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Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee records
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Overview and metadata sections
People
Subject
- Armenian massacres, 1894-1896
- Charitable Organizations--Philadelphia
- Cuba--1890-1910
- Disaster Relief--National and International
- Johnstown Flood
- Poverty, Alleviation of--19th and 20th Century
- Russian Famine
- Spanish-American War, 1898--Campaigns--Cuba
- Spanish-American War, 1898--Campaigns--Puerto Rico
- Spanish-American War, 1898--Pennsylvania
- Spanish-American War, 1898
- Unemployment--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia
- Publisher
- Historical Society of Pennsylvania
- Finding Aid Author
- Finding aid prepared by Willhem Echevarria.
- Sponsor
- This collection was processed as part of the Civic Engagement Collections Project. Funding for this project was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Collection Inventory
Scope and Contents
This series contains general administrative information about the committee and their plans of operation. Files consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, and a deed.
Correspondence (1916-1923).
Box 1
Folder 1
Deed of Trust (1915).
Box 1
Folder 2
General Plan of the Operations of the Citizen's Permanent Relief Committee (1893).
Volume 1-2
Minutes (1906).
Box 1
Folder 3-4
Minutes (1907).
Box 1
Folder 5
Minutes (1908).
Box 1
Folder 6
Minutes (1909-1910).
Box 1
Folder 7
Minutes (1911).
Box 1
Folder 8
Minutes (1912-1913).
Box 1
Folder 9
Minutes (1914-1915).
Box 1
Folder 10
Minutes (1917-1919, 1923).
Box 1
Folder 11
Miscellaneous--Lists of members; Inventory of Trunk "A"; Inventory of Trunk No. 1(1891-1923, undated).
Box 1
Folder 12
Report--Permanent Relief Commitee of Philadelphia (1893-1894).
Volume 3
Scope and Contents
This series features correspondence, lists of members, minutes, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and reports about the attacks (also known as the Hamidian Massacres) perpetrated on Armenian by the Ottoman Empire during the years 1894-1896.
Correspondence--January (1896).
Box 2
Folder 1
Correspondence--Feburary (1896).
Box 2
Folder 2-4
Correspondence--March (1896).
Box 2
Folder 5-7
Correspondence--April (1896).
Box 2
Folder 8
Correspondence--May (1896).
Box 2
Folder 9
Correspondence--December (1896).
Box 2
Folder 10
Correspondence (1897).
Box 2
Folder 11
Correspondence (undated).
Box 2
Folder 12
Lists--Committees and Memberships (1896).
Box 2
Folder 13
Minutes--Committee on Churches; Committee on Trade and Professions; Mass Meeting (1896).
Box 2
Folder 14
Minutes--Executive Commitee; Finance Committee (1896).
Volume 4-5
Newspaper Clippings (1896).
Box 2
Folder 15
Newspaper--
The Germantown Independent (1896).
Oversize Flat File 8
Printed Matter (1896).
Box 2
Folder 16
Printed Matter--Sheet Music [
Armenia's Appeal];
The Independent [Newspaper] (1896).
Oversize Flat File 4
Report--Sub Committee on Need of Relief (1896).
Box 2
Folder 17
Reports from Armenia (1896).
Box 2
Folder 18
Scope and Contents
This portion of the collection includes correspondences, minutes, a letterpress copybook, a scrap book, and miscellaneous items pertaining to relief efforts in Cuba after the Spanish American War in 1898.
Correspondence--January (1898).
Box 3
Folder 1-2
Correspondence--February (1898).
Box 3
Folder 3
Correspondence--March (1898).
Box 3
Folder 4
Correspondence--April (1898).
Box 3
Folder 5
Correspondence (undated).
Box 3
Folder 6
Committee--Minutes (1898).
Box 3
Folder 7
Miscellaneous (undated).
Box 3
Folder 8
Letterpress Copybook (1898).
Volume 6
Scrapbook (1898).
