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Edith
and Grace Abbott Collection; 0.5 linear feet
Edith Abbott (1876-1939) and Grace Abbott (1878-1939) were Chicago social reformers
and Hull-House residents. Edith Abbott earned a Ph.D. from the University of
Chicago in economics and continued here studies at the London School of Economics.
In 1908 she moved into Hull House. While a resident, she helped arrange for
the transfer of the School of Civics and Philanthropy to the University of
Chicago. In 1924, Edith Abbott became the dean of the renamed School of Social
Service Administration -- a post she held until 1942. She also founded and
edited the social work journal Social Service Review.
Grace Abbott became a Hull-House resident in 1908. As such, she helped to found
the Immigrants Protective League, an organization dedicated to assisting new
immigrants in Chicago. In 1917, she became director of the Child Labor division
of the U.S. Children's Bureau. From there, she went on to succeed Julia Lathrop
as head of the Children's Bureau in 1921. Her two-volume study of child welfare
entitled The Child and the State was published in 1938.
The collection contains articles, book reviews, newspaper clippings, reports
and correspondence. The materials deal with such subjects as social work, housing,
child labor and juvenile delinquency.
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Adult Education Council of Greater Chicago Records; 5.5 linear feet
The Adult Education Council of Greater Chicago was an organization of professional
educators and social welfare agencies that promoted and coordinated continuing
education programs in the Chicago metropolitan area. It was established in
1924 and incorporated on August 18, 1925 as the Chicago Forum Council. In 1929,
it merged with the Chicago Adult Education Conference to become the Adult Education
Council of Greater Chicago. The organization closed on November 21, 1975 due
to lack of funds.
The collection consists of annual reports, pamphlets, conference proceedings,
correspondence, financial records, minutes, programs, newspaper clippings,
photographs, and published material relating to the operation of the organization
from 1925 to 1975.
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Association
for Family Living; 10.5 linear feet
The Association for Family Living was founded in 1925 by a small group of women
interested in the development of a better understanding of children by their
parents. It was originally called the Chicago Association of Child Study. As
the program developed, it began to focus on the family and the name was changed
to the Chicago Association of Child Study and Parent Education. In 1939, the
name was changed again to the Association for Family Living. The Association's
activities included sponsoring study groups, lectures, courses, counseling
services, pamphlet services and professional consultation.
The collection material dating from 1928 to 1969 including conference proceedings,
newsletters course materials, scrapbooks, minutes, annual reports, and correspondence.
The materials pertain to the educational efforts of the Association for Family
Living on such topics as sex education, parent education, and adolescent parenting.
The collection also includes material about the administration of the organization.
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Art
Resources in Teaching Records; 46.25 linear feet
Art Resources in Teaching was founded as the Chicago Public School Art
Society in 1894 at Hull-House. It was led by Ellen Gates Starr and included
a group of women from the Chicago Woman's Club. Its goal was to serve young
people in the inner city. It did this initially by refurbishing classrooms
and by providing art appreciation lectures and museum visits for schools in
disadvantaged neighborhoods. The Chicago Public School Art Society has never
been a part of or funded by the Chicago Public School System. To avoid confusion,
its name was changed in 1984 to Art Resources in Teaching. The Society currently
produces art appreciation curriculum materials, sponsors lectures and awards
scholarships to young art students.
The records which date from 1906 until the present contain newspaper clippings,
correspondence, photographs, financial, auction, appraisal, employee, student,
membership, and scholarship records, minutes and slides of art by scholarship
winners.
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Ruth
Austin Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Ruth Austin (1884-1990) was a settlement house administrator and social reformer.
Born in New York, Ruth Austin came to Chicago around 1900 to study at the Chicago
Kindergarten Institute. In 1910, she returned to New York to become head resident
of the Lenox Hill Settlement in New York City. There she taught English to
working class immigrant women, a vocation she continued when she returned to
Chicago in 1913. In 1914, she became head resident of Gads Hill Center, a Presbyterian
settlement house in the Pilsen neighborhood. Upon retiring from Gads Hill in
1946, Austin directed an experimental school for adolescents with learning
disabilities at Hull-House until 1949.
The collection contains correspondence, obituaries, programs, articles, newspaper
clippings, photographs and a resume. The materials pertain to Neva Leona Boyd,
Edith Abbott, the Recreation Training School of Chicago, the Retarded Children's
Aid Training Center and the Chicago Federation of Settlements.Joseph
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Lloyd
Bache Collection; 0.5 linear feet
Joseph Lloyd Bache was a school administrator and autograph collector in Chicago.
From 1894-1925, he was an elementary school teacher and principal with the
Chicago Public Schools.
This collection consists primarily of correspondence and autographs. Subjects
include Jane Addams, Herbert Hoover, Theodore Roosevelt, Julius Rosenwald,
Booker T. Washington, Woodrow Wilson. The collection also includes photographs,
clippings and speeches.
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Russell
Ward Ballard Papers; 14 linear feet
Social worker and teacher, Russell Ward Ballard served as Head Resident of
Hull-House between 1943 and 1962. Ballard began his career in East Chicago,
Indiana where he worked for the school board as a principal of the James Whitcomb
Riley School. In 1936, he was appointed Director of the Lake County Department
of Public Welfare where he re-organized and integrated the department. In 1941,
he assumed the directorship of the St. Charles School for Boys in St. Charles
IL. The School for delinquent boys had recently been the subject of controversy
regarding the mistreatment of students. In this position, Ballard gained a
national reputation as a social worker and made the acquaintance of several
Hull-House residents. In 1943, Ballard was selected as Head Resident of Hull-House,
breaking the tradition of appointing women to the position. In this position,
he oversaw the removal of the Hull-House Association from its original site
on Halsted Street to make way for the construction of the University of Illinois
at Chicago Circle. He held that position until he retired in 1962.
The collection contains correspondence, case histories, clippings, photographs,
annual reports, and speeches. The materials pertain to Ballard's personal life,
his term as Principal of the James Whitcomb Riley School, reorganization and
staffing of the Lake County Department of Public Welfare, and the St. Charles
School for Boys.
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Dame
Henrietta Barnett Collection; 0.5 linear feet
Together with her husband, Canon Samuel Barnett, Henrietta Barnett (1851-1936)
founded the world's first settlement house, Toynbee Hall in London in 1844.
In addition to her settlement work, Henrietta Barnett was interested in housing
and helped found a model garden suburb at Hamstead. She collaborated on some
of her husband's books, notably Practical Socialism, (1888) and wrote his biography
(1918). In 1924, she became Dame Commander of the British Empire.
This collection consists primarily of correspondence with Jane Addams. It also
includes correspondence with Mary Rozet Smith as well as newspaper clippings
about Jane Addams. All letters from Jane Addams are photocopies.
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Mary
M. Bartelme Papers; 4.75 linear feet
Mary Barteleme (1865-1954) was the first woman Judge of the Circuit Court of
Cook County assigned to the Juvenile Court. She held that position from 1923
until her retirement in 1933. Prior to being elected a judge, Mary Bartelme
worked in private practice as a probate and real estate lawyer. In 1897, she
was appointed Public Guardian of Cook County. She was the first woman to hold
that position. From 1913 to 1923 she was the assistant to Judge Merrit W. Pinckney
of the Juvenile Court.
The collection contains diaries, photographs, articles, speeches, clippings,
correspondence, case records, minutes and obituaries. The materials pertain
to election campaigns, the Mary Clubs, the St. Charles School for Boys, the
Friends of the Juvenile Court, juvenile delinquents, Hull-House and the Bowen
Country Club.
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Ira
Berkow Collection; 3.5 linear feet
Born in 1940, Ira Berkow grew up on Chicago's Near West Side. As a teenager,
he sold women's nylons and men's belts at various stands in the Maxwell St.
marketplace. Upon graduating from Northwestern University's journalism program,
Berkow worked as a sports writer for the New York Times. Among other books,
he is the author of Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar. He was been active
in the public campaign to save the Maxwell St. Market from demolition.
This collection consists of tapes and transcripts of interviews collected for
Maxwell Street: Survival in a Bazaar. The interviews pertain to the Maxwell
St. Market, the Near West Side neighborhood, Jewish immigrants, sweatshop labor
and tenement housing.
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Bethlehem-Howell
Neighborhood Service Records; 15 linear feet
Bethlehem Center and Howell House were church-related neighborhood houses serving
the Pilsen area on the Near West Side. They provided religious, social services
and personal welfare assistance to an immigrant community composed predominantly
of Bohemians, Poles, and Czechs. The two centers co-operated throughout their
history, merging in 1961 as the Neighborhood Service Organization. The Neighborhood
Service Organization, popularly known as Casa Aztlan, continues to serve the
Pilsen area.
The collection contains correspondence, minutes, corporate records, photographs,
blue prints, newsletters, programs, reports, published material and glass slides
regarding the operation of the Neighborhood Service Organization from 1940
until 1960.
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Bohemian
Women's Publishing Company; 1.25 linear feet
The Bohemian Women's Publishing Company was a stock company formed by Bohemian
women in Chicago in 1894. It published a journal and carried on a large printing
business. The journal Zenske Listy, edited by Josefa Humpal-Zeman, was the
first Bohemian women's weekly in the world and the only Bohemian journal published,
edited and run entirely by women. Josefa Humpa-Zeman was also active at Hull-House
and wrote the chapter on Bohemians in Hull-House Maps and Papers.
The Scrapbook includes photographs, dance programs, raffle tickets, concert
tickets, programs, calling cards, forms and stationary from the period 1895-1900.
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Jessie
Binford Collection; 0.25 linear feet
Jessie Binford (1876-1966) was a long-time Hull-House resident and executive
director of the Juvenile Protective Association. Born in Iowa, Jessie Binford
moved into Hull-House in 1902 after graduating from Rockford College. While
at Hull-House, she became interested in criminal justice and children's issues
becoming the Director of the Legal Aid Society when it was established at Hull-House
in 1906. In 1907, she joined the Juvenile Protective League, later the Juvenile
Protective Association, serving as its executive director from 1916 to 1952.
Binford continued to live at Hull-House until 1963 when the settlement house
was torn down to make room for the new campus of the University of Illinois.
