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Guide to the Records of the Baron de Hirsch Fund,
undated, 1819-1983

*I-80*

Processed by Seth Korelitz, July 1996, reprocessed by Michelle R. Sampson, October 1999

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Machine-readable finding aid created by Michelle R. Sampson as and MS-Word document. October 1999. Electronic finding aid converted to EAD 2002 by Tanya Elder. August 2004. Description is in English.

Descriptive Summary
Creator: Baron de Hirsch Fund (1891 - Present)
Title: Baron de Hirsch Fund Records
Dates: undated, 1819-1983
Abstract: The Baron de Hirsch Fund Records document the organization's involvement in the planning of agricultural communities across the United States and to some extent in South America; the founding and administrative dealings of agricultural and trade schools; the establishment of the Jewish Agricultural Society; and the business records of the Fund itself. In addition, the collection documents the protection offered to immigrants through port work, relief, temporary aid, promotion of suburban industrial enterprises and removal from urban centers through the Industrial Removal Office, land settlement, agricultural training, and trade and general education. In this respect, the collection is of major interest for Jewish genealogists as it documents a number of individual immigrants. In addition, the collection contains documentation on the administration and organization of the fund, documentation on Jewish farming colonies such as the Jewish Agricultural Society, Woodbine Colony and Agricultural School, and documentation on the Baron de Hirsch Trade School. In addition, the collection contains blueprints and photographs of facilities.
Languages: The collection is in English, French, German, Yiddish, and Hebrew.
Quantity: 109 linear feet (188 manuscript boxes; 9 16x20 boxes (OSI); 1 20x24 boxes (OS2); 3 map folders; 2 Xmap folders; 3 rolled documents)
Identification: I-80
Repository: American Jewish Historical Society
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Historical Note

Woodbine School Sign Painting
Sign Painting Class, circa 1910
Baron de Hirsch Technical School
New York City
Baron de Hirsch Fund Records
American Jewish
Historical Society

The death in 1887 of the only surviving child of Clara and Maurice de Hirsch, while a personal tragedy for the couple, turned out to be of the greatest benefit to world Jewry. With the death of their only heir, the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch decided to make humanity their heir. One such product of this largess was the Baron de Hirsch Fund, organized in New York City in 1891.

Like the Jewish Colonization Association (JCA), another major de Hirsch sponsored organization, the Baron de Hirsch Fund represented the Baron's belief the solution to Jewish suffering in Russia lay in emigration. The Fund's monies were expended not on encouraging emigration, however, but rather on supporting Jewish immigrants once they arrived in the United States and teaching them new trades and occupations. To that end, the Fund's Board of Directors, which included such prominent American Jews as Myer S. Isaacs, Jacob Schiff, and Oscar Straus, were given wide latitude in the selection of organizations and activities to support.

The Fund's activities can be divided into three broad areas: agriculture, trade, and general subsidies and grants. One of the Fund's major experiments in colonization was the creation in 1891 of the Woodbine Colony in southern New Jersey. The experiment never truly succeeded, however, as the land was poor for farming, the settlers were lacking in experience, and the site was too far from viable markets. Many of the settlers drifted into labor for manufacturers who were subsidized to operate in the settlement; even manufacturing was often a troubled enterprise though). The Fund provided large subsidies to start the colony but after many years of unsuccessful productivity, they began reducing aid in 1929. By the 1940s, the Baron de Hirsch Fund had left Woodbine.

Located near the Woodbine Colony was the Woodbine Agricultural School founded by the Fund in 1893. The school was never intended as a counterpart to existing agricultural schools or colleges. Rather, students were given both practical and theoretical classroom introductions to agriculture sufficient to enable students to acquire junior positions on existing farms. Any graduates who thereafter desired to purchase their own farm were given assistance by the Fund to do so. The school closed in 1917.

A third major agricultural project was the Jewish Agricultural Society (JAS). Established in 1900 as the Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society (the name was changed in 1922), the JAS was originally founded by grants from the Baron de Hirsch Fund and the Jewish Colonization Association, although the Fund became its sole supporter in 1914. The JAS's major agricultural effort consisted of making loans to farmers and providing agricultural instruction on an extension basis. In addition to agricultural work, the JAS also did "industrial aid" work as the organization's original name stated. This referred to the mass relocation of immigrants from the crowded east coast cities to smaller towns across the country. Industrial aid was among the earliest projects undertaken by the Baron de Hirsch Fund, but the creation of the JAS allowed the Fund to shift those responsibilities to the Jewish Agricultural Society who in turn created the Industrial Removal Organization in 1901. From the 1940s until 1972, the JAS was practically the sole benefactor of the Fund. In 1972 the JAS was disbanded and its surviving projects were incorporated into the larger aegis of the Fund.

The Baron de Hirsch believed that anti-Semitism would be lessened if Jews could learn skilled trades and become successful in business. With this in mind, the Fund established New York City's Baron de Hirsch Trade School in 1895. Students received a short course of instruction lasting about six months during which time they were taught the basic skills necessary to become apprentices or entrepreneurs in their chosen crafts. The major fields of study were carpentry, machinery, plumbing, electrical work, and painting. The school became non-sectarian as of 1917 and in 1935 the Fund turned the school over to the city which had recently begun its own course of trade instruction.

The third major area of the Fund's work focused on various immigration aid activities largely through the financial support of several Jewish agencies. The Fund paid for agents to meet and assist Jewish immigrants at major ports of entry; subsidized English classes at the Educational Alliance (and at similar agencies in other major centers of Jewish population); undertook a program of scholarships for Jewish students planning on attending professional schools; subsidized dozens of American Jewish organizations whose work aided the Eastern European immigrant; and at the Baroness de Hirsch's suggestion, they experimented with model homes in New York City excluding the Lower East Side.

The Baron de Hirsch Fund was one of the most important Jewish philanthropic organizations in American history. At its peak it not only conducted its own honorable work, but assisted dozens of other Jewish philanthropies devoted to aiding Jewish immigrants in their adjustment to the United States. Through its many projects and experiments, the Fund was the changing force in the lives of thousands of Jewish immigrants and their descendants.

--Written by Seth Korelitz

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Scope and Content Note

The Baron de Hirsch Fund Records document the organization's involvement in the planning of agricultural communities across the country and to some extent in South America; the founding and administrative dealings of agricultural and trade schools; the establishment of the Jewish Agricultural Society; and the business records of the Fund itself. The collection is arranged in six series: Series I: Administration / Organization of the Fund, Series II: Jewish Farming Colonies, Series III: Jewish Agricultural Society, Series IV: Woodbine Colony, Series V: Woodbine Agricultural School, and Series VI: Baron de Hirsch Trade School. The records originally existed as several different collections that were later merged. The original order is thought to have been lost, but re-processing of the records attempted to reunite as many records as possible. In some cases, however, it was impossible to do so, thus the finding aid strives to bring together intellectually what could not be brought together physically without a huge undertaking.

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Arrangement

The collection is arranged into six series, plus oversized [OS] materials and photographs.

Photographs have been removed from within the collection and are housed together.

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Restrictions

Access Restrictions

The collection is open to all researchers by permission of the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society, except items that are restricted due to their fragility.

Use Restrictions

Information concerning the literary rights may be obtained from the Executive Director of the American Jewish Historical Society. Users must apply in writing for permission to quote, reproduce or otherwise publish manuscript materials found in this collection. For more information contact:
American Jewish Historical Society
Center for Jewish History
15 West 16th Street
New York, NY 10011.

The collection may only be viewed on microfilm. Please contact archivist for more information.

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Related Material

Industrial Removal Office Records, I-91
Max Kohler Papers, P-7
Lucien Moss Collection, P-14
American Jewish Historical Society

Jewish Agricultural Society - Baron de Hirsch Fund, RG 651
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research

Zelda Rabinowitz Meranze Woodbine Collection
Philadelphia Jewish Archives

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Provenance

The Baron de Hirsch Fund Records were received in several accessions from the Baron de Hirsch Fund and individuals associated with the Fund.

