Children's Aid and Family Service records, 1910-1981.

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Children's Aid and Family Service records, 1910-1981.

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Includes constitutions, typed personal recollections from the 25th anniversary, annual reports, minutes, and the correspondence of President Miriam Chrisman (1952-1957). Of special note, Mrs. Calvin Coolidge was the Chair of the Home Finding Committee of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children which helped to found the CAFS.

7 boxes (3.5 linear ft.)

University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7642850

University of Massachusetts Amherst, W.E.B. Du Bois Library

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Children's Aid and Family Service of Hampshire County (Hampshire County, Mass.)

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Agency providing traditional child and family service and extensive mental health services that worked closely with the SPCC, was a member in the Child Welfare League of America, and was the Northampton representative for the National Association of Travelers Aid Societies. From the description of Children's Aid and Family Service records, 1910-1981. (University of Massachusetts Amherst). WorldCat record id: 51689000 ...

Children's Aid Association (Hampshire County, Mass.)

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Coolidge, Grace Goodhue, 1879-1957

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Grace Anna Goodhue Coolidge served as First Lady of as the wife of the 30th President, Calvin Coolidge (1923-1929). An exceptionally popular White House hostess, she was voted one of America’s 12 greatest living women in 1931. For her “fine personal influence exerted as First Lady of the Land,” Grace Coolidge received a gold medal from the National Institute of Social Sciences. In 1931 she was voted one of America’s twelve greatest living women. She had grown up in the Green Mountain city ...

Chrisman, Miriam Usher

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Miriam Chrisman (passport photo), 1964 A noted scholar of the social impact of the German Reformation, Miriam Usher Chrisman was born in Ithaca, New York, on May 20, 1920. With degrees from Smith College, American University, and Yale, she served for over thirty years on the faculty of the Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, becoming a well-loved professor and treasured mentor to a generation of students. From birth, Chrisman se...