Robert and Ada Hicks papers, 1913-1988.

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Robert and Ada Hicks papers, 1913-1988.

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This collection contains correspondence, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Correspondents include Jane Addams, Alice Hamilton, Esther Loeb Kohn, Eleanor and Gertrude Smith, and Louise de Koven Bowen. The materials pertain to the Bowen Country Club, Hull-House residents, fundraising, Hull-House boys club and the Hull-House Italian Mothers Club.

0.75 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7652396

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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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...

Bowen Country Club

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Hicks, Ada, 1900-1988

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Hicks, Robert, 1900-1987

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Ada Hicks (1900-1988) and Robert Hicks (1900-1987) were Hull-House residents who later became directors of the Joseph T. Bowen Country Club (1938-1958), the Hull-House sponsored summer camp. As a Hull-House resident, Robert Hicks was co-director of the Hull-House Boys Club with Wallace Kirkland. He also served as the wrestling coach at Tilden High School in Chicago from the mid 1920's to 1958. From the description of Robert and Ada Hicks papers, 1913-1988. (University of Illinois-Chi...