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Unknown to Jane Addams, written on Woman Suffrage Party admission ticket, ca. June 1912

Note addressed to Addams praising her article and commenting on the Woman Suffrage Party event on May 20, 1912.

St Louis Speech, May 23, 1910

Louise deKoven Bowen presented the report of the Children's Committee of the National Conference on Charities and Correction for Jane Addams, discussing the lives of children in tenements and proposing more resources for recreation for them. The…

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Conferences Education Lectures

Charity and Social Justice, May 19, 1910

Addams' Presidential Address at the National Conference on Charities and Correction, held in St. Louis on May 19-26. Addams reviews the history of charity work and the challenges ahead. She gives examples from her experiences at Hull-House and…

Charity Chicago Child Welfare Conferences Lectures Philanthropy Recreation Settlement Movement Social Reform Social Work

Immigrants, June 26, 1909

Addams reviews the research and papers of her colleagues on the topics of immigration, employment, and education at the National Charities and Correction meeting.

Conferences Immigrants Juvenile Delinquency Labor Prostitution

Address to the Second National Peace Congress, March 12, 1909 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the nature of the peace movement and the key players within it before the Chicago Association of Commerce.

Conferences Peace

Address on Street Trading, March 1909

Addams discusses a previous study on newsboys and argues that there are no child labor laws that protect them. These comments were made at the National Child Labor Committee annual meeting in January 1909.

Chicago Child Labor Conferences Legislation

Woman's Special Training for Peacemaking., May 1909

Addams argues that it is time for women to work in groups and advocate for causes that are important to them, like peace. Addams gave this address at the Second National Peace Congress in Chicago on April 27, 1909. This version was published in the…

Conferences Peace Women's Rights

Jane Addams to John Sherman Hoyt, March 28, 1911

Addams asks Hoyt for construction information needed to mount the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit.

Child Welfare Conferences Finances Requests

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Lewis A. Kalbach, March 24, 1911

Breckinridge suggests Graham Taylor in place of Addams to serve on the Congress on Public Assistance in Antwerp.

Conferences Requests Travels

Jane Addams to John Sherman Hoyt, March 24, 1911

Addams asks Holt if it is possible to borrow the entire New York Exhibit for the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit.

Child Welfare Conferences Requests

Jane Addams to Mr. McCahill, March 23, 1911

Addams invites McCahill to come to Chicago for a meeting about the Child Welfare Exhibit.

Conferences Requests Travels

Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit, General Committee List, March 1911

A list of the members on the general committee for the Child Welfare Exhibit held at the Chicago Coliseum in May 1911.

Child Welfare Conferences

Jane Addams, et. al. to Walter L. Fisher, March 23, 1911

Addams and other executive members of the Chicago Child Welfare Exhibit invite Fisher to join the General Committee in support of the event.

Child Welfare Conferences Requests

Jane Addams to Edward A. Ross, January 14, 1911

Addams accepts Ross' invitation to speak at a meeting of the American Sociological Association in December.

Conferences Travels

Sophonisba P. Breckinridge to Jane Addams, March 13, 1911

Breckinridge writes Addams about finances, planning, and expected attendees of the upcoming National American Woman Suffrage Association convention in Chicago.

Conferences Finances Woman Suffrage