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Born September 6, 1860 • Illinois
Died May 21, 1935 (aged 74) • Chicago • Illinois
Founder Hull House
Awards And Honors Hall of Fame (1965) • Nobel Prize (1931)

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Jane Addams in a black-and-white profile portrait, facing right, wearing a high-collared dress, photographed in 1914.
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