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Day, Dorothy (1897-1980) Press Photograph.
Staten Island: Kadel & Herbert News Photos, August 5, 1924.
Black-and-white sepia-toned portrait of a young Day in a shawl-necked top with large buttons and knickers, her hair cropped short, and bare footed, she sits outside her Staten Island bungalow; typed mimeographed caption taped to verso titled, "Gives up Greenwich Village for Simple Life," describing her recent retreat to the island where she lives with her two cats and twelve-year-old brother to write in peace, 7 3/8 x 5 1/2 in.
In her youth, Day was an anarchist and social activist, in addition to starting her career as a journalist, writing for The Liberator, The Masses, and The Call. Her semi-autobiographical novel, The Eleventh Virgin was published in 1924, and earned her enough money through the sale of movie rights to purchase the beach cottage on Staten Island. Just after the move, she became pregnant, and at about the same time, took on a passionate embrace of the Catholic church. Inspired by her newfound connection to the faith, she and Peter Maurin founded the Catholic Worker Movement and published The Catholic Worker, beginning in May of 1933. This newspaper was conceived to keep inerested parties aware of the church's work in the social justice movement. Despite its name, when it came to issues of workers rights, child labor, and pacificism, the paper's opinions often differed widely from official positions held by the Vatican.
