Open for use in the Social Welfare History Archives reading room.
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The National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers board of directors gave 25 linear feet of records to the Social Welfare History Archives in August, 1964.
Subsequent shipments of NFSNC records, received between 1965 and 1980, were combined to form the supplement, "National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, Supplement, 1897-1978." Margaret Berry, then executive director of the Federation, expedited transfer of the bulk of these records in the years between 1965 and 1971. In 1979, Margaret Berry also sent duplicate copies of documents from the International Federation of Settlements to be included with the NFSNC records.
An additional 95 linear feet of material was given to the Social Welfare History Archives in January of 1985. Though the National Federation had anticipated giving these documents to the Archives, two events expedited the shipment. First, the Federation had been planning to move its headquarters from New York City to a new office in Washington, D.C. and a decision had been made to send all items of historic relevance during the move. Second, Executive Director, Walter L. Smart, died suddenly in January of 1985. Thus, the organization was without a leader and, to preserve the documents, they were promptly shipped to the Social Welfare History Archives.
In some cases, gaps in sets of publications and board and committee minutes in the NFSNC records were filled with duplicate copies found in the Henry Street Settlement records and United Neighborhood Houses of New York records.
Formerly, the three groupings of National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records (NFSNC) were described in three separate finding aids, making it necessary for patrons to consult multiple documents in order to obtain complete information on the records. As part of a project to mount finding aids online, the Archives has merged the information about the NFSNC records into one comprehensive finding aid. Unpublished appendices containing further information on publications included in the records are available in the Archives.
The National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records were processed from December, 1964, to June, 1965. Subsequent shipments of records received between 1965 and 1979 were processed in 1982 with financial assistance from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
There is also a microfilm edition (SW Film 3) of National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records dating from 1897 to 1965 on six rolls of microfilm. The records were filmed for the Social Welfare History Archives in the summer of 1965 from originals provided by the NFSNC. Most of the records that were then microfilmed have since been given to the Social Welfare History Archives.
Unpublished appendices for the finding aid are available. Please contact the Archives for more information.
Included in the National Federation of Settlements records are the 4.5
linear feet of records previously described as "National Federation of
Settlements, Supplement One" in an inventory published in
Researchers studying the National Federation of Settlements and
Neighborhood Centers should also consult the personal papers of
Also of interest are two papers written by students which provide a very detailed and documented history of different aspects of the settlement movement. Both have been placed with the Archives' seminar paper collection, filed under the last name of the respective authors: Philip L. Holstein, Hampshire College, "The Social Settlement Movement and Neighborhood Social Services: Past, Present, and Future" and Phyllis M. Endreney, Smith College, "The Settlement Movement: Its Pragmatism, Idealism, and Political Influences. 1944-1980."
The National Federation of Settlements records are arranged into 14
series:
The National Federation of Settlements (NFS) was founded in 1911 by leaders in the settlement house movement, including Jane Addams, Graham Taylor, and Robert A. Woods. The NFS was a social welfare organization devoted to the promotion and improvement of the settlement movement throughout the United States. The social settlement was based on the idea that those who wanted to help the poor would live (“settle”) in the neighborhoods that they hoped to improve, often in a building purchased or donated by a benefactor. Often, settlement workers were young, female graduates of education and nursing programs or women’s colleges. They endeavored to improve the lives of their working class, often immigrant, neighbors though social reform, educational programs, health services, and "friendly example" or “uplift.” The Federation worked with member settlements to strengthen and develop their programs and the well-being of their surrounding neighborhoods, to represent settlement concerns in public affairs, and to educate the public about social issues affecting neighborhoods. The NFS renamed itself the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers in 1949. In 1979, the Federation's name was changed again to United Neighborhood Centers of America (UNCA). UNCA continues to advocate nationally for social legislation and work with local member agencies to address social problems at the neighborhood level.
The NFS developed out of nearly 20 years of growing inter-agency cooperation and informal conferences. As early as 1892, pioneers in the U.S. settlement movement met to share their experiences, hopes, and enthusiasm, and collaborated on national issues of concern to them and their neighborhoods. Seventeen settlement leaders who met in New York City in 1908 took initial steps toward forming the NFS. Instrumental at this meeting, and in later years, were Jane Addams, Gaylord S. White, Robert A. Woods, Albert J. Kennedy, Graham Taylor, and Lillian D. Wald. After two years of planning and fund raising, the NFS was launched in June, 1911, at a meeting attended by roughly 200 delegates from settlement houses around the U.S. Jane Addams of Hull House in Chicago became the first president of the new organization. Its first executive secretary, Robert Archey Woods, was associated with Boston's South End House. New York settlement leaders John L. Elliott, Lillian Wald, and Mary K. Simkhovitch also played prominent roles in the new organization. Despite its small and largely voluntary staff, the emerging Federation quickly became involved in a host of progressive social issues that concerned its members. The Federation's general policy, as stated in its 1920 articles of incorporation, was: to federate the social settlements, neighborhood houses and similar institutions for the purpose of promoting the welfare of the settlements and the neighborhoods in which they were located; to encourage the development and maintenance of settlements in cooperation with neighborhood residents; to organize conferences, groups and studies; to cooperate with private and governmental agencies; to consider and act upon public matters of interest to settlements and their neighbors and to act in an advisory capacity to settlements and neighborhood houses.
Many early NFS initiatives anticipated continuing activities in the
decades that followed. Influential in the 1912 founding of the United States
Children's Bureau, the Federation would later express a repeated interest in
day care services (1942, 1965-67, 1971-72). Its early report,
Early social meliorism was dampened by concerns regarding the
potentially explosive immigrant areas that settlements served and by efforts to
provide special wartime services during World War I. During the 1920s, a more
individual and cultural focus in settlement work joined the social and
political emphasis of the preceding decade. A Music Division was founded in
1922; a Dramatics Division appeared in 1926; and in 1930 the trend culminated
in the creation of a Division of Visual Arts. But the cultural emphasis did not
completely preclude continuing social involvement. In fact, the 1926 report,
In the 1930s, the NFS pressured New Deal officials to pursue progressive measures in employment, social security, and labor policies. Internally, the organization struggled with the consequences of the Great Depression. It recognized the financial hardships affecting its members, who were often on the "front lines" in dealing with the results of the Depression. Consequently, it waived delinquent membership dues. In spite of this measure, and though it was attempting to broaden its membership base, the Federation retained only 160 of the 230 houses that were members in 1930. NFS also lost its constituency of music school settlements during the 1930s and failed to include a significant number of African American settlements, which were represented by the National Urban League.
The 1930s also saw a significant change in leadership. Early NFS executives, Robert A. Woods (1911-1922) and Albert J. Kennedy (1923-1933), were replaced by Lillie M. Peck (1934-1945), whose career was heavily identified with international initiatives on the part of the Federation. NFS had been involved in the formation of a parallel International Federation of Settlements (IFS) in 1921. A string of international conferences in the 1920s and 1930s was interrupted by World War II, but contacts were resumed almost immediately after peace was declared. Lillie Peck became the first postwar president of the IFS (1949-1951) and the organization once again had American leadership from 1963 to 1971, when NFS executive Margaret Berry presided. NFSNC arranged for reciprocal visits of social workers; for cooperation with the United Nations, especially UNESCO; and maintained contacts with a growing number of international settlements.
At home, the Federation continued with social action on employment and economic planning (1944-1946), a committee on housing (1955-1958), and concerted lobbying on juvenile delinquency (1956-1957). During World War II and the Korean War, services to temporary residents near military facilities or to military personnel was an area of vital concern. Under the directorship of John McDowell (1946-1958), the Federation strengthened its ties with religious-based settlement work. It also developed its educational outreach and professional recruiting functions. In 1949, NFS changed its name to the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers (NFSNC).
By the late 1950s, NFSNC was pursuing a host of new issues, best
articulated in the report of the 1958 Arden House Conference,
NFSNC's small staff of about seven full-time professional workers provided a variety of field services to a membership of some 255 member houses and city federations. Experienced professional personnel visited communities that had, or wanted to establish, settlements. On these visits, the NFSNC personnel met with the local settlement workers to exchange information about current programs, appraise the local programs, and to suggest plans of action. They also met with other local figures, such as the heads of community chests and city planning councils, regarding settlement work. In addition, the field representatives screened centers that were prospective members in the NFSNC. Staff also prepared special studies of individual houses or cities, usually a few each year on request of the local agencies. These studies were used to determine locations for new facilities, to appraise services, or to resolve administrative or programmatic issues.
Social education and action were a major function of the NFSNC. This involved providing information on social issues and legislation of special concern to settlements, coordinating local settlement studies of social conditions, and publishing the study findings. The NFSNC employed a research consultant who prepared maps, population data, city planning reports, housing data, and reports on existing social welfare studies for many of the Federation's members. These were used in self studies and field reports. The Federation also worked with other national groups, such as the advisory committees of Community Chests, the National Conference of Social Work, and the Consumers National Federation.
In 1959, The appointment of a new director, Margaret Berry, coincided with a shift in Federation priorities to racial and economic justice. Settlements participated in many of the major struggles of the Civil Rights movement. NFSNC's Race Relations Project produced a major report in 1967, just as the tenor of the times changed to a note of interracial confrontation. The 1969, the NFSNC "Techniculture" conference brought to a head the demands of settlements' constituencies of color for greater community control of Federation affairs. The "techniculture" movement reflected trends in the wider society, responding to complex War on Poverty bureaucracies and the professional remoteness of a non-resident settlement staff. Ultimately, the movement accomplished most of its major goals in the years from 1969 to 1971, culminating in the 1972 appointment of the Federation's first non-white executive director, Walter Smart. Meanwhile, in a more traditional mold, NFSNC channeled settlement aid to a number settlements with minority constituencies in the South during its Mississippi Project.
