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Katharine Coman to Jane Addams, November 17, 1911

Coman reassures Addams about her health, compliments her new article in McClure's Magazine, and discusses plans for the International Institute for Girls in Spain.

Education Friends Health Philanthropy Praise White Slavery

Loretta C. Van Hook to Jane Addams, December 8, 1911

Van Hook writes Addams about her missionary work in Persia and the suffering of the people there.

Help!Persia Religion Russia War

Louis J. Affelder to Jane Addams, April 20, 1925

Affelder sends Addams names of recent donors to the Barnett Memorial Fellowship.

Philanthropy Settlement Movement

Louis J. Affelder to Jane Addams, February 28, 1925

Affelder sends Addams the names of recent contributors to the Barnett Memorial Fellowship.

Charity Hull-House Settlement Movement

Louise de Koven Bowen to Jane Addams, January 11, 1907

Bowen writes Addams of her pleasure to have donated the funds to build the new Boys' Club Building at the Hull-House settlement, and about the dedication ceremony scheduled for Jan. 12, 1907.

Charity Friends Youth

Maurice Browne to Jane Addams, January 21, 1915

Browne proposes the Chicago Little Theatre Company embark on a tour performing Euripides' play, The Trojan Women, with the profits going to the Woman's Peace Party.

Finances Peace Theater

Maurice Browne to Jane Addams, March 29, 1915

Browne tells Addams that because they are paying reduced royalties, they can donate fund to the American Belgian Relief Fund.

Charity Peace Theater

Memorial Address for Jenkin Lloyd Jones, November 28, 1918

Addams praises Jenkin Lloyd Jones and discusses his efforts in Chicago and for peace.

Charity Eulogies Lectures Peace

Miss Addams, January 1913

Addams defends her involvement in partisan politics and argues that philanthropy and politics must often be partners in charting a better future for families and for communities. This is the first article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's roles in affecting change.

Juvenile Delinquency Labor Philanthropy Politics Public Health Social Welfare Social Work

Modern Philanthropy and the Child, May 22, 1906

Addams discusses the value of playgrounds for urban children, emphasizing the situation for youth in London.

Child Welfare Children Crime Lectures Philanthropy Recreation

National Conference of Charities and Corrections, The National Bulletin, November 12, 1908 (excerpts)

Table of contents and page with the membership of the Committees on immigrants, press and publicity, and state corresponding secretaries.

Charity Conferences Memberships

Neighborhood Improvement, June 22, 1904

Addams gave this speech at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, reporting on the activities of the Committee on Neighborhood Improvement.

Conferences Lectures Social Work

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, August 13, 1909

Kellogg asks Addams and other members of the Educational Committee to donate funds to launch Survey magazine.

Charity Requests

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, January 7, 1915

Kellogg updates Addams on the finances of an educational fund and the continuing subscriber and fundraising efforts of The Survey.

Charity Education Finances Memberships

Paul Underwood Kellogg to Jane Addams, October 31, 1925

Kellogg tells to Addams about the work of the Charles Cabot and the Cabot Fund to support the rights of steel workers.

Industry Labor Philanthropy

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

Philanthropy and Politics, September 1912

Addams discusses the process by which the government and politicians have taken up philanthropic work and argues that the Progressive Party is taking on many of the reforms philanthropists have been working on for years.

Philanthropy Politics Social Welfare Woman Suffrage

Remarks on the Funds for Parents Act, ca. September 26, 1913

Addams discusses the Funds to Parents Act, which provides charitable support for impoverished children.

Charity Lectures Legislation Poverty

Report of the Chairman, January 1, 1916

A report of the finances and activities of the Committee on Temporary Organization for Teaching Character.

Finances Morality Publishing

Report on Social Economy Exhibits, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Committee, February 8, 1906

Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed social economy compared to the Paris Exhibition in 1900.

Conferences Philanthropy Social Work

Russian School for Orphans Facing Calamity, September 9, 1924

The Tribune reports on the potential closure of the Russian Pedagogium Falkenberg in Falkenberg and efforts to save it.

Charity Child Welfare Death Education Germany

Samuel McCune Lindsay to Jane Addams, ca. June 13, 1917

Lindsay asks Addams to join a committee seeking tax exemptions for charitable donations.

