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Association for Jewish Children (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

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Call Number:
SCRC 37
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
29.72 linear feet (55 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Association for Jewish Children, SCRC 37, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1855-1973 (inclusive)
Form:
Administrative records, Bylaws (administrative records), Case files, Charters, Clippings, Correspondence, Financial records, Lantern slides, Ledgers (account books), Legal documents, Manuscripts, Minutes (administrative records), Newsletters, Pamphlets, Photographs, Press releases, Reports, Scrapbooks, Slides, and Souvenir programs
Abstract:

The Association for Jewish Children (AJC) was a social welfare organization and constituent agency of the Jewish Federation of Greater Philadelphia that served as an institutional foster home, child care, and adoption placement agency from 1941 until 1983. The AJC was established in 1941 from the merging of several allied organizations engaged in similar work. The Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, Homewood School, Juvenile Aid Society, and Bureau for Jewish Children were among the institutions consolidated in 1941. The North Eastern Hebrew Orphans Home joined the AJC in 1945.

The Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, AJC's earliest predecessor and one of the first institutions of its kind in America, was founded in 1855 as the Jewish Foster Home Society in a house at 799 North 11th Street for the purposes of "providing a home for destitute and unprotected children of Jewish parentage." Rebecca Gratz, secretary of the Philadelphia Orphan Asylum was among the founding members of the Jewish Foster Home Society. In 1874, the society formerly changed its name to the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum. In 1881, the foster home relocated to a larger facility at 700 Church Lane near Chew Avenue in the Germantown section, then considered a rural part of Philadelphia more amendable to the care and growth of foster children.

The Hebrew Orphans Home, founded in 1896 as the Home for Hebrew Orphans, provided institutional care for children ages six to ten years of age and provided Orthodox religious instruction. In 1929, the Hebrew Orphans Home and Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum merged their respective operations into the Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans.

The Juvenile Aid Society (JAS), established in 1901 as a committee of the Young Women's Union, later the Neighborhood Centre, worked with the courts on behalf of orphans and juvenile offenders and provided counseling services in public schools. In 1911, the Juvenile Aid Committee separated from the Young Women's Union and incorporated as the Juvenile Aid Society. The Juvenile Aid Society also organized the German Jewish Children's Aid Committee, Philadelphia's contribution to the U.S. movement to aid and place Jewish refugee children from Nazi Germany. The Committee worked with and received financial support from the German Jewish Children's Aid (GJCA) in New York. The Association for Jewish Children continued the effort to assist child survivors of the Holocaust under the European Jewish Children's Aid Committee.

The Homewood School, originally founded as the Hebrew Ladies Aid Society in 1902 at 510 North 4th Street, provided day nursery care and shelter to Jewish children ranging in ages from two to ten years of age. In 1916, services for unwed and deserted mothers were added as well as a training school for nursing and an orthopedic ward for crippled children. In 1921, the home moved to Wissahickon Avenue and School Lane in Germantown. The organization changed its name over the course of its operation first in 1903 to the Hebrew Day Nursery, then in 1907 to the Hebrew Sheltering Home and Day Nursery for Children, and finally in 1933 to the Homewood School.

The Bureau for Jewish Children was established in 1912 by the United Hebrew Charities to create an effective and cooperative working relationship across child welfare organizations in Philadelphia including the Juvenile Aid Society, Hebrew Sheltering Home, Jewish Foster Home, Hebrew Orphans Home, and Orphans Guardian Society.

The North Eastern Hebrew Orphans Home organized in 1918 during the influenza epidemic provided institutional care for children two to six years of age. The original home located at 1732 North 7th Street was modeled according to the cottage system which sought to move away from the prison-like dormitories characteristic of orphanages in the nineteenth century.

After the consolidation of Philadelphia's Jewish foster homes and child care agencies in 1941, the merged organization occupied the building at 700 Church Lane until the early 1950s at which time the cottage system of institutional care was substituted. Buildings at 13th and Spencer Streets were constructed to provide a more homelike living environment. In 1983, the Association for Jewish Children merged with the Jewish Family Service, an organization dedicated to family social work, to form the Jewish Family and Children's Agency.

Chronology of foster homes and child welfare agencies:

  • 1855-1929 Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum
  • 1896-1929 Hebrew Orphans Home
  • 1902-1940 Homewood School
  • 1911-1940 Juvenile Aid Society
  • 1912-1940 Bureau for Jewish Children
  • 1918-1945 North Eastern Hebrew Orphans Home
  • 1929-1940 Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans
  • 1941-1983 Association for Jewish Children
  • 1949-1983 Jewish Family Service (records in separate collection)
  • 1983- Jewish Family and Children's Agency (records in separate collection)

The Association for Jewish Children Records document the activities of the organization and its predecessors with respect to institutional child care, foster home placement, and adoption facilitation for the Jewish community in Philadelphia from 1855 through the early 1970s.

The collection contains administrative records, correspondence, foster home ward admission registers, court report summaries, institutional studies and reports, statistical data about child placements, limited financial records, and photographs. The breadth and depth of material generated by each institution represented in the collection varies greatly but is evidence of the increased need of temporary or permanent child placement during the immigration boom of the latter nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and its subsequent decline after World War II. The collection does not include any records for the last ten years of operation prior to the AJC's merger with the Jewish Family Service in 1983.

The genealogical value of the collections is primarily restricted to the admission registers. The bulk of the admission registers contain an index of names at the front of each register facilitating easy discovery of placed children. With the exception of a small sample, the collection does not contain case files on wards of the various foster homes and child care agencies. Committee meeting minutes often contain rich descriptive information about particular child care cases, however the child's identity is typically masked.