The social frictions of the late 1960s and the economic problems of the early 1970s cut into NFSNC's base of financial support, leading to serious administrative problems. However, the Federation continued to press for social and economic justice. Its Poverty Program Committee produced a federally funded study of the War on Poverty and community organization strategies in 34 communities in 1968. Beginning in 1972, Walter Smart advocated, with some success, for economic development programs in the minority business community. Once again, the perennial issue of housing returned as a priority item. The Federation also devoted considerable energy to advising its members on strategies for obtaining federal funding. Throughout the 1970s, there was a proliferation of programs involving federal agencies and supported by federal funding. These projects involved such issues as teenage parents, training programs for the elderly and teenagers, and juvenile justice.
A more complete account of the Federation is available from Peter
Romanofsky, ed., "National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers"
in
National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers records consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, photographs, and other documents received from the National Federation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, now United Neighborhood Centers of America. The Federation, an association of local settlement houses and neighborhood centers from across the United States and Canada, was founded in 1911.
The records document the work, methodology, membership, and administration of the NFSNC, which was known at the National Federation of Settlements until 1949 and became United Neighborhood Center of America in 1980. The records form an integral part of the Archives' holdings on the history of social reform and social welfare. In addition to advising and supporting the work of member agencies, the Federation determined the needs and goals of settlements and interpreted them to a national audience. Some of the significant issues documented in the NFSNC records are: the ''Americanization" of immigrants in the settlements; the peace movement, especially between 1914 and 1941; the establishment and direction of youth work programs; the role of settlements during wartime; the establishment of such federal welfare programs as unemployment relief and social security; music in the settlements; the relationship of the settlements to New Deal welfare programs; the settlements' responses to the Great Depression; prohibition; the trade union movement; various White House conferences; and unemployment. The records also reflect a substantial amount of theoretical speculation on the settlement movement in general: its functions and programs, methods, goals. The detailed information about these issues and individuals makes this a key collection for the study of social reform, social welfare, and urban life in twentieth century America.
A portion of the NFSNC records (Series 7) contains the papers of the city federations that were members of the national organization. Approximately one half of the entire collection is composed of records documenting the Federation's member houses (Series 8). These two sections are perhaps the richest part of the records. They contain detailed information about the activities of the NFS in relation to local agencies, conditions and issues and document the activities of the settlement movement throughout the first three quarters of the twentieth century. Of special interest are the member houses' annual reports which, while far from complete, are nevertheless informative.
Particularly well documented are the Federation's concerns with social action and ensuing legislative activity on issues such as housing, juvenile delinquency, and urban renewal. The records are also a good source of information on international activities and the Federation's role in sustaining the International Federation of Settlements, dating back to 1921. Federation interest in race relations is documented as early as 1926. Fund-raising and budget records reflect the financial difficulties that the organization faced, particular during and after the 1960s.
More recent materials from the 1960s and 1970s consist of correspondence, memoranda, reports, minutes, financial records, photographs, and other records documenting programs and activities of NFSNC, which was subsequently named the United Neighborhood Centers of America. In particular, the records relate to programs for youth, single parents, and minorities sponsored by the federal government and carried out by NFSNC and a number of other social welfare agencies. Such detailed documentation represents the increased role of the federal government in social programs in the United States during the 1960s and early 1970s, as well as the concerns for minority groups and the civil rights movement. These materials provide major insights into American urban life and the settlement movement from the 1950s to the 1980s.
There is also a rich collection of the Federation's reference
materials, a very detailed set of master archives, a complete collection of
mailings, and a few historical artifacts. A portion of the older NFS and NFSNC
records is on also available on microfilm. This is what the National Federation
referred to as its "Bible," which contains all the important financial and year
by year operating data of the Federation from 1911 to 1968. The records are
quite complete for the years 1911 to 1955, and in some instances are complete
to 1962. Also included in the collection are numerous miscellaneous pamphlets
(see unpublished Appendix no. 2 available in the Archives ), 4 volumes of
Significant personalities are documented throughout the records. Individuals of interest include: Jane Addams, Paul Kellogg, Robert A. Woods, Albert J. Kennedy, Canon Barnett, Ellen W. Coolidge, Charles Cooper, John L. Elliot, Helen Hall, Frances Ingram, Frances McFarland, Clyde Murray, Lillie M. Peck, Dr. Jane Robbins, Graham Taylor, Lea D. Taylor, Julia Lathrop, and many others. Among the most prominently represented individuals in the collection are NFSNC staff members Margaret Berry, Fern Colborn, John McDowell, Lillie Peck, Albert Kennedy, and Arthur Hillman.
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the catalog of the University of Minnesota Libraries. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons or places should search the catalog using these headings.
Series 1, Administrative Records, documents the history and activities on NFS from the early 1900s to the early 1970s. It also contains documents that reflect the early history and theory of the U.S. settlement movement. Series 1 includes Master Archives and Mailings files. These are chronological sets of files maintained by the NFS central office. They contain virtually all of the committee output and correspondence. The arrangement of these files that was established by the national office has been maintained. The Master Archives and Mailings files duplicate other portions of the NFS records, but offer a chronological and sometimes more complete, set of records. Series 1 also contains the routine administrative and operational files of the NFS and UNCA national office from the 1960s through 1980.
NFSNC and UNCA have a very rich collective history. The material in Series 1.1, Anniversaries and Historical Documents, chronicles this history in a very brief and general way. Much of the material relates to anniversaries of the NFS or consists of general histories written by either long-time NFS members or outside historians. Series 1.1 also contains photographs and print materials that staff considered to be of particular historic interest and that did not fit elsewhere in the records. These include annual reports, early publications of the NFS, and miscellaneous items of personal correspondence from former settlement leaders. A few early annual reports from NFS member houses are also filed here. Finally, this series includes a compilation of major NFS personalities and events dating from 1911 to 1968 that the Federation referred to as the "NFS Bible." The "Bible" contains rosters of board and staff members, financial and fund-raising summaries, publications and mailings, conference topics, and records of decisions made at conferences.
Correspondence about the plans for the celebration. Information packet on the anniversary.
Correspondence and other materials relating to the establishment of an exhibit at the Chicago World’s Fair, 1933-1934. Correspondence, scripts and reactions to the international radio broadcast of December 24,1934.
Correspondence and surveys relating to the composition of a report on the spread of the settlement movement in U. S. A. Copy of an address given at the celebration.
Correspondence between the NFS and interested persons, including Eleanor Roosevelt, about the planning of the celebration. Speeches, press accounts, letters and telegrams.
Programs, press clippings, historical statement.
Research reports and studies on local community planning and organization.
For the years 1946-1947,1950,1952-1953,1953-1954, 1956-1957. See also the bound volume for the years 1911-1930.
Correspondence, obituaries, etc.
Includes a reproduction.
Thirteenth Annual Conference
Fragile: may have access restrictions
Gavit conducted a survey for the College Settlement
Association to update their bibliography of international settlements. His work
is reflected in this scrapbook, comprised of survey questionnaires, excerpts
from earlier versions of the bibliography, and related clippings from the
settlement journal
The "Master Archives" is a chronological file that was
maintained by the NFS national office. It contains virtually all of the
outgoing correspondence and documents produced by NFS committees; its Training
Center; and various Federation conferences. Selected material from member and
non-member settlement houses in also included. Contained here are minutes,
memos, correspondence, publications, and other similar documents. There is
considerable overlap between the Master Archives and other sections of the NFS
records. The Master Archives date from 1950 to 1972, becoming larger and more
elaborately organized as the years progress. Starting in 1962, a new numbering
and filing system was instituted that assigned a code number for each document.
The code numbers and related categories are as follows:
Code numbers that appeared in later years include:
NOTE: the numbered code was no longer used in 1972, but the document categories remained largely the same.
The Mailings series is a chronological set of correspondence sent by various sections of the NFS, often with accompanying documents such as minutes and memos. The order established by the NFS national office has been maintained. There is some duplication of reports, directories, and minutes with both the Master Archives in Series 1.3 and committee records in series 2.2 and 2.3 . This is due to the fact that much of the correspondence filed in this series deals with committee activities and was sent by leaders of various Federation committees.
The Administrative and Office Files series reflects the everyday operations of the central NFSNC office in New York City. It also includes a very small amount of material from the NFS Midwestern regional office. Series 1.5 includes a very detailed administrator's manual that documents a wide range of NFS policies and procedures. The manual also contains an historical statement on the U.S. settlement movement. The series also includes records relating to personnel administration and minutes from staff meetings; a small chronological set of more substantive material on NFS activities, dating from 1945 to1961; and resource materials on settlement administration. Finally, the records include material dating from 1980 that reflects the administration of the newly-renamed United Community Centers of America (UNCA). The documents were not organized when they were received at the Social Welfare History Archives. As a result, Archives staff imposed an arrangement on virtually all the records in this series.
Minutes of meetings and annual reports.
The manual documents: corporate business, board of directors, non-discrimination policy, tax exemptions, committees of NFS, the Membership Directory, office directory, fees for service, personnel referral service, resolutions procedure, social action, international work, direct service in local communities, expense accounts, conferences, affiliations and relations with other groups, NFS official positions on race and civil rights, editorials and NFS publications, reports to the public, Jane Addams and Training Center History, death notices, government contracts, personnel practices manual, and job descriptions. Also included are memos and general correspondence, office forms, office facilities, archives and copyright information, finances, papers on administration and manpower issues, committee structure and organizational charts and other documents related to procedural and operational issues
The Personnel Administration records include minutes from staff meetings that document such issues as: the status of projects NFSNC was involved with, Training Center plans, conference plans, personnel matters, the everyday functioning of the New York office, and internal NFSNC leadership dynamics. Staff policy between 1962 and 1968 is reflected in a limited number of staff work plans, as well as in minutes and policy statements emanating from the Staff Personnel Committee.
Financial statements, income accounts, condensed expense and income reports, proposed budgets, schedule of securities owned, budget committee correspondence.
