We are always looking for “new” Jane Addams documents! Some are still privately held by the descendants of Addams’s friends and correspondents, others are in archives that haven’t been cataloged or that we might have missed.
If you know of a document or a collection not listed on our Collections tab, please let us know. Email Cathy Moran Hajo @ chajo@ramapo.edu. We do not need original documents, but will scan them and return them to you.
Document Search
The editorial team that worked on the Jane Addams Microfilm conducted an extensive search for documents from 1976 to 1985. For the digital edition, we will include documents on the microfilm, but will also conduct a new search, taking advantage of digital databases, online finding aids, newspapers, and archives, websites, and catalogs now available.
A listing of all known repositories holding Addams documents will be published as part of the digital edition. If you know of any archives or private collections that contain Addams material (from any year), please contact the project so that we can work to include the documents in the digital edition.
The following archival collections are currently on our search list. If you live near one of these collections and would be willing to undertake a search for documents, please contact the project.
We also occasionally need new scans because the image quality from the scanned microfilm is not good enough to read the text.
To Be Searched:
Colorado
University of Colorado, Boulder
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom – The papers of the Womenโs International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) consist of a broad range of materials that deal with a wide variety of subjects related to the function and activities of the organization. The papers received by the University of Colorado at Boulder Archives were identified under five general series headings: Executive Committee Files, Correspondence, Section and Country Files, Topics, and Printed Matter or Publications. Extensive research needed in this collection. Finding Aid
Josephine Roche Papers – The papers of Josephine Roche were originally processed in the 1970s and were left in their original order during reprocessing. The materials cover the time period from 1910 through the early 1970s, and consist of her public and political career. The collection is housed in 75 boxes, plus oversized, and is organized under seventeen headings. Correspondence consists of publications, and letters to and from fellow colleagues, as well as supporters, friends, and organizations. This section covers a large time frame and consists of materials during her early career up until her departure from UMWA Retirement Fund. This collection holds a Jane Addams pamphlet and possibl correspondence. Finding Aid
Duane Swift Papers – This one-box collection is focused on conscientious objectors to the First World War. The most extensive portion of the collection concerns Duane Swiftโs experiences as a conscientious objector and letters written by him, as well as by the ACLU and others, arguing for the reinstatement of his full civil rights. Finding Aid
Connecticut
Yale University, Beinecke Library
Katherine S. Dreier Papers /Sociรฉtรฉ Anonyme archive -The Katherine S. Dreier Papers / Sociรฉtรฉ Anonyme Archive documents the life of Katherine S. Dreier and the activities of the Sociรฉtรฉ Anonyme. The collection consists of correspondence; manuscripts and notes for articles, books, fiction, and lectures; clippings; brochures; programs; press releases; advertisements; tax records; photographs and artwork; meeting minutes; and ephemera and printed material. The papers span the years 1818 to 1952, but the bulk of the material is from 1920 to 1951. Looking for an Addams letter from 1920. Finding Aid.
Florida
University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries
Margaret Dreier Robins Papers – The collection contains records related to the life of Margaret Dreier Robins. Her involvement with the women’s movement and trade unions is extensively documented. Additionally, the collection contains documents and correspondence regarding such specific topics as: prohibition, China, Florida, public health, social welfare, religious groups, the ‘Peace Movement’, political parties and campaigns, and women’s suffrage. The collection also contains biographical material related to both her and her husband as well as correspondence between the two and records related to the Chinsegut Hill estate. Raymond Robins’ life is also documented through several scrapbooks and photo albums and many of the clippings and publications reflect his activities as well as those of his wife. There are also records of Raymond Robins’ father, Charles E. Robins. Finding Aid. Re-scans of some letters needed.
Georgia
Atlanta University Center – Robert W. Woodruff Library
Neighborhood Union (Atlanta, Ga.). Lugenia Burns Hope files, 1908-1933. 28 folders. The collection consists of the personal papers of Lugenia Burns Hope from 1908-1933. These records document Mrs. Hope’s activities outside of the Neighborhood Union. Includes correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, programs, clippings, speeches and lectures, printed material, and rosters. Of particular interest are materials relating to her work with the Red Cross Colored Advisory Commission during the 1927 Mississippi Valley Flood and the YWCA’s War Work Council’s Hostess House program during World War I. Notable correspondents include Jane Addams, Will W. Alexander, Eva Bowles, W.E.B. Du Bois, Herbert Hoover, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Mary E. McDowell, Robert R. Morton, and Margaret Murray Washington.
