Records, 1890-1950.

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Records, 1890-1950.

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Records, 1890-1950.

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/hou01950/catalog

Abstract

Records of South End House, a settlement house in Boston (Mass.) begun by social reformer Robert Archey Woods.

Extent

3 boxes (2.5 linear ft.)

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Houghton Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385017

Houghton Library

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Harvard University

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Harvard College was founded by a vote of the Great and General Court of Massachusetts on October 28, 1636 that allocated “400£ towards a schoale or colledge.” Subsequent legislative acts established the Board of Overseers, but it was the Charter of 1650 that created the Harvard Corporation as the College's primary governing board and defined its composition and authority. The College Charter became a contentious target for College officials, the Massachusetts Governor and General C...

Addams, Jane, 1860-1935

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Social reformer; founder of Hull House settlement, Chicago. From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Louis J. Keller, Chicago, 1912 May 13. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496308 From the description of Letter: Hull-House, Chicago, to Paul M. Angle, Springfield, Ill., 1932 June 24. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 26496294 Founder of Hull House in Chicago. From the description of Cor...

Boston Social Union

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Amherst College

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Founded in 1821, Amherst College developed out of the secondary school Amherst Academy. The college was originally suggested as an alternative to Williams College, which was struggling to stay open. Although Williams survived, Amherst was formed and diverged into its own institution....

Bretton Associates

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Dawes, Miss

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Bretton Woods Camp

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J. W. Stearns

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South Bay Union Garden Club

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Sanborn, Alvan F. (Alvan Francis), 1866-1966

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Home for Aged Men (Boston, Mass.)

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The Home for Aged Men was incorporated in 1860 as a privately-funded residential home in Boston for "respectable aged and indigent men." The first home was on South Street in Boston. The home was moved to Springfield Street in 1870. In 1956 it was renamed Rogerson House and moved to Jamaica Plain, where it continues as a nursing home. From the description of Records, 1861-1972. (University of Massachusetts at Boston). WorldCat record id: 52752157 ...

W. W. McKenna

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Woods, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Howard)

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James A. Lowell, treasurer

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South End Players

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Boston University

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South End House Association.

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Free Montessori School

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Boston Social Union Athletic League

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Cabot, Richard C. (Richard Clarke), 1868-1939

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Richard Clarke Cabot, 1868-1939, AB, 1889, Harvard College; MD, 1892, Harvard Medical School, was Professor of Clinical Medicine and Social Ethics at Harvard. Cabot led the teaching of Social Ethics at Harvard from 1920 to 1934. Cabot also served as one of two chiefs of staff at Massachusetts General Hospital from 1912 until his retirement in 1921. Cabot established medical social work at Massachusetts General Hospital in 1905, and also introduced autopsy teaching at the institution; Cabot's cli...

Wragge, Walter

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Marcel Viard.

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Howe, M.A. De Wolfe (Mark Antony De Wolfe), 1864-1960

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American author of numerous biographies and nonfiction accounts, many about the New England area; recipient of 1924 Pulitzer Prize for his biography, BARRETT WENDELL AND HIS LETTERS. From the description of Correspondence, 1921-1960. (Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (HRC); University of Texas at Austin). WorldCat record id: 122492230 Biographer, editor, historian, and poet. From the description of Papers of M.A. DeWolfe Howe, 1920,1935. (University of Vir...

Meiklejohn, Alexander, 1872-1964

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Alexander Meiklejohn was born in England in 1872, and brought to the United States in 1880 at the age of eight. He was educated in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, and graduated from Brown University in 1893. He took his M.A. at Brown and in 1897, received his doctorate in philosophy from Cornell University. He taught philosophy and metaphysics at Brown and was dean from 1901 to 1912. He became president of Amherst College in 1912 and served until 1924. After Amherst he went to the University of Wiscons...

Woods, Eleanor H. (Eleanor Howard)

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South End Improvement Society.

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Allis, Frederick S., Jr.

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Tucker, William Jewett, 1839-1926

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William Jewett Tucker was the ninth president of Dartmouth College; he served in that capacity from 1893 to 1909. He was born in Griswold, Conn. in 1839. He was graduated from Dartmouth College in 1861 and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1866. In 1875 he received his DD. He was a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1878 to 1909. He died in Hanover, N.H. in 1926. From the description of Papers, 1893-1909. (New Hampshire Newsp Project). WorldCat record id: 122590411 Ministe...

