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Mary Rozet Smith (December 23, 1868 – February 22, 1934) was a Chicago-born US philanthropist who was one of the trustees and benefactors of Hull House. She was the partner of activist Jane Addams for over thirty years. Smith provided the financing for the Hull House Music School and donated the school's organ as a memorial to her mother.
Hull House offered an alternative location where women could debate, reflect, ponder and make sense of urban life through the prism of feminine experience. According to Maurice Hamington [38] Hull House was an incubator of ideas where feminist pragmatism was jump started. The Hull House philosophy, contrasted sharply with the approach of Plato.
In some cases, a film's copyright has lapsed because of non-renewal while the underlying literary or dramatic source is still protected by copyright; for example, the film His Girl Friday (1940) became a public domain film in 1969 because it was not renewed, but it is based on the 1928 play The Front Page; as a practical matter, the film could ...
Hull-House Kilns was established as part of the Chicago settlement house, Hull House. The program was developed by the potter Myrtle Merritt French (1886-1970). [3] She began teaching pottery at Hull House in 1924. The classes were first attended by Mexican immigrants in Chicago, and then by African Americans. [1] A notable potter working at ...
Title: Twenty years at Hull-house, with autobiographical notes Year: 1911 Authors: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Hull House (Chicago, Ill.) Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company Contributing Library: Northern Illinois University
Jessie Florence Binford (1876 Marshalltown, Iowa-1966), [1] aka “the conscience of Chicago”, was a social worker who worked closely with Jane Addams at Hull House. Binford was the founder and executive director of the Juvenile Protective Association [2] in 1916 and stayed for 32 years. [3] She is a 1977 inductee in the Iowa Women's Hall of ...
Ellen Gates Starr, c. 1890. Ellen Gates Starr was born on March 19, 1859, in Laona, Illinois, US, to Caleb Allen Starr and Susan Gates (née Child).. From 1877 to 1878, Starr attended the Rockford Female Seminary, where she first met Jane Addams.
The Brynmor Jones Library. The Brynmor Jones Library (BJL) is the main library at the University of Hull, England.In 1967 it was named after Sir Brynmor Jones (1903-1989) who initiated research in the field of Liquid Crystals at Hull and became Head of the Department of Chemistry in 1947. [1]