Chicago: The University Press, (1935).
Price: $1,250.00
Hardcover. First edition. Octavo. 505pp. Complete with all illustrated photographs and folding plates. Tiny bit of bumping at the spine ends, else fine in good or better toned dust jacket with chipping mostly to the topedge, a few small tears and tiny scattered stains. A follow-up study to a series of reports on the state of crime and housing in Chicago by social activists Edith Abbott, with assistance from Sophonisba Breckinridge.
Abbott came to Chicago after completing her doctorate in economics. She lived at Jane Addams' Hull House sometime in 1908, after being offered a position at the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy by director Sophonisba Breckinridge, who was the first woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School and first woman to be admitted to the Kentucky Bar in 1892. The pair became fast friends and romantic partners, producing a series of reports on crime and housing in Chicago’s tenement communities, leading to the publication of this book and their later involvement in a number of New Deal programs. Abbott would good on to become the first female dean at the University of Chicago and Breckinridge the first woman to serve as an official delegate of the United States as a representative to the 7th Pan-American Conference in Uruguay.
An important and uncommon book about the state of tenement life in the early part of the 20th Century produced by two important female social reformers.
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