Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois records, 1883-1999.

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Children's Home and Aid Society of Illinois records, 1883-1999.

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The collection includes financial records, administrative records, publications, reports, correspondence, and a videotape. The material dates from 1883 to 1999 with an emphasis on the 1930s through 1950s. The collection contains extensive subject files and resource material on both local and national organizations involved with child welfare in the United States.

42 linear ft.

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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SNAC Resource ID: 7758924

University of Illinois at Chicago Library, UIC

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National Children's Home Society.

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Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society

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The Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society was founded in 1883 to aid orphaned and abandoned children. Begun by Methodist minister Reverend Martin Van Buren Arsdale and originally called the American Educational Aid Association, the organization sought to place homeless children in private family homes instead of institutions. It established advisory boards throughout Illinois to handle placement and created receiving homes for children awaiting placement. Van Arsdale sought national expansion...

American Educational Aid Association.

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