Correspondence and reports about group work, unemployment, the NFS music division, organization plan for the NFS, girls work, work accounting, the poetry division, and miscellaneous matters.
Miscellaneous publicity releases, memoranda, and address lists. Reports on housing, field visits, legislative issues and seminars, neighborhood goals, membership procedures, miscellaneous committees; and 1960 self study. Statements before Congressional hearings, and miscellaneous pamphlets, resolutions, and historical statements.
Miscellaneous publicity releases, memoranda, and address lists. Reports on housing, field visits, legislative issues and seminars, neighborhood goals, membership procedures, miscellaneous committees; and 1960 self study. Statements before Congressional hearings, and miscellaneous pamphlets, resolutions, and historical statements.
Miscellaneous publicity releases, memoranda, and address lists. Reports on housing, field visits, legislative issues and seminars, neighborhood goals, membership procedures, miscellaneous committees; and 1960 self study. Statements before Congressional hearings, and miscellaneous pamphlets, resolutions, and historical statements.
The administration of Federation activities occurred largely under the supervision of the board, executive committee and standing committees. As a result, Series 2 is integral to understanding the many priorities and programs of the Federation and all of its major functions. The records of the board of directors and executive committee are described first. These are followed by groups of files from various standing committees of the Federation: financial, international, leadership development and training, membership, nominating, personnel, public relations, and social education and action.
Series 2.1 reflects all the major functions of the Federation that occurred under the direction of the board of directors and the executive committee. The board and committees were largely responsible for the administration of Federation activities. The material in Series 2.1 documents not only of the activities and functions of NFS, but also provides a good historical perspective of how the administration and focus of the entire organization changed through the years. Series 2.1 consists primarily of bound and unbound minutes of board and executive committee meetings that are essentially complete from 1910 to 1978. The minutes are usually filed with agendas, correspondence, reports, financial statements and other materials documenting the work of the board of directors, the executive committee, and the annual business meeting. The bound volumes of minutes also include committee reports, resolutions, budgets, summaries of action taken, lists of board officers, by-laws, and general statements of the purposes of the Federation. These materials offer an excellent overview of virtually all its activities. There are also yearly folders which contain agency prospectuses, budgets, descriptions of Federation structure, brief historical accounts, planning goals, reports and correspondence regarding board activity, membership, fund-raisers, various projects, and conferences. Reports of various standing and ad hoc committee are filed with board and executive committee minutes throughout this series, in addition to being filed with the committee records in Series 2.2.
The board and executive committee met twice a year. The board, at first a largely professional body, opened increasingly to lay members by the mid-1950s. Typically, a board member chaired each committee and a staff member served as secretary. The board of directors selected the executive director; adopted the budget; established program and administrative policies not established by the by-laws or designated as the responsibility of the annual meeting delegates; received and approved or modified recommendations of committees; referred matters requiring study to appropriate committees; and fixed times and places of national conferences and annual business meetings. The function of the executive committee was to act on policy matters requiring action between meetings of the board and to study any matter referred by the board and then to make recommendations to the board. The responsibilities of the executive director included employing, assigning, and coordinating the work of the staff and carrying out decisions of the board of directors, the executive committee, and the annual business meeting. The executive director also reported to the board on the work of the staff, advised the president of the board regarding meeting agendas, and consulted with the president on the work of NFS committees.
The minutes and other records of the board and executive committee document changes in focus and methodology of the National Federation over the years. In the earliest volumes, the material chronicles the formative meetings; theories espoused by participants; and expansion of the organization both nationally and internationally. They also document programs pertaining to young girls, home and family life, prohibition, housing, recreation, and immigrants and detail the more mundane aspects of organization administration. Later volumes capture the incorporation of the Federation. During the late 1930s, there are resolutions and projects regarding the Tennessee Valley Authority, slum clearance, wages and hours legislation; the role of the government;: unemployment and related relief and rehabilitation projects; support of the National Youth Administration; the Federal Workers' Education Program; the Federal Child Labor Amendment; family planning efforts; and opposition to the arms build-up prior to World War II.
Into the 1940s, the detail regarding administrative tasks increases and there is also information on the Federation's response to World War II. The records include resolutions and actions indicating concern for a racist and undemocratic selective service, intolerance, price controls, and the emerging post-war order as seen through a response to the United Nations and government planning. From 1945 to 1950, concerns reflected include employment, women workers, day care, older men, pay scales, labor-management relations, unions, youth, housing, population shifts, returning veterans, atomic energy, food for war-ravaged countries, planning for full employment, housing legislation, the push for cabinet rank for the United States Welfare Agency, federal support for recreation, federal aid to the arts, workers education extension service in the Department of Labor, salary standards within the settlement houses, cooperatives, social security, sympathy for establishment of the Jewish state, and Chinese-American relations.
By the 1950s the executive committee was taking on a more prominent role in the running of the Federation. The NFS had come out against the "Red Scare" and the tactics of McCarthyism. Major concerns included schools, drug addition, population shifts, housing racial discrimination, racism, and immigrant policies, as well as NFS involvement in United Community Defense Services. In the 1960s, emphasis was on legislative and committee action, responses to the "urban crisis," racial separatism, violence, the Mississippi Project, federal appropriations, consumers, civil rights, crime and delinquency, economic opportunity programs, housing national political conventions, school lunch programs, senior citizens, summer jobs. In the early 1970s the most striking trend in these records was the internal dissension within the National Federation, the emergence of the "Techniculture movement," and tension over the role of the social work profession in social issues involving people of color.
The minutes are very incomplete, with many gaps, especially from 1932-1946. In most cases, the minutes are digests of action, and are mimeographed. They are quite complete for 1952-1961.
[duplicate copy]
[duplicate copy]
[duplicate copy]
See also: Annual Board of Directors and Executive Committee Minutes and Documents for additional rosters.
Deals with routine matters and with procedural matters, such as the time and place of meetings and contacts with local settlements.
NFS Board hired this organization to advise NFS on fund-raising; but the agreement was cancelled, which led to a protracted legal dispute
Series 2.2 contains the records of NFS standing committees. The committees oversaw such areas as finances, international work, leadership development, membership, nominations to the board, personnel, social action, and public relations.
The financial development committee oversaw NFS fund raising and development efforts, financial accounting, and budgeting. This standing committee was established in the fall of 1960 and was considered a key to the planned expansion of NFS. It was set up to assist in obtaining the funding that would permit the maintenance and expansion of all departments of the Federation. From 1970 to 1972, there were two committees: a Financial Development Committee responsible for raising funds for the operations of the Federation and the Finance Committee, which was concerned principally with financial reports and audits, budget review and analysis, control of investment portfolios, dues compliance by members, and charges for publications and other NFS services.
The Financial Committee records include committee membership lists, memos regarding fund-raising plans, minutes, correspondence, budgets, lists of contributors, membership forms, fund-raising correspondence, committee membership requests, discussions of committee duties and functions, foundation contacts, individual membership correspondence and renewal, and thank you letters. Urgent requests for funds, increased numbers of fund-raising letters, and elaborate fund-raising projects reflect NFS financial troubles beginning in the mid 1970s.
Early financial records include a 1931 presentation of NFSNC programs that was prepared for foundations and the NFSNC Expansion Plan, dating from 1943-1944. Annual presentations to the national Budget and Consultation Committee dating from 1958 to1972 provide an overview of NFS programs and finances and supplement the incomplete set of NFS financial statements and budgets dating from 1962-1971.
Records of the Dues Compliance Committee dating from1953-1972 are also included. The committee monitored income from dues paid by member houses. This committee was charged with collecting member dues and aiding in the establishment and enforcement of dues compliance policy. The dues compliance material includes budget reports, dues statements, financial comparisons, policy statements regarding late payments, agencies requesting special consideration, proposals on dues rates, correspondence, form letters, minutes from committee meetings, the dues manual, reports containing dues compliance status of various member houses and federations, and reports on new dues proposals.
The international materials in the NFSNC records include files on the International Committee, international settlements, and the International Federation of Settlements. The International Committee was formed through the efforts of Lillie Peck and Ellen Coolidge. It met three times a year and had responsibility for: international visitors, visits by U.S. settlement personnel to international settlements, work with the United Nations, administering the American interests of the Barnett Fellowship and the Lillie Peck Fund, promoting international exchange among settlement workers, serving as a liaison with private and government agencies working in international issues, and relations with the International Federation of Settlements and the International Conference of Social Work.
The records include minutes, correspondence, and memoranda pertaining to a wide variety of topics including: international social work, international visitors, fund raising for international projects, and contacts with international social work organizations. This is a very broad and complete collection of materials. In addition to very extensive volumes of committee minutes and other such records, various projects of the committee and the International Federation of Settlements are covered in great detail. Such projects included the Venezuela Project, the Lillie Peck Fund, the Cleveland Project, the Barnette Fellowship, the Education for Peace Project, and miscellaneous United Nations projects. The records also document affiliated organizations and foundations and numerous international settlement conferences held over the years. Much of the material consists of correspondence and reports of leading Federation personnel involved in international work, such as Margaret Berry, Gladys Duppstadt, and Fern Colborn. International Committee records for the 1956 to 1971 period include minutes, correspondence, and memoranda pertaining to a wide variety of topics, such as: international social work conditions; international visitors; fund raising for international projects and contacts with international social welfare organizations. In the mid-1950s the committee sponsored a series of seminars on the role of the United Nations and took part in several conferences of the non-governmental organizations (NGOs) interested in migration. Particularly well represented is the administration of the Barnett Fellowship, a British memorial fund founded in 1914 with a matching American contribution in 1925. The fellowship allowed for extended study exchanges by social work personnel from the two countries. Folders in the collection reflect the activities and writings of major American Barnett fellows.
