Hull House
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Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original
Hull House in the early 20th century
Hull House community workshop poster, 1938
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum in 2006. The museum is located in and preserves the first building from which the Addams settlement took its name, Hull House, and one related structure. Additional settlement facilities, which over-time grew up around the house, were removed in the 1960s.
Smith Hall along Halsted St., 1910
Jane Addams
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Laura Jane Addams was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker, sociologist, public administrator, philosopher, and author. She was a leader in the history of social work and women's s
Hull House
…Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of Chicago, Hull House, named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull, opened…
Addams c. 1926
Jane Addams as a young woman, undated studio portrait by Cox, Chicago
Jane Addams, 1915
A 1912 sketch of Addams with Alva Vanderbilt Belmont, both members of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. Addams was a vice president of the organization.