Linked Together By the Law [suffrage postcard by May Wilson Preston]
description: Oversized postcard illustrated by May Wilson Preston, 1911 (signed). Image Description: Editorial cartoon captioned, "LINKED TOGETHER BY THE LAW" shows a convict, a woman, a child, and an intellectually disabled man standing in a row, shackled together. The balls at the end of the chains that bind them read "The Law." On the card's reverse: "In Virginia all citizens are allowed to vote except criminals, idiots, insane people, and women and children."
source: M 9 Box 55 Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: after 1911
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Suffrage, Social Welfare History Image Portal Learn more: Wielding the Pen: Editorial Cartooning for Social Reform, Social Welfare History Image Portal Suffrage, Social Welfare History Image Portal Women cartoonists, Social Welfare History Image Portal Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax, Social Welfare History Project Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System, Social Welfare History Project

Bread and Roses [suffrage postcard]
description: Postcard with poem promoting Woman Suffrage. Text reads: Bread and Roses, by James Oppenheim As we come marching, marching, we bring the Greater Days -- The rising of the Women means the rising of the race -- No more the drudge and idler -- Ten that toil where one reposes-- But a sharing of life's glories: Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses. Note at bottom: "Published through courtesy of the American Magazine and Mr. Oppenheim by the Equal Suffrage League of Virginia. Design by Adele Clark. Copyright 1912 by Equal Suffrage League of Virginia."
creator: Oppenheim, James (text) Clarke, Adele (design)
source: M 9 Box 55 Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Equal Suffrage League of Virginia
date: 1912
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax, Social Welfare History Project Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System, Social Welfare History Project Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project

Begin at the Beginning
description: Pamphlet advocating for compulsory kindergarten as a means to Americanization. Written by Philander Priestly Claxton, former United States Commissioner of Education, and David Starr Jordan, Chancellor Emeritus, Leland Stanford Junior University. Excerpt: "THE CHILD IS THE FATHER OF THE MAN The way to 'Americanize' foreigners as well as the native born is to commence at the beginning or as near there as possible. The idea of a kindergarten, like that of any other form of garden, is to give proper culture and to give it early, when it is most needed. The most important duty of any people is to care for its children. In the schools of today the future of the nation is written. And to the kindergarten all higher schools must look for the initiative of their work. All other forms of 'national defense' dwindle into impertinent insignificance when compared with the training of the children."
creator: Claxton, P. P.
source: M 9 Box 103 Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: National Kindergarten Association
date: [1921?]
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Kindergartens: A History - 1886, Social Welfare History Project Americanization, Social Welfare History Project

What the Employers of America Can Do for the Disabled Soldiers & Sailors
description: Issued by the Federal Board for Vocational Education, Washington, D.C.; Series: Monograph ; no. 3.; Vocational Rehabilitation Series ; no. 3 "The great American Congress felt the pulse of the Nation. It has charged the Federal Board for Vocational Education with the specific task of reeducating, retraining all disabled soldiers and sailors to take their place in the world as independent, self-supporting citizens. YOU, the employers of America, are charged with the duty of cooperation." Federal Board for Vocational Education Members: David F. Houston, Chairman, Secretary of Agriculture James P. Munroe, Vice Chairman, Manufacture and Commerce William C. Redfield, Secretary of Commerce Charles A. Greathouse, Agriculture William B. Wilson, Secretary of Labor Arthur E. Holder, Labor P. P. Claxton, Commissioner of Education Executive Staff: Layton S. Hawkins, Chief Vocational Education Division Charles H. Winslow, Chief Research Division J. A. C. Chandler, Chief Rehabilitation Division Lewis H. Capris, Assistant Director for Industrial Education F. G. Nichols, Assistant Director for Commercial Education Josephine T. Berry, Assistant Director for Home Economics Education W. H. Hummel, Assistant Director for Agricultural Education Compare the cover illustration to this poster titled, "Keep'em Smiling!"
creator: United States. Federal Board for Vocational Education.
source: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Government publication
date: 1918 November
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Disability Rights & Universal Design, Social Welfare History Project

