Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania records, 1857-1982, bulk 1883-1950.

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Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania records, 1857-1982, bulk 1883-1950.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/78099249

This collection includes records not only of the Children's Aid Society, but also the Union Temporary Home, Philadelphia Home for Infants, and the Children's Bureau, which were all absorbed by CAS. The collection also includes records relating to the United States Committee for the Care of European Children. The Children's Aid Society was involved in the administration of the Committee's Philadelphia Branch, and later, of a successor to this Committee. The collection includes annual reports, board minutes, case histories, financial records, scrapbooks, articles, reports, publications relating to child welfare, and a few photographs.

38 boxes (13 linear ft.)

Historical Society of Pennsylvania

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SNAC Resource ID: 8210861

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United States. Children's Bureau

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The Children's Bureau was formally created in 1912 when President William Howard Taft signed into law a bill creating the new federal government organization. The stated purpose of the new Bureau was to investigate and report "upon all matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life among all classes of our people." The signing of this law culminated a grass-roots process started in 1903 by two early social reformers, Lillian Wald, of New York's Henry Street Settlement House, and...

Taft, Jessie, 1882-1960

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BIOGHIST REQUIRED Psychotherapist, professor of social casework at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, and translator of several psychoanalytic works by Otto Rank. From the guide to the Jessie Taft Papers, 1888-1961, 1920-1961., (Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscript Library, ) Psychotherapist, professor of social casework at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Work, and translator of several psychoanalytic works by Otto Rank. ...

Solenberger, Edwin D.

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Hancock, Cornelia, 1840-1927

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Children's Aid Society of Pennsylvania

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The Children's Aid Society (CAS) of Pennsylvania was organized in 1882 to provide care for children in need. It remains active today. From its inception, CAS has addressed children's needs with a family perspective. The Society's first interest was in keeping families together, as long as it was beneficial to the children. When that was not possible, or practical, CAS worked to provide a family environment for the children it served, favoring placement in foster homes, often in the country, over...

Seybert Institution.

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United States Committee for the Care of European Children

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Hinckley, Helen

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Wharton, Susanna Dillwyn.

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Murphy. J. Prentice.

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Philadelphia Home for Infants.

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Union Temporary Home.

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