Anna Kadlec Papers, 1898-1988 | Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

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Collection Overview

Title: Anna Kadlec Papers, 1898-1988

Primary Creator: Kadlec, Anna (1893-1991)

Extent: 0.7 Cubic Feet

Date Acquired: 01/03/1989

Subjects: Addams, Jane, 1860-1935., Eastern Kentucky University--Faculty and staff., Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969., Women social reformers--United States., Women social workers--United States.

Languages: English

Abstract

Anna Kadlec spent her career in social work. She worked closely with individuals like Jane Addams in the Chicago settlement house movement to improve social conditions for impoverished communities. Afterwards, she went on to study the employment of women in Chicago meat packing plants and to work as a teacher at Model.

Scope and Contents of the Materials

The Kadlec Papers contain information pertaining to the settlement house movement in Chicago during the early twentieth century; in particular, the University of Chicago Settlement House. In addition, the researcher will find information about Miss Mary McDowell, who was an early advocate of the settlement house movement in Chicago. In this collection the researcher will find various pamphlets and articles from Anna's days as a student at the University of Chicago. The collection includes pamphlets published by the Juvenile Protection Association of Chicago, personal collection, business correspondence related to Morris Packing Company and newspaper clippings relating to Miss Mary McDowell, Jane Addams and the settlement house movement. A unique item in the collection is a photograph of Dwight Eisenhower when he was a 2nd Lt. and a Tactical Officer in the Mexican Border Control, dated 1916.

Collection Historical Note

Anna Koutecky was born in Chicago on August 9, 1894, the first child of an immigrant couple from Czechoslovakia. In 1923 Anna married Frank Kadlec (1889-1938), a physician at Chicago's Jackson Park Hospital. They had two children, Nancy and Bonnie. (You will find more on Anna Koutecky Kadlec's life in the biographical file, f.19.) Anna worked at the University of Chicago Settlement House. With her knowledge of five languages, she quickly caught the eye of Mary McDowell, and became Miss McDowell's assistant. While at the settlement Anna also worked closely with Jane Addams of Hull House. Anna claimed that Addams and McDowell were training her to take over the Settlement House. During this time period she also attended the University of Chicago. Upon graduation, Anna received a fellowship to study the employment of women in the meat packing industry at Morris Packing Company in Chicago. Ms. Koutecky was then employed in industrial relations for the same company from 1918- 1923. Following her marriage, she took some time off to raise her children but later received her teaching certification and went back to work as a teacher at the Betsy Ross School in the 1930s. Mrs. Kadlec then went to the Tonti School in Chicago where she taught until 1960. In 1960, Anna moved to Richmond, KY where she taught at the Miller School for a year. She then taught at the EKU Model School for four years. Anna lived in Richmond until her death on August 30,1991 at age 97.

Subject/Index Terms

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935.
Eastern Kentucky University--Faculty and staff.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. (Dwight David), 1890-1969.
Women social reformers--United States.
Women social workers--United States.

Administrative Information

Repository: Eastern Kentucky University - Special Collections and Archives

Acquisition Source: Runck, Nancy

Acquisition Method: gift

Other Note: Photographs were initially numbered with the accession number; however, a decision was made to change to collection number. The database was changed, but the numbers written on the images were not changed.

