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Repository description.

Archives of Colony-South Brooklyn Houses consist primarily of records of Colony House. Also included are some records of South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses and a few records of its predecessor organization, Little Italy Neighborhood Association. There are no records from the earliest years of the organizations (founded in 1913 and 1904). Included are some letters of Elizabeth Dutcher, a settlement house worker, and a founder of Little Italy Neighborhood Association.

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Colony-South Brooklyn Houses.

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Each year Colony House, and after 1968, the merged organization, Colony-South Brooklyn Houses, has a large fund raising extravaganza usually known as Colony House Capers. From the description of Colony House Capers programs, 1920-1985. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155456777 Colony-South Brooklyn Houses is the product of a 1968 merger between South Brooklyn Neighborhood Houses and Colony House. Among its activities and services are day care, senior citizen activities, commu...