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Address to Franklin Street Settlement, March 17, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams speaks to the Franklin Street Settlement in Detroit about working in a settlement.

Immigrants Lectures Settlement Movement

Address to B'rith Kodesh Temple, March 18, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the formation and goals of Hull-House in a speech to the B'rith Kodesh Temple.

Biography Lectures Settlement Movement

What the Theater at Hull House Has Done for the Neighborhood People (extract), March 29, 1902

In this published excerpt of a lecture given on March 25, 1902, Addams describes how Hull-House provides a cheaper form of theater entertainment for the neighborhood.

Hull-House Theater

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

Speech to the League for Political Education, March 29, 1902 (excerpt)

A summary of Addams's speech on saloons before the League for Political Education in New York argues for limiting, not stopping, the sale of liquor.

New Ideals of Peace, March 30, 1902 (excerpt) Also known as Address to the Ethical Cultural Society, March 30, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams addresses the Ethical Culture Society about those who oppose war, specifically those who believe that war is unnatural.

Internationalism Lectures Peace War

Address to the Chicago Business Women's Club, April, 1902

Addams addresses the Chicago Business Women's Club on factors that may cause children to grow into "tramps."

Child Labor Child Welfare Crime Lectures

Address to the Hull-House Woman's Club, April 16, 1902

Addams reports about Chicago's reputation on the East Coast as a dirty city.

Lectures Prohibition Sanitation

Address to Hull House Woman's Club, April 16, 1902

Addams reports about Chicago's reputation on the East Coast as a dirty city.

Hull-House Lectures Sanitation

Employer and Employee, August 25, 1902

An article about an upcoming conference of employers and employees centered on discussion of the eight-hour workday.

Conferences Labor

Address to Los Angeles YWCA, May 4, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams' discusses child labor before the Los Angeles YWCA.

Child Labor Lectures

Statement on Train Wreck, May 12, 1902

Addams reflects on the railroad crash she endured and gives her impressions of the General Federation of Women's Clubs meeting.

Conferences Health Transportation Travels

Delinquent Children, May 31, 1902

Addams addresses the Merchants Club of Chicago regarding the stealing and gambling habits of young, immigrant boys.

Child Welfare Children Gambling Immigrants Poverty Youth

Testimony on Chicago Building Ordinances, June 2, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the need for better building regulations to prevent tenement fires.

Housing Immigrants

The Housing Problem in Chicago, July 1902

Addams argues that tenement conditions are bad and that regulations are needed to prevent worsening conditions.

Housing Immigrants Social Welfare

Statement on Child Labor at the Hull House Summer School, July 3, 1902

Addams discusses child labor, the topic of an upcoming lecture at the Summer School.

Child Labor Education Hull-House Lectures

The Newer Ideals of Peace, July 7, 1902

Addams' first of two lectures on the topic of "Newer Ideals of Peace," this one about recent wars and their effects on Russia.

Russia War

Arts and Crafts and the Settlement, July 8, 1902

An excerpt of Addams' lecture on how settlement houses give people opportunities to practice arts and crafts, an important activity for immigrants afraid of losing their cultural heritage.

Hull-House Immigrants Microfilm Settlements

The Newer Ideals of Peace, July 9, 1902

Addams's second of two lectures on the topic of "Newer Ideals of Peace," this one about the impact of labor and trade on international relations.

England Industry Jobs Labor Russia

Count Tolstoy, the Russian Peasant, July 10, 1902

Addams discusses the life of Leo Tolstoy and the conditions he faced in Russia.

Books Russia

Tolstoy's Theory of Life, July 11, 1902

Addams discusses how the peasant influenced the work of Tolstoy and his approach to labor.

Books Labor Russia

Lecture on Social Settlement System, July 28, 1902

Addams discusses the settlement house's role as a charity and the means by which it appeals to the poor. She spoke at the Decatur Chautauqua.

Charities Child Labor Lectures Settlement Movement Social Work

To Aid Craftsmen, August 15, 1902

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

Hull-House Immigrants Labor

Reply to Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews, August 17, 1902

Addams responds to Dr. E. Benjamin Andrews provocative statement that unmarried individuals "have no place in society nor in the scheme of the universe." This is part of a longer article that quotes many people.

Marital Relations Writings

A New Democracy, August 21, 1902

Charles Love criticizes the tendency of employers and employees to have separate lives outside the shop door, and he seeks a new social order in which they would interact at work and outside of work.

Democracy Labor Social Reform

Statement at the Negro Exposition, August 27, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams attends the Middle States and Mississippi Valley Negro Exposition and comments that in future the work of women will equal that of men.

African-Americans

Georgiana Winthrop Robinson Storer to Jane Addams, ca. September 10, 1902

A printed invitation to the wedding of Ethel Winthrop and John Addams Linn.

Family Weddings

Speech to the Hull-House Woman's Club on Old Chicago, September 17, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams tells stories of pioneers in Chicago that her father told her.

History Lectures

Speech to the American League of Civic Improvement, September, 24, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams discusses the education of immigrants

Education Immigrants Lectures

The Social Waste of Child Labor, October 4, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams exhorts members of the Chicago Political Equality League to work against child labor and towards educating the poor.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Resolution Calling for Addams to be Appointed to the Arbitration Commission for the Miner's Strike, October 17, 1902

Reports the creation of a resolution by the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs to name Jane Addams to President Roosevelt's commission to settle a miner's strike.

Government Labor Requests

Address to the Initiative and Referendum League, October 26, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the benefits to having a referendum system.

Democracy Government Lectures

Comments on Child Labor, November 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discussed the ills of child labor at a meeting of interested people in Chicago.

Child Labor Lectures

Charity and Its Motives as Seen by Jane Addams, November 14, 1902

Addams holds that charitable work enables a better understanding of the poor, at a meeting of the Illinois Board of Charities and the Men's Club of the Fourth Presbyterian Church.

Charity Child Labor Lectures

Speech to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902

Addams proposes changes to the child labor and compulsory education laws for endorsement to the League of Cook County Women's Clubs.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Club Women Urged to Visit Factories, Chicago Inter Ocean, November 16, 1902, p. 7..jpg

Speech to the Cook County League of Women's Clubs, November 15, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams and De Bey urge Chicago clubwomen to visit factories to see the working conditions for children and discuss a measure that will make it more difficult to keep children out of school.

Child Labor Education Lectures Legislation

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

Audience Questions after The Social Results of Charitable Effort, November 17, 1902

Addams and Dibble argue about the nature of the poor after she gives her speech.

Lectures Poverty Public Opinion

Speech to Pilgrim Congregational Church, November 24, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses means of closing the divide between capitalist and trade unions.

Business Education Labor Lectures

The New Social Spirit, December 1902

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

Charity Lectures Social Welfare

Social Results of Charitable Effort, December 1, 1902

Addams discusses efforts made to reach the needy through settlement work. She delivered this speech at the annual meeting of the Associated Charities.

Charity Hull-House Lectures Social Work

Statement on Women Workers Marriages, December 6, 1902 (excerpt)

Addams weighs in on the idea that women who work in household service are more likely to marry more frequently and in better circumstance. This is part of a longer article.

Labor Marital Relations

Social Results of the New Education, December 18, 1902 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the problems of child labor in relation to compulsory education.

Child Labor Education Lectures Onsite

Statement on Open Separation Contract, December 30, 1902

Addams refuses to be quoted about Frances Dickinson's ideas about marriage by contract.

Lectures Marital Relations

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