People's Institute and Free Dispensary Glass Lantern Slide Collection 1907-1909

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People's Institute and Free Dispensary Glass Lantern Slide Collection, 1907-1909

People's Institute and Free Dispensary Glass Lantern Slide Collection 1907-1909

http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv03881

The People’s Institute was organized in 1904 to improve living conditions for the women and children in the northern end of Portland. The impetus for the Institute was a report by Valentine Prichard, supervisor of the public school kindergartens and principal of a training school for kindergarten teachers. This report, given in 1902 to Dr. Edgar P. Hill, pastor of the First Presbyterian Church, along with Caroline Ladd and her daughter Helen Ladd Corbett, described the deplorable conditions of the women and children in north Portland Unable to provide even the bare necessities for their children, single mothers and their offspring lived in dark, unkempt rooming houses and tenements. Children, surrounded by immorality, often turned to crime, growing up idle and becoming a menace to society. Miss Prichard and a staff of workers visited homes to establish the needs of the women and children and to decide what could be done to help them and to establish the aims of the organization. The collection consists of fifty-two black and white glass lantern slides, ca. 1907-1909, illustrating the activities of the People's Institute and Portland Free Dispensary.

0.75 linear feet, 52 glass lanter slides and 35mm copies

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