Overview

It is no surprise that most of the documents involving Jane Addams were based in Chicago, Illinois. 800 South Halsted Street, Chicago, Illinois is, to be more precise, the location of Hull House, co-founded by Jane Addams with Ellen Gates Starr, a world-famous settlement house that provided social services to the poor and mostly immigrant families. 

An analysis of the Jane Addams Papers Project data reveals that most of the conversations involving Jane Addams during the Woman Suffrage Movement happened in Chicago, Illinois, New York, New York, London, England, Boston, Massachusetts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and many other places all across the United States, Europe, and sparsely throughout the rest of the world. All this information is extracted from a dataset derived from Jane Addams’ exchange of letters, and documents that involved her and her work. 

The Women’s Suffrage movement emerged from a broader movement for women's rights and was established long before Jane Addams was involved in it. While the first national suffrage organizations were established in 1869 - the National Woman Suffrage Association and American Woman Suffrage Association -, Jane Addams only started becoming involved in the movement after the two organizations merged as the National American Women's Suffrage Association in 1906 at first and later served as vice president of the same organization between 1911 and 1914.