Errand Boys, Child Labor Street Permit #254 [pinback button]
description: Child labor street permit. This pinback button for an errand boy was issued in 1929. Variant state seal with armored Virtus and mountains in the distance.
creator: Department of Labor and Industry, Commonwealth of Virginia
source: M 9, Box 230, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1929
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Dare to Do Right! Temperance mass meeting handbill
description: Handbill advertising a Grand Temperance Mass Meeting held in Illinois (likely Dixon, IL) on Thursday Evening October 25, 1866. "Addresses by Rev. G.R.Vanhorne, Rev. S.S. Waltz and Prof. Ferris. A large delegation from the Red Ribbon Club of Amboy will be present. Mrs. Mingle, W.O.Newton, B. Howard and others, Music by the M.E. Choir, and Dixon Light Guard Band. All are cordially invited. PER ORDER OF COMMITTEE."
source: M 4, Box 1, folder 1, Thompson Collection of Lincolniana 1803-1965, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1866 October 25
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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U.S.A. Temperance Union Pledge
description: We, the undersigned, connected with the Army of the United States, feeling the necessity of some fafe-guard against the evil of Intemperance so prevalent among us, and believing that Total Abstinence alone will prove effectual, do adopt the following PLEDGE: I do hereb solemnly pledge myself to this Union, before God and my country, never to use as a beverage any distilled or malt liquors; wine or cider; and that I will do all in my power to promote Temperance among the Officers and Solders of the Army. Signing this Pledge constitutes me a Member of the U.S.A. Temperance Union.
creator: U.S.A. Temperance Union
source: M 4, Box 1, folder 1, Thompson Collection of Lincolniana 1803-1965, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: McGill & Withrow, Printers and Stereotypers
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Protect our American Youth by Prohibiting the Liquor Traffic
description: Woman's Christian Temperance Union placard. A stick handle was once attached to this sign.
creator: Woman's Christian Temperance Union
source: M 9 Box 51, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Temperance Movement, Social Welfare History Project Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, Social Welfare History Project An Address Delivered Before the Massachusetts Society for Suppressing Intemperance, Social Welfare History Image Portal

An Amendment to the Constitution is Needed to Give the United States Power to Safeguard the Child Life of the Nation
description: Pamphlet advocating for the Child Labor Amendment, passed in 1924, but never ratified. Cover cartoon by Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaper cartoonist John T. McCutcheon. [Image description] Two child laborers operate machinery. Above them is a cloud showing that they are daydreaming about frolicking outside with a dog. Beneath the cloud are the words "Lost Childhood". A rich older man in a suit looks at the children while rubbing his hands together greedily. The text below indicates that this man represents the "Employer of Child Labor". Above him is a cloud showing that he is daydreaming about sitting in the back of a large, expensive automobile that is parked in front of a mansion. Beneath the cloud are the words "Financial Gains". At the bottom of the cartoon is text that says "What child labor and its employer think about". Text from back of pamphlet: A federal minimum will give to American Children all the advantages of our federal form of government. Every state may wish to give its children greater protection than a national minimum would provide. Is any state willing to give them less? ------ The following organizations issue this appeal for the passage of a Children's Amendment by the next Congress: American Federation of Labor Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America General Federation of Women's Clubs Girls Friendly Society in America National Child Labor Committee National Congress of Mothers and Parent-Teacher Associations National Consumers' League National Council of Jewish Women National Council of Women, Inc. National Education Association National Federation of Teachers National Federation of Businesses and Professional Women's Clubs National League of Women Voters National Woman's Christian Temperance Union National Women's Trade Union League Service Star Legion Young Woman's Christian Association.
source: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: Allied Printing
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: National Child Labor Committee, Social Welfare History Project Child Labor, Social Welfare History Project Children Who Labor - film (1912), Social Welfare History Project

