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Hull-House Photograph collection

This collection contains thousands of photographs and artworks that pertain to Jane Addams, the Hull-House settlement house, Chicago's Near West Side, and other topics related to the history of Hull-House.
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"A pupil at the Hull-House Labor Museum" drawing
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Drawing by Unidentified artist of student at drafting table. Featured with caption "A pupil at the Hull-House Labor Museum" in article by Marion Foster Washburne, "A Labor Museum," The Craftsman VI (Sept. 1904), p. 570
Date:
1899-1904
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


"Aniello" drawing by Norah Hamilton
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Black and white portrait drawing of boy titled "Aniello" by Norah Hamilton, Hull-House director of children's art.
Date:
1909-1912
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


"Cinderella"
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Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"Cinderella"
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Hull-House Photograph Collection
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"Dearborn Street" drawing by Vernon Howe Bailey
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Streetscape by Vernon Howe Bailey of "Dearborn Street," with streetcars, pedestrians, cars, horse-drawn carts, and buildings,
Date:
1904-1908
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


"Little Red Riding Hood"
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Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"Little Red Riding Hood"
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Hull-House Photograph Collection
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"Mrs. Sweeney, the scrub woman" drawing
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Drawing by Unidentified artist of "Mrs. Sweeney, the scrub woman," a worker at the Hull-House Labor Museum
Date:
1900-1904
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"Mrs. Sweeney, the scrub woman" drawing
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Drawing by unidentified artist of "Mrs. Sweeney, the scrub woman," a worker at the Hull-House Labor Museum
Date:
1900-1904
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


"One Sunday Afternoon"
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Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"Red Shoes" rehearsal, May 1956
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Date:
May 1956
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"Rehearsing for a Play," 1910 Hull-House Yearbook (p. 41)
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Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"Taming of the Shrew", ca. 1916
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Date:
circa 1916
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"The Chicago River" drawing by Vernon Howe Bailey (1908)
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Drawing by Vernon Howe Bailey of the Chicago River, with boats and buildings
Date:
1900-1908
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


"The Pied Piper"
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Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


"The Pied Piper"
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Hull-House Photograph Collection
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"The Pied Piper"
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Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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"White Mist" dance at Associate Dinner, May 21, 1942
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Date:
1942-05-21
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


(Top photo) Children seated watching performance at Hull-House Christmas party; (Bottom photo) Children sitting around tables at Hull-House Christmas party
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Two photos: (Top) Children sitting in rows of chairs watching a performance at a Hull-House Christmas party; (Bottom) Children at tables at a Hull-House Christmas party (same photo as 0102_2302)
Date:
1951-1954
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


(Top photo) Dancing at Hull-House Christmas party; (Bottom photo) Children eating at Hull-House Christmas party
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Two photos: (Top) Large group in semicircle watching two couples in a dance at a Hull-House Christmas party; (Bottom) Children eating at a Hull-House Christmas party (same photo as 0102_2086)
Date:
circa 1940s-1960s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


(Top photo) Two boys hanging out; (Bottom photo) Boy looking out window
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Two photos: (Top) Boy lying on table gazing at boy sitting on floor at Hull-House Boys' Club; (Bottom) Boy sitting on radiator gazing out of a window at the Hull-House Boys' Club
Date:
1949
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


(Top photo) Young men sit around a table; (Bottom photo) Young people at a refreshment table during a Hull-House social event
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Two photos: (Top) Nine young men sit around a table with checkered table cloth at Hull-House; cupcakes are on a table behind them (same photo as 0108_2450); (Bottom) Several young adults enjoying cupcakes and punch around a refreshment table at a social event at Hull-House
Date:
1947-1952
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


(Top photo) Boys meeting around a table; (Bottom photo) Two boys hang out next to jukebox
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Two photos: (Top) Six boys and an advisor meet at a table in the Benito Juarez room at Hull-House Boys' Club (same photo as 0108_0133); (Bottom) Two boys hanging out next to a jukebox in the Benito Juarez room at Hull-House Boys' club
Date:
1949
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


