Suggestions for Visitors to County Poorhouses and to Other Public Charitable Institutions
Cover title: Suggestions for Institution Visitors.<br /><br />A small volume that offers guidelines or suggestions for those undertake the investigaton of county poorhouses, public hospitals, asylums for the insane, children's homes, and industrial schools (homes for wayward girls and boys). <br /><br />A chapter titled "Homely Hints" supplies remedies for typical institutional problems such as bedbugs, roaches, vermin, ringworm, scabes, and sore eyes.<br /><br />The final chapter addresses the need for standards by which such institutions may be evaluated. <br /><br />Throughout, Lathrop encourages the visitor/inspector to keep an open mind while being friendly, knowledgeable, confident and persistent. This advice was very much in keeping with Lathrop's own methods. <br /><br />Excerpts: <br /><br />p. 6 "If you meet superintendents in a candid and friendly spirit, they will probably meet you in the same spirit. They usually want to do their duty and they doubtless have many difficulties you do not see. Like the rest of the world, they will probably welcome the visits of intelligent, good-natured, reasonable persons who want to know them and who through various avenues of influence may be able to help them.<br /><br />Try to understand, then, first of all, the official point of view and the official difficulties. A critical, suspicious bearing will defeat your purpose to learn the facts."<br /><br />p. 7-8 "In many counties the superintendency of the county poorhouse and farm is let annually to the lowest cash bidder. In some counties the care of the poor is contracted for at a set price per head--the contract going to the lowest bidder....It is not Utopian to look forward to a period when the superintendent of such an institution shall be specially trained for such work, appointed on his merits and kept as long as he is a good officer."<br /><br />p.31 "There is a growing feeling that the State should recognize its own profound responsibility toward every child who, because of defect, or neglect, or poverty, or delinquency, cannot be protected and reared by its natural guardians. Any institution for children which is supported by public funds in whole or in part, or which solicits funds from the public, should welcome intelligent scrutiny."<br /><br />p.37-38 "It may be noted that corporal punishment is the one form of discipline which every inmate has probably known before entering the institution, and that it has, <em>prima facie,</em> failed of a satisfactory result."<br /><br />p. 44 "And, finally, may we offer this legend: To be good-tempered, to be just, to be patient, to be persistent, to be courageous and, again, to be good-tempered." <br /><br />
Lathrop, Julia C.
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Public Charities Committee of the Illinois Federation of Women's Clubs
1905
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Pan-American Conference of Women Called By The National League of Women Voters
Pamphlet describing the events of the Third Annual Convention of the National League of Women Voters and to the Pan-American Conference of Women held at Hotel Belvedere, Baltimore, Maryland, from April 24th to 29th, 1922. This convention discussed "subjects of special concern to women," including education, child welfare, women in industry, prevention of traffic in women, civil and political status of women, and international friendliness. <br /><br />"PEACE among nations is essential to the the work that women have most at heart...But this hope can never be wholly realized until friendly cooperation for common ends takes the place of international rivalry."
National League of Women Voters.
M 86 Box 1, <a href="http://search.vaheritage.org/vivaxtf/view?docId=vcu-cab/vircu00079.xml" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">Roberta Wellford Collection of Women's Rights Ephemera 1915-1956</a>, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
National League of Women Voters.
1922
Special Collections and Archives, James Branch Cabell Library, VCU Libraries
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Female Humane Society, Richmond, Virginia
The Memorial Foundation for Children’s story began in 1805, when a homeless girl supposedly presented herself at the door of Jean Moncure Wood, wife of Governor James E. Wood. Realizing that the city lacked a shelter for needy girls, Mrs. Wood worked to establish the Female Humane Association in 1807.<br /><br />The Association was incorporated in 1811 and built its first shelter on the corner of St. John's and Charity streets in Richmond. It was later called the Memorial Home for Girls (1921), the Memorial Foundation (1946), and then the Memorial Foundation for Children (1962). Throughout its history, the organization has provided shelter to homeless children, guidance and psychological services, and daycare. In 1972, the foundation shifted from direct care to giving financial assistance to other local charities.
Scott, Mary Wingfield (photographer)
<a href="https://thevalentine.org/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Valentine</a>
c. 1940
The Valentine
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Learn more: <br /><a href="https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101066382613;view=2up;seq=4" target="_blank" title="Constitution and By-Laws of the Female Humane Association" rel="noreferrer noopener">Constitution and By-Laws of the Female Humane Association of the City of Richmond</a>, Adopted April 1, 1833. HathiTrust.org <br /><a href="http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaxtf/view?docId=lva/vi01262.xml" target="_blank" title="Memorial Foundation for Children (finding aid)" rel="noreferrer noopener">Memorial Foundation for Children</a>. Records, 1811-2006, The Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia (finding aid) <br />"<a href="https://virginiachronicle.com/?a=d&d=RE18430602.1.3&srpos=16&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-female+humane+association+1843------" target="_blank" title="The Noble Asylum" rel="noreferrer noopener">The Noble Asylum</a>" Richmond Enquirer, Volume 40, Number 7, 2 June 1843 (p. 3 col. 2). Virginia Chronicle.
Woman Citizen, April 17, 1920
Article concerning the third publication in the Children's Bureau series on illegitimacy, "Illegitimacy as a Child Welfare Problem" (Bur. Pub. No. 66). Lists seven minimum standards for illegitimate children's welfare as adopted by the Children's Bureau and the Intercity Conference on Illegitimacy.<br /><br />Two-page spread (p.1142-1143) "Child Welfare in Black and White -- Part II" uses maps to show states' responses to child welfare issues, including compulsory schooling, child labor, the establishment of juvenile courts.
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1920 April 17
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Jewish Children’s Home Tell-A-Vision
Details from a brochure, Jewish Children’s Home Tell-A-Vision, highlighting the founding of the Isidore Newman School for the children of the Jewish Children’s Home and of New Orleans. <br /><br />In the 1840s and 1850s a series of yellow fever epidemics in New Orleans brought forth a need for homes for destitute widows and children. During this period, private and religious groups established a number of orphanages and asylums. <br /><br />In 1855 the Jewish community of New Orleans organized the “Jewish Orphans’ Home,” as a part of the Hebrew Benevolent Society, and on March 14, 1855, the state granted a charter to the institution. The original Home was on Chippewah Street, but in 1887 it moved to a new building at 5342 St. Charles Avenue. <br /><br />The name of the organization has changed several times: from April 6, 1880 to February 28, 1905, it was “The Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows & Orphans,” from February 28, 1905, to February 4, 1924, “The Association for the Relief of Jewish Widows & Orphans of New Orleans,” and after February 4, 1924, the “Jewish Children’s Home.” While the legal name remains the Jewish Children’s Home, the organization has operated as the Jewish Children’s Home Service since April 1958.
<a href="https://specialcollections.tulane.edu/archon/?p=collections/findingaid&id=25&q=&rootcontentid=1265#" target="_blank" rel="noopener" title="finding aid">Jewish Children's Home records, 1870-1981</a>, Collection 180, Box 35, Folder 3, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
1940
Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University
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