University Settlement Society of New York Records

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Records, mainly 1888-1945, of the University Settlement Society of New York, the first neighborhood settlement house for the immigrant poor on New York City's Lower East Side, together with notes of A.J. Kennedy for a never-published history of the Society. The records were donated to honor former headworker Jacob S. Eisinger. There is also a separate file for Charles B. Stover, a society founder, that includes personal papers as well as material relating to his involvement with settlement house work. Also included is information on the personal political and social reform activities of headworkers Robbins Gilman, James H. Hamilton, Robert Hunter, and James B. Reynolds.

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Finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-mss00326

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University Settlement Society of New York Records