Binford was active in the fight to preserve the Harrison-Halsted neighborhood
as a residential community and opposing the sale of Hull-House property to
the City of Chicago.
The collection contains correspondence between Jessie Binford and Hensheu Rosenbacher,
1957 -1966 and newspaper clippings regarding Jessie Binford. Please also see
the Juvenile Protective Association Records for material relating to Jessie
Binford.
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Alma
Birmingham Papers; 4 linear feet
Alma Birmingham was a Hull-House resident, a pianist and music teacher at the
Hull-House Music School, 1922-42.
The collection includes correspondence, photographs, recital programs, clippings
and paintings. The materials pertain to the music programs at Hull-House and
in the Chicago area.
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Louise
de Koven Bowen Papers 0.5 linear feet
Louise de Koven Bowen (1859-1953) was a Chicago philanthropist, social reformer
and benefactor of Hull-House. She was the director of the Woman's Club of Chicago
and served as Hull-House Treasurer and president of the Board of Directors.
She also served as the first president of the Juvenile Protective Association
where she supervised research examining such issues as working conditions,
racial prejudice, prostitution and popular entertainment and their effects
on young people. In 1912, she donated a seventy-two acre summer campsite to
Hull-House, which became the Bowen Country Club, a country retreat for families
from the neighborhood.
The papers contain correspondence with Ada and Robert Hicks as well as articles,
newspaper clippings and a Ph.D. dissertation.
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Neva
Leona Boyd Papers; 8.75 linear feet
Neva Leona Boyd (1876-1963) was a proponent of the modern play movement, which
emphasized the importance of recreation in socializing individuals. She founded
the Chicago School for Playground Workers in 1909. From 1914 to 1920, the school
operated as the Recreation Department of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy.
Most of the classes were taught at Hull-House and Jane Addams served on the
Board of Directors. When the School of Civics and Philanthropy was incorporated
into the University of Chicago, Neva Boyd's Recreation Department became the
Independent Recreation Training School of Chicago (popularly known as the Hull-House
School.) In 1927, the school was absorbed by Northwestern University and operated
until Boyd's retirement in 1941. Upon her retirement, Boyd worked with the
Illinois Department of Public Welfare designing recreational programs for the
mentally ill.
The collection consists primarily of material that Neva Boyd assembled in preparation
for writing a book on social group work and play. The material deals with the
theories of social group work and play, and includes case studies, papers,
reports and published materials.
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Sophonsiba
Breckinridge Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Sophonsiba Breckinridge (1866-1948) was a welfare worker who led the social
work education movement in the United States. Breckinridge graduated from Wellesley
College in 1888 and continued her studies in law and political science at the
University of Chicago, earning her Ph.D. in 1901. She joined the faculty at
the University of Chicago in 1904, teaching in the department of household
administration until 1912. Beginning in 1907, she was involved with the Women's
Trade Union League and with Hull-House, where she lived from 1907 to 1920.
Also in 1907, she began teaching at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy,
later the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Social Service Administration.
Breckinridge's ideas about rigorous coursework and training techniques set
the standard for social work education in the United States. In 1927, she co-founded
and edited the journal "Social Service Review." She also helped organize
the Woman's Peace Party and the Women's International League for Peace and
Freedom.
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings and articles.
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Henry P. Chandler Papers; 1.25 linear feet
Henry P. Chandler (1880-1975) was a Chicago lawyer and the first director of
the Administrative Office of the United States Courts. Chandler received his
law degree from the University of Chicago in 1906 and practiced law in Chicago
until 1939, when he was appointed to the Administrative Offices. Chandler served
as president of the Chicago City Club from 1923 to 1925. He also served as chairman
of the Committee on Child Welfare Legislation, which made studies of children's
laws in Illinois. Chandler was also a trustee of Hull-House.
The collection contains newspaper clippings, reports, speeches and published
material. The material pertains to the City Club of Chicago, child welfare,
the Union League of Chicago and civil service reform.
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Century
of Progress Records; 555 linear feet
A Century of Progress International Exposition was held in Chicago during the
summers of 1933 and 1934. The fair celebrated the scientific and technological
advances made in the century since the founding of Chicago in 1833. The main
features of the fair included exhibits depicting the application of scientific
principles to consumer and other industries; historical replicas; pavilions
of the state and federal governments; and foreign villages. Under the direction
of Lenox Riley Lohr, the general manager, the exposition met all of its financial
obligations and closed with surplus funds, which were distributed among Chicago
charities.
The collection includes correspondence, notes, reports, minutes, legal and
financial records, charts, graphs, statistics, press releases, clippings, pamphlets,
magazines, newsletters, photographs, blueprints, and phonograph records. The
materials pertain to the construction, operation and demolition of the fair,
1928-1935, the lawsuit against the park commissioners, 1936-1937, and the writing
of the official history of the fair, 1935-1940.
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Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers; 22.5 linear
feet
The Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers was established
in 1894 at Hull-House. The organization brought together settlement house workers,
board members and friends of the settlement movement from around Chicago. It
served as a medium for exchange of ideas, conducted studies of local conditions
and coordinated activities of participating settlements and neighborhood houses.
The collection contains minutes, speeches, annual reports, studies, reports
and correspondence dating from 1900 until the present. The materials pertain
to Chicago area settlement houses, social work, childcare, public housing,
poverty, Jane Addams and Louise de Koven Bowen.
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Chicago Urban League Records; 1,000 linear feet
The Chicago Urban League was organized in 1916 to deal with the problems arising
from the migration of African Americans from southern rural areas to urban
areas in the North. The League attempted to mediate during the race riots of
1919. In the 1920's it encouraged the formation of neighborhood clubs to promote
community improvement and better housing conditions. In the 1930's, it set
up relief programs and soup kitchens to aid unemployed blacks. Throughout its
existence, the Chicago Urban League has concentrated on obtaining employment
for African Americans and fighting discrimination in the workplace. The Chicago
Urban League is an independently run affiliate of the National Urban League
governed by a Board of Directors and run by a professional staff.
The majority of the records in this collection date from the 1940's. Earlier
records were destroyed by a fire at the Chicago Urban League offices. This
collection contains correspondence, minutes, photographs, newspaper clippings,
sound recordings, financial records and labor agreements. This material covers
such topics as employment opportunities and housing facilities for blacks;
employment discrimination; administration of the Chicago Urban League and its
relationship with other social service and civil rights organizations; race
riots; juvenile delinquency and the Chicago Public Schools.
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Chicago Woman's Aid Records; 24 linear feet
The Chicago Woman's Aid was founded in 1882 as the Young Ladies Society to
provide civic, philanthropic, literary, educational and social welfare programs.
The organization was divided into several departments including the Civics
and Philanthropy Department, the Educational Department and the Art and Literature
Department. It was active in such areas as public housing and public health,
child welfare and arts education.
The collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, pamphlets,
minutes and photographs dating from 1903 to 1988. The materials pertain to
such issues as birth control, child welfare, public housing, immigration, racial
discrimination and juvenile delinquency.
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Civic Federation of Chicago; 2.25 linear feet
The Civic Federation of Chicago was founded in 1894 in response to municipal
political corruption and poor quality city services. Lyman Gage, the president
of First National Bank of Chicago was named President, Bertha Palmer was Vice-President
and Jane Addams, a trustee. The Civic Federation's goal was to make Chicago
"the best governed, the healthiest and the cleanest city in the country."
The Federation was originally organized into six committees: philanthropic,
moral, industrial, educational and municipal. It tackled such problems as gambling
houses, food inspection, and garbage collection. By 1917, the Federation began
to focus on municipal spending and taxation. The organization continues to
"promote efficiency and economy in the organization and management of
public business.
The collection contains bulletins, pamphlets, reports, and newspaper clippings
dating from 1918 until 1960. The materials pertain to Chicago municipal government,
salaries of government workers and to education.
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Clarence Darrow Community Center Records; 8 linear feet
The Clarence Darrow Community Center was founded in the early 1950's to serve
the residents of the LeClaire Courts housing project and the surrounding community.
Its buildings at 4410 S. LaPorte and 4340 S. Lamen were leased from the Chicago
Housing Authority. Programs included recreational programs for teenagers and
children, childcare and counseling and a Planned Parenthood Clinic. The LeClaire
Courts project is currently served by the LeClaire Hearst Community Center
of Hull-House Association.
The collection contains records dating from 1954 to 1970 including committee
reports, correspondence, budgets, programs, photographs, newspaper clippings,
annual reports and a scrapbook. The materials pertain to the administration
of the community center and its programs.
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Cook County Socialist Party Records; 1 linear foot
The Socialist Party of Illinois, of which the Cook County Socialist Party is
a division, was founded in the wake of Chicago's Pullman strike of 1896. It
had its first convention in 1898. By 1901, the various factions of the socialist
movement had united under the name Socialist Party of Illinois. The Socialist
Party of Illinois affiliated with the national party and its leader Eugene
Debs. At its peak in the early twentieth century, the party was a mass movement
made up of a diverse group of reformists, revolutionaries, Marxists, Christian
ministers, populists and municipal reformers. The Socialist Party of the United
States declined after the First World War, its last well-known leader being
Norman Thomas.
The collection contains delegate and executive committee minutes, 1914-1919
as well as a broadside of the Socialist Party municipal platform of 1935.
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Mary
Jo Deegan Collection; 0.5 linear feet
Dr. Mary Jo Deegan is a Professor in the Sociology Department of the University
of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is the author of the book Jane Addams and the Men
of the Chicago School.
This collection contains unpublished papers and published articles by Mary
Jo Deegan. Subjects of the papers and articles include Hull-House residents,
sociology, Jane Addams, Edith and Grace Abbot, W.E.B. DuBois, Jessie Taft and
George Mead.
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Annetta Diekmann Papers; 3 linear feet
Annetta Diekmann (1888-1974) was a pioneer in women's rights and welfare work.
She was appointed the first industrial secretary for the National Board of
the Young Women's Christian Association in 1918. In 1924, she moved to Chicago
and served as the industrial secretary of the Chicago YWCA. Upon her retirement
in 1956, Annetta Diekmann became a full-time volunteer as secretary of the
Illinois chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union. In this position, she
developed statewide educational programs about the civil liberties of women.