Volume 7
Scope and Contents
This series is comprised of correspondence, financial papers, newspaper clippings, records of offers of aid and relief contributions, printed matter, reports, and telegrams about the CPRC involvement in the relief efforts of the victims of the 1889 flood that affected the Johnstown, Pennsylvania after the failure of the South Fork Dam.
Correspondence--June (1889).
Box 4
Folder 1-3
Correspondence--July (1889).
Box 4
Folder 4
Correspondence--August (1889).
Box 4
Folder 5
Correspondence--September (1889).
Box 4
Folder 6
Correspondence--October (1889).
Box 4
Folder 7
Correspondence--November (1889).
Box 4
Folder 8
Correspondence--December (1889).
Box 4
Folder 9
Correspondence--January (1890).
Box 4
Folder 10
Correspondence--February (1890).
Box 4
Folder 11
Correspondence--March, April (1890).
Box 4
Folder 12
Correspondence--May to August (1890).
Box 4
Folder 13
Correspondence--September, October (1890).
Box 4
Folder 14
Correspondence (1891).
Box 4
Folder 15
Correspondence (1892).
Box 4
Folder 16-17
Correspondence (1893, undated).
Box 4
Folder 18
Explanation of Charity (1889).
Volume 12-14
Financial--Bills, Recipts, and Vouchers (1889).
Box 5
Folder 1-6
Financial--Donations (circa 1890).
Box 5
Folder 7
Financial--Letters from Financial Committee (1889).
Box 5
Folder 8
Financial--Lists of Contributors and Donantions.
Volume 8-11
Financial--Statements (1889).
Box 5
Folder 9-10
Financial--Miscellaneous (1889).
Box 5
Folder 11
Governor's Indemnity Bond (1889).
Box 6
Folder 1
Inquiries for Person's Whereabouts (1889).
Box 6
Folder 2
Jersey Shore Relief (1889).
Box 6
Folder 3
Lewistown Relief (1889).
Box 6
Folder 4
List--Relief Applicants (1889).
Oversize Flat File 6
Lock Haven Relief (1889).
Box 6
Folder 5
Newspaper Clippings (1889).
Box 6
Folder 6
Newspaper Clippings (1890-1892).
Box 6
Folder 7
Offers of Aid and Assistance (1889).
Box 6
Folder 8-12
Offers of Aid and Assistance (undated).
Box 6
Folder 13
Offers of Undertakers (1889).
Box 6
Folder 14
Printed Matter--Blank Forms (undated).
Box 6
Folder 15
Printed Matter--Broadsides, Posters (1889-1890).
Oversize Flat File 2
Printed Matter--Form Letters, Announcements, Bulletins (1889).
Box 6
Folder 16
Relief Commission--Tour (1889).
Box 7
Folder 1
Relief Contributions (1889).
Box 7
Folder 2-13
Relief Contributions (undated).
Box 8
Folder 1-2
Reports--Auditing Committee; Committee Examining the Situation at Johnstown (1889).
Box 8
Folder 3
Report--J.B. Kremer, Secretary of the Flood Relief Commission (1889).
Box 8
Folder 4
Reports from Pittsburgh (1890).
Volume 15-17
Report of the Secretary of the Flood Relief Commission.
Volume 18
Requests for Assistance (1889).
Box 8
Folder 5
Shippments (1889).
Box 8
Folder 6
Suggestions--W.V. McKean (1889).
Box 8
Folder 7
Telegrams--Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (1889).
Box 8
Folder 8
Telegrams--Governor Beaver.
Box 8
Folder 9
Telegrams--from Johnstown (1889).
Box 8
Folder 10
Telegrams--Pittsburgh Committee (1889).
Box 8
Folder 11
Telegrams--Relief Parts en Route (1889).
Box 8
Folder 12
Telegrams--Williamsport.
Box 8
Folder 13
Telegrams--Miscellaneous.
Box 8
Folder 14
Miscellaneous--Lists and Notes (1889, undated).
Box 8
Folder 15
Miscellaneous (1890-1894, undated).
