Friendship House (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1937-2000.

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Friendship House (Chicago, Ill.) records, 1937-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/712708053

Correspondence, staff meeting and annual convention reports, photos, and other papers, mainly from the Chicago national headquarters; together with records from Friendship Houses in Shreveport, La., New York City, Portland, Or., and Washington, D.C. Includes information concerning the operation of the Houses, the position of the Roman Catholic Church in matters of social concern, problems generated by racial injustice, discrimination in Chicago area schools, hospitals, churches, and housing, civil rights activities, the House's publication "Community," interracial home-visit programs, the Childerly Farm retreat in Prairie View, Ill., and the Madonna Houses established in Canada by Baroness Catherine de Hueck Doherty. Correspondents include Monsignor Daniel M. Cantwell, Friendship House chaplain; Baroness Doherty, and staff workers Ann Harrigan, John Kearney, Betty Plank, and Betty Schneider. Description does not include unprocessed additions to the collection.

68 linear ft.

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago History Museum

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