The International files also contain two sets of folders on settlements in other countries, arranged by alphabetically by country name and dating from 1945 to 1960 and 1959 to 1980, respectively. The earlier records form a lengthy reference file on settlement conditions in specific foreign countries contains summary correspondence and brochures relating both to conditions in international settlements and to American aid, as well as to travel plans of international and American emissaries. The second, more recent, set of country files contains relevant correspondence and reports regarding any contacts NFSNC or IFS had with the particular country. Researchers interested in a particular country should review both sets of files.
A prime focus of NFSNC international work was the International Federation of Settlements, founded in 1921 by a prominent circle of European and American settlement workers led by Henrietta Barnett of Great Britain. Almost immediately, in 1922, NFS appointed Ellen W. Coolidge as its foreign secretary, and it continued thereafter to place a high priority on international exchanges between social workers. The intensity of American interest in the project is reflected in the esteem felt by foreign workers for American leaders such as Jane Addams, Lillian Wald, John L. Elliott, and Mary Simkhovitch. The collection documents arrangements for a series of international conferences held in 1922, 1926, 1929, 1932, and 1936. Correspondence and speeches surrounding these events reveal a widening geographical focus for the International Federation and deteriorating political and socioeconomic conditions in member countries as the Great Depression progressed world-wide. Following World War II, the IFS was revived, thanks in large part to the strenuous efforts of Lillie Peck. Conferences resumed in 1952 and all are documented in the files by at least some form of final report. Many conference files contain lengthy correspondence and conference programs. The records also includes minutes and related items from the IFS Council and Executive Committee from 1972 to 1975.
"Neighborhood Work in Zacapu, Mexico," and "An Innocent Abroad: My Education in the International Settlement Movement."
Related material in
Extensive correspondence about the formulation of the idea
of the Fellowship, collection of finances, selection of the Fellows, and the
actual operation of the program. Prominent correspondents include Jane Addams,
J. J. Mallon (warden of London’s Toynbee Hall), Ellen Coolidge, Albert Kennedy,
Lillie Peck, Lea Taylor, and Erlund Field. Brochures about the Fellowship;
lists of subscribers to the fund; copies of Field’s study,
See also: Staff Writing files
See also Margaret Berry Papers (SW106), box 1
Daily Bulletins
See also
Conference plans and papers, correspondence
Constitution, membership lists, correspondence, financial statements, executive committee reports and minutes
Council meetings, minutes, and reports, steering committee minutes and reports
Constitution, membership, correspondence, financial statement, conferences
Newsletter, executive committee and IFS council meetings and minutes.
The Leadership Development and Training Committee took the place of the NFS Training Center in 1972. The committee was designated to recommend the primary educational program of the Federation and develop educational offerings to support the work of the settlements. It planned and operated regional and national training sessions, established contacts with universities, and regularly held national training seminars. The folder contains general information and committee membership data, agendas, project proposals, memos, minutes, and correspondence.
The Membership Standards and Admissions Committee, also known as the Membership Committee, was formed in 1950. It devised standards and criteria for NFSNC membership and processed member applications. The committee also monitored the Federation's communications with members and its publications program. Minutes and memoranda document the committee's activities between 1962 and 1966. Statements of criteria for individual settlements and settlement federations are available for the 1944 to 1976 period, and a small sample of membership application summaries reflects the caliber of applicants during 1953, 1966, and 1969. The scope of NFSNC membership is reflected in membership directories for the years from 1952 to 1973. A limited number of such directories are also available for the years between 1924 and 1941.
Resource materials developed for members from 1953 to 1973 deal with a variety of topics, including camping, the War on Poverty, and settlement buildings and facilities. Advice is offered on a number of funding opportunities, on accounting methods, and on economic development program. Routine items and newsletters are filed along with materials on special programs. A 1962-1963 compendium illustrates the range of NFSNC services to members, while a numbered sequence of all NFSNC mimeographed documents produced during the 1967 calendar year underscores the variety of NFSNC services and concerns.
The membership files conclude with yearly chronological folders dating from 1937 to 1980. These contain information on the functions of the Membership Committee, its procedures and policies, record keeping policy, reports on prospective member settlements and federations, agendas, committee minutes, memos, general committee correspondence, and membership lists and statistics. Of particular interest is summary information and histories of prospective member settlement houses and federations contained in the files.
1924, 1929, 1930, 1936, 1939, 1941, 1952-1970
001-100, 200-270, 280-750, 800-801, 900-950
Membership Standards and Admissions
The Nominating Committee was responsible for devising slates and conducting elections for NFSNC board positions. The committee met twice a year, usually in conjunction board meetings. Reflecting its importance, this committee was the only one to which members were elected rather than appointed and whose full travel expenses were paid by the Federation.
The folders contain ballots, officer and board member lists,
correspondence regarding officer appointments or proposed nominees, minutes,
meeting notices, and numerous resumes of prospective and actual nominees. Also
included are
The Federation's personnel committees served a number of functions, both internal to the organization itself and more broadly representative of the settlement field. They monitored NFSNC staff practices and promoted standardized job classifications, salary scales, and recruitment strategies among its member houses. Recruitment activities included summer job coordination as well as full-time employment referrals. These activities are documented through minutes and memoranda dating back to 1936, but date largely from the post-World War II period. Included with personnel records is a series of published "Job Classifications and Salary Standards" dating from 1961 to 1974.
The Board-Staff Personnel Committee was responsible for making recommendation to the entire board of directors on matters of wages and working conditions. The staff of the Federation had two voting representatives on this committee: one professional and one clerical. These two representatives were responsible for carrying to that committee the wishes of the staff in regard to changes in policy as set forth in the Personnel Code. The one file in this part of the collection contains the Personnel Code, other personnel manuals, minutes, memos, salary reports, and agendas. 1956-1970.
Correspondence about personnel matters. Studies of settlement practices. Minutes of the committee’s meetings, 1949-1960. Statements of NFS standards and practices.
The records include a minutes of the Public Relations Committee (1962-1983) and memoranda and press clippings (1961-1970). Public relations resources developed for members include such items as news releases, audiovisual material, and radio and television announcements. In addition, the committee monitored the Federation's publications program and developed special purpose "kits" for various special occasions, such as the Jane Addams Centennial of 1960 or the 1961 NFSNC Fiftieth Anniversary. Publications lists for the years between 1949 and 1972 mirror the shifting concerns of the settlement movement during this period.
The Public Relations Committee was a subcommittee of the Financial Development Committee with a director of public information generally overseeing the interrelationship. Duties of this officer and this committee included developing an overall fund-raising plan and assisting in its implementation; developing a program for public relations needs which included writing and editing ”UNCA News” and ”Round Table”; sending out press releases and other information; editing, production, and distribution of all NFSNC/UNCA publications; editing a publications catalogue; assisting with planning and promotion for NFS/UNCA meetings; production of exhibits for NFSNC/UNCA and National Conference of Social Work meetings; developing public relations projects increase public understanding of and support for the settlement movement (including news releases, feature articles, materials for special observations); providing consultation in public relations for member houses; and assisting in developing an overall plan and the necessary materials for fund-raising. These files contain general correspondence of the Director of Public Relations, committee minutes and reports of the Public Relations Committee, NFS financial and fund-raising matters as they relate to public relations projects, miscellaneous data on various public relations projects, publications, posters, and brochures which were the products of public relations projects. 1962-1983.
Deals with child abuse
Social Education and Action Committee, also known as SEA, was one of the oldest standing committees of NFSNC, with its work dating back to 1915. It was responsible for education on subjects of social concern and it served to recommend procedures and policies in social action in areas important to the National Federation to the board of directors and to prepare resolutions for action by the delegate body of the Federation. It represented the settlements position on social issues to the government and to private groups. It sought to implement action at the national level and to stimulate education and action at the local level. Its most important methods of operation were to secure and make available factual information to the settlements, as well as assembling facts on social issues in order to keep board, staff, and membership informed about current conditions and constructive plans for action. The committee was also the driving and organizing force behind NFS legislative seminars held on a regular basis in Washington, D.C. Under the staff leadership of Fern M. Colborn (1950-1961) and Gladys Z. Duppstadt (1962-1968), the committee initiated a host of Federation resolutions on topics ranging from narcotics to the minimum wage. Federation social education and action faced a major crisis initiated by some member houses in the early 1950s, when dissension arose regarding the NFSNC practice of passing resolutions on the grounds that it represented "political" activity. Such charges brought the response that only by improving social conditions (in a non-partisan manner) could settlements serve their neighbors fully.
As with the Board and Executive Committee materials, the Social Education and Action Committee records also serve to depict the change in focus of the National Federation. Major areas of social education and action (SEA) included public housing and urban renewal, juvenile delinquency and day care, and migrant labor and civil rights. One measure of NFSNC leadership in these areas is the fact that Fern Colborn was invited to serve as the first chairperson of a major national task force on the topic of housing, jointly sponsored by the National Social Welfare Assembly, the American Public Welfare Association, and the National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials (NAHRO). By the early 1960s, the focus of SEA activity had shifted to race relations and civil rights, culminating in participation in the 1963 March on Washington, a major civil rights project, and settlement lobbying on behalf of the 1964 Civil Rights Bill. During the 1960s and 1970s, the Federation was moving to educate its members on a widening number of problems related to economic justice. These and a host of lesser issues are well-documented in minutes, correspondence, testimony, and reports emanating from the committee in the period after 1946.