The collection contains correspondence, reports, briefs, newspaper clippings,
pamphlets, and photographs. The materials pertain to such topics as the American
Civil Liberties Union, Cornell University, labor education, and the Young Women's
Christian Association from 1928 to 1973.
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Leba
Rosenthal Einhorn Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Leba Rosenthal Einhorn was active in the Hull-House Theatre, appearing in productions
in the 1930's. She also appeared in theater productions at the Henry Booth
House settlement and participated in their programs.
The collection contains programs, photographs and newspaper clippings from
the 1920's and 30's regarding Leba Rosenthal and her participation in Chicago
theater and settlement house activities.
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Reverend
Hazel Foster Papers; 1 linear foot
Hazel Foster was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1885. She received her Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1932 and worked as a Presbyterian
minister and professor of religion throughout the United States. She was active
in a number of organizations including the League of Women Voters, the Quaker
Fellowship, the American Civil Liberties Union and served as Religious Contacts
Chairman for the National Board of the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom. In this capacity, she came in contact with Jane Addams, Alice
Hamilton and other women affiliated with Hull-House.
The collection contains mimeographed material from the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom and issues of Four Lights. It also contains correspondence,
including that between Jane Addams, Clara Stahl and Jane Addams as well as
published material regarding Hull-House.
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Mary
Fry Collection; 0.25 linear feet
Mary Fry (1877-1952) was the housekeeper and companion to Anna Hostetter Haldeman
Addams, Jane Addams' stepmother. She was a friend of Marcet Haldeman-Julius,
acting as her agent in the care of the Addams' Cedarville homestead and caring
for her children periodically.
The collection contains photographs, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and
obituaries about the Addams and Haldeman-Julius families.
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Helen
Tieken Geraghty Papers; 9.5 linear feet
Helen Tieken Geraghty was a producer of historical pageants and industrial
shows as well as a theatre educator. She produced pageants for the Century
of Progress Exposition, the Chicago Railroad Fair, and the Illinois Sesquicentennial
International Fair. Later she became manager of the Ravinia festival in Highland
Park, IL. Helen Tieken Geraghty was the director of the Hull-House People's
Theatre from 1937 to 1940.
The collection contains scripts, budgets, attendance records, photographs,
programs, set designs, blueprints, costume drawings, clippings, closing reports,
scrapbooks and directors notes regarding the Hull-House People's Theater.
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Samuel
Goldsmith Papers; 7.5 linear feet
Social worker and social agency administrator, Samuel Goldsmith (1893-1987)
came to Chicago from New York in 1930 to become executive director of Jewish
Charities of Chicago. Shortly after accepting that position, he helped organize
the Community Fund of Chicago, a forerunner of the United Way. He was a charter
member of the Joint Emergency Relief Fund and chairman of the health Division
of the Council of Social Agencies during the 1930's. In this role, he instituted
a policy of reimbursing hospitals with public funds for care given to the indigent.
In 1936, he helped found, and served as executive director of the Jewish Welfare
Fund of Chicago, which raised funds for European Jews in the midst of the Holocaust.
The Jewish Welfare Fund eventually merged with other organizations to become
the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago in 1950. Goldsmith served as
executive vice president.
The collection contains articles, reports, correspondence, minutes, clippings,
and pamphlets. The materials pertain to the administration of Jewish welfare
organizations in Chicago, New York and Europe as well as to the issues of social
work, public health, refugees, senior citizens and child care.
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Sophie
Trifshick Goren Papers; 0.5 linear feet
Sophie Trifshick started volunteering at Hull-House as a high school student
in 1928 after doing a book report on Twenty Years at Hull-House. She volunteered
there until 1935 when she married and moved to California. At Hull-House, Sophie
Trifshick taught classics to children and adults, volunteered for the Juvenile
Protective Association, typed letters and birthday poems for Jane Addams. After
moving to California she continued working as a teacher.
The collection contains correspondence, memos, published materials, clippings,
programs, and photographs about Jane Addams, the Bowen Country Club and the
Harrison-Halsted Community Group.
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Haldeman-Julius
Family Papers; 23 linear feet
The Haldeman-Julius family were publishers of socialist literature and proprietors
of the New Appeal and Haldeman-Julius Publishing companies. They were related
to Jane Addams through her stepmother, Anna Hostetter Haldeman Addams.
The collection contains personal and business correspondence, diaries, notebooks,
legal and financial papers, photographs, and publications of the Haldeman-Julius
Publishing companies.
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Henry
Booth House Records; 5.75 linear feet
Henry Booth House was a settlement house founded in 1898 by the Ethical Humanist
Society of Chicago and named for the Society's first president, Judge Henry
Booth. The settlement served an ethnically diverse and ever-changing neighborhood
on West 14th St. until 1955 when the Chicago Housing Authority asked it to
relocate to the Harold L. Ickes and Dearborn Homes on S. Dearborn Street. In
1962, Henry Booth House affiliated with Hull-House Association.
The records date from 1917 until 1977 and contain correspondence, reports,
pamphlets, scrapbooks, minutes and photographs regarding the administration
of Henry Booth House.
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Alice
Hamilton Collection; 0.25 linear feet
Alice Hamilton was born in 1869. She received a medical degree from the University
of Michigan in 1893 and continued her studies at John Hopkins University and
in Germany. From 1897 to 1919 she was a resident of Hull House in Chicago.
She became the first female faculty member at Harvard Medical School in 1919
and remained there until 1935. She completed research studies for the state
of Illinois, the U.S. government, and the League of Nations. Her active publicization
of the danger to workers' health caused by industrial toxic substances such
as lead and mercury led to the passage of worker's compensation laws and to
the development of safer working conditions. Her books include Industrial Toxicology
(1934) and Exploring Dangerous Trades (1943). She died in 1970 at the age of
101.
The collection contains some of Alice Hamilton's writings, newspaper clippings
concerning her career, the U.S. postage stamp, and a book review of Barbara
Sicherman's book about Hamilton. It also includes correspondence with such
individuals as Nicolette Malone, Lea D. Taylor, Russell Ward Ballard, and Francesca
Molinaro.
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Robert
and Ada Hicks Papers; 0.75 linear feet
Ada Hicks (1900-1988) and Robert Hicks (1900-1987) were Hull-House residents
who later became directors of the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club (1938-1958),
the Hull-House sponsored summer camp. As a Hull-House resident, Robert Hicks
was co-director of the Hull-House Boys Club with Wallace Kirkland. He also
served as the wrestling coach at Tilden High School in Chicago from the mid
1920's to 1958.
This collection contains correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper
clippings. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Esther Loeb
Kohn, Eleanor and Gertrude Smith, and Louise de Koven Bowen. The materials
pertain to the Bowen Country Club, Hull-House residents, fundraising, Hull-House
boys club and the Hull-House Italian Mothers Club.
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Arthur
Hillman Papers; 3.25 linear feet
Arthur Hillman (1910-1985) was a board member and director of the Chicago training
office of the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers as
well as a professor of urban sociology at Roosevelt University. Associated
with Roosevelt University since its founding in 1945, Hillman served as dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences and chairman of the Sociology Department.
In his work with the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Houses,
Hillman made a survey of neighborhood and settlement houses in the country,
visiting twenty-five cities, and published his findings.
The collection contains reports, clippings, correspondence, minutes, pamphlets,
articles, speeches, and published material. The materials pertain to urban
planning and urban renewal, Chicago neighborhoods, Saul Alinsky, the National
Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, and housing.
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Eric
Hjorth Collection ; 0.5 linear feet
Eric Hjorth has been a Chicago little theatre actor. He was variously a member
of the Hull-House Players, the Benson Players, the Liberty Hall Players, the
Strolling Players and the Studio Players.
Eric Hjorth has been a Chicago little theatre actor. He was variously a member
of the Hull-House Players, the Benson Players, the Liberty Hall Players, the
Strolling Players and the Studio Players.
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George
E. Hooker Collection; 0.5 linear feet
George E. Hooker (1861-1939) was a city planning expert and civic leader who
resided at Hull-House from 1899-1939. Hooker was actively involved in neighborhood
improvement efforts. Positions held by Hooker include Dean of the House, secretary
of the City Club of Chicago, and even head of the Draft Board in the Hull-House
district during World War I. He was the author of numerous articles and a Hull-House
Recreation Guide (1897).
The collection consists photocopies of articles and a letter to Ramsey MacDonald.
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HOSPITES Collection; 0.25 linear feet
HOSPITES was established in 1933 to render assistance to German social workers,
both Jewish and Christian. HOSPITES was formed to aid these social workers
many of whom were subject to discrimination based on political affiliations,
gender, religion, or race. Furthermore, support for social work in Hitler’s
Germany was drastically reduced. HOSPITES assisted German social enabling them
to carry on some part of their professional work or investigation and/or writing
connected therewith. The headquarters of HOSPITES were located in New York
City. There was a Chicago Committee which included Jane Addams, Mollie Ray
Carroll, Samuel A. Goldsmith, and Joel D. Hunter as members.
The collection consists of correspondence, memoranda, receipts, Executive Committee
meeting minutes, and a report.
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Eri
Hulbert Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Eri Baker Hulbert III was born was the son of Charles Eri Hulbert and Esther
Margaret Linn (a niece of Jane Addams). He moved to Chicago with his family
the following year. Hulbert spent several years as a resident of Hull House
and was an active participant and later drama director of its theater programs.
Eri Hulbert had a varied career working as a teacher, an actor and director
at the Chicago Art Theater, a farmhand, and social worker. From 1946-1947,
he served as chief regional representative for the United Nations Relief and
Rehabilitation Administration in the Kwangsi Province of Liuchow, China. When
he returned from China, he became the executive secretary (employed by Hull
House) for the Temporary Organizing Committee for the Redevelopment of the
Near West Side, 1948-1949. From 1949 until his death on May 3, 1955, Eri Hulbert
was the Director of the Near West Side Planning Board.
