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Hull-House, a history of the settlement house established by Jane Addams, written by Julia Hendry, Assistant Special Collections Librarian and Assistant Professor, and Peggy Glowacki, Archival Operations and Reference Specialist, from the Richard J. Daley Library Special Collections department, has been issued by Arcadia Publishing. This new book traces in photographs and text the history of Hull-House from its 1889 opening to its legacy as a museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
The book consists of more than 200 photographs from the UIC Library's Jane Addams Memorial Collection (JAMC). JAMC contains approximately 6,500 photographs and is an aggregation of more than one hundred distinct manuscript collections including the records for the Hull-House settlement house, various organizations that grew out of Hull-House, and the personal papers of residents, associates, and neighbors of Hull-House. Hendry and Glowacki drew on the Wallace Kirkland Papers, Hull House Association Records, and the Florence Scala Collection for their research.
"Our book documents the Hull-House of Jane Addams' time, but also its evolution and that of its vibrant ethnic neighborhood through the 1960s," Hendry said. The book is available at Chicago-area bookstores and on booksellers' web sites.
The UIC Library holds more than 500 distinct manuscript collections. These are personal papers and organizational records from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, many focusing on Chicago's arts, social, political, and economic history.
