The House on Henry Street
Nonfiction work, Photograph
By: Lillian Wald
Date: 1915
Source: Wald, Lillian. The House on Henry Street. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1915. Reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1971, 57–62.
About the Author: Lillian Wald (1867–1940) was a nurse and social worker who started her career serving the downtrodden of New York's Lower East Side, establishing the Henry Street Settlement in 1895. She later became a public health official, teacher, author, editor, women's rights activist, and founder of the Visiting Nurse Society. Wald persuaded President Theodore Roosevelt (served 1901–1909) to create a Federal Children's Bureau to protect the rights of children, helped form the Women's Trade Union to protect the rights of women, and lobbied for workplace health inspections to protect the rights of workers. Her visionary social service programs have been a model...
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