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Community Service Society records, 1842-1995

423 linear feet

Correspondence, reports, memoranda, case records, photographs and printed material. The archive include central and district administrative records; cammittee correspondence and minutes; and files on the various programs--such as sheltered workshops, tuberculosis sanitariums and health centers, public baths and employment bureaus--run by the two organizations. The archive also contains hundreds of photographs, including works by Lewis Hine and Jessie Tarbox Beals; extensive casework files from the beginning of social work (originally referred to as "friendly visiting among the poor"); and copies of masters and doctoral theses from the New York School of Sociel Work and other schools. Much of the research for these theses was based on the CSS files

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Columbia University Archives

Central Files (Office of the President records), 1890-1984

927 linear feet
Central Files is composed chiefly of correspondence sent and received between Columbia University administrators and other University officers, faculty, and trustees, as well as correspondence sent and received between University administrators and individuals and organizations from outside the university.
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Cutting, R. Fulton (Robert Fulton), file, 1894-1909. (1 Folder), 1/1894-10/1909 Box 660, Folder 2

appointment as a Curtis Medal judge for 1903 funding for the New York Association for Improving the Condition
of the Poor, starvation in Russia, and the Fulton Memorial Association

Correspondence between Robert Fulton Cutting and the president of Columbia University. Correspondence relates to a variety of subjects regarding the University and social issues. Among other topics, the records document: Cutting's gifts to Columbia in support of prizes for student essays, his appointment as a Curtis Medal judge for 1903 funding for the New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor, starvation in Russia, and the Fulton Memorial Association

  1. Series I: Central Files, 1895-1971
  2. Subseries I.2: Personal Names, 1890-1971