Because of the numerous mergers and organization name changes, any records that span the administration of two or more institutions have been placed in the series with the predominate record creator with the names of each institution indicated in the folder level description. As such, researchers are encouraged to consult materials across series to ensure discoverability of relevant materials.

The collection is arranged into nine series according to creating organization as follows:

Series 1: Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, 1855-1931
Series 2: Hebrew Orphans Home, 1897-1929
Series 3: Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, 1928-1940
Series 4: Juvenile Aid Society, 1910-1940, 1949
Series 5: Homewood School, 1909-1939, undated
Series 6: Bureau for Jewish Children, 1921-1941
Series 7: North Eastern Hebrew Orphans Home, 1928-1944
Series 8: Association for Jewish Children, 1941-1973
Series 9: Photographs, 1897, 1913-1965, undated

Records placed on deposit by the Association for Jewish Children in February 1973. Collection previously administered by the Philadelphia Jewish Archives Center, acquired by Temple in June 2009.

"Admissions register, girls, 1876-1911, " "Admissions register, indenture agreements, and correspondence, 1884-1931" and "Membership dues register, 1874-1881" from Series 1 are available on microfilm.

A selection of photographs from this collection has been digitized and is available online on the Temple University Digital Collections website.

Collection processed and finding aid prepared in February 1975 by Lee B. Leopold and Lindsay B. Nauen. Collection minimally reprocessed and finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in April 2014 by Jessica M. Lydon, Associate Archivist.

Jewish Family and Children's Agency of Philadelphia Records, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jewish Family Service Records, SCRC 196, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Jewish Ys and Centers of Philadelphia, Neighborhood Centre Branch Records, SCRC 22, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Philadelphia Society for Services to Children Records, Acc. 150, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Finding Aid Date
December 2023
Access Restrictions

Access to records in Series 3 and 8 identifying adoptees and adoptive parents is restricted for 75 years from date of creation. Restrictions where applicable are indicated at the file level in the container inventory below.

Use Restrictions

The Association for Jewish Children Records are in the custody of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. 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

Scope and Contents

Series 1 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains admission registers, indenture agreements, annual reports, administrative records, and reports on the foster home. The admission registers record the names and ages of children entering the foster home, the date of entry, and in some cases nativity, an abbreviated statement of reason for placement, and date of discharge from the home. Some of the earliest records of admission also include indenture agreements or contracts signed by a parent or guardian binding the institution to provide food, clothing, medicine, and education for children placed there. In return, the parent or guardian committed the child to a stated number of years of labor. Details about circumstances of discharge from the home for a select number of years can be found in the court reports in Series 4, Juvenile Aid Society. Administrative records in this series include Board of Managers meeting minutes, a near complete run of annual reports from 1856 to 1919, and documentation about the creation and administration of a fund to educate wards of the foster home through the Cassie Theobold Pfaelzer Trust. Also of note are the meeting minutes of the Girl's Literary Society, a group consisting of older female wards who engaged in literary recitation and musical performances for the benefit of the residents.

Admissions register, 1855-1885.
Box 1 Folder 1
Admissions register, parental consent agreements, 1858-1869.
Box 1 Folder 2
Admissions register, "Matron's Entry Book, ", 1876-1904.
Box 1 Folder 3
Admissions register, girls, 1876-1911.
Box 51
Admissions register, indenture agreements, and correspondence, Jewish Foster Home and Foster Home for Hebrew, 1884-1931.
Box 48
Admissions register, Jewish Foster Home and Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, 1904-1937.
Box 50
Admissions register, 1911-1921.
Box 1 Folder 4
Admissions register, 1920-1929.
Box 1 Folder 5
Annual reports, Jewish Foster Home Society, 1856-1873.
Box 1 Folder 6
Annual reports, Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, 1875-1881.
Box 1 Folder 7
Annual reports, Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, 1879-1891.
Box 2 Folder 1
Annual reports, Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, 1892-1901.
Box 2 Folder 2
Annual reports, Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, 1906-1911.
Box 2 Folder 3
Annual reports, Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, 1912-1919.
Box 3 Folder 1
Board of Managers meeting minutes, constitution, and bylaws, February 1855-January 1865.
Box 3 Folder 2
Board of Managers meeting minutes, 1923-1929.
Box 3 Folder 3
Board of Managers, Executive Committee meeting minutes, February 1882-July 1883.
Box 3 Folder 4
Board of Managers, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1913-1940.
Box 3 Folder 5
Board of Managers, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1919-1922.
Box 4 Folder 1
Charter, Constitution, and Bylaws of the Jewish Foster Home, 1875.
Box 4 Folder 2
Committees, Admission and Dismissal Committee meeting minutes, 1911-1912, 1915.
Box 4 Folder 3
Committees, Cassie Theobold Pfaelzer Committee correspondence and reports, 1913, 1918.
Box 4 Folder 4
Committees, Employment and Welfare Committee correspondence, 1919-1920.
Box 4 Folder 5
Correspondence, Children's Bureau of Philadelphia, 1931.
Box 4 Folder 6
Funds, Cassie Theobald Pfaelzer Trust, beneficiaries and indentured children occupations and salaries, 1905-1913.
Box 4 Folder 7
Funds, Cassie Theobold Pfaelzer Trust, articles of agreement and correspondence, 1900.
Box 4 Folder 8
Funds, Cassie Theobold Pfaelzer Trust, beneficiaries occupation and salary account book, 1901-1919.
Box 4 Folder 9
Funds, Cassie Theobold Pfaelzer Trust, memorial book, 1900.
Box 4 Folder 10
Funds, legacies and endowments list, circa 1939.
Box 4 Folder 11
Girls' Literary Society of the Jewish Foster Home meeting minutes and bylaws, 1909-1917.
Box 4 Folder 12
Indentured children salaries, Contingent Fund, and Henry S. Louchheim Fund donations, 1878-1879, 1899-1909.
Box 5 Folder 1
Jewish Foster Home Alumni Association constitution and bylaws, 1901.
Box 5 Folder 2
Membership dues register, 1874-1881.
Box 52
Memorial bequests, 1859-1929.
Box 51
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) on Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, December 1920.
Box 5 Folder 3
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.) on Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum excerpts, 1924.
Box 5 Folder 4
Reports, Federation of Jewish Charities on the Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum by Boris D. Bogler, July 1918.
Box 5 Folder 5

