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Article: Chicago-Based Safety Pioneer Gets a Stamp
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 5, 1995
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After drawing flak for creating postage stamps commemorating
Richard Nixon and Marilyn Monroe, the U.S. Post Office has turned to
a sure-fire winner for its latest stamp - Chicagoan and industrial
safety pioneer Alice Hamilton.
Dr. Hamilton, who in 1911 spurred the creation of several of
America's earliest worker safety laws by documenting the presence of
lead poisoning in factories, was associated with Hull House in
Chicago for 22 years.
It was while working with Jane Addams at Hull House that
Hamilton first toured dozens of bustling Chicago factories,
interviewing hundreds of workers and becoming alarmed by the deadly
dangers of the workplace.
"I never went back to the laboratory," ...