Records, 1919-1953 (inclusive).

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Records, 1919-1953 (inclusive).

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Collection contains administrative records; correspondence; studies, reports, and printed material about VAB's work by staff and graduate students; studies and reprints on related mental hygiene and vocational education issues; and miscellaneous reprints, clippings, and photographs. The bulk of the records is in Series II and consists of correspondence, studies, and printed material documenting VAB's activities, from descriptions of girls' circumstances, to reports on the development and operation of the sheltered workrooms and on mental hygiene work in public schools. Administrative and financial records, and correspondence, are incomplete.

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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Arthur and Elizabeth Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America‏

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New York World's Fair (1939-1940 : New York, N.Y.)

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"Negro Week" was a program on the contributions of blacks to American culture held at the New York World's Fair in July 1940, and consisted of festivals, exhibitions, song and dance recitals, choral and symphonic music, concerts, religious services, guest speakers, and a children's program. From the description of New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122580393 From the guide to the New York World's Fair Negro Week records, 1940, (The...

Lowrey, Lawson G. (Lawson Gentry), 1890-1957

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Babcock, Harriet, 1877-1952

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Ittleson, Blanche Frank, 1875-1975.

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Frank, Alda M.

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Stevenson, George S. (George Salvadore), 1892-1983

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Director of the National Committee for Mental Hygiene Division on Community Clinics. From the description of Correspondence with Johan Thorsten Sellin, 1935. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 243848787 ...

Burr, Emily Thorpe.

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Unger, Edna W.

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National Committee for Mental Hygiene.

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Adlerblum, Evelyn D.

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Public Educational Association.

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Greenberg, Benjamin

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Community service society of New York

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Vocational Adjustment Bureau.

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The Vocational Adjustment Bureau (or Vocational Adjustment Bureau for Girls) began in 1919 as the Committee on Vocational Guidance and Employment, a part of Jewish Big Sisters. By 1922 the demand for guidance and placement services had grown so much that the committee was reorganized into VAB, a city-wide, non-sectarian organization under the direction of Blanche Ittleson (1875-1975). Among its purposes were: "to conduct investigations into vocational opportunities for s...

Jewish Board of Guardians

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Emanuel Sisterhood of Personal Service.

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New York (N.Y.). Board of Education

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