Ward, Dreshman and Reinhardt, Inc. records [microform], 1911-1987.

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Ward, Dreshman and Reinhardt, Inc. records [microform], 1911-1987.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/33035625

Records contain board of directors' minutes, papers of the firm's officers, administrative files, company newsletter Financing social progress (1921-1942), income and expense statements, and brochures, reports, and publicity material from the firm's fund raising campaigns for over 500 hospitals, colleges, churches, YMCA's and YWCA's and other nonprofit organizations nationwide, 1926-1986. Campaigns from this period include fund drives for two black hospitals in Philadelphia, Mercy and Frederick Douglass, during the 1930s and 1940s, the USO and American Red Cross during World War II, and the Protestant Episcopal Church's Venture in mission, a national fund drive for missionary work and world relief. The records also contain the correspondence and personal papers of the firm's founder and president Charles Sumner Ward.

90 microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm.

Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI

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Indiana University - Purdue University Indianapolis, IUPUI

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