Box and Folder Listing

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Box 2: Photographs

Barcode: 31234014041923

Folder 1

Item 1: Interior of the Settlement School at 4638 S. Ashland, which was its first location in Chicago, 1892
Item 2: 47th and Ashland in Chicago, showing George J. Cooke Company (brewery) and Greenwald's Furniture, 1892
Item 3: Men going to work in a meat packing house in Chicago, IL, 1910
Item 4: Shanty Boat in Chicago on Lake Michigan, undated
Item 5: Archer Avenue in the Bridgeport area of Chicago, showing gypsy tents. "Mayor Daley's neighborhood. Houses were below street level.", 1905ca
Item 6: The Lake Park Avenue Bus in Chicago, IL. "Early stockyard executives lived on the street.", undated
Item 7: Kindergarten children playing in Chicago, 1906
Item 8: Apartment above a saloon in Chicago, undated
Item 9: Busload of boys in Chicago, some holding U.S. flags, 1917
Item 10: University of Chicago Settlement School, undated: Children playing in a sandbox at the South Park Playground.
Item 11: Anna Kadlec with children on the playground at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1917 Jul 02
Item 12: Anna Kadlec with children on the playground at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1917 Jul 02
Item 13: Anna Kadlec (at the slide) with children on the playground at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1917 Jul 02
Item 14: Mother's club at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1917 Jul 02
Item 15: Mother's club at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1917 Jul 02
Item 16: Children on the playground at the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1917
Item 17: Boys waiting at the water fountain on the University of Chicago Settlement House playground, 1917ca
Item 18: A match baseball game at the Hull House in Chicago, IL, 1908
Item 19: Planting trees on the playground at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1902
Item 20: Children playing on the playground at the University of Chicago Settlement School, 1899
Item 21: University of Chicago Settlement House boys on a picnic, 1899
Item 22: Decorating the Kindergarten Christmas tree at the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1899
Item 23: Armour Meat Packing Plant from Ashland Ave in Chicago, IL, 1919ca
Item 24: The McDowell Club at the University of Chicago Settlement House., 1899
Item 25: A Christmas party at the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1911
Item 26: Little girls making doll dresses at the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1900
Item 27: Members of a Young Woman's Club at the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1902
Item 28: Children listening to a story at the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1900
Item 29: A boy and girl who were part of the University of Chicago Settlement House, 1915ca
Item 30: The cast of the University of Chicago Settlement House production of the "Girls of '76", 1916 Feb 25

Folder 2

Item 31: A portrait of Mary McDowell, 1899
Item 32: Mary McDowell with an unidentified man and child, 1915ca
Item 33: Two unidentified women (initials M.H.P. and A.H.) who sent this Christmas greeting to Miss Mary McDowell, "The manner of our growing old is the measure of our life.", 1908
Item 34: A portrait of Mary McDowell inscribed to Anna Kadlec, 1929
Item 35: A print of a Charles Sprague Pearce painting called "Religion" inscribed by Mary McDowell, 1899
Item 36: A print of a Charles Sprague Pearce painting called "Labor" inscribed by Mary McDowell, 1899

Folder 3

Item 37: Members of the International Club at the University of Chicago., 1916
Item 38: The University of Chicago men's choir in San Francisco. The name Schumann Hernck is written on the photo, 1916ca
Item 39: Anna Kadlec holding a notebook on a Chicago street, 1916
Item 40: Graduates from the University of Chicago Teachers College. Anna Kadlec is on the right., 1932
Item 41: Women playing baseball on the University of Chicago baseball field, 1916

Folder 4

Item 42: Morris & Co. employees at a beach party on Calumet Beach, 1918 Jul
Item 43: Morris & Co. employees at a beach party on Calumet Beach, 1918 Jul
Item 44: Morris & Co. employees playing baseball at a beach party on Calumet Beach, 1918 Jul
Item 45: Morris & Co. employees at a beach party on Calumet Beach, 1918 Jul
Item 46: Morris & Co. employees in a company bus going to the woods, 1919 Aug
Item 47: Morris & Co. employees in a company truck, 1919 Aug
Item 48: Mary McDowell of the University of Chicago Settlement leading a Fourth of July Parade., 1913ca
Item 49: Children watching at Fourth of July pie eating contest. The window in the store behind the children reads "Polish-American Colonization Co." The building on the right of the photograph has "Waiting Room" carved into the stone., 1913ca
Item 50: Daughters of the American Red Cross in the University of Chicago Settlement Dining Room, undated
Item 51: Women from the Morris & Co. plant working in a Victory Garden near the University of Chicago Settlement, 1918
Item 52: A postcard of the crowd watching the weekly outdoor movies at the University of Chicago Settlement., 1927
Item 53: University of Chicago Settlement library with four women seated around a table, 1911ca
Item 54: May Day Dance around the maypole., 1911ca
Item 55: A group photo of the University of Chicago Settlement at Holiday Home, Lake Geneva. Bill Hibbs is the only person identified, but Anna Kadlec is circled in the third row, 1917
Item 56: An unidentified man practicing for a play at Lake Geneva, 1917
Item 57: An unidentified couple practicing for a play at Lake Geneva, 1917
Item 58: An unidentified couple practicing for a play at Lake Geneva, 1917
Item 59: An unidentified couple practicing for a play at Lake Geneva, 1917
Item 60: Marianna Lobrozak and her great grandchild in Harbor Springs, MI, 1899 Jul
Item 61: A Bohemian Sokol Band in full costume, undated
Item 62: Two Lithuanian sisters walking on a Chicago Street, undated
Item 63: A Slovak woman carrying a pack across the railroad tracks in South-side Chicago, undated

