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The Edith and Grace Abbott Papers document the lives of University of Chicago alumna sisters. Edith Abbott resided in Hull-House from 1901-1920. She was a dean and an Associate Director of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy at the University of Chicago. Grace Abbott was the first director of the Immigrant's Protective League, and headed the Child Labor Division of the United States Children's Bureau. Both taught public welfare at the University of Chicago. The papers contain both professional and personal correspondence, lecture notes, speeches, articles, radio broadcasts, and scrapbooks.
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Edith and Grace Abbott Papers