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This political cartoon pays homage to Bureau of Chemistry Chief Chemist Harvey Wiley who led the fight to institute a federal law to prohibit adulterated and mis-branded food and drugs, which President Theodore Roosevelt signed in 1906 as the Pure…

The Hull house was the first settlement home founded in Chicago by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Star in 1889. It's purpose is to support incoming immigrants get the help they need to get started on their new lives in America by finding a stable job…

"If we could only keep the post office, mother, we should be all right," said Herbert Carr, as he and his mother sat together in the little sitting room of the plain cottage which the two had occupied ever since he was a boy of five. "Yes, Herbert,…

This is a panoramic photo depicting the pork industry in Packing Town, Chicago. From left to right, the hogs are pictured moving from their pens to the hog wheel, where they are carried to the hog scraping rail, then boiled and sent through an…

Embalmment was a scientific process, which is meant to preserve dead bodies by using chemicals and removing some organs.

Woodcut depicting the work of a "trapper" and along with a brief description of their job.

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