Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Records 1891-1990

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Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement Records 1891-1990

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1542

Records of a social settlement founded in 1891 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan by The King's Daughters, an organization of Episcopal church women, and Jacob A. Riis. Incorporated in 1898 as The King's Daughters Settlement, the institution was rededicated as Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement in 1901. The records include annual reports, administrative correspondence, financial documents, membership lists, minutes, news clippings, photographs, and publications. They document the settlement from its origins in the benevolent work of The King's Daughters and Jacob A. Riis during the 1890s, to its activities a century later providing social services to public housing residents in Queens. The records offer a unique view of the first wave of the settlement house movement in America, and document social conditions, demographic change, philanthropy and social welfare programs, as well as providing insight on the careers of such major Progressive-era reform figures as Jacob A. Riis and Theodore Roosevelt.

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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SNAC Resource ID: 6311506

New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division

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Riis, Jacob A. (Jacob August), 1849-1914

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Journalist, author, and humanitarian. From the description of Jacob A. Riis papers, 1870-1990 (bulk 1887-1913). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71060723 Reformer, journalist, author. From the description of Papers of Jacob A. Riis [manuscript], 1899-1914. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647814455 Jacob A. Riis, journalist and social reformer, was born in Denmark and moved to the United States at 21. He became a reporter for the New York trib...

King's Daughters and Sons Tenement House Chapter (New York, N.Y.)

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New York City Housing Authority (New York, N.Y.)

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Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement (New York, N.Y.)

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Social settlement founded in 1891 on the Lower East Side of Manhattan by "The King's Daughters," an organization of Episcopal church women, and Jacob A. Riis. Incorporated in 1898 as "The King's Daughters Settlement" the institution was rededicated as Jacob A. Riis Neighborhood Settlement in 1901. In its early years the settlement sponsored clubs, classes, health care and summer camping. In 1942 the settlement collaborated with the New York City Board of Education to provide social services from...

King's Daughters Settlement (New York, N.Y.)

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Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

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Roosevelt, 26th U.S. president, served 1901-1909. From the description of DS, 1904 March 1. : Washington, D.C. Homestead Certificate. (Copley Press, J S Copley Library). WorldCat record id: 15210791 26th president of the United States, 1901-1909. From the description of Theodore Roosevelt letters, 1917, 1918. (Buffalo History Museum). WorldCat record id: 213408920 Roosevelt was then Governor of New York. Chapman was one of the founders of the New York St...

United Neighborhood Houses, Inc. (New York, N.Y.)

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