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Ethel Sturges Dummer Papers

Description

Ethel (Sturges) Dummer, a social welfare leader, philanthropist and author, was born in Chicago in 1866, the oldest of six daughters and third of nine children born to Mary (Delafield) Sturges and George Sturges. She graduated in 1885 from the Kirkland School in Chicago but continued to be involved with the social welfare concerns of the school through the Kirkland Alumnae Association.

Source

Finding Aid: https://hollisarchives.lib.harvard.edu/repositories/8/resources/7873

Alternative Title

Ethel Sturges Dummer Papers

Documents in this collection

Jane Addams to Ethel S. Dummer, February 4, 1915

Addams thanks Dummer for a book and congratulates her for establishing a psychopathic clinic at the Juvenile Court.

Juvenile Delinquency

Ethel Sturges Dummer to Jane Addams, January 13, 1925

Dummer tells Addams about her ideas about teaching.

Jane Addams to Ethel Sturges Dummer, January 14, 1925

Addams clarifies an earlier statement to Dummer clearing up a misunderstanding.

Ethel Sturges Dummer to Jane Addams, February 16, 1925

Dummer asks Addams to review Youth in Conflict for the Survey or New Republic.