Indiana
Lily Library, Indiana University
Mrs. S. A. Haldeman Mss. 1839-1953. The Haldeman, Mrs. S. A., mss., 1839-1953, consists mainly of personal correspondence and papers of banker Sarah Alice (Addams) Haldeman, 1853-1915. Finding Aid. We need re-scans of some letters.
Kansas
Kansas State Historical Society
Johnston, Lucy Browne, 1846-1937.ย Lucy B. Johnston papers, 1887-1937.ย ย 3 ft. (7 boxes + oversize) Personal papers, business & club communications, account & record books, biographical sketches, reports, and addresses relating to a wide variety of political and social causes, particularly traveling libraries; conservation, especially the West Side Forestry Club; historic sites, especially Pawnee Rock (present Pawnee Rock State Historic Site) (Pawnee Rock, Kan.) & Pike’s Pawnee Village (present Pawnee Village State Historic Site) (Republic, Kan.); national & state women’s clubs including the alumnae organization of her alma mater, Western Female Seminary (Oxford, Ohio); Prohibition; state institutions & hospitals, particularly the Kansas State Industrial School for Girls (present Beloit Juvenile Correctional Facility) (Beloit) & the Kansas State Industrial Farm for Women (Lansing); social reform legislation; World War I Liberty Loans; and women suffrage, including the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Kansas Equal Suffrage Association, & Men’s League for Equal Suffrage. Correspondents include Jane Addams; Susan B. Anthony; Clara Barton; Alice Stone Blackwell; Helen Eaker; Julia Perry; Mary Rengrose; Anna Shaw; Governors Walter R. Stubbs of Kansas & John F. Shafroth of Colorado; Stella Stubbs, wife of the governor; Eugene F. Ware & his wife, Jeanette; and Booker T. Washington & his wife, Margaret James Murray Washington. Partial search already undertaken.
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Massachusetts
Radcliffe College – Schlesinger Library
Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom. Massachusetts Branch. Records, 1915-1977 (inclusive). 2 linear ft. This collection primarily contains correspondence, newsletters, financial records, membership lists, minutes of board meetings, and flyers of the Massachusetts branch of WILPF, with some papers of local branches throughout the state. Also included are correspondence, newsletters, and minutes of the WILPF national branch in Washington (and later in Philadelphia), and flyers and newsletters of other Massachusetts organizations with which the Massachusetts branch has cooperated, including the Greater Boston Peace Action Coalition, the Coalition to Fight Political Repression, and People’s Coalition for Peace and Justice.
Smith College – Neilson Library
Nancy Cox-McCormack Cushman papers Sculptor, author, and traveler. This collection documents Cushman’s professional life, artistic works, and her wide social network, particularly in Chicago in the 1910’s and Europe in the 1920’s. The subjects of Cushman’s sculptures include Benito Mussolini, Ezra Pound, Italian architect Giacomo Boni, Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera, Mohandas K. Ghandi, Clarence Darrow, and Jane Addams. All are represented to some extent in the collection as are other notables such as Stephen Vincent Benรฉt, Sarah Bernhardt, Lauro De Bosis, Alice Gerstenberg, Elizabeth Sparhawk Jones, Grace Hegger Lewis, Dorothy Shakespeare Pound, Eunice Tietjens, and Frank Lloyd Wright. Types of materials include correspondence, writings, photographs, clippings, biographical materials, artwork, and memorabilia.
Maine
Woman’s Literary Union of Andrescoggin County – Seeking correspondence between Florence Nye and Jane Addams.
Michigan
Minnesota
Minnesota Historical Society
Minnesota Woman Suffrage Association records, [microform]. 1894-1923. Correspondence, minutes and other record books, subject files, printed materials, newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, and miscellany of this organization formed to promote equal voting rights for women. Most post-date 1900.
North East Neighborhood House Records Minutes, reports, budgets, correspondence, lists, surveys, newsletters, subject files, and ephemera of a settlement house located on St. Paul’s West Side, traditionally one of the enclaves of recent immigrants to the city. The records are a mixture of the files of the Association presidents, house residents, directors, group workers, and others. Finding Aid.
University of Minnesota-Social Welfare Archive
National Federation of Settlement Papers, Paul U. Kellogg Papers, Survey Associates Papers, We need new scans of some poor images from these collections.
