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This is an advertising card for joining the Security Benefit Association, an early social security system. There was a model hospital for the members who paid a nickel a month for hospital care. That fee also covered an orphanage for their children if the member died and an old folks home all centered around a model farm in Topeka, Kansas.
Date: 1920
Item Number: 224538
Call Number: Menninger Photographic Collection, Box 40, #53
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 224538
Business and Industry - Health care - Hospitals
Business and Industry - Health care - Nursing homes
Collections - Photograph - Menninger Foundation
Community Life - Community services - Nursing homes
Community Life - Community services - Welfare - Welfare facilities - Orphanages
Date - 1920s
Home and Family - Residences
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Advertising Medium
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Photograph
People - Children
Places - Cities and towns - Topeka
Places - Counties - Shawnee
Type of Material - Photographs
Type of Material - Printed materials - Advertisements
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