Reform

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Reforms Crusade The Progressive Era, 1890-1917"

• November 8, 2011

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• were like the man with the Muck-rake constantly
  refusing to see aught that is lofty and fixing
  his eyes with solemn intentness only on that
  which is vile and debasing.
• -- Theodore Roosevelt, 1906

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• Excavator on Mile 52 being pulled by
  traction-engine, plow side. August 8, 1904
• Records of the Office of the Chief of Engineers

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Coal Miners, Hazelton PA

• Logging in the Adirondacks

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• Child laborer, Newberry, South Carolina, 1908.
• Photo by Lewis Hine, National Child Labor
  Committee

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Why was congestion a problem?

• Hester Street, New York City, 1903.

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• Immigrants arriving at the Immigrant Building,
  Ellis Island, New York Harbor, 1904.
•  Library of Congress

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Bohemian Cigar Makers at Work in Their Tenement

• Jacob Riiss How the Other Half Live

• Dens of Death

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Hull House

• Allen B. Pond, "The 'Settlement House,'" part
  1, The Brickbuilder 11, no. 7 (July 1902) 143.

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Nurses Settlement House, Richmond Virginia

• "The work of these nurses is largely
  instructiveteaching the people the art of
  keeping clean, the care of the sick, and
  the benefits of fresh air.The mission of
  the nurses is one of help, health and
  comfort, teaching people how to live. They are
  not allowed to interfere with religious
  beliefs, and visit all alike without question
  of creed or color."

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Woxie Haury, Cheyenne Woman
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1912, Boys Tulalip Indian School
1912, Kitchen Girls Tulalip Indian School
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Womens Home and Foreign Missionary Society
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• Hiram Johnson Photographs, c. 1911-1917California
  State Archives, Sacramento, California

• A contest for freedom from William H. Herrin
  and the Southern pacific Company, who have
  debauched, polluted and corrupted our state.
• While I do not by any means believe the
  initiative, the referendum, and the recall are
  the panacea for all our political ills, yet they
  do give to the electorate the power of action
  when desired, and they do place in the hands of
  the people the means by which to protect
  themselves.
• -- Hiram Johnson

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• Progressive Platform, 1912

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