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Children drawing in garbage strewn alley

 

Twelve children making drawings in garbage-strewn alley with large back staircase for Hull-House art class

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Title:
Children drawing in garbage strewn alley
Date of Original:
1939
Identifier:
JAMC_0000_0071_0350.tif
Permalink:
https://n2t.net/ark:/81984/d3sb3x649
Notes:
Featured in 1939 Hull-House Yearbook, p. 10, with the caption "The first step in eradicating slums is to be conscious of dirty streets, poor houses and garbage laden alleys." This group is made up of young people enrolled in the Hull-House Art Department, who have been instructed by Miss Emily Edwards, Department Head, to paint, not what they see in this alley, but what they alley would be like if it were clean." Also on p. 34 of the same yearbook.


Rights:
Copyright not evaluated
Access:
Public access

Subject--Topic
Art
Camping
Children's art
Boys
Girls
Subject--Name:
Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)

Photographer:
Kirkland, Wallace

Form:
Photographs

Collection Information


Collection:
Hull-House Photograph Collection
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Source Variant Name:
Jane Addams Memorial Collection
Series:
Series II: Hull House
Folder:
71
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.)