Letter to Kate Waller Barrett from Calvin Coolidge
description: Letter from President Coolidge to Kate Waller Barrett regarding the Florence Crittenton Mission which managed homes for unwed mothers and prostitutes. Transcription: The White House Washington October 23, 1924. My dear Mrs. Barrett: It is not easy to imagine a single reason why the work of the Florence Crittenton Mission should not have the most unqualified endorsement from every good citizen. I can think of a long list of the most persuasive reasons why that endorsement should be given, and for myself I gladly extend it. I wish you the fullest encouragement and cooperation in the splendid work you are carrying on. Very truly yours, Calvin Coolidge
creator: Coolidge, Calivin
source: M 9 Box 111, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1924 October 23
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Kate Waller Barrett, Social Welfare History Project Florence Crittenton Homes: A History, Social Welfare History Project

When They Come Home
description: This pamphlet is specifically designed to educate the spouses, significant others, and family members of World War I soldiers on the topic of venereal disease. Excerpts: Page 2, paragraph 2 : "When men and girls are changing their occupations and ways of life, when war disciplines are being removed and when spirits are buoyant, the greatest temptations to self indulge amid dangerous pleasures occur. Cities and towns throughout the country face now the most important crisis -- the biggest emergency yet encountered in the fight against veneral disease. WHAT THE WAR HAS TAUGHT US 'Our ignorance and failure in handling the problem of veneral diseases constitute the greatest crime of American civilization. This is the clearest lesson of the war'. " Page 4, paragraph 2 : "Now the returning soldiers, who have been given intelligent protection and wholesome recreation, are to be turned back to the civil communities. The federal government must, of nessecity, in the next few months, give up its wartime control. These men are your responsibility now." Page 8, paragraph 3 : "With war's final end, many war buildings, war jobs, and institutions will go to the scrap heap. But every item in the program of veneral disease control is as necessary to successful peace as to successful war. Don't scrap your patriotism and community spirit in this manner. There should be no peace for prostitution, no truce for the 'tenderloin', no armistice with veneral disease. Make your blows knockouts against vice. The soldiers, when they come home from the trenches, will be the first to join you in your fight."
creator: United States Public Health Service
source: M 9 Box 55, Folder "Supplemental Literature," Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: American Social Health Association, Social Welfare History Project

The Case Against the Red Light
description: Venereal disease bulletin, no. 54. Public health pamphlet arguing that prostitution spreads venereal disease and cannot be "segregated, licensed, and made sanitary." Excerpt: "But every investigating committee that has reported on conditions in any large American city has condemned the whole buisness, although its members were often in favor of segregation when they began to investigate. The American army has tried all systems. General Pershing writes: Many of us who have experimented with licensed prostitution or kindred measures, hoping thereby to minimize the physical evils, have been forced to the conclusion that they are really ineffective, Abraham Flexner has argued the case so convincingly that on the scientific side it seems to me there is no escape from the conclusion that what he terms 'abolition' as distinguished from 'regulation' is the only effective mode combating this age-long evil. Don't be misled by underworld arguments. The Evidence is all against the red light."
creator: American Social Hygiene Association, New York City
source: M 9 Box 54, Folder "Social Hygiene" Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: United States Public Health Service cooperating with the State Board of Health, Richmond, Virginia
date: 1920
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Some Social Causes of Prostitution (1914), Social Welfare History Project Annotate a PDF of this pamphlet with hypothes.is

What the Bottle Does. One Year's Work [Virginia Anti-Saloon League handbill]
description: Broadside showing a bottle of alcohol. The bottle's label depicts a boy in short pants with a snake coiled around his body, The label reads "Fluid Extract of Hell. GUARANTEED TO KILL BOYS." Written on the bottle itself are statistics attributed to the effects of alcohol. The bottle sits on a platform labelled "Public Sentiment." Beneath the illustration is the caption, "What the Book Says" and three passages from the Bible. An address for ordering additional handbills is given at the bottom of the page. Alternate name of organization: Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
creator: Anti-Saloon League of Virginia
source: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: between 1901 and 1916
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: The Temperance Movement, Social Welfare History Project Temperance and Prohibition. Discovery Set, Social Welfare History Image Portal Program, Virginia Anti-Saloon League State Law-Enforcement Convention, Social Welfare History Image Portal Pegram, T. R. Anti-Saloon League of Virginia, Encyclopedia of Virginia Virginia Anti-Saloon League Collection, Radford University The Anti-Saloon League, from the film: Prohibition, by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick. Annotate a PDF of this image with hypothes.is

