Hannah G. Solomon papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 2000
Subjects: Jewish women; National Council of Jewish Women; Jewish Women's Congress (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.); World's Parliament of Religions (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); Civic improvement; International Congress of Women (1904 : Berlin, Germany); Park Ridge School for Girls (Park Ridge, Ill.); Societies and clubs; Schools; World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.); Women
Description: Correspondence, organizational records, speeches and writings, biographical and genealogical material, family papers, photographs, scrapbook, and printed matter chiefly relating to Solomon's founding of the National Council of Jewish Women, a result of her chairmanship of the Jewish Women's Congress of the World's Parliament of Religions during the World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Ill., in 1893.  Also documents her involvement with the Chicago Woman's Club, other civic and women's organizations, and the Park Ridge School for Girls and her attendance at the International Council of Women in Berlin, Germany, in 1904.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Frances Levy Angel, 1993.

Civic leader and founder of the National Council of Jewish Women.

Collection material in English.

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