Other issues addressed by the committee include: the McCarran Anti-Subversive Bill, rent control, the United Nations, war recovery, price control, social security, child welfare, presidential elections, the Defense Production Act, health costs for veterans and their families, communism, population shifts and migration, consumer and inflation concerns, immigration and naturalization, health care, the Equal Rights Amendment, Indo-China, food stamp plans, racism, unemployment insurance, minimum wages, urban renewal, the response to ”Brown v. Board of Education”, peacetime use of atomic energy, school construction, surplus commodities program, and testing and control of nuclear weapons. In the 1960s, many of these same concerns continued to occupy the committee, but there were also new areas of focus. These included the "War on Poverty," Economic Opportunity Act of 1963, Youth Employment Act, community work and training programs, a strategy for civil rights legislation, voting rights, contacts with the White House Conference on Aging, the creation of a Civil Rights subcommittee, a new medicare program, senior service corps, cultural diversity, reduction of defense expenditures, class actions to help the poor, family planning, assistance for Native Americans, urban violence and rioting, and retrenchments in federal government support. With the dawn of the 1970s, the committee concentrated on a smaller number of legislative priorities. It began to emphasize a stronger local and regional action phase that focused on demonstration planning, marches, community-based meetings and Poor Peoples' campaigns and rallies. It was still, however, committed to "establishing decent minimum living standards for all people, and improvement of health services, day care, OEO and other public programs." . 1950-1974.
Most of the committee records consist of committee minutes and publications, member lists, meeting notices, memos sent to committee members, information related to Congressional testimony and the actual testimony itself, information on political campaigns, data regarding the legislative seminars, responses from various elected officials to the resolutions and letters from the SEC and National Federation, copies of the committee newsletter called "NFS Legislative News: Information and Material on Social Education and Action," miscellaneous correspondence, as well as correspondence of Fern Colborn, long-time director of the committee. The Social Education and Action Committee records also contain a 1963 membership needs assessment on the issue of public assistance, and a 1962 proposal for a "national service corps" that ultimately became the VISTA program. Records on "front organizations" reflect deliberate NFSNC policy to avoid identification with political extremes of either left or right. Political neutrality and issue-orientation were hallmarks of the Federation's social education and action program.
Also included with social education and action records are subject reference files relating to NFSNC's educational mission. Of particular interest in this material are several folders under the heading of "settlements," which deal with the movement's history, philosophy, and activities. An 1897 survey of American and British settlements (also available on microfilm) and a 1933 to 1960 series of Social Work Yearbook articles comprise yet other vantage points on settlement history.
Memoranda and Correspondence
Reports
Elderly Survey
Includes "C'-"K" and "M"-"N"
Includes "O"-"W", Summary
This folder contains a cross-reference to the scrapbook, which is contained in box 250 in Series 1.1.
Complementing the records of the Federation's standing committees are those of a number of ad hoc committees, most of them flourishing during the 1950s and 1960s. These committees dealt with a variety of NFSNC special project concerns: Community Organization, Race Relations, Neighborhood Goals, New Directions, the Poverty Program, NFSNC Self-Study, and Social Work Education. With one exception--the Committee on Social Work Education--these committees were formed to address various social issues, bringing them into the same general field as the Social Education and Action Committee described in Series 2.1.
The Ad-Hoc committees were generally temporary in nature and reflected major concerns of the National Federation at the time of their inception. The committees documented in Series 2.3 include Field Service and Training, New Directions, Poverty Program, Self-Study, Structure and Full Employment.
This folder details the role the settlements played in encouraging resident aliens to register and contains detailed correspondence between NFS personnel and interested persons regarding the civil liberties issues involved with registration. Also contains U. S. Government pamphlets regarding alien registration and correspondence with government officials.
List of committee members. Materials on functions of the committee, especially in the legislative realm.
Committee activities to help refugees to adjust to American life. Correspondence, addresses, programs, by-laws.
Much correspondence and reports on the problem of prohibition as the settlements saw it. A copy of A. J. Kennedy’s article on "Saloons" and correspondence about the article. Lillian Wald is an important correspondent.
Minutes of meetings and reports of studies.
Correspondence and miscellaneous reports about the work of the committee.
Extensive correspondence and publicity material about the issues of peace, war, and pacifism as related to the interests of the NFS. The committee was active in the peace movement, with Rebecca Krupp as its chairman and chief correspondent.
New Republic article (1923) on American poetry. Miscellaneous correspondence, reports of the Chairman, list of books, bulletins.
The poverty Program Committee, which existed from 1965 to 1968, prepared position statements on the Economic Opportunity Act and its implementation and on matters related to the broader "War on Poverty." It also: reviewed NFS Office of Economic Opportunity-related services to member houses and helped prioritize those services, identified unmet service needs, recommended changes to programs, and established and maintained connections with the appropriate national organizations and agencies concerned with the EOA act and its implementation. The committee folders contain member lists, working papers, position statements on poverty, listings of NFS poverty-related materials, material relating to studies and questionnaires, minutes, correspondence, testimony before congressional committees, NFS-EOA Bulletins, and miscellaneous materials related to the poverty program.
Correspondence and reports reflect settlements' concerns with the leisure time and its use.
The Self-Study Committee, which existed from 1959 to 1961,
undertook a thorough study of the National Federation's structure and then made
suggestions for future changes. The self-study focused on the practical
operation of the Federation, complementing the more visionary approach of the
Neighborhood Goals project. The Self-Study Committee had several subcommittees
which reflect the facets of the settlement movement at this time. These
subcommittees were: the subcommittee on services, subcommittee on social
education and action resolutions procedure, subcommittee on financial framework
and development, subcommittee on relations with other national organizations,
and subcommittee on structure. There was also a Follow-up Committee formed to
work at implementing the report generated by this ad hoc committee. The
committee folders contain progress reports, subcommittee and committee reports,
questionnaires, minutes of committee meetings, tabulations and statistics, some
correspondence and memoranda, and a detailed analysis of the NFS committees and
functions. A copy of the final report,
Correspondence and reports dealing with studies of group work in settlements.
The Special Committee on Structure, created in 1965 and disbanded in 1969, was also known as the Special Committee on Voting Rights of Complex Agencies. It was created to consider policy questions that arose due to the changing size and complexity of NFS affiliates. Specifically, it considered abandoning the "one corporation, one vote" format in favor of weighted voting, which the National Federation did adopt in 1969. Under the first system, an agency with a million dollar budget had the same vote as a small neighborhood agency. Committee records include correspondence, charts and data on membership sizes and contributions, committee minutes, legal correspondence, by-laws, and reports of the committee to the board.
Correspondence re the activities of the committee in fund-raising.
Memoranda and reports of the committee.
Correspondence, bulletins, papers, scrapbooks, about the work of the committee and its relationship to the settlements. Minutes of the committee meetings.
Records of the ad hoc Committee on Community Organization illustrate the critical side of Federation initiatives on race relations. This committee arose specifically to rebut the media success of Saul Alinsky in interracial organizing during the mid-1960s and, in 1967, it produced a "kit" with a measured evaluation of Alinsky's claims.
This committee, existing from ca. 1975 to 1976, was created in response to the high unemployment of the period. NFS conducted surveys among its member agencies and then lobbied for various programs and legislation which it believed would alleviate the problem. Much of the material in these folders deals through correspondence, reports, and government publications with the Humphrey-Hawkins Full Employment Bill and interactions with the Full Employment Action Council. Mrs. Mildred Madison was chairman of this ad hoc committee.
During the mid-1950s, the Neighborhood Goals project attempted
to clarify and reformulate settlement values and also to address the issue of
race relations. The ad hoc committee's minutes, memoranda, and correspondence
were largely directed toward organizing a major "action-research workshop" in
February 1958 at Arden House, Harriman, New York. Two reports were subsequently
published: one, summarizing the findings of the conference itself, funded by
the Lilly Endowment; the other, reporting on a survey of NFSNC member houses
conducted by Arthur Hillman with funding from the Fels Foundation. These
publications,
The New Directions Committee was created to address the tensions and conflicts in the NFSNC organization during the late 1960s. It attempted to articulate settlement goals and to recommend new directions for the settlement movement. The committee held regional meetings in six cities and prepared five special-purpose reports. The Committee believed that NFS should continue to be based on local agency membership; that its help to members should focus more on innovative programs rather than on building an institution; and that it unite on a problem solving approach to urban conditions. Records include minutes, memoranda, research materials, data from studies, reports, correspondence, and a copy of the New Directions final report.
See also the material on the Techniculture movement filed with the conference data in box 44b and 43C.
Race relations, a matter of abiding concern to some NFSNC
members and staff, provided the focus for a sequence of programs and activities
operating under a variety of committee names. Minutes and correspondence dating
from 1926 to 1931 reflect this concern, which returned to the forefront in
response to discrimination at a 1934 settlement conference and appeared once
again during the 1940s in the activities of an NFSNC "interracial and
inter-cultural commission." The records contain scant evidence of Federation
interracial concerns in the 1950s, but by the 1960s, it made massive commitment
to racial and economic justice. Settlements participated in the 1963 March on
Washington and the 1968 Poor People's Campaign. They lobbied energetically for
the 1964 Civil Rights Bill and provided aid to Black neighborhood centers in
the South, in particular through the Mississippi Project, which began in 1967.
The Race Relations Project (1964-1967), headed by the noted Black sociologist,
St. Clair Drake, published a major study,
Series 3, NFS Divisions, contains the records of the boys, girls, music and dramatics divisions of the national office. These are some of the older materials in the NFS records. They document both the operation of each division and issues surrounding settlement programs for youth and the arts.
Extensive correspondence about the formation, operation and details of the Division.
Correspondence dealing with all aspects of girls work in many different cities and regions. Correspondents include George Bellamy, John L. Elliot, A. J. Kennedy.
Conference reports and reports on special projects. Correspondence about the business of the Division. Minutes of the meetings. By-laws of the Division.
Extensive correspondence between Lillie Peck and Fonrose Wainwright about the activities of the Division. Some copies of the Dramatics Bulletin. Lists of plays available through the NFS which would be suitable for use in settlements. Other correspondents include Ruth Harker and Gertrude Dobkins.
Material concerning cooperation of the National Federation of Music Clubs with the NFS Music Division.
Pamphlets about music in America. Minutes of the Music Division’s meetings; reports and budgets. Reports to the Carnegie Foundation on the use of grants. Miscellaneous correspondence about the aims and activities of the Division.