Sit-in Songs : Songs of the Freedom Riders
description: Songs recorded by participants in CORE's Freedom Highways project in the summer of 1962. The project was designed to open chain restaurants along major federal highways to all persons. Vinyl LP and songbook. Dauntless DM 4301, a division of Audio Fidelity Records Edward H. Peeples Collection
creator: Congress of Racial Equality (CORE)
source: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1962
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Music & Social Reform, Social Welfare History Project Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), Social Welfare History Project

Soldier Attention: A Private Word with You
description: World War I pamphlet warning soldiers of the effect of sexually transmitted diseases. Transcription: "Soldier, you responded when your country called. You have put your strength, your manhood and your hope into this war. You want to be a clean-cut fighting-man. You want ours to be the most efficient army in the world. You want the army to win. You cannot be a clean-cut fighting-man, you cannot do your part in making a great army and you cannot do your best toward winning the war unless you avoid immoral women. For from these women comes disease. From disease come inefficiency. From inefficiency comes disaster. It is unpatriotic to be immoral. A good soldier will not hazard his physical fitness and his moral cleaness by association with bad women. every man who is moral adds to the strength of the army. Every man who is immoral invites the ruin of the army and the death of himself and his comrades-in-arms. Europe had dound this out. Our associates in the great war for democracy-French,British,Belgian, Russian and the rest--have all seen that the disabilityfrom venereal disease has weakened their armies and has been one of the causes that have postponed final victory. If you want to save America from like experience--if you want victory to come quickly and certainly--you can at least do you share toward keeping the army morally clean and morally straight. Sexual intercourse is not necessary to good health. Self control is. Whihc will you exhibit--the spirit of a man, strong and self-contained, or the spirit of your worst self? We ask you to follow honestly and literally the health regulations of the army. We ask you to keep in touch with your home-folks and to remember that you are fighting for the clean things of life--for home, for sweetheart, for sister and for mother. We ask you to engage only in such amusements as will keep your body in good condition, remembering that clean athletics and manly sport will help prepare you to meet the enemy. We ask you to guard yo…
creator: State Board of Health of the Commonwealth of Virginia
source: William E. Blake collection, Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: State Board of Health of the Commonwealth of Virginia
date: Between 1914 and 1918
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: Public health, Social Welfare History Image Portal When They Come Home, Social Welfare History Image Portal When You Go Home, Take This Book With You, War Department, Commission on Training Camp Activities Annotate a PDF of this item with hypothes.is

If You Are A Minister [suffrage postcard]
description: Postcard encouraging clergy to use their influence to promote the cause of woman suffrage. Message credited to Henry Bailey Stevens, a writer for the Woman's Journal and Suffrage News, Boston, MA. Transcription: "If You Are a Minister When you look down into the faces of your congregation on Sunday morning, does it ever occur to you that women's place should be "at home"? You never wish, do you, that women had stayed away from the church? Probably you think it would be bad for both women and the church if the women did stay away. Don't you think it is equally bad for women to be barred from political life? When you go to the polls on election day, don't you wish the causes of the righteousness could be as sure of the same devotion as the church is from women? You of all persons have the least cause to be afraid of women. If you believe in woman suffrage, use your influence for it." Reverse of card contains printed message, "VOTES FOR WOMEN." The names Alice Stone Blackwell and Agnes E. Ryan are printed at the lower left. Stevens, Blackwell and Ryan were all associated with the Woman's Journal.
source: M 9 Box 55, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project

