Records, 1866-1985.

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Records, 1866-1985.

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Annual reports, 1866-1984; minutes of Board of Directors, Executive Committee, and other committees, 1866-1985. Executive Director's office files include financial records, correspondence, some of which deals with other Brooklyn charitable organizations, 1966-1972; and some administrative office files concerning meetings of Board of Directors. General office files concern Children's Division, handicapped on Shelter Island and many other activities, and relationships with other social service organizations, 1963-1977; merger with Brookwood Child Care in 1978; Public Information and Development records, 1972-1983; and correspondence and copies of braille cookbook of convenience food, compiled and published by Brooklyn Bureau of Social Service, a predecessor of BBCS, 1964. Other administrative records concern settlement of bequests given through wills, 1929-1984; and programs of Brooklyn Week for the Blind, an annual fund raising event sponsored by the Women's Committee, 1929-1950. Reports on the establishment of the Brooklyn Adolescents' Court (a victory won by BBCS to protect child offenders from conditions in regular courts), 1936-1937; other reports about Youth House, which provided temporary detention for juvenile delinquents, 1950-1952; and a general report of Bureau activities, 1962. Also includes four published histories, 1903-1966, of the organization.

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Brookwood Child Care.

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Brooklyn Children's Aid Society.

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Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service.

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Brooklyn Bureau of Community Service. Children's Division.

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Brooklyn Bureau of Social Services.

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Brooklyn Bureau of Charities

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On December 2, 1905, Mrs. Tunis G. Bergen brought together a group of Brooklyn residents at the Barnard Club House on Remsen Street to form New York City's first borough-based Red Cross organization. With an initial membership roster of 300, the Brooklyn Chapter of the American Red Cross embarked on its first major campaign to aid victims of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, collecting over $100,000 and thousands of articles of clothing to contribute to the relief effort. From this point on, th...