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Legal Aid Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

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Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
253, 259, 282
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
18 linear feet (18 boxes + 1 map folder)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Legal Aid Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records, Acc. 253, 259, 282, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1916-1976 (inclusive)
Creator:
Legal Aid Society (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Form:
Administrative records, Articles of Incorporation, Case files, Clippings, Correspondence, Financial records, Legal documents, Manuscripts, Membership lists, Minutes (administrative records), Reports, and Scrapbooks
Abstract:

The Legal Aid Society provided legal services to low income residents.

The collections contains Board of Directors records, reports, financial records, correspondence, and other records related to the Legal Aid Society, as well as annual reports of and correspondence with legal aid organizations from elsewhere in the country.

The collection is arranged into 4 series as follows:

Series 1: Background, Board of Directors, 1916-1975
Series 2: Office Files, 1933-1976, undated
Series 3: Financial Records, 1933-1976
Series 4: Outside Agencies, 1934-1976, undated

Accession 253 was donated by the Legal Aid Society in March 1976. Accession 259 was donated by the Legal Aid Society in May 1976. Accession 282 was donated by the Legal Aid Society in November 1976.

Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in May 2014 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.

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Publisher
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Finding Aid Author
Machine-readable finding aid created by: Rajkumar Natarajan, Sky Global Services India (P) Ltd.
Finding Aid Date
February 2024
Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Legal Aid Society (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Temple University holds literary rights only for material created by university employees and to material given to the university with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, literary rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

Charter, May 10, 1916.
Map Folder M33b
Scrapbook (Acc. 282), 1934.
Box 1
Background, history, undated.
Box 1
Annual Reports, 1935-1936, 1952-1954, 1957-1958, 1960-1961, 1965-1968.
Box 1
Constitution and By-laws, articles of incorporation and amendments, undated.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Correspondence re-membership on Board of Directors, 1945-1946, 1948-1954.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Membership lists and correspondence re-membership, 1956-1957.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Minutes, agenda, reports to Board of Directors, 1942, 1944-1975.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Budget Committee. Correspondence, etc., 1945-1947.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Committee on Social Agencies. Correspondence, etc., 1945-1947.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Finance Committee. Correspondence, etc., 1945-1946, 1954, 1957-1958.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Nominating Committee. Correspondence, etc., 1951, 1956, 1959.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Policy Committee. Correspondence, etc., 1945-1946, 1948.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Special Budget Committee, 1948-1949.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Correspondence re minutes and meeting of Board of Directors, 1945-1975.
Box 1
Board of Directors. Miscellaneous correspondence, reports, 1946-1973.
Box 1

