Nationalities map no. 1[-4], Polk St. to Twelfth,...Chicago
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This map, based on data collected by Hull House residents between 1892 and 1894, was published as part of an early sociological project entitled “Hull-House Maps and Papers” in 1895. The residents of Hull House were certain that publishing maps with explicit information about the wages and conditions of the working poor on the Near West Side of Chicago would lead to necessary social reforms. This map portrays immigrants by their countries of birth. As indicated here, even into the late nineteenth century, French Canadians (represented by the brown stripe shading) continued to emigrate to the Midwest.
