About DisMuse’s masthead: It’s drawn from a late 1920s pamphlet produced by the Boston Industrial Aid Society. One of hundreds of charitable organizations operating in the city between 1900-1930, it focused on employment and training opportunities for ex-prisoners, disabled workers (men and women we think, but we’re not sure), poor widowers and widows.
By Laurie Block, DHM Director Fuel Assistance. We aren’t quite sure which city this is, but the image here from 1910 is of a relief worker with a bucket of coal being passed from him ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director The overall US homeless population has fallen almost 14% since 2010, though some 550,000 people go to sleep without a guaranteed bed, warmth if needed, or a roof to keep ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director At our Xmas season dinner table, the guests and host –ages 30-75– began discussing cook books, the ones we first owned. The quick table survey revealed that the groups’ mothers ...
By Laurie Block, DHM Director The 1960s. Civil Rights of PWD : Tracking down how and why the two posters in our image today were created, required digging out some federal legislative history. In 1965, ...
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