Scope and Contents

Series 2 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains admission registers, annual reports, Board of Directors and committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports. Of note are the meeting minutes of the After Care Committee, a committee formed by members of the Board of Directors and the Alumni Association to continue interaction between former residents and the foster home. This series contains a limited number of case summaries on child placements over the duration of the foster home's existence.

Admissions register, Home for Hebrew Orphans and Hebrew Orphans Home applications and indentures, 1897-1916.
Box 55
Admissions register, Home for Hebrew Orphans and Hebrew Orphans Home residents, 1903-1929.
Box 5 Folder 6
Alumni Bulletin of the Hebrew Orphans Home, January 1926.
Box 6 Folder 1
Annual reports, Home for Hebrew Orphans charity ball souvenir program, 1904.
Box 6 Folder 2
Annual reports, Hebrew Orphans Home and Hebrew Sheltering Home charity ball souvenir program, 1912.
Box 6 Folder 3
Annual reports, Hebrew Orphans Home charity ball souvenir program, 1914-1916.
Box 6 Folder 4
Annual reports, Hebrew Orphans Home charity ball souvenir program, 1917-1918.
Box 6 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1915-1921.
Box 6 Folder 6
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1922-1929.
Box 6 Folder 7
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1921-1925.
Box 6 Folder 8
Case summaries, Home for Hebrew Orphans and Hebrew Orphans Home residents, 1901-1934.
Box 7 Folder 1
Committees, Admission and Discharge Committee meeting minutes, 1922, 1924.
Box 7 Folder 2
Committees, After Care Committee meeting minutes, 1923-1928.
Box 7 Folder 3
Committees, After Care Committee progress reports on former residents, 1929, undated.
Box 7 Folder 4
Committees, Education Committee meeting minutes, 1921, 1923, 1925.
Box 7 Folder 5
Committees, House Committee meeting minutes, 1924-1929.
Box 7 Folder 6
Committees, Purchasing Committee meeting minutes, undated.
Box 7 Folder 7
Correspondence, general, 1923, 1927, 1929.
Box 7 Folder 8
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), Hebrew Orphans Home, circa 1920.
Box 7 Folder 9
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), Hebrew Orphans Home annotated, 1921.
Box 7 Folder 10
State Department of Welfare acts on child placement and care and maternity homes and hospitals, 1923, 1927.
Box 7 Folder 11

Scope and Contents

Series 3 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains records similar in type to those in series 1 and 2. The admission registers include entries of wards transferred from the institutions predecessors, Hebrew Orphans Home and Jewish Foster Home.

Admissions register, admissions, discharges, and transfers to foster home, 1928-1929.
Box 8 Folder 1
Admissions register, Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans and Association for Jewish Children, 1937-1950.
Box 8 Folder 2
Applicant register, foster home and adoptions, January-April 1929-1932.
Box 8 Folder 3
Applicant register, foster home and adoptions, May-August 1929-1932.
Box 8 Folder 4
Applicant register, foster homes and adoptions, Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans and Association for Jewish Children, 1932-1950.
Box 54
Available homes for placement, 1926-1931.
Box 53
Board of Directors meeting minutes, October 1929.
Box 8 Folder 5
Committees, Adoption Committee meeting minutes, December 1936.
Box 8 Folder 6
Committees, Employment and Welfare Committee report, 1929.
Box 8 Folder 7
Committees, Finance Committee meeting minutes and correspondence, 1937-1940.
Box 8 Folder 8
Constitution and bylaws, circa 1929.
Box 8 Folder 9
Funds, legacies and endowments list, Jewish Foster Home, Hebrew Orphans Home, Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, circa 1939.
Box 8 Folder 10
Membership register, 1940.
Box 8 Folder 11
Memorial tablet and Kaddish lists of names, 1929.
Box 9 Folder 1
President's reports, 1933, 1936-1938.
Box 9 Folder 2
Printing club scrapbook of samples, 1927-1934.
Box 9 Folder 3
Statistics, monthly foster home removals and placements, 1930-1933.
Box 9 Folder 4
Statistics, Monthly foster home removals and placements, 1934-1939.
Box 9 Folder 5
Visitor's register, 1937-1938.
Box 9 Folder 6

Scope and Contents

Series 4 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains Board of Directors and committee, correspondence, and reports. This is the only series containing comprehensive case histories about foster home wards in the collection. The four case histories in box 16 are a representative sample from the case files that were maintained by the Juvenile Aid Society and reflect the type and format of information recorded about children cared for JAS and similar institutions. The court reports on dependent and delinquency cases contain summary judgments for commitments and discharges of children placed at or under the care of various institutions including foster homes and state hospitals. This series contains the earliest material generated by the German Jewish Children's Aid Committee began by JAS and continued by the Association for Jewish Children as the European Jewish Children's Aid Committee in Series 8.