Charity Requests

Sarah Montgomery Hester to Jane Addams, May 16, 1924

Hester asks Addams to write a letter about her experience at St. Luke's Hospital in Tokyo that could be used for fundraising.

Charity Japan Medicine Requests

Social Regeneration, December 7, 1903 (summary)

The Chicago Daily Tribune, summarizes Addams' talk to the Chicago Bureau of Charities on the morality of charity.

Charity Lectures Poverty

Speech to the Chicago Business Woman's Club, November 19, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses woman's capacity for bad behavior and that women's philanthropy should be more active in areas like child labor.

Child Labor Lectures Philanthropy Woman Suffrage

Speeches in Lincoln, October 26, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams discusses peace and women's roles in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Charity Lectures Peace

The Immigrants and American Charities, October 24, 1905

Addams delivered this address at the Illinois Conference on Charities on October 24, 1905, discussing the lack of interest in learning about recent immigrants and working with them.

Charity Child Labor Education Housing Immigrants Public Health

The New Social Spirit, December 1902

Addams discusses several charity and philanthropic efforts by the National Council of Jewish Women.

Charity Lectures Social Welfare

The Problem of Poverty, March 10, 1903 (excerpt)

Newspaper excerpts of Addams' speech about poverty and how to study it to help solve it.

The Progressive's Dilemma: The New Party, November 1912

Addams defends the planks of the Progressive Party's platform by giving evidence from her experience.

Immigrants Labor Philanthropy Politics Public Health Social Reform Social Work Woman Suffrage

The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need to understand the poor in order to solve the problems of poverty.

Charity Immigrants Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Work

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

The Struggle of Life Above the Poverty Line, 1913 (excerpts)

Addams' speech to the National Federation of Settlements on the impact of poverty, reprinted in shortened form in the conference proceedings.

Charity Conferences Labor Lectures Poverty Settlement Movement Social Work

The Struggle of Life Above the Poverty Line, September 26, 1913

Addams' speaks on the impact of poverty at the National Federation of Settlements in Pittsburgh.

Charity Conferences Labor Lectures Legislation Poverty Settlement Movement

The Subtle Problems of Charity, February 1899

Addams discusses the problems that charity workers face when they bring middle-class assumptions about the poor to their efforts to practically help them.

Charity Labor Poverty Social Work

Theodore Roosevelt to Jane Addams, January 13, 1915

Roosevelt asks Addams to read a letter and handle the potential issue of a man from his military regiment in need of money.

Charity Finances Military Requests

Vida Dutton Scudder to Jane Addams, April 2, 1900

Scudder tells Addams about her opposition to donations from the Rockefellers to Wellesley College.

Education Finances Philanthropy

Widows and Courts: Administering the Funds to Parents Act, March 18, 1914

Addams questions the process of how pension funds are being distributed to needing families and how it needs to be handled better while criticizing the city of Chicago's government for not doing enough to help the poor.

Charity Child Welfare Civil Service Illinois Legislation Philanthropy Politics Poverty Social Welfare

Widows and Courts: Administering the Funds to Parents Act, March 18, 1914

Addams questions the process of how pension funds are being distributed to needing families and how it needs to be handled better while criticizing the city of Chicago's government for not doing enough to help the poor.

Charity Child Welfare Civil Service Finances Illinois Legislation Microfilm Philanthropy Politics Poverty Social Welfare

William Arthur Maddox to Jane Addams, May 4, 1926

Maddox tells Addams that he was not successful getting donations for a Peace library from the Carnegie Foundation.

Art Education Philanthropy

William Colfax Graves for Julius Rosenwald to Jane Addams, April 30, 1914

Graves informs Addams that Rosenwald will be donating $500 to the National Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Finances

Woman and the Ballot: The Progressive View, October 6, 1912

Addams provides the Progressive take on Woman and the Ballot for a symposium in the Chicago Record-Herald. She discusses the process by which the government and politicians have taken up philanthropic work and argues that the Progressive Party is taking on many of the reforms philanthropists have been working on for years.

Philanthropy Politics Social Welfare Woman Suffrage

World's Peace Film, Inc. Brochure, 1915

Webster sends Addams a pamphlet on The World's Peace Film Co. which details the company's officers and its plan to create films to promote world peace. It also describes how people can invest in the company to make a profit.

Film Finances Peace Philanthropy

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