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Frontispiece, xiii, 443 pp, 1 leaf (ads); illus. Original cloth, top edge gilt. Rebacked, with original spine preserved (new endpapers). Spine rubbed, else Very Good. Inscribed on flyleaf: 'Mrs. Emmons Blaine/with the admiration and/?/the author/Jacob Riis/New York/Dec. 9 1901'. 'On September 26, 1889, Anita McCormick, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cyrus H. McCormick, married Emmons Blaine, son of James Blaine of Maine' (please ask for source). 'Hull-House, founded in 1889 by Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr, was the first social settlement in Chicago . . . By 1894, 20 residents were living at Hull-House. Early residents tended to be middle- and upper middle-class, college educated, and from a wide range of professions. . . . The settlement became a center for discussions of social reform and attracted well-known visitors and supporters such as architect Frank Lloyd Wright, attorney Clarence Darrow, suffragist Susan B. Anthony, photographers Jacob Riis and Lewis Hine, sculptor Lorado Taft, Fabian Socialists Beatrice and Sidney Webb, and temperance leader Frances Willard. . . . Although prominent Chicago businessmen made contributions, the bulk of financial support came from wealthy Chicago women. Mary Rozet Smith, Helen Culver, Anita McCormick Blaine, Mary Wilmarth, and Sara Hart contributed. Louise deKoven Bowen was the single largest contributor to the settlement and after she was appointed treasurer of Hull-House Association in 1907, she assumed much of the responsibility for fund-raising strategy' (Hull House Collection, An inventory of the collection at UIC; University of Illinois at Chicago Library Web site). For more on Blaine, see Gilbert A Harrison, A Timeless Affair: The Life of Anita McCormick Blaine (Chicago, 1979). Seller Inventory # 19825
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Title: The Making of an American. (PRESENTATION ...
Publisher: New York: Macmillan, 1901.
Publication Date: 1901
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: 1st Edition