Mary L. Strong

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Catherine Hall Woods

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Bretton Woods Golf Club.

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Wendell H. Marden.

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William Henry Winning

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Esther G. Barrows

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Alcott Club

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Leapyear Club

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Snedeker, Ruth W.

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Woods, Robert Archey, 1865-1925

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Settlement house worker and sociologist. From the description of South End House appeal, 1919 Aug. 25, Boston, to the Misses Kimball. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172616303 ...

Winning Farm Camp

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Fatherless Children of France (Organization). Boston Committee

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Eleanor Woods

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National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers

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The National Federation of Settlements (NFS) was founded in 1911 by leaders in the settlement house movement, including Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, and Robert A. Woods. The NFS was a social welfare organization devoted to the promotion and improvement of the settlement movement throughout the United States. The social settlement was based on the idea that those who wanted to help the poor would live ("settle") in the neighborhoods that they hoped to improve, often in a building purchased or dona...

Tucker, William Jewett, 1839-1926

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Francis Rollins Morse

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Intersettlement Players of Boston

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Women's Education Association

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Boston Cooperative Building Company

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Greater Boston Community Fund.

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National Child Labor Committee (U.S.)

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Founded in 1904 under the leadership of Edgar G. Murphy, Felix Adler, Samuel McCune Lindsay, Owen Lovejoy, and A.J. McKelway. Its aims were legislation, investigation, and publicity to promote the interests of children. From the description of Records, 1914-1943. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122421727 The National Child Labor Committee was formed after a conference held in New York between Edgar Gardner Murphy's Alabama Child Labor Commi...

Klein, Gertrude.

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Barnett, Henrietta, Dame, 1851-1936

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Boston Licensing Board

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1915 Social Club

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Price, Waterhouse & Co.

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South Bay Union.

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Blood, Ellen F.

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South End House (Boston, Mass.)

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Part of a national settlement house movement during the Progressive Era in America, the South End House opened its doors in Boston, Massachusetts, as the Andover House in 1891. Its founder, Dr. William J. Tucker, was a Congregational minister and social reformer who taught at the Andover Theological Seminary located in Andover, Massachusetts. Dr. Tucker immediately hired Robert A. Woods to act as the house's director. Woods was very involved in progressive reform movements on the national level ...

Committee on Industrial Education.

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Harvard Housing Trust.

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Sears, J. Montgomery

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Clarke, William, 1709-1760

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Epithet: Secretary at War British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000252 Epithet: Rector of Buxted British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x00023a Epithet: of Stowe MS 189 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001476.0x000235 Epithet: of Cuddingto...

Walsh, David I. (David Ignatius), 1872-1947

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Hodges, George

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Epithet: Vicar of Stoke Colchester British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000207.0x0001c1 Epithet: of Add MS 32490 British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000001094.0x000376 ...

Bessie Y. Rutan

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South End Girls' Club.

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U.S. Treasury Dept.

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McSeam, Austin

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Corner House

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Charlesbank Homes

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Little Sunshine Club.

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Woods, Robert Archey, 1865-1925

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Settlement house worker and sociologist. From the description of South End House appeal, 1919 Aug. 25, Boston, to the Misses Kimball. (Boston Athenaeum). WorldCat record id: 172616303 ...

Lawrence Estate

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Andover House Association.

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J. P. (John Pierpont) Morgan

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Hollande, Raymonde

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Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs

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The Massachusetts State Federation of Women's Clubs is affiliated with the General Federation of Women's Clubs. Rhoda M. Crowell chaired the Education Department in the 1960s and early 1970s. From the description of Records, 1961-1977 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232006731 ...

Albert, Allen D. (Allen Diehl), 1874-

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Dr. Allen D. Albert was a noted civic leader, historian, sociologist and professor at Emory University. He also served as chairman of the Local Government Commission which engineered the Plan of Improvement for Atlanta in 1952, President of the Atlanta Art Association and many other positions of civic leadership. From the description of Allen D. Albert Papers, 1940-1962. (Atlanta History Center). WorldCat record id: 28179734 ...

Records, 1890-1950.

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