Box 8
Folder 16-17
Scope and Contents
This series features auxiliary committees’ files, correspondence, financial reports, lists of goods provided to soldiers, member lists, minutes, photographs, and reports of the work done by the National Relief Committee which was the name adopted by the CPRC during the time United States was involved in the Spanish American War.
Auxiliaries (1898).
Box 8
Folder 18
Auxiliary Committees (1898).
Volume 27
Camp Alger (1898).
Box 8
Folder 19
Correspondence (1898).
Box 9
Folder 1-10
Correspondence (1899).
Box 10
Folder 1-2
Correspondence (undated).
Box 10
Folder 3
Delivery Book--Porto Rico (1898).
Volume 26
Financial--Bills and Receipts--A (1898).
Box 11
Folder 1
Financial--Bills and Receipts--B (1898).
Box 11
Folder 2
Financial--Bills and Receipts--C (1898-1899).
Box 11
Folder 3
Financial--Bills and Receipts--D, E (1898).
Box 11
Folder 4
Financial--Bills and Receipts--F (1898).
Box 11
Folder 5
Financial--Bills and Receipts--G (1896-1898).
Box 11
Folder 6
Financial--Bills and Receipts--H, I (1898-1899).
Box 11
Folder 7
Financial--Bills and Receipts--J, K, L (1898-1899).
Box 11
Folder 8
Financial--Bills and Receipts--M, N, O (1898-1899).
Box 11
Folder 9
Financial--Bills and Receipts--P (1898-1899).
Box 11
Folder 10-13
Financial--Bills and Receipts--Q, R (1898-1899).
Box 12
Folder 1-2
Financial--Bills and Receipts--S (1898-1899).
Box 12
Folder 3
Financial--Bills and Receipts--T (1898-1899).
Box 12
Folder 4
Financial--Bills and Receipts--U,V (1898).
Box 12
Folder 5
Financial--Bills and Receipts--W (1898-1899).
Box 12
Folder 6-8
Financial--Bills and Receipts--Y, Z (1898).
Box 12
Folder 9
Financial--Contributions and Donations (1898).
Box 12
Folder 10
Financial--Expenditures--August, September (1898).
Box 12
Folder 11
Financial--Expenditures--October, November (1898).
Box 12
Folder 12
Financial--Expenditures--December, January (1898-1899).
Box 12
Folder 13
Financial--Expenditures (undated).
Box 12
Folder 14
Financial--Expenditures--Money Given to Family of Soldiers (1898-1899).
Box 13
Folder 1-2
Financial--Expenditures--Office Expenses (1898-1899).
Box 13
Folder 3
Financial--Expenditures--Personnel (1898-1899).
Box 13
Folder 4-6
Financial--Expenditures--Relief of Families of Soldiers (1898-1899).
Box 13
Folder 7
Financial--Names of Persons Having Recieved Relief from the Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee (1893-1894).
Volume 45
Financial--Penn Storage and Van Company (1898).
Volume 23
Financial--Petty Cash--War with Spain.
Volume 25
Financial--Soldiers Recieving Money and Tickets (1898).
Volume 28-30
Financial--Treasurer's Receipts and Expenses (1898).
Volume 24
Financial--Treasurer's Reports (1898-1899).
Box 14
Folder 1-2
Goods Delievered (1898).
Volume 31
Goods Recieved (1898).
Volume 32
Lists--Soldiers Discharged from Philadelphia Hospital (1898).
Box 14
Folder 3
Lists--Soldiers Recieved in Philadelphia Hospitals (1898).
Box 14
Folder 4
Lists--Soldiers from Pennsylvania Burried on Battlefields (1898).
Box 14
Folder 5
Lists--Soldier Deaths at Philadelphia Hospitals (1898).
Box 14
Folder 6
Lists of Names (undated).
Volume 37
Member Lists (undated).
Box 14
Folder 7
Minutes of Committees (1898-1899).
Box 14
Folder 8
Minutes of Committees (1898).
