Madeline Wallin Sikes papers
- Creator Names Sikes, Madeleine Wallin, 1868-1955.
- Title Madeline Wallin Sikes papers [manuscript], 1880-1950.
- Physical description 5 linear ft. (12 boxes)
- Collection summary
- Correspondence, minutes, monographs, reports, recommendations, handbills, newsclippings, notes, poems, and other papers of Madeline Wallin Sikes, a Chicago teacher and clubwoman and wife of George Cushing Sikes. Includes correspondence with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alfred M. Wallin, and materials on her many social service activities in women's organizations and Chicago political activities, notably the League of Cook County Women's Clubs, the National Consumer's League, the Chicago Child Saving League, the League of Women Voters, the Woman's Club of Austin, the General Federation of Women's Clubs, the Association of Collegiate Alumnae, the Chicago Woman's Club, and the Mothers' Congress of Illinois. The papers contain a significant amount of material on her work with educational legislation, child labor legislation, and protective labor legislation for women.
- Collection also includes sundry items relating to Sikes' and her husband George Cushing Sikes' work with Jane Addams and Hull-House, letters and other items of George Cushing Sikes from the Chicago Record, plus a few papers of their daughter Eleanor Sikes Peters. George Sikes's letter of July 24, 1894, concerns George M. Pullman and the Pullman strike and mentions Jane Addams; his Feb. 29, 1896, letter deals with Miss Addams' efforts to have him run for alderman against John Powers.
- Finding Aids Note Descriptive inventory available in the Research Center.
- Names
- Sikes, Madeleine Wallin, 1868-1955 Archives.
- Sikes, George C. (George Cushing), 1868-1928.
- Addams, Jane, 1860-1935 Archives.
- Peters, Eleanor Sikes.
- Pullman, George Mortimer, 1831-1897.
- Association of Collegiate Alumnae (U.S.)
- Chicago Child Saving League.
- Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)
- General Federation of Women's Clubs.
- League of Cook County Women's Clubs.
- League of Women Voters (U.S.)
- Mothers' Congress of Illinois.
- National Consumers' League.
- Woman's Club of Austin (Ill.)
- Peters, Eleanor Sikes.
- Sikes, George C. (George Cushing), 1868-1928.
- Subjects
- Women Illinois Chicago Societies and clubs.
- Women Political activity Illinois Chicago 19th century.
- Women Political activity Illinois Chicago 20th century.
- Women social reformers Illinois Chicago 19th century.
- Women social reformers Illinois Chicago 20th century.
- Women volunteers in social service Illinois Chicago 19th century.
- Women volunteers in social service Illinois Chicago 20th century.
- Geographic coverage
- Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 19th century.
- Chicago (Ill.) Politics and government 20th century.
- Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 19th century.
- Chicago (Ill.) Social conditions 20th century.
- Genre
- Correspondence. aat
- Handbills. aat
- Minutes. aat
- Newspaper clippings. aat
- Poetry. aat
- Reports. aat
- Geographic name United States Illinois Cook County Chicago.