Hull House, ca. 1890s [picture]. [189-?]

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Hull House, ca. 1890s [picture]. [189-?]

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Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr founded Hull House on September 18, 1889, at the corner of Polk and Halsted Streets. Eventually, this social service agency grew to comprise 13 buildings on the city's Near West Side. In the 1920s, nearly 9,000 people visited Hull House per week. In 1891, Jane Addams provided library space in the Butler Gallery of Hull House as an added feature to the social movement occurring on Chicago's Near West Side. The children's reading room was stocked with books supplied by the Chicago Public Library, and the collections included a display of toys from around the world to tap the imaginations of the children viewing them. The library also had collections serving young adults and adults.

1 photograph : b&w ; 23 x 16 cm.

Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center

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Chicago Public Library, Harold Washington Library Center

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Hull House (Chicago, Ill.)

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Hull House was a settlement house in Chicago, Illinois, United States that was co-founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. Located on the Near West Side of the city, Hull House (named after the original house's first owner Charles Jerald Hull) opened to serve recently arrived European immigrants. By 1911, Hull House had expanded to 13 buildings. In 1912 the Hull House complex was completed with the addition of a summer camp, the Bowen Country Club. With its innovative social, educat...

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