Anna Louise Tittman Memoir - University of Illinois Springfield

Anna Tittman
you would say maybe a little fleshy, but she had fair skd, she was a
pleasant looking person but very serious, always was well~gmomed thp time
I saw her, well &essed, not conspicuously, and her
was a gentlewoman. She certainly did beautifil
that she did in establishing clinics and classes
the neighborhood, and the nei&borhood
But in order to get things for her
and impmvements in the water and
for it, the city headquarters, to
things like that. Now she had
workers and others,II know that. She had a lot to say
Children's Bureau, the Federal Children's Bureau was
organizations, social organizations we had in the gov
govermment, in getting that established. And a womn
was put at the head of that, she was a close f'riend o
Q. How many tims did MISS Addarns come to have dinner w i you at Graham
Taylor ' s?
A. Well she would come to spend an hour or two you how h e r . It
might not be even once a week of those six weeks I was
Q. Did you ever go and visit her at Hull House? I
A. It seem to me that we went as a pup who were at Graham ;Taylor' s
house to see what they had to offer and so forth,
their people
there, their clientele in classes and so forth.
different way of living. The streets were
no place to go because there were no
are now I'm sure. It was noisy, it
lots of places, the streets were
portation down there except, or
cart that was sellhg somthing
Q. How far away was Jane Addams' house f?om G r h Taylorf house?
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A. Well I can't tell exactly but I think she was more wes perhaps than
he was.
Q. Within walking distance?
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A. I can't recall. I would think so mybe, if I correctly Graham
Taylor's settlemt was on Chicago Avenue and
treetcar on Chicago
Avenue and we cam f'rom town on that
nter of town where
our lectures were. So that's about Then the second
part of term at the University of Chicago, if you want to tell about my
speakhg .
Q. I 've got that already.
A. Well X found that I had a very good swmer.
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Q. We have pretty well covered your trip in Russia, but w never =ally
got you out of Russia. How did you corn- out?
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