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Microfilm Index

This collection is available on microfilm. A detailed list of microfilm reels is located here. The original documents are fragile; only the microfilm of the collection may be used to view the documents.

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Preferred Citation

Published citations should take the following form:

Identification of item, date (if known); Baron de Hirsch Fund Records; I-80; box number; folder number; American Jewish Historical Society, Newton Centre, MA and New York, NY.

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Access Points

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Container List

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

 

Series I: Administration and Organization of the Fund, undated, 1819-1983.

Box 1 - 63.
Scope and Content:

Series I contains the only biographical information extant in the records on the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch. Researchers can also find Fund histories; administrative reports and correspondence between the Fund and other philanthropic Jewish organizations; reports and correspondence regarding the various committees within the Fund; requests from immigrants for financial aid; financial ledgers and records of the Fund including mortgage investment properties in New York and Fund audits; and statistical information on Jewish immigrants and immigration.

Incorporation 

Box   Title Date
1   Certificate of incorporation, deed of trust, by laws 1904-1948
1   Certificate of incorporation, deed of trust, by laws 1904-1948
1   Annual Reports 1891-1893, 1902, 1917, 1919, 1923-1924, 1960-1972
1   Corporation Minutes 1909, 1913-1919, 1923-1927, 1928-1933

Baron and Baroness de Hirsch 

Box   Title Date
2   Correspondence to/from Baroness de Hirsch 1897-1899, 1902
2   Estate of the Baroness de Hirsch circa 1898-1904, 1912-1913, 1918
2   Sale of the Baron de Hirsch Mansion 1931
2   Establishment of the Baron de Hirsch Fund circa 1888-1892, 1899
2 75th Anniversary Exhibit Program 1966
Box   Title Date
3   Biographical Information (Baron) (2 folders) undated, 1819-1935
3   Coat of Arms, de Hirsch Family 1928
3   Baroness de Hirsch - Correspondence, Clippings, Biographical Information 1896-1899
3   Baron de Hirsch - Centenary of Birth 1931-1932
3   Baroness de Hirsch - Paris Memorial 1930
3   Baron and Baroness de Hirsch - Correspondence 1932-1934, 1947

Fund and Fund History 

Box   Title Date
3   Baron de Hirsch Fund and Trustees - Correspondence and clippings undated,1896-1934
3   Fund's Activities - Clippings 1897-1926
3   Frauds using Funds Name - Correspondence 1907-1912
Box   Title Date
4   Histories of the Fund (2 folders) 1891-circa 1977
4   Histories of the Fund Correspondence 1907-1934
4   Histories of the Fund Publications 1896-1983
4   History of the Fund (3 folders) 1935
4   History of the Fund - Certificate of Copyright 1935

Board of Trustees 

Box   Title Date
5   Correspondence 1891-1931
5   Resignations and Nominations 1930-1932
5   Meeting Minutes 1894-1933
5   Meeting Minutes (bound) 1890-1893
5 Meeting Minutes (bound) 1894-1903
Box Folder Title Date
6 Meeting Minutes (bound) 1903-1915
6   Meeting Minutes (bound) 1915-1933

Committees 

Box   Title Date
7   Committee Membership Lists undated, 1915, 1923-1924, 1927
7   Agricultural School Committee - Minutes and Reports 1912-1914, 1917
7   Agricultural and Industrial Work Committee Minutes (bound) 1890-1892
7   Agricultural and Industrial Work Committee Minutes 1901-1903
7   Agricultural School - Special Committee on Ten 1913-1915
7   Education Committee Reports and Correspondence undated, 1890-1910
7   Education Committee Payroll Lists 1893-1898
7 Education Committee Meeting Minutes (bound) 1890-1891
Box Folder Title Date
8 Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1909-circa 1911
8   Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1912
8   Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1913-1917
8   Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1918-1925
8   Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1926-1929
8   Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1932
8   Budget Committee Reports and Correspondence 1932-1933
Box   Title Date
9   Executive Committee Meeting Minutes (bound) 1890-1897
9   Executive Committee Meeting Minutes (bound) 1900-1902
9   Executive Committee Meeting Minutes (bound) 1903
9 Executive Committee Meeting Minutes and Correspondence 1899-1914
9   Executive Committee Meeting Minutes and Correspondence 1915-1916
9   Executive Committee Meeting Minutes and Correspondence 1917-1932
9   Executive Committee Correspondence 1899-1930
9   Finance Committee Correspondence 1904-1933
Box   Title Date
10   Housing Committee Correspondence and Reports 1891-1897
10   Housing Committee Correspondence and Reports 1898-1899
10   Housing Committee Correspondence and Reports (2 folders) 1891-1908
10   Immigration Committee Correspondence and Reports 1909-1929
10   Improved Habitations Committee Meeting Minutes (bound) 1891
10   Improved Housing Advisory Committee Meeting Minutes (bound) 1897-1898
Box   Title Date
11   Industrial Committee Correspondence 1924
11   Special Survey Committee Meeting Minutes 1932-1935
11   Survey of Trade School Correspondence, Survey Materials 1931-1932
11   Survey of Trade School Correspondence, Survey Materials 1931-1932
11   Trade School Committee Budget, Salary, and Statistical Data 1894-1915
11   Trade School Committee Budget, Salary, and Statistical Data 1918-1924
11   Trade School Committee Budget Reports, Correspondence and Contracts 1925-1926
11   Trade School Committee Budget Reports, Correspondence, and Contracts 1927-1932
11   Woodbine Committee Meeting Minutes and Correspondence 1925-1933
Box   Title Date
12   Student Aid Committee Correspondence and Reports 1890-1905
12   Student Aid Committee Correspondence and Reports 1906-1912
12   Student Aid Committee Students' Fund Correspondence and Account Summaries 1893-1906
12   Student Aid Committee Students' Fund Correspondence and Account Summaries 1907-1913
12   Student Aid Committee Collection of Funds 1908-1911
12   Student Aid Committee Collection of Funds 1912-1915
12   Student Aid Committee Fund Applicants, A-D (2 folders) circa 1892-1912
12   Student Aid Committee Fund Applicants, E-L (2 folders) circa 1892-1912
Box   Title Date
13   Student Aid Committee Fund Applicants, M-R (2 folders) circa 1892-1912
13   Student Aid Committee Fund Applicants, Sch-Ste circa 1892-1912
13   Student Aid Committee Fund Applicants, Sti-Z circa 1892-1912
Box   Title Date
14   Local Committees Baltimore - Correspondence and Reports 1890-1900
14 Local Committees Chicago - Correspondence 1891
14   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports 1893-1910
14   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports 1911-1917
14   Local Committees Pittsburgh - Columbian Council School Settlement/Irene Kaufman Settlement 1899-1914
14   Local Committees St. Louis - Correspondence 1908-1914
14   Local Committees St. Louis - Jewish Alliance 1898-1907
Box   Title Date
15   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports, Vol.I (bound) November 1894-April 1899
15   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports, Vol. II (bound) (missing)
15   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports, Vol. III (bound) July 1900-December 1900
15   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports, Vol. IV (bound) December 1900-July 1901
15   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports, Vol. V (bound) July 1901-May 1902
15   Local Committees Philadelphia - Correspondence and Reports, Vol. VI (bound) May 1902-December 1910