Send Your Dimes by the "Dollar Line" ... National League of Women Voter fundraising solicitation
description: Printed fundraising solicitation on the occasion of the Tenth Anniversary of the National League of Women Voters at their convention, April 28 to May 3, 1930. Transcription: "The National League of Women Voters in Convention April 28 to May 3, 1930 Will celebrate its Tenth Anniversary and after reviewing its past achievements, both great and small, will set its course for the immediate future. On Friday night, May 2nd, all delegates will join in an old-fashioned birthday party when all gifts to the Anniversary Fund will be presented. Your state League is joining with others in giving its members opportunity to share in this gift. Will you add your dollar to the dollars of other members of the League in appreciation of what the League is doing for women and for the country? THERE WILL BE A BIRTHDAY CAKE - TEN CANDLES STRONG"
creator: National League of Women Voters
source: M 9 Box 55, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1930
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Votes for Women. Suffrage Rallying Song
description: Musical score. Published in 1915, this suffrage rallying song was composed by Marie and Edward Zimmerman of Philadelphia. The Liberty Bell on the cover reminded women to “Proclaim Liberty Throughout All the Land Unto All the Inhabitants thereof” as they sought the right to vote. The song is dedicated to Anna Howard Shaw, president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, and “the Great Cause of Woman Suffrage.” Transcription: "What means this 'Votes for Women'? Just this the time has come When they may voice with freemen Concerns of land and home! Then, snap the ancient tether Enthralling us too long, And stoutly pull together To right a grievous wrong! The votes of sisters, mothers, In ev'ry sovereign state, For us and many others May light the gloom of fate; The joyless haunt of drudges Where children toil and die May find these votes the judges That ask the reason why! Then, sisters of our nation, Put forth your mighiest nerve, Remember with elation The glorious cause you serve! Enlist your best endeavor, What ever that may be; With "Votes for Women" ever, Press on to victory!"
creator: Zimmerman, Edward M. (words) Zimmerman, Marie (music)
source: M 9 Box 231, Adèle Goodman Clark papers, 1849-1978, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1915
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Music & Social Reform, Social Welfare History Project Suffrage in the South: The Poll Tax, Social Welfare History Project Suffrage in the South Part II: The One Party System, Social Welfare History Project

Woman Citizen, January 19, 1918
description: [Image Description: A soldier wearing a sash that reads "democracy" points a bayonet at the end of a rifle at a woman wrapped in a red hooded cloak.] Below the image is text that reads: "Halt Who Goes There?" "National Suffrage" "Pass, friend" Cover illustration by C. D. Batchelor
source: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
date: 1918 January 19
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
rights: This item is in the public domain. Acknowledgement of the Virginia Commonwealth University Libraries as a source is requested.
relation: Learn more: Women's Suffrage: The Movement, Social Welfare History Project

Builders of the Future!
description: Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Comic Description: The comic shows how, with funding and help from UNESCO, children in Africa were able to get a school built near their home so that children in their area would be able to receive an education. The last panel of the comic says "UNESCO is the United Nation's Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, and it is helping to increase understanding among people of all nations, so we can grow up in a peaceful world." [Image Description: The cover shows a hunk of kryptonite being catapulted by two men from a tank directly at Superboy who is flying in the air. Kid Psycho saves superboy by projecting a shield from his eyes that deflect the kryptonite. A talk balloon from Superboy says "You've saved me again, Kid Psycho...this time with an anti-kryptonite shield projected by your... eyes! What I'd give to have your powers!"] Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Letters: Ira Schnapp
source: Superboy: The Bald Boy of Steel no.125 DEC 1965 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1965 December
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: National Social Welfare Assembly, Social Welfare History Project Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics, Social Welfare History Image Portal

Wanted: A Teen-Age Code [public service comic]
description: Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S." Comic description: After a disasterous experience crashing Sally Perkins' party, Dave apologizes and proposes creating a teen code of behavior to avoid future unhappiness. Second [Image Description: Superboy comic book cover. Superboy projects heat rays from his eyes to toast marshmallows in the living room fireplace. The family sits nearby.]
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Pencils: Ruben Moreira Inks: Ruben Moreira
source: Superboy: The Story of Superboy's Sister no.62 JAN 1958 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1958 January
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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relation: Learn more: National Social Welfare Assembly, Social Welfare History Project Comics on a Mission: Educational and Public Service Comics, Social Welfare History Image Portal

