Papers, 1916-1970.
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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...
Boyd, Neva Leona
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Neva Leona Boyd (1876-1963) was a proponent of the modern play movement, which emphasized the importance of recreation in socializing individuals. She founded the Chicago School for Playground Workers in 1909. From 1914 to 1920, the school operated as the Recreation Department of the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy. Most of the classes were taught at Hull-House and Jane Addams served on the Board of Directors. When the School of Civics and Philanthropy was incorporated into the Univers...
Schlotter, Bertha E.
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Bertha Schlotter was a pioneer in the field of recreational therapy. As a member of the Illinois Department of Public Welfare, she studied the role that recreation could play in the treatment of people with developmental disabilities. To this end, she documented the results of a three-year project to study the use of recreation therapy at the Lincoln (Ill.) State School and Colony for the Mentally Retarded. The results were published as An Experiment in Recreation with the Mentally Retarded. ...