Correspondence 

Box Folder Title Date
16 Correspondence re Clara de Hirsch Home for Girls 1911-1912
16   Correspondence Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS) 1908-1930
16   Correspondence HIAS 1908-1930
16   Correspondence Jewish Colonization Association (2 folders) 1894-1911
16 Correspondence Jewish Colonization Association 1912-1932
16 Correspondence National Council of Jewish Women 1910
Box Folder Title Date
17 Correspondence Jewish Agricultural and Industrial Aid Society (2 folders) 1893-1926
17   Correspondence re National Farm School (Doylestown, PA)
17 Correspondence re Baron de Hirsch Trade School 1897-1907
17   Correspondence re Baron de Hirsch Trade School (2 folders) 1908-1913
17   Correspondence re Baron de Hirsch Trade School 1914-1925

Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) 

Box   Title Date
18   Correspondence re Woodbine Agricultural School and Colony 1897-1906
18   Correspondence re Woodbine Agricultural School and Colony 1907-1922
18   Correspondence re Argentina (2 folders) 1892-1924
18   Correspondence Canadian Committee 1919-1927
18   Correspondence re Kiev Bureau 1914
18   Correspondence St. Petersburg Committee 1894-1914
18   Correspondence re Vilna Conference 1913

Jewish Colonization Association (JCA) - Reports 

Box   Title Date
19   “Le Baron Maurice de Hirsch et la Jewish Colonization Association” (1 bound) 1931, 1958
19   Jewish Agricultural Schools (A.L. Schalit) 1911
19   Jewish Farmers of Jewish Agricultural Society - Questionnaire Responses (Herman Levine) 1963-1965
19   Jewish Farmers of Jewish Agricultural Society - Questionnaire Responses (Herman Levine) 1963-1965
19   Jews and Jewish Immigration in the United States (A.L. Schalit) (bound) circa 1910
19   Memoirs (Benjamin Mejiborski) 1894-1957
19   Annual Reports (bound) 1898, 1912, 1928, 1979
Box   Title Date
20   Annual Reports (bound volumes) 1898, 1900, 1902-1913
Box   Title Date
21   Annual Reports (bound volumes) 1921-1926, 1929-1935, 1937
Box   Title Date
22   Annual Reports (bound volumes) (duplicates of above annual reports) 1900-1938

General Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
23   Actions Comite of Der Zionistischer Organizations 1910
23   American Hebrew 1891
23   American Immigration and Distribution League 1912-1913
23   American Israelite 1909
23   American Jewish Committee 1907-1915
23   American Jewish Congress 1933
23   American Jewish Relief Committee 1915
23   American ORT 1929
23   American Pro-Falasha Committee 1929
23   American Zion Commonwealth 1924
23   Atlanta - Federation of Jewish Charities 1908-1909
23   Atlanta - Hebrew Orphans Home 1931
23   Baltimore - Associated Jewish Charities 1929
23   Baltimore - Hebrew Benevolent Society 1901-1928
23   Baltimore - Committee of the BDHF (2 folders) 1902-1909
23   Baltimore - Committee of the BDHF 1909-1910
23   Baltimore - Committee of the BDHF 1911-1913
23   Baltimore - Hebrew Immigrants Protective Association 1911
23   Baltimore - Hebrew Literary Society 1890-circa 1893
23   B'nai B'rith 1890-1898
Box   Title Date
24   Boston - Federated Hebrew Charities/Federation of Jewish Charities/Federated Jewish Charities 1894-1919
24   Boston - Free Employment Bureau 1892-1903
24   Boston - Hebrew Industrial School 1894-1914
24   Boston - United Hebrew Benevolent Association 1890
24   Brooklyn - Bureau of Charities 1929
24   Brooklyn - People's Hebrew Institute 1902-1905
24   Central Committee for Relief of Jews Suffering through the War 1914-1915
24   Chicago - Bureau of Personal Service 1910
24   Chicago - Hebrew Institute 1908-1914
24   Chicago--Jewish Social Service Bureau 1925
24   Chicago - Jewish Training School 1890-1897
24   Chicago - Russian Aid Society 1892
24   Cincinnati - Hebrew Sabbath School Union 1890
24   Cincinnati - United Jewish Charities 1910
24   Cleveland - Council Educational Alliance 1908-1910
24   Committee for the Acquisition of Antokolsky's Sculptures for American Jewry 1927
24   Committee for Immigrants in America / North America Civic League for Immigrants 1911-1915
24   Conference on Immigration Policy 1929
24   Denver - Jewish Consumptive Relief Society 1909
24   Denver - National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives 1907-1919
24   Emergency Committee on Jewish Refugees undated
24   Emergency Relief Committee for the Jewish Sufferers in Smyrna 1923
24   Federation of Jewish Farmers of America 1913-1919
24   Federation of Oriental Jews of America 1912-1914
24   Foreign Language Information Service 1925-1929
24   General Jewish Organization 1906-1907
24   Hoboken (NJ) - Hebrew Institute 1906
24   Indianapolis - Encyclopedia of Philanthropy 1908
24   Indianapolis - Jewish Federation of Indianapolis 1910
24   Indianapolis - Physio-Medical College of Indiana 1907
24   International Migration Service circa 1925-1929
24   Jerusalem - Geulah Quarters 1932
Box   Title Date
25   Jewish Alliance of America 1891
25   Jewish Chautauqua Society 1906
25   Jewish Colonisation Conference 1914
25   Jewish Daily Bulletin 1924-1928
25   Jewish Publication Society 1906-1907
25   Kansas City - Congregation B'nai Jehudah 1890
25   League of Neighbors 1923-1932
25   Los Angeles - Jewish Consumptive Relief Association of California 1919
25   Louisville (KY) - Neighborhood House 1906
25   Memphis - YMHA of Memphis 1906
25   Minneapolis - B'nai B'rith Grand District Lodge No.6 1910
25   National Conference of Jewish Charities in the United States 1904-circa 1919
25   National Council of Jewish Women circa 1904-1910
25   National Council of Jewish Women circa 1911-1929
25   National Farm School (Doylestown, PA) 1897-1900
25   National Farm School (Doylestown, PA) 1905-1935
26   National Industrial Conference Board - National Immigration Conference 1923
Box   Title Date
26   New York - Academy of Medicine 1915
26   New York - Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor 1931
26   New York - Baron de Hirsch Ladies' Benevolent Society circa 1914, 1927
26   New York - Board of Control of Immigration Work circa 1908
26   New York - Board of Jewish Ministers 1904
26   New York - Central Jewish Institute 1924
26   New York - Chrystie Street Recreation Rooms and Settlement 1906-1911
26   New York - Citizens' Committee on Exploitation of Aliens 1925
26   New York - Clara de Hirsch Home for Working and Immigrant Women 1905-1915
26   New York - Committee for the Care of Jewish Tuberculosis 1923-1924
26   New York - Council on Adult Education for the Foreign Born 1928-1929
26   New York - Council on Immigrant Education 1924
26   New York - Downtown Ethical Society 1906-1909
26   New York - East Side Neighborhood Association 1914
26   New York - East Side Free Employment Bureau 1906
26   New York - Educational Alliance [See Boxes 27-28)
26   New York - Emanu-El Brotherhood 1905
26   New York - Greater New York Tools Campaign Committee for Palestine Workers Fund 1922
26   New York - Harlem - Hebrew Day and Night Nursery 1931
26   New York - Hebrew Association for the Deaf 1930
26   New York - Hebrew Gemilath Chasodim Association 1897
26   New York - Hebrew Institute - See New York - Educational Alliance
26   New York - Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society Orphan Asylum undated, 1914-1922
26   New York - Hebrew Sheltering House and Home for the Aged 1905
26   New York - Hebrew Technical School for Girls 1914-1915
26   New York - Hebrew Technical Institute undated, 1931
26   New York - Henry Street Settlement 1919
26   New York - Immigration Publication Society 1915
26   New York - Jewish Immigration Committee 1906-1912
26   New York - Jewish Immigration Committee 1913-1919
26   New York - Jewish Protectory and Aid Society (Hawthorne School) 1908-1914
26   New York - Joint Board of the Cloak and Skirt Makers Unions 1914
26   New York - Miscellaneous Boards of Directors for Charitable Institutions undated, 1913
Box   Title Date
27   New York - Educational Alliance General 1899-1901
27   New York - Educational Alliance General 1902-1905
27   New York - Educational Alliance General 1906-1907
27   New York - Educational Alliance General 1908-1909
27   New York - Educational Alliance General (incomplete) 1910-1932
27   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports 1890
27   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports 1891
27   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports 1892
27   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports 1893
27   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports 1894
27   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports 1895
Box   Title Date
28   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports (incomplete) 1896
28   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports (incomplete) 1897-1898
28   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Reports (incomplete) 1899
28   New York - Educational Alliance English Class Rosters undated
28   New York - Educational Alliance Public Schools' Admissions Reports undated
Box   Title Date
29   New York - Jewish Protectory and Aid Society 1905
29   New York - Jewish Social Service Association [See German Refugee Aid]
29   New York - Jewish Temporary Shelter for Friendless Children 1924
29   New York - Joint Clearing Bureau 1933
29   New York - Kehillah of New York 1912-1913
29   New York - League of All Jewish Institutions 1931
29   New York - League of Foreign Born Citizens 1915-1924
29   New York - Machzikei Talmud Torah School 1891
29   New York - Neighborhood Agencies and Organization 1919
29   New York - New Era Club 1901-1909
29   New York - New York Public Library 1915-1931
29   New York - New York Public Schools 1914, 1932
29   New York - New York Wool Co. 1923
29   New York - Recreational Rooms and Settlement 1914
29   New York - Russian Students Organization [See also Committee On Aid to Students] 1890
29   New York - School for Jewish Communal Service 1915
29   New York - Settlements Farms Building Corporation 1933
29   New York - Spanish-Portuguese Synagogue Neighborhood House undated, 1915
29   New York - State Conference of Charities and Correction 1907-1925
29   New York - State Conference on Social Work 1928
29   New York - Tenement House Committee 1915
29   New York - United Brotherhood of Tailors 1890
29   New York - United Hebrew Charities of the City of New York 1895-circa 1917
29   New York - University Settlement House 1906, 1913
29   New York - Young Womens' Hebrew Association 1914-1915
29   Philadelphia - Association for Protection of Immigrants 1890-1907
29   Philadelphia - Hebrew Education Society 1914-1916
29   Philadelphia - Manual Training School 1900
29   Pittsburgh - Columbian Council School Settlement 1900-1909
29   Pittsburgh--Convention Federation of American Zionists 1910
29   St. Louis - Jewish Charitable and Educational Union 1911
29   St. Louis - Jewish Educational Alliance 1890-1911
29   St. Louis - United Jewish Educational and Charitable Associations 1908-1914
29   St. Paul - Jewish Relief Society 1907
29   Savannah - Jewish Educational Alliance 1915
29   Scranton - Jewish Home for the Friendless 1924-1925
29   Sofia, Bulgaria - Society for Prevention of Infant Criminality and Protection of Prisoners 1922
29   Temporary Committee on Naturalization 1925
29   Twentieth Century Fund 1929-1932
29   Union of American Hebrew Congregations 1908
29   Union Hill - Hebrew Institute of Union Hill undated, 1908
29   United States Commission on Industrial Relations 1915
29   World Agriculture Society 1928
29   Zionist Organization of America 1923