Volume 19-21
Minutes--Finance Committee (1898).
Volume 22
Names of Soldier's Families Applying for Relief (1898).
Volume 35-36
Order Books--Porto Rico (1898).
Volume 33-34
Pennsylvania Regiments and Their Stations (1898).
Volume 38
Photographs--Cuba and Porto Rico (1898).
Oversize Flat File 1A
Printed Matter--
New Testament and Psalms;
The Book of Common Prayer (1892).
Volume 42-43
Printed Matter--
Patriotic and Naval Songster (1898).
Volume 44
Printed Matter (1890-1898, undated).
Box 14
Folder 9
Reports (1898).
Box 14
Folder 10
Reports [printed] (1898).
Oversize Flat File 3
Report of the Executive Committee (1898-1899).
Volume 40
Reports--Field Reports--Camp Alger (1898).
Box 14
Folder 11
Reports--Field Reports--Cuba (1898).
Box 14
Folder 12
Reports--Field Reports--Delaware Camps (1898).
Box 14
Folder 13
Reports--Field Reports--New Jersey Camps (1898).
Box 14
Folder 14
Reports--Field Reports--Porto Rico (1898).
Box 14
Folder 15
Reports--Final Report of Executive Council (1898).
Box 14
Folder 16
Reports--To Govenor Hastings (1898).
Box 14
Folder 17
Reports--Personal Hygiene for the Soldiers (1898).
Box 15
Folder 1
Reports--Field Reports--Washington, Tampa (1898).
Box 15
Folder 2
Supplies (1898).
Box 15
Folder 3
Volunteer Service, Assistance, and Gifts (1898).
Volume 39
Women's Emergency Relief--Order Book (1898).
Volume 41
Miscellaneous (1898).
Box 15
Folder 4
Miscellaneous--Ink Seal (undated).
Box 16
Scope and Contents
This portion of the collection contains correspondence, financial records, minutes, newspaper clippings, journals, magazines, and pamphlets about the disastrous famine that affected the Volga River area of Russia after 1891.
Correspondence (1892).
Box 15
Folder 5-7
Correspondence (1892).
Box 17
Folder 1-10
Correspondence (1892).
Box 18
Folder 1-11
Correspondence (1893).
Box 19
Folder 1
Correspondence (undated).
Box 19
Folder 2
Correspondence--From State Department and Representatives in Russia (1892).
Box 19
Folder 3
Correspondence--Copies (1892).
Box 19
Folder 4-8
Financial--Bills of Lading (1892).
Box 19
Folder 9
Financial--Bills--Flour (1892).
Box 19
Folder 10
Financial--Bills Paid (1892).
Box 19
Folder 11-12
Financial--Statement of Expenses--Conemaugh (1892).
Box 20
Folder 1
Insurance Policy (1892-1893).
Box 20
Folder 2
Minutes (1892).
Box 20
Folder 3-4
Newspaper Clippings (1892).
Box 20
Folder 5
Printed Matter--Broadsides, Circular Letters, Leaflets, Pamphlets, Invitations (1891-1892, undated).
Box 20
Folder 6-7
Printed Matter--Journals--
Free Russia [3 Issues] (1893).
Box 20
Folder 8
Printed Matter--Journals--
The Miller's Review--March 15 (1892).
Box 20
Folder 9
Printed Matter--Journals--
The Weekly Northwestern Miller--February 19 (1892).
Box 20
Folder 10
Printed Matter--Journals--
The Weekly Northwestern Miller--February 26 (1892).
Box 20
Folder 11
Printed Matter--Journals--
The Weekly Northwestern Miller--March 4 (1892).
Box 20
Folder 12
Printed Matter--Magazine--
The Russian Famine of 1891-1892 (1893).
Box 20
Folder 13
Printed Matter--Pamphlet--
Report of the Russian Famine Relief Committee (1893) [2 copies].
Box 20
Folder 14
Printed Matter--Pamphlet--Letters from Russia to Ledger, Times, and Inquirer (1891-1892).
