How Did Changes
in the Built Environment at Hull-House Reflect the
Settlement's Interaction with Its Neighbors, 1889-1912?
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Abstract
Introduction
Founding of the
Settlement
Image 1:
Jane Addams, 1899
Document 1: Excerpt from Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, 1910
Image 2:
Hull-House Entrance from Halsted Street, c. 1891
Document 2 : Excerpt from Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House,
1910
Image 3:
Hull-House Interior, c. 1895
Image 4:
Exterior of Hull-House from Halsted Street, c. 1898
Image 5:
Hull-House, exterior view from Polk Street, c. 1907
Image 6:
Hull-House Reception Hall, c. 1907
Document 3: Excerpt from Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull-House, 1910
Image 7:
Resident and Visitors at Front Door of Hull-House, c. 1913
Image 8:
Hull-House Buildings in 1912
The Neighborhood
Image 9:
19th Ward National Map, No. 1, 1895
Image 10:
19th Ward National Map, No. 2, 1895
Image 11:
19th Ward National Map, No. 3, 1895
Image 12:
19th Ward National Map, No. 4, 1895
Image 13:
19th Ward Wage Map, No. 1, 1895
Image 14:
19th Ward Wage Map, No. 2, 1895
Image 15:
19th Ward Wage Map, No. 3, 1895
Image 16:
19th Ward Wage Map, No. 4, 1895
Space for Residents
Document 4: Jane Addams to Nettie Fowler McCormick, 8 February 1895
Image 17:
Hull-House Library, c. 1895
Document 5: Excerpt from Beatrice Webb's American Diary, 1898
Image 18:
Residents' Dining Room, c. 1898
Image 19:
Postcard, Hull-House, Chicago, 1910
Image 20:
Wallace Kirkland, Room in a Hull-House Apartment, late 1920s
Image 21:
Residential Dining Hall, c. 1936
Butler Art Gallery
and Public Reading Room
Image 22:
Irving K. Pond and Allen Pond, Sketch of Butler Art Gallery, c. 1891
Document
6: "Art for Poor People: Formal Opening of Hull-House," 21 June 1891
Image 23:
Exterior of Butler Art Gallery, c. 1895
Image 24:
Exterior of Hull-House from Halsted and Polk Streets, c. 1902
Image 25:
Public Reading Room, c. 1913
Image 26: Wallace Kirkland, Children's Reading Room, c. 1920s
Coffeehouse and
Gymnasium
Image 27:
Rose Gyles, director of the Hull-House Gymnasium, c. 1892
Image 28 : Exterior of Coffee House and Gymnasium Building, c. 1895
Document 7 : "The Hull-House Coffee-House and Kitchen," 1895
Image 29:
New Building, Coffeehouse and Theater, c. 1900
Document
8: Jane Addams to Mary Rozet Smith, 24 June 1899
Document
9: "Coffee House," 1907
Image 30:
The Coffee Shop Kitchen, c. 1907
Document
10: "Hull-House Gymnasium," 1913
Image 31:
Hull-House Basketball Team, 1907
Image 32:
Wallace Kirkland, Class in Gymnasium, c. 1930
Children's Spaces
and Facilities
Image 33: Day Nursery on Ewing Street, c. 1894
Document 11: "New Hull-House Annex: Building for Children to Go Up at
Polk and Halsted Streets," 19 July 1895
Document 12: "Built for Children: Tour Through the Addition to Hull-House,"
12 December 1895
Image 34: The Smith Building, c. 1895
Image 35: Kindergarten on Second Floor Porch of the Smith Building, c. 1895
Image 36: A Kindergarten Class, c. 1898
Image 37: Mary Crane Nursery Building, 1913
Clubs and Afterschool
Activities
Document
13: "Boys Building for Hull-House Dedicated," 1907
Image
38: Boys' Club Library, c. 1907
Image
39: Boys' Club Foundry, c. 1913
Image
40: Boys' Club Cobbling Class, c. 1913
Image
41: Millinery Class, c. 1913
Image
42: Girls' Club in Bowen Hall Auditorium, c. 1913
Image
43: Activities for Children and Young Adults: In the Studio, c. 1913
Image 44:
Lewis Hine, Boys' Club Game Room, c. 1920s
Jane Club
Document 14: Mary Kenney, "Hull-House"
Image 45: Jane Club Parlors, c. 1895
Image 46: Exterior of New Jane Club Building, c. 1898
Document 15: Milton B. Marks, "How the Jane Club Keeps House," December 1900
The Woman's
Club and Other Adult Activities
Document
16: "Miss Addams on Woman's Sphere," 27 February 1900
Image 47:
Bowen Hall Auditorium, c. 1907
Document
17: Mary E. McDowell, "An Embodiment of Social Spirit: Hull-House Woman's
Club Building," April 1905
Document
18: "For Social Equality," 23 November 1897
Document
19: "Hull House Leads," 21 February 1904
Document
20: "Union Corsets or None!," 22 February 1904
Image 48: Wallace Kirkland, A Citizenship Class Held in the Coffee-House,
c. 1920s
Document
21: Excerpt from Louise de Koven Bowen, "Hull-House," Growing
Up With a City, 1926
Theater and Performance
Image 49:
Stage in Hull-House Gymnasium, c. 1897
Image 50:
Hull House Social Club invitation, 1894
Document
22: "What Hull House Really Is," 28 April 1895
Document
23A: Advertisement for "A Greek Play," [1899]
Document
23B: Advertisement for "The Return of Odysseus," [1899]
Image 51:
Advertisement for "The Ajax of Sophocles," c. December [1903]
Document
24: Elizabeth C. Barrows, "The Greek Play at Hull-House," January 1904
Document
25: James O'Donnell Bennett, "A Classic at Hull House," 25 January
1904
Image 52:
Hull-House Theater after "Opera Seats" were Installed, c. 1906
Document
26: "Stage Moral Teacher: Miss Jane Addams Declares Some Plays Are Most Successful
Instructors," April 1909
Image 53:
"The Hull-House Theatre: A Scene from Shakespeare's 'The Comedy of Errors,'"
c. 1910
Document
27: "The Common Welfare: Summer Abroad for Hull House Players,"
19 October 1912
Image 54:
"The Hull-House Theatre: A Rehearsal: Distributing the Parts," c. 1910
Music School
Document 28: Excerpt from Mary Badollet Powell, "The Story of a Child Trainer,"
October 1896
Image 55: Eleanor Smith, director of the Music School, with Mary Rozet Smith,
c. 1896
Document 29: "Music School," 1907
Image 56: Norah Hamilton, Music School in Hull-House Courtyard, 1910
Image 57: A Violin Lesson, c. 1910
Image 58: Kindersymphonie, c. 1913
Image 59: Eleanor Smith with her singing class, c. 1915
Labor Museum
Document
30: Excerpt from Jane Addams, "Labor Museum at Hull-House," June 1900
Document
31: Excerpt from Jessie Luther, "The Labor Museum at Hull-House," May 1902
Image 60:
Fly Shuttle Loom, c. 1902
Image 61:
Italian Woman Spinning, c. 1902
Image 62:
Russian Woman Spinning, c. 1902
Image 63:
Irish Woman Spinning, c. 1902
Image 64:
Syrians Preparing Rug for Felting, c. 1902
Document
32: Excerpt from Ellen Gates Starr, "Hull-House Bookbindery," 30 June 1900
Image 65:
The Book Bindery, c. 1902
Image 66:
Ellen Gates Starr, 1908
Image 67:
Native Methods of Spinning and Weaving, c. 1910
Image 68:
Potter's Wheel, c. 1913
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