Folder 5

Item 64: Gypsies who visited the stock yard neighborhood in South-side Chicago, 1900ca
Item 65: Gypsies who visited the stock yard neighborhood in South-side Chicago, 1900ca
Item 66: Gypsies who visited the stock yard neighborhood in South-side Chicago, 1900ca
Item 67: Gypsies who visited the stock yard neighborhood in South-side Chicago, 1900ca
Item 68: Gypsies who visited the stock yard neighborhood in South-side Chicago, 1900 Oct 12

Folder 6

Item 69: Tombstones of Benjamin Franklin and John Read near Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA, 1918 Jul 04
Item 70: A view of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA, 1918
Item 71: A woman standing at the entrance to Independence Hall in Philadelphia, PA, 1918 Jul 04
Item 72: A view of a Philadelphia Street. [Ch]as. F. Wood Signs is the only legible business name., 1918
Item 73: Two women and a man standing in the water at the beach in Atlantic City, NJ with Garden Pier in the background, 1918
Item 74: Two women standing in front of Bathing Headquarters of the National Conference Social Work Convention in Atlantic City, NJ, 1918
Item 75: The Underwood Building at Garden Pier in Atlantic City, NJ, 1918
Item 76: Two women and a man standing in the water at the beach in Atlantic City, NJ with Garden Pier in the background, 1918
Item 77: Four women leaning against small wooden boat on the beach in Atlantic City, NJ, 1918
Item 78: Anna Kadlec on the beach at Atlantic City, NJ, 1918
Item 79: Anna Kadlec on the beach at Atlantic City, NJ, 1918
Item 80: Three unidentified women and a child on a hill overlooking Kansas City, MO, 1919 Mar
Item 81: Three unidentified women and a child beside a wrought iron fence in Oklahoma City, OK, 1919 Mar
Item 82: Three unidentified women on a hill overlooking Oklahoma City, OK, 1919 Mar
Item 83: Anna Kadlec in a garden in Oklahoma City, OK, 1919 Mar
Item 84: Anna Kadlec holding the niece of a nurse at the Morris & Co. plant in St. Joseph, MO and two unidentified women, 1918ca
Item 85: Anna Kadlec holding the niece of a nurse at the Morris & Co. plant in St. Joseph, MO, 1917
Item 86: A photo of the Morris & Co. plant in St. Joseph, Mo, 1917
Item 87: Anna Kadlec standing in front of a brick wall with two nurses in St. Joseph, MO, 1918ca
Item 88: Two unidentified women on a brick wall in St. Joseph, MO, 1918ca
Item 89: Three unidentified women sitting on a brick wall in St. Joseph, MO, 1918ca
Item 90: Anna sitting on a boat holding a baby in St. Joseph, MO, 1918ca
Item 91: Anna Kadlec (left) and a member of the medical staff of Morris & Co., 1918ca
Item 92: The medical staff at Morris & Co., 1918ca
Item 93: Two of the girls from the bacon department at the Morris & Co. packing plant, 1920ca
Item 94: Bill, Anna Kadlec's protector, two foremen and two superintendents of Morris & Co., 1919ca
Item 95: Lines formed for payday which was usually on Tuesdays, 1919ca
Item 96: Lines formed for payday which was usually on Tuesdays, 1919ca
Item 97: Lines formed for payday which was usually on Tuesdays, 1919ca
Item 98: Anna Kadlec. "Miss Kentucky," with the medical staff of Morris & Co., 1919ca
Item 99: Frieda Russell (a nurse at Morris & Co.) and Mary Dugan (a secretary at Morris & Co.) dressed in costume for a play put on for the plant employees, 1919ca
Item 100: The wife of a Morris & Company employee with their triplet babies, 1919ca
Item 101: The baby of an unidentified Morris & Company employee, 1919ca
Item 102: Mary Marganski and her six children, Stella, Marie, Victoria, Rosie, Helen, and Walter Marganski. The latter three are triplets born in 1920., 1921ca

