Ellen Gates Starr papers, 1885-1940.

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Ellen Gates Starr papers, 1885-1940.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/56714684

The collection contains correspondence, clippings, drawings, and bookbinding patterns. Part of the collection, including the correspondence, consists of photocopies from the Ellen Gates Starr Papers at the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College.

3.5 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7756217

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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Starr, Ellen Gates 1859-1940

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Ellen Gates Starr (1859-1940) was an educator, social activist, and co-founder of Hull-House. Friends since their student days at Rockford Female Seminary, Ellen Gates Starr and Jane Addams founded Hull-House in 1889. There, Starr taught art appreciation classes and was active in the labor movement. Inspired by the Arts and Crafts movement, Starr studied with the English bookbinder T.J. Cobden Sanderson and opened a hand bookbinding shop at Hull-House in 1898. After converting to Catholicism and...