Description
TitleWhittier House subscription book - October 1927
Date Created1927
DescriptionA subscription book, resembling a passbook savings account register, sent to potential donors highlighted the programs offered by Whittier House, such as sewing and cooking classes, and requested that the recipient return the book with a contribution. Photographs of the children participating in programs, the Whittier House buildings in Jersey City, and the summer camp in Pomona, NY are included.
Whittier House scrapbooks document Whittier House programs, events, and anniversary celebrations through newspaper clippings, lecture fliers, newsletters, event programs, and ticket stubs. Newspaper clippings are primarily from the Jersey Journal. There is also Whittier House fundraising materials, including pamphlets, appeal letters, brochures, and postcards. The Whittier House Social Settlement, the first settlement house in New Jersey, was established in Jersey City, N.J. (Hudson County) in 1894. Founded by Cornelia Foster Bradford, who would remain with the organization as headworker until 1926, Whittier House was based on the settlement house, Toynbee Hall, in England. Whittier House provided various recreational and educational programs, along with much needed social services, for the immigrant populations of Jersey City. Many of these successful services were used as models for large-scale social reform movements through the state. In 1935, the Whittier House was taken over by the Boys' Club of Jersey City.
Genreblack-and-white photographs, photographs, records, scrapbooks
LanguageEnglish
CollectionNew Jersey Historical Society
Organization NameNew Jersey Historical Society (Newark, N.J.)
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