Abrahams, Robert D. Article and correspondence on French Legal Aid, 1952-1953.
Box 1
Abrahams, Robert D. General Correspondence, 1950-1963.
Box 1
Abrahams, Robert D. General Correspondence, 1964-1973.
Box 2
Abrahams, Robert D. "Lawyer, Marriage Counselor, or Both", undated.
Box 2
Advertising Claims, 1947.
Box 2
Alterations and Repairs to Legal Aid Society office, undated.
Box 2
Correspondence, 1945-1946.
Box 2
Attorneys Reports, 1933-1957.
Box 2
Attorneys Reports, Comparative Statistics, etc., 1933-1966.
Box 2
Attorneys Reports, 1967-1974.
Box 2
Attorneys Reports, Statistics, 1975-1976.
Box 2
Auxiliary Staff Attorneys Reports, 1937-1943.
Box 2
Bethanien Evangelical Lutheran Church Branch. Correspondence, statistics, etc., 1966-1968.
Box 2
Case Information. Miscellaneous, 1940, 1969-1975, undated.
Box 2
Center for Consumer Affairs. University of Wisconsin Extension, 1965.
Box 2
Closing of Legal Aid Society and Merger with Community Legal Services, undated.
Box 2
Correspondence, etc., 1975-1976.
Box 2
Committee on the Bar. Correspondence, reports, 1945-1946, 1948.
Box 2
Contract and Proxy Marriages, 1943-1945, 1952-1953.
Box 3
Contributions (General), 1934, 1936, 1941-1942.
Box 3
Correspondence (Miscellaneous), 1962-1975.
Box 3
Council -n- Volunteers, undated.
Box 3
Court Orders, State Acts. Miscellaneous, 1959, 1970, 1972, 1975.
Box 3
Debt Adjustment and Dept Pooling. Correspondence, etc., 1955-1956.
Box 3
Delayed Birth Certificates, 1942.
Box 3
Divorce Cases. Correspondence, etc., 1944, 1952-1972.
Box 3
Eligibility Requirements for Clients, 1953, 1958-1975.
Box 3
Endowment Fund and Investment Committee. Correspondence, etc., 1935, 1944-1946, 1948-1950, 1958, 1962-1965.
Box 3
Financial Service System and U.S. Commercial Services. Correspondence, briefs, 1954-1955.
Box 3
Fine Arts Sterling Silver, c. 1970-1971.
Box 3
Germantown Branch. Correspondence, statistics, etc., 1965-1966.
Box 3
Greekoler, Anna H. Case File, 1968.
Box 3
Haas Community Fund. Correspondence re-office equipment., 1973.
Box 3
Hahnemann Hospital. Child Advocacy Program, 1972.
Box 3
Heard, et al . v. Rizz, et al, 1968.
Box 3
Henrietta Tower Wurts Memorial. Correspondence re-office equipment, 1973-1974.
Box 3
Housing Code Amendment. Bill No. 624, 1965.
Box 3
Inter-office Memos, 1947-1952, 1966-1976.
Box 3
Interesting Cases and Letters of Appreciation, 1948.
Box 3
Interesting Cases, 1952-1953, 1962-1963, 1966, 1971.
Box 3
George Kahn Co. (Legal Aid Society v.), 1949.
Box 3
Lease of Legal Aid Society Office. Correspondence, 1946-1948.
Box 3
Legal Aid Supplementation Plan. Correspondence, 1964-1965.
Box 3
Low Cost Legal Service, 1945.
Box 3
Ludlow Branch Office. Correspondence, 1966-1967, 1970.
Box 3
Lynch, E. Raymond. Correspondence re-employment with Legal Aid Society, 1971-1974.
Box 4
Lynch, E. Raymond. General Correspondence, 1963-1976.
Box 4
McFall, Alan B. "Poverty, Justice, and Legal Aid.", 1967.
Box 4
Mental Health Commitment Procedures. Correspondence, etc., 1962-1964.
Box 4
Mutual Insurance Companies. Correspondence, 1964, 1970.
Box 4
National Council on Alcoholism. Correspondence, etc., 1972.
Box 4
National Defense File, 1940-1941.
Box 4
National Legal Services Corporation. Correspondence, etc., 1973, 1975.
Box 4
Office Form Letters, undated.
Box 4
Pennsylvania v. David Dilworth and Pennsylvania v. Emmett A. Murphy. Paternity Case, 1967.
Box 4
Pennsylvania. Department of Public Welfare. Correspondence, publications, matching funds, 1970-1974.
