Related Resources
At a glance:
The Social Welfare History Archives is unique in focusing exclusively on the history of national-level social welfare programs and movements. Many other resources provide valuable related materials. Other repositories at the University of Minnesota and elsewhere hold records pertaining to social services. Web sites of organizations whose records are in SWHA provide information about their current programs, and sometimes their history. A number of web-based resources present information about specific aspects of social welfare history.
University of Minnesota Libraries
- University of Minnesota Special Collections and Archives
- Kautz Family YMCA Archives
- Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
- Immigration History Research Center
Organizations with Records in the Social Welfare History Archives
- Alliance for Families and Children (formerly Family Service Association of America)
- American Social Health Association
- Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors
- Association of Junior Leagues International
- Child Welfare League of America
- Council on Social Work Education
- Family and Children's Service [Minneapolis]
- Florence Crittenton agencies (CWLA directory)
- EngenderHealth (formerly Association for Voluntary Sterilization)
- Greater Twin Cities United Way (includes former United Way of Minneapolis)
- Group for the Advancement of Doctoral [Social Work] Education
- Henry Street Settlement
- International Social Service - USA
- National Association of Social Workers
- Travelers Aid International (formerly Travelers Aid Association of America)
- United Neighborhood Houses of New York
- United Neighborhood Centers of America (formerly National Federation of Settlements)
- YWCA of Minneapolis
Other Resources for Studying the History of Social Work and Work Welfare
- Adoption History Project
- Journal of Social Hygiene, full text available online
- National Conference of Social Welfare proceedings online, with instructions for use of this resource
- National Conference of Social Work: presidential portrait gallery
- New Deal Network
- NASW Social Work Pioneers
- On the Lower East Side: Observations on the Life in Manhattan at the Turn of the Century
- National Library of Medicine
- Survey Harlem issue online
- Social Security History Site
- Social Welfare History Site
- The Story of Survey Graphic
Other Archives with Related Holdings
- Repositories of Primary Sources (archives websites)
- Chicago Historical Society
- Columbia University Rare Book and Manuscripts Library
- LaGuardia and Wagner Archives links to information on New York settlement house records
- Library of Congress, Manuscript Division
- Minnesota Historical Society
- National Archives and Records Administration
- New York Public Library
- Social Work Archives in the Sophia Smith Collection, Smith College
- Simmons College Archives
- Temple University, Urban Archives
- University of Illinois at Chicago, Special Collections
- University of Southern California - Califoria Social Welfare Archive