Annual reports, Juvenile Aid Society of Philadelphia, 1912, 1914, 1916, 1920.
Box 9 Folder 7
Annual reports, Juvenile Aid Society of Philadelphia, 1924, 1926, 1929.
Box 9 Folder 8
Applications to foster children, 1927-June 1928.
Box 9 Folder 9
Applications to foster children, July 1928-January 1929, undated.
Box 9 Folder 10
Board of Directors meeting minutes, Juvenile Aid Committee, January 1910-February 1911.
Box 10 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1914-April 1915.
Box 10 Folder 2
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1915-April 1916.
Box 10 Folder 3
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1916-April 1917.
Box 10 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1917-April 1918.
Box 10 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1918-April 1919.
Box 11 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1919-November 1919.
Box 11 Folder 2
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, December 1919-April 1920.
Box 11 Folder 3
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1920-October 1920.
Box 11 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, November 1920-April 1921.
Box 11 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1921-December 1921.
Box 11 Folder 6
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, January 1922-April 1922.
Box 11 Folder 7
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1922-April 1923.
Box 12 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1923-April 1924.
Box 12 Folder 2
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1924-April 1925.
Box 12 Folder 3
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1925-April 1926.
Box 12 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1926-April 1927.
Box 12 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1927-April 1928.
Box 12 Folder 6
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1928-April 1929.
Box 13 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1929-April 1930.
Box 13 Folder 2
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1930-April 1931.
Box 13 Folder 3
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1931-April 1932.
Box 13 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1932-April 1933.
Box 13 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1933-April 1934.
Box 14 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1934-April 1935.
Box 14 Folder 2
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1935-April 1936.
Box 14 Folder 3
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, June 1936-April 1937.
Box 14 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, June 1937-April 1938.
Box 14 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1938-April 1939.
Box 15 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May 1939-April 1940.
Box 15 Folder 2
Board of Directors meeting minutes and committee reports, May-October 1940.
Box 15 Folder 3
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1920-1924.
Box 15 Folder 4
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1925-1929.
Box 15 Folder 5
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1930-1934.
Box 15 Folder 6
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1935-1940.
Box 15 Folder 7
Bureau for Jewish Children constitution, by-laws, and meeting minutes, 1939, undated.
Box 16 Folder 1
Bureau for Jewish Children, Placement Committee meeting minutes, 1937.
Box 16 Folder 2
Bureau for Jewish Children, Placement Committee meeting minutes, 1938.
Box 16 Folder 3
Bureau for Jewish Children, Placement Committee meeting minutes, 1939.
Box 16 Folder 4
Case history, Meltz, Robert, case summary, 1923-1936.
Box 16 Folder 5
Case history, Meltz, Robert, correspondence, 1923-1937.
Box 16 Folder 6
Case history, Meltz, Robert, medical records, 1923-1936.
Box 16 Folder 7
Case history, Meltzer, Bernard, case summary, correspondence, and medical records, 1917-1922.
Box 16 Folder 8
Case history, Meltzer, Elizabeth, case summary, correspondence, and medical records, 1914-1923, 1930.
Box 16 Folder 9
Case history, Meltzer, Frances, case summary, 1914-1933, 1937.
Box 16 Folder 10
Case history, Meltzer, Frances, correspondence and medical records, 1915-1937, 1949.
Box 16 Folder 11
Charter and bylaws, 1911.
Box 17 Folder 1
Committees, Case Work Committee meeting minutes, 1935-1936.
Box 17 Folder 2
Committees, Foster Mothers' Study Group/Jewish Speaking Group of Foster Mothers meeting minutes, 1929-1933, undated.
Box 17 Folder 3
Committees, Foster Parents meeting minutes, 1930-1931.
Box 17 Folder 4
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1937-1940.
Box 17 Folder 5
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence and reports, 1934-1939.
Box 17 Folder 6
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee meeting minutes, 1934-May 1940.
Box 17 Folder 7
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee newspaper clippings, 1934.
Box 17 Folder 8
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee newspaper clippings, child refugees, 1940.
Box 17 Folder 9
Committees, Home and School Committee meeting minutes, 1922-1929, 1931.
Box 17 Folder 10
Committees, Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1924-1932.
Box 17 Folder 11
Committees, Junior Case Work Committee meeting minutes, 1932-1933.
Box 17 Folder 12
Committees, Junior Case Work Committee/Placing Out Committee joint meeting minutes, 1933-1935.
Box 17 Folder 13
Committees, Personnel Committee meeting minutes, 1926-1929.
Box 17 Folder 14
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1913.
Box 17 Folder 15
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1914.
Box 17 Folder 16
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1915.
Box 17 Folder 17
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1916.
Box 18 Folder 1
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1917.
Box 18 Folder 2
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1918.
Box 18 Folder 3
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1919.
Box 18 Folder 4
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1920.
Box 18 Folder 5
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1921.
Box 19 Folder 1
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1922.
Box 19 Folder 2
Committees, Placing Out Committee/Home Finding Committee meeting minutes, 1923.
Box 19 Folder 3
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1924.
Box 19 Folder 4
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1925-1926.
Box 19 Folder 5
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1927-1929.
Box 20 Folder 1
Committees, Placing Out Committee meeting minutes, 1930-1933.
Box 20 Folder 2
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes, 1911-1912.
Box 20 Folder 3
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes, 1913.
Box 20 Folder 4
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes, 1914.
Box 20 Folder 5
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes, 1915-1916.
Box 20 Folder 6
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes, 1917-1918.
Box 20 Folder 7
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes, 1919-1920.
Box 21 Folder 1
Committees, Preventive Work Committee meeting minutes and level book, 1920-1923.
Box 21 Folder 2
Committees, Senior Study Group meeting minutes, 1936-1939.
Box 21 Folder 3
Correspondence, general, 1922, 1926-1930, undated.
Box 21 Folder 4
Correspondence, legacies and bequests, 1912-1942.
Box 21 Folder 5
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1920-1921.
Box 21 Folder 6
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1922.
Box 21 Folder 7
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1923.
Box 21 Folder 8
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1924.
Box 22 Folder 1
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1925.
Box 22 Folder 2
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1926.
Box 22 Folder 3
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1927.
Box 22 Folder 4
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1928.
Box 22 Folder 5
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1929.
Box 22 Folder 6
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1930.
Box 22 Folder 7
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1931.
Box 23 Folder 1
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1932.
Box 23 Folder 2
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1933.
Box 23 Folder 3
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1934.
Box 23 Folder 4
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1935.
Box 23 Folder 5
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1936.
Box 23 Folder 6
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1937.
Box 23 Folder 7
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1938.
Box 23 Folder 8
Court reports, dependent and delinquency cases, 1939.
Box 23 Folder 9
"JAS Level Books", 1919.
Box 24 Folder 1
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), Representative Number of Foster Homes of Juvenile Aid Society", circa 1920.
Box 24 Folder 2
Reports, "Juvenile Court: Organization, Growth, and Present Procedure", 1932.
Box 24 Folder 3
Reports, "Philadelphia Study of Fourteen J.A.S. Foster Homes Caring for Twenty-Six 'Normal' Children", undated.
Box 24 Folder 4