Correspondence (Miscellaneous) 

Box   Title Date
30   Correspondence, Misc. 1891-1928
30   Airplane Proposal (Samuel Jacobs) 1927
30   Cable Code 1909
30   Foreign Addresses undated
30 Williamsburgh Jewish Ghetto 1906
30   Index to Classification of Old Correspondence, Records, and Documents undated

Correspondence (Personal) 

Box   Title Date
31   Adler, Cyrus 1905-1933
31   Blaustein, David 1890
31   Elkus, Abram I. undated
31   Goldman, Julius 1898-1932
31   Guggenheim, Murry 1914-1916
31   Heilprin, Michael 1888
31   Lehman, Herbert H. 1923
31   Palitz, Benjamin A. (2 folders) 1909-1919
31   Pool, David de Sola 1923-1924
31   Price, George M. undated
31   Prys, Joseph 1931-1933
31   Rosenwald, Julius 1918-1932
31   Sabsovich, H.L. circa 1907-1927
31   Schiff, Jacob 1900-1925
31   Solomons, Adolphus S. 1890-1910
31   Straus, Oscar 1898
31   Sulzberger, Arthur 1923
31   Resolutions and Notices on Deaths of Fund Officials 1894-1931

Financial Records - Requests for Aid 

Box   Title Date
32   A-E circa 1915-circa 1933
32   I-L circa 1915-circa 1933
32   M-P circa 1915-circa 1933
32   R-S circa 1915-circa 1933
32   T-Z circa 1915-circa 1933
32   Holocaust Victims circa 1933
32   German Refugees 1933
32   General Correspondence circa 1900-circa 1932

Financial Records - Income and Disbursement Accounts 

Box   Title Date
33   Accounts (2 folders, incomplete) 1897-1918
33   Accounts (2 folders, incomplete) 1919-1924
33   Accounts (2 folders) 1925-1930
33   Accounts 1931-1933

Financial Records - Agricultural Loans 

Box   Title Date
34   Agricultural Loans (Table) 1933

Financial Records - Jewish Agricultural Society (JAS) 

Box   Title Date
34   Borough Homes Co. Meeting Minutes (2 bound volumes) 1898-1900
34   Borough Homes Co. Stock Certificates 1898
34   Home Special Fund 1898-1899, 1927-1932
34   Home Special Fund 1932-1933

Financial Records - Real Estate 

Box   Title Date
34   Correspondence (incomplete) 1902-1928
34   Holdings 1906

Financial Records - Audit Reports and Accounts 

Box   Title Date
35   Audits 1919-1920
35   Audits 1922-1923
35   Audits 1927-1929

Financial Records - Capital Assets, Expense Register, Stockholders List 

Box   Title Date
35   Capital Assets 1905-1945
35   Expense Register (bound) 1945-1960
35   Stockholders List (bound) 1891-1939

Financial Records - Mortgage Investment Ledgers [OS1] 

Box   Title Date
36   Ledger (bound) 1891-circa 1905
36   Ledger (bound) circa 1902-circa 1906
Box   Title Date
37   Ledger circa 1891-circa 1923