Box 4
Pennsylvania Budget-Planning Act. Correspondence, etc., 1959.
Box 4
Pennsylvania Legal Services Center. Correspondence, etc., 1975.
Box 4
Pennsylvania Prison Society. Correspondence, etc., 1968-1969.
Box 4
Personnel and Salary Special committee, 1948.
Box 4
Philadelphia Police Department. Correspondence, memos, cases on police brutality, Legal Aid Society relationships with police, 1967-1973.
Box 4
Philadelphia Council for Community Advancement. Correspondence with Samuel Dash re Philadelphia Inquirer article, 1964.
Box 4
Philadelphia Industrial Union Council (CIO). Correspondence, etc., 1945-1946.
Box 4
Philadelphia Veterans Advisory Committee. Philadelphia Veterans Center. Correspondence, 1945-1949.
Box 4
Poverty Law. Miscellaneous, 1967-1968, 1973.
Box 4
Price Fixing, 1941-1943.
Box 4
Publicity. Newspaper clippings, 1934-1947, 1949-1951, 1954-1964, 1967-1975.
Box 4
Real Estate-Land Title and Trust Company. Bill of Complaint, 1933.
Box 5
Reorganization of Legal Aid Society. Correspondence, etc., 1949.
Box 5
Ribikauskas v. Ribikauskas. Child Support Case, 1949.
Box 5
Rutgers University School of Law (Camden). Correspondence re intern, 1970-1971.
Box 5
Salary Schedules, 1942-1943.
Box 5
Solicitation of Members, 1963.
Box 5
South Philadelphia Branch. Correspondence, statistics, 1965-1966.
Box 5
Statistics. 1947-1948, 1956-1976. Statistics, Yearly Totals, 1964-1976.
Box 5
Stewart, George Scott, Jr. Correspondence, 1934, 1938, 1944-1949.
Box 5
Students. Mr. Massey's Office, 1969.
Box 5
Temple University School of Law Branch. Annual Report, 1968-1973.
Box 5
Temple University School of Law Branch. Correspondence, etc., 1950-1952.
Box 5
Temple University School of Law Branch. Correspondence, statistics, etc., 1953-1964.
Box 5
Temple University School of Law Branch. Correspondence, statistics, etc., 1965-1972.
Box 6
Temple University and Legal Aid Office-Advisory Board. Correspondence, statistics, etc., 1973-1974.
Box 6
Temple University and Legal Aid Office-Advisory Board. Correspondence, etc., 1975.
Box 6
Temple University School of Law. Legal Clerkship Program. Professional Responsibility Project, 1962.
Box 6
Temple University School of Law. Legal Interns, 1970-1974.
Box 6
Temple University School of Law. Manual of Procedure for the Legal Aid Branch, undated.
Box 6
Temple University School of Law. Proposal to National Council on Legal Clinics, 1960-1961.
Box 6
Temple University Schools of Law and Medicine. Unit in Law and Psychiatry. Report on Combined Legal and Psychiatric Research, 1957-1959.
Box 6
Temple University Schools of Law and Medicine. Unit in Law and Psychiatry. Forensic Psychiatry Clinic. Correspondence, case studies, 1965-1966.
Box 6
Tenants and Landlords. Correspondence, etc., 1966, 1968.
Box 6
Thank-you Correspondence from clients, 1962-1973.
Box 6
United Restitution Organization. Correspondence, etc., 1955-1968.
Box 6
United States. Department of Justice. Alien Enemy Certificates of Identification, 1942.
Box 7
United States. Department of Labor. Children's Bureau, 1942-1952.
Box 7
United States. Department of Treasury. Internal Revenue Service. Correspondence, tax forms, 1945, 1947-1950, 1969-1976.
Box 7
University of Pennsylvania Law School. Correspondence, 1949-1966.
Box 7
University of Pennsylvania. Volunteers, 1947-1949.
Box 7
University of Pennsylvania. Weekly Office Duty, 1971.
Box 7
Veterans Referral List, 1945-1948.
Box 7
Miscellaneous Office Files, undated.
Box 7