The collection contains correspondence and legal documents chronicling the
death of Jane Addams and the struggle of her heirs a) to determine how the
copyright percentages should be divided among themselves and b) to persuade
others that they had the authority to authorize a dramatization of Jane Addams'
life and the work of Hull House. It also contains material documenting the
struggle of the Near West Side Hull House Neighborhood to first improve their
neighborhood and later to keep the area from being taken over by the University
of Illinois at Chicago. Its materials include meeting proceedings, informational
material, Eri Hulbert memorial booklet, newspaper clippings, fact sheets, position
papers, and correspondence.
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Hull-Culver
Papers; 0.75 linear feet
Charles Jerold Hull, a wealthy Chicago industrialist, donated his country house
on Halsted St. to Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr for their settlement house.
His cousin and business partner, Helen Culver, was responsible for introducing
Addams and Starr to Hull. Helen Culver remained a life-long benefactor of Hull-House.
The collection consists of photocopies of correspondence, newspaper clippings
and reports about the business affairs of Charles Hull, his children and his
relationship with Helen Culver. It also contains materials pertaining to Hull-House
fundraising, activities and residents.
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Caroline Alden Huling Papers; 1.5 linear feet
Caroline Alden Huling (1856-1941), a Chicago writer, publisher and editor,
was a founding member of the Illinois Women's Press Association in 1885. She
was the proprietor and creator of The Bookseller and edited The Stylus, a magazine
for writers. She was also active in the suffrage and temperance movements.
She was active in the Daughters of the American Revolution, the Woman's City
Club of Chicago and the Society of Midland Authors. She founded the mid-west
chapter of the Alden Kindred, a society of descendants of pilgrims.
The materials in this collection relate chiefly to Miss Huling's career as
a writer and publisher. Additional material documents her political activities
and her genealogical research, especially for the Alden Kindred of America.
The majority of the material falls in the period between 1887 and 1935.
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Hull-House
Oral History Collection; 8 linear feet
This collection consists of compact disks and transcripts of oral history interviews
conducted with people associated with Hull-House. The collection was assembled
by the library from a number of Hull-House oral history projects.
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Hull House Collection; 34 linear feet
Hull-House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was the first
social settlement in Chicago. The settlement was incorporated in March, 1895, with
a stated purpose to "provide a center for higher civic and social life, to initiate
and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises, and to investigate and improve
the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago." From 1889 to 1963, Hull-House
operated a wide-ranging program from its complex of buildings at 800 S. Halsted St.
In 1963, when the settlement vacated the complex on Halsted Street to provide space for
the new campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle, Hull-House decentralized
and began operating settlement programs in a number of neighborhood locations. The Hull
House Collection represent various records of the settlement between 1889 and 1991.
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Hull House Association Records; 205 linear feet
Hull-House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was the first
social settlement in Chicago. The settlement was incorporated in March 1895
with a stated purpose to "provide a center for higher civic and social
life, to initiate and maintain educational and philanthropic enterprises and
to investigate and improve the conditions in the industrial districts of Chicago."
From 1889 to 1963, Hull-House operated a wide-ranging program from its complex
of buildings at 800 S. Halsted St. In 1963, the settlement vacated the complex
on Halsted St. to provide space for the new campus of the University of Illinois
at Chicago Circle, Hull-House decentralized and began operating settlement
programs in a number of neighborhood locations.
The Hull-House Association Records represent the corporate records of the settlement
from 1895 to the present. The records represent all aspects of the settlement's
administration and its programs. The collection contains correspondence, minutes,
yearbooks and annual reports, clippings, financial statements, scrapbooks,
published materials and photographs.
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Lou
Huszar Hull-House Theater Collection; 2.75 linear feet
Lou Huszar was involved in the Hull-House Theater in the 1960's.
The collection contains newspaper reviews of Hull-House Theater Productions,
programs, pamphlets, scripts, drawings, press releases, business materials
regarding Hull-House Theatre. It also includes plans of the auditorium at the
Jane Addams Center.
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Hyde Park Neighborhood Club; 117 linear feet
The Hyde Park Neighborhood Club (HPNC) was founded in 1909 as part of the settlement
house movement, to serve neglected or abandoned youth in Chicago's south side
neighborhood of Hyde Park. It was deliberately named "the Club" as
a reaction to the exclusivity of private clubs of the time. Over the years
it has redefined its mission to respond to community needs, expanding to provide
programs and services to adults and senior citizens.
The collection consists of correspondence, reports, published materials, case
records, and photographs pertaining to the programs and administration of the
Hyde Park Neighborhood Club, the Hyde Park Neighborhood and other Chicago-area
social service organizations.
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Illinois
Commission on the Employment of Youth; 11 linear feet
The Illinois Commission on the Employment of Youth was founded in 1919 as
the Illinois Child Labor Committee, a non-profit organization for the protection
and welfare of all children in relation to employment and education. The organization
fought for child labor legislation at the state level. It was reorganized
in 1960 as the Illinois Commission on the Employment of Youth with an elected
board of directors. It was dissolved in 1963 upon the death of its president
Solomon O. Lichter.
The collection contains agency records, correspondence, minutes, speeches,
and bylaws. It also contains information on other Chicago area social service
agencies and their relationships to the Illinois Commission on the Employment
of Youth. Finally, the collection contains materials regarding the dissolution
of the agency.
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Illinois Humane Society Records; 280 linear feet
The Illinois Humane Society was established in 1869 as the Illinois Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. In 1879, it extended its protective
services to neglected, abused and abandoned children, as there was no other
non-sectarian agency responsible for the care of children in Chicago.
The collection contains correspondence, clippings, reports, programs, minutes,
proceedings, case records, journals, speeches, photographs and pamphlets dating
from 1889 until the present. The material deals primarily with child and family
welfare and with animal rights.
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Immigrants Protective League Records; 12.25 linear feet
The Immigrants Protective League was founded in 1908 by Hull-House residents
to help immigrants adjust to their adopted country. The League conducted research
studies of the conditions of Chicago's immigrants. It also offered such services
as aid with immigration documents, re-uniting families, referral to social
service agencies and adult education classes. The League also investigated
and exposed cases of exploitation of new immigrants. The Immigrant's Protective
League has existed in several forms over the years becoming the Traveler's
Aid Society then the Heartland Alliance. Please see the finding aid for a
complete history of the organization.
The records include contains correspondence, minutes, reports, case histories,
legislation, financial statements, annual reports, by laws, programs and newspaper
clippings dating from 1939 until 1964. The materials pertain to the administration
of the Immigrants Protective League and to the issues that it dealt with including
immigration policy, naturalization, immigrant life, refugees, and social services
in Chicago.
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Italian-American Collection; 60 linear feet
The Italian-American Collection was compiled as part of the "Italians
in Chicago" project by the Department of History at the University of
Illinois at Chicago Circle. The project was a two-year public program that
included a symposia series, oral history interviews, and the collection of
photographs. The project culminated in a six week exhibition entitled "Italians
in Chicago: Collection from Three Generations, 1880-1965" at the Chicago
Public Library Cultural Center in 1980.
The collection contains photographs and oral history interview transcripts
regarding Italians in Chicago, 1880-1965.
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Institute for Sex Education Records; 15.5 linear feet
The Institute for Sex Education was founded in Chicago in 1916 as the Illinois
Social Hygiene League. Its purpose was to promote the prevention of venereal
disease. The program of the Illinois League for Social Hygiene included developing
facilities for the free treatment of venereal disease, public education and
study of public health problems. The League promoted education for servicemen
about venereal disease and ran a clinic for children with venereal diseases.
In 1928, the League affiliated with the Social Hygiene Council, founded by
Dr. Rachelle Yarros. In 1969, the name was changed to the Institute for Sex
Education. The Institute continues to promote sex education and research.
The records date from 1923 until 1971 and contain minutes, annual reports,
newspaper clippings, correspondence, conference, financial proceedings and
pamphlets of the Illinois Social Hygiene League and the Institute for Sex
Education. The materials relate to the administration of the organization
and to the issues of sexually transmitted diseases and public health.
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Jane
Addams' Hull-House Centennial, UIC Collection; 1.5 linear feet
The Jane Addams Hull-House Centennial was celebrated at UIC in 1989-90 to
commemorate the one-hundredth anniversary of the founding of Hull-House.
This collection contains 33 VHS videotapes of speeches and seminars given
as part of the Jane Addams Hull-House Centennial program at the University
of Illinois at Chicago.
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Jane Addams Memorial Collection – Photographs; 14 linear feet
The photograph collection contains approximately 6,500 photographs documenting
the settlement house from the 1890s until the 1960s. The collection includes
photographs of Jane Addams and other Hull-House residents, the interior and
exterior of Hull-House, the Hull-House neighborhood and its inhabitants, child
and adult activities and the Bowen Country Club. Photographers represented
include Wallace Kirkland, Lewis Hine and Victor Gorecki.
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Jane Addams Memorial Collection – Small Manuscripts; 8.25 linear feet
This Collection contains a series of single items related to Jane Addams including
correspondence in Addams’ hand, awards and certificates, diaries, financial
records, newspaper clippings, programs and published and unpublished writings
by Jane Addams. The material in the Small Manuscript file can also be found
in the microfilm collection The Jane Addams Papers.
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Paul
Jans Papers; 2.5 linear feet
Paul Jans served as head resident of Hull-House from 1962 to 1969. In that
capacity, he oversaw the transformation of Hull-House from a traditional settlement
house at Halsted and Harrison to the Hull-House Association, an association
of social service agencies scattered throughout the city. Jans oversaw an expansion
of Hull-House Association services due to an increase in government funding.
He also was instrumental in expanding the arts and theatre programs, transforming
Hull-House Theatre into a near professional experimental theatre. Government
cutbacks at the end of the 1960's, however, resulted in large deficits at Hull-House,
and in 1969 Jans resigned.
The collection contains newspaper clippings from 1963 to 1968, appointment
calendars, pamphlets. The collection also contains a scrapbook of material
about Hull-House and its move from the Harrison-Halsted site.