Pamphlets about music in America. Minutes of the Music Division’s meetings; reports and budgets. Reports to the Carnegie Foundation on the use of grants. Miscellaneous correspondence about the aims and activities of the Division.
Reports presented to the NFS conferences, and correspondence about their preparation. Programs and press clippings.
General report of the Festival; minutes of the Festival committee and of the New York Association of Music Schools; Clippings and photographs.
Much substantive correspondence between Grolle and NFS executives about the nature and scope of the work of the Division. Reports and studies of local situations.
Minutes of the committee meetings. Lists of songs and suggested music programs. Song books which were used at the NFS annual conferences, 1931-1941.
Surveys made of individual schools in the effort to ascertain how much credit they gave for settlement music school training.
Announcements and bulletins of general offerings. Detailed syllabi of a special one-year course offered to teachers of settlement music courses, and analysis of those who attended the courses. Correspondence concerning these matters.
Correspondence, reports and publicity about a cooperative survey conducted in 1928 of the settlement’s music programs.
The Settlement Personalities series consists of miscellaneous files on individuals who were active in the settlement movement from its very early years to 1982. It includes a set of folders on NFS staff. Records include newspaper clippings, correspondence, biographical sketches, and other material by and about each individual.
Miscellaneous correspondence with Mary Simkhovitch, Paul Kellogg, A. J. Kennedy, and NFS officers, about routine conventions, conferences, etc., 1910-1935. Letters both to and from Addams. Press clippings and testimonial statements upon her death. Correspondence about the testimonials. Miscellaneous public statements by Addams.
These folders consist mainly of Addams centennial celebration materials and related biographical information. There are also speeches and articles relating to the Addams centennial, as well as correspondence regarding the celebration and the reopening of the Jane Addams' Hull House.
Four file folders relating to Saul Alinsky. In particular, these document his clash with the National Federation regarding his "direct-action" methods, stressing conflict and giving the poor power to speak for themselves. The material consists of newspaper articles, NFS responses, as well as information on the Chelsea Community Council which dissolved because of Alinsky's tactics.
Material on Russel Ballard, former director of Hull House in Chicago. Contains correspondence, articles, and biographical sketches.
Press clippings about Canon Barnett's death in 1913. Correspondence between Dame Henrietta Barnett and the NFS, especially Robert A. Woods.
Boyd was an instructor in the Sociology Department of Northwestern University. Correspondence about her and articles and speeches by her.
Winslow Carlton, one-time chairman of the board of Group Health Insurance, Inc., member of NFS Board from 1958 to 1967, and NFS president from 1964-1966. Contains a retirement pamphlet, correspondence, clippings, and speeches.
Correspondence between Cohen and the NFS about his position as a board member and legal counsel.
Memorial tribute to Coit, founder of University Settlement.
Materials written by Coolidge. Extensive correspondence between Ellen W. Coolidge and such figures as Jane Addams, Florence Kelley, Lillie Peck, and Albert Kennedy, about various aspects of the international settlement movement. Several biographical sketches of her life and work.
Cooper was a long-time member of the NFS executive committee and was president of the board of directors from 1926-1930. His extensive correspondence with such leaders as Robert A. Woods, Albert J. Kennedy and others clearly reveals his relationship to NFS and the activities of the NFS in its early days.
Memorial statement by Carl B. Swisher in the
Clippings about her flight across the Atlantic.
President of the NFS. Correspondence with Albert Kennedy, Robert A. Woods, Graham Taylor, and others. Articles and speeches by Elliot. Eulogies, biographical statements, and press clippings upon his death in 1942.
Helen Hall, founder of Dixon House, Westchester County, NY, head
of University Settlement in Philadelphia for nine years, and finally Director
of the Henry Street Settlement in New York from 1933 to 1967. She was also
married to Paul Kellogg, editor of
Correspondence (some dating back to 1933), obituaries, articles, biographical sketches, programs, newspaper clippings.
Helen M. Harris, long-time settlement worker and director of several settlement houses, who retired after serving as executive director of United Neighborhood Houses. This file includes programs, articles, biographical data, and correspondence.
Evelyn W. Hersey was the first Social Welfare Attache in the U.S. Foreign Service. She spent time in with several international social welfare agencies and in 1960 conducted an international study for the National Federation. She also served as a UN Social Welfare advisor to Turkey, as well as executive director for the San Francisco International Institute, as director of International Institute of Philadelphia, and with the Immigration and Naturalization Service.
Director of the NFS Training Center in Chicago.
Correspondence about aspects of the settlement movement in the southern United States. Clippings about Ingram and articles by her.
Testimonial statement about Kelley.
Correspondence with Kellogg about donations and publications. Speeches by him and memorial statements about him, including a brief biographical sketch.
John McDowell, Dean of Boston University's School of Social Work and executive director of the National Federation.
McDowell (1854-1936) was a long-time settlement worker. Bibliography of works by and about her. Clippings.
MacFarland was active in settlement music programs. Most of this folder deals with a 1940 testimonial dinner in her honor.
McCain was on the NFS executive committee intermittently from 1911 to 1930. There is some correspondence with her and some seeking information on her life. Correspondence and clippings about her death on May 12, 1934.
A farewell letter.
Copies of 3 of Murray's speeches.
A letter of recommendation for him.
Miscellaneous correspondence with Peck. Eulogies, clippings, photographs and correspondence about her death. Biographical statements.
Thesis (1950) on student residents in settlement programs. Correspondence re thesis and a preliminary outline.
Robbins was a long-time settlement worker and an honorary president of the NFS. This extensive correspondence deals with her many activities in all phases of settlement work. Includes clippings and a photograph.
Directory of Greenwich House settlement. Correspondence; testimonial statements and publications.
Speeches prior to his becoming NFS executive director while serving as Boston Redevelopment Authority, speeches while NFS Executive Director, and also some correspondence.
Correspondence re use of "Vineyard Shore" as a camp, the WPA and its relations with settlements, miscellaneous settlement matters.
Taylor (1841-1938) was head of the Chicago Commons settlement. Miscellaneous publications, testimonials, clippings, and correspondence, including a 1915 letter from George Bellamy about the nature and purpose of settlements.
Extensive correspondence re NFS membership, meetings and leadership; conferences, administrative matters. Miscellaneous clippings and addresses made to various meetings.
Lea Taylor, head resident of the Chicago Commons settlement from 1921 to 1954 and honorary president of NFS.
Taylor's folder contains photographs, information regarding the Lea D. Taylor Trust, correspondence, as well as information and transcripts from several taped interviews she did with Arthur Hillman.
Articles by and correspondence with Wald, founder and head resident of the Henry Street Settlement. Obituaries and memorial and biographical statements.
Article by White on "Religion and the Settlements". Obituaries and memorial statements.
Two pamphlets on university settlements and democracy. Correspondents include Jane Addams and Julia Lathrop. Correspondence and material about Robert A. Woods’ death. Miscellaneous correspondence with Eleanor Woods.
The National Federation of Settlements Staff files contain several types of records. The bulk of the series consists of manuscripts and correspondence of various individuals prominently associated with the National Federation. Some, such as Robert A. Woods, Albert Kennedy, and John McDowell, occupied executive roles in the Federation. Others, such as Alice Gannett and Lea Taylor, were long-standing lights on the NFS board. Yet others, such as George Goetschius and Sister Mary Immaculate were beneficiaries of NFSNC support. The Federation also maintained a "necrology" files of correspondence, clippings, and resolutions relating to the retirements and deaths of prominent leaders in settlement affairs. Retirement notices and obituaries are arranged separately, each preceded by a list identifying the individuals involved. The "necrology" portion of this material provides particularly rich insight into a broad range of settlement leaders.
Speeches and Writings
Speeches and Writings
Press Releases and Retirement
Lubbock, Texas, Survey correspondence,
Lubbock Texas Survey report
Personal Correspondence,
Personal Narratives,
Correspondence
Correspondence
Correspondence and Speech
Speeches
Speeches
Profiles and Correspondence
Correspondence and Memoranda
Speeches and Writings
Manuscript, "Mary Simkhovitch"
Correspondence,
Speeches and Writings List
Speeches
Articles and Reviews
Speeches and Writings
Correspondence and Essays
Clippings, memorials, published addresses, etc., about such notables as Charles Cooper, and Louise de Koven Bowen.
Series 5, Organizations, reflects the sometimes-substantial exchanges between NFS and a wide variety of national and local institutions, including governmental agencies. The alphabetically arranged organizations represented here include the National Social Welfare Assembly, the Presbyterian Health and Welfare Council, and the U.S. White House Conference on Children. The Federation also corresponded with a wide variety of educational institutions regarding curriculum, student placement, and research ideas. Series 5 also includes a few alphabetical files that contain correspondence from more than one organization.
Series 5 is a concentrated filing of correspondence with other agencies. However, it is not a comprehensive record of NFS contacts with other groups. Correspondence with outside organizations also appears throughout the NFS records.
A single folder of individual correspondence is appended to this series. A list of correspondents heads the folder, which is arranged chronologically.
Numerous organizations in one file.
A 1937 bibliography on youth problems. Pamphlets and bulletins on the American Youth Committee.
Extensive correspondence between the Congress and the NFS about cooperation in interest and support. Public statements and publications of the Congress. Minutes of the meetings of the Congress and its Board of Directors. Activities in relation to onset of World War II. Clippings.
Budget statements, two news bulletins, minutes of the executive committee meetings, correspondence with the NFS.
Correspondence about planning the settlement sessions at Lausanne; programs; Frances McFarland’s address to the conference and her report to the NFS.
Numerous organizations in one file.
Contains report of a study, "The Language of Prejudice," by Cornell University Field Research Office. 1952
Questionnaire on group work curricula. Minutes of the meetings of the executive committee.
Amicus Curiae brief filed in case against the department.
Numerous organizations in one file.
