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Edward B. DeGroot to Jane Addams, October 7, 1911

DeGroot writes Addams about his resignation from the South Park Systems.

Unknown to Louise de Koven Bowen, November 1, 1911

An unsigned letter discusses farm property in the Evanston area for sale and suggests that it could serve Hull-House as a camp or summer location.

Children Hull-House Recreation Requests

Recreation as a Public Function in Urban Communities, December 28, 1911

Addams' speech to the American Sociological Society argues that social interaction is the key to advancing society. In urban areas, city governments need to provide varied and organized recreations to build community.

Gambling Immigrants Lectures Recreation Urban Planning

Speech to the Civic and Commerce Association, May 1, 1912 (excerpts)

A newspaper report of Addams' speech before the Civic and Commerce Association in which she discusses the benefits of social centers.

Lectures Recreation Social Work Urban Planning

The Child at the Point of Greatest Pressure, June 16, 1912

At the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Cleveland from June 12-19, Addams discusses how the difficulties of children can rouse society's greatest sentiments for charity, but that children also have for their own intrinsic value. The speech was published in the Proceedings.

Child Welfare Housing Hull-House Juvenile Delinquency Lectures Music Poverty Recreation

Address at the Opening of the Joseph Tilton Bowen Country Club, June 22, 1912

Addams offers a memorial to Joseph Tilton Bowen and describes the creation of the Hull-House country club named after him.

Death Hull-House Lectures Philanthropy Recreation

A Plea for More Play, More Pay and More Education for Our Factory Girls and Boys, 1913

An essay collected from Addams' writings on children, child labor, and recreational opportunities in the city.

Child Labor Child Welfare Children Education Recreation

Why Women Are Concerned with the Larger Citizenship: Philanthropy and Politics, 1913

Addams discusses how philanthropic activities become political activities, citing instances from her own work in Chicago.

Charity Juvenile Delinquency Labor Lectures Poverty Public Health Recreation Settlements Social Welfare

Public Dance Halls: The Need of Supervision, January 29, 1913 (fragment)

Addams argues for the regulation of public recreation to provide safe venues for women, youth, and communities.

Morality Recreation Sex Hygiene Social Welfare

George Albert Bellamy to Jane Addams, February 5, 1913

Bellamy asks Addams for suggestions on Cleveland's plan to develop a parks and recreation department.

Government Recreation Requests

Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, June 1, 1913

Addams asks Blaine for a donation to the Hull-Hull-House Outing Fund. The letter, which probably went out to numerous others, was sent while Addams was abroad.

Children Hull-House Philanthropy Recreation Requests

Miss Addams, July 1913

Addams argues for the regulation of public recreation to provide safe venues for women, youth, and communities. This is the seventh article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and how women can affect change.

Juvenile Delinquency Morality Recreation Sex Hygiene Social Welfare

Recreation -- A Function of City Government, July 1, 1913 (fragment)

Addams discusses the role of a lack of recreation for youth as a source of political corruption and argues for the establishment of regulated public spaces to encourage cooperative and positive relationships.

Children Education Politics Recreation Youth

Miss Addams, August 1913

Using her home Nineteenth Ward in Chicago as an example, Addams explains how political corruption is born in the corruption of youth and argues for the establishment of regulated public spaces to encourage cooperative and positive relationships instead. This is the eighth article of a monthly, year-long series on economic and social reform in America and a woman's role to affect change.

Children Education Politics Recreation Youth

Alfred Landon, Baker, Daniel Miner Lord, and Jane Addams to Anita McCormick Blaine, December 8, 1913

The group asks Blaine for a donation to help provide playgrounds for children.

Charity Children Recreation Requests

A Plea for More Play, More Pay and More Education for our Factory Girls and Boys, 1914

A compilation of Addams' writings on reducing child labor, and increasing playgrounds and education for working-class children.

Child Labor Children Education Hull-House Labor Morality Music Recreation Social Welfare Theater

The Girl Problem: Its Community Aspects, April 1914

Addams explains how communities needs to provide more for the youths that live there, and how there really is not a girl problem, but a problem with how all youths are handled.

Children Family Hull-House Immigrants Recreation Writings Youth

Youth and Play: A Neglected Duty of the Cities, May 9, 1914

Addams argues that there needs to be more recreation for young people to keep them away from vice.

Child Welfare Public Health Recreation Writings

Graham Taylor to Jane Addams, May 23, 1914

Taylor discusses finances and plans for summer camps for Hull-House boys and girls.

Children Finances Hull-House Recreation

Julia Clifford Lathrop to Jane Addams, August 20, 1914

Lathrop tells Addams that there was a demand to prepare a pamphlet regarding playgrounds in the District of Columbia.

Employment Government Recreation

Allen Bartlitt Pond to Louise de Koven Bowen, May 8, 1917

Pond writes to Bowen regarding a bequest from the Schwabacher family for a summer camp to be operated in conjunction with the University of Chicago Settlement.

Children Hull-House Recreation Social Welfare