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Juvenile Protective Association Records; 12.25 linear feet
The Juvenile Protective Association was established as the Juvenile Court Committee
in 1904 for the purpose of aiding and defending delinquent children who were
waiting to be dealt with by the Juvenile Court. By 1907, in response to Juvenile
Court Committee lobbying, responsibility for probation and detention home officers
to the county. The work of the renamed Juvenile Protective Association was
organized into three divisions: Investigation--study and treatment of individual
cases; Repression -- the study of conditions that produce juvenile delinquency
and; Construction -- lobbying for better social conditions for young people.
The JPA continues to exist, although its focus has shifted to the protection
of children who are victims of abuse.
The collection contains reports of investigations, financial records, correspondence,
subject files and published materials from 1909 until 1999. The materials deal
with such issues as child labor, juvenile delinquency, the Century of Progress
World's Fair, prostitution and vice.
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Ethel
and Irene Kawin Papers, 0.5 linear feet
Irene Kawin was a probation officer of the Juvenile Court of Cook County from
1913 to 1962, service as deputy chief since 1927. Ethel Kawin, a child psychologist,
directed the Pre-School Department of the Institute for Juvenile Research from
1925 to 1934. She was also a guidance councilor for several public school systems
in Illinois until her death in 1964.
The collection contains correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings and articles.
The materials pertain to child welfare, the Citizen's Committee on the Family
Court, the Mortar Board Project, probation, juvenile courts and delinquents,
nursery schools and illegitimacy.
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Nina
May Kenagy Papers; 0.5 linear feet
Nina May Kenagy was a kindergarten teacher and teacher educator. She was the
director of the Mary Crane Nursery School at Hull-House from 1925 to 1946.
There, she oversaw the teacher-training program of students from the National
College of Education, initiated classes for parents and child- care volunteers
and helped to increase student enrolment from forty to over one hundred. Upon
retiring in 1946, Kenagy founded the Lancaster Association for Retarded Children's
School in Lincoln, Nebraska.
The collection contains personal papers and photographs. It also contains sketches
and photographs from the Mary Crane Nursery School and correspondence and photographs
from the California School Project.
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Florence
Kelley Collection; 0.5 linear feet
Florence Kelley (1859-1932) was a social worker, reformer, lawyer, suffragist,
and confirmed socialist. In 1891, she left her husband and moved to Chicago
with her three children to become a resident of Hull-House. In 1892, Kelly
was appointed by Govenor Atgeld as the state's first chief factory inspector.
In 1899, Kelley helped to establish the National Consumer's League (NCL) and
was its director from 1899-1932. The goal of the NCL was to secure protective
labor legislation including a minimum wage and a limitation on the working
hours of women and children. In 1905, Kelley was co-founder of the Intercollegiate
Socialist Society along with Upton Sinclair and Jack London. Kelley was also
an active supporter of African-American civil rights. She helped to establish
the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1909. During
World War I, Kelley was a committed pacifist. She opposed U.S. involvement
in the war and was a member of the Women's Peace Party and the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom. Kelley was also the author of several books including
Some Ethical Gains Through Legislation (1905), Modern Industry in Relation
to the Family (1914), The Supreme Court and Minimum Wage Legislation (1925)
and Autobiography (1927).
The collection consists of printed items, a number of which are photocopies.
It also includes some of her writings, a memorial service for Kelley and Julia
C. Lathrop, and articles about Kelley. Finally, it contains an article by her
son Nicholas Kelley about the early days at Hull-House.
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Fraser
Kent Papers; 2.5 linear feet
Fraser Kent, author and journalist, was active in Chicago theatre in the 1960's.
From 1965-1967, he was director of the Playwrights' Center, a part of the Hull-House
Theatre program. The Playwrights Center staged weekly readings of group members'
plays. Kent also served as editorial consultant for Intermission magazine.
The collection contains notes, drafts and scripts of Kent's dramas from 1954-1967.
The dramas include television screenplays, musicals and one act plays.
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Frank
D. Keyser Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Frank D. Keyser (1874-?) was visiting his sister Mary, an assistant to Jane
Addams at Hull-House, in 1893 when Jane Addams offered him the job of heating
engineer to maintain a newly installed furnace. Keyser accepted the position
and later became the superintendent of the Hull-House building complex; a position
which he held for over 54 years. After Frank D. Keyser married Lida Evans at
Hull-House in 1901, they moved into one of the Hull-House apartments. They
had no children and Lida Keyser died in 1940.
The collection includes a newspaper clipping scrapbook, business and calling
cards, invitations and a flyer.
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Wallace
Kirkland Papers;
Wallace W. Kirkland (1891-1975) was a social worker, photographer and photojournalist.
Born in Jamaica, Kirkland emigrated to the U.S. in 1905. Kirkland began working
at Hull-House part-time while a student at George Williams YMCA College. The
Kirkland family lived at Hull-House while Wallace was Director of Boys Club
from 1922 until 1935. In 1935, Kirkland left Hull-House to pursue a career
as a photographer and was hired by Life Magazine in 1936. With Life, Kirkland
photographed Mahatma Gandhi and Douglas MacArthur among others. He also specialized
in nature photography.
The collection consists of correspondence, clippings, published and unpublished
writings and photographs regarding Hull-House, the Kirkland family, photography
and Life Magazine.
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Esther
Loeb Kohn Papers; 13 linear feet
Esther Loeb Kohn (1875-1965) was a social service advocate and lobbyist for
progressive child labor laws in Illinois. She was a member of the Illinois
Child Labor Committee and as such, conducted investigations into the street
trades in Illinois. She was a special delegate to the 1930 White House Conference
on Child Welfare. As a member of the Women's International League for Peace
and Freedom, she attended the Vienna Peace Conference at the conclusion of
the First World War. She also accompanied Julia Lathrop to Russia to witness
the socialist experiment.
The collection contains personal correspondence, clippings and photographs
as well as records of Chicago area social service agencies including the Immigrants
Protective League, the Chicago Housing Authority, the National Child Labor
Committee and Michael Reese Hospital.
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League
of Women Voters of Chicago Records; 37.5 linear feet
The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the
Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National
Women's Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized
in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook
County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation
in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special
concern to women. Such issues have included housing, civil liberties, public
schools and child labor.
The collection contains correspondence, agendas, minutes, bylaws, legislation,
studies, annual reports and photographs from 1924 to the present. The materials
pertain to the formation of the League, Chicago City government, civil liberties,
foreign policy, refugees, and water conservation.
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League of Women Voters of Cook County; 10.75 linear feet
The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the
Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National
Women's Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized
in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook
County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation
in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special
concern to women. Such issues have included housing, civil liberties, public
schools and child labor.
The collection contains minutes of Board of Directors annual meetings, correspondence,
programs, studies, memoranda, pamphlets, annual reports and surveys from 1923
until the present. The materials pertain to such issues as corrections, housing,
health care, elections, the environment and the organization of the League
of Women Voters in Cook County.
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League of Women Voters of Illinois Records; 37.25 linear feet
The League of Women Voters of the United States was formed in 1919 when the
Nineteenth Amendment enfranchising women was passed. It grew out of the National
Women's Suffrage Association. The League of Women Voters of Chicago was organized
in 1950, when ten Chicago-area chapters of the League of Women Voters of Cook
County merged. The League's objectives are to encourage full participation
in the electoral process and to lobby the government for legislation of special
concern to women. Such issues have included housing, civil liberties, public
schools and child labor.
The records date from 1955 to the present and contain state convention records,
correspondence, memoranda, newspaper clippings, news releases, annual reports,
minutes, speeches, reports, legislative kits and printed material. The materials
pertain to such issues as civil rights, housing, child welfare, education,
employment legislation, social security, voting procedure and reapportionment
in IL.
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Lenox
Riley Lohr Collection; 92.5 linear feet
Lenox Riley Lohr (1981-1968) made his reputation in Chicago as General Manager
of the highly successful 1933-34 Worlds Fair, "A Century of Progress."
At the conclusion of the fair, Lohr became President of NBC, New York. He returned
to Chicago in 1940 to head the Museum of Science and Industry. Under his direction,
the museum achieved international recognition as a showplace of American science
and technology. In his twenty-eight years at the museum, Lohr also organized
a number of expositions, including the Chicago Railroad Fair, 1948-1949. As
a charter member of the University of Illinois Citizens Committee, he directed
the University's fundraising efforts to restore the Jane Addams Hull-House
on the Chicago campus.
This collection contains both personal and professional papers of Lenox Riley
Lohr. The personal papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs,
and military material. The professional papers include speeches, articles,
correspondence, newspaper clippings on such topics as the Jane Addams Memorial
Fund, the Century of Progress, the Chicago Railroad Fair, the Illinois Commission
of Higher Education, the Museum of Science and Industry, and NBC.
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Harvey
Lawrence Long Papers; 17.75 linear feet
Harvey Lawrence Long was a leader in the field of juvenile corrections in Illinois.
In 1931, Long entered the field of juvenile corrections as a parole agent assigned
to the Chicago area office of the Illinois Department of public welfare. In
1933, he became supervisor of the Division of Supervision of Parolees - Juveniles
and acted as a liaison to the St. Charles Training School. Between 1941 and
1949, Long acted as Superintendent of the Division of Delinquents. In 1953,
he joined the Illinois Youth commission, serving as Executive Secretary from
1955 until his retirement in 1964.
This collection contains correspondence, clippings, minutes, maps, conference
proceedings, photographs and speeches. The materials pertain to the issues
of juvenile delinquency and the juvenile criminal justice system in Illinois.
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Rosamond
Libonati Mirabella Papers; 1.75 linear feet
Rosamond Libonati Mirabella (1885-1985) was a clubwoman, teacher and Italian
community activist. Rosa Mirabella was a founding member, and second president
of the Chicago Italian Woman's Club. When the Chicago Italian Woman's Club
affiliated with the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs, Mirabella served
variously as director, vice-president and historian. Rosa Mirabella also served
as President of the Women's Auxiliary of St. Frances Cabrini Hospital, where
her husband, Salvatore Mirabella was chief surgeon. In 1949, she was elected
to the Chicago Woman's Club.
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, reports, receipts,
certificates and maps. The materials pertain to the Libonati and Mirabella
families, Dr. Salvatore Mirabella, Italian-Americans in Chicago and Mother
Cabrini Hospital.
