United Neighborhood Houses of New York Records

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Documents in this collection

Jane Addams to Emily Stern Bernheim, December 18, 1925

Addams tells Bernheim she must cancel an engagement.

Lectures

Jane Addams to Gaylord Starin White, December 19, 1925

Addams tells White that she has to break her planned engagement because she will be out of the country.

Health Lectures Meetings Travels

Hull-House Christmas Card, 1925

An etching of the Hull-House court used for a holiday card.

Holidays Hull-House

Jane Addams to Gaylord Starin White, November 4, 1925

Addams tells White she will speak for the United Neighborhood Houses in March 1926.

Lectures Settlement Movement

Jane Addams to Emily Stern Bernheim, December 22, 1925

Addams sends Bernheim a new date for a lecture.

Lectures Requests

Description

Records of a federation of New York City settlement houses and its predecessor dating from 1898 to 1990. Includes: minutes, correspondence, memoranda, reports, publications, scrapbooks, corporate documents, departmental and project files, personnel records, and financial records. Subjects include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and Americanization, the Great Depression, preschool education, juvenile delinquency and youth services, the War on Poverty, recreation, public health, job training, neighborhood improvement, community action, and social policy.

Source

Finding aid: http://special.lib.umn.edu/findaid/xml/sw0005.xml

Alternative Title

United Neighborhood Houses of New York Records