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Whittier House Boys Club card - Frank Wanca (Austrian). Retrieved from https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3TH8K7X
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Whittier House Boys Club card - Frank Wanca (Austrian). 1939-1941. RUcore: https://doi.org/doi:10.7282/T3TH8K7X

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TitleWhittier House Boys Club card - Frank Wanca (Austrian)
NameWanca, Frank (depicted), Whittier House, Whittier House Boys Club, New Jersey Historical Society
Date Created1939-1941
SubjectChildren, Immigrants, Men, Students, Women, Working class, Community life, Ethnic groups, Recreation, Austrian 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 14-year-old Austrian, Frank Wanca. Frank had two brothers and one sister, and lived with his parents, John and Pauline. 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/T3TH8K7X
LanguageEnglish
CollectionNew Jersey Historical Society
Organization NameNew Jersey Historical Society (Newark, N.J.)
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