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Stanley
Linn Family Papers; 1 linear foot
Stanley Linn (1883-1945) was Jane Addams' nephew -- the son of her oldest sister
Mary Catherine Addams Linn. When Mary died in 1884, Jane Addams became guardian
for her nephews Weber and Stanley and her niece Esther. Stanley lived at Hull-House
with his aunt as a child. Jane Addams remained an important figure in the lives
of the Stanley Linn and his wife Myra acting as a sympathetic ear and a source
of money during the tight Depression years.
The collection consists of correspondence between the Linn family in the 1930's.
Please also see the Mary Rozet Smith Collection and the Small Manuscript File.
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Julia
B. Longstreet Papers; 0.5 linear feet
Julia B. Longstreet (1885-1970) was an active member of the Chicago social
service community. She was a member of the University of Chicago Settlement
League, the Chicago Woman's Club and vice-president of the Children's Scholarship
League (later the Scholarship and Guidance Association.)
The collection contains correspondence, minutes, financial records, case records
and annual reports of the Scholarship and Guidance Association.
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Laura
Hughes Lunde Papers; 0.5 linear feet
Laura Hughes Lunde (1886-1966) was born in Toronto, Canada, where she began
her career as a social activist. There she exposed the working conditions of
women in the mills and helped found the Canadian Labour Party. After moving
to Chicago in 1917, she became a close friend of Jane Addams and was active
in the League of Women Voters as Educational Chairman. She was also active
in the City Club of Chicago and served as chair of a number of state committees
including the Joint Committee on Voting Machines and the Illinois Committee
for eradication of Tuberculosis. Throughout these positions, she remained an
advocate for such causes as public health, education, and women's rights.
The collection contains reports, pamphlets, memos, correspondence, and newsletters.
The materials pertain to the Citizens of Greater Chicago, the National Civic
Review, the Illinois Conference on Legislation and the Committee for Modern
Courts in Illinois.
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Marcy-Newberry
Center Records; 66 linear feet
Marcy Center was founded in 1883 by the Women's Home Missionary Society of
the Methodist Church. It was named for one of its founding members, Elizabeth
Marcy. The settlement was located at the corner of Newberry Ave. and Maxwell
St. in the heart of the Jewish district. In addition to the settlement's proselytizing
efforts among its Jewish neighbors, the settlement organized recreational and
educational programs for neighborhood residents. The settlement also ran a
successful dispensary that eventually affiliated with the University of Illinois.
Marcy Center moved to 1539 S. Springfield and the old building was kept running
as Newberry Center. The Marcy-Newberry Association continues as a social service
organization with twelve locations on Chicago's West Side.
The collection contains correspondence, clippings, annual reports, financial
records, home visit records, case records, pamphlets, personnel files, photographs
and postcards dating from 1913 to the present. The materials related to Marcy
Center programs and management, Maxwell St. Market, the Chicago Federation
of Settlements and the Community Fund of Chicago.
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Mary Crane League Records; 10 linear feet
The Mary Crane League was founded in 1932 as a not-for-profit membership service
organization to financially support the Mary Crane Nursery School. The Nursery
School itself was organized in 1907 by Jane Addams at Hull-House. It was housed
in a building donated by Richard Teller Crane as a memorial to his wife, Mary.
In 1925, Edna Dean Baker, President of the National College of Education, worked
with Jane Addams to establish the Mary Crane Nursery School as one of the nation's
first experimental nursery schools. The Mary Crane League was formed by a group
of North Shore women to fund the nursery school when the National College of
Education could no longer afford to. Originally located in the Hull-House neighborhood
on Cabrini St., the Mary Crane School was relocated in 1963 to its present
location on the city's Northwest Side. In the late 1960's, the League expanded
its program to include the Foster Grandparents Program.
The collection consists of correspondence, minutes, newspaper clippings, bylaws,
budgets, program materials, legal and financial documents, newsletters, annual
reports, photographs and pamphlets dating from 1922 to 1981. The materials
pertain to the administration and funding of the Mary Crane Nursery School,
the history and philosophy of the school, the Bowen Country Club, senior citizens
project and the Kenagy Trust Fund
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Catherine
Waugh McCulloch Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Catherine Waugh McCulloch (1862-1945) was a lawyer, suffragist and political
activist. Catherine Waugh was educated at Rockford Female Seminary where she
met Jane Addams and the two women became lifelong friends. From there she studied
law in Chicago and was admitted to the bar in 1886. As a practicing lawyer,
Waugh defended women beset by such problems as wage discrimination, divorce,
child custody and abuse. The cases propelled Catherine Waugh into a leading
role in the women's movement and made her a prominent advocate of women's suffrage
in Illinois. She served on the National Woman Suffrage Association, the Illinois
Equal Suffrage Association, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom. In 1913, she was appointed Dean of Law at the
Illinois College of Law, and in 1917, she became the first woman Master in
Chancery of the Cook County Supreme Court.
The collection contains pamphlets regarding woman suffrage and Catherine Waugh's
election campaign for Justice of the Peace.
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Metropolitan
Planning Council Records; 317 linear feet
The inter-racial Metropolitan Housing Council was founded in 1934 to provide
housing for low-income families. It initiated the Illinois Housing Cooperation
Act, which led to the formation of the Chicago Housing Authority and the building
of the first public housing projects in Chicago. It also instigated neighborhood
rejuvenation projects and helped to develop Chicago's first housing code. The
name was later changed to the Metropolitan Planning Council, which continues
as a nonprofit, non-partisan group of business and civic leaders. MPC conducts
policy analysis, outreach, and advocacy in the areas of housing, transportation
and urban development.
The records date from 1934 and include correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings,
photographs, minutes, newsletters, educational materials, speeches and legislative
materials. The material deals with the topics of air rights, parks, housing,
subsidized housing, urban renewal, landmarks, urban planning and the organization
and operation of the Metropolitan Planning Council.
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Demetrios
Michalaros Papers; 43 linear feet
Demetrios Michalaros (1898-1967) was a magazine editor, poet and novelist.
Michalaros grew up in the Greek neighborhood of Chicago in the vicinity of
Hull-House. He was a frequent visitor to Hull-House and was encouraged in his
writing by Jane Addams who wrote the forward to his book of poetry The Sonnets
of an Immigrant. Michalaros published five volumes of poetry and edited Athene:
The American Magazine of Hellenic Thought from 1940 to 1967. Throughout his
life, he remained an active member of Chicago's Greek community.
The collection contains personal papers of Demetrios Michalaros including correspondence,
financial records, photographs, journals, radio scripts, poetry, plays and
novels. It also contains the working files of the magazine Athene including
advertising copy, articles, reviews, and promotions for Greek and Greek-American
politicians.
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Malvin
Morton Papers; 7.5 linear feet
Malvin Morton was a prominent Chicago social worker and executive director
of the Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers from 1952
to 1961. He also served as public relations director of the United Charities
of Chicago. He was a member of the American Social Welfare Association from
1961-1971 and editor of its publication Public Welfare. He served on the founding
committees for the National Association of Social Workers and for the Jane
Addams School of Social Work. In 1956, he was active in the effort to save
Hull-House from demolition and in 1960, he was appointed executive director
of the Jane Addams Centennial.
The Collection contains speeches, photographs, pamphlets, scrapbooks, newspaper
clippings, correspondence and published material. The materials pertain to
social work, public relations, social service organizations and the Jane Addams
Centennial.
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Dora
Nelson Collection; 1.5 linear feet
Dora Nelson was associated with Neva Leona Boyd and the recreation movement
in Chicago.
The collection contains sheet music, folk dance instructions, and photographs.
It includes Eleanor Hammers' music collection.
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Onward
Neighborhood House Records; 1.75 linear feet
Onward Neighborhood House was founded in 1926 by a group of volunteers from
the Glencoe Union Church and the Winnetka Congregational Church. It began as
a community center serving the neighborhoods of Chicago's North West Side.
First housed in the Onward Presbyterian Church, it moved to 600 N. Leavitt
in 1928 and was taken over by the Chicago City Missionary Society and the Presbyterian
Extension Board. Over the years, the mission has evolved from community activities
to food distribution to a full-service community counseling service employing
full-time social workers.
The collection includes articles of incorporation, annual reports, blueprints,
minutes, by-laws, correspondence, newsletters, clippings, photographs, reports,
and financial statements dating from 1937 to 1966.
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Packingtown
USA Collection; 2 linear feet
The film Packingtown USA was produced for the Institute of Labor and Industrial
Relations, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 1969. The film documents
the story of the Great Meat Strike of 1904 in Chicago. It shows the poor working
conditions, slum living, poor schools and ethnic hatred in Packingtown, known
today as Back of the Yards, or Bridgeport. The film also tells the story of
the efforts of the Meatcutters Union, the Teamsters and social workers such
as Jane Addams and Mary McDowell to assist the people of the ghetto community.
The collection contains lanternslides, glass plate negatives, and photographs
of the stockyards, Packingtown, neighborhood scenes, strikers, strikebreakers,
union members and police. The photographs were used in the film.
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Mary
Pascente Photograph Collection; 3 linear feet
Mary P. Pascente (1919-1978) was a Near West Side resident and activist. In
1965, Mrs. Pascente joined the Chicago Committee of Urban Opportunities, since
renamed the Model Cities Program. There she helped recent immigrants become
accustomed to urban life in Chicago. During the development of the UIC campus,
she helped displaced residents as a member of the Near West Side Community
Committee. In 1976, Mary Pascente became co-ordinator for the police beat representative
program of the Chicago Police Department. In that capacity, she helped develop
relationships between residents and beat officers who patrolled their neighborhoods.
This program became a model for the Chicago Police Department's community policing
initiative.
This collection contains photographs of the Near West Side and the Beat Representative
Program. Most photographs were taken in the 1980's.
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Helen
Perkins Collection; 0.5 linear feet
Helen Perkins (1910-1999) was a librarian in Illinois and the author of A Preliminary
Checklist for a Bibliography on Jane Addams.
The collection contains notes on the compilation of a Jane Addams bibliography
as well as notes, correspondence, programs, minutes and newspaper clippings
regarding the Jane Addams Centennial in 1960.
