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Comments on Abraham Isaak, September 9, 1901

Taylor and Addams discuss the arrest of Abraham Isaak.

Anarchism Crime Crime Enforcement Immigrants

Chicago Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Houses, "Newsboy Conditions in Chicago," 1903

A 28-page illustrated pamphlet outlining the work and social conditions of newsboys and newsgirls, based on a two-day intensive investigation. In it the Committee proposes revisions in child labor laws to curb the worst excesses.

Child Labor Children Gambling Legislation Social Welfare

Albert G. Beaunisne to Jane Addams, October 6, 1903

Beaunisne acknowledges seeing the proposed newsboy legislation and admits that he responded quickly and requests the report and proposed ordinance again so that he can give them more careful study. He reports long experience with newsboys and claims sympathy with their condition.

Child Labor Legislation Publishing Requests

Western Starr to Jane Addams, October 15, 1903

Starr offers support in the face of press criticisms that Hull-House is too liberal in its support for freedom of thought and speech.

Free Speech Hull-House Politics

Jane Addams to Charles B. Ball, December 10, 1903

Addams asks Ball if he is interested in becoming Sanitary Inspector of Chicago.

Jobs Public Health Requests

Raymond Robins to Thomas S. Ainge, December 28, 1903

Robins writes Ainge with suggestions on how to prepare for the examination for the position of Chicago Chief Sanitary Officer.

Jobs Public Health Requests

Address at Memorial for Teachers Who Perished in the Iroquois Theatre Fire, January 16, 1904 (excerpt)

Addams spoke at a memorial meeting for Iroquois Theater fire victims, organized by the Chicago Teacher's Federation, about the dangers of overlooking violations in fear of being seen as bad people.

Death Lectures

Jane Addams to Mary Eliza McDowell, July 26, 1904

Addams expresses concerns about the Chicago Stockyard Strike and plans to return to the city shortly.

Labor Travels

Mary Rozet Smith to Anita McCormick Blaine, July 10, 1905

Smith urges McCormick to cast a vote to defeat George Duddleston's candidacy for president of the Chicago Board of Education.

Education Requests

Katherine E. Tuley to Jane Addams, January 7, 1906

Tuley writes in thanks to Addams for her comments about her recently deceased husband, and encloses a donation for Hull-House.

Thanks

Jane Addams Declares Ballot for Woman Made Necessary by Changed Conditions, April 1, 1906

Addams offers reasons why Chicago should extend vote to women.

Crime Enforcement Politics Woman Suffrage

Benjamin Barr Lindsey to Jane Addams, October 3, 1906

Lindsey writes to Addams about the difficulties of organizing a committee during the months of July and August, as well as a conference in Chicago in early December.

Charity Education Requests

Samuel Gompers to Jane Addams, February 4, 1907

Gompers writes Addams that he will not be attending a meeting with her in Chicago and will come at a different date.

Labor Requests Visits

The Campaign for Municipal Suffrage, February 17, 1907

A newspaper report and excerpts from Addams' February 17 speech at the National Suffrage Convention, after the defeat of municipal suffrage for women in Chicago.

Conferences Politics Woman Suffrage

Albion W. Small to the Editor of the Chicago Tribune, March 14, 1908

Small criticizes the Chicago Tribune's coverage of the Averbuch Incident, specifically discussing meetings between Jane Addams and others in John Maynard Harlan's office.

Anarchism Crime

Evart Grant Routzahn to Jane Addams, May 8, 1908

Routzahn thanks Addams for her honest article about the Averbuch incident.

Crime Enforcement Public Health

Frederick Greeley to Jane Addams, May 9, 1908

Greeley praises Addams' article on the Averbuch Incident and discusses his sojourn in Maine.

Crime Enforcement Friends Health Travels

Unknown (B. F.) to the Editor of the New York Evening Post, May 29, 1908

B. F. writes in praise of Addams' article "The Chicago Settlements and Social Unrest" in Charity and the Commons, discussing the role of the settlement in integrating immigrants into city life.

Anarchism Crime Enforcement Immigrants Race Settlements

Irene Osgood to Jane Addams, August 18, 1908

Osgood writes Addams offering to come to Chicago to help stir up enthusiasm for the local branch of the American Association for Labor Legislation.

Labor Law Requests

Statement on the Children's Bureau, January 27, 1909

Addams testifies on the lack of statistics available to adequately analyze the welfare of children in Chicago and argues that a bureau could collect and disseminate such data.

