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Statement on Tenement Housing in Chicago, May 1, 1901

Addams reports on the recommendations of the City Homes Association in regard to the building of tenement houses in Chicago.

Housing Hull-House Lectures Poverty

Jane Addams to Cyrus Bentley, May 15, 1901

Addams provides Bentley with an update on the work of the Investigating Committee of the City Homes Association.

Housing Publishing

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

Robert Weeks DeForest to Jane Addams, November 25, 1903

DeForest suggests that if Tammany Hall politicians let Charles Rall go, it would be an opportunity to hire him.

Housing Politics Requests

Jane Addams to Raymond Robins, September 7, 1904

Addams asks Robins if he the City Homes Association could buy some housing exhibits.

Housing Requests

Albert M. Kales to Jane Addams, September 26, 1904

Kales reports on the status of a City Homes Association meeting and asks a question posed in the meeting.

Housing Requests

Charles B. Ball to Jane Addams, October 21, 1905

Ball enclosed the minutes of the City Homes Association's recent meeting.

Housing

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

Report on Exhibits on Housing of the Working Class, Louisiana Purchase Exposition Commission, February 8, 1906

Addams reports on efforts of women in creating exhibits that discussed British efforts to provide adequate housing for impoverished families.

Conferences Housing Social Work

George H. Murphy to Jane Addams, July 23, 1907

Murphy sends Addams estimates for the prices of real estate in Chicago for the West Park Board.

Finances Housing Property

Social Legislation and the Need for the Ballot for Women (excerpt), March 21, 1908

Addams discusses poor women in Chicago and their need for suffrage at a meeting of the College Equal Suffrage Society at Boston University on March 21. The excerpt was published later.

Housing Immigrants Woman Suffrage Women's Rights

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 16, 1910

Addams writes McCormick about organizing a luncheon or other event of the City Homes Association in January.

Housing Requests

Jane Addams to John Ihlder, October 18, 1911

Addams agrees to attend the National Housing Committee meeting.

Housing Meetings Requests

The Child at the Point of Greatest Pressure, June 16, 1912

At the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Cleveland from June 12-19, Addams discusses how the difficulties of children can rouse society's greatest sentiments for charity, but that children also have for their own intrinsic value. The speech was published in the Proceedings.

Child Welfare Housing Hull-House Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Music Poverty Recreation

Program for the Informal Conference on English Housing, November 1914

This program outlines the subjects of several discussions to be had at the National Housing Association's conference on English housing on November 23, 1914.

Conferences England Housing

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, January 26, 1915

Lathrop writes Addams asking for a recommendation for someone to travel to New Bedford, MA to look into what is being done with regards to infant mortality.

Children Housing Requests

Edith Abbott to Julia Clifford Lathrop, January 26, 1915

Abbott writes Lathrop on behalf of Addams suggesting someone to travel to New Bedford, MA to look over what is being done in regards to housing.

Housing Introduction Onsite

Eleanor Daggett Karsten to Grace Margaret Tully, May 21, 1917

Karsten tells Tully that she sent her request on girls' dormitories to Edith Reider.

Children Housing Requests

Liberty Buildings as Victory Monuments, December 1918 Also known as The Community House--An Element in Reconstruction, December 1918 Also known as Liberty Buildings, November 1918

A reprint of three articles arguing that rather than erecting monuments, cities should build community centers as memorials to the war dead.

Architecture Democracy Employment Finances Housing Public Works World War I

Jane Addams to Manley Ottmer Hudson, May 31, 1919

Addams writes to Hudson about a manuscript, mentioning an acquaintance who started a lodging house for Hungarian girls.

Charity Housing Immigrants Meetings Settlement Movement Social Work

Address to the Illinois State Conference of Charities and Corrections, October 24, 1919 (excerpts)

Addams discusses the impact of housing and food shortages in Europe on children's health.

England Food Shortages France Germany Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Address to the Social Workers' Club of Detroit, January 25, 1920 (excerpts)

Addams describes the conditions in Europe after the war.

Food Shortages Housing Lectures Relief Efforts

Henrietta Octavia Rowland Barnett to Jane Addams, November 21, 1920

Barnett regrets not seeing Addams before returing to England, advises her to drop the American Commission work, and bemoans her lack of success in raising funds.

Education Finances Help!Housing Ireland Lectures Requests Settlement Movement Travels United States