Chapter Four Reference

Images from the Jane Addams Memorial Collection, Wallace Kirkland Papers, The University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.

These images document the Chicago Hull-House Settlement's production of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. The Hull-House, a social reform institution in the early 20th-century U.S., is known for its historic role in changing immigration, welfare, and juvenile justice policy. It also profoundly affected the everyday lives of West Side children.

Hull-House leaders found that the social nature of theater, along with other performance-based activities such as parades, pageants, living history museums, dance, athletics, and social clubs, provided an important method of outreach and enabled immigrant children to interact across differences of class and culture.

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Images from the Jane Addams Memorial Collection, Wallace Kirkland Papers, The University Library, University of Illinois at Chicago.
		These images document the Chicago Hull-House Settlement's production of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme. The Hull-House, a social reform institution in the early 20th-century U.S., is known for its historic role in changing immigration, welfare, and juvenile justice policy. It also profoundly affected the everyday lives of West Side children.