Flow of Letters

The data collected by the Jane Addams Papers guides us toward the flow of letters in Addams’  inbox and outbox. This information is categorized by separating a large dataset into two datasets involving documents and letters. The letters are then separated into two datasets based on their creator - one being Jane Addams and the other being anyone who is not her. It can be seen that her inbox was much more crowded than her outbox. Encompassing 124 different locations all over the United States and all across the globe, the following chart depicts an interesting illustration of all the locations from which Jane Addams received letters.

To compare Addams’ inbox and outbox even further, the following map depicts the location that Addams’s received her letters from and sent them to - with a green popup representing her outbox, red her inbox, and a blue popup that involved two locations with two-way communication.

As the woman’s suffrage movement was largely based in New York, it is no surprise that Addams received letters from there. Most of the letters that Addams received from New York were related to the National American Woman Suffrage Association where Addams served as a Vice President for 3 years and the headquarters of which was at 505 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY.   It is also foreseeable why Addams received the most letters from New York, NY, Bryn Mawr, PA, and Milwaukee, WI. The Wisconsin Women's Suffrage Movement was a huge campaign with different women’s rights groups working in the state. The effort of which made Wisconsin the first state to ratify the 19th Amendment - The Women's Right to Vote. Nearly all letters for Addams from Milwaukee and Bryn Mawr - Bryn Mawr College, specifically - were an invitation to talk about the suffrage movement.