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Episodes tagged "Work": 1 through 4 of 4

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  1. Journey to Work: Walter B. Simpson
    date October 12, 1887map ORANGE, Floridatags Work, Florida, Winter Park

    On October 12, 1887 Walter B. Simpson and fellow Hannibal Square resident Frank R. Israel were elected as Winter Park Aldermen. They were the first black men to have ever been elected into any type of political office in Winter Park at that time. This vote came during a tumultuous time when Hannibal Square was taken out of the Winter Park boundaries and during this 1887 election was once again reincorporated...

  2. Restrictions on Immigration grow in popularity.
    date July 1, 1986 to July 4, 1986map New York, New Yorktags Immigration, American Immigration, Work

      A joint New York Times and CBS News poll showed the United States to have contradictory feelings towards immigrants. Despite the U.S. being founded on immigration, and containing the world’s largest immigration population, those polled show an increasing percentage of natives disapproving further immigration. On a personal level, the American citizen was welcoming to immigrants individually. But...

  3. Tramps Attack Trains at West Chester Station on the Pennsylvanian Line.
    date 1877map CHESTER, Pennsylvaniatags Migration/Transportation, Work

    Desperate wageworkers after the Civil War had taken to riding the American train networks looking for work. Civil War slang referred to the tramp as a long, tiresome march, and the American public took to referring these unsupported peoples as 'tramps.' The reasoning behind this increasing roving army was the reliance on seasonal work for manual laborers, and as a result, jobs were not secure. Hungry...

  4. The Perfect Wife
    date April, 1837 to 1837map ALBANY, New Yorktags Women, Work

    "A knowledge of domestic duties is beyond price to a woman. Every one of our sex ought to know how to sew, and knit, and mend, and cook, and superintend a household." So began the article "Important Requisites in A Wife", published in the agricultural magazine The Cultivator, in April 1837. According to the author, a good wife considered her work her department, and did it when it needed to be done,...