Whittier House Social Settlement (Jersey City, N.J.)
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Whittier House Social Settlement (Jersey City, N.J.)
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Whittier House Social Settlement in Jersey City (Essex County), the first settlement house in New Jersey, was founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford (1847-1935) in 1894. Whittier House workers, including social reformer Mary Philbrook, maintained residence in the settlement house, developing programs based on the specific needs of the largely immigrant Jersey City community. Programs included the city's first free kindergarten, legal assistance for the poor, a circulating library, a medical dispensary, a milk dispensary, and a diet kitchen for mothers and babies.
Whittier House also provided the only public playground in the city, a gymnasium, and a summer camp in Pomona, N.Y. Among the clubs and classes offered were sewing, drama, debating, English, elocution and dance, as well as groups for mothers, newsboys and young citizens.
Programs initiated at Whittier House led to the formation of the New Jersey Legal Aid Association, the Consumers' League of New Jersey, and the State Tenement House Commission. Cornelia Bradford, who had been headworker for over 30 years, retired in 1926. Financial difficulties led to a takeover by the Boys' Club of Jersey City in 1935.
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https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n85244783
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Americanization
Boys
Charities
Child labor
Diet-kitchens
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Fresh air charity
Girls
Immigrants
Kindergarten facilities
Legal assistance to the poor
Libraries and the poor
Low-income housing
Medical social work
Milk programs
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Social work with immigrants
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New Jersey--Jersey City
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Jersey City (N.J.)
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Essex County (N.J.)
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