Folder 7

Item 103: Cadet Sgt. Tom Blazina at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, 1946 Jun
Item 104: 2nd Lt Dwight D. Eisenhower and his 7th Infantry Illinois National Guard troops as a tactical officer in the Mexican Border Service, 1916
Item 105: 2nd Lt Dwight D. Eisenhower and his 7th Infantry Illinois National Guard troops as a tactical officer in the Mexican Border Service, 1916
Item 106: 2nd Lt Dwight D. Eisenhower and his 7th Infantry Illinois National Guard troops as a tactical officer in the Mexican Border Service, 1916
Item 107: A postcard depicting an aerial view of Camp Pike, Little Rock, AR, 1918
Item 108: Postcard to commemorate Thomas Garrigue Masaryk's (President Liberator of Czechoslovakia) 110th anniversary with Masaryk postage stamps on back, 1937ca

Folder 8

Item 109: Anna Kadlec in her very first evening dress, 1917 May
Item 110: Anna Kadlec (right) and an unidentified woman, both in long white coats, 1916
Item 111: Anna Kadlec (right) and a woman named Josephine or Loretta in front of a car, 1916ca
Item 112: Anna Kadlec in long white coat holding a hat, 1916ca
Item 113: Anna Kadlec in long white coat wearing a hat, 1916ca
Item 114: Anna Kadlec at home, 1916ca
Item 115: Anna Kadlec holding flowers, 1917ca
Item 116: Anna Kadlec standing in front of a school supply store, 1917ca
Item 117: Anna Kadlec wearing her future husband, Frank Kadlec's World War I uniform, 1917ca
Item 118: Anna Kadlec sitting on a bench, 1916
Item 119: Anna Kadlec holding a book, 1917
Item 120: Anna Kadlec in her cap and gown holding flowers, 1917ca
Item 121: Anna Kadlec in cap and gown, 1917ca
Item 122: Anna Kadlec in cap and gown in Chicago, IL, 1915
Item 123: Anna and Frank Kadlec playing baseball, undated
Item 124: Anna Kadlec with Frank Kadlec in military uniform, 1918ca
Item 125: Anna Kadlec with Frank Kadlec in military uniform, 1918ca
Item 126: Anna and Frank Kadlec at their cottage in Mizpah Park Michigan, 1938
Item 127: Anna and Frank Kadlec at their cottage in Mizpah Park Michigan, 1938 Apr
Item 128: Frank Kadlec (back, left) and other army personnel on steps (Frank served in World War I), 1917ca
Item 129: Frank Kadlec (left) with another soldier, 1917ca
Item 130: Frank Kadlec (back row) and other army personnel on steps, 1917ca
Item 131: Frank Kadlec in his military uniform, 1918
Item 132: Frank Kadlec in his military uniform, 1918
Item 133: Frank Kadlec in his medical office, 1920
Item 134: Frank Kadlec's medical office in Chicago, 1920
Item 135: Frank Kadlec at his cottage in Mizpah Park, MI, 1938 Jul
Item 136: Frank Kadlec at his cottage in Mizpah Park, MI, 1938 Jul
Item 137: Anna Kadlec and her mother, Anna Koutecky in Michigan, 1921
Item 138: Anna Kadlec's mother, Anna Koutecky, undated
Item 139: Anna Kadlec's mother, Anna Koutecky, undated
Item 140: Anna Kadlec's father, Frank Koutecky, undated

