Reinerton Post Office, 1908
The stamped corner of a penny post card postmarked at Reinerton Post Office, Reinerton, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, December 26, 1908, A. M., and marked “received” at the Pine Grove Post […]
Jackson Township’s Anti-Vaccination Protest, 1905-1906
On December 9, 1905, the Board of Education of Jackson Township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, voted to admit students to school whether or not they could produce a certificate of vaccination. […]
Trial of the Jackson Township School Directors, 1906
A portrait of Judge George Kunkel (1855-1920), who presided over the trial of the Jackson Township school directors and community members in late March, 1906. The portrait is from the […]
After the Trial of the Jackson Township Anti-Vax “Conspirators”
Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Commissioner of Health for Pennsylvania, took the results of the March 1906 trial as a victory for compulsory vaccination even though the court had ruled that […]
Lora C. Little (1856-1931) – Anti-Vaccinationist
Lora C. Little was a prominent American anti-vaccinationist who, in 1906, stationed herself in central Pennsylvania during the debate over the compulsory vaccination law of 1895 and its enforcement by […]
State Health Commissioner Promotes Smallpox Vaccine, 1906
A portrait of Dr. Samuel G. Dixon (1851-1918), Pennsylvania Commissioner of Health during the period of intense pressure to get all school children vaccinated for smallpox, just after the turn […]
Challenges to the Vaccination Law in January 1906
A newspaper photograph of Frank M. Eastman, a Harrisburg attorney who represented Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, Pennsylvania Health Commissioner, in the vaccination case against the school directors and others of […]
Elizabethville Post Office, 1914
The stamped corner of a penny post card mailed at Elizabethville Post Office, Elizabethville, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, June 4, 1914, 7 A. M. _______________________________ Corrections and additional information should be […]