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Norah Hamilton drawing "'Canaries' in a Picric-Acid Plant," from Alice Hamilton's book "Exploring the Dangerous Trades"

 

"'Canaries' in a Picric-Acid Plant," drawing of four African American workers at a World War I-era picric acid plant by Norah Hamilton, Hull-House director of children's art; the plant was on the Canary Islands in the Passaic River in New Jersey

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Title:
Norah Hamilton drawing "'Canaries' in a Picric-Acid Plant," from Alice Hamilton's book "Exploring the Dangerous Trades"
Date of Original:
1940-1943
Identifier:
JAMC_0000_0057_1926.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3kd1qt3g
Notes:
Illustration featured opposite p. 186 in Alice Hamilton's book "Exploring the Dangerous Trades," chapter XI "War Industries." (Boston: Little Brown, 1943); may originally have appeared in Atlantic, Harper's, the American Mercury, or Survey Graphic magazines, per author acknowledgment


Rights:
Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Art
Laborers
African Americans
Subject--Name
Hamilton, Alice, 1869-1970
Hamilton, Norah
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)

Form:
Photographs

Collection Information


Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Source Variant Name:
Jane Addams Memorial Collection
Series:
Series II: Hull House
Folder:
57
Repository:
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)