Financial Records - Mortgage Investments - General Agents' Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
38   Taubes-Goldstein Farm (CT) 1910
38   28-28 1/2 Bowery 1908-1915
38   45 Morton Street 1902-1912
38   72 7th Street 1906-1914
38   94 East 7th Street 1909-1915
38   115-117 E. Broadway 1905-1915
38   177 Stanton Street 1905-1915
38   332-334 West 85th Street 1914-1915
38   335 East 16th Street 1909-1912
38   361-363 West 27th Street 1906-1915
Box   Title Date
39   419 East 6th Street 1906-1915
39   Miscellaneous 1906-1915
39   Miscellaneous 1914
39   7-9 West 18th Street 1906-1915
39   71 Amsterdam Avenue 1913-1915
39   226 2nd Avenue 1907-1915
39   1042 Southern Blvd. 1912-1915
39   1306 Madison Avenue (Hotel Ashton) 1914-1915
39   Miscellaneous 1903-1915
Box   Title Date
40   Miscellaneous 1913-1915
40   Miscellaneous 1913-1915
40   Miscellaneous 1914
40   Miscellaneous 1914-1915
40   Miscellaneous 1915
40   Miscellaneous 1915
40   52 East 89th Street 1910-1915
40   67-69 East 112th Street 1905-1915
40   82-84 East 110th Street 1905-1915
Box   Title Date
41   101 West 115th Street 1906-1915
41   108 West 17th Street 1906-1915
41   139-141 8th Avenue 1906-1915
41   237-239 Eldridge Street 1906-1915
41   276-288 Street, Annes Avenue 1907-1915
41   464 Central Park West 1914
41   713-715 East 9th Street 1906-1915
41   Miscellaneous 1906-1915
41   Miscellaneous 1907-1915
41   Miscellaneous 1908-1915
41   Miscellaneous 1909-1915
Box   Title Date
42   63-65 / 68-70 East 118th Street 1907-1915
42   99th and Madison 1907-1911
42   99th and Madison 1912-1915
42   143 West 90th Street 1914-1915
42   145 East 37th Street 1914-1915
42   178 West Houston Street 1910-1915
42   256-260 West 43rd Street/Miscellaneous 1910-1915
42   295-297 7th Street 1910-1915
42   321-325 West 55th Street 1912, 1915
42   513 East 13th Street 1910-1915
42   3605 Broadway 1910-1915
Box   Title Date
43   5th Avenue and 120th Street 1915
43   5th Avenue and 120th Street/1490-1500 5th Avenue/Miscellaneous 1906-1914
43   20 Orchard Street 1906-1915
43   174 Henry Street 1902-1915
43   234-236 Thompson Street 1906-1915
43   448-450 St. Nicholas Avenue 1908-1915
43   448-450 St. Nicholas Avenue 1915
Box   Title Date
44   Interest List 12/1/1913
44   21-23 First Avenue 1910-1914
44   64-66 Montgomery Street 1909-1915
44   107 West 120th Street 1906-1915
44   183-185 9th Avenue 1913-1926
44   234-236 Thompson Street 1914
44   238-244 East 118th Street 1907-1915
44   332-334 West 85th Street 1916
44   464 Central Park West 1914-1916
44   520-522 West 156th Street (2 folders) 1908-1926
44   1381-1385 5th Avenue 1911-1915
Box   Title Date
45   Crotona and Fairmount 1911-1915
45   304-306 West 149th Street 1913-1920
45   2350-2352 8th Avenue (Hotel Braddock) 1905-1919
45   Miscellaneous circa 1892-1919
45   Miscellaneous circa 1917-1919
45   Miscellaneous 1917-1920
45   Miscellaneous 1918-1919
Box   Title Date
46   20 Orchard Street 1907-1923
46   28 Bowery Street 1907-1923
46   226 2nd Avenue 1907-1923
46   677 West End Avenue 1917-1923
46   Miscellaneous (2 folders) circa 1917-1923
46   Miscellaneous (2 folders) circa 1923
Box   Title Date
47   Rejected Offers (3 folders) 1923

Financial Records - Mortgage Investments - Secretarial Correspondence in re Accounts 

Box   Title Date
48   Miscellaneous 1923
48   Miscellaneous 1921-1923
48   Miscellaneous 1920-1923
48   Miscellaneous 1917-1923
Box   Title Date
49   Broker Requests for Loans (misc. properties) (2 folders) 1924
49   2 West 120th Street/1490-1494 5th Avenue 1907-1924
49   Miscellaneous 1924
49   Miscellaneous (2 folders) 1923-1924
Box   Title Date
50   91-97 East 3rd Street 1908-1924
50   Miscellaneous 1916-1924
50   Miscellaneous 1921-1924
Box   Title Date
51   Miscellaneous (3 folders) circa 1916-1925
51   Miscellaneous (3 folders) circa 1924-1926
51   307-309 West 80th Street 1916-1925
Box   Title Date
52   1383-1385 5th Avenue 1914-1925
52   Miscellaneous (3 folders) circa 1915-1926
52   Miscellaneous circa 1923-1926
52   Miscellaneous (2 folders) circa 1917-1927
Box   Title Date
53   Miscellaneous 1915-1927
53   Miscellaneous (2 folders) circa 1922-1927
53   Miscellaneous (2 folders) 1922-1927
53   Miscellaneous 1924-1927
Box   Title Date
54   Miscellaneous circa 1912-1928
54   Miscellaneous circa 1914-1928
54   Miscellaneous circa 1917-1928
54   Miscellaneous circa 1927-1928
54   Miscellaneous (3 folders) circa 1928
Box   Title Date
55   Miscellaneous circa 1923-1929
55   Miscellaneous (3 folders) circa 1924-1929
55   Miscellaneous circa 1925-1929
55   Miscellaneous circa 1928-1929
55   Miscellaneous (2 folders) circa 1929
Box   Title Date
56   Miscellaneous circa 1922, 1930
56   Miscellaneous circa 1925, 1930
56   Miscellaneous (5 folders) circa 1930
Box   Title Date
57   Miscellaneous (6 folders) circa 1931
Box   Title Date
58   Miscellaneous (4 folders) circa 1931-1932
Box   Title Date
59   Miscellaneous (6 folders) circa 1932
Box   Title Date
60   Miscellaneous (7 folders) circa 1933

Immigrants and Immigration  

Box   Title Date
61   Statistics: General Reports [See also OS2] 1905-1916
61   Statistics: Baltimore, MD 1905-1912, 1914
61   Statistics: Boston, MA 1905-1914
61   Statistics: Galveston, TX 1909
61   Statistics: New York, NY 1906-1909, 1911
61   Statistics: Philadelphia, PA 1905-1911
Box   Title Date
62   Statistics: Cheder Table 1893
62   Statistics: Industry Survey n.d.
62   Statistics: Jewish Census 1890
62   Statistics: Jewish Population Survey (U.S.) n.d.
62   Statistics: Reports undated, 1890-1911
62   Correspondence (Administrative) (2 folders) 1890-1908
62   Correspondence (Administrative) (2 folders) undated, 1909-1911, 1914, 1923-1924, 1932
62   in re Galveston, TX 1910
62   Reports, “Jewish Charitable Activities in Russia” circa 1910
Box   Title Date
63   Agricultural Bureau undated, circa 1892-1914
63   Agricultural Bureau undated, 1915, 1928-1929
63   Brooklyn Hebrew Education Society 1899-1909
63   Brooklyn Hebrew Education Society 1910-1917
63   Brooklyn Housing 1898
63   English Classes undated, 1890-1900, 1913-1914
63   “Exhibition of Jewish Life on Farms and in Small Cities,” General 1906
63   “Exhibition of Jewish Life on Farms and in Small Cities,” Correspondence (2 folders) 1905-1906
63   “Exhibition at Panama Pacific International Exposition” 1912-1915
63   “Exhibition at Paris Exposition” 1900-1901
63   “Exhibition at the St. Louis World’s Fair” 1904-1905
63   Outreach Activities undated, 1906-1932
63   Public Baths undated, 1891-1897, 1915
63   School for Laundry Skills 1890
63   Student Loans undated, 1919-1930
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Series II: Jewish Farming Colonies, undated, 1882-1928.

Boxes 64-66
Arrangement:

Arranged by general documentation on American (in alphabetical order), Canadian, and Mexican colonies, and then the state of New Jersey by town.

Scope and Content:

Series II includes documentation on the dozens of agricultural colonies started or subsidized by the Fund across the United States and into Mexico and Canada.