Bulletins, programs of several conferences, correspondence about the revival of the Conference and its functions.
Numerous organizations in one file.
Much of the correspondence is from the Women's Division of Christian Service of the Board of Missions of the Methodist Church.
Numerous organizations in one file.
See U. S. Children’s Bureau
Numerous organizations in one file.
Numerous organizations in one file.
Announcements and minutes of meetings.
Numerous organizations in one file.
Correspondence and reports about recreation for the unemployed. Statements regarding the work of federal agencies in these areas. Correspondence about routine matters such as attendance at conferences. Minutes of the Council meetings, 1947-1948.
Correspondence about the German youths who were brought to the International Youth Congress. Minutes of the committee in charge of the project, which was sponsored by the Youth Division of the NSWA. Extensive report made after the project was completed.
Report on social welfare and the League of Nations. Mimeographed materials and correspondence concerning the formation of UNESCO. Minutes of the National Committee on International Organization for Social Welfare.
Minutes of the Directors’ meetings; publicity information and miscellaneous reports.
See box 14A, folder 121, Council on Social Work Education
Numerous organizations in one file.
Files contain documents from more than one school.
Atlanta University, Boston University, Bryn Mawr College, Buffalo University
University of California, Catholic University (Washington, DC), University of Connecticut, University of Denver, Florida State University, Fordham University, Harvard University, University of Hawaii, Hollins College, Howard University, University of Illinois, University of Indiana, Iowa State University.
University of Kansas, Lincoln University (Missouri), McCormick Theological Seminary, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota.
National College of Education (Evanston), University of Nebraska, New School for Social Research, New York School of Social Work, New York University
Ohio State University, Our Lady of the Lake College (San Antonio), University of Oklahoma, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh, Purdue University, Putney Graduate School of Teacher Education (Vermont)
San Jose State College, University of Saskatchewan, University of Southern California, Springfield College (Massachusetts), Temple University, University of Tennessee, Tulane University
Washington University (St Louis), University of Washington, Wayne University (Detroit) Western Reserve University, Colleges of William and Mary, University of Wisconsin.
Correspondence re Lillie Peck’s service on the Board; by-laws; 1945 minutes of the Board of Directors.
Clippings, publicity releases, and correspondence re aid for older people.
Correspondence and reports re the 1945 employment bill.
Correspondence and reports re notices and articles by the NFS to
be published in the
Numerous organizations in one file.
United Community Defense Services, Inc. was related to the National Social Welfare Assembly and the Community Chests and Councils. It raised funds to meet the needs of social welfare agencies in war time. Correspondence and bulletins re its establishment; minutes of the various committees; by-laws; extensive budgetary data; annual reports. Studies of special programs in local areas. Data on legislative matters, regional work, publicity, and organizational issues.
Summary of budget needs, descriptive reports and history, 1950-1955.
See also White House Conference on Children and Youth in Archives’ Pamphlet Collection
Correspondence re federal aid to day-care centers, the establishment and work of a National Commission on Children and Youth. Historical statement of the contribution of settlement workers to the Federal Children’s Bureau. Programs, annual reports, minutes of the National Commission. Correspondence and reports re the Midcentury White House Conference on Children and Youth. Material on the 1964 "Committee to save the U.S. Children’s Bureau" and reports of the Committee Concerned with Defense Planning, 1951.
Extensive correspondence and reports re cooperation of the NFS and its member settlements in organizing and administering the civilian war effort.
Correspondence dealing with the establishment and work of the Farm Security Administration.
Charts, reports, and correspondence dealing with the problems of youth unemployment.
Decisions re social workers and the war. Children’s summer camps.
Material dealing with use of settlement properties
List of available reports. Fact-finding reports, platforms, findings of working groups.
Extensive correspondence and reports dealing with the camps.
Charter of the Assembly, and the report of the U.S. delegation to the conference.
Correspondence and memoranda about the committee.
Series 6 documents topics related to settlements and social issues, in particular labor, unemployment, early professional social work and settlement theory, housing, and war-related activities. The series also documents a number of early NFS programs and activities.
Historical statements about adult education. Descriptions of a few adult education programs in selected settlements.
Announcements and bulletins about vocational schools for office workers. A 1939 report of the director of one such school.
Press clippings and photographs about the exhibit, which traveled to various settlements across the country
Reports from various settlements about case work. General statement re the settlements’ position on case work.
Pamphlets dealing with youth work and aspects of molding character.
Correspondence about the publication of this book.
Index to Volume 1-10, excluding no. 9.
Correspondence between the NFS, its member houses, and the appropriate government officials regarding the use of conscientious objectors in settlement programs during war time.
Studies, publicity and correspondence on the price control of various commodities, especially dairy products. Statements on the purpose of the various NFS programs and proposals.
Reports from the settlements, 1941-1942. Correspondence and reports about the role of the settlements. Miscellaneous publicity handouts.
Reports on mobilization during the Korean War and its impact on the settlement communities. Memoranda from NFS to its member houses about defense mobilization issues. John McDowell is the chief correspondent.
Correspondence and reports dealing with the role the settlements played in aiding local defense efforts.
Statements by Helen Hall and others protesting the violation of civil liberties by the committee. Press clippings about the committee and testimony.
Correspondence with authors, Mr. and Mrs. Douglass W. Orr, about
sales, reviews, etc., of their book. Other correspondence with the publishers,
and some significant correspondence with Paul Kellogg, editor of the
Mimeographed reports about the general situation, and reports from the settlements.
Statement by Helen Hall. Publicity about the 1940 bill.
Extensive correspondence. Some studies of the housing problem in settlement neighborhoods. Interesting information about NFS reaction to the New Deal housing programs.
Statements about housing. Chief correspondent is Albert J. Kennedy.
Correspondence between settlements, the NFS, and banking officials about financial matters.
Correspondence and mimeographed reports that reveal the attitude of NFS toward the labor union movement, and the cooperation between the two in social welfare enterprises.
Reports from the settlement houses, correspondence about the reports.
Charts and press releases about the exhibit.
Sample questionnaire and general conclusions of the study. Some of the prominent correspondents include Jane Addams, Bruno Lasker, and Mark McCloskey..
lists of publications and copies of selected publications.
Correspondence about financing the program and determining its contents. Minutes of the committee; script for the programs; letters to NBC; an "idea kit" for the program.
Memorandum on problems created by these houses.
Correspondence and reports.
Miscellaneous correspondence and statements about settlement work by various leaders and friends of the movement.
A 1931 bibliography of writings by settlement leaders about the settlements. Statements of the movement’s nature by Paul Kellogg, Lillie Peck, Bruno Lasker, various NFS executives, et al.
A study made in 1931.
A study made in 1921-1922.
Reports from various settlements on attempts to remain effective in the crisis.
Correspondence re programs and policies of settlements in time of war. Minutes of committees dealing with the new problems.
Correspondence about the reports, and copies of the articles.
Symposia, committee reports, case studies, published articles, and correspondence about them. Summary evaluation, 1931, of the effects of unemployment.
Correspondence re the conference and NFS participation in it. Reports,
Material dealing with the NRA, including newspaper clippings, correspondence, and miscellaneous reports.
Articles in the
Extensive correspondence and reports re the work of the WPA and the relationship of the settlements to this work.
Material re the settlement strategy in the war and plans for post-war reconstruction. Reports and correspondence re the "High School Victory Corps." Information on war-time community services, and on youth in war time agricultural production programs.
Correspondence re young adult councils in local settlements.
Series 7, City Federations of Settlements, contains material on local federations of settlements that were formed on the NFS model. The records in Series 7 reflect these federations' interactions and relationship with NFS, local programs and administration, and the founding of some of the city federations.
Incomplete run of the publications of the boys work groups.
Constitution and by-laws; lists of member houses; correspondence with NFS about dues and administrative matters; bulletins and miscellaneous reports.
Correspondence about the organization of the Federation and its developing relationship with the NFS, and about its operating procedures. Minutes of the annual meetings.
Statements of the social action committee.
Annual reports, 1946, 1949, 1953, 1955; 1946 field report. Information about the origins of the Cleveland Federation.
Correspondence with the NFS about membership, dues, conferences, and visits of NFS personnel to Philadelphia; committee minutes and reports; directories of the Association’s members; publicity releases and statements on matters of social welfare.
Minutes of the committees helping to organize the Federation. Correspondence about lobbying activities; minutes of various committees, including the social action committee. A record of 1947 contacts with the NFS; annual and miscellaneous reports.
Miscellaneous annual reports; correspondence re NFS membership, miscellaneous matters, conflicts among the staff members. Statements of aims, programs, and facilities.
Series 8, Member Settlement Houses, primarily reflects settlement activities during the 1950s and 1960s. The bulk of the series consists of correspondence between the executives of individual houses and the officers of the Federation, including Margaret Berry, Fern Colborn, Elizabeth Day, Gladys Duppstadt, and John McDowell. Correspondence falls into two general categories: interpretation of NFSNC programs and advice to member-house executives on administrative and theoretical problems. The geographic distribution of settlement houses represented in the series is somewhat uneven. Northeastern states predominate, followed by Midwestern cities such as Chicago and Minneapolis/St. Paul, and scattered Southern settlements, particularly in Atlanta. Reflecting the general distribution of NFSNC membership, there is little documentation of Appalachian and Western states, with the notable exceptions of settlements in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.
This series reflects the contacts between local settlement houses and the national office. It is not a comprehensive record of activities in each settlement. The subject matter varies from the more mundane aspects of record keeping and dues collection to materials relating to specific projects with which the particular settlement was involved. A portion of the series consists of directories of local settlements listing addresses and names of directors. There is also a rather detailed index of service records to non-member agencies.
