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  2. Baby Scoop Era - Wikipedia

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    Fessler is a professor of photography at the Rhode Island School of Design who exhibited an art installation titled The Girls Who Went Away. It is also the theme of the documentary "Gone To A Good Home" by Film Australia. Beginning in the 1940s and 1950s, illegitimacy began to be defined in terms of psychological deficits on the part of the ...

  3. Children's Overseas Reception Board - Wikipedia

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    Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) group bound for New Zealand, 1940. The Children's Overseas Reception Board (CORB) was a British government sponsored organisation. [1] The CORB evacuated 2,664 British children from England, so that they would escape the imminent threat of German invasion and the risk of enemy bombing in World War II.

  4. African-American names - Wikipedia

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    Prefixes such as La/Le, Da/De, Ra/Re, or Ja/Je and suffixes such as -ique/iqua, -isha (for girls), -ari and -aun/awn (for boys) are common, as well as inventive spellings for common names. The book Baby Names Now: From Classic to Cool—The Very Last Word on First Names places the origins of "La" names in African-American culture in New Orleans ...

  5. Amala and Kamala - Wikipedia

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    It was written in India after 1935, six years after Kamala's death. (The original manuscript is kept in the manuscripts division of the US Library of Congress in Washington, D.C.). The pictures showing the two wolf-girls walking on all fours, eating raw meat, and others, were taken in 1937, after the deaths of both of them.

  6. 1930–1945 in Western fashion - Wikipedia

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    Girl receiving a vaccination; Children in Michigan Hill, Washington; Child's birthday party in Todman Ave, Kensington, Sydney; School choir in Pie Town, New Mexico; German children, the boy appears to be wearing a sailor suit; Girl learning how to ride a bike with friends at an unknown location; Studio photograph of a family dressed in outdoor ...

  7. High school fraternities and sororities - Wikipedia

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    LaSalle Sr. High School in Niagara Falls New York was also home to multiple fraternities, dating back to the 1950s. The school itself recognized these programs up until the late 1960s as group photos were included in the yearbooks of the time. These included ΣΨ - Sigma Psi, ΓΣ - Gamma Sigma, and ΩΔ - Omega Delta, listed as male fraternities.

  8. Schools at War - Wikipedia

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    Children with scrap metal in Lititz, Pennsylvania, November 1942. The Schools at War program was led by the director of the education division of the War Savings Staff of the Treasury Department, Homer W. Anderson, and was intended to unify and coordinate the effort of 30 million school children in support of the war effort. [2]

  9. American women in World War II - Wikipedia

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    Rosie the Riveter (Westinghouse poster, 1942). The image became iconic in the 1980s. American women in World War II became involved in many tasks they rarely had before; as the war involved global conflict on an unprecedented scale, the absolute urgency of mobilizing the entire population made the expansion of the role of women inevitable.