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Evelina
Belden Paulson Papers; 60.5 linear feet
Pioneer social worker, Evelina Belden Paulson began her career at the settlement
Hiram House in Cleveland Ohio. While a graduate student at the Chicago School
of Civics and Philanthropy, Evelina Belden Paulson lived and worked at the
settlement houses at Northwestern University, Chicago Commons, Bethesda House.
Upon graduating, Evelina Belden Paulson became a special agent for the U.S.
Department of Labor. From 1919-1920, she worked as a field agent for the American
Red Cross and conducted surveys of community welfare needs in Illinois.
The materials pertain primarily to the social work career of Evelina Belden
Paulson. They also include the papers of her husband and lawyer Henry T. Paulson,
her daughter, religious journalist Mary Paulson Harrington and son, historian
Belden Paulson.
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Alma
Petersen Papers, 1 linear foot
Alma Schmidt Petersen (1894- ) held a variety of executive positions in Chicago-area
civic organizations in the mid-1900s. She was president of the Lake Geneva
Fresh Air Association (1930-1931), director of the Welfare Council of Metropolitan
Chicago (1931-1940), and chairman of the Health Agency Review Committee. A
protege of Louise DeKoven Bowen, Petersen was invited to join the Board of
Trustees of the Hull-House Association in 1943 and later served as its president
(1945-1952) and Treasurer (1953-1956). Petersen also served as the vice-president
of the Jane Addams Peace Association beginning in 1955 and was an active member
of the Chicago branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
The collection contains notes, minutes, administrative documents, correspondence,
memorabilia, and other materials related to the life and work of Alma Schmidt
Petersen. Hull-House Association materials are followed by documents related
to the Jane Addams Peace Association, and the Health Agency Review Committee.
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Hilda
Satt Polacheck Papers; 4.25 linear feet
Writer and activist, Hilda Satt Polacheck (1882-1967) emigrated from Poland
to Chicago's Near West Side in 1892. As a child, Hilda Satt benefited from
the programs and classes at Hull-House. As an adult, she continued her association
with the settlement, teaching classes and giving tours. She is the author of
I Came a Stranger: The Story of a Hull-House Girl, the only published description
of Hull-House written by a woman from the neighborhood. Hilda Satt Polachek
was also involved in several social and political causes including civil rights,
woman suffrage and the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
The collection consists primarily of drafts of I Came a Stranger and research
notes used in the preparation of the book. It also contains correspondence,
photographs, and clippings pertaining to Hull-House, Hull-House Theatre, the
Women's International League for Peace and Freedom and the Polachek family.
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Dr.
Ben Lewis Reitman Papers; 37 linear feet
Hobo, physician and anarchist, Ben Reitman was an advocate for the disadvantaged
in Chicago and throughout the country. Reitman left school at age ten to become
a hobo. He tramped around the U.S., panhandling and riding the rails until
he returned to Chicago and took a job as a laboratory boy. In 1900, he was
admitted to the College of Physicians and Surgeons. Reitman started a private
practice on Chicago's South Side in 1904. He continued to champion the causes
of hobos and the unemployed as director of the Brotherhood Welfare Association,
or "Hobo College." Through their organizing activities, Reitman met
anarchist Emma Goldman. In addition to their romantic involvement, Reitman
acted as Goldman's manager. In 1917, Reitman re-established his medical practice
in Chicago that served prostitutes, pimps and gangsters. Reitman became a specialist
in the treatment of venereal disease and opened the first venereal disease
clinic at the Cook County Jail in 1924.
The collection contains correspondence, clippings, articles, reports, and photographs
on such topics as birth control, female transients, venereal disease, hobos,
anarchism and prisoners. The collection also includes approx. 400 items of
personal correspondence with Emma Goldman.
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Adena
Miller Rich Papers; 4.75 linear feet
Adena Miller Rich was Director of the Immigrants Protective League and successor
to Jane Adams as Head Resident of Hull-House. Mrs. Rich had a long association
with Chicago social service organizations and was involved in the League of
Women Voters and the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Adena Miller
Rich was a Hull-House Resident from 1926 to 1935. As such she acted as Jane
Addams' secretary and confidante. Upon Jane Addams' death, she was appointed
Head Resident. In this position she established a student loan fund, expanded
the programs of the Citizenship and Naturalization Department and the Music
School. Mrs. Rich resigned as Head Resident in 1937 in part to devote more
time to the Immigrants Protective League. She remained as Director of the IPL
until her retirement in 1954.
The collection contains materials pertaining to Adena Miller Rich's association
with Hull-House as well as her career as a social worker and activist. These
materials include official and personal correspondence, minutes, memoranda,
speeches, and press releases.
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Florence
Scala Collection; 0.25 linear feet
Florence Scala (b. 1920) was the daughter of an Italian tailor and grew up
in Chicago's nineteenth ward. She was educated at Hull-House and later became
a volunteer there. In 1959, when the City of Chicago suggested the site of
Hull-House to build a new campus of the University of Illinois, Florence Scala
and Jesse Binford led the fight against this scheme. In 1963, the trustees
of Hull-House accepted an offer of $875,000 for the settlement building. Binford
and Scala took the case to the Supreme Court. The court found in favor of the
university and the settlement was closed on March 28, 1963.
The collection contains newspaper clippings, interviews and articles about
Florence Scala, the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle and the Near West
Side.
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Bertha
E. Schlotter Papers; 1.5 linear feet
Bertha Schlotter was a pioneer in the field of recreational therapy. As a member
of the Illinois Department of Public Welfare, she studied the role that recreation
could play in the treatment of people with developmental disabilities. To this
end, she documented the results of a three-year project to study the use of
recreation therapy at the Lincoln (IL) State School and Colony for the Mentally
Retarded. The results were published as An Experiment in Recreation with the
Mentally Retarded.
The collection contains photographs, newspaper clippings, articles, pamphlets,
correspondence and speeches. The materials pertain to Hull-House, Neva Leona
Boyd, recreation and the mentally retarded.
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Scholarship
and Guidance Association Records; 11.25 linear feet
The Scholarship and Guidance Association was formed in 1942 with the merger
of the Children's Scholarship League and the Chicago Woman's Aid Committee
on Scholarship for Jewish Children. Functions of the League included securing
employment for youths who left school, vocational training for disabled youths,
providing scholarships and counseling, and lobbying for change to compulsory
education laws in Illinois. The organization continues to exist providing therapy,
prevention and other supportive services for individuals, groups and families.
The collection contains correspondence, reports, minutes, photographs, and
tape recordings. The materials pertain to the education and vocational training
of adolescents, child labor legislation in Illinois and to Chicago-area social
service agencies.
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Charles
P. Schwarz Papers; 4.5 linear feet
Charles P. Schwarz (1887-1975) was an attorney, civic leader and educator in
the social welfare movement. Schwarz served as chairman of the State of Illinois
Committee on Citizenship and Naturalization and wrote many pamphlets for new
citizens. Schwartz also served as president of the City Club of Chicago and
in 1936, he was chairman of the Illinois Independent Committee for Franklin
D. Roosevelt. Before beginning his law practice in Chicago, Schwarz was secretary
to Judge Julian W. Mack who established the first juvenile court in the city.
Finally, Schwarz was a friend and lawyer to Jane Addams. He was vice president,
trustee and counsel to Hull-House.
The collection contains correspondence, newspaper clippings, newsletters, photographs,
pamphlets and reports. The materials pertain to Hull-House, the City Club of
Chicago, the Chicago Bar Association, civil rights and citizenship.
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Madeline
and George Sikes Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Madeleine Wallin Sikes was a teacher and clubwoman in Chicago. She was educated
at the University of Chicago and taught history at Smith College between 1894
and 1896. She was a Hull-House resident between 1896 and 1897. She was also
a member of the Chicago Woman's Club and the Chicago Woman's City Club. She
was the author of the study, Summary of Laws Relating to Compulsory Education
and Child Labor, 1901.
George Cushing Sikes (1868-1928) was a publicist and community leader in Chicago.
He began his career as a printer and journalist in Minnesota. He then moved
to Chicago and worked with the Chicago Record and the Chicago Daily News. He
was a member of the Municipal Voters League and held several appointments with
the City of Chicago.
The collection contains newspaper clippings, marriage invitation and condolence
letters on the death of George Sikes.
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Eleanor
Smith Collection; 1.5 linear feet
Eleanor Smith was the director of the Hull-House music school from 1893 until
1935. In addition to teaching music, Eleanor Smith composed music for her students.
She was head of the Department of Vocal Music in the Cook County Normal School
until coming to Hull-House as a resident. While at Hull-House, she joined the
faculty of the Chicago Kindergarten College as a music teacher and authored
a number of books of vocal music for children, including the multi-volume,
Eleanor Smith Music Course.
The collection contains Hull-House Music School recital and concert programs,
musical scores, sheet music, and sound recordings of music composed or arranged
by Eleanor Smith.
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Mary
Rozet Smith Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Mary Rozet Smith (1868-1933) was a philanthropist and companion to Jane Addams.
She was from a wealthy Chicago family, the daughter of a successful manufacturer
and a Philadelphia philanthropist. Mary Rozet Smith first came to Hull-House
in 1890 as a volunteer leading a variety of children's clubs. She became an
important benefactor of the settlement house and used her connections in Chicago
society to secure gifts for Hull-House. Mary Rozet Smith was also Jane Addams'
companion, with her house on Walton St. providing a retreat for Addams from
the spotlight at Hull-House. The two bought a house together in Bar Harbor,
Maine in 1904 that they shared until Smith's death in 1933.
The collection contains correspondence to Myra and Stanley Linn, Jane Addams
Linn, Esther Linn and Katherine and Robert Hamill. It also contains newspaper
clippings about Mary Rozet Smith.
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The
Society of Midland Authors Collection; 5 linear feet
The Society of Midland Authors was formed in 1915 by a group of authors including
Hamlin Garland, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe and Alice Gerstenberg. The informal
exchange of ideas and opportunity to form friendships with other writers were
the purposes of the group from the beginning. The majority of the Society's
early members were from Chicago, including Clarence Darrow, Jane Addams and
Carl Sandburg. The society is open, however, to writers and publishers from
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri and Nebraska.