Scope and Contents

Series 5 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains Board of Directors meeting minutes, correspondence, and reports. Also included in this series is a scrapbook produced by the Adoption Committee containing newspaper clippings, pamphlets, and correspondence related to the work of the committee and adoption work generally in Philadelphia.

Annual reports, Charity Souvenir of the Hebrew Sheltering Home and Day Nursery for Children, 1909.
Box 24 Folder 5
Bequests and in kind donations, undated.
Box 24 Folder 6
Correspondence, general, 1907-1933, undated.
Box 24 Folder 7
Hebrew Ladies Aid Society, Hebrew Ladies Day Nursery, and Hebrew Sheltering Home and Day Nursery for Children, Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1903-1907.
Box 24 Folder 8
Hebrew Sheltering Home and Day Nursery for Children, Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1907-1910.
Box 24 Folder 9
Hebrew Sheltering Home, Board of Directors and Executive Committee meeting minutes and superintendent's reports, 1924-1926.
Box 25 Folder 1
Hebrew Sheltering Home, Board of Directors and Executive Committee meeting minutes and superintendent's reports, 1927-1929.
Box 25 Folder 2
Hebrew Sheltering Home, Board of Directors and Executive Committee meeting minutes, January 1930-September 1933.
Box 25 Folder 3
Hebrew Sheltering Home and Homewood School Adoption Committee meeting minutes, 1933-1937.
Box 25 Folder 4
Homewood School, Adoption Committee scrapbook, 1931-1939.
Box 25 Folder 5
Homewood School, Board of Directors and Executive Committee meeting minutes, October 1933-December 1934.
Box 25 Folder 6
Jewish Home for Infants bylaws, undated.
Box 25 Folder 7
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), Hebrew Sheltering Home, 1924.
Box 26 Folder 1
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), Hebrew Sheltering Home, December 1920.
Box 26 Folder 2
Reports, "Institutional Child Care Survey Inventory", 1932.
Box 26 Folder 3

Scope and Contents

Series 6 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains meeting minutes, correspondence, reports, and statistics. Materials generated by the Placement Committee document interagency cooperation on child care cases. Additional materials about the Placement Committee can be found in Series 4.

Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1923-1925.
Box 26 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1940.
Box 26 Folder 5
By-laws of the Bureau for Jewish Children of the Federation of Jewish Charities, 1923-1924.
Box 26 Folder 6
Committees, Adoption Committee meeting minutes, 1929-1941.
Box 26 Folder 7
Committees, Child Care Council meeting minutes and reports, 1938-1939.
Box 26 Folder 8
Committees, miscellaneous committee meeting minutes, 1921-1926, undated.
Box 26 Folder 9
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1923-1924.
Box 26 Folder 10
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1925-1926.
Box 26 Folder 11
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1927.
Box 26 Folder 12
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1928.
Box 26 Folder 13
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1929.
Box 27 Folder 1
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1930.
Box 27 Folder 2
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1931.
Box 27 Folder 3
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1932.
Box 27 Folder 4
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1933.
Box 27 Folder 5
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1934.
Box 27 Folder 6
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1935.
Box 27 Folder 7
Committees, Placement Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1936.
Box 27 Folder 8
Committees, Study Committee meeting minutes and reports, 1924-1926.
Box 27 Folder 9
Correspondence, general, 1919-1924.
Box 27 Folder 10
Executives of the Child Care Agencies and Family Agencies meeting minutes, 1931.
Box 28 Folder 1
Executives of the Child Care Agencies and Family Agencies meeting minutes, 1932.
Box 28 Folder 2
National Federation of Jewish Welfare Funds and Agencies Child Care Section, 1937, undated.
Box 28 Folder 3
Reports, "After-Care Study", 1927.
Box 28 Folder 4
Reports, "Evaluation of Work", undated.
Box 28 Folder 5
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), "Bureau for Jewish Children Plan for One Children's Society" and "Philadelphia Child Care Study", 1924.
Box 28 Folder 6
Reports, Bureau of Jewish Social Research (New York, N.Y.), Bureau for Jewish Children, circa 1920.
Box 28 Folder 7
Reports, miscellaneous, 1925-1926.
Box 28 Folder 8
Reports, statistics on placements, discharges, and transfers, 1934-1935.
Box 28 Folder 9
Reports, statistics on placements, discharges, and transfers, 1936-1937.
Box 28 Folder 10
Reports, statistics on placements, discharges, and transfers, 1938-1940.
Box 28 Folder 11

Scope and Contents

Series 7 is the smallest series in the collection. The series is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains meeting minutes and correspondence from the Board of Directors and Activity Board, and superintendent's reports for a select number of years.

