Madeline Dane Ross papers, 1914-1971.

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Madeline Dane Ross papers, 1914-1971.

Papers of a journalist, editor, and public relations representative. The collection covers her public relations, editorial, and free-lance work, as well as her personal life and involvement with the Overseas Press Club. Records of her public relations work consist of correspondence, fund-raising appeals, and publicity for the Hudson Guild Settlement House, the Jewish Family Welfare Society, the Guidance Center of the Brooklyn Juvenile Protection Association, and the Human Betterment Association. Files on her editorial work include issues of UNRRA Team News and related correspondence. Pertaining to her free-lance writing are copies of a few magazine articles and correspondence. Also included are photographs documenting her professional career, travels, family, and friends. The processed portion of this collection is summarized above, dates 1914-1971, and is described in the register. Additional accessions are described below.

65 transparencies.

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Ross, Madeline Dane, 1902-1972.

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Jewish Family Welfare Society (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.)

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Human Betterment Association of America

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Child Guidance Clinic of the Brooklyn Juvenile Protective Association.

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Overseas Press Club of America.

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The Overseas Press Club of America was founded in New York City in the 1940s by a group of 42 foreign correspondents. From the description of Records, 1976-1991. (University of Wyoming, American Heritage Center). WorldCat record id: 27137284 ...

Hudson Guild (New York, N.Y.)

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During the late 1800s the West Side Manhattan neighborhood of Chelsea was transformed from an uncrowded residential area for wealthy and middle-class property owners to a bustling community where tens of thousands of immigrant families lived and worked. These new Chelsea residents were predominantly Irish and Greek, but also included Italians and Germans, as well as African-American migrants from the south. They rented apartments in hastily constructed tenement buildings or in forme...