North Bennet Street Industrial School (Boston, Mass.)
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North Bennet Street Industrial School (Boston, Mass.)
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Pauline (Agassiz) Shaw was the guiding spirit and considered the founder of this trade school and settlement house in Boston's North End. Founded in 1879 to provide a means of self-help for the poor, the North End Industrial Home first established a sewing room managed and staffed mainly by women for women. In 1885 the school was incorporated under its present name to serve the surrounding immigrant community, which after 1900 was mainly Italian. It aimed to help the immigrants become citizens and improve their economic conditions. In addition to the sewing room, the School offered other vocational courses for children and adults, a day nursery and Play School for Habit Training, a library, clubs, outings, pageants, summer camps, a credit union, and an industrial training program. For many years it provided vocational training to Boston public school students, sponsoring such industries as lighting fixtures and lead garden ornaments which it sold in its Industrial Arts Shop. Vocational guidance and placement were initiated before WWI but were emphasized particularly during the Depression, when the School helped run a work relief program for the unemployed. After both world wars the School participated in government programs to train veterans and handicapped persons, and it has been active in civic improvement projects in the North End. It attracts students from all over the U.S., and is affiliated with the United Way (formerly the Boston Council of Social Agencies).
Early superintendents of the School were women. In 1909, Alvin E. Dodd became director, and after him George Courtright Greener, a potter from Columbus, Ohio, succeeded in 1954 by Ernest Jacoby. The school has had an active Board of Managers that has included many prominent Bostonians.
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Printing
Amateur plays
Americanization
Antiques
Teachers
Caddying
Camps
Charities
Clock and watch making
Clubs
Community centers
Cooking, Italian
Credit unions
Emigration and immigration
Employment agencies
Exhibitions
Handicraft
Immigrants
Interior decoration
Italian Americans
Jewelry making
Lighting, Architectural and decorative
Metal-work
Neighborhood
Nursery schools
Poor
Pottery
Social settlements
Sewing
Social service
Social workers
Spinning
Technical education
Trade schools
Unemployed
Vocational education
Vocational guidance
Women
Woodwork (Manual training)
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Boston (Mass.)
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North End (Boston, Mass.)
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Massachusetts--Boston
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New Hampshire
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