Parent and Child Development Services, Inc. records, 1840-1988.

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Parent and Child Development Services, Inc. records, 1840-1988.

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This collection contains administrative records, financial records, correspondence, photographs, clippings, reports, scrapbooks, and other miscellaneous materials regarding Parent and Child Development Services, Inc. in Savannah, Ga. and related organizations from 1840 to 1988. Other organizations included within this collection, which later were absorbed by Parent and Child Development Services in 1973 are the following: the Florence Crittenton Home, Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten, Savannah Children's Center, Savannah Family Welfare Society, Savannah Female Asylum, and Savannah Home for Girls. Majority of these records are regarding the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten program in Savannah from 1899-1940. These records include scrapbooks, pamphlets and articles on the growth of education, public schools, and kindergarten programs in the United States, teacher records, reports, and the correspondence of Hortence M. Orcutt (d. 1936), who served as the supervisor of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten program in Savannah. Records of particular interest are the admission books, discharge books, treasurer records, visiting committee records, and other important records from the Savannah Female Asylum, later called the Savannah Home for Girls, and the Florence Crittenton Home for young unwed mothers from the late nineteenth to early twentieth centuries.

17 boxes, 4 oversize volumes, 1 oversize folder (16 cubic feet)

Georgia Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 7510736

Georgia Historical Society

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Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten (Savannah, Ga.)

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The Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten in Savannah, Ga., was started in 1899 by George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927) and his sisters as a memorial to their mother. The project was continued by his children, George Hull Baldwin and Dorothea Irwin, and grew into a city-wide system of kindergartens and a training school for kindergarten teachers. The kindergarten operated under the direction of Martha G. Waring, 1899-1907; Hortense M. Orcutt (died 1936), 1907-1936; and Augusta Stuart Clay and Ruth Peeple...

Savannah Family Welfare Society (Ga.)

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The Huntingdon Club (Savannah, Ga.)

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Baldwin, George Johnson, 1856-1927.

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George Johnson Baldwin (1856-1927), capitalist and civic leader, was born in Savannah, Ga. An 1877 graduate of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he began his career as a chemist, but quickly became associated with diverse industries and companies, especially Stone & Webster, a Boston, Mass., firm of electrical engineers, financiers, and managers of street railway and public utilities companies. During World War I, Baldwin lent his business expertise to the shipping and shipbuilding indu...

Parent and Child Development Services, Inc. (Savannah, Ga.)

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The Parent and Child Developments Services, Inc. is located in Savannah, Georgia and is a private social service agency that strives to provide comprehensive programs within the area of family and child care. It is a multi-service agency that offers pre-school, maternity day and residential care, youth services, and adoption and foster care. The roots of Parent and Child Development Services originate in Savannah's early awareness of social concern. Their Youth Services program was originally th...

Florence Crittenton Home (Savannah, Ga.)

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Savannah Female Asylum (Ga.)

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Savannah Home for Girls (Ga.)

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Orcutt, Hortense M., d. 1936.

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Hortense M. Orcutt was born in Conway, Massachusetts and was the daughter of William Baker and Mary Elizabeth Orcutt. She attended the Ethical Cultural School in New York, New York where she studied to become a kindergarten teacher. Orcutt worked as a kindergarten teacher and principals of kindergarten programs in New York before accepting the position of supervisor of the Kate Baldwin Free Kindergarten program in Savannah, Georgia. Orcutt held this job until her death in Savannah in 1936. The K...

Savannah Children's Center (Ga.)

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