Records, 1861-1938.

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Records, 1861-1938.

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The records are chiefly financial, i.e., general and special account records for the costs of operating the Day Home from 1902-1938. There are no earlier financial records and there are no case files of the children cared for by the Day Home in the collection. There is a printing of the Charter and By-Laws, dated 1941; a broadside advertising an 1861 lecture in benefit of the Day Home, and one copy of the First Annual Report of the Children's Home Society, 1861. The Trustees of the Day Home are represented by two volumes of meeting minutes, 1868 and 1870-1871. A scrapbook of newspaper clippings and original photographs of the children and staff as well as exterior and interior photos of the Day Home are also available. The Drum Corps Mission Band book includes the scripts of two Christmas plays performed by the children; one by John M. Francis, 1912, and another entitled "First Aid for Santa Claus," 1916.

2 boxes (2 linear ft.)

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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SNAC Resource ID: 6870468

New York State Historical Documents Inventory

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Day Home.

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The Day Home, originally incorporated under the name, Children's Home Society, was the oldest day nursery in the United States. The Day Home was established in November 1858 by a group of women in rooms in the Ladies Home Missionary Society in the former Congregational Free Church building on 7th Avenue in Troy, New York. It was incorporated April 10, 1861 and was the first incorporation in New York State composed solely of women. In May 1861, the Tibbits Mansion on 7th Avenue was p...

Children's Home Society.

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