General 

Box   Title Date
64   Listing 1915
64   California 1891
64   Connecticut - Chesterfield 1892-1915
64   Connecticut - Colchester undated, 1897-1925
64   Florida undated, 1892
64   Louisiana 1882
64   Michigan - Bad Axe (Beth El Hebrew Relief Society) undated, 1891-July, 1897
64   Michigan - Bad Axe (Beth El Hebrew Relief Society) August, 1897-1923
64   Minnesota 1891
64   New York - Gennessee Valley 1902
64   North Dakota - Devil's Lake 1889-1890
64   North Dakota - Painted Woods undated, 1885-1891
64   North Dakota - Willow City 1890-1891
64   Oregon (Montefiore Agricultural Aid Society) 1883-1928
64   Pennsylvania - Johnsburg undated, 1891-1895
64   South Dakota - Watertown undated
64   Texas - Galveston 1891, 1910
64   Texas/New Mexico/Arizona 1891
64   Washington - Spokane 1896
64   Canada 1897
64   Mexico 1891

General - New Jersey 

Box   Title Date
65   General undated, 1897-1907
65   Alliance undated, 1870-1914
65   Bridgerton 1914-1915
65   Carmel undated, 1893-1915
65   Carmel - Murder Case 1900
65   Carmel - Schlosberg, Poiser 1900-1913
65   Carmel/Millville - Morais Mortgages undated, 1889-1910
65   Carmel/Millville - Seitzchick, Harris 1902-1903
65   Carmel/Rosenhyn - Evening School undated, 1892-1893
65   Hightstown 1891
65   New Orange (Kenilworth) 1897-1904
65   New Orange (Kenilworth) 1905-1907
65   New Orange (Kenilworth) undated, 1905-1915
Box   Title Date
66   Norma 1914-1915, 1928
66   Palmyra 1898
66   Rosenhayn 1905
66   Toms River 1925
66   Vineland 1899
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Series III: Jewish Agricultural Society, undated, 1892-1981.

Boxes 67-85.
Arrangement:

This series is arranged into two sections, "History of American Jewish Farming" and Administrative records. All materials appear in alphabetical or chronological order under those headings.

Scope and Content:

Series III encompasses student requests for financial aid, administrative reports and meeting minutes, materials on several Jewish farming colonies subsidized through the JAS, and articles and clippings documenting the work of the Jewish Agricultural Society.

"History of American Jewish Farming" (Book) 

Box   Title Date
67   General (2 folders) undated, 1928-1964
67   Book Draft circa 1950
67   Correspondence undated, 1945-circa 1978
67   Notes and Rough Drafts undated, circa 1965
67   Notes and Rough Drafts undated, circa 1979

"History of American Jewish Farming" (General) 

67   Jews in American Agriculture 1954
67   "Our Jewish Farmers" Correspondence 1943
67   "Yoval: Symposium on 50 Years of Jewish Farming in New Jersey" 1932

Administrative 

Box   Title Date
68A   By-Laws undated, circa 1908
68A   Correspondence circa 1898-1899, 1907
68A   Correspondence undated, 1900-1913
68A   Correspondence 1914-1923
68A   Correspondence 1924-1927
68A   Correspondence 1928-1929
68A   Correspondence 1929-1934
68A   Financial Statements circa 1907-1929
Box   Title Date
68B   Incorporation Papers undated, 1892-1900
68B   Meeting Minutes Index (2 folders) undated
68B   Meeting Minutes Board 1900-1903
68B   Meeting Minutes Special Executive Committee 1902
Box   Title Date
69   Community Farmers Inc.(bound) 1930-1941
69   Jewish Farm Jokes undated
69   Levine, Herman (2 folders) undated, 1918-1981
69   Monthly Reports circa 1945, 1961-1963
69   Staff Material undated, 1918-1978

Administrative - Minutes 

Box   Title Date
70   Meeting Minutes (bound) Oct. 1903-Dec. 1906
70   Meeting Minutes (bound) Jan. 1907-Jan. 1910
Box   Title Date
71   Meeting Minutes (bound) Jan. 1910-Jan. 1913
71   Meeting Minutes Feb. 1913-Dec. 1913
71   Meeting Minutes Jan. 1914-Dec. 1915
Box   Title Date
72   Meeting Minutes Dec. 1915-April 1917
72   Meeting Minutes (2 folders) Jan. 1916-Dec. 1918
72   Meeting Minutes (2 folders) Feb. 1919-Nov. 1923
Box   Title Date
73   Meeting Minutes (2 folders) Dec. 1923-Nov. 1927
73   Meeting Minutes (4 folders) Jan. 1928-May 1938
Box   Title Date
74   Meeting Minutes (2 folders) Oct. 1938-Feb. 1943
74   Meeting Minutes (2 folders) April 1943-Sept. 1948
74   Meeting Minutes (2 folders) Nov. 1948-Feb. 1952
Box   Title Date
75   Meeting Minutes (“Includes Jewish Poultry Farmers' Association of South Jersey”) (2 folders) April 1952-April 1955
Box   Title Date
76   eliminated during re-processing

Administrative - Annual Reports 

Box   Title Date
77   Annual Reports (bound) 1900-1909
77   Annual Reports (bound) 1910-1920
77   Annual Reports (bound) 1920-1929
77   Annual Reports (bound) 1930-1939
77   Annual Reports (bound) 1940-1949
77   Annual Reports (bound) 1950
Box   Title Date
78   Annual Reports (loose) 1901-1910 (1905-1907 missing)
78   Annual Reports (loose) 1912-1921
78   Annual Reports (loose) 1922-1933 (1925 missing)
78   Annual Reports (loose) 1934-1948
78   Annual Reports (loose) 1949-1959 (1953-1954 missing)

Administrative - Financial Records 

Box   Title Date
79   General Mailings undated, 1972-1974
79   Agreement with Baron de Hirsch Fund 1903
79   Correspondence (2 folders) 1924-1954
79   Loans (1 bound) undated, circa 1958
79   Loan Ledger (bound) 1947-1971

Administrative - Student Aid 

Box   Title Date
80   Loans - Applications, A-F circa 1940-circa 1970
80   Loans - Applications, G-K circa 1940-circa 1970
80   Loans - Applications, L-S circa 1940-circa 1970
80   Loans - Applications, T-W circa 1940-circa 1970
80   Loans - Correspondence 1926-1928

Administrative - Student Aid Scholarships 

Box   Title Date
80   Cornell Agricultural School - A. Cohen 1930-1935
80   Delhi Agricultural School 1927-1929
80   Delhi Agricultural School 1929-1933
Box   Title Date
81   Farmingdale, L.I., General undated, 1926-1929
81   Farmingdale, L.I., Students, A-G circa 1930-1935
81   Farmingdale, L.I., Students, I-L circa 1930-1935
81   Farmingdale, L.I., Students, M-Ste circa 1930-1935
81   Farmingdale, L.I., Students, Stu-Z circa 1930-1935
81   Rutgers - D. Rubinoff 1926-1927

Administrative - Farming Colonies 

Box   Title Date
82   California 1949-1965
82   Delaware 1957-1962
82   Ellenville, NY (2 folders) 1928-1945
82   Florida undated, 1952-1962
82   Midwest undated, 1918-1980
82   New England undated, 1950-1964
82   New Jersey (2 folders) undated, 1948-1981
82   New York (2 folders) undated, 1918-1962
82   Sholem (Ellenville, NY) undated, 1964-1973
Box   Title Date
83   General undated, 1903-1945
83   Farm Reports undated, 1918-1966
83   Inter-County Farmers’ Cooperative undated, 1924-1963
83   Jewish Women Farmers undated, 1948
83   Kanfer Case 1976-1977
83   Ulster and Sullivan County General undated, 1926-1963
83   Ulster and Sullivan County Reports 1919-1932
83   Victory Cadet Corps undated, 1931-1976
Box   Title Date
84   Photos removed to photo collection
Box   Title Date
85   Articles and Clippings, (2 folders) undated, circa 1930-circa 1969
85   Publications and News Releases undated, 1945-1959
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Series IV: Woodbine Colony, undated, 1890-1948.

Boxes 86-124.
Scope and Content:

Series IV contains administrative reports and correspondence between Fund officials and representatives in Woodbine, NJ, reports and memoranda regarding farmers and farming conditions in the colony, correspondence with property holders, documents concerning the acquisition of land lots and licenses, and expense ledgers and financial records of the Fund's activities in Woodbine. Also included are administrative records and blueprints of businesses and utility companies located in Woodbine, as well as topical files containing information on the viewing of motion pictures in Woodbine and various associations and organizations that were represented in the colony.

