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Photograph of Roman ruins and landscape.

The first page of a Youth Lobby book. This booklet of instructions on lobbying was used by Illinois youth on a trip to Springfield, IL to lobby on behalf of the needs of young people. Several organizations are listed in the booklet as having…

This booklet of instructions on lobbying was used by Illinois youth on a trip to Springfield, IL to lobby on behalf of the needs of young people. Several organizations are listed in the booklet as having participated. Mollie West attended the trip,…

Robbie (8) and Hailey (2) Hayes with the LU Wolf cut-out & Final Four bracket at the fan fest in San Antonio, TX.

A young Mollie West stands to speak in front of a group of young men and women.

This small book was given to Mollie when she visited Moscow with the other American delegates from the Young Communist League. The inscription inside the front cover reads: "Miss Molly Lieber, from the Young Communist League of the Moscow…

Ink & Non-repo Pencil Drawing published in Puck. While Young was progressive in many things, cartoons like this one show that, whatever his personal attitudes may have been, he was willing to play to the attitudes of his audience with extremely…

Empty Grocery Store Shelves

I teach writing at Loyola and I write a column about art for Visual Art Source, except now all the museums and galleries I usually write about are closed. This is an essay about finding aesthetic pleasure and meaning during lockdown. …

Photograph of the Write Rosty automobile.