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Laura Jane Addams (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was a founder of the U.S. Settlement House movement, and the first American woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

Jane Addams was a social reformer, pacifist and women's rights activist who was most remembered as the founder of Hull House, one of the nation's first settlement houses which offered social, educational, and cultural opportunities to the large immigrant population of Chicago.

In 1931 she, together with Nicholas Murray Butler, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She was the first American woman to receive a Nobel Prize. In 1940 this 10¢ stamp was issued in the Famous Americans Series – Scientists, to honor and commemorate her.   First Day ceremonies were held in Chicago on April 26, 1940. (Scott 878).

A 15-cent postal card in the Historic Preservation Series, marking the centennial of Hull House, was issued by the U.S. Postal Service in September, 1989. First Day ceremonies were held on September 16, 1989, at the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum—part of the College of Architecture and the Arts at the University of Illinois at Chicago. (Scott UX134).

 
             
           Jane Addams, 1940                        Hull House Centennial, 1989
 

Julia C. Lathrop helped establish Chicago's first juvenile court.

Julia C. Lathrop (1858-1932), a Vassar alumna and Hull House resident, first woman on the Illinois State Board of Charities, first head of the Children's Bureau. www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAWlathrop.htm

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Lathrop

Oh, so sad about the damage! It was a lovely expression captured. American reformer, feminist, and pacifist Jane Addams (1860-1935): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Addams

Luckily, this is not a Bain original, but a photograph of a photographic print by someone else, the original (or a copy) of which may survive elsewhere.