Folder 9

Item 141: Anna Kadlec boarding the Olympia for a Christmas Cruise, 1958ca
Item 142: Anna Kadlec and the Captain at the Captain's Dinner on a Christmas Cruise on the Olympia, 1958ca
Item 143: Anna Kadlec and daughter, Bonnie, at Bonnie's graduation from the University of Oregon (Bonnie earned her Master's Degree from Oregon), 1972
Item 144: Anna Kadlec in cap and gown with her dog Victoria, 1962
Item 145: Anna Kadlec in cap and gown with her dog Victoria, 1962
Item 146: Anna Kadlec in cap and gown, 1962
Item 147: Anna Kadlec and Alice at the Mt. Pleasant Christian Church Homecoming eating watermelon, 1984 Jun 10
Item 148: Anna Kadlec's Kentucky drivers license, 1982 Jul

Folder 10

Item 149: Anna Kadlec (front row, left) and the University of Chicago women's choir, 1916
Item 150: Anna Kadlec (front row, fifth from the left) and the University of Chicago choir. They sang every Wednesday morning at chapel services and on special occasions., 1916
Item 151: Ty Cobb; Anna Koutecky and Frank Kadlec in Jackson Park, Chicago, IL, 1915 May 31
Item 152: Ty Cobb; Anna Koutecky and Frank Kadlec in Jackson Park, Chicago, IL, 1915 May 31
Item 153: Anna Kadlec (back row, left) with the Kadlec family, 1915 Jul 05
Item 154: Anna Kadlec (left) and an unidentified woman with tennis racquets, 1915 Aug 18
Item 155: Anna Kadlec, 1915 Jul 05
Item 156: Anna Kadlec in a park with snow on the ground, 1915ca
Item 157: Anna Kadlec in front of a mantle, 1913
Item 158: Anna Kadlec peaking through leaves on a tree, 1913ca
Item 159: Anna Kadlec and two unidentified women at Lake Geneva, 1913
Item 160: Anna Kadlec and an unidentified woman at Lake Geneva, 1913
Item 161: Anna Kadlec carrying books beside a water fountain numbered 98 in Chicago, IL, 1915 Nov
Item 162: Anna (back row, right) and Frank Kadlec (back row, left) with three unidentified people, 1915 Jul 05
Item 163: Anna and Frank Kadlec (right) with a group of people at a Lake Michigan beach party, 1915 Aug 22
Item 164: Anna Kadlec (right) and another woman on the beach, 1915 Jul 05: Anna wrote "Chaplen and Kentucky" on the photo. She was nicknamed "Miss Kentucky" for her love of music by Stephen Foster, and the place that he wrote his songs about, Kentucky.
Item 165: Anna and Frank Kadlec (on the left) with a group at a Lake Michigan beach party, 1915 Aug 22
Item 166: Anna Kadlec (second from right) with three other women at a Lake Michigan beach party, 1915 Aug 22
Item 167: Two women in front of a pier on a Lake Michigan beach, 1915 Aug
Item 168: Anna Kadlec (back row, third from left) and Frank Kadlec (back row, fourth from left) with a group of unidentified people, 1914 Jul
Item 169: Anna (third row, right) and Frank Kadlec (second row, right) with a group of unknown people holding a banner that reads "Zenith Socials", undated
Item 170: Anna Kadlec and Meyer Schulman at Jackson Park in Chicago, IL, 1915 Jun
Item 171: Anna Kadlec and Barney Greenspan on a Moonlight Excursion on Lake Michigan. The boat is the Theodore Roosevelt of the Michigan and Chicago Line STMR's., 1915 Jun 24
Item 172: Anna Kadlec (right) with an unidentified group on a Moonlight Excursion on Lake Michigan. The boat is the Theodore Roosevelt of the Michigan and Chicago Line STMR's., 1915 Jun 24
Item 173: Anna Kadlec (bottom row, fourth from left) with group of unidentified people at a Lake Michigan beach, 1916ca
Item 174: Anna Kadlec (right) with two women "on the fence", 1916 Jun 25
Item 175: Anna Kadlec (third from right) with a group of unidentified women on a Lake Michigan beach, 1916 Jun
Item 176: Anna Kadlec (right) and three unidentified people on the tennis courts, 1916 Jun 25
