Sin in the Second City (55 page)

“Someday if I no longer”: Wallace, 59.

“She seemed like my own grandmother”:
Chicago Tribune,
November 1, 1953.

“We never hurt anybody”: Ibid.

Minna died: Death certificate #20750 for Minna Lester Simms, issued by the Department of Health, Borough of Manhattan. Her nephew, William Simms, filled out the death certificate and listed “Lester” as Minna’s middle name. He also indicated that she had never been married or divorced, and listed her former occupation as “housework.”

Ada was stuck home:
Elyria
(Ohio)
Chronicle Telegram,
September 17, 1948.

Ada followed Minna:
Charlottesville
(Virginia)
Daily Progress,
January 4, 1960.

“Best Wishes for a Happy”: Wallace, 65–66.

B
IBLIOGRAPHY

A
RCHIVAL
C
OLLECTIONS

Chicago History Museum, Chicago, Illinois:
Clifford Barnes Papers
Ernest Bell Papers
Church Federation of Greater Chicago Papers

University of Chicago, Joseph Regenstein Library, Chicago, Illinois:
Chicago Committee of Fifteen Papers

University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois:
Lawrence J. Gutter Collection of Chicagoana, Department of Special Collections

Newberry Library, Chicago, Illinois:
Carter H. Harrison IV Papers, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections Graham Taylor Papers, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections

The Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York:
Bureau of Social Hygiene Records

G
OVERNMENT
A
RCHIVAL
C
OLLECTIONS AND
R
EPORTS

Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Series A: Subject Correspondence Files, Part 5: Prostitution and “White Slavery,” 1902–1933.

U.S. v. Johnson,
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U.S. Congress. Senate. Committee on Immigration.
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12315.

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Reports of the Immigration Commission. A Partial Report from the Immigration Commission on the Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes.
S. Doc. 196, 61st Cong., 2d sess., 1909.

———.
Reports of the Immigration Commission. A Partial Report from the Immigration Commission on Changes in Bodily Form of the Descendants of Immigrants.
S. Doc. 208, 61st Cong., 2d sess., 1909.

U.S. Congress. Senate.
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61st Cong., 3d sess., 1910. Vol .19.
Importation and Harboring of Women for Immoral Purposes.

———.
Reports of the Immigration Commission. Changes in Bodily Form of the Descendants of Immigrants.
61st Cong., 2d sess., 1911. Vol. 38.

———.
Reports of the Immigration Commission. Statements and Recommendations Submitted by Societies and Organizations Interested in the Subject of Immigration.
Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1911.

———.
Reports of the Immigration Commission.
(final). Washington, D.C.: Governement Printing Office, 1911.

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———.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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———.
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