Activity Board meeting minutes, correspondence, and financial statements, 1928-1939.
Box 29 Folder 1
Board of Directors meeting minutes and correspondence, 1940-1944.
Box 29 Folder 2
Superintendent's reports, 1941-1943.
Box 29 Folder 3

Scope and Contents

Series 8 is arranged alphabetically by title or type of record and contains administrative records including extensive committee meeting minutes and reports, budget material, press releases, and statistics. Files on board rates in box 30 provide insight into the cooperative effort by child care agencies in Philadelphia to petition the courts for increased payments by the city to support children committed to foster homes by the Juvenile Court. The European Jewish Children's Aid Committee materials continue the work of the German Jewish Children's Aid Committee, administered by the Juvenile Aid Society prior to 1941 located in Series 4. Also of interest are the Personnel Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and clippings in box 37 regarding the 40-day workers strike in June 1953 and union negotiations between the AJC Board and Local 1739, Community and Social Agency Employees. The staff meeting minutes and policy manual in boxes 43 and 44 provide in-depth understanding of the policies and procedures related to foster care placement and allied services administered by the AJC.

Annual meeting and luncheon, 1964.
Box 30 Folder 1
Annual reports on the service of the agency, 1950.
Box 30 Folder 2
Association for Jewish Children Fact Sheet, 1968.
Box 30 Folder 3
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1947, 1949-1951.
Box 30 Folder 4
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1952-1953.
Box 30 Folder 5
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1954.
Box 30 Folder 6
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1955.
Box 30 Folder 7
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1956.
Box 30 Folder 8
Board of Directors meeting minutes, 1957.
Box 30 Folder 9
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, 1951-1955.
Box 30 Folder 10
Board of Directors, Executive Committee meeting minutes, Executive Director's monthly reports, and population reports, 1947-1950.
Box 30 Folder 11
Board rates, Council of Social Agencies petitions, 1942-1948.
Box 30 Folder 12
Board rates, Health and Welfare Council petitions, 1950-1955.
Box 30 Folder 13
"Budget Book", June 1951-May 1952.
Box 31 Folder 14
"Budget Book", June 1952-May 1953.
Box 31 Folder 15
"Budget Book", June 1953-May 1954.
Box 31 Folder 16
"Budget Book", June 1954-May 1955.
Box 31 Folder 17
"Budget Book", June 1955-May 1956.
Box 31 Folder 18
"Budget Book", June 1956-May 1957.
Box 32 Folder 1
By-laws of the Association for Jewish Children of Philadelphia, 1952, undated.
Box 32 Folder 2
Case files, sample excerpted records, 1943.
Box 32 Folder 3
Committees, Admissions and Professional Services Committee and Case Conference meeting minutes and summaries, August-December 1952.
Box 32 Folder 4
Committees, Admissions and Professional Services Committee memoranda, 1952-1954.
Box 32 Folder 5
Committees, Admissions and Professional Services Committee and Case Conference meeting minutes and summaries, 1953.
Box 32 Folder 6
Committees, Admissions and Professional Services Committee and Case Conference meeting minutes and summaries, 1954.
Box 32 Folder 7
Committees, Admissions and Professional Services Committee meeting minutes and case summaries, 1955.
Box 32 Folder 8
Committees, Admissions and Professional Services Committee meeting minutes and case summaries, 1956-1957.
Box 32 Folder 9
Committees, Admissions Committee meeting minutes and case summaries, 1941, 1945-1946.
Box 32 Folder 10
Committees, Admissions Committee meeting minutes and case summaries, 1947-1948.
Box 33 Folder 1
Committees, Admissions Committee meeting minutes and case summaries, 1949-1950.
Box 33 Folder 2
Committees, Admissions Committee meeting minutes and case summaries, 1951-June 1952.
Box 33 Folder 3
Committees, Adoption Committee case summaries, 1942-1951.
Box 33 Folder 4
Committees, Adoption Committee case summaries, 1952.
Box 33 Folder 5
Committees, Adoption Committee case summaries, surname N-Z, 1950-1958.
Box 33 Folder 6
Committees, Adoption Committee meeting minutes, 1941-1945.
Box 33 Folder 7
Committees, Adoption Committee meeting minutes, 1946-1950.
Box 33 Folder 8
Committees, Adoption Committee meeting minutes, 1951-1954.
Box 34 Folder 1
Committees, Adoption Committee meeting minutes, 1955-1958.
Box 34 Folder 2
Committees, Adoption Committee statistics on applications and placements, 1941-1956.
Box 34 Folder 3
Committees, Allocations Committee meeting minutes, 1941.
Box 34 Folder 4
Committees, Allocations Committee meeting minutes, 1942.
Box 34 Folder 5
Committees, Allocations Committee meeting minutes, 1943.
Box 34 Folder 6
Committees, Allocations Committee meeting minutes, 1944.
Box 34 Folder 7
Committees, Budget Audit Committee meeting minutes, 1941-1943.
Box 34 Folder 8
Committees, Case Committee meeting minutes, 1948.
Box 34 Folder 9
Committees, Case Conference meeting minutes and intake summaries, 1952-1956.
Box 34 Folder 10
Committees, Case Work and Institutional Staff meeting minutes, 1949.
Box 34 Folder 11
Committees, Cottage Committee meeting minutes, 1954-1957.
Box 34 Folder 12
Committees, Cottage Staff Seminar meeting minutes, 1961-1962.
Box 34 Folder 13
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1943, 1946-1949.
Box 35 Folder 1
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1950-1951.
Box 35 Folder 2
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1952.
Box 35 Folder 3
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1953.
Box 35 Folder 4
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1954.
Box 35 Folder 5
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee case summaries, 1948-1949.
Box 35 Folder 6
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence, 1943-1944, 1948-1949.
Box 35 Folder 7
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence, 1950-1951.
Box 35 Folder 8
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence, 1952.
Box 35 Folder 9
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence, 1953.
Box 35 Folder 10
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence, 1954-1955, 1964.
Box 35 Folder 11
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee intake log book, 1942-1958.
Box 35 Folder 12
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee meeting minutes, 1943-1954.
Box 35 Folder 13
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee population statistics on admissions and discharges, 1944-1952.
Box 35 Folder 14
Committees, European Jewish Children's Aid Committee population statistics on admissions and discharges, 1953-1958.
Box 35 Folder 15
Committees, Finance and Insurance Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and investments, 1960-1961.
Box 36 Folder 1
Committees, Finance and Insurance Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and investments, 1962-1964.
Box 36 Folder 2
Committees, Finance Committee meeting minutes, 1941-1943.
Box 36 Folder 3
Committees, Finance Committee meeting minutes, correspondence, and investments, 1945-1959.
Box 36 Folder 4
Committees, Foster Home Care Committee meeting minutes, reports, and statistics, December 1940-March 1941.
Box 36 Folder 5
Committees, Foster Home Care Committee meeting minutes, reports, and statistics, May 1941-January 1942.
Box 36 Folder 6
Committees, Foster Home Care Committee meeting minutes, reports, and statistics, February-June 1942.
