Helen Culver Ewing Breasted papers, 1910-2000.

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Helen Culver Ewing Breasted papers, 1910-2000.

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This collection consists of photocopies of eleven letters written by Helen Culver Ewing to her parents Mary Everts Ewing and Charles Hull Ewing. The correspondence dates from November 10, 1931 to May 11, 1932. Written permission to quote from these letters must be obtained from Helen Culver Ewing Breasted's heirs.

0.25 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7780217

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...

Breasted, Helen Culver Ewing.

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Helen Culver Ewing (Breasted) and her sister Katherine Everts Ewing (Hocking) worked as volunteers at the Hull-House settlement house in Chicago during the winter of 1931-1932. The two young women were relatives of Charles J. Hull, who built the original home in which the settlement was founded and great-nieces of Helen Culver, who had inherited the property from Charles Hull. Culver donated and sold parts of the property to Jane Addams for the settlement house and became a board member and freq...