#hull house

[uwmspeccoll]

Happy Labor Day!

Today is Labor Day, the holiday where we celebrate the contributions of workers and the labor movement to our country. To celebrate, we are sharing some pages from the 1938 publication Labor Hi-Lites published by Union News Features. This pamphlet of cartoon/comic-like pages full of labor- and union-related factoids was compiled by lawyer, labor activist, and Hull House affiliate Charles P. Schwartz (1886-1975) and drawn by political/labor cartoonist Bernard Seaman (1913-1998).

Something unusual you may notice about these comic-book-esque panels is that the facts in each panel are generally unrelated to one another. They all focus on the theme of labor and labor unions, but otherwise don't seem to be grouped by any particular rhyme or reason.

We hope these labor factoids help remind you how far we have come in the struggle for fair labor practices and laws to enshrine our rights but also how much farther we have to go and in some ways how little has changed.

View more Labor Day posts.

-- Alice, Special Collections Department Manager

[hyssopandbee]

[chaoticdesertdweller]

"Night of the Demons", 1988

Dir. Kevin S. Tenney

[toomanystoryideas]

i like the ghost files hull house video but shane madej you are from schaumburg not chicago stop fucking lying. you were not born under the bean you were born in dashcon city -_-

[1day2dreamer3]

Shane beating the shit out of the air or whatever he thinks he’s hitting.

The box: who are you?

Shane clearly offended that it didn’t memorize his name

“I’m Shane, i just beat the shit out of you…” :(

[kazbrekkers-yodaplushie]

In my history class we were learning about Hull House and I mentioned to my professor that it was haunted, thinking of the Ghost Files episode.

My professor, who has never seen BFU or Ghost Files, just casually responds: “Oh yeah, the dead demon baby!”

Bestie how and why do you know this

[b00tym4chine]

Nighttime Dan

[archivist-crow]

The Haunted Atlas

Hull-House - Chicago, Illinois

41°52′18″N / 87°38′51″W

A Chicago landmark, now a museum, which in 1913 was widely believed to house a living "Devil Baby." Hull-House is still included in some haunted tours of Chicago and is said by some to exude an uncomfortable atmosphere.

Hull-House was built in 1856 as the residence of Charles J. Hull. Located in what was then the southwestern suburbs of Chicago, the house became surrounded by factories and tenements that housed thousands of immigrants. In the late 1880s, the house became the United States first welfare center, founded by social workers Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr. The center provided numerous services to the large numbers of immigrants who settled in the area. Hull-House was an oasis of comfort. It became so successful that a third floor was added. Eventually, 12 more buildings were added.

Addams had become interested in social work while traveling abroad in England. In the slums of Whitechapel, the setting of the famous Jack the Ripper murders, she went to work helping the poor and championing social reforms. When she returned home, she was fired with a zeal to do the same work in Chicago. She leased Hull-House and turned it into a settlement house for the poor, the abused and the homeless. She campaigned for funds among the wealthy women of the city.

Addams died in 1935. Her work has been continued by the Hull-House Association. Hull-House moved to new quarters in 1963, and the original house was preserved as a museum.

In 1913, a strange rumor about a so-called Devil Baby hidden away inside Hull-House seemed to come from nowhere and gather great speed as it spread throughout the communities of immigrants. For about six weeks, throngs of women descended upon Hull-House demanding to see the Devil Baby. The perplexed and vexed Addams explained and reexplained that there was no basis to the rumor.

In interviewing women about the story and why they believed it, Addams discovered that it seemed to be based on fears of the plight of immigrant women, especially older women with Old World mores and superstitions that involved religious beliefs and the treatment of women.

The story had various ethnic versions. According to the Italian version, a young Italian woman defied her family and married an atheist. She became pregnant right away. A few months later, she hung a picture of the Virgin Mary on the wall. This angered her husband, who tore it down, ripped it up and swore he would rather have the Devil in the house. The couple was punished with the birth of a baby who looked like a miniature Satan, with horns, cloven feet, pointed ears, a tail and a scaly body. It could walk and talk and would run about the house threatening the father. It danced on church pews, laughed hideously and smoked cigars. Finally the father took it to Hull-House and beseeched Addams to take it in.

