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Jessie Taft and Virginia Robinson stand outside their home in Flourtown, Pennsylvania, in 1954. As a psychologist, feminist, writer, and educator, Taft was a prominent Progressive Era reformer who exerted a profound influence on social work in its formative years.
Her great-grandfather died in the Revolution, her grandfather in the Civil War, and her brother is fighting in France. Five years of social work in New York City brought her to the determination to join the fight for woman’s political liberty – suffrage
Dora Wilensky, JF&CS’s Executive Director from 1931-1959
In At Home in the World, Xia Shi unearths the history of how these women moved out of their sequestered domestic life; engaged in charitable, philanthropic, and religious activities; and repositioned themselves as effective public actors in urban Chinese society.
Founded in 1893 by social work and public health pioneer Lillian Wald and based on Manhattan’s Lower East Side, Henry Street Settlement delivers a wide range of social service, arts and health care programs to more than 60,000 New Yorkers each year.
Examples of food stamp coupons
American sociologist Lewis Hine was one of the most important documentary photographers of the 20th Century. Because the notion of photojournalism and documentary did not exist at the time, Hine called his projects “photo stories”, using images and words to fight for the causes he believed in. Above: Slavic immigrant at Ellis Island, 1907.
The Lady Almoner was the name by which hospital social workers were known from the time the first was appointed in 1895 until they officially changed their name to medical social workers in 1964.
Case-studies on medicine and melancholy from the Early Modern period
In September 1878, the first building of what was to become known as the Orphan Homes of Scotland was officially opened. In less than 20 years there were over 50 cottages, together with a Church, a dairy, a poultry farm, workshops and a school, all catering for some 900 children. Orphaned and destitute children came to ‘the children’s city’ from all over Scotland and beyond.
‘This is the cosy / Little home / Whence no nice woman / Wants to roam / She shuts the doors and windows tight, / And never stirs / From morn to night. / With pots and pans / She spends her life – / Who would not be / A happy wife?’
Dr. Jamison’s contributions in the field of social work not only vaulted him to state prominence, but him in the national spotlight.
Quarrier’s Narratives of Facts were annual reports describing the work of the Orphan Homes of Scotland in the previous year.