Box 36 Folder 7
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee budget and financial reports and correspondence, 1941-1942.
Box 36 Folder 8
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee correspondence, 1940-1942.
Box 36 Folder 9
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee inter-office communication, 1942-1943.
Box 36 Folder 10
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee meeting minutes, agenda, and population statistics, December 1940-1941.
Box 37 Folder 1
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee meeting minutes, agenda, reports, and studies, 1942.
Box 37 Folder 2
Committees, German Jewish Children's Aid Committee population statistics on admissions and discharges, 1934-1943.
Box 37 Folder 3
Committees, Health and Medical Committee meeting minutes, 1941.
Box 37 Folder 4
Committees, House Committee meeting minutes, 1941.
Box 37 Folder 5
Committees, Institutional Committee meeting minutes, 1948-1949.
Box 37 Folder 6
Committees, Institutional Planning Committee meeting minutes, 1943-1949.
Box 37 Folder 7
Committees, Institutional Planning Committee new building feasibility reports and correspondence, 1944-1949.
Box 37 Folder 8
Committees, Institutional Planning Committee "Report on A Survey of Institutional Needs", December 1948.
Box 37 Folder 9
Committees, Institutional Planning Committee report on physical merger of facilities, 1941.
Box 37 Folder 10
Committees, Institutional Planning Committee reports and correspondence from other child care institutions, 1943-1950.
Box 37 Folder 11
Committees, Older Boys and Girls Committee meeting minutes, case summaries, statistics, and correspondence, 1942-1943.
Box 37 Folder 12
Committees, Personnel Committee meeting minutes and correspondence, 1952-1959.
Box 37 Folder 13
Committees, Personnel Committee meeting minutes, reports, and policies, 1941-1950.
Box 37 Folder 14
Committees, Personnel Committee newspaper clippings regarding charity workers strike, 1953.
Box 37 Folder 15
Committees, Purchasing Committee meeting minutes, 1941.
Box 38 Folder 1
Committees, Religious and Secular Education Committee meeting minutes, statistics, and correspondence, 1946-1965.
Box 38 Folder 2
Committees, Secular Education Committee meeting minutes, case summaries, statistics, and correspondence, 1942-1945.
Box 38 Folder 3
Committees, Services to Unmarried Mothers Committee meeting minutes, statistics, and correspondence, 1956-1963.
Box 38 Folder 4
Consolidation agreement, court application, December 24, 1940.
Box 38 Folder 5
Consolidation plan, formation of Association for Jewish Children, 1940.
Box 38 Folder 6
Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds (New York, N.Y.) financial reports, statistics, and correspondence, 1943-1952.
Box 38 Folder 7
Council of Jewish Federation and Welfare Funds (New York, N.Y.) financial reports, statistics, and correspondence, 1953-1964.
Box 38 Folder 8
Department of Public Welfare account book, 1941-1956.
Box 53
"Donation record book, " Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans and Association for Jewish Children, 1935-1950.
Box 38 Folder 9
Estate legacies and endowments, 1946-1951.
Box 39 Folder 1
Estate legacies and endowments, 1952-1961.
Box 39 Folder 2
Executive Director's monthly reports, November 1940-1941.
Box 39 Folder 3
Executive Director's monthly reports, 1942-1946.
Box 39 Folder 4
Foster Home Finding Project meeting minutes and correspondence, August 1962-April 1963.
Box 39 Folder 5
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, August 1962-September 1963.
Box 39 Folder 6
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, October 1963-December 1963.
Box 39 Folder 7
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, January-June 1964.
Box 39 Folder 8
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, July-December 1964.
Box 40 Folder 1
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, 1965.
Box 40 Folder 2
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, 1966.
Box 40 Folder 3
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, 1967.
Box 40 Folder 4
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, 1968.
Box 40 Folder 5
Foster Home Finding Project speaking engagements, 1969.
Box 40 Folder 6
Foster Home Finding Project telephone inquiries, April 1965.
Box 40 Folder 7
Membership register, undated.
Box 41 Folder 1
Newsletters, "AJC Cares", December 1968-April 1973.
Box 41 Folder 2
Newsletters, "Foster-ings", 1956, March 1962-June 1968.
Box 41 Folder 3
Newsletters, Foster Parents Planning Board correspondence, 1964-1966.
Box 41 Folder 4
Newspaper clippings scrapbook, Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans and Association for Jewish Children, 1934-1947.
Box 49
Newspaper clippings scrapbook, 1948-1957.
Box 53
Press releases, 1963.
Box 41 Folder 5
Press releases, 1964.
Box 41 Folder 6
Press releases, 1965.
Box 41 Folder 7
Press releases, 1966.
Box 41 Folder 8
Press releases, January-June 1967.
Box 41 Folder 9
Press releases, January-June 1968.
Box 42 Folder 1
Press releases, July-December 1968.
Box 42 Folder 2
Press releases, 1969.
Box 42 Folder 3
Reports, Child Welfare League of America study data, 1952-1955.
Box 42 Folder 4
Reports, Child Welfare League of America, 1949, 1952, 1954.
Box 42 Folder 5
Reports, Federation of Jewish Agencies Young Women's Group historical project, October 1972.
Box 42 Folder 6
Reports, Federation of Jewish Charities of Philadelphia, "A Program for Health and Medical Services", 1949.
Box 42 Folder 7
Reports, Jewish Child Welfare Association, 1945.
Box 42 Folder 8
Reports, University of Pennsylvania thesis "Study of Adoption in Eighteen Counties in Pennsylvania", June 1934.
Box 42 Folder 9
Reports, withdrawn and rejected cases, 1941-1945.
Box 42 Folder 10
Staff meeting minutes, 1941-1946.
Box 43 Folder 1
Staff meeting minutes, 1947-1948.
Box 43 Folder 2
Staff meeting minutes, 1949-1951.
Box 43 Folder 3
Staff meeting minutes, 1952-1953.
Box 43 Folder 4
Staff meeting minutes, 1954.
Box 43 Folder 5
Staff meeting minutes, 1955-1957.
Box 43 Folder 6
Staff policy manual (1 of 5), 1950s.
Box 43 Folder 7
Staff policy manual (2 of 5), 1950s.
Box 43 Folder 8
Staff policy manual (3 of 5), 1950s.
Box 44 Folder 1
Staff policy manual (4 of 5), 1950s.
Box 44 Folder 2
Staff policy manual (5 of 5), 1950s.
Box 44 Folder 3
Staff supervisors correspondence and policies, 1941-1948.
Box 44 Folder 4
Staff supervisors meeting minutes, 1942-1947.
Box 44 Folder 5
Staff supervisors meeting minutes, 1948-1949.
Box 44 Folder 6
Statistics, adoptions and placements, 1941-1952.
Box 44 Folder 7
Statistics, agency, regional, and national child care and social service, 1938-1953.
Box 45 Folder 1
Statistics, cases admitted and closed, 1953-1955.
Box 45 Folder 2
Statistics, children in paid boarding homes, 1954-1956.
Box 45 Folder 3
Statistics, cottage population, 1950-1952.
Box 45 Folder 4
Statistics, monthly intake, 1940-1942.
Box 45 Folder 5
Statistics, monthly intake, 1943-1945.
Box 45 Folder 6
Statistics, monthly intake, 1946-1949.
Box 45 Folder 7
Statistics, monthly intake, 1950-1953.
Box 45 Folder 8
Statistics, monthly population, 1941-1955.
Box 45 Folder 9
Statistics, monthly service, 1952-1957.
Box 46 Folder 1
Statistics, "Population Record, " Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans and Association for Jewish Children, 1929-1950.
Box 54
Statistics, reasons for request to agency, 1958.
Box 46 Folder 2
Statistics, Vacation Bureau, 1951-1955.
Box 46 Folder 3

