Jane Addams, Ellen Gates Starr, and Hull-House social settlement
- Creator(s):
- Hull-House Kilns
- Title:
- [Tea cup and saucer, and bowl]
- Publication/Origin:
- Chicago: [ca. 1927-1937]
- Description:
- In 1889, reformer Jane Addams and bookbinder Ellen Gates Starr founded the Hull-House social settlement in an immigrant neighborhood in Chicago. Hull-House members provided English classes, art clubs, kindergarten, libraries, and activities for the neighborhood and worked for social reform. Hull-House Kilns was a commercial pottery associated with their art school. Many of the staff and potters were recent Mexican immigrants. The collection holds four tea cups with matching saucers and a small serving bowl. All are stamped “Hull House Kilns, Chicago.” The items are in the style of Myrtle Merritt French, one of the founders of the pottery.
- Citation:
- Hull-House Kilns, [Tea cup and saucer, and bowl], Chicago: [ca. 1927-1937], Lisa Unger Baskin Collection, Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University. Accessed April 19, 2024, https://exhibits.library.duke.edu/exhibits/show/baskin/item/4281