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This is a depiction of street vendors in late-19th-century London roasting potatoes in portable ovens on carts. On this dreary day, children warm themselves both by the fires and by eating the hot potatoes (note the girl in the pink dress who isn't…

Children in masks and paper hats marching on a London street before Guy Fawkes' Day, which commemorates the failure of Guy Fawkes and other conspirators to blow up the Houses of Parliament in 1605. Traditionally, children take their homemade "Guy"…

In the 1870s, Eliza Rice Hanson was traveling on an Iowa railroad that would lead her to reflect on Universalist women who had distinguished themselves by faith and philanthropic zeal. Our Women Workers, as a result, includes biographical sketches of…