Item 177: An unidentified woman on a Lake Michigan beach, 1916 May 28
Item 178: Frank Kadlec playing tennis, 1916 Jun 25
Item 179: Anna Kadlec (left) and three unidentified people, 1916 Jun
Item 180: An unidentified couple with a tennis racquet, 1916 Jun 25
Item 181: Anna and Frank Kadlec (right) on tennis courts in Chicago, IL with another couple, 1916 Jun 25
Item 182: Three women in bathing suits on a Lake Michigan beach, 1916 Aug 20
Item 183: Frank Kadlec and two unidentified women on a Lake Michigan beach, 1916 Aug 20
Item 184: An unidentified group of women and children in a field in Chicago, IL, 1916 Aug 27
Item 185: An unidentified group of women and children in Chicago, IL, 1917ca
Item 186: Anna and Frank Kadlec (standing, right) with a group of unidentified people on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, IL, 1916
Item 187: Anna and Frank Kadlec (standing, right) with a group of unidentified people on the shore of Lake Michigan in Chicago, IL, 1916
Item 188: Frank Kadlec and an unidentified man, 1915 Jul 05
Item 189: Bill, Pat and Anna Kadlec (right), undated
Item 190: Anna Kadlec (right) and a woman in a Navy uniform on an ivy covered footbridge, undated
Item 191: Anna Kadlec (right) and Ann on an ivy covered footbridge, undated
Item 192: Anna Kadlec (center) swinging with two women, one of whom is wearing a Navy uniform., undated
Item 193: Anna Kadlec with a squirrel on her shoulder, undated
Item 194: Anna Kadlec (right) with two unidentified women, 1917 Jan 01
Item 195: Woman on front steps of a building, undated
Item 196: Anna Kadlec and unidentified woman sitting on a front stoop, 1917 May 10
Item 197: Anna Kadlec (left), Frank Kadlec and two unidentified women posing in a window., 1917 Jun 10
Item 198: Anna Kadlec (standing, left) and three unidentified young women, undated
Item 199: "Them last days in Rosie." Anna Kadlec (right) and an unidentified woman sitting in a window, 1917 Jun
Item 200: Anna Kadlec (left) and Celia sitting in a window, 1917 Jun
Item 201: Anna Kadlec outside reading in Chicago, IL, 1917 Jun
Item 202: The last picnic of Anna Kadlec's college days, showing two women on a playground slide, 1917ca
Item 203: Anna Kadlec (left) and woman in front of what is probably a Ford Model T Touring car, 1917ca
Item 204: Anna Kadlec (bottom, left) with her University of Chicago Delta Sigma sorority sisters, 1917
Item 205: Patsey in cap and gown, probably at University of Chicago graduation., 1917ca
Item 206: An unidentified group of women sitting on bleachers in Chicago, 1916 Jun
Item 207: Frank Kadlec (right) and an unidentified man, "Fat and Slim", 1917 Jun
Item 208: Anna Kadlec on a boat in Lake Michigan, undated
Item 209: Anna Kadlec in cap and gown at her University of Chicago graduation., 1917 Jun

Folder 11

Item 210: Anna Kadlec and Mrs. Pierce (left) who was in charge of the Kansas City Employment Office., 1918
Item 211: A group of young women and one young man with bouquets of daisies., 1911
Item 212: A woman on the top of a cliff above a lake or ocean., undated
Item 213: Anna Kadlec (top right) with an unidentified group of children., undated
Item 214: A group of unidentified young men and women taken in Chicago, IL., 1911
Item 223: Jackson Park Picnic, 1915
Item 224: Jackson Park Picnic, 1915
Item 225: By the Beautiful Sea, 1915: Tom and Pat
Item 226: Cousins: l-r: Mr. Burkett (friend) Albie, Roy (two in one), Hazel, Bertha, (sister)
Item 227: Hockey Club, ca 1915: Girls on a bleacher, some in gym clothes.
Item 228: Cleveland Cousins, ca 1915

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