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John Peter Altgeld to Jane Addams, April 11, 1900

Altgeld thanks Addams for her testimony to the Industrial Commission and praises Hull-House.

Hull-House Praise

Jane Addams to Sarah Anderson Ainsworth, May 6, 1901

Addams writes Ainsworth that she came back directly from New Orleans to push the building schemes at Hull-House.

Hull-House Travels

Jane Addams to Richard Theodore Ely, May 18, 1901

Addams reports to Ely about her lack of progress on her book, Democracy and Social Ethics, because of activities at Hull-House.

Hull-House Publishing Writing

Jane Addams to Eleanor Sophia Smith, August 6, 1901

Addams asks Smith to reconsider leaving Hull-House.

Hull-House Residents Requests Settlements

The College Woman and Christianity, August 8, 1901

Addams discusses the challenges facing college women, including the habit of self-preparation, a tendency to make an exception of herself, and the danger that study without action makes a person timid and irresolute. She argues that there is a need to do and to do for others without concern for one's own reputation that makes for good Christian work.

Education Hull-House Religion Settlements Writings

Obligation of the Woman College Student to Christianity Today, August 8, 1901

A draft of Addams' article about the challenges facing college women who want to contribute to society.

Education Hull-House Religion Writing

Obligation of the Woman College Student to Christianity Today, August 8, 1901

Addams discusses the challenges facing college women who want to contribute to society.

Education Hull-House Religion Social Work Writing

Samuel Gompers to Jane Addams, October 17, 1901

Gompers writes Addams regarding Ben Tillett's visit to Chicago and the prospect of Tillett delivering an address at Hull House.

Hull-House Visits Labor Lectures

Amusement for the People, March 25, 1902 Also known as Address to the Charity Organization Society, March 25, 1902

Addams addresses a meeting at the United Charities building in New York and discusses how Hull-House makes use of its theater.

Lectures Theater

To Aid Craftsmen, August 15, 1902

Addams discusses the Hull-House Labor Museum and the effect of factories on craftsmanship.

Hull-House Immigrants Labor

Address to the Hull-House Woman's Club, December 11, 1901 (excerpts)

Addams notes abuses of Hull-Houses day nurseries by lazy fathers whose wives have to work.

Charity Children Hull-House

Social Science, January 28, 1903 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the different methods of social work and describes how the settlement works to help society.

Child Labor Child Welfare Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement Settlements Social Work

Interview with the Boston Globe, March 24, 1903

Addams describes social settlement work and its impact on immigrant neighborhoods.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

Jane Addams to Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett, March 25, 1903

Addams compliments Barnett on her recent publications and provides updates about Hull-House and the Labor Museum.

Friends Hull-House Settlements

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

Jane Addams to Richard Watson Gilder, April 6, 1903

Addams thanks Mr. Gilder for donating poetry books to Hull-House.

Hull-House Poetry Thanks War

Address to the North Broadway Social Settlement, November 5, 1903

Addams speaks to the North Broadway Social Settlement about how she runs Hull-House.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

Interview with Topeka Daily Capital, December 8, 1905

Addams discusses her work in settlements and at Hull House with a reporter from the Topeka Daily Capital.

Hull-House Poverty Settlement Movement

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: Fifteen Years at Hull House (First of Three Installments), March 1906

Addams's autobiographical writing about her impetus to found Hull-House and its early activities.

Biography Family Hull-House Immigrants Poverty Social Work

Jane Addams's Own Story of Her Work: How the Work at Hull-House Has Grown (Third of Three Installments), May 1906

Addams lays out the expansion of Hull-House programs and buildings from 1890 to 1905.

Charity Hull-House Immigrants Settlements Unemployment

Jane Addams to the City of Chicago Board of Local Improvements, January 10, 1907

Addams testifies before the Board of Local Improvements in opposition to the widening of Halsted Street because of its potential impact upon Hull-House.

Hull-House Industry Property Urban Planning

Jane Addams to the City of Chicago Board of Local Improvements, January 10, 1907

Addams testifies before the Board of Local Improvements in opposition to the widening of Halsted Street because of its potential impact upon Hull-House.

Public Works

Hull-House, 1908

Addams co-wrote the Hull-House entry in The New Encyclopedia of Social Reform, covering its history and accomplishments.

