Madeline Wallin Sikes papers, 1880-1950.

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Madeline Wallin Sikes papers, 1880-1950.

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Correspondence, minutes, monographs, reports, recommendations, handbills, newsclippings, notes, poems, and other papers of Madeline Wallin Sikes, a Chicago teacher and clubwoman and wife of George Cushing Sikes. Includes correspondence with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Wallin, and materials on her many social service activities in women's organizations and Chicago political activities, notably the League of Cook County Women's Clubs, the National Consumer's League, the Chicago Child Saving League, the League of Women Voters, the Woman's Club of Austin, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the Chicago Woman's Club, and the Mothers' Congress of Illinois. The papers contain a significant amount of material on her work with educational legislation, child labor legislation, and protective labor legislation for women. Collection also includes sundry items relating to Sikes' and her husband George Cushing Sikes' work with Jane Addams and Hull-House, letters and other items of George Cushing Sikes from the Chicago Record, plus a few papers of their daughter Eleanor Sikes Peters. George Sikes's letter of July 24, 1894, concerns George M. Pullman and the Pullman strike and mentions Jane Addams; his Feb. 29, 1896, letter deals with Miss Addams' efforts to have him run for alderman against John Powers.

5 linear ft. (12 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago History Museum

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Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

League of Women Voters (U.S.)

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The League of Women Voters (LWV) is a nonprofit organization in the United States that was formed to help women take a larger role in public affairs after they won the right to vote. It was founded in 1920 to support the new women suffrage rights and was a merger of National Council of Women Voters, founded by Emma Smith DeVoe, and National American Woman Suffrage Association, led by Carrie Chapman Catt, approximately six months before the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution g...

League of Cook County Women's Clubs.

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Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897

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Designer of the Pullman sleeping car with residence and company in Chicago, Illinois. From the description of Invitation. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 53920464 Pullman's Palace Car Co. founder and president George M. Pullman died October 19, 1897. Under the terms of his will Norman B. Ream and Robert T. Lincoln were appointed executors of the estate, which by 1900 was valued at $17,500,000. Principal legatees were Pullm...

General Federation of Women's Clubs

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Zitkala is the Indian name for Gertrude Bonnin, 1876-1938. From the guide to the National Council of American Indians records, 1926-1938, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) ...

Woman's Club of Austin (Ill.)

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National Consumers' League

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Organization founded in 1899 to monitor the conditions under which goods were manufactured and distributed. From the description of National Consumers' League records, 1882-1986 (bulk 1920-1950). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981678 The League was founded in 1898 to improve conditions for workers. From the description of Records, 1912-1949 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006759 The National Consumers' League was founded in 18...

Peters, Eleanor Sikes

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Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)

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Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)

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The Association of Collegiate Alumnae was founded in Boston (1882) to unite alumnae of various colleges for educational work. From the description of Records, 1919-1921 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007754 In 1882 Marion Talbot, Alice Freeman (Palmer), Alice Hayes, Ellen Swallow Richards, and thirteen other women met in Boston to establish the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, uniting college graduates for "practical educational work...

Sikes, George C. (George Cushing), 1868-1928

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George Cushing Sikes was born on June 4, 1868 in Dodge Center, Minnesota. He earned his B.S. from the University of Minnesota in 1892. He attended the University of Chicago to work on his graduate degree. After his marriage to fellow University student Madeleine Wallin on February 6, 1897, they settled in Chicago where Sikes was an editorial writer for the Chicago Record . George Sikes died July 21, 1928. From the guide to the George C. Sikes papers, 1886-1892, 1938-1952, (University...

Sikes, Madeleine Wallin, 1868-1955

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Wallin attended Smith College, the University of Minnesota (B.A., 1892) and the University of Chicago (M.A., 1893). She was an assistant in the History Department, Smith College, 1894-1896. From the description of Madeleine Wallin papers, 1894-1896. (Smith College). WorldCat record id: 52861451 Madeleine Wallin Sikes was a teacher and clubwoman in Chicago. She was educated at the University of Chicago and taught history at Smith College between 1894 and 1896. She was a Hull-...

Chicago Child Saving League.

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Mothers' Congress of Illinois.

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