The many faces of Hull-House
Subtitle: the photographs of Wallace Kirkland
By: edited by Mary Ann Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, Mary Ann
Series: Visions of Illinois
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 1989
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 124
ISBN-13: 9780252016837; 9780252061080
Subjects: Photograph collections; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle; Hull House (Chicago, Ill.); Pictorial works; University of Illinois at Chicago Circle. Library
Description: Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr opened Hull-House on September 18, 1889. This glorious centennial volume of photographs, taken by Wallace Kirkland during the late 1920s and early 1930s, captures the vitality of America's most influential social settlement during its peak years. Located on Chicago's Near West Side, Hull-House offered an amazingly diverse program of classes and activities to people of the surrounding immigrant neighborhoods and became a focal point in the nation for social investigation and reform.
The Many of Faces of Hull-House is a visual tour through the thirteen-building settlement complex. As director of the boys' and men's clubs, Wallace Kirkland was a familiar figure in and around Hull-House and was able to capture on film the intimate daily round of life at the famous settlement. We see Hull-House's many classes and clubs, activities in the Music School and the Theatre, the Gymnasium, the Manual Training Shop, the Labor Museum, the Library, and the Nursey School. We follow Kirkland and his camera as he documents life in the surrounding Italian and Greek neighborhoods at the settlement's summer camp, and at funeral services for Jane Addams in 1935.
Kirkland began his career in photography in the mid-1920s, when Eastman Kodak gave Hull-House a 5 x 7 view camera, which he used to document the settlement's activities. In 1936 he left Hull-House to become one of Life's first photo-journalists, pursuing a distinguished career for the magazine until his retirement in 1959. His many assignments for Life include famous portraits of Gandhi, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, and F.D.R.
Notes: "The Wallace Kirkland photographs are part of the Jane Addams memorial collection in the University Library of the University of Illinois at Chicago."--T.p. verso.

"Published in cooperation with the Jane Addams' Hull-House Museum at the University of Illinois at Chicago."--Prelim. p.