Settlements Collection, 1883-1972
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Sophia Smith Collection Smith CollegeNorthampton, MA
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Settlements Collection
Creation of Settlements Collection
Time of Creation of Settlements Collection
Scope and Contents of the Collection Cover of pamphlet on Denison House settlement, undated The Settlements Collection contains manuscript and printed material that primarily relate to the College Settlement Association, which later became the Intercollegiate Community Service Association, and the individual settlements affiliated with it, primarily the College Settlement of Philadelphia, Denison House in Boston, the Smith Alumnae Chapter, and the Rivington Street Settlement in New York City. The bulk of the material dates from the 1880s, when the settlement movement first emerged in the U.S., to the 1960s when, after the appearance of federal anti-poverty programs, many settlements closed their doors permanently. The nineteenth century material in this collection includes both published and unpublished sources, such as articles, correspondence, newspaper clippings, promotional pamphlets, histories, and reports that document the emergence and evolution of the settlement movement in the 1880s and 1890s. It also illustrates both settlement founders' efforts to legitimize their work, and their increasingly successful endeavors to draw educated young women into the field of settlement work. The twentieth century material is more varied and includes articles, commemorative booklets, correspondence, fundraising appeals, minutes, newsletters, pamphlets, photographs, programs, and an unpublished thesis. These items document the thorough institutionalization of settlements in U.S. society between 1900 and the 1930s, the crucial contributions they made to poor and working-class communities, and the gradual decline that most settlements faced in the post-World War II period. The collection includes bound volumes of the annual reports of the College Settlement Association (1890-1913), as well as books and newsletters published by the CSA.
Poor women--United States--History--20th century
lcsh
Social settlements--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--History--Sources
Social settlements--Massachusetts--History--Sources
Social settlements--New York (State)--New York--History--Sources
Social settlements--United States--History-Sources
Working class women--United States--History--Sources
College Settlement Association--History--Sources
lcnaf
College Settlement Association. Smith Alumnae Chapter
Intercollegiate Community Service Association--History--Sources
Contents
General: Bibliography of College, University and Social Settlements, and History of the Settlement Movement, 1893-1927
College settlements
General: clippings and pamphlets, 1899-1928
Andover House Association (Boston): report, 1893
College Settlement Association
"Cultural Hybrid in the Slums: the College Woman and the Settlement House, 1889-1894," by John P. Rousmaniere, American Quarterly, 1970
Pamphlets, theater scripts, and clipping, 1898-1915
Lists of subscribers, 1896-1906
Quarterly, 1915-1917
Smith Alumnae Chapter
Correspondence, 1915-1928
Pamphlets, annual reports, and notebook, 1909-1927
Intercollegiate Community Service Association (formerly College Settlement Association): annual reports, 1917-1926
[see also box 2 and volumes on shelf]
College Settlement News (New York), 1915-1916
College Settlement of Philadelphia
Anna Freeman Davies: book and publications, 1943-1957
General: annual reports, correspondence, photographs, and pamphlets, 1904-1995
[see also volumes on shelf]
Photographs, newsletters, annual reports, clippings, and correspondence, 1942-1972
College Settlement Association: annual reports, 1890-1913
[see also box 1 and volumes on shelf]
Dennison House (Boston)
General: correspondence, directory, pamphlets, annual reports, and clippings, 1903-1938
Annual reports, 1900, 1903, 1907-1915
Italian Department: reports and pamphlets, 1906-1913
Correspondence
George Washington Cable, 1904
Margaret Deland, 1898-1899
T.W. Higginson, 1847-1879
Julia Ward Howe, n.d.
Henry Irving, 1899
Julia C. Lathrop, 1912
Richard G. Moulton, 1904
Katherine A. Sanborn, n.d.
Isobel Strong, n.d.
Kate Douglas Wiggin-Riggs, 1910
95 Rivington St. (NYC)
The first year at the College Settlement by Jane E. Robbins, 1912
Pamphlets, n.d.
Industrial settlements (Hartley House, NY): pamphlet, circa 1897
Music settlements (Third St. Music School): annual reports, pamphlet, and manuscript, 1959-1965
Social settlements
General: pamphlet, articles, and thesis manuscript, 1892-1961
Dorothea Dix House (Boston): pamphlets, 1898-1901
Greenwich House (NYC): annual report (1921), clippings, and pamphlet (re: Mary Simkhovitch), 1921-1952
Henry St. Settlement (NYC): pamphlet, 1967
Hull House (Chicago): article (Smith College Monthly), 1894
Social Settlements and the Labor Question: pamphlet, circa 1897
Volumes on shelf
College Settlements Association: annual reports
[duplicates - see also box 2]
1890-1899 (volumes 1-10)
1900-1906 (volumes 11-17)
College Settlement News and News of the College Settlement of Philadelphia, 1895-1921
Reports of the College Settlement of Philadelphia, 1895-1920
St. Mary Street Settlement: Library and Settlement, 1886-1895