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Federal Art Project, Keep your Fire Escapes Clear - New York City Residents Advisory, Federal Art Project, 1936 or 1937

Poster for the Tenement House Department of the City of New York advising that tenement house residents keep their fire escapes free of obstructions.

Tags: Fire, Fire Escape, New York, NYC, Tenements

Made by Iowa Art Program, WP.A., Public Interest: Des Moines Public Forum Notice, Library of Congress, Circa 1936-40

Poster for the 8th year of Des Moines public forum featuring Harry Overstreet, famous American philosopher, to discuss a personal philosophy for the…

Tags: Des Moines, Philosophy, Public Interest

Charles Henry Alston, A Well Fed Nation is a Fighting Nation - World War II Public Health Initiative, National Archives at College Park, 1943

Charles Alston, an African-American artist and educator, created this drawing in 1943. It shows a strong, healthy family (man, woman, and two…

Tags: African-Americans, Charles Alston, Eating, Health, War, World War II

American Red Cross, USDA, Pattern for Daily Food Choices - Dietary Guide, U.S. Department of Agriculture, USDA, 1984

This colorful food wheel was issued by the American Red Cross and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). It illustrates the recommended servings…

Tags: Dietary Guide, Eating, Red Cross, USDA

United States Department of Agriculture, Hassle-Free Food Guide - U.S. Department of Agriculture, National Agricultural Library, 1979-1984

"The Hassle-Free Food Guide was used from 1979-1984. Not only does it outline the ""Basic Four"" ( Vegetables and Fruit, Bread and Cereal, Milk and…

Tags: Basic Four, Dietary Guide, Hassle-Free Food Guide, USDA

Caroline Hunt, Food for Young Children, National Archives and Records Administration, 1916

A page from the Food for Young Children guide (Farmers' Bulletin 717). The photo illustrates a "sensible supper for a child" which covers nearly all…

Tags: Caroline Hunt, Dietary Guide, Food for Young Children, USDA

Part of the Elizabeth Smith Miller and Anne Fitzhugh Miller scrapbooks, Florence Kelley, Secretary, National Consumers' League, Library of Congress, Undated

To live means to buy, to buy means to have power, to have power means to have responsibility.
Florence Kelley, National Consumers League…

Tags: Child Labor, Fair Labor Standards Act, Florence Kelley, National Consumers' League, Safety, Workers

Thayer & Co's. Lith Boston., Get Off The Track! A Song For Emancipation, Sung By The Hutchinsons, Library of Congress, 1844

This music cover, published in 1844, is an advertisement for the abolitionist song, "Get Off the Track!" Composed by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr., it was…

Tags: Abolitionist, Emancipation, Hutchinsons, Slavery

Unknown, Eleanor Roosevelt and United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights, National Archives, 1949

"Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the…

Tags: Eleanor Roosevelt, Human Rights, UDHR, United Nations

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Magnet Safety Poster, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, Undated

This safety poster was issued by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, under the Neighborhood Safety Network project. It warns parents about…

Tags: Consumer Product Safety Act, Magnet Safety Poster, Magnets, Safety