Exhibits
Available Exhibits :
- Social Hygiene Posters - These images were scanned from original posters in the Social Welfare History Archives at the University of Minnesota. The American Social Health Association, an organization that has focused on the elimination of sexually transmitted diseases since the early 1900s, kept copies of posters that they had produced or sponsored, as well as others produced by various government agencies. ASHA donated the posters to the Social Welfare History Archives along with the rest of their historical records.
- "Miss Bailey says": Common sense in 1930s relief programs - In the depth of the Great Depression, the March 1933 issue of Survey Midmonthly carried the first in a series of columns that would continue for a decade. Miss Bailey, the creation of journalist Gertrude Springer, became an influential and respected means of in-service training for the thousands of front-line social workers who were pressed into service in rapidly expanding social welfare bureaucracies across the country. Her common-sense voice spoke for dignity and put a human face on “The Welfare” during the Great Depression.
The Social Welfare History Archives presents selected examples of Miss Bailey’s wisdom, beginning with her very first column.