Box 20
Folder 15
Russian Relief Fund--Poster (undated).
Oversize Flat File 5
Miscellaneous (1890-1896, undated).
Box 20
Folder 16
Printed Matter--Newspaper [in cyrillic] and Proclamation [German] (1892, undated).
Box 21
Scope and Contents
This series contains correspondence, financial documents, lists of applicants, minutes, printed matter, reports, and vouchers and records of money given to unemployed citizens in different Philadelphia wards. Documents about a benefit concert and dinner featuring long-time New York Symphony conductor Walter Damrosch are also part of this series.
Correspondence (1893).
Box 22
Folder 1-8
Correspondence (1894).
Box 22
Folder 9-10
Correspondence (1894).
Box 23
Folder 1-11
Correspondence (1894).
Box 24
Folder 1-8
Correspondence (1895).
Box 24
Folder 9-11
Correspondence--Mayor Edwin S. Stuart (1893).
Box 25
Folder 1-2
Correspondence--Mayor Edwin S. Stuart (1894).
Box 25
Folder 3-7
Correspondence--Mayor Edwin S. Stuart (1895).
Box 25
Folder 8
Correspondence--Letters from Contributors (1893).
Box 25
Folder 9-10
Correspondence--Letters from Contributors (1894).
Box 25
Folder 11-12
Correspondence--Letterpress Copybook (1894-1895).
Volume 46
Financial--Account Book for Wagner Festival (1894).
Volume 59
Financial--Applications for Appropriations--Wards 1st, 2nd, 3rd (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 1
Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 2
Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 8th-19th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 3
Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 20th-28th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 4
Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 29th-33rd (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 5
Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 34th, 36th, 37th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 6
Financial--Bills Paid--October, November, December (1893).
Box 26
Folder 7
Financial--Bills Paid--January, February, March (1894).
Box 26
Folder 8
Financial--Bills Paid--April, May, June (1894).
Box 26
Folder 9
Financial--Lists of people who have recieved aid from the Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee(1894).
Volume 53
Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Central Committee (1894).
Box 26
Folder 10
Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 11
Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 19th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 12
Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th (1894).
Box 26
Folder 13
Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 28th, 29th, 33rd, 34th, 35th (1893-1894).
Box 26
Folder 14
Financial--Receipts--Appropriations from Wards (1893).
Box 27
Folder 1
Financial--Appropriations from Wards (1894).
Box 27
Folder 2-6
Financial--Receipt Book (1894).
Volume 57
Financial--Receipts--Contributions (1893).
Box 27
Folder 7-8
Financial--Receipts--Contributions (1894).
Box 27
Folder 9-10
Financial--Records of Distributions of Funds--17th Ward (1893-1894).
Volume 54
Financial--Payroll and Expenses (1894).
Volume 58
Financial--Fiscal Reports--Wards 1 to 16 (1893-1894).
Box 28
Folder 1
Financial--Fiscal Reports--Wards 17 to 25 (1893-1894).
Box 28
Folder 2
Financial--Fiscal Reports--Ward 26th (1894).
Box 28
Folder 3
Financial--Fiscal Reports--Wards 27 to 37 (1893-1894).
Box 28
Folder 4
Financial--Miscellaneous (1894).
Box 28
Folder 5
Forms--Receipt Booklets (1893-1894).
Volume 50
Lists--Applicants for Labor; Employers (1894, undated).
Volume 48
Lists--Names Sent to Director--Department of Public Works (undated).
Volume 47
Lists--Names, Wards, Vocations (undated).
Volume 49
Lists--Persons Receiving Aid & Records of Employment (undated).
Oversize Flat File 7
Minutes--Advisory Board (1893).
Box 29
Folder 1
Minutes--Advisory Committee (1893).
Box 29
Folder 2
Minutes--Advisory Committee of Five (1893-1894).
Box 29
Folder 3-5
Minutes--Central Workmens Relief Association (1893).