New York
Cornell University Libraries
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. Secretary-Treasurer. Joseph Schlossberg Secretary-Treasurer correspondence, 1914-1929, 1915-1925 (bulk). 10 linear ft. Correspondence documenting Joseph Schlossberg’s tenure in the ACWA during the period 1914-1929, particularly in his capacity as secretary-treasurer. Much of the correspondence concerns the formation and early struggles of the ACWA. Among the subjects documented in these letters are: union organizing efforts in the U.S. and Canada, especially in Boston, Cincinnati, Montreal, Philadelphia, Rochester, N.Y., and Toronto; individual locals of the ACWA, relations with other garment workers’ unions; strikes and lockouts, particularly in Cincinnati; the role of women in the union; and the often tense relations among the Jewish, Italian, German and various Slavic clothing workers.
International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union. President’s Office. ILGWU. Benjamin Schlesinger papers, 1914-1923. 2 linear feet. Correspondence, form letters, circulars and subject files relating to Schlesinger’s term, June 1914 to January 1923. Topics covered in these materials include union organizing; strikes, labor disputes, working conditions, and other labor issues in the women’s garment industry, particularly in New York City; inter-union relations; relations between manufacturers’ associations and the union; efforts by Schlesinger and others to form an alliance of garment workers’ unions; discussions with foreign garment workers’ unions; education for workers in New York City; and Jewish war relief efforts during World War I.
New York State Historical Association.
Blanche W. Walton papers, 1914-1932. 0.25 cu. ft. Letters, from Lillian Wald, Jane Addams, and Oswald Garrison Villard, among others, regarding Walton’s interest in World War I peace efforts and her recuperation hospital for soldiers in her home in Hartsdale, New York, 1917-18; and photograph album of World War I soldiers, many identified.
Syracuse University – Special Collections Research Center
Mabel Vernon Papers 1933-1947 54 items (SC). Papers of the American suffragist, feminist, pacifist (1883-1975). Collection includes incoming correspondence to Mabel Vernon in her capacity as a member of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom and campaign director of its committee, the People’s Mandate to Governments to End War (later re-named the People’s Mandate Committee for Inter-American Peace and Cooperation. Notable correspondents include Grace Abbott, Jane Addams, Frank Aydelotte, Irene Bailey, Newton Baker, Pearl S. Buck, Rafael Calderoฬn Guardia, Samuel P. Cadman, Arthur Capper, Carrie Catt, Raymond Clapper, Jacqueline Cochran, Josephus Daniels, Norman H. Davis, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Abraham Flexner, Zona Gale, Virginia Gildersleeve, Meta Glass, Frank Graham, Inez Irwin, Alfred Landon, Sinclair Lewis, Clare Boothe Luce, Gabriela Mistral, Caroline O’Day, Ruth Owen, Galo Plaza Lasso, Nelson Rockefeller, Leo Rowe, Laurence Steinhardt, Lowell Thomas, M. Carey Thomas, Oswald Villard, Lillian Wald, Wendell
Vassar College.
New York State Historical Documents Autograph file: A-I, 1783-1983. 4 cubic ft. Letters with some manuscripts, speeches, poems, and other items, primarily resulting from an official connection with Vassar College, written by Vassar students, faculty or staff, or of historical and cultural significance. Letters of note include W.I. Cutter on her missionary work in India, 1852-1854; John Quincy Adams on Paris peace treaty and national politics, 1783; Elizabeth Blackwell on excessive practice of ovariotomy and dangers to women from syphilitic husbands, 1896; Thomas Boyd on work as screen writer in Hollywood (1931), being a father, World War I experiences, and other issues, 1918-1934; Pearl S. Buck’s correspondence with Alma Lutz on equal rights amendment and Buck’s writing and speaking work, 1938-1967; Ruth Crippen on Red Cross work in France, 1918; Bette Davis on using women’s rights pioneers as film material, 1944; Anna E. Dickenson on her speaking engagements and personal news, 1863-1888; Frederick Douglass on John H. Raymond’s activities on behalf of fugitive
North Carolina
Duke University – David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Livezey, Josephine E. Papers, 1828-1913 ; (bulk 1876-1896). 204 items. Family correspondence, including descriptions of travel and of resorts from Virginia to Maine; parties given by the Du Pont family in Wilmington, Del., 1886; the illness of Jane Addams, 1910; conversations of Bernard N. Baker (Josephine’s brother-in-law) with William Howard Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, and Gifford Pinchot, 1910; and the mercantile business of John Ely in Attleboro, Pa., 1843.
Gow, J. H. Diaries, 1896 Sept. 28-1897 June 13. 2 v. (.2 linear ft.) Entries describe a trip from England to Canada and the United States to visit settlement houses, especially in Chicago, Boston, New York City, and Philadelphia. Miss Gow’s longest stay was in Chicago where she went to Hull House and met with Jane Addams. In New York City she described the bad conditions in the tenements and a stop at a Labor Bureau. She also visited kindergartens, hospitals, clubs, and sweat shops. Other stops were in Montreal and Guelph in Canada; Norwich, Conn.; Cape Cod, Niagara Falls, and Hamilton.
