Papers, 1903-1982 (bulk 1940-1972).

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Papers, 1903-1982 (bulk 1940-1972).

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Papers, which primarily reflect Dyckman's activities after her retirement as a social worker: personal correspondence, 1936-1971; personal miscellany, 1903-1977, including biographical information; child labor files, 1940-1974; migrant labor files, 1932(1945)-1966; worker's compensation files, 1936(1947)-1965; other subject files, 1928-1982, pertaining in part to the interests and activities of the Consumers League of New Jersey (and encompassing issues such as minimum wage legislation); and reference publications, 1904-1976, relating primarily to charity and case work and various aspects of child labor. Among the persons represented in Dyckman's personal correspondence are Joseph A. Califano, Jr., and Alice Hamilton. Dyckman's personal miscellany includes several items relating to her childhood in Orange, New Jersey. Among the topics represented in the child labor files are juvenile delinquency, newsboys and the effect of World War II on child labor. Among the documentation present on the latter subject are papers (sometimes including minutes) pertaining to the State Commission on Student Service (which oversaw a program to allow 14 and 15 year olds to be released from school to work on farms); the U.S. Crop Corps' Victory Farm Volunteers (which provided for students ages 11 to 17 to do farm work in the summers); and the New Jersey Labor Department's Emergency Committee on Child Labor (which oversaw a program to allow children in approved essential wartime industries to work an extra two hours a day). Among the documents in the subject files are scattered papers, 1928-1933, relating to Dyckman's activities as chair of the Case Work Group of the Council of Social Agencies of the Oranges and Maplewood. Photographs are present in the collection in several places, including in the child labor files and the migrant labor files.

2.8 cubic ft. (7 boxes, 1 oversize folder).

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Hamilton, Alice

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Following is a chronology of AH's life and work. For further information, see Notable American Women: The Modern Period and AH's autobiography , Exploring the Dangerous Trades (Boston: Little, Brown, 1942). See also Hamilton family papers (MC 278), available on microfilm (M-24). 1869 1886 -born in New York city; raised in Fort Wayne, Indiana ...

National Victory Farm Volunteers (U.S.)

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Consumers League of New Jersey

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The Consumers League of New Jersey was founded in 1900. In that era, children worked in factories, and many of the protections of modern life which we take for granted were nonexistent. Consumers League struggled for 35 years before its original agenda: safe food, safe working conditions, prohibitions on child labor, promotion of minimum wages laws, and union protections, was enacted into law as the New Deal. It is the oldest continuing state-wide consumer organization in the United States. ...

New Jersey. Emergency Committee on Child Labor.

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Dyckman, Mary L.

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Social worker and official of the Consumers League of New Jersey; born Mary Lang Dyckman in 1886 in Minnesota, the eldest child of Francis H. and Louise (Heroy) Dyckman; grew up in Orange, Essex County, New Jersey, where her father (who died in 1904) was a miller and a banker; toured Europe with her family at age 16 (and later spent several months in Italy on at least two occasions); was graduated from Miss Beard's School, Orange, in 1905; while in Boston to study music, trained as a (volunteer)...

Califano, Joseph A. 1931-

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New Jersey. State Commission on Student Service.

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Council of Social Agencies of the Oranges and Maplewood. Case Work Group.

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