Much of the correspondence deals with NFS services to the settlement movement. Advice on particular administrative and planning problems reflects the changes in the settlement movement during the 1950s and 1960s. A number of broader policy concerns are evident as well. Settlements sought to adapt their programs to meet changing community needs in the wake of urban renewal. They also needed to demonstrate the importance of settlements to Community Chests and United Funds, upon which the houses were increasingly reliant for operating funds. The correspondence also documents citywide mergers enacted to cope with funding problems through the sharing of staff and other resources. Finally, executives were concerned that the design of new facilities needed to accommodate projected program changes. Annual reports, brochures, and plans from individual settlements are also included with this correspondence.
The Settlement Houses series also includes reports of field visits to individual houses by NFS field workers. These reports emphasize personal dynamics within settlements and their effects on the long-range vision of the staff and the house's efficacy in the community. The reports reflect the importance placed by NFS staff on professional training for settlement personnel. Related items include the self-studies undertaken by several individual houses, planning the future direction of the settlement's program and philosophy.
Correspondence about membership in the NFS.
Correspondence about dues, expansion plans, conferences, visits of NFS staff members.
Correspondence about membership in the NFS; field report by Lillie Peck; programs of the settlement.
Field visits and reports; annual report; correspondence about NFS membership.
Correspondence about membership in the NFS.
Correspondence between the NFS and the Henderson Community Center and the Soto-Michigan Jewish Center about NFS membership and miscellaneous conferences. NFS field report.
Correspondence about such matters as Mexican migrant laborers and books written by the head resident. Later correspondence deals with routine matters such as dues and conferences.
Substantive correspondence about case work techniques in settlements. Correspondence about membership in NFS; by-laws of the Association; miscellaneous and annual reports.
Correspondence about NFS membership, dues, and personnel. Historical sketches; annual and miscellaneous reports.
Correspondence about NFS membership and dues; the future of the House and the work appropriate to it. Schedules of activities and programs.
Correspondence about NFS membership and dues; settlement personnel and activities. Annual reports for 1934-1935.
Brief description of the Center; correspondence about NFS membership; field survey by NFS, 1953. Annual reports, 1945-1946, 1952-1953, 1955-1956.
By-laws; brief description of the Center; correspondence about membership in the NFS. Annual report.
Fact sheets and financial statements; brief description of the Center; miscellaneous reports; correspondence about NFS membership and Center personnel.
Substantive correspondence about the activities of the Association; mimeographed reports about defense activities; correspondence and reports about field visits.
Correspondence about NFS membership; Center activities and personnel; brief description of the Center and its work.
Correspondence about NFS membership, Mexican-Americans, and a 1953 CBS broadcast on teenagers. Annual report, 1953.
Constitution, miscellaneous pamphlets, and reports. Correspondence about NFS membership and dues, personnel, and a 1946 field visit.
By-laws; correspondence re membership. Annual report, 1947.
Fact sheets; personnel policies; by-laws, miscellaneous reports; correspondence re NFS membership and field visits, housing problems, and activities of the Center, especially in relation to the Community Chest and financial problems.
Brochures. Letter of 1949 describing the Center and correspondence about the activities of the Center.
Correspondence re NFS membership and building plans.
Correspondence about NFS membership; budget estimate; miscellaneous pamphlets and clippings.
Annual reports and minutes of the Board of Directors. Correspondence and studies dealing with raising the standards of the settlement.
Material re NFS membership; constitution and personnel practices; Center activities. Financial statement, 1954.
Correspondence from NFS on the upgrading of the settlement’s standards. Descriptive brochures and statements of philosophy behind the settlement. Annual reports, 1933, 1945, 1951.
Descriptive brochures. Correspondence re NFS membership, which was a sore point with Farnam, and personnel. Annual reports, 1943, 1945, 1947, 1951.
Correspondence about house activities.
Correspondence re personnel. Annual and quarterly reports.
Financial statements, reports, clippings. Correspondence re dues and Center personnel.
Annual reports.
Annual report, clippings, miscellaneous correspondence.
Reports; correspondence re youth work and NFS membership.
Self-study committee report; field visit report.
Miscellaneous reports and clippings.
Correspondence re building plans, 50th anniversary of NFS. Historical statement; self-study report, 1951; annual and miscellaneous reports.
Annual and self-study reports.
Brochures, photographs, historical statement, descriptive studies, self-studies and annual reports.
Field trip reports, studies of the areas served by the settlements.
Historical statement and enrollment statistics.
Brochure and annual reports.
Correspondence re dues, wage studies; annual and statistical reports.
Correspondence re NFS membership and dues; historical statement.
Correspondence re NFS membership; annual reports.
Correspondence re membership in NFS and House problems; annual reports and self-study appraisals.
Published stories, miscellaneous publications about important people and events. Financial reports, press clippings about a 1947 Chicago fire, descriptive brochures, routine correspondence with NFS. Annual reports for 1899, 1904, 1911, 1918, 1919, 1925, 1927, 1930, 1934-1945.
Correspondence re membership and dues in NFS.
Annual reports; field reports; correspondence re membership and dues in NFS, conferences, miscellaneous operating matters.
Annual reports.
Descriptive brochures; historical pageant; miscellaneous reports about the activities of the Center. Annual reports, 1928, 1930-1931, 1934-1938, 1940-1944, 1946-1947, 1951.
Constitution; 1953 fact sheet; miscellaneous reports. Press clippings about House activities. Correspondence re dues and personnel. Annual reports, 1946-1947, 1949.
Statement of House aims, 1945; correspondence re dues to NFS and the Chicago self-study.
Annual reports, 1901, 1925, 1929, 1931, 1940-1941 1947-1950, 1952, 1954. Miscellaneous and financial reports; press clippings about House activities; correspondence from Charlotte Carr and Louise de Koven Bowen revealing the controversy with the Board of Directors in the early 1940’s.
Correspondence re membership in NFS; Annual reports, 1939, 1944-1945, 1954.
Correspondence re NFS membership.
Correspondence re NFS membership; Annual reports, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1954.
Correspondence re NFS membership. Annual reports, 1950-1951, 1953, 1956.
Report to the Board of Trustees.
Annual reports 1943, 1953; study of the House.
Correspondence re NFS membership, defense mobilization, adult work; annual reports, 1945, 1947, 1951, 1953.
Annual reports, miscellaneous correspondence.
Annual reports 1947-1950; correspondence re NFS membership, miscellaneous matters. Survey of the area served by the House.
Self-studies.
Annual reports; correspondence re NFS membership; statements on racial policies.
A 1944 study of the African American population in Gary. Field report, 1944; descriptive brochures; annual reports 1949-1955.
Correspondence re NFS membership, relationship to NFS, and the financing of settlements. A manual of the Center (1953), salary schedule, membership analyses.
Correspondence re building plans, personnel, NFS dues. Much information on racial problems. 1939 program institute.
Correspondence re membership; 1946 field report.
Correspondence re membership in NFS, building plans; field report.
Correspondence re NFS membership, training for settlement work, field reports, survey of African American residents.
Correspondence re NFS membership and dues. Field visit.
Annual reports 1937, 1944, 1949-1951, 1954. Statements of objectives; correspondence re NFS membership and dues.
Annual reports 1947 and 1951. Field survey
Notes on 1940 and 1948 field trips. Annual report 1944; correspondence re NFS membership, building plans.
Photographs of early 20th Century scenes. Annual reports 1898, 1906, 1910, 1913, 1921-1923, 1925-1926, 1928, 1938. Report of the 1909 Tenement House Commission and other "muckraking" commissions. Clippings, brochures and statements about the work of the House. Chief correspondent is Frances Ingram
Annual reports 1942-1943, 1948, 1950-1951, 1953. Descriptive brochures.
Annual reports 1927, 1944, 1948-1953 and a 1942 Charter. Correspondence re NFS membership. Materials on relationship to federal government.
Note: See also files on settlements in communities surrounding Boston. Some settlement houses are listed under Boston and under towns in the surrounding area.
Annual reports 1900, 1933, 1935, 1937, 1952-1954. Correspondence re House personnel; descriptive brochures. Minutes of Board of Directors.
Correspondence re membership in NFS, activities of the House. Annual reports 1937, 1948, 1950-1951.
1932 description of the Center; correspondence re NFS membership; clippings.
Radio script, 1937; science fair brochures; descriptive statement. Information on community music schools.
Annual reports 1928, 1930-1933, 1935, 1939, 1940,1942-1945. Miscellaneous correspondence.
Annual report 1944; by-laws. Material re selection of workers, NFS membership.
Correspondence re dues to NFS.
Correspondence re NFS membership and dues. Summary of vocational guidance program.
Annual report 1943. Obituaries and historical statement (1952).
Correspondence re field visit, House organization.
Annual reports 1929, 1932, 1941, 1943, 1945-1948, 1951-1954, 1958. Includes a 1953 field visit. Descriptive statement; correspondence re NFS membership.
Annual reports 1915, 1917, 1924, 1930-1931, 1933-1937, 1939-1949. Correspondence re NFS membership and dues; descriptive statements.
Brochures; letters about the relationship of NFS to the school.
Annual reports 1936-1937, 1941, 1943; brochures and description. Correspondence re NFS membership, financial and other difficulties.
Annual reports 1939-1941, 1943, 1949, 1952, 1954. Correspondence re NFS membership.
Annual reports 1931-1932, 1938, 1942-1943, 1948, 1958. Correspondence re selection of a head worker. 1953 confidential report on the work of the House.
Annual reports 1944, 1953. Correspondence re a study of the House; descriptive brochures and statement.
Annual reports 1929-1936, 1950. Miscellaneous studies, historical statement, clippings, correspondence re work of Association.
Correspondence re NFS membership and dues. Reports 1945, 1951-1953.
Miscellaneous pamphlets; survey of the Center’s work; descriptive brochures. Annual report 1945.
Correspondence re NFS dues.
"Tutoring Plus"
Descriptive statement.
Correspondence re NFS membership and dues; field report and descriptive statement.
Annual reports 1923, 1942-1943, 1951-1952. Correspondence re NFS membership; descriptive