Nationalities Map No. 1 Nationalities Map No. 2 Nationalities Map No. 3 Nationalities Map No. 4
- Title:
- Nationalities Map No. 1 Nationalities Map No. 2 Nationalities Map No. 3 Nationalities Map No. 4
- Alternate Title:
- Nationalities Maps
- Collection:
- Persuasive Maps: PJ Mode Collection
- Creator:
- Hull-House (Chicago, Ill.)
- Other Creators:
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935
Kelley, Florence, 1859-1932
- Date:
- 1895
- Posted Date:
- 2015-08-25
- ID Number:
- 1120.01
- Collection Number:
- 8548
- File Name:
- PJM_1120_01.jpg
- Style/Period:
- 1870 - 1899
- Subject:
- Poverty/Prostitution/Crime
Unusual Graphics/Text - Measurement:
- 36 x 112 (centimeters, height x width)
- Notes:
- As a "nation of immigrants," Americans have produced persuasive maps addressing the issues of immigration and nationality over most of the country's lifetime. The collection includes a number of these maps published since the 1840s. Some are welcoming, encouraging, and provide advice to immigrants. Some assert that the diversity of our nationalities is a source of strength for the country. And yet others attack immigrants in general, or specific ethnic or religious immigrant groups, particularly Asians, Catholics, and Jews. For the range of these maps, Search > "immigration.”
This is a set of beautiful and sociologically important maps of immigrant poverty in America. See generally Vaughan 2018, 99-106, 139-43. These maps were produced by the residents of Hull House, the Chicago settlement house established in 1889 by Jane Addams. They detail the Nationalities of Hull House's neighbors in the Near West Side area of Chicago. Every residential dwelling is color coded to indicate the nationalities of the residents; 18 separate nationality classifications are shown, including "English Speaking (Excluding Irish)" and "Colored." Hull House Maps 16-17.
Addams was a towering figure in the history of American social reform. "She was a mystic possessed of a devastating common sense who viewed everyday experience from a new angle of vision, distilling from it compelling insights into the human and social cost of industrial capitalism and international conflict." Scott 1971, 21. The Hull House Maps and Papers "dealt extensively with tenement conditions, sweatshops, and child labor," and it was a "pioneering collaborative study of social conditions in the Nineteenth Ward (issued at a time when academic departments of sociology had hardly been born." Ibid. 18. Although Addams insisted that the energies of Hull House residents "have been chiefly directed, not towards sociological investigation, but to constructive work" (Hull House Maps vii-viii), these maps and the supporting volume reflect extensive and systematic surveys and analyses over a number of years. Addams set out clearly the intent of the effort: "The possibility of helping toward an improvement in the sanitation of the neighborhood, and toward an introduction of some degree of comfort, has given purpose and confidence to this undertaking. It is also hope that the setting forth of some of the conditions shown in the maps and papers may be of value, not only to the people of Chicago who desire correct and accurate information concerning the foreign and populous parts of the town, but to the constantly increasing body of sociological students more widely scattered." Ibid. 11
The Hull House Maps acknowledge (at 11) their debt to the London poverty maps of Charles Booth, see ID #1138. It is interesting to contrast the secular, scientific approach and tone of this work and Booth's poverty maps with the religious and sensationalist approach of William Stead, ID #1115, published the year before the Hull House Maps, and also related to social conditions in Chicago.
For further information on the Collector’s Notes and a Feedback/Contact Link, see https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/about-collection-personal-statement and https://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/content/feedback-and-contact - Source:
- Residents of Hull House. 1895. Hull-House Maps and Papers: A Presentation of Nationalities and Wages in a Congested District of Chicago, Together with Comments and Essays on Problems Growing Out of the Social Conditions. New York: Thomas Y. Crowell & Co.
- Cite As:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography, #8548. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
- Repository:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
- Archival Collection:
- P.J. Mode collection of persuasive cartography
- Format:
- Image
- Rights:
- For important information about copyright and use, see http://persuasivemaps.library.cornell.edu/copyright.