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Whittier House Boys Club car - Joseph Okragly (Polish). Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3FB51HM
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Whittier House Boys Club car - Joseph Okragly (Polish). 1934-1935. RUcore: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3FB51HM

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TitleWhittier House Boys Club car - Joseph Okragly (Polish)
NameOkragly, Joseph (depicted), Whittier House, Whittier House Boys Club, New Jersey Historical Society
Date Created1934-1935
SubjectChildren, Immigrants, Men, Students, Women, Working class, Community life, Ethnic groups, Recreation, Polish Americans, New Jersey, New Jersey--Jersey City, New Jersey--Hudson County
DescriptionThis collection of Whittier House Boy's Club membership cards records children's names, parent's names, places of birth, nationalities, family members, occupations, church affiliations, and addresses. This membership card belonged to 12-year-old Polish American, Joseph Okragly. Joseph had five brothers and two sisters. His father, John, worked at the foundry, while his mother, Viola, was a homemaker. 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.
Genreforms (documents), records
Persistent URLhttps://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3FB51HM
LanguageEnglish
CollectionNew Jersey Historical Society
Organization NameNew Jersey Historical Society (Newark, N.J.)
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