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Dinwiddie, Courtenay (1882-1943)

Child Labor

Hamlin, Emily Gray (1882-1933)

Birth Control Child Labor Child Welfare Peace United States Woman Suffrage

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, July 2, 1928

Lathrop offers Addams advice on the child labor programming at the Pan-Pacific Women's Conference.

Child Labor Conferences

Walter L. Runyan to Jane Addams, September 30, 1926

Runyan asks Addams for advice about raising American awareness on issues in Asia.

Child Labor China Education Requests Travels

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, March 3, 1928

Kelley tells Addams not to give her name to an enemy of child labor.

Child Labor Public Opinion Requests

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

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, October 22, 1927

Kelley asks Addams for suggestions of people to send a Survey article about the National Manufacturers' Association.

Child Labor Publications Requests

Speech on Child Labor at the Wisconsin Capitol, January 29, 1925 (excerpts)

Addams argues for passing the Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Government Lectures

Speech to the American Association for Labor Legislation, December 29, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams argues that states rights arguments are being used to defeat the child labor amendment.

Child Labor Lectures

Jane Addams to Adena Miller Rich, February 14, 1925

Addams sends Rich information about the child labor bill to show Mrs. Goodrich.

Child Labor Requests

Speech to the Women's City Club, March 29, 1924 (summary)

Addams discusses child labor conditions she saw on her trip to Asia.

Child Labor China India Lectures Travels

Sharp, Derelle Horsey (?-1969)

Child Labor Clubs United States

Impressions of Political Movements in the Orient, March 29, 1924 (excerpts)

Addams discusses child labor, the work of missionaries, and women's rights in China and India at the Woman's City Club

Child Labor China India Lectures Social Work Woman Suffrage

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

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, March 18, 1925 Also known as Owen Reed Lovejoy to the Trustees of the National Child Labor Committee, March 18, 1925

Lovejoy updates Addams on efforts to pass a Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Meetings

Grace Abbott to Jane Addams, February 8, 1925

Abbott writes Addams to discuss the child labor amendment and current politics.

Child Labor Conferences Government Peace Politics

Jane Addams to Esther Loeb Kohn, June 17, 1925

Addams asks Kohn to take on the chairmanship of the Illinois Joint Committee on Ratification of the Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Requests

Address on Child Labor, May 9, 1923 (summary)

Addams urged China to study of child labor and work against it.

Child Labor China Lectures

Horace James Bridges to Jane Addams, May 19, 1925

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

Child Labor Legislation

Some Phases of Internationalism, May 9, 1923 (excerpts)

Addams discusses child labor and the impact that it has on society.

Child Labor China Lectures

Some Phases of Internationalism, May 9, 1923 (excerpts)

Addams discusses child labor and the impact that it has on society.

Child Labor China Lectures

Speech on Woman Suffrage, March 9, 1914

Addams speaks on women's suffrage in Birmingham and declares that women's voting power would be used to combat child labor.

Child Labor Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Mariette Powers Benton to Jane Addams, December 4, 1924

Benton asks Addams for the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom's opinion on the proposed Child Labor Amendment and whether their group should support it.

Child Labor Peace Requests

In Recognition of the Leadership of Women, April 10, 1929 Also known as The Pageant of Emancipation, April 10, 1929

Addams discusses the progress of women and their importance to society in the western world and in Asia at a regional meeting of the Young Woman's Christian Association.

Jane Addams to Mariette Powers Benton, December 6, 1924

Addams tells Benton that she hopes that the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom will formally support the proposed Child labor Amendment.

Child Labor Legislation Peace

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, October 11, 1924

Kelley gives Addams a sense of the publicity campaign to pass the Child Labor amendment.

Child Labor Government Journalism Law

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, September 27, 1924

Kelley asks Addams to write an article to help a push to ratify the Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Requests Writings

Chautauqua Speech, August 30, 1905 (summary)

Addams discusses the plight of child labor and immigration in a speech to the Chautauqua.