(Top photo) Young people sitting at tables at 1957 Hull-House Christmas party; (Bottom photo) Children performing and watching at Hull-House Christmas party
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Two photos: (Top) Young people sitting at tables at 1957 Hull-House Christmas party (same photo as 0102_2387); (Bottom) Children performing a skit with cut-out animals at Hull-House Christmas party, with other children and an adult watching, and a woman playing piano on the right
Date:
1951; 1957
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1920 Meeting of National Federation of Settlements Conference Picture
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Seated on Ground (Left to Right): Charles C. Cooper [Kingsley House, Pittsburgh, PA], Graham Taylor [Chicago Commons, Chicago], Jane Addams [Hull-House, Chicago], Harriet E Vittum [Northwestern University Settlement, Chicago]. Standing: Lillian Wald [Henry St. Settlement, New York], John Elliott [Hudson Guild, New York], Dame Henrietta Barnett [Toynbee Hall, London], Mary E. McDowell [University of Chicago Settlement, Chicago (Now called Mary E. McDowell Settlement)]
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1927 Hull-House Christmas tableau - Heavenly Host
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Nine women with instruments pose in 1927 Hull-House Christmas Tableau, "Heavenly Host"
Date:
1929
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1941 Greek Easter procession passing in front of Hull-House
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Hundreds of people at a 1941 Greek Easter procession on Halsted Street as it passes by Hull-House on Good Friday, April 18; black car at bottom of photo
Date:
circa 1920s-1940s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1941 Greek Easter procession passing in front of Hull-House
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Hundreds of people at a 1941 Greek Easter procession on Halsted Street as it passes by Hull-House
Date:
1941-04-18
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1941 Greek Easter procession passing in front of Hull-House
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1941 Greek Easter procession on Halsted Street as it passes by Hull-House on Good Friday, April 18; band is in front, with banner, altar boys in the middle and Epitaphios in back
Date:
1941-04-18
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1941 Greek Easter procession passing in front of Hull-House
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Start of 1941 Greek Easter procession on Halsted Street as it passes by Hull-House on Good Friday, April 18; band is in front
Date:
1941-04-18
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


1944, "Hanzel and Gretel"
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Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Public access


1944, "Hanzel and Gretel"
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Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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3/4 seated portrait of Jane Addams holding a book and seated at a table or desk taken on visit to London with Mary Rozet Smith
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3/4 seated portrait of Jane Addams holding a book and seated at a table or desk taken on visit to London with Mary Rozet Smith.
Date:
c. 1896
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


4th of July celebration Bowen Country Club
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Flag raising ceremony.
Date:
ca. 1920
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A Hull-House doll club
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Five girls in a Hull-House doll club sit alongside their advisor and a toddler at the end of a long table with dolls and sewing equipment
Date:
circa 1920s-1930s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A Saturday afternoon folk dancing class
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Dozens of young people in a circle at a Saturday afternoon folk dancing class at Bowen Hall in Hull-House; three instructors in the middle of the circle, several children sitting watching, and a pianist on the stage
Date:
circa 1920s-1930s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A boy feeds a piece of cake celebrating the centennial of Addams' birth to a girl as two other children look on
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A boy feeds a piece of cake celebrating the centennial of Addams' birth to a girl as two other children look on. Behind them is a photo, mostly obscured, of Addams with a young girl, Eleanor Pasquale.
Date:
1960
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A cameraman and reporter covering a street festival or street market
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A cameraman and reporter covering a street festival or street market.
Date:
circa 1960s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A chandelier in Hull Mansion
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A chandelier in Hull Mansion; the wall has flowery wallpaper
Date:
circa 1920s-1950s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A civilian woman and a United States Navy sailor having a bite to eat in the Hull-House Coffee House during an "Entertaining the Navy" social event
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A young woman and a United States Navy sailor in uniform standing having a bite to eat in the Hull-House Coffee House during an "Entertaining the Navy" social event; several other young women and sailors are gathered around tables behind them for food
Date:
circa 1941
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A co-ed volleyball game in Hull-House gymnasium
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A volleyball game in Hull-House gymnasium with men and women; a young woman on the far court near the net has just hit the ball
Date:
March 1952
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A co-ed volleyball game in Hull-House gymnasium
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A volleyball game in Hull-House gymnasium with men and women; a young woman in front of the net has just hit the ball
Date:
March 1952
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A girl and boy making small clay sculptures
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A girl and boy side by side at a table making small clay sculptures
Date:
circa 1930s-1950s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A girl and three boys with handmade Christmas decorations at Hull-House
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A girl and three boys with handmade Christmas decorations at Hull-House
Date:
circa 1920s-1950s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A girl and two boys help decorate a Christmas tree at Hull-House
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A girl and two boys help decorate a Christmas tree at Hull-House
Date:
circa 1920s-1950s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A girl and two boys help decorate a Christmas tree at Hull-House
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A girl and two boys help decorate a Christmas tree at Hull-House
Date:
circa 1920s-1950s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A girl holds a young child and a toy at a Hull-House Christmas toy giveaway
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A girl holds a young child and a toy at a Hull-House Christmas toy giveaway in a lot next to the Jane Addams Center.
Date:
circa 1960s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A girl in a crowd of children hands a piece of paper to a man in a Santa Claus costume in exchange for a toy during a Hull-House Christmas giveaway
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A girl in a crowd of children hands a piece of paper to a man in a Santa Claus costume in exchange for a toy as part of a Hull-House Christmas giveaway in a lot next to the Jane Addams Center; a police officer looks on.
Date:
circa 1960s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A group of Greek wrestlers at Hull-House gymnasium
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Two men engaging in Greek wrestling while nine shirtless men watch in a semicircle
Date:
circa 1900s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access


A group of boys sitting in the shade of a large tree at Pick Estate
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A group of around 20 boys sits in the shade under a large tree in the front yard of Albert Pick's mansion on Lake Michigan; three adults stand near another seated group on the left
Date:
circa 1920s
Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Access:
Public access