pretty much anybody who saw jane addams commented on her eyes. jane addams did a tour of europe when she was a young woman after seminary, not smith fe, a small women's college, and was horrified by what she saw in europe. she toured the tenement district of london and she felt that the people she saw there were hardly even people. she likened them to animals. she said, this is not right. this is the modern world, because of course, it was the modern world to her. there is no way in a modern world that people should live like this. but exactly what one could do about it was not clear. she eventually does what one would expect. she turns to her social networks to a woman named ellen gates , starr, and the two of them talk about how women could have an effect on the terrible conditions created by the urbanization and the industrialization of america, rather than europe. i have shown you pictures here. these are boys from five points. another one of these great pictures. five points is the region of new york, the area of new york that is famous in "

florence kelly had lived previously at hull house chicago founded by jane addams in 1869. she had become a factory inspector for the state of illinois. she came to new york. she moved into the henry street settlement and she worked on child labor, the eight-hour day for women, and working women's rights. she was the leader of the national consumers league. we have papers from the national consumers league at the library of congress. and we highlight one of the articles florence kelly wrote and published, very much in riis' style, very much an expose about the issue of women and children in the labor force and their poor wages and lack of protection. this article was illustrated by a photograph by lewis hine. we have the papers of the national child labor committee, and lewis hine was hired by them to go undercover and basically do investigative reports. this is another riis-like activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. basically pioneering investigative reporting. hine went into factories and canneries fields and took photographs that are now considered some of t

florence kelly had lived previously at hull house chicago 1869.d by jane addams in she had become a factory inspector for the state of illinois. she came to new york. she moved into the henry street settlement and she worked on child labor, the eight-hour day for women, and working women's rights. she was the leader of the national consumers league. we have papers from the national consumers league at the library of congress. and we highlight one of the articles florence kelly wrote and published, very much in riis ' style, very much an expose about the issue of women and children in the labor force and their poor wages and lack of protection. this article was illustrated by a photograph by lewis hine. we have the papers of the national child labor committee, and lewis hine was hired by them to go undercover and basically do investigative reports. this is another riis-like activity. riis was doing the exposes of the slums. basically pioneering investigative reporting. hine went into factories and canneries fields and took photographs that are now considered some of the most important docume