The collection contains correspondence, manuscripts, newsletters, photographs,
minutes and published material by Midland Authors dating from 1915 to the present.
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Ellen
Gates Starr Collection; 3.5 linear feet
Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) was an educator, social activist and co-founder
of Hull-House. Friends since their student days at Rockford Female Seminary,
Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams founded Hull-House in 1889. There, Starr
taught art appreciation classes and was active in the labor movement. Inspired
by the Arts and Crafts movement, Starr studied with the English bookbinder
T.J. Cobden Sanderson and opened a hand bookbinding shop at Hull-House in 1898.
After converting to Catholicism and in failing health, Starr moved from Hull-House
to the Convent of the Holy Child in Suffern N.Y. in 1929.
The collection contains correspondence, clippings, drawings and bookbinding
patterns. Part of the collection, including the correspondence, consists of
photocopies from the Ellen Gates Starr Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection,
Smith College.
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Lea
Demarest Taylor Collection; 9.5 linear feet
Lea Demarest Taylor was Head Resident of the Chicago Commons Settlement House
and daughter of its founder, Graham Taylor. Lea Taylor grew up at Chicago Commons
and was a full resident from the age of 16. She was president of the Chicago
Federation of Settlements from 1930 to 1934 and again from 1950 to 1952. She
was a member of the Women's Trade Union League and chair of the Cotton Dress
Industry Wage Board, which created minimum wage legislation for the female-dominated
industry. She served as Head Resident of Chicago Commons from 1921 until 1954
and oversaw the neighborhood's WWI Draft Board, public relief efforts during
the Depression and the integration of African Americans into the neighborhood.
The collection contains correspondence, memos, articles, speeches, annual reports,
minutes of meetings, and photographs. The materials pertain to operation and
activities of Chicago Commons, the Chicago Federation of Settlements and the
National Settlements. Also includes writing and publications by Graham Taylor.
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Tolstoy
Family Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Irwin
St. John Tucker Papers; 18 linear feet
Irwin St. John Tucker (1886-1982) was an Episcopal priest as well as a socialist
and journalist. Tucker worked as a journalist for The Christian Socialist and
Chicago Herald-American. At the time of his retirement from the Herald-American
in 1954, Irwin Tucker was the paper's religion editor. He also contributed
poetry, under the pseudonym Friar Tuck, to the Chicago Tribune. Tucker was
also a former literature director for the American Socialist Party, and was
active in socialist causes in Chicago. He participated in the Hull-House Riot
of Jan. 18, 1915 and co-founded the Hobo College in Chicago. In addition to
his journalistic and socialist activities, Tucker served as an Episcopal minister
for nearly forty years until resigning in 1950 after converting to Catholicism.
He was the author of numerous books including A History of Imperialism, Out
of the Hellbox, A Minstrel Friar, and Geography of the Gods.
The collection contains correspondence, clippings, a diary, legal records,
broadsides, pamphlets, articles and other published materials. The materials
deal primarily with Hull-House, the Hobo College, International Workers of
the World (IWW), the American Socialist Party, the Palmer Raids, and the imprisonment
of Eugene V. Debs.
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Travelers
Aid Society of Chicago Records; 70 linear feet
The Travelers Aid Society of Chicago was established in 1888 as an adjunct
of the YWCA. By 1914, as Chicago had become a destination or transit stop for
great numbers of immigrants, the unemployed and traveling servicemen, the Travelers
Aid Society was established as a separate, non-sectarian organization. The
Travelers Aid Society was responsible for the care of dependent children, and
after 1935 for transients of all ages. The Travelers Aid Society of Chicago
merged with the Immigrants Service League just before the First World War becoming
the Traveler's and Immigrant's Aid Society. In 1995, the organization was reorganized
as Heartland Alliance for Human Needs & Human Rights, which now focuses
its programs and services of impoverished adults and children in Chicago.
The collection includes correspondence, financial records, minutes, fundraising
material, manuals, annual reports and case records dating from 1927 to the
present. The material deals primarily with such topics as immigration, travelers,
runaways, servicemen, employment, mental health and social legislation.
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Miriam
Tyler Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Miriam Tyler worked as a case worker for the Juvenile Protective Association
from 1945 to 1955 in the section of the city bordered by Division St. on the
north and 45th on the south. Miriam Tyler also lived in the Jane Club for eight
years. In 1954, she left Chicago for the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia where
she became the first visiting teacher in the Staunton Public Schools.
The collection contains correspondence and articles about Hull-House, juvenile
delinquency, the Juvenile Protective Association and Jessie Binford.
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United
Way of Chicago Records; 550 linear feet
The United Way of Metropolitan Chicago was founded as The Community Fund of
Chicago in June 1934. The organization sought to "raise and distribute
money in an efficient and equitable manner to agencies helping people in need."
In the early 1930's, emergency relief was one of the Community Fund's primary
focuses. Over the next thirty years, the Community Fund of Chicago continued
to grow and expand its focus. In 1977, the Council for Community Service and
the Community Fund merged to become the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago.
The Collection includes minutes, agency files, service reports of member agencies,
studies, budget reports of member agencies, correspondence, photographs, programs,
newsletters, newspaper clippings, and annual reports from 1931 to the present.
The materials pertain to such issues as welfare, public health, emergency relief
housing, Chicago area social service organizations, and the administration
of the United Way of Metropolitan Chicago.
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Harriet
E. Vittum Papers; 2.25 linear feet
Harriet Vittum (1827-1953) was Head Resident of the Northwestern University
Settlement from 1906-1947. As such, she was very active in political and social
affairs in Chicago. In 1914, she entered and lost the aldermanic campaign in
the 17th ward. She helped found the first Infant Welfare Station in Chicago.
She was a founding member and president of the Woman' City Club of Chicago
and held various offices in the Chicago Federation of Settlements, the Chicago
Recreation Commission, the Juvenile Protective Association, and the League
of Mothers Clubs of Chicago.
The Collection contains financial records, minutes, correspondence, articles,
photographs, clippings and diaries regarding Harriet Vittum and the Northwestern
University Settlement.
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Watson, Edith (Luda) Papers; 0.25 linear feet
Edith (Luda) Watson was a resident at Hull-House during the 1890s. During her residency, Watson served as club leader at the settlement house, helping to lead groups such as the Sewing Club. She left Hull-House in 1899/1900 when she married Frank Bartlett. Soon after their marriage, the couple left Chicago for Drummond, Wisconsin. While her husband became the manager of the Rust-Owen lumber company, Luda Watson retained her interest in organizing clubs, going on to help for the Drummond town library and the Drummond Thursday Club. She also became active in Republican politics, and was described by one observer that she was "one of the most prominent women, politically, in the past generation."
The collection includes correspondence with Jane Addams, records of clubs at Hull-House and newspaper clippings.
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Woman's
City Club of Chicago Records; 3 linear feet
Founded in 1910, the Woman's City Club of Chicago was an organization concerned
with civic welfare in Chicago. It dealt with such issues as housing, child
welfare, women's rights, suffrage, garbage and sewage disposal, public education
and parks and playgrounds. The club was organized into various committees,
which undertook studies and the educational functions of the club. The club
co-operated with other social service organizations, lobbied local and state
governments and sponsored lectures and citizenship classes.
The collection contains programs, announcements, photographs, lanternslides,
photoengravings, and newsletters dating from 1915 to 1965.
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Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom; 3.5 linear feet
The Woman's International League for Peace and Freedom was founded in 1915
with Jane Addams as the first International President. The League was born
out of an International Congress of women who met in The Hague in 1915 to protest
World War I. The organizers of the Congress were prominent women in the International
Suffrage Alliance who saw the connection between their struggle for equal rights
and the struggle for peace. The League continues to work towards social justice,
sustainable development, women's equality and disarmament.
The collection contains correspondence, articles, newspaper clippings, programs,
and scrapbooks on the Jane Addams Centennial, 1960.
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Woman's Peace Party Collection; 0.25 linear feet
The Woman's Peace Party was founded in 1915 in Washington DC, by a group of
American woman pacifists. Jane Addams was elected the first Chairman. Other
members included Mary McDowell, Florence Kelly, Alice Hamilton, Anna Howard
Shaw, Emily Balch, Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott, Carrie Chapman Catt and Sophonsiba
Breckinridge. By 1917, membership had increased to 40,000 members. The Woman's
Peace Party was headquartered in Chicago. In 1919, it became the U.S. section
of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom.
The collection contains broadsides, speeches, reports, programs, yearbooks
and pamphlets covering the years 1915-1916.
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Women's Trade Union League of Chicago Scrapbook; One item
Founded in 1903, the Women's Trade Union League was the first national association
dedicated to organizing women workers. The WTUL came into existence in 1903
when it became clear that the American Federation of Labor had no intention
of including women. The Chicago branch was formed in 1904 and had labor leaders
Mary Kenney O'Sullivan and Lenora O'Reilly as well as settlement leaders, Lillian
Wald and Jane Addams among its earliest members. The League was dissolved in
1950 after being seriously weakened during the Depression.
The collection contains newspaper clippings, correspondence and pamphlets pertaining
to the political and trade union activities of the Women's Trade Union League
of Chicago.
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Young Women's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chicago; 38.5 linear feet
The Women's Christian Association was founded in 1876 by thirteen Chicago women
concerned about the plight of single young women in the city. Within four years,
the Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), as it was later called, was
running two residences for working women, an employment bureau and a dispensary.
Members of the YWCA also monitored railway stations and steamer entrances to
provide protection to young women arriving in a strange city and to direct
them to a safe place to stay. The YWCA emphasized physical education in its
early years. In the 1930's and 40's, it branched out into the area of social
legislation for women and girls. In the 1930's, the YWCA began racially integrating
its activities, residences and Board of directors. The YWCA of Metropolitan
Chicago continues to offer programs and services to women in the areas of employment,
health, education, and anti-racism.
This collection contains bylaws, minutes, correspondence, annual reports, photos,
lanternslides, scrapbooks, pamphlets and newspaper clippings dating from 1882
to the present. The material relates chiefly to issues of women's rights and
to YWCA programs such as summer camps. The collection also contains material
regarding other social service agencies in Chicago.
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