Hull House Maps

Hull House Maps and Papers, published in 1895 by Florence Kelly and some of her colleagues, depict statistical visualizations relating to the settlement of the Hull House. Florence Kelley was a pioneer in social reform. Kelley lived in Chicago from 1891 until 1899, leading and participating in a variety of projects including a wage and ethnicity census of the slums and tenements in Chicago; the reporting of cases and contagion in the smallpox epidemic of 1893; the enforcement of the universal primary education laws, and enforcing the provisions of the Illinois Factory Inspections Law of 1893. Hull House Maps and Papers is her most well-known work and represents years of research. This section contains re-creations of two maps from the project. You can find more maps here: https://homicide.northwestern.edu/pubs/hullhouse/maps/.

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