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"Roosevelt Highway" Postcard

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This postcard used the "Roosevelt Highway" label to identify this scene in Waterbury.

"Ruth Blood delivering milk"

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Ruth Blood delivers bottled milk to an unidentified woman standing on porch of current 76 Old Route 5, September 1920. Dahlias are planted by porch of house.

"Saddleback from Mr. Alexander's"

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Stone wall, corn shocks and pumpkins in foreground, with Saddleback and Jackson Peak in the background. Looking east from Dorset (Vt.) West Road.

"Send Madeleine a paddlin' in '88" sticker

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By the time that Madeleine Kunin ran for her third term as governor, opposition to her progressive policies were growing. This bumper sticker reflected the dissatisfaction of some voters, although she won handily with 55% of the vote, the largest…

"Spanish" influenza : some facts about it and how to prevent its spread.

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A broadside announcing that a quarantine would be going into effect in Brandon, Vermont, on October 5, 1918, for nine days. The broadside also includes "Rules to Avoid Respiratory Diseases,' by the Surgeon General of the United States Army, and…

"Spanish" Influenza! Some Facts About it and How to Prevent its Spread

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Poster offering advice on how to avoid spreading the "Spanish" Flu

"The child at your door"

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Text continues: "400,000 orphans starving, no state aid available--Campaign for $30,000,000." Poster shows a child wearing a scarf on her head.

The American Committee for Relief in the Near East (founded as the American Committee for Armenian and…

"W. A. Cole Paper Co. Girls good"

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Eight women and one man by wall of paper mill, 1905.

"W. Robertson Mill Help"

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Six men and six women on loading dock at Robertson Paper Mill, 1899.

"W. S. Adams spraying potato field"

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Two men filling spraying apparatus on wagon pulled by two horses from barrels on stand, August 27, 1929.

"Webbers Ferry"

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Hand operated ferry crossing Connecticut River with horse and carriage.

"Women were among our primeval abolitionists:" women and organized anti-slavery in Vermont, 1834-1848

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Vermont's reputation as a bastion of antislavery and women's extensive involvement in antislavery societies elsewhere in the Northeast suggests that Jonathan Miller was not just boasting. But if so many women were involved, as Miller contended, why…