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Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Acknowledgments Some of the research for this article was undertaken while I was a participant in a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar directed by Susan Groag Bell and Karen Offen. I am grateful to NEH for its support and to Professors Bell and Offen and the members of the seminar for their critical comments, intellectual stimulation, and warm encouragement. My colleagues at Florida International University, Meri-Jane Rochelson and Marilyn Hoder-Salmon, also read the manuscript and helped me to think about Matilda Robbins' life. Katherine Aiken graciously provided me with a copy of her dissertation on the Florence Crittenton Missions and shared ideas about the situation of single mothers in the early twentieth century. I appreciate the assistance of Raymond Boryczka and the staff of Wayne State University Archives of Labor History and Urban Affairs for checking references and leading me to additional information. Special thanks go to Dione Miles, former reference archivist at Wayne State, now deceased, for her help in locating references and additional information and for her encouragement to write about Matilda Robbins.
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