Awaiting the click of the camera, the 25 boys gathered around the porch laughing and talking. Some were joking and kidding around while others waited seriously with thoughts of their impending studies for the night. Many of the boys clutched baseball bats, gloves, and catcher's masks in anticipation of baseball practice later that afternoon. On the back of the keepsake photograph, someone had...
Was the California fruit market ripe for expansion? Horticulturist, W. G. Fraser spent four weeks in the South during the winter of 1900 testing a new market for Californian oranges. Upon returning to California he reported to the Los Angeles Daily Times, The result of my trip was most satisfactory. I found a very active demand for California fruit... Fraser attributed this demand to the...
Around the year 1900, when Bertha Wendhausen heard that there was an Indian village nearby in Niagara, she couldn’t wait to go and talk with some of the Indians. She wanted to learn more about the native people of North America. So on one Sunday, Bertha and her party drove over to find the village of Niagara. On the way there they met an Indian child who was sick and dying. Bertha later...
The “Principle of Prohibition” by Doctor Ernest H. Cherrington was an educational pamphlet written in the early 1900’s. Dr. Cherrington questions the principles of prohibition. He was a general secretary with the World League against Alcohol; he raises questions about people who question prohibition. He doesn’t understand why the people who are against prohibition still...
With the idea that America was the new Promised Land, many Americans were open to everything new including ideas on health. Diet, nutrition and wellness were topics of debate, often with men claiming to have the latest and greatest cure-all remedy.
Reverend Sylvester Graham was an advocate for healthful living. He introduced a restrictive diet excluding meat, butter, coffee, tea and...
In the early decades of the 20th century the Alabama Anti-Saloon League published a brief flyer outlining the group’s proposals. The flyer is titled “The Alabama Anti-Saloon League” and outlines four goals: “First- To federate the Churches, Sunday Schools, Temperance Societies and other moral forces of the State in a conservative, persistent, and determined movement against the...
Since the advent of the earliest humans the man of the “house” was expected to provide for the family. Subsequently with the advance of civilization all men came to learn that this is a fundamental rule of their very essence and natural definition of what is a “real” man. No matter their situation, even if he is forced out of his own inhabitance that he must be able to use a combination...
Many African American industrial institutions in the south, especially the Robert Hungerford industrial school in Eatonville, Fl had many struggles upon its establishment in 1899. Journeying along through the early twentieth century, this chain of schools based their education off the Tuskegee institute under the guidance and teachings of the profound educator named Booker T. Washington. One study...
In the late 1800s, Francis Galton developed the concept of eugenics, the science of improving a population through selective breeding among ideal specimens. By the 1920s, eugenics had been popularized to mean promoting breeding among the “fit” and restricting reproduction among the “unfit.” Many Eugenicists in the early 1900s had parents or grandparents that lived during a time of slavery,...
Being black prior to the year1891 was hard. Not only was racism everywhere, but for black people in the medical field, as either patients or practicing professionals, if they were qualified and more than likely deserving, there was no place for them in the medical field. This unspeakable injustice is not one that went un challenged though. Until Dr. Daniel H Williams came along to bring about a...