Florence Kelley collection, 1894-1981.

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Florence Kelley collection, 1894-1981.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56397579

The collection consists of printed items, a number of which are photocopies. It also includes some of her writings, a program for a memorial service for Kelley and Julia C. Lathrop, and articles about Kelley. Finally, it contains an article by her son Nicholas Kelley about the early days at Hull-House.

0.05 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7753361

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932

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Florence Kelley (A.B., Cornell, 1882) was born in Philadelphia. In 1884 she married Lazare Wischnewetzky; they had three children. In 1891 Kelley divorced him, reclaimed her maiden name, and became a resident of Chicago's Hull-House. In 1892 the Illinois Bureau of Labor Statistics hired her to investigate the "sweating" system in the garment industry and the federal commissioner of labor asked her to participate in a survey of city slums. Illinois Governor John Peter Altgeld later...