The Florence Kelley papers contain correspondence, writings, address books, clippings, financial and legal documents, scrapbooks, photographs, printed matter and ephemera documenting Kelley's personal life and her professional commitment to social reform, from her time at Hull House in Chicago to her tenure as General Secretary of the National Consumers' League.
Florence Kelley was an activist, lawyer, and sociologist who worked at the vanguard of urban and social reform movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and headed the National Consumers' League for thirty-four years.
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Biography
Florence Kelley was an activist, lawyer, and sociologist who worked at the vanguard of urban and social reform movements in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, and headed the National Consumers' League for thirty-four years.
Finding aids
Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
Location of other archival materials
Related collections include the Nicholas Kelley Papers; Manuscripts and Archives Division; New York Public Library.