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This illustration by Coles Phillips depicts the figure of the gold-digger going through as many men as hours in a day.

This is an advertisement for lifebuoy soap. It emphasizes cleanliness as a means to social advancement.

This is an advertisement for Colgate shaving cream. The ad emphasizes the importance of a man's personal appearance by stating that the shaved face had become a social requirement.

This is an advertisement for ivory soap. This advertisement illuminates some of the tensions facing modern men. It advertises ivory soap by appealing to emotion. The advertisement claims that ivory soup can alleviate many tensions that modern men may…

The Progressive-Era brought about many reforms to help the impoverished. This is a picture of children playing in one of Jane Addams' hull houses, a building created to shelter the impoverished.

A picture of one of the Hull-Houses. These houses were used to house the impoverished.

This is a photo of the Thirty-Ninth Annual Convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association program brochure. It was conventions like these in which woman appeared out of the private sphere and emerged with men onto the public sphere.

A picture of progressive reformer Jane Addams.

A picture of female progressive leader Jane Addams, creator of Hull-House.

A photograph of FDR making a campaign speech in Redding, California.