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Seven Years of Child Labor Reform, NCLC Pamphlet no. 161
No full textPamphlet published by the NCLC "For the Commission on the Church and Social Service of the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America." By Owen R. Lovejoy, General Secretary of the NCLC
Need of Compulsory Education in the South, NCLC Pamphlet no. 192
No full textPamphlet by W.H. Hand, State High School Inspector, Columbia, South Carolina. Reprint from the Child Labor Bulletin, 1/1, June 1912. Includes data from the 1910 U.S. Census
"Seminary 1912" title on slide
No full textA seminary for the training of pastors was formally established in Cairo very early in the history of the American Mission, on 26 Sept 1864, by Revs. Lansing and Hogg. Promising candidates were recruited from Assiut College as they completed their secondary education. A list on paper found with the slides adds "Staff and Students.
Child Labor
No full textPhoto from "Lewis Hine : Photographs of Child Labor in the New South," edited by John R. Kemp (University Press of Mississippi, 1986), p. 87. Boy in Alexandria Glass Factory, June 1911
The Conservation of Childhood, NCLC Pamphlet no. 163
No full textAn address by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt to the Seventh Annual Conference on Child Labor, held in Birmingham, Alabama, 9-12 March 1911. Reprinted from the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
"Theodore Roosevelt + dedication of Girls College 1910" title on slide
No full textThe American College for Girls in Cairo was dedicated on 28 March 1910, with former U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt in attendance. Also in this photo is Miss Ella O. Kyle, principal and founder of the College. E.E. Elder states that Miss Kyle was not present when the photo was taken and was later "superimposed by the photographer" (see Elder, facing pg. 113)
"Girls College 1910" title on slide
No full textA list on paper found with the slides reads "Girls College Original Building." This view shows the extensive gardens that surrounded the College. The building was made possible by a gift of $18,000 from John D. Rockefeller in 1907. See Elder, pp. 133-34
"Miss Ella Kyle" title on slide
No full textPortrait of Ella O. Kyle, who arrived in Egypt in 1883, and first served at the boarding school for girls in Asyut. In 1892, she became director of the American School for Girls at Ezbekia. In 1910, she founded the American College for Girls in Cairo (later renamed Ramses College for Girls) and served as its principal until her death in 1912
