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
Frances Perkins
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Frances Perkins was an American workers-rights advocate who served as the fourth United States secretary of labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position. A member of the Democratic Pa
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…Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, trade union activist, resident Frances Perkins, labor rights advocate, later Secretary of Labor Adena Miller Rich, head resident 1935 to 1937…
Perkins, 1905–1945
Perkins at her desk c. 1919
Secretary of Labor Perkins on the cover of Time (August 14, 1933)
President Roosevelt signing the Social Security Act into law on August 14, 1935, with Perkins among those witnessing the signing (third from right)