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I’ve been a fan of Peter Mitchell since I first set eyes on his photograph of Mr & Mrs Hudson outside their newsagents in Seacroft, Leeds in 1974. A brilliant image that is part of a body of Peter’s work documenting the shops, cafe’s and factories of Leeds from the 1970s onwards.

‘Texas tenant farmer in Marysville Migrant Camp during peach season. Sept. 1935 “1927 – made $7000 in cotton, 1928 – broke even, 1929 – went in the hole, 1930 – still deeper, 1931 – lost everything, 1932 – hit the road, 1935 – fruit tramp in California” (Now lives in a homemade trailer)

United Mine Workers of America strikers in Ludlow, Colorado, in 1914

Clark Atlanta University Whitney M. Young Jr. School of Social Work was founded in 1920 in Atlanta, Georgia, as the Atlanta School of Social Work to prepare social workers for practice in underserved black neighborhoods. Spearheaded by black scholars and progressive whites during an era of racial segregation, 2020 marks its centennial as the first accredited social work program at a historically black college and university. In this book, social work professor Alma J. Carten describes the School’s transitions from its beginnings amid the pervasive racism sanctioned by Supreme Court rulings in the Dred Scott and Plessy v. Ferguson cases, through the decades of 20th century progressive civil rights reforms, and into the new conservatism of the 21st century.

Addie Card, a 10-year-old spinner in the North Pownal, Vermont Cotton Mill, 1910. Hine described her as ‘Anaemic little spinner.’

Portland, Maine – Almshouse

Not since the printing press has a media object been as celebrated for its role in the advancement of knowledge as the scientific journal. From open communication to peer review, the scientific journal has long been central both to the identity of academic scientists and to the public legitimacy of scientific knowledge. But that was not always the case. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, academies and societies dominated elite study of the natural world. Journals were a relatively marginal feature of this world, and sometimes even an object of outright suspicion.

Also see: The Moral Welfare Workers Association