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Papers of the University Settlement Society of New York City, 1886-1945
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"Papers of the University Settlement Society of New York City, 1886-1945 contains papers, reports, publications, correspondence, and organizational records of the University Settlement Society, an ...
"Papers of the University Settlement Society of New York City, 1886-1945 contains papers, reports, publications, correspondence, and organizational records of the University Settlement Society, an early social welfare advocacy organization based in New York City. Also found within this collection are documents chronicling the programs and activities the University Settlement Society created for the urban poor living in tenement houses, including access to public bath facilities, advocacy for more public spaces and parks, and summer camps to encourage children to explore a world outside the squalid conditions found in rapidly urbanizing city cores."-- ProQuest History vault
"Records, mainly 1888-1945, of the University Settlement Society of New York, the first neighborhood settlement house for the immigrant poor on New York City's Lower East Side, together with notes of A.J. Kennedy for a never-published history of the Society. The records were donated to honor former headworker Jacob S. Eisinger. There is also a separate file for Charles B. Stover, a society founder, that includes personal papers as well as material relating to his involvement with settlement house work. Also included is information on the personal political and social reform activities of headworkers Robbins Gilman, James H. Hamilton, Robert Hunter, and James B. Reynolds."--Abstract from finding aid of the physical collection.
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- Mixed Materials
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- English
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- 1 online resource (495 volumes)
- Arrangement
- Organized into 11 series: Council Papers, Headworkers' Reports, Publications, Headworkers' Subject and Correspondence File, Residents and Staff, Volunteers, Clubs, Charles B. Stover Papers, Camps, Cultural Activities, and University Settlement Who's Who
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- on1137548379
- Forms part of: History vault. Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights.
- Source: Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin (Mss 326; Micro 49)
- Electronic reproduction. [Ann Arbor, Michigan] : ProQuest. [2018] (History vault. Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights.)
- Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin.
Subjects
- Kennedy, Albert J. (Albert Joseph), 1879-1968.
- Stover, Charles B.
- University Settlement Society of New York -- Archives.
- Educational change -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources.
- Immigrants -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources.
- Poor -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources.
- Social settlements -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- Sources.
- Tenement houses -- History -- Sources.
- New York (State) -- Politics and government -- History -- Sources.