lummis, Charles. 1890. “Isleta, New Mexico.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2002707764/

Mydans, Carl. 1935. “Poor children playing on sidewalk, Georgetown, Washington, D.C.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/resource/fsa.8a00161/

Perry, Eugene. 1901. “Theodore Roosevelt.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/2009631356/

United States Department of Labor Children’s Bureau (1933) Child Labor: Facts ad Figures. Washington: United States Government Printing Office. https://www.mchlibrary.org/history/chbu/20648-1933.PDF 

Vachon, J., photographer. (1943) Corpus Christi, Texas. Advertisements with a victory garden theme. United States Corpus Christi Nueces County Texas, 1943. June. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2017858966/ .

1910. “Houck Family Group.” Library of Congress. https://tile.loc.gov/storage-services/service/pnp/npcc/31300/31395v.jpg#h=824&w=1024 

1929. “Crowd of people gather outside the New York Stock Exchange following the Crash of 1929.” Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/item/99471695/