Jane Addams, 1860-1935. American social worker
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Finding-Aid for the Addams Papers [WTU00125]Collection Description
Papers, 1929-1935
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Born in Cedarville, Illinois on September 6, 1860 and graduated from Rockford College in 1882, Jane Addams founded the world famous social settlement Hull-House on Chicago's Near West Side in 1889. Until her death in 1935, Jane Addams built her reputation as the country's most prominent, and most controversial, woman through her writing, her settlement work, and her international efforts for world peace, which won her a Nobel Prize in 1931.
The papers consist of two letters to Sonja Lawrence, a patron
of Hull House, in which Addams thanks Lawrence for her generosity
and general interest in Hull House.
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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. American social worker