Settlement House

ID: 2922 ~ Source: The Indiana Album, Joan Hostetler Collection ~ Date: c. 1915

This file appears in: The Experience of Manual Laborers: At the Bottom of the Rail in Gary

Polish children at the entrance of two community houses (settlement houses), circa 1915. This may have taken place at the Neighborhood House, Gary's first settlement house. Settlement houses were used to provide resources to immigrants and to encourage them to assimilate into American life.

This file appears in: The Experience of Manual Laborers: At the Bottom of the Rail in Gary

The Experience of Manual Laborers: At the Bottom of the Rail in Gary

By Gary Public Library and Rebecca Shrum, Discover Indiana

In 1910, 49.1% of Gary’s population was born outside the U.S. 71% of the population was either foreign-born or born in the U.S. with at least one parent who was born outside the U.S. Most of the manual workers at Gary Works were immigrants from…