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Title1927 request for contributions to support summer camp in Pomona, NY for Whittier House children and mothers
Date Created1927
SubjectImmigrants, Community development, Community life, Emigration and immigration, Ethnic groups, Social service, New York - Pomona, New York - Rockland County, New Jersey, New Jersey--Jersey City, New Jersey--Hudson County
DescriptionThese items, from a Whittier House scrapbook, document aspects of the 1927 fundraising campaign to support the summer camp program in Pomona, NY and day trips in the Jersey City area. The items include a fundraising appeal from Pomona Committee Chairman George E. Kleinhaus, a pamphlet entitled "The Three Musketeers of Pomona" and a follow-up letter from Nels Anderson.
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, correspondence, leaflets, letters, pamphlets, photographs, scrapbooks
LanguageEnglish
CollectionNew Jersey Historical Society
Organization NameNew Jersey Historical Society (Newark, N.J.)
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