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Harriet J. Fowler to Jane Addams, April 27, 1911

Fowler sends Addams correspondence between Owen Lovejoy and Ben Lindsey, regarding a benefit held by the Alliance for the Protection of Stage Children.

Child Labor Theater

Henry Walcott Farnam et al. to Unknown, [1910]

Letter welcoming people to join the American Association for Labor Legislation for a small fee.

Child Labor Industry Labor Memberships Onsite Requests Unemployment Women's Rights

Horace James Bridges to Jane Addams, May 19, 1925

Bridges gives Addams his ideas on improving the Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Legislation

Industrial Accidents to Working Minors, ca. February 1925

The Bureau reports on industrial accidents in New Jersey, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.

Child Labor Child Welfare Government Industry Public Health

Interview with Mrs. Anna V. Morrison, December 26, 1911

Parker reports on an interview with Morrison regarding Addams' opposition to a child actor exception to the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law.

Child Labor Public Opinion Theater

Introductory Note to Children in American Street Trades, [1905]

Addams provides an introduction for a reprint of Myron E. Adams' article published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, on the working conditions of newspaper boys.

Child Welfare Labor Settlement Movement

Introductory Note to Children in American Street Trades, [1905]

Addams provides an introduction for a reprint of Myron E. Adams' article published in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, on the working conditions of newspaper boys.

Child Labor Labor Settlements

Jane Addams and Harriet Eliza Merriam Van Der Vaart to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 1, 1909

Addams and Van der Vaart ask Blaine to be a part of the Illinois Child Labor Committee and attend at least one meeting.

Labor Legislation Requests

Jane Addams et al. to Bryan Lathrop, December 15, 1905

Writing on behalf of the National Child Labor Committee, Addams and others court financial support from public-spirited citizens in Chicago, Boston and Philadelphia.

Children Labor Philanthropy Requests

Jane Addams Sees Progressives as Children's Hope, September 25, 1912

Addams explains the Progressive Party's approach to child labor and legislation.

Child Labor Education Legislation

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, April 21, 1909

Addams invites Blaine to a meeting of the Illinois Child Labor Committee.

Labor Legislation Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 8, 1914

Addams catches up with Blaine' discussing a proposed school survey, Blaine's invitation to the National Child Labor Committee, and her annual donation to Hull-House.

Child Labor Finances Hull-House Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, February 6, 1902

Addams invites Blaine to a speech she is giving at the Chicago Woman's Club.

Lectures Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, January 20, 1904

Addams encloses a message from Edgar Murphy and urges Blaine to support it.

Child Labor Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 2, 1921

Addams sends Blaine a quote on child labor.

Child Labor

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, May 2, 1921

Addams asks Blaine to support a campaign to defeat an Illinois law that would loosen restrictions on child labor.

Child Labor Child Welfare Illinois Legislation Requests

Jane Addams to Arthur Hale Woods, February 3, 1914

Addams informs Woods that she has forwarded his question in regards to children in the theater to Mr. Lovejoy. She also implies that though children should not perform if exploited by managers for profit, it is allowable if it is done with education in mind.

Child Labor Theater

Jane Addams to Constance D'Arcy Mackay, February 22, 1912

Addams thanks Mackay for her previous letter and reports that she has forwarded it on to the Secretary of the Illinois Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor

Jane Addams to Dimies T. S. Denison and the General Federation of Women's Clubs, ca. December 1903

Addams writes to the members of the General Federation of Women's Clubs regarding the organization's work with child labor and the letter

Child Labor Social Welfare

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, December 29, 1902

Addams writes Kelley about a child labor bibliography, work with charities, and Margaret Kelley's injury playing basketball.

Charity Friends Publishing

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, February 1, 1904

Addams tells Kelley that she has joined the Child Labor Committee and asks about Kelley's son, John.

Child Labor Friends Health

Jane Addams to Grace Abbott, October 29, 1927

Addams asks Abbott to draft a program on child labor for the Pan Pacific Women's Conference and hopes that she will attend it.

