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This Ivory Soap advertisement reflects the trend in advertising that sought to make products unique and special, and thereby more attractive to the consumer.

Document courtesy of the
Archives of the Catholic University of America
"Ivory Soap…

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Wealthy Industrialist Andrew Carnegie with his wife
Louise Whitfield Carnegie, sister-in-law
Estelle Whitfield, and daugther Margaret,
walking outdoors in winter

Photograph courtesy of the
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs…

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"The Breakers," Newport, RI
Residence of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt

Photograph courtesy of the
Library of Congress
Prints and Photographs Division
LC-USZ62-77203

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This inside cover of Father John A. Ryan's A Living Wage: Its Ethical and Economic Aspects, published in 1906.

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"The costs of the 'new' consumerism" from Our Sunday Visitor, January 10, 1999

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Photography courtesy of the
National Archives and Records Administration
Photograph No. NWDNS-102-LH-2050
"Group of oyster shuckers working in a canning factory. Dunbar, LA" March, 2, 1911
Child Labor, Photographer Lewis W. Hine
National…

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"Ann Street Baltimore circa. 1900; One of many settlement houses found across the country at that time"
Photographs courtesy of Enoch Pratt Free Library,
Maryland Department; Baltimore, MD
Worthington Collection, photographs # 378 and #379.
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