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. […]
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 […]
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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The address side of a penny post card mailed at Mahanoy Post Office, Mahanoy, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, October 18, 1907, A. M. and received at the Herndon Post Office, Herndon, […]