Budget, 1936-1948.
Box 7
Budget, 1948-1963.
Box 8
Budget, 1963-1976.
Box 9
Volume 1. General Ledger, 1945-1960.
Box 10
Volume 2. Treasurer's Account, 1945-1964.
Box 10
Volume 3. Financial Records, 1964-1966.
Box 10
Volume 1. Attorney's Account, 1950-1956.
Box 11
Volume 2. Attorney's Account. 1969-1971, and Treasurer's Account. 1970-1971, 1969-1971.
Box 11
Financial Reports, 1933-1951.
Box 12
Auditor's Reports, 1948, 1950, 1952-1961, 1963-1966, 1969-1975.
Box 12

Alabama, Birmingham. Legal Aid. Annual report, 1964.
Box 12
Arizona, Phoenix, Maricopa County Legal Aid Society. Annual reports, 1961, 1963-1966.
Box 12
Arizona, Tucson. Legal Aid Society. Annual reports, 1958-1959, 1961.
Box 12
California, Sacramento. Legal Aid Society of Sacramento County. Annual reports, 1959-1960, 1963.
Box 12
California, San Diego. Legal Aid Society of San Diego, Inc. Annual report, 1958.
Box 12
California, San Francisco. Legal Aid Society of San Francisco. Annual reports, 1958-1962, 1965.
Box 12
California, Stockton. Legal Aid Society of San Joaquin County. Annual report, 1963.
Box 12
Colorado, Denver. Legal Aid Society of Denver. Annual reports, 1958-1960, 1962, 1964-1966.
Box 12
Community Chest. Correspondence, etc., 1946-1952, 1956-1960.
Box 12
Community Chest. Social Audit, 1955-1956.
Box 12
Community Fund. Correspondence, 1938, 1945-1946.
Box 13
Community Fund and Federation of Jewish Charities. A Study of the Philadelphia Legal Aid Society, 1943-1944.
Box 13
Community Legal Services. Correspondence on contract between Legal Aid Society and Community Legal Services, 1966, 1971.
Box 13
Community Legal Services. Correspondence, etc., 1966-1970.
Box 13
Community Services of Pennsylvania. Forums, etc., 1972.
Box 13
Council of Social Agencies. Children's Division. Committee on Illegitimacy, 1944-1947.
Box 13
Council of Social Agencies. Position Classification Study, 1944-1948.
Box 13
Council on Legal Education and Professional Responsibility. Correspondence, newsletter, 1970-1973.
Box 13
Council on Volunteers. Board Members' Institute, 1948.
Box 13
Diagnostic and Rehabilitation Center. Reports, correspondence, etc., 1967, 1969, 1972.
Box 13
Florida, Jacksonville. Duval County Legal Aid Association. Annual report, 1960.
Box 13
Florida, Jacksonville. Duval County Legal Aid Association. Annual report, 1960.
Box 13
Florida, Miami. Legal Aid Society. Annual report, 1968.
Box 13
Georgia, Atlanta. Atlanta Legal Aid Society. Annual report, 1958, 1960-1965.
Box 13
Hawaii, Honolulu. Legal Aid Society of Hawaii. Annual report, 1958-1961, 1964.
Box 13
Health and Welfare Council. Correspondence. Etc., 1948-1959, 1951, 1953-1955, 1960-1971, 1975.
Box 13
Health and Welfare Council. Directory Advisory Committee, 1954.
Box 13
Health and Welfare Council. Protective Service for the Aged, 1954.
Box 13
Health and Welfare Council. Resources-Needs Study, 1955-1956.
Box 13
Health and Welfare Council. Social Statistics. Form M-1, 1956-1970.
Box 13
Health and Welfare Council. Social Statistics. Form M-1, 1971-1976.
Box 14
Illinois, Chicago. Legal Aid Bureau of the United Charities of Chicago. Annual reports, 1961-1963.
Box 14
Illinois, Peoria. Greater Peoria Legal Aid Society. Annual report, 1958-1966.
Box 14
Indiana, Evansville. Legal Aid Society of Evansville, Inc. Annual reports, 1959-1961.
Box 14
Indiana, Indianapolis. Indianapolis Legal Aid Society, Inc. Annual reports, 1958-1961, 1963.
Box 14
International Bar Association. Miscellaneous, 1950, 1953-1954, 1958.
Box 14
International Legal Aid Association. Memoranda on legal aid in other countries, 1961-1962.
Box 14
Jefferson Medical College. Community Mental Health Program, drug program, 1972, undated.
Box 14
Kansas. Legal Aid Society. Annual report, 1966.
Box 14
Kansas, Kansas City, Wyandotte County Legal Aid Society, Inc. Annual report, 1959, 1965.
Box 14
Kansas, Wichita. Legal Aid Society of Wichita, Inc. Annual report, 1962.
Box 14
Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. Correspondence, 1971.
Box 14
Maryland, Baltimore. Legal Aid Bureau of Baltimore. Annual report, 1958-1961, 1963-1966, 1970-1971, 1973.
Box 14
Correspondence, 1973.
Box 14
Massachusetts, Boston. Boston Legal Aid Society, undated.
Box 14
Correspondence, 1947-1948.
Box 14
Annual reports, 1958-1963, 1965-1967.
Box 14
Massachusetts, Cambridge. Harvard Legal Aid Bureau. Report, 1959-1962, 1964-1967.
Box 14
Michigan, Detroit. Legal Aid Bureau and Defender Association of Detroit. Annual report, 1967.
Box 14
Michigan, Flint. Genesee County Legal Aid Society. Annual report, 1958, 1960-1967.
Box 14
Michigan, Grand Rapids. Legal Aid Society of Grand Rapids and Kent County. Annual reports, 1958-1966.
Box 14
Michigan, Kalamazoo. Kalamazoo County Legal Aid Bureau. Annual reports, 1959-1965, 1968.
Box 14
Michigan, Lansing. Legal Aid Bureau. Annual report, 1962.
Box 14
National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. Reports of Committees, 1934-1940.
Box 14
National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. Bradway Honorarium, 1940.
Box 14
National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. Correspondence, etc., 1941-1946.
Box 14