Child Labor Immigrants Lectures

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Debate on Child Labor, November 13, 1911 (excerpts)

Addams debates the issue of child labor on the stage with Norman Hapgood, Agnes Repplier, and Otis Skinner at the Contemporary Club in Philadelphia.

Child Labor Lectures Theater

Jane Addams to Paul Underwood Kellogg, November 4, 1924

Addams tells Kellogg she will do her best for Florence Kelley but she is still working on an article on child labor.

Child Labor Requests Writing

Grace Abbott to Jane Addams, November 1, 1924

Abbott tells Addams that she thinks it wise to postpone resigning from the Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor

Child Labor Law, October 28, 1924

Everett attacks the Child Labor Amendment as un-American, dangerous, and radical and associates the movement with Bolsheviks.

Anti-radicalism Child Labor Communism Criticism Government Legislation

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, October 29, 1924

Addams asks Kelley if she would like to write something to Suzette Meyer.

Child Labor Requests Writing

The Case for the Constitutional Amendment, ca. October 1924

The Children's Bureau argues for the passage of an amendment to the constitution to protect children.

Child Labor Government Legislation United States

Durfee, Ina Jarvis Nagle (1882-1981)

Child Labor Social Work United States

Statement Regarding History of the Language of the Child Labor Amendment, ca. October 1924

The Bureau details the history of the development of the Child Labor Amendment.

Child Labor Legislation United States

Ellen Nathalie Matthews to Jane Addams, October 17, 1924

Matthews sends Addams copies of Children's Bureau literature on child labor to use for her article.

Child Labor Government Legislation

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, October 16, 1924

Kelley asks Addams to write an article on child labor for McCall's Magazine.

Child Labor Legislation Requests Writings

Jane Addams to Florence Kelley, July 23, 1924

Addams tells Kelley that she might visit her in Connecticut.

Child Labor Travels

Comments to the Chicago Woman's Club, October 7, 1908 (excerpt)

At a meeting of the education department of the Chicago Woman's Club, Addams encourages the use of school health care workers and censuses.

Child Labor Education Lectures

Child Labor Laws, July 10, 1924

See argues for the abolition of child labor law and maligns social workers and woman suffrage .

Child Labor Criticism Labor Law Woman Suffrage

Alonzo Bertram See to Jane Addams, July 10, 1924

See sends Addams a statement on his opposition to child labor laws.

Child Labor Labor Law

Florence Kelley to Jane Addams, July 28, 1924

Kelley tells Addams how she responded to Alonzo See's attack on child labor legislation and worries over Addams's health.

Child Labor Health Visits

Anderson, Adelaide Mary (1863-1936)

Child Labor China Social Work

Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, February 26, 1924

Lovejoy asks Addams to reconsider resigning from the National Child Labor Committee.

Child Labor Memberships Requests

Harold LeClair Ickes to Jane Addams, March 12, 1924

Ickes lists out Hiram W. Johnson's legislative effort of interest to women.

Child Labor Child Welfare Education Finances Housing Immigration Juvenile Delinquency Labor Politics Prisons Prostitution Women's Rights

Brown, Dorothy Kirchwey (1888-1981)

Child Labor Child Welfare Women's Rights

John Dutton Wansor to Jane Addams, January 17, 1924

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

Child Labor

Wansor, John Dutton (1871?-1925)

Child Labor Religion Social Work

Comments on the Illinois Women's Eight Hour Bill, May 15, 1925

Addams discusses the impact of the proposed Illinois’ “Eight Hour Bill” on both men and women workers. She spoke at a meeting of the Joint Committee for the Women's Eight Hour Bill held at the Morrison Hotel.

Child Labor Lectures Legislation

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Owen Reed Lovejoy to Jane Addams, March 18, 1925 Also known as Owen Reed Lovejoy to the Trustees of the National Child Labor Committee, March 18, 1925

In Recognition of the Leadership of Women, April 10, 1929 Also known as The Pageant of Emancipation, April 10, 1929

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