Charities Crafts Education Hull-House Hull-House Residents Immigrants Settlements Social Welfare Theater

Jane Addams to Helen Culver, March 12, 1908

Addams thanks Culver for her generosity in helping with Hull-House's bills.

Finances Hull-House Onsite Thanks

English and American Social Settlements, August 8, 1908 (summary)

Addams explores the workings of Hull House at a talk before the Colorado Springs Woman's Club.

Hull-House Immigrants Settlement Movement

Address on Settlements, June 24, 1909 (Summary)

A summary of Addams' address about Hull-House and its relationship with the neighbors it supports.

Hull-House Immigrants Lectures Settlements

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: Early Undertakings at Hull-House, June 1910

Addams writes about finding a location for her settlement and the early days of settling into the neighborhood and developing the ideas for their work. This is the third of six articles excerpted from Twenty Years at Hull-House.

Biography Hull-House Immigrants Settlements

Jane Addams to Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., June 18, 1910

Addams writes to McCormick to solicit a donation to Hull-House for the year of 1910.

Finances Hull-House Philanthropy Requests

George Platt Brett Sr. to Jane Addams, June 24, 1910

Brett writes to Addams suggesting a book idea about Hull-House.

Publishing Requests Writing

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: The Resources of the Immigrant, August 1910

Addams discusses the many programs at Hull-House that appeal to its immigrant neighbors and the additional value that their neighbors bring to the programs.

Education Hull-House Immigrants Music Theater

Jane Addams to Catharine Waugh McCulloch, January 9, 1911

Addams sends McCulloch a letter she received at Hull-House (not found) and asks her opinion on the contents.

Hull-House Requests

Jane Addams to Ella S. Stewart, March 23, 1911

Addams declines Stewart's invitation to serve on a finance committee of another organization because of her own need to raise funds for Hull-House.

Finances Hull-House Requests

Address on the Hull-House Labor Museum, May 16, 1911

Addams' speech at the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, on the Hull-House Labor Museum's exhibit.

Education Hull-House Immigrants Museums

The Hull-House Labor Museum, May 16, 1911

Addams' speech at the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, on the Hull-House Labor Museum's exhibit. It was published in 1912.

Education Hull-House Immigrants Labor Lectures Museums

Jane Addams to Lillian D. Wald, December 11, 1911

Addams writes Wald with news of her work, Mary Rozet Smith, and Smith's father.

Friends Health Hull-House Thanks

David Berkeley Updike to Jane Addams, May 7, 1912

Updike asks Addams to assist a young man in Chicago who has had a difficult life and needs some guidance.

Hull-House Jobs Onsite Requests Social Work

Response to Mabel Thorp Boardman, August 14, 1912

Addams defends her decision to sit as a delegate at the Progressive Party convention.

Criticism Woman Suffrage

Response to Mabel Thorp Boardman, August 15, 1912

Newspaper coverage of Boardman's statement criticizing Addams for her partisan work with the Progressive Party and Addams's response.

Criticism Politics Woman Suffrage

The Steps by Which I Became a Progressive, September-October 1912

Addams offers a biographical justification of why she has entered politics and joined the Progressive Party. The article was published in October 1912.

Biography Hull-House Labor Patriotism Philanthropy Politics Progressive Social Welfare Social Work

Jane Addams Relates the Steps by Which She Became a Progressive, October 12, 1912

Addams offers a biographical justification of why she has entered politics and joined the Progressive Party.

Biography Hull-House Labor Patriotism Philanthropy Politics Progressive Social Welfare Social Work

Jane Addams to Dorothy North, November 30, 1912

Addams thanks North for her donation and assistance during Thanksgiving at Hull-House.

Holidays Hull-House Thanks

Florence Wells to Henry Churchill King, September 6, 1913

Addams is unable to lecture at Oberlin College.

Hull-House Lectures Requests

Speech to the Advertisers' Club, November 21, 1913 (excerpt)

Addams speaks before the Advertisers' Club of an incident that happened at Hull-House.

Children Lectures Morality

Jane Addams to Irene Osgood Andrews, January 14, 1914

Addams reports that Mary Flexner has been helping with the Trade School and is doing quite well.

Education Hull-House

The Girl Problem: Its Community Aspects, April 1914

Addams explains how communities needs to provide more for the youths that live there, and how there really is not a girl problem, but a problem with how all youths are handled.

Children Family Hull-House Immigrants Recreation Writings Youth