How to Spend a Summer Week!
description: Binky shows "How to Spend a Summer Week!" Comic description: Binky continues to provide Pete with options of fun things to do during the summer like going to the museum, the library, or the beach. Pete always responds that he does not want to go. In the final panel Binky says "Don't be like Pete. There's summer fun in your own home town! Look for it and you'll find it!" [Image description: The cover shows Powerboy using super-strength to keep two cars from crashing into each other. Superboy flies in the air above him and says "Terriffic! This is one place in the Universe where I can relax!"] Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Pencils: Win Mortimer Inks: Win Mortimer Letters: Ira Schnapp
source: Superboy: The Heroine of Smallville no.52 OCT 1956 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1956 October
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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The Best Present of All!
description: Binky in "The Best Present of All!" Comic description: A young boy named Allergy laments that he wasn't able to buy nicer presents for his father and Binky because he doesn't have as much money as they do. His father tells him that because he donated money to charity, sang Christmas carols to the elderly, and fixed up toys for children in the hospital, he gave the best present that anyone can actually give. He gave "real thought for other people's happiness". [Image description: The cover of the comic shows superboy being shot out of a cannon. Two men look on in surprise. One says "What--? That's not a cannonball we shot out! It's Clark kent--No, it's SUPERBOY!".] Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Pencils: Bob Oksner Inks: Bob Oksner Letters: Ira Schnapp
source: Superboy: The Boy Wizard no.46 JAN 1956 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1956 January
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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How A Nation Is Born: Your United Nations at Work
description: Comic description: This comic tells the story of how the United Nations helped Indonesia gain their independence. Indonesia has a long history of being colonized by other countries. First the Portugal, then the Netherlands, and then Japan. The UN helped Indonesia to gain their independence on December 27, 1949. Dr. Soekarno became the first president of Indonesia and was admitted as the UN's 60th member nation. [Image description: The cover of the comic book shows a woman holding up a small green rock of kryptonite underneath Superboy who is flying above her. A ray from the kryptonite hits Superboy causing him to waiver and giving him a dazed expression on his face. A thought bubble above the woman reads "It's real kryptonite, all right! I'll test it on Clark Kent later-- and if it weakens him, too, I'll have proof of Superboy's secret identity!". In the background there is a line of people forming and a sign that says : "Today Dedication Ceremony, Superboy Guest Speaker".] Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Inks: Win Mortimer Letters: Ira Schnapp
source: Superboy: Incredible Superboy Auction no.45 DEC 1955 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1955 December
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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What Are YOU Getting out of School?
description: Buzzy asks: "What Are YOU Getting out of School? Comic description: Jan reflects on how when he first started school in America, he studied very hard but felt lonely. Soon he was able to make friends and participate in extracurricular activities. Jan tells his friends "That's what school means to me-- not only learning and the studying but all those other things you get a chance to do." Buzzy says that Jan has reminded him not to take all of the advantages of a free education for granted. [Image description: Superboy is on a stage surrounded by an audience and lifts a huge 1 ton weight over his head. A sign next to him says "Clark Kent performing Superboy feats". He looks surprised and a thought bubble says: "Gosh! This isn't the fake prop prepared for Clark's act, but the REAL THING! Lana Lang's tricked me!". Lana Lang sticks her head out from behind the curtain on stage and her thought bubble says: "I've proved Clark is Superboy once and for all!".] Public service comic published as a part of the National Social Welfare Assembly Comics Project. The Comics Project lasted from August 1949 - July 1967 and produced over 200 pages promoting citizenship and social values. Publisher's Note: "Published as a public service in cooperation with The National Social Welfare Assembly, coordinating organization for national health, welfare and recreation agencies of the U.S."
creator: Script: Jack Schiff Pencils: Win Mortimer Inks: Win Mortimer Letters: Ira Schnapp
source: Superboy: The Amazing Adventures of Superboy's Costume no.44 OCT 1955 James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
publisher: DC Comics
date: 1955 October
contributor: Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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