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Jane Addams' Own Story of Her Work: The First Five Years at Hull-House (Second of Three Installments), April 1906

Addams reports on some of the activities accomplished at Hull-House from 1889-1894.

Articles Child Labor Children Hull-House Immigrants Labor Settlement Movement Settlements Social Work Youth

Jane Addams to [Donors], May 18, 1908

Addams reports on the Hull-House Labor Museum's condition after six years of operation and encloses the First Report on the Museum.

Education Hull-House Labor Onsite Philanthropy Women

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, May 3, 1911

Addams invites Wald to visit Hull-House with Irene Lewisohn and discusses Mary Rozet Smith's health.

Friends Health Hull-House Hull-House Events Visits

Hull House and Its Neighbors, May 7, 1904

Addams discusses the two methods by which Hull-House seeks to expose immigrant communities to greater society: by securing people who form friendships in the community and by providing self-expression to the immigrants.

Education Hull-House Events Immigrants Plays

Jane Addams to Dwight H. Perkins, May 25, 1911

Addams invites Perkins to Hull-House to hear Raymond Unwin speak.

Hull-House Visits Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 19, 1909

Addams invites Blaine to a Hull-House luncheon.

Hull-House Events Requests

Jane Addams to Ben B. Lindsey, January 16, 1909

Addams invites Lindsey to attend a luncheon at Hull-House.

Child Labor Hull-House Hull-House Events Requests

Alice Thacher Post to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Post informs Addams that the newspaper coverage of the Women's Trade Union League's decision to move their meetings from Bowen Hall at Hull-House to the Chicago Federation of Labor Hall was inaccurate and designed to cause hard feelings.

Journalism Labor Women

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 21, 1909

Addams invites Blaine to a meeting of the Illinois Child Labor Committee.

Hull-House Events Labor Legislation Requests

Jane Addams, Louise DeKoven Bowen, Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Unknown (Re: Edward A. and Sara L. Steiner), [March 12], 1909

Addams, Bowen, and Breckinridge invite an unknown person to Hull-House for a meeting of professors and the League for the Protection of Immigrants.

Immigrants Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 7, 1908

Addams invites McCormick to Hull-House on Monday evening.

Hull-House Events Requests

Jane Addams to W. E. B. Du Bois, August 24, 1908

Addams writes Du Bois that she is happy he will visit Hull-House in September.

Hull-House Lectures

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, February 10, 1908

Robins writes Addams to apologize for the newspaper reports about the Women's Trade Union League pulling their meetings from Hull-House.

Jane Addams to Peter Christian Lutkin, January 3, 1908

Addams writes Lutkin to inform him of Frederick DeKnatel's absence due to the unexpected death of his sister.

Death Hull-House Events

Clara Landsberg to Anita McCormick Blaine, November 23, 1905

Addams invited Blaine to "The Trolls Holiday" a performance at Hull-House.

Art Hull-House Requests

Aylmer Maude to Jane Addams, June 22, 1904

Maude warns Addams about the character of John C. Kenworthy, who he hears is speaking at Hull-House.

Gossip Hull-House

What the Theater at Hull House Has Done for the Neighborhood People (extract), March 29, 1902

In this published excerpt of a lecture given on March 25, 1902, Addams describes how Hull-House provides a cheaper form of theater entertainment for the neighborhood.

Hull-House Theater

Jane Addams to Wallace Rice, April 3, 1903

Addams wants to reschedule Rice's talks at Hull-House because a Socialist candidate for alderman has opened a headquarters nearby and attendance has been poor.

Hull-House Lectures Politics