Volume 51
Minutes--Committee to Devise Permanent Plan (1893).
Box 29
Folder 6
Minutes--Emergency Advisory Board (1893).
Box 29
Folder 7
Minutes--Executive Committee (1893-1894).
Volume 61
Minutes--Financial Committee (1893-1894).
Volume 60
Minutes--Joint Committee on Labor (1894).
Box 29
Folder 8
Minutes--Sub Committee of Five (1893).
Box 29
Folder 9
Printed Matter--
The Art Club of Philadelphia--Constitution, By-Laws, and List of Members (1894).
Box 30
Folder 1
Printed Matter--Charity Organization Society--History of Charity Organization in the United States (1893).
Box 30
Folder 2
Printed Matter--
The City Mission Directory (1894).
Box 30
Folder 3
Printed Matter--
Lesson of the Homestead Troubles (1892).
Box 30
Folder 4
Printed Matter--Manufacturer's Club of Philadelphia--6th Annual Report (1893).
Box 30
Folder 5
Printed Matter--The Philadelphia Bourse--List of Subscribers to Capital Stock (1893).
Box 30
Folder 6
Prinited Matter--Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity--15th Annual Report (1894).
Box 30
Folder 7
Printed Matter--The Union League of Philadelphia--Officers and Members (1893).
Box 30
Folder 8
Printed Matter--Western Association of Ladies for the Relief and Employment of the Poor--47th Annual Report (1894).
Box 30
Folder 9
Printed Matter--Broadsides, Circular Letters, Invitations (1893-1894, undated).
Box 33
Folder 1
Relief Records--19th Ward Auxiliary Branch.
Volume 55
Reports--Records of Advisory Committee (1893-1895).
Volume 56
Vouchers (1893-1894).
Box 31-32
Walter Damrosch Concert--Agreements (1894).
Box 33
Folder 2
Walter Damrosch Concert--Correspondence (1894, undated).
Box 33
Folder 3-6
Walter Damrosch Concert--Dinner--Acceptances (1894).
Box 33
Folder 7
Walter Damrosch Concert--Dinner--Correspondence (1894).
Box 33
Folder 8
Walter Damrosch Concert--Dinner--Regrets (1894).
Box 33
Folder 9
Walter Damrosch Concert--Financial--Bills, Receipts (1894, undated).
Box 33
Folder 10
Walter Damrosch Concert--Printed Matter--Broadsides, Leaflets, Newsclippings, Programs (1894, undated).
Box 33
Folder 11
Miscellaneous (1893-1894, undated).
Box 33
Folder 12
Miscellaneous--33rd Ward--Receipt Books [Blank] (undated).
Volume 52
Scope and Contents
This series covers the committee’s efforts in providing help for other disasters. This portion of the collection includes papers and newspaper clippings about catastrophes in Charleston, Delaware, Greece, Iowa, Lock Haven, New Orleans, and Titusville, among others.
Blueprints (1893-1864).
Oversize Flat File 1B
Charleston Relief Fund--Lists of Contributors (1886).
Box 34
Folder 1
Cholera Alarm (1897).
Box 34
Folder 2
Delmar, Delaware Fire (1892).
Box 34
Folder 3
Greece--Earthquake (1894).
Box 34
Folder 4
Irventon Fire and Flood (1892).
Box 34
Folder 5
Leechburg Fire (1889).
Box 34
Folder 6
Lock Haven Flood (1894).
Box 34
Folder 7
Map--New Map of the City of Philadelphia (1893).
Oversize Flat File 9
New Orleans (1893).
Box 34
Folder 8
Newclippings (1895, undated).
Box 34
Folder 9
Oil City and Titusville Flood and Fire (1892).
Box 34
Folder 10-11
Pomeroy Tornado [Iowa] (1893).
Box 34
Folder 12
Petrolia Fire (1890).
Box 34
Folder 13
Southern Hurricane (1893).
Box 34
Folder 14
Miscellaneous (1885-1898, undated).
Box 34
Folder 15