Endowments; Social service--Information services; Nonprofit organizations--Information services; United States; Bureau and Clearing House for Social and Industrial Information; Scudder, Vida Dutton, 1861-1954; Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932; McDowell, Mary, 1854-1936
Format
correspondence
Genre
Business correspondence
Date
[between 1901 and 1919?]
Physical Description
microfilm, 16 mm, b&w
Note (Reel no.)
Reel 81
Note
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A Bureau of Industrial Information has been established in Chicago which is designed to meet the needs of those who wish to obtain at a nominal price accurate information and statistics concerning social and industrial movements. A central office will be maintained and several departments of work have been arranged with the view of supplying a general clearing house for industrial material. As such a Bureau, well equipped with facilities for special investigations and for the gathering and compiling of facts and statistics cannot fail to be of great service to women's clubs interested in the humanitarian movements of the day, we present below an outline of the several departments. Miss Vida Scudder, of Boston, Mrs. Florence Kelley, of New York, and Miss Mary McDowell, of Chicago University Settlement, are among those interested in making this work of special use to women. For further particulars address Bureau of Industrial Information, 815 Unity Building, Chicago, Ill. Objects. To afford a central office where those interested in Social Reform and Industrial movements may obtain accurate information. To supply industrial news to the press. To act as a clearing house for industrial material." [SOURCE: Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs. "The Bureau of Industrial Information." The Federation Bulletin, Volume 3, 1905, pp. 42. Google Books, https://books.google.com/books?id=HhMTAAAAYAAJ. Accessed 24 Sep. 2018.] "Julia Vida Dutton Scudder (December 15, 1861 – October 9, 1954) was an American educator, writer, and welfare activist in the social gospel movement... In 1903 Scudder helped organize the Women's Trade Union League. The same year she became director of the Circolo Italo-Americano at Denison House..." [SOURCE: "Vida Dutton Scudder." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vida_Dutton_Scudder. Accessed 5 Nov. 2018] "Florence Kelley (September 12, 1859 – February 17, 1932) was a social and political reformer and the pioneer of the term wage abolitionism. Her work against sweatshops and for the minimum wage, eight-hour workdays, and children's rights is widely regarded today. From its founding in 1899, Kelley served as the first general secretary of the National Consumers League. In 1909, Kelley helped to create the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)..." [SOURCE: "Florence Kelley." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Kelley. Accessed 5 Nov. 2018.] "Mary Eliza McDowell (November 30, 1854 –1936) was an American social reformer and prominent figure in the Chicago Settlement movement... ...In 1894, McDowell opened the University of Chicago Settlement House to alleviate the crowded, unsanitary housing immigrant families often faced. There, she organized classes, provided kindergarten education and accesses to vocational schools, bathing facilities, concerts, lectures, and clubs. She lobbied the U.S. government to establish the Women’s Bureau to study living and working conditions of women and children." [SOURCE: "Mary McDowell." Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_McDowell. Accessed 5 Nov. 2018.]