Child welfare records, 1920s-1946 (bulk 1943-1945).

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Child welfare records, 1920s-1946 (bulk 1943-1945).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313786159

Correspondence, memos, reports, and other records apparently generated or received by the Services to Private Agencies Section, primarily its directors: Mary Connery (prior to 1944), Morris Hursh (1944-1945), and L. Merritt Brown (1945-1946).

0.75 cu. ft. (2 partial boxes).

Minnesota Historical Society, Division of Archives and Manuscripts

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SNAC Resource ID: 7311612

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Minnesota. Division of Social Welfare. Services to Private Agencies Section.

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Hursh, Morris.

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Connery, Mary.

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Brown, L. Merritt.

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Minnesota. Division of Social Welfare

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The federal Social Security Act of 1939 required state units of government to establish personnel standards on a merit basis for the employees of agencies concerned with old age assistance, aid to dependent children, aid to the blind, and a number of other social services, as a condition to receive federal grants-in-aid. On January 1, 1940, the Social Security Board ruled that no local government could receive federal funds unless it had made moves to install a merit system for those agencies an...