Records, 1847-1963.

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Records, 1847-1963.

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Records, 1847-1963, include board of trustees' minutes, correspondence, financial records, personnel files, caseworkers' reports and casebooks (1855-1913), legal reports, adoption contracts, surrender and indenture papers, birth records, donor lists and registers. Also includes correspondence (1890-1909) of Jared W. Kimball, the first superintendent of the Children's Aid Society and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Records document conditions under which children were placed in facilities, cases of child abuse, neglect and juvenile crime, the removal of children from unfit parents, and children's advocacy in court. Also, the organizations' fundraising efforts, expenditures, real estate holdings, publicity files, information about adoption laws, records of children's field trips and other activities, and photographs of children.

12.4 linear ft.

New Jersey Historical Society Library

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New Jersey Historical Society Library

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Kimball, Jared W.

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Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for Essex County (N.J.)

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Association for Children of New Jersey

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The Association for Children of New Jersey (Essex County) was formed by a merger of the Child Service Association (CSA) and the Citizens Committee for Children of New Jersey (CCCNJ) in 1978. Eight child welfare organizations, orphanages, and foster home facilities, in Newark, were predecessors to the CSA and the CCCNJ: Newark Home for Foster Care, Newark Orphan Asylum, Protestant Foster Home Society, Boys' Lodging House, Foster Home Auxiliary Society, Home for the Friendless, Children's Aid Soci...

Citizens Committee for Children of New Jersey

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Children's Aid Society (Newark, N.J.)

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Newark Home for Foster Care (N.J.)

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Protestant Foster Home (Newark, N.J.). Society

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Child Service Association (Newark, N.J.)

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Boys' Lodging House (Newark, N.J.)

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Foster Home Auxiliary Society (Newark, N.J.)

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Home for the Friendless (Newark, N.J.)

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Newark Orphan Asylum (N.J.)

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