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Men and women gathered outside entrance of two-story building

 

Men and women gathered outside entrance of two-story building in a neighborhood near Hull-House; the man on the right with the jacket on is Bert Boerner, director of the Hull-House Community Relations Department

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Title:
Men and women gathered outside entrance of two-story building
Date of Original:
circa 1930s
Identifier:
JAMC_0000_0194_0302.tif
Permalink:
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Notes:
The man to Boerner's left may be one of his "neighborhood assistants" such as Joe Guinta or Sam Giannola (listed on p. 29 of 1939 Hull-House yearbook)
Caption:
These old shacks now face the Jane Addams Housing Project. But Boerner (light suit), Hull-House community contact man, here trys to persuade owners to sell at a reasonable price to government so another section of Federal housing can be built. (See research) 1938.


Rights:
Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Name
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)
Boerner, Bert

Photographer:
Kirkland, Wallace

Form:
Photographs

Collection Information


Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
Source Variant Name:
Jane Addams Memorial Collection
Series:
Series II: Hull House
Folder:
194
Repository:
University of Illinois Chicago. Library. Special Collections and University Archives Department (Richard J. Daley Library)
Repository Collection Type:
Manuscript Collections
Repository Location:
Richard J. Daley Library

Geographic Information

Near West Side (Chicago, Ill.)