Administrative - Articles 

Box   Title Date
86   Articles 1903-1959

Administrative - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
86   General 1893-1925
86   General 1894-1930
86   in re Articles 1900-1925
86   in re Official Site Visits 1900-1925

Administrative - Correspondence in re Woodbine Committee

Box   Title Date
86   General 1925-1932
86   Eugene Benjamin (Managing Director) undated, 1925-1926

Administrative - Histories 

Box   Title Date
86   Histories (Various) undated, 1905-1934

Administrative - Reports 

Box   Title Date
86   Report 1892-1899
86   Report 1900-1914
86   "Mr. Bowman on Two Days Spent in Woodbine" 1931
86   of Special Committee 1925
86   to President, Woodbine Land and Improvement Co. 1895-1897
86   Woodbine Committee - Meeting Minutes 1925-1935

Farmers and Conditions - General 

Box   Title Date
87   General undated, 1917

Farmers and Conditions - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
87   JCA Information Bureau for Immigrants 1906
87   Workingmen’s Association 1905
87   in re Census 1915, 1925
87   in re Establishing Poultry Farms 1925
87   in re IRO Family Assistance 1905-1910
87   in re Land Selection (petition included) 1890-1891
87   in re Non-Jewish Farmers 1905-1914
87   in re Pasture Land (petition included) 1908
87   in re Population 1931
87   in re Removal of Families from Europe 1902-1905
87   in re Reuniting Families 1901
87   in re Settling Romanians 1900-1918

Farmers and Conditions - General 

Box   Title Date
87   Farmer Protests 1892-1905
87   Farmers - General 1902-1905
87   Farmers - General 1906-1909
87   Farmers - General 1910-1919
87   Farms - General 1910, 1925
87   Mosquito Problems undated, 1912
87   Nationality Statistics undated
87   Woodbine Farmers’ Association 1905-1911

Land Lots and Licenses 

Box   Title Date
88   Borough Streets 1898-1914

Land Lots and Licenses - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
88   in re clearing and filling lots 1904-1914
88   in re deed violations undated, 1902-1909
88   in re deed violations (William Eisenberg) circa 1910-1912
88   in re specifications undated, 1908-1919
88   in re street plans [See also OS2] undated, 1903-1915
88   in re survey 1907-1925
88   in re town lots undated, 1895-1925
88   in re Woodbine Lake 1912

Land Lots and Licenses - Farm Roads 

Box   Title Date
88   Condition of 1906-1915

Land Lots and Licenses - Liquor 

Box   Title Date
88   Licenses undated, 1894-1906
88   Licenses 1907-1913
88   Prohibition Law Violation (Moonshine) 1919

Deeds/Indentures 

Box   Title Date
88   Sample Deeds/Indentures undated, circa 1893-circa 1900

Woodbine Park Site 

Box   Title Date
88   General undated, 1906-1913
88   Indenture 1906

Utilities 

Box   Title Date
89   Antigo Gas Co. undated, 1912
89   Coal Trestle - Correspondence 1910-1925
89   Electrical Wiring 1912-1925
89   Gas Franchise 1911-1915

Utilities - Power House 

Box   Title Date
89   Account Receipts 1924-1926
89   Bills 1925
89   Board of Public Utilities Commissioners 1910-1911
89   Construction of 1902, 1906
89   Correspondence 1904-1906
89   Correspondence 1907-1910
Box   Title Date
90   Correspondence 1911-1913
90   Correspondence January-June, 1914
90   Correspondence July-December, 1914
90   Correspondence 1915-1919
90   Correspondence January - September, 1925
90 Correspondence October - December, 1925

Utilities - Expense Ledger 

Box   Title Date
91A   Expense Ledgers circa 1909-circa 1918
91A   Expense Ledgers circa 1919-circa 1928

Utilities - Blueprints [See also OS1 and OS2] 

Box   Title Date
91B   "Cottages for the Woodbine Land and Improvement Co." (4 prints) March 1908
91B   "Retaining wall for Power House" April 1908
91B   "Woodbine Fire House" (2 prints) Aug., 1910
91B   "Woodbine High School" Sept., 1913
91B   "Woodbine Lake" May 1912
91B   "Steam piping in Power House" June 1910
91B   "Ground floor plan (inc. warehouse, machine shops, foundry)" March 1897
91B   "Power House trestle" July 1909
91B   "Woodbine Avenue" undated
91B   "15in. Standard C.I. Beam Separator (Woodbine Land and Improvement Co.)" July 1909
91B   "Woodbine plan showing property to be augmented from Woodbine Land and Improvement Co." April 1906
91B   "Detail of 15in. C.I. Beam Spacing (Woodbine Land and Improvement Co.)" July 1909
91B   "Proposed foundry building" March 1909
91B   "Piping for M.L. Bayard and Co." circa 1910
91B   "Tower for water tank at Power House" Nov. 1911

Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
92   General (3 folders) undated, 1893-1931
92   Banking 1912
92   Board of Trade 1904
92   Budget 1908
92   Cape May Fair Association 1903-1921
92   Collector’s Office 1910-1915
92   Council (Woodbine) 1905, 1914, 1927
92   Educational Alliance of Woodbine 1912
92   Electricity 1904-1914
92   Factory #2 (M.L. Bayard?) 1904
92   Factory #5 (Kahn Bldg.?) 1914-1919
92   Factory #6/7 1904-1919
92   Farm Road Repair 1913
92   Fire Department (Volunteer) 1904-1914
92   Hat Factory 1914-1915
92   Home Seekers’ Club 1904, 1907
92   Hospital 1903, 1909
92   Housing Construction 1908-1910
92   Independent Order of B’rith Shalom Lodge 67 1907
92   Industrial Conditions 1897, 1914-1915
92   Lake (Woodbine) 1912
92   Levin, Jacob 1914
92   Liquor License Violations 1905-1910
92   Lodge (Woodbine) 1915
92   Mortgage Applications undated, 1914-1915
Box   Title Date
93   Park (Woodbine) 1905-1911
93   Park (Woodbine) 1912-1913
93   Progressive League (Woodbine) 1929
93   Residents 1903-1914
93   re Sullivan’s (J.W.) article [See also OS1] 1905
93   Timber sale and theft 1909, 1913
93   Water Supply 1899-1909
93   Water Supply [See also OS2] 1910, 1913
93   Water Supply [See also OS2] 1914-1915

Board of Trade 

Box   Title Date
94   Certificate of Incorporation/Resolutions undated, 1904
94   Correspondence undated, 1904-1914
94   Correspondence 1915-1919
94   Correspondence 1919-1925

Factory Construction 

Box   Title Date
94   Contracts and Specifications undated, 1900-1901

Industry 

Box   Title Date
94   Correspondence, General undated, 1893-1919
94   Correspondence in re new industries undated, 1894-1907
94   Correspondence in re new industries 1908-1925
94   Payroll and wages 1905-1919
94   Reports undated, 1897-1898, 1906-1919
94   Subsidies from J.A.I.A.S. 1897-1911
94   Subsidies from J.A.I.A.S. 1904-1912

Finances 

Box   Title Date
95   Borough Incorporation 1897-1898, 1902-1903
95   Budget Committee 1918-1929
95   Collections 1910-1926
95   Correspondence in re Audit (G. Bookstaver, Asst. Sec.) circa 1924-1925
95   Correspondence of Levin, Jacob 1925
95   Correspondence in re Millville Trust Co. undated, 1924-1925
95   Correspondence in re Mortgages undated, 1914-1917
95   Correspondence in re Taxes 1905-1916
95   Statements 1894-1896
95   Tax Assessments (2 folders) [See also OS1] undated, 1898-1925
95   Woodbine Building and Loan Association 1919
95   Woodbine National Bank - Community Center cancelled checks 1929-1930

Financial Ledgers [OS1] 

