Exhibition Join In: Voluntary Assocations in America

Jane Addams (1860–1935). *Twenty Years at Hull-House, with Autobiographical Notes*. New York: Macmillan, 1912 (Carrie Chapman Catt’s copy). Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Library of Congress (074.00.00)

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), photographer. *Jane Addams of Hull House, Chicago, Ill.*, ca. 1913. National Child Labor Committee Collection, Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (075.00.00)

Bain News Service, publisher. *Ellen Gates Starr* [(1859–1940)], ca. 1915–1917. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (076.00.00)

Charles P. Schwartz 1886–1975). *Lessons in Citizenship for Naturalization*. Chicago: Hull-House, [191–]. General Collections, Library of Congress (077.00.00)

Burke-Atwell Photo. *Rest Period, Elizabeth McCormick Open Air School No. 2, on Roof of Hull House Boys Club*, [between 1900 and 1920]. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress (078.00.00)

Settlement Houses/Hull-House

Former schoolmates Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr co-founded the Hull-House settlement in Chicago in 1889 and made it into a center for Progressive Era activism. Hull-House was one of hundreds of settlement houses and neighborhood agencies that affiliated with the National Federation of Settlements in 1911. Serving primarily the urban-ethnic and immigrant poor and African Americans on a segregated basis, settlement houses functioned as community centers. They offered a wide range of cultural and social services—including day care; fresh-air programs; open-air schools; kindergartens; urban gardening; language, literacy, and citizenship classes; job training; lending libraries and art galleries; theater and music performances; playgrounds and gymnasiums—and promoted the causes of maternal and child health, trade union and industrial worker’s rights, consumer safety, factory regulations, and traditional arts and crafts.