Records, 1880-

Massachusetts. Dept. of Public Welfare (1915-1995)

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St 1919, c 350, s 87 abolished the Massachusetts State Board of Charity and the Homestead Commission, establishing the Dept. of Public Welfare as their successor. Initially the department was organized into the Division of Aid and Relief (succeeding the Division of State Adult Poor) which oversaw the unsettled poor, and relief provided by municipal public welfare authorities; the Division of Child Guardianship (succeeding the Division of State Minor Wards) responsible for the care,...

Boston Council of Social Agencies

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United States. Veterans Administration

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North Bennet Street Industrial School (Boston, Mass.)

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The North Bennet Street Industrial School is located in Boston's North End, long an immigrant neighborhood and since the turn of the century predominantly Italian. In 1879, when No. 39 North Bennet Street housed the Seamen's Friend Society, Mrs. L. E. Caswell rented space there for a sewing room for poor women; a laundry room was added soon after and the establishment called the North Bennet Street Industrial Home. In June 1880 the Home leased the entire building. It gradually adde...

Boston Social Union

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Perkins, Frances, 1880-1965

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Frances Perkins (born Fannie Coralie Perkins; April 10, 1880 – May 14, 1965) was an American sociologist and workers-rights advocate who served as the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, the longest serving in that position, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet. As a loyal supporter of her friend, Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR), she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition. She and Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes were the only original members of the Rooseve...

Higginson, Ida (Agassiz)

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National Federation of Settlements.

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Saint-Gaudens, Augustus, 1848-1907

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Sculptor. From the description of Papers of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, circa 1848-1907. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71071553 Sculptor and artist. From the description of Augustus Saint-Gaudens papers, 1891-1920. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70981198 Sculptor, New York. From the description of Letter, 1893 April 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122553768 American sculptor. From the description of Saint-Gaudens National...

Committee of the Permanent Charity Fund

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Deland, Margaret, 1857-1945

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Author Margaret Wade Campbell Deland was born in Allegheny, Penn. She became interested in the plight of unmarried mothers, taking them into her home until they could find proper jobs. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letters, 1884-1937 (inclusive). (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007073 Margaret Deland was born in Western Pennsylvania, was educated in New York, and lived much of her adult life i...

Gould, L. A.

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Boston School Committee.

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North-End Industrial Home

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Sharp, Helen

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Greener, George Courtright, 1884-1962

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Community Federation of Boston.

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Greater Boston federation of neighborhood houses.

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Deane, Frederick

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Fiske, Annie F. W.

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DeMille, Agnes

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Shaw, Pauline A. (Pauline Agassiz), 1841-1917

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Pauline Agassiz Shaw was an educational philanthropist in Boston. For biographical information, see Notable American Women, 1607-1950 (1971). From the description of Letter, 1893. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232007451 ...

Agassiz family

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Jacoby, Ernest Lucas, Dione, 1909-1971

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Bigelow family

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Fessenden, Russell Green, 1869-1945.

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Morison, Elizabeth S (Greene), -1945

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Greenough, Henry Vose, -1976

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Brush, George de Forest, 1855-1941

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Painter; New York, N.Y., Dublin, N.H.; b. 1855; d. 1941. From the description of George de Forest Brush and Brush family papers, circa 1909-1993. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 319940491 Painter; New York, N.Y. and Dublin, N.H. From the description of George de Forest Brush letters to Mr. Wilson, [ca. 1884]. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122355147 American painter. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bayville, to Mrs. [John Cha...

Hemenway, Augustus

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Wight, Crocker

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United Community Services (Boston)

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Caldwell, Grace M., 1874, 1875-1950

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McGinley, Gertrude

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Fenno, Pauline (Shaw)

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Munsterberg, Margaret, c. 1889-1957

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U.S. Federal Board for Vocational Education

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Williams, Mary Elizabeth, 1825-1902

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Mary E. Williams was born in Augusta, Kentucky, on November 30, 1909. She attended Randolph-Macon Women's College from 1928 to 1930, and received the A.B. degree from Radcliffe College in 1933. She earned an M.A. in Mathematics from the University of Kentucky in 1936, taught mathematics at Ashland, Ky. Senior High School (1936-1941), and at Marshall College (1942-1946), and became Chair of the Skidmore College Mathematics Department in 1946. She was a member of the American Association of Univer...

Massachusetts. Department of Education

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Sturgis, R. Clipston (Richard Clipston), 1860-1951

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Lyman family

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Boxford Camp

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Play School for Habit Training.

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Greater Boston Community Fund.

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Lucas, Dione, 1909-1971

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Restaurateur, author, and teacher, Dione (Wilson) Lucas was born in London and studied at L'Ecole du Cordon Bleu before serving as a chef's apprentice at the Restaurant Drouant in Paris. In the early 1930s she opened Le Petit Cordon Bleu Restaurant and Cooking School in London with Rosemary Hume. She married Colin Lucas, an architect; they had two sons. The marriage later ended in divorce. Moving to the United States in 1940, she opened her first Cordon Bleu restaurant and school in New York Cit...

Shattuck, Henry Lee, 1879-1971

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Attorney, trustee, author. Harvard, A.B. 1901, LL.B. 1904, LL.D., Williams College 1936, Nat. U. of Ireland 1950, Harvard U. 1952, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, 1955. Attorney in Boston, Mass. Treasurer, Harvard Coll., 1929-1938. Member, Mass. House of Repres., 1920-1930; Boston City Council, 1934-1941. Member, U.S. Loyalty Review Bd.; Chairman, Interim Mixed Parole and Clemency Board. From the description of Papers, 1947-1954. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 23...

Dodd, Alvin Earl, 1883-1951.

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