Scope and Contents

Series 9 contains black and white photographs of various activities at the Association for Jewish Children and its predecessor organizations. The photographs are arranged alphabetically by name of creating organization, if known and by topical subject.

Association for Jewish Children, administrators and volunteers, 1949, 1963, 1965.
Box 47 Folder 1
Association for Jewish Children, foster parents, 1940s.
Box 47 Folder 2
Association for Jewish Children, individual portraits of foster children, circa 1940s.
Box 47 Folder 3
Association for Jewish Children, children's activities, 1940s.
Box 47 Folder 4
Association for Jewish Children, German Children's Aid Committee summer school graduation, September 4, 1941.
Box 47 Folder 5
Association for Jewish Children, Golden Slipper Square Club outing at Forest Park, circa 1945.
Box 47 Folder 6
Association for Jewish children, miscellaneous slides, undated.
Box 47 Folder 7
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, athletic teams, 1933-1940.
Box 47 Folder 8
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, Caribou staff, 1934.
Box 47 Folder 9
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, confirmation classes, 1940, undated.
Box 47 Folder 10
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, foster family portraits, undated.
Box 47 Folder 11
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, portrait of Lawrence Brunswick, undated.
Box 47 Folder 12
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, residents and staff, February 1923.
Box 47 Folder 13
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, sewing, piano, story hour, and woodshop classes, circa 1930.
Box 47 Folder 14
Foster Home for Hebrew Orphans, staff group portraits, undated.
Box 47 Folder 15
Hebrew Sheltering Home, individual portraits of foster children, circa 1933.
Box 47 Folder 16
Homewood School, individual portraits of foster children, 1934-1937.
Box 47 Folder 17
Jewish Foster Home and Orphan Asylum, Fairmount Park Picnic, August 24, 1897.
Box 47 Folder 18
Juvenile Aid Society, foster home scenes, circa 1935.
Box 47 Folder 19
Juvenile Aid Society, individual portraits of foster children, 1913, 1920.
Box 47 Folder 20
Penn State Mont Alto campus forestry students, former foster home residents, 1937-1939.
Box 47 Folder 21
World War II servicemen and women, former foster home residents, 1939-1945, undated.
Box 47 Folder 22

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