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The Essex County Jewish Welfare records consist of board and committee minutes and files, case files, agenda, statistics, subject and reference files. The collection also includes records of the Jewish Child Care Association and the Jewish Family Service Association of Essex County which merged in 1961 to form the Jewish Counseling and Service Agency.
The New Brunswick Children's Aid Society collection includes minutes of regular and special meetings of the board of managers as well as minutes of annual meetings of the contributors and of the board of directors. Inserted into some volumes are miscellaneous loose documents not directly related to the minutes.
Records of the Passaic Home and Orphan Asylum consist of act of incorporation and by-laws, minutes of the board of governors as well as supporting documentation. Also included are registers of inmates, annual reports of the registrar, inmate case files, treasurer's accounts and roll call books. Miscellaneous items such as publications, scrapbooks, photoprints and correspondence are also present.
The Sheltering Arms Children's Service was a child care service located in New York, NY. Their records are comprised of children's files, foster home files, Sheltering Arms magazines, annual reports and children's information files as well as financial records and miscellaneous items.
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