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Women of the East Have Been Aroused by World Shake-up, May 16, 1924

Jane Addams to Hannah Clothier Hull, August 11, 1932

Address of Miss Jane Addams before Resolutions Committee, Democratic National Convention, June 24, 1932

Addams asks the Democratic National Convention to adopt ap peace plank that includes participation in the League of Nations, global disarmament, the cancelling of war debts, and recognition of the Government of the Soviet Union.

Disarmament Foreign Policy International Affairs League of Nations Lectures Peace Politics Requests Soviet Union United States

What Prohibition Has Done for Disadvantaged Communities, May 1932

A compilation of testimony offered by Jane Addams and Evangeline Booth about the impact of prohibition in poor communities.

Poverty Prohibition

Jane Addams to Harold Strong Latham, April 26, 1932

Addams tells Latham how unhappy she is with the marketing for the Excellent Becomes the Permanent.

Books Finances Publishing

Jane Addams to Mabel Vernon, April 13, 1932

Addams tells Vernon that she cannot raise funds for peace due to the need for unemployment relief in the United States.

Economics Finances Peace Requests

Jane Addams to Jeanette Rankin, April 12, 1932

Addams tells Rankin that she will ride in the peace parade in Chicago that hoped to influence the Democratic and Republican conventions.

Peace Politics Requests

Jane Addams to Manley Ottmer Hudson, March 30, 1932

Addams thanks Hudson for his help in securing the Nobel Prize and describes how she will use the money.

Books Finances Nobel Prize Peace

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar to Jane Addams, December 15, 1931

Ambedkar sends Addams his wishes for a quick recovery from illness and hopes that he can see her while in America.

Gratitude Health India Praise

Ramananda Chatterjee to Jane Addams, ca. July 20, 1931

Publications Requests Tributes

Jane Addams to Elizabeth Peale Ryder, May 18, 1931

Addams tells Ryder that she is not a Communist and that peace work is not compatible with communism.

Anti-radicalism Communism Criticism Peace

Jane Addams to Settie Swarts Kuhn, December 20, 1930

Addams asks Kuhn to apologize to Rabbi Heller for her error in saying that Sidney Webb was from a poor Jewish background.

Religion

Jane Addams to Charles P. Schwartz, December 9, 1930

Addams asks Schwartz to renew his donation to Hull-House.

Finances Hull-House Requests

The B&O Cooperative Plan in Pump Manufacture, December 1930

Business Industry Labor

Jane Addams to Sidney Webb, ca. December 1930 (fragment)

Addams apologizes to Webb for erroneously saying that he was born to poor Jewish parents.

Religion

Carl Bismarck Roden to Jane Addams, November 28, 1930

Roden tells Addams that the Chicago Public Library will extend the hours of the Hull-House branch to help serve unemployed men.

Hull-House Library Requests

Jane Addams to Setty Swarts Kuhn, October 8, 1930

Addams accepts Kuhn's invitation to speak in Cleveland.

Lectures Requests

Nicolae Titulescu to Mary Ryott Sheepshanks, September 27, 1930

League of Nations Peace Public Opinion

Invitation to the Fortieth Birthday of Hull-House, May 9, 1930

Addams and Starr invite guests to the Hull-House anniversary.

Celebrations Hull-House Requests

Outtakes from Fox Movietone Film on Settlements (Fox News Story 6-150), May 9, 1930

Several filmed outtakes of Jane Addams discussing the history of settlements and the work that they do with a group of children. Click this link to view the video, which comes from a 35mm nitrocellulose negative. The film is hosted by the University of South Carolina's Moving Image Research Collection. A reference card about the clip is also attached.

Film Hull-House Settlement Movement Youth