Seamen's Church Institute
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Seamen's Church Institute (SCI) was founded in Philadelphia in 1919 to care for the moral, spiritual, mental and bodily welfare of seamen, and to generally better the conditions surrounding and affecting "men of the sea." It joined ranks with similar organizations that had established a long tradition assisting the merchant marine, going back to the first decade of the nineteenth century when the Bible Society of Philadelphia singled out seamen as important beneficiaries of their work. Over one hundred years later, and in a considerably more ambitious manner than this earliest precursor, SCI set to work providing clean and affordable housing, affordable food, morally sound entertainment, banking, religious services and employment assistance to seamen while in the Port of Philadelphia.
From the description of Records, 1828-2000, bulk 1919-1998 (Independence Seaport Museum). WorldCat record id: 233651477
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Subjects:
- Boardinghouses
- Charities
- Church work with the working class
- Community welfare councils
- Harbors
- Hotels
- Industrial welfare
- Merchant marine
- Merchant mariners
- Moral education
- Occupational training
- Old age homes
- Professional education
- Sailors
- Sailors
- Seafaring life
- Stevedores
- Travelers' aid societies
- Women in charitable work
- Working class
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Places:
- Philadelphia--Pennsylvania (as recorded)
- Philadelphia (Pa.) (as recorded)
