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Albion Fellows Bacon: Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper (Midwestern History and Culture)
Albion Fellows Bacon Indiana's Municipal Housekeeper - Midwestern History and Culture Author:Robert G. Barrows A middle-class housewife in 1892, Evansville native Albion Fellows Bacon grew into a civic activist who worked on behalf of tenement reform, child welfare, city planning, and a variety of public health efforts. Bacon became Indiana's foremost "municipal housekeeper," a Progressive Era term for women who applied their domestic skills to social pr... more »oblems plaguing their communities.« less