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Katherine Davis (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • In Memoriam: budderflyman said:
    Not sure who she was....she wasn't the blues singer and she wasn't the Katherine Davis who wrote "The Little Drummer Boy", so I give up.
  • Wystan said:
    Eugenicist, warden of a women's prison, and first director of New York City's Bureau of Social Hygiene: "The Bureau of Social Hygiene grew out of the appointment of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to a special grand jury investigation of the white slave trade in New York in 1910. Rockefeller served as foreman for this investigation, which was scheduled to last for one month. He kept the investigation going for six months and in the end released a detailed report calling for a permanent commission to investigate "social evil… in the leading cities of this country and Europe…."(1) When the mayor refused to set up such a commission, JDR Jr. decided to do it himself. (2) He interviewed over a hundred educators, intellectuals and businessmen about the project. On March 22, 1911, the Committee of Three (JDR Jr., Paul Warburg and Starr Murphy) met and organized the Bureau of Social Hygiene. The name was first used in October 1911, although the organization was not formally incorporated until 1913.(3) KATHERINE B. DAVIS, former commissioner of Charities and Correction of New York and superintendent of the Bedford Hills Reformatory for Women, was chosen as the first general secretary.(4) The purpose of the Bureau was 'the study, amelioration, and prevention of those social conditions, crimes, and diseases which adversely affect the well being of society….'" The full article expands on the pseudoscience and slipshod analytical methods of Eugenics devotees: www.ferris.edu/HTMLS/othersrv/isar/archives2/sources/bsh.htm
  • Wystan said:
    Another Bain/LOC portrait of Katherine Davs:
  • Wystan said:
    Dr. Davis assumed her position as New York's Commissioner of Corrections on January 1, 1914, and the Bain News Agency immediately circulated photos of her actively performing her duties:
  • Andrey Timofeev said:
    magical portrait %_%

Drinking to the New Year, N.Y. (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • marysz said:
    The plates on the wall suggest that this might have been a German restaurant. Germans and German-Americans were much more of a presence in New York before WW1.

Getting on Brdway car (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • pennylrichardsca (now at ipernity) said:
    Seems to have been a popular kind of shot: Compare also the cover of the novel "The Book Borrower" by Alice Mattison: audiobookmp3.net/images/book borrower.jpg
  • Julie Lyn said:
    Not easy to do in those skirts, I imagine.