Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Oregon Children's Aid Society records
Oregon Children's Aid Society (Salem, Or.)
Mss 1016
0.9 cubic feet
2 document cases
1866-1960
Records of an Oregon child welfare organization, including incorporation and related papers, board of managers and annual meeting minute books, reports of admissions to the Home (1888-1899), account books, legal documents, papers relating to the Salem Hospital and Home Scholarship Fund, and correspondence and documents relating to children in the society's care.
English
Collection is open for research.
Gift of the Oregon Children's Aid Society, care of Mrs. C. J. Hamilton, January 1963 (Lib. Acc. 9960).
The collection is arranged in two series: Series 1. Bound volumes, 1884-1909; Series 2. General files, 1866-1960.
The Oregon Children's Aid Society was a child welfare organization that began in Salem, Oregon, in 1866, and operated the Glen Oak Orphans Home.
Oregon Children's Aid Society records, Mss 1016, Oregon Historical Society Research Library
Records of the Oregon Children's Aid Society, including incorporation and related papers, board of managers and annual meeting minute books, reports of admissions to the Glen Oak Orphans Home (1888-1899), account books, legal documents, papers relating to the Salem Hospital and Home Scholarship Fund, and correspondence and documents relating to children in the society's care.
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Oregon Children's Aid Society (Salem, Or.)--Records and correspondence
Glen Oak Orphans Home (Salem, Or.)
Salem (Or.)--History
Children--Institutional care--Oregon
Child welfare--Oregon
Women--Oregon--Societies and clubs
Salem
Children and Youth
Clubs and Societies
correspondence
minutes (administrative records)
Bound volumes
Series 1
1884-1909
Signed agreements for child custody
1884 January 14-1888 November 12
1
1
Report of admissions to the Home
1888 January 1-1899 January 26
1
2
Minutes, Board of Managers
1894 November 1-1909 December 25
1
3
Minutes, annual meetings
1884 January 3-1894 October 4
1
4
Ladies' Aid Society--Household accounts
1892 September-1899 September
1
5
Check stubs (6)
1883 September 8-1905 July 15
1
6
General files
Series 2
1866-1960
Applications and agreement forms
1889-1897
2
1
Correspondence and documents regarding children
1870-1926
2
2
Home Scholarship Fund
1906-1951
2
3
Incorporation papers
1873-1960
2
4
Legislative bills
undated
2
5
Marion County records (photostatic copies)
1866-1926
2
6
General materials, including annual report for 1870
1870-1933
2
7
Pocket notebook with memoranda regarding funds; and bank passbook
1906-1949
1898-1907
2
8
Salem, Oregon, records (mostly regarding acquisition of property)
1906-1959
2
9
Rubber stamp with corporate seal
undated
2
10