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William Mackintire Salter to Jane Addams, November 29, 1904

Salter reminds Addams that she promised to help him approach Anita Blaine for funding for his settlement.

William H. Redington to Jane Addams, December 18, 1911

Redington praises Addams' recent magazine articles, sends a donation, and tells her about his factory in which he employs women.

Charity Labor Praise

Wilbur Kelsey Thomas to Jane Addams, February 4, 1927

Thomas asks Addams for introductions to Chicago people who might support the establishment of a nursing school in the Soviet Union.

Philanthropy Public Health Requests Soviet Union

Why Women Are Concerned with the Larger Citizenship: Philanthropy and Politics, 1913

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Charity Juvenile Delinquency Labor Lectures Poverty Public Health Recreation Settlements Social Welfare

Thusnelda Peemoller to Jane Addams, November 18, 1903

Peemoller requests a scholarship for Ferdinand Pankonin and explains the family's poverty and need.

Charity Poverty Requests Social Work

The Subtle Problems of Charity, February 1899

Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

Charity Labor Poverty Social Work

The Relation of Club Women to Social Problems, April 15, 1905 (excerpt)

In a speech before the Chicago Women's Association. Addams complains that college women are disinclined toward philanthropy.

Education Gender Roles Lectures Philanthropy Social Reform

The Humanitarian Value of Civil Service, March 22, 1912 (draft)

Addams discusses the weakness of civil service as a force for humanitarianism, detailing the shortcomings of the public takeover of efforts that were previously in the domain of private individuals and charities.

Charities Civil Service Government Public Health

The Humanitarian Value of Civil Service, April 6, 1912

Addams discusses the weakness of civil service as a force for humanitarianism, detailing the shortcomings of the public takeover of efforts that were previously in the domain of private individuals and charities.

Charity Civil Service Government Public Health

Statement on Child Labor and the Plight of Orphans, June 4, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper account of Addams' statement on raising of women's clubs funds to support child care for widows attending school.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Stanley McCormick to Jane Addams, January 12, 1904

McCormick agrees to join the National Child-Labor Committee and explains that he has not made a decision yet about Richard T. Ely's request.

Child Labor Requests

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Noah Baxter Feagin, April 3, 1911

Breckinridge sends Feagin a copy of the Settlement Bibliography as a resource for researching Chicago philanthropic women.

Charities Requests Social Work

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Lewis A. Kalbach, March 24, 1911

Breckinridge suggests Graham Taylor in place of Addams to serve on the Congress on Public Assistance in Antwerp.

Conferences Requests Travels

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Evelyn Julia Shankle, October 9, 1912

Breckinridge writes Shankle that the Chicago community is already devoting funds to other educational projects and cannot support Shankle's request for funds at this time.

Education Philanthropy Requests

Social Regeneration, December 24, 1903

Addams argues the lower class can only be raised up if everyone in the community takes a interest in their plight. The article appeared in multiple newspapers.

Poverty Social Reform

Samuel McCune Lindsay to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 7, 1906

Lindsay encloses a list of names sent by Addams and Graham Taylor which should be used with the funding request from the National Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Philanthropy