Child Labor Child Welfare Government

Woman Suffrage Is Needed in Chicago, March 24, 1909

Addams discusses the movement for municipal suffrage for women in Chicago, arguing that it will help improve schools, public health, and sanitation.

Education Public Health Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Statement on Recreation Piers, April 11, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams advocates for public recreational spaces for the benefit of all.

Children Lectures Public Works Recreation

Why Women Should Vote, January 1910

Addams argues for women to have the vote in order that they may continue to perform their duties to family and to home in the modern world, where responsibilities, like feeding their children and keeping them safe, are no long directly within their control.

Democracy Immigrants Woman Suffrage

Autobiographical Notes Upon Twenty Years at Hull-House: Echoes of the Russian Revolution, September 1910

Addams talks about the settlement as a bulwark against anti-immigrant persecution, using examples of Russian anarchists.

Anarchism Democracy Government Hull-House Immigrants Politics Russia Settlement Movement

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, November 22, 1910

Addams writes Smith, criticizing her own work after the publishing of Twenty Years at Hull House, and reporting news about her health and Chicago Garment Workers' Strike.

Books Friends Health Labor

Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, December 1, 1910

Addams writes Smith about a meeting of the Woman's Club and Chicago Garment Workers' Strike.

Holidays Labor

Jenkin Lloyd Jones to Jane Addams, December 14, 1910

Jones writes Addams about plans to organize a committee to plan a tribute to Tolstoy in Chicago.

Requests

Anonymous to Chicago Tribune Editor, December 18, 1911

Addams received a copy of this anonymous letter, offering a scathing impression of Chicago politicians out to get Police Chief John McWeeny and criticizing the Chicago Tribune as corrupt. The writer uses derogatory names, like "Sneaky" and "Sissy," for many of the characters and calls the press the "Scrofulas."

Free Speech

Anonymous to "Chicago Record-Herald"- Editor

An anonymous writer apologizes for his misunderstanding of the biases of the Record-Herald against the police. Addams received a copy of this letter.

Crime Crime Enforcement Journalism

Raymond Robins to Jane Addams, August 22, 1912

Robins informs Addams of his intention to endorse Alexander McCormick on the county ticket and expresses his hope that she will to write some articles to help the campaign.

Politics

Philanthropy and Politics, September 18, 1912

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Government Philanthropy Politics Public Health Social Work

Mary Redfield Plummer to Emma Henderson, September 26, 1912

Plummer asks Henderson to join the Progressive Party and make a speech to Chicago women on why they should join as well.

Politics Requests

Mary Redfield Plummer to Mabel Lamberson Sippy, September 26, 1912

Plummer assumes that Sippy is a Progressive and asks her to speak to other women about the Progressive Party.

Requests

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, September 30, 1912

Robins discusses the success of a Progressive Party's Chicago store in spreading literature to the public and encourages the establishment of such stores in other cities as well as the formation of branches of the Jane Addams Chorus.

Margaret Dreier Robins to Jane Addams, October 17, 1912

Robins reports on Progressive Party activities in Illinois from October 10 to 17.

Lectures

Jane Addams' Speech for the Progressive Party announcement, October 17, 1912

Announcement for Jane Addams' speech for the Progressive Party in Chicago.

Lectures

Donald Randall Richberg to Jane Addams, December 21, 1912

Richberg discusses the reasons he declined appointment as Cook County Assistant Attorney.

Law Politics Progressive

Why Women Are Concerned with the Larger Citizenship: Philanthropy and Politics, 1913

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Charity Juvenile Delinquency Labor Lectures Poverty Public Health Recreation Settlements Social Welfare

Recreation -- A Function of City Government, July 1, 1913 (fragment)

Addams discusses the role of a lack of recreation for youth as a source of political corruption and argues for the establishment of regulated public spaces to encourage cooperative and positive relationships.

Children Education Politics Recreation Youth

Jane Addams Statement on Mayoralty, July 2, 1913

Addams declines nomination for mayoral race in Chicago.

Politics Requests

Miss Addams, August 1913

Using her home Nineteenth Ward in Chicago as an example, Addams explains how political corruption is born in the corruption of youth and argues for the establishment of regulated public spaces to encourage cooperative and positive relationships instead. This is the eighth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.

Children Education Politics Recreation Youth

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