Child Labor Conferences Requests

Jane Addams to John Gillett Oglesby, May 8, 1911

Addams asks Oglesby to allow herself or someone else to testify before the Illinois Senate in regard to legislation that would give theaters an exception to employing children after hours.

Child Labor Legislation Theater

Jane Addams to Waldo Ralph Browne, March 9, 1922

Addams tells Browne stories about John Altgeld for a biography he is writing.

Child Labor Hull-House Visits Illinois Politics Requests

Jane Addams to William Howard Taft, November 20, 1911

Addams asks for Taft's support on a bill to establish a Child Labor Bureau.

Child Labor Child Welfare Legislation Politics Requests

John A. Butler to Jane Addams, January 19, 1909

Butler writes Addams about his desire to have Ben B. Lindsey speak in Milwaukee.

Labor Meetings Requests

John Dutton Wansor to Jane Addams, January 17, 1924

Wansor tells Addams that he is forwarding her letter to Owen Lovejoy.

Child Labor

John G. Witt to Jane Addams, August 14, 1912

Witt writes Addams about his financial troubles and his distrust of Theodore Roosevelt.

Employment Labor Politics

John Gillett Oglesby to Jane Addams, May 9, 1911

Oglesby informs Addams that allowing her request to speak at the hearings on the child actor bill was not within his power.

Child Labor Legislation Theater

John T. Denvir to Jane Addams, May 10, 1911

Denvir informs Addams that the Illinois legislative bill, which would have allowed theaters to employ children after hours, failed in large part to her efforts against it.

Child Labor Legislation Theater

Joseph D. Beck to Jane Addams, April 19, 1911

Beck writes Addams to ask for the arguments she presented before the Illinois legislature regarding a bill to exempt child actors for the 1903 Illinois Child Labor Law.

Child Labor Legislation

List of Authors of Papers to be Included in Forthcoming Book, June 24, 1910

Addams lists authors of papers to be included in a book.

Books Publishing

Louise de Koven Bowen to Editor of Chicago Evening Post, March 6, 1909

Bowen responds to Minnie Fiske's letter promoting child labor in the theater.

Child Labor Education Theater

Louise Muller Spear Hatfield to Jane Addams, April 27, 1909

Hatfield sends Addams a newspaper clipping and discusses the Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Labor

Madeleine Zabriskie Doty to Jane Addams, January 15, 1913

Doty sends Addams a proposed plan for the National Progressive Party Bureau of Education and asks for feedback.

Education Labor Progressive

Mike F. Matheny to Jane Addams, November 29, 1912

Matheny informs Addams about the Progressive legislation agenda and suffrage in West Virginia and asks her to be a part of it all.

Child Labor Labor Legislation Requests

The Torture Tunnel -- The Underground Way -- From God's Altar to Hell's Sweatshops, August 3, 1912 Also known as Our National Politics, August 3, 1912

A description of a Catholic sweatshop in Cincinnati that supposedly drugs young women and an attack on William Howard Taft as being pro-Catholic.

Child Labor Politics Religion White Slavery

Outline of an Industrial Social Policy, May 23, 1912 (fragment)

An outline listing the Committee on Industrial Relations' steps to creating a safe and healthy workplace.

Jobs Labor

Owen Reed Lovejoy and Alexander Jeffrey McKelway to Jane Addams, January 25, 1910

Lovejoy and McKelway are seeking support for a Congressional bill to establish the Federal Children's Bureau.

Child Welfare Labor Politics Requests

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Benjamin Barr Lindsey, March 3, 1911

Lovejoy writes Lindsey regarding efforts to break child labor laws in Massachusetts, Illinois, and Louisiana, and notes that Jane Addams is "spending night and day" to ensure that the law in Illinois holds fast.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, April 15, 1914

Lovejoy writes Addams to have her help collect more money from friends in Chicago for the National Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Finances Requests

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, August 6, 1908

Lovejoy asks Kansas citizens to build a Kansas branch of the National Child Labor Committee. Addams likely received this as a member of the national organization.

Child Labor Requests