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General: Bibliography of College, University and Social Settlements, and History of the Settlement Movement, 1893-1927
College settlements
Industrial settlements (Hartley House, NY): pamphlet, circa 1897
Music settlements (Third St. Music School): annual reports, pamphlet, and manuscript, 1959-1965
Social settlements
Volumes on shelf
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Settlements Collection, 1883-1972
Finding AidFinding aid prepared by Jennifer Smar and Kate Weigand.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2004
| | | | | Title: | Settlements Collection | | Dates: | 1883-1972 | | Abstract: | The Settlements Collection documents the social settlement movement and its contributions to poor and working-class urban communities from the 1880s through the first half of the 20th century. Documentation primarily relates to the College Settlement Association (later called the Intercollegiate Community Service Association), and the individual settlements affiliated with it: the College Settlement of Philadelphia, Denison House in Boston, the Smith Alumnae Chapter, and the Rivington Street Settlement in New York City. Types of material include articles, correspondence, clippings, historical writings, pamphlets, annual reports, minutes, newsletters, and photographs. | | Extent: | 4 boxes; 6 volumes(1.5 linear ft.) | | Language: | English. | | Identification: | MS 430 |
Cover of pamphlet on Denison House settlement, undated The Settlements Collection contains manuscript and printed material that primarily relate to the College Settlement Association, which later became the Intercollegiate Community Service Association, and the individual settlements affiliated with it, primarily the College Settlement of Philadelphia, Denison House in Boston, the Smith Alumnae Chapter, and the Rivington Street Settlement in New York City. The bulk of the material dates from the 1880s, when the settlement movement first emerged in the U.S., to the 1960s when, after the appearance of federal anti-poverty programs, many settlements closed their doors permanently. The nineteenth century material in this collection includes both published and unpublished sources, such as articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, promotional pamphlets, histories, and reports that document the emergence and evolution of the settlement movement in the 1880s and 1890s. It also illustrates both settlement founders' efforts to legitimize their work, and their increasingly successful endeavors to draw educated young women into the field of settlement work. The twentieth century material is more varied and includes articles, commemorative booklets, correspondence, fundraising appeals, minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, programs, and an unpublished thesis. These items document the thorough institutionalization of settlements in U.S. society between 1900 and the 1930s, the crucial contributions they made to poor and working-class communities, and the gradual decline that most settlements faced in the post-World War II period. The collection includes bound volumes of the annual reports of the College Settlement Association (1890-1913), as well as books and newsletters published by the CSA. Return to the Table of Contents
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Folder |
| | 1 | 2 | General: Bibliography of College, University and Social Settlements, and History of the Settlement Movement,
1893-1927 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 1 | 3 | General: clippings and pamphlets,
1899-1928 |
| 4 | Andover House Association (Boston): report,
1893 |
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| College Settlement Association |
| 5 | "Cultural Hybrid in the Slums: the College Woman and the Settlement House,," by John P. Rousmaniere, American Quarterly,
1889-18941970 |
| 6 | Pamphlets, theater scripts, and clipping,
1898-1915 |
| 7 | Lists of subscribers,
1896-1906 |
| 9 | Correspondence,
1915-1928 |
| 10 | Pamphlets, annual reports, and notebook,
1909-1927 |
| 11 | Intercollegiate Community Service Association (formerly College Settlement Association): annual reports,
1917-1926 |
| 12 | College Settlement News (New York),
1915-1916 |
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| College Settlement of Philadelphia |
| 13 | Anna Freeman Davies: book and publications,
1943-1957 |
| 14 | General: annual reports, correspondence, photographs, and pamphlets,
1904-1995 |
| 15 | Photographs, newsletters, annual reports, clippings, and correspondence,
1942-1972 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 2 | 1-7 | College Settlement Association: annual reports,
1890-1913 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 3 | 1 | General: correspondence, directory, pamphlets, annual reports, and clippings,
1903-1938 |
| 2 | Annual reports,
1900, 1903, 1907-1915 |
| 3 | Italian Department: reports and pamphlets,
1906-1913 |
| 4 | George Washington Cable,
1904 |
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| Margaret Deland,
1898-1899 |
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| T.W. Higginson,
1847-1879 |
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| Katherine A. Sanborn,
n.d. |
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| Kate Douglas Wiggin-Riggs,
1910 |
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Folder |
| | 3 | 5 | The first year at the College Settlement by Jane E. Robbins,
1912 |
| 7 | Annual reports,
1890, 1899-1900, 1901/1902, 1913/1914 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 4 | 1 | Industrial settlements (Hartley House, NY): pamphlet,
circa 1897 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 4 | 2 | Music settlements (Third St. Music School): annual reports, pamphlet, and manuscript,
1959-1965 |
Box |
Folder |
| | 4 | 3 | General: pamphlet, articles, and thesis manuscript,
1892-1961 |
| 4 | Dorothea Dix House (Boston): pamphlets,
1898-1901 |
| 5 | Greenwich House (NYC): annual report (1921), clippings, and pamphlet (re: Mary Simkhovitch),
1921-1952 |
| 6 | Henry St. Settlement (NYC): pamphlet,
1967 |
| 7 | Hull House (Chicago): article (Smith College Monthly),
1894 |
| 8 | Social Settlements and the Labor Question: pamphlet,
circa 1897 |
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| College Settlements Association: annual reports |
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| (volumes 11-17)
1900-1906 |
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| College Settlement News and News of the College Settlement of Philadelphia,
1895-1921 |
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| Reports of the College Settlement of Philadelphia,
1895-1920 |
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| St. Mary Street Settlement: Library and Settlement,
1886-1895 |
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