National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. Correspondence, etc., 1947-1949.
Box 15
National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. Budget, 1947-1950.
Box 15
National Association of Legal Aid Organizations. National Social Welfare Assembly, Inc., 1948-1949.
Box 15
National Legal Aid Association. Correspondence, etc., 1950-1952, 1956.
Box 15
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Correspondence, etc., 1960-1968.
Box 15
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Correspondence, etc., 1969-1975.
Box 16
National Legal Aid Association. Annual conference, 1951-1952.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Annual conference, 1961, 1967, 1969-1970.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Executive committee. Minutes, correspondence, reports, 1963-1969.
Box 16
National Legal Aid Association and the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. Special Committee to Study Defender Systems. Final Draft of the Report, 1958.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1960.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Standards and Practices for Civil Legal Aid, 1969.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Statistics of Legal Aid Work in the United States and Canada, 1959-1964, 1966-1970.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Summary of Data on Defender Offices, 1963.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Summary of Data on Legal Aid Offices in Communities of 100, 000 and Over, 1960-1965.
Box 16
National Legal Aid and Defender Association. Summary of Data on Legal Aid Offices, 1966, 1968-1970.
Box 16
New Jersey, Asbury Park. Legal Aid Society of Monmouth County. Annual report, 1958.
Box 17
New Jersey, Paterson. Passaic County Legal Aid Society. Annual reports, 1963-1964.
Box 17
New York, Albany. Legal Aid Society of the City of Albany, Inc. Annual reports, 1958-1964.
Box 17
New York, Bay Shore. Legal Aid Society of Suffolk County. Annual report, 1960.
Box 17
New York, New York. New York Legal Aid Society. Publications, 1947, 1952, 1957, 1961, 1967-1970, 1972, 1975.
Box 17
New York, Rochester. Legal Aid Society of Rochester. Annual reports, 1958-1969.
Box 17
Ohio, Akron. Legal Aid Society of Summit County. Annual reports, 1962, 1964, 1966.
Box 17
Ohio, Canton. Stark County Legal Aid Society. Annual reports, 1959-1962, 1964.
Box 17
Ohio, Cincinnati. Legal Aid Society of Cincinnati. Annual reports, 1958-1965.
Box 17
Ohio, Cleveland. Legal Aid Society of Cleveland. Annual reports, 1959-1960, 1962-1963.
Box 17
Ohio, Columbus. Legal Aid and Defender Society. Annual reports, 1960-1961.
Box 17
Ohio, Dayton. Legal Aid Service. Annual report, 1960.
Box 17
Oklahoma, Oklahoma City. Legal Aid Society of Oklahoma County, Inc. Annual reports, 1960, 1962-1965.
Box 17
Oregon. Oregon State Bar. Committee on Legal Aid. Annual reports, 1958-1959.
Box 17
Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh. Legal Aid Society of Pittsburgh. Annual reports, 1958, 1960-1963.
Box 17
Pennsylvania, Scranton. Lackawanna County Legal Aid and Defender Association. Annual reports, 1965-1968.
Box 17
Pennsylvania Citizens' Council. Commission on Aging. Pennsylvania Conference on Protective Services for Older People, 1964.
Box 17
Pennsylvania. Commission on Charitable Organizations. Correspondence, etc., 1973-1975.
Box 17
Pennsylvania. Department of Labor and Industry. Bureau of Employment Security. WIN Program, 1973.
Box 17
Pennsylvania. Department of Labor and Industry. Bureau of Employment Security. Correspondence and forms re ex- employees of LAS, 1974-1975.
Box 17
Pennsylvania. State Board of Law Examiners. Applications for admission to practice before Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, 1965-1968.
Box 17
Pennsylvania Bar Association. Miscellaneous, 1947, 1973.
Box 17
Philadelphia Bar Association. Lawyers' Referral List. Correspondence, memos, etc., 1945-1947.
Box 17
Philadelphia Bar Association. Lawyer Reference Service, 1947, 1949-1952, 1956-1976.
Box 17
Philadelphia Bar Association. Neighborhood Law Offices, 1939, 1943.
Box 17
Philadelphia Bar Association. Neighborhood Law Office Plan and extension of Legal Aid Society work. Correspondence, 1964-1966.
Box 17
Philadelphia Bar Association. Miscellaneous, 1970, 1974.
Box 17
South Carolina, Charleston. Legal Aid Society of Charleston. Annual reports, 1958, 1960-1963, 1966-1969.
Box 17
Texas, Corpus Christi. Legal Aid Society of Nueces County. Annual report, 1966.
Box 17
United Fund. Correspondence, etc., 1959, 1961-1972, 1974-1975.
Box 17
United Fund. Allocation Payment Requests, 1973-1974.
Box 17
United Fund. Fund-Agency Review, 1964.
Box 17
United Fund. Voluntary Financing Policy, 1966-1967.
Box 17
United War Chest. Correspondence, etc., 1942-1946.
Box 17
West Virginia, Charleston. Legal Aid Society of Charleston. Annual reports, 1958-1962.
Box 17
Wisconsin, Milwaukee. Legal Aid Society of Milwaukee. Annual reports, 1958-1960.
Box 17
Other Agencies. Miscellaneous, undated.
Box 17
Publicity scrapbooks. Newspaper clippings, 1954-1975.
Box 18
Payroll books, 1956-1967.
Box 18

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