Madeleine Wallin Sikes Papers

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Jane Addams to Madeline Wallin Sikes, June 11, 1902

Addams invites Sikes and her husband to dinner.

Friends, Hull-House Visits

Jane Addams to Madeleine Wallin Sikes, December 28, 1901

Addams thanks Sikes for her contribution to the Christmas fund at Hull-House.

Holidays, Hull-House, Philanthropy

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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.

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Description http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/713358880

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Madeleine Wallin Sikes Papers