Other ethnic versions varied only in the sins that brought on the monstrous birth:

* An Irish girl failed to confess to her priest that prior to her marriage she had conducted an affair with
another man.

* A Jewish girl married a Gentile without her parents' permission. Her enraged father said he would rather have the Devil as a grandchild than have a Gentile for a son-in-law.

* A Jewish woman, who had several daughters, became pregnant. Her husband, desirous of a son, told her that he'd rather have her give birth to the Devil than to another girl.

* Two young Jewish women, one of them pregnant, attended a performance of the play Faust. The pregnant one looked too intensely at the stage devil.

* An Orthodox Jewish woman hid the truth about an illegitimate child, claiming that her second child, born in wedlock, was her first. Her third child was the Devil.

The visitors who came to Hull-House were convinced that Addams had taken in the Devil Baby and locked it away in the attic. Rumors circulated that discounts were being given to view the child. One man from Milwaukee called to say he wanted to organize a tour. Another woman, from the poorhouse, borrowed a dime to ride the trolley to Hull-House in hopes of seeing the monster, only to be crushed to hear the truth.

The rumor finally diminished. Addams wrote about the event in her book The Second Twenty Years at Hull-House, in which she theorized that the story had fired the imaginations of women who largely felt excluded from mainstream life in America. The Devil Baby was something they could grasp and understand. Seeing it would elevate their status.

The story has refused to die, however. It was rumored that the child remained locked in Hull-House until it died or that it was removed to a retreat in Waukegan, north of Chicago. Reports continue in present times that the Devil Baby still can be glimpsed in an attic window of Hull-House.

Other haunting phenomena have been reported. Addams's ghost is believed to haunt the premises, as well as the ghost of a woman who allegedly committed suicide in an upstairs room (no documents exist to substantiate the suicide). Individuals also have claimed to photograph ectoplasm and phantom monks inside the house.

The story of Hull-House was an inspiration for Ira Levin's 1967 novel Rosemary's Baby, in which a young wife is tricked into giving birth to the Devil's child.

Text from The Encyclopedia of Ghosts and Spirits, Third Edition by Rosemary Ellen Guiley (Checkmark Books - 2007)

[prideprejudce]

"every dragon has its own special way of choosing it's rider"

[gameofthronesdaily]

HOUSE OF THE DRAGON 02.05 x 02.07

[nataliescatorccio]

ADDAM AND SEASMOKE + reddit posts

[hyssopandbee]

[bbygirl-aemond]

one of my favorite things about hotd is how we get exposed to the differences in the dragons' personalities. one great way to see this is through how each dragon forms a bond with a new rider. when aemond claimed vhagar, she bucked around like a bull and tried to throw him off to make him prove his worth by staying in the saddle. when seasmoke claimed addam, he hunted addam down and basically claimed addam himself. when hugh claimed vermithor, he stood up to him and roared in his face. and when silverwing claimed ulf, she headbutted and sniffed him before deciding to take him for a joyride. each has such a distinct personality and you can see a clear dichotomy between dragons pursuing their riders and riders pursuing their dragons.

[ma-lis03]

Seasmoke trying to get Addam’s attention for awhile:

Also Seasmoke once he got tired of waiting:

[snow-dragon-rider]

The way we’ve gotten

Seasmoke, picking his own rider mostly unprompted and literally chasing him around and cornering him.

Vermithor, roasting everyone who dares to try it except a man brave enough to defy Vermithor’s fury to save another; a man who roars back.

Silverwing watching a lost and terrified man stumble into her lair and quietly accept his death; she bends the neck because he bent the knee.

Something something But who can presume to know the heart of a dragon?

[littlemissmoodswings]

seasmoke meeting darklyn;