Ohio
Toledo-Lucas County Public Library Local History Department
Samuel M. Jones Collection – We need some re-scans of letters. Finding Aid.
Nebraska
Nebraska Historical Society
C. E. Prevey Papers – This collection consists of the papers of Comodore E. Prevey and is arranged in six series: 1) Correspondence, 1920; 2) Class and Lecture Notes, 1898-1906; 3) Speeches, 1898-1912; 4) Records of the Social Welfare Society of Lincoln, 1909-1926; 5) Clippings, 1904-1927; and 6) Miscellaneous, 1906 and undated. The collection relates to the career of C.E. Prevey as an administrator of social welfare organizations in Lincoln, Nebraska, and as an Instructor in Sociology at the University of Nebraska. Finding Aid. We need some re-scans of letters.
Pennsylvania
Haverford College – Quaker and Special Collections
Wood, L. Hollingsworth (Levi Hollingsworth), 1874-1956. L. Hollingsworth Wood Collection. 81 boxes. Correspondence, memoranda, minutes, reports, lists, press releases, transcripts, notes, photographs, clippings, drafts of articles and speeches, financial and legal papers, brochures, pamphlets and other printed items, account books and other papers. Primarily correspondence and other papers related to the many organizations Wood was involved with, including: American League to Limit Armaments, American Union Against Militarism, American Commission on Conditions in Ireland, Association for the Study of Negro Life and History, Booker Washington Institute of Liberia, Fisk University, Five Years Meeting, Friends Ambulance Unit, Friends World Conferences, Happy Grove School, Haverford College, International Rescue Committee, National Urban League, New York Colored Mission, Peace Association of Friends in America, Young Friends, etc.
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Two newspaper clippings from April or May 1926 about a Peace Council Luncheon. One was “sensational” and the other, published the next day issued a correction (missing enclosures)
Nevada
Brigham Young University – Harold B. Lee Library.
Addams, Jane, 1860-1935. Autograph and meeting program, ca. 1910. 2 items (3 p.) ; 3 photocpies (3 p.) American author and social reformer
Rhode Island
Redwood Library and Athaneaum
Cortazzo Autograph Collection. This series is arranged in alphabetical order by last name and consists of letters, letter fragments, and autographs from American authors, editors, poets, and literary scholars. Also included are letters received by Emma and Katerine Cortazzo and other family members of theirs. Notable persons include: Mark Twain, Julia Ward Howe, Maude Howe Elliot, W. D. Howell, Sarah Orne Jewett, Henry Van Dyke, Sarah Woolsey, and Washington Irving. Finding Aid.
tennessee
Fisk University – Fisk University Library and Media Center,
Jones, Thomas Elsa. Thomas Elsa Jones collection (1-71), 1925-1947 (bulk, 1926-1946). 30.53 cubic ft. Personal materials consist of biographical information and correspondence with family and friends, including a few financial records and insurance policy materials. General correspondence contains three subseries: College/University Correspondence, Resignation, and Work Camps. Correspondents include Jane Addams, W.E.B. DuBois, Langston Hughes, Eleanor Roosevelt, John D. Rockefeller, Jr., and Augusta Savage. The College/University correspondence contains mostly incoming and outgoing letters from presidents and deans at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, with some folders on other educational institutions. The Resignation subseries includes information on Jones’s tentative resignation in 1941, and his final official resignation in 1946. The Work Camp subseries includes information on the Whiteville Work Camp, in which students were engaged in assisting the residents of rural Whiteville, Tenn., in a project to build schools.
Virginia
University of Virginia
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920. Papers of William Dean Howells, 1866-1919. 342 items. The papers of William Dean Howells,1866-1919, include reviews, stories, and poems, letters, and portraits.
Utah
Canada
McMasters University
Bertrand Russell Archives
England
Oxford University, Bodleian Library
Archive of Emily Hobhouse. Photocopies of letters and papers relating to Hobhouse’s visit to GermanyIncludes correspondence with Herr von Romberg, the German Ambassador in Bern, Gottlieb von Jagow, the German Foreign Secretary, and letters to Jane Addams and Aletta Jacobs, Hobhouse’s fellow committee members on the International Committee of Women for Permanent Peace.
Archive of Gilbert Murray.
Archive of Roundell Cecil Palmer, 3rd Earl of Selborne
Archive of Ethel Sidgwick