Box   Title Date
96   Ledger 1891-1894
96   Ledger 1891-1901
Box   Title Date
97   Ledger 1893-1917
97   Ledger 1912-1921
Box   Title Date
98   Ledger 1895-1901
98   Ledger 1904-1911
Box   Title Date
99   Ledger 1901-1905

Accidents 

Box   Title Date
100   Blanco/Basch Cases 1909, 1912-1914
100   Greenwald/Breslow/Benson Cases 1913-1916, 1925
100   Stollnitz Case 1907-1910

Damages (Storms/Fires) 

Box   Title Date
100   Damages 1902-1913
100   Damages 1914-1915, 1925

Insurance 

Box   Title Date
100   Correspondence undated, 1896-1906
100   Correspondence 1912-1914
100   Correspondence 1914-1915, 1917
100   Correspondence 1925

Woodbine Land and Improvement Company 

Box   Title Date
101   By-Laws circa 1903
101   Certificates of Incorporation 1891, 1942
101   Meeting Minutes (bound) 1892-1903
101   Meeting Minutes (bound) 1903-1944
Box   Title Date
102   General 1892-1915
102   General 1904-1929
102   Capital Stocks 1891-1893, 1936
102   Certificate of Organization 1891
102   Community Center Report 1932
102   Dissolution 1943, 1948
102   Incorporation 1902-1903
102   Power Plant Purchase [See OS1] undated, 1926-1929
102   Stockholder’s Meetings 1901-1914, 1924-1925

Correspondence - Property Holders 

Box   Title Date
103   Alexanberg, Isaac undated, 1902, 1905
103   Alexenberg, Max undated, 1902-1907, 1915
103   Altman, Hyman and Fannie 1905, 1908-1909
103   Altman, Israel 1902
103   Axelrod, David 1914-1915, 1925
103   Baram, Benjamin and Becker, Max undated, 1912
103   Baram, Meyer 1914, 1917-1919
103   Basch, Abraham 1913
103   Bayard, M.L. 1895-1901, 1919
103   Becker, Isaac 1914-1915
103   Becker, Jeremiah 1913-1914
103   Behrman, Dr. I.P. 1908
103   Benzenowitz, Samuel undated, 1907
103   Benzenowitz, William and Joseph and Benson, Jacob 1903-1919
103   Berman, Louis 1908
103   Bloom, Harry 1903
103   Bluestone, Harry 1908-1914, 1925
103   Blume, Menase 1899
103   Boguchevsky, Martin undated, 1899, 1914-1915
103   Botwinick, Kalman and Benjamin 1909, 1913
103   Boyarsky, Isidor and Rebecca undated, 1914
103   Brailove, Simon 1908-1912
103   Brailowsky, Anna 1912-1915
103   Brailowsky, Isaac and Anna undated, 1900-1909
Box   Title Date
104   Braunstein, Malke 1902-1903, 1911-1914
104   Breslow, Abraham 1898, 1905-1906
104   Breslow, Barnet 1901-1902
104   Brotman, Abram 1901
104   Broude, Harris and Wolfson, Harry 1908-1909, 1914
104   Bruskoff, Samuel 1907-1909, 1915
104   Bushnell, Frederick 1906
104   Buznuk, William 1919
104   Castin, Isaac 1898
104   Chabak, Harry 1904
104   Charaga, Israel 1902
104   Chazan, David 1914
104   Chazan, Samuel 1919
104   Cohen, Abraham 1906
104   Cohen, Joseph H. 1909-1925
104   Cohen, Morris 1909
104   Cohen, Nathan 1914, 1918-1919
104   Collier, Hyman 1908-1910, 1914
104   Colliner, Harris 1902-1904
104   Cooper, Sarah and Anmuth, Sophie 1915-1916, 1920
104   Cornfield, Frank 1901-1903, 1910
104   Cornfield, I. 1903-1904
104   Cutler, David 1905
104   Cutler, Max 1914-1915
104   Cytron, Meyer 1905, 1914
104   Daichovsky, Solomon and Gitte 1913-1914, 1925
104   Danerhirsch, Leo and Ida undated, 1902-1910, 1919
104   De Cinque, Francesco 1909
104   De Santes, Subriso 1912
104   Diamond, Nachman 1893-1913
104   Dosovich, Harry 1908
104   Drachman, Aaron 1908-1909, 1914
104   Eby, Samuel 1904, 1910
104   Eckstein, Max 1897-1898
104   Edelstein, Lena 1905-1915, 1925
104   Edleman, Solomon and Toomin, Joseph 1903-1905
104   Eisenberg, Abram 1906-1907, 1913-1914
104   Eisenberg, Samuel 1925
104   Eisenberg, William 1897-1919
104   Faleck, Aaron 1906
104   Feinstein, Jacob 1906-1908
104   Feinstein, Mendel 1906
104   Feinstein, William 1902-1903, 1908
Box   Title Date
105   Feldman, Barney 1914
105   Feldman, George 1925
105   Feldman, Jacob and Sarah 1899-1915
105   Feldman, Jacob and M.L. Bayard undated, 1915
105   Feldman, Zlotta 1914
105   Felice, Garibaldi and Dominico Pampetti 1912-1914, 1919
105   Fine, Isaac 1913
105   Fish, Bernard and Ethel 1908, 1911-1912
105   Fisher, Elsworth 1893
105   Friedman, Abraham 1919
105   Friedman, Abram and Mary 1904-1907, 1912
105   Gertler, Sigmund 1902
105   Glayman, Max 1914
105   Glazer, Isaac 1896-1915
105   Goldberg, Marx 1895, 1902-1903
105   Goldberg, S.H. 1906-1908
105   Goldberg, Solomon undated, 1898, 1902
105   Goldfarb, Mayer undated, 1903-1913
105   Goldman, Nathan 1919
105   Goldstein, Harry 1909
Box   Title Date
106   Goldstein, Louis 1898-1909
106   Goldstein, Philip 1903
106   Goodman, Louis 1903
106   Gootman, Joseph 1902
106   Gould, Philip undated, 1902-1906
106   Greenstein, Samuel undated, 1901-1925
106   Grossman, Hirsch 1899
106   Grossman, Hyman undated, 1893-1917
106   Guller, Simion 1917-1919
106   Harris, W.K. 1910-1915
106   Henkensiefken, John A. 1912-1915
106   Hermann, Charles 1900-1902
106   Hirshkowitz, Jacob 1912
106   Horrowitz, Reubin 1910-1914
106   Hornstein, Meyer 1908-1909
106   Hornstein, Sallie 1897
106   Ingber, Isaac undated, 1904-1909
106   Itzkowitz, Harris 1908-1909, 1913
106   Jaffe, Harris 1897
106   Joffe, Joseph 1907
106   Kahanowitz, Nisim 1909-1910
106   Kahn, Nathan E. and Sylvester and Eliza Bishop undated, 1900-1925
Box   Title Date
107   Kaliner, Benjamin 1910
107   Kaplan, Isaac 1908, 1915
107   Kasufsky, Jacob 1912
107   Katz, Gussie 1901, 1909
107   Katz, Isaac undated, 1911, 1913
107   Katz, Joseph L. 1912-1913
107   Keilinson, Charles and Sania 1898, 1909
107   Kilienson, Hyman 1898
107   Kleinman, Jacob 1903
107   Kohen, Leib 1908-1909
107   Kotinsky, Joseph and Jacob 1905-1914
107   Krinsky 1925
107   Kurland, Samuel 1905-1906
107   Kusofsky, J. 1910
107   Lavin, Morris and Jacob Rubin 1902-1910
107   Levenson, Chazkel 1902-1903, 1907
107   Leventon, Samuel undated, 1900-1901
107   Levin, Hannah 1903
107   Levin, Jacob 1903
107   Levine, Moses 1903-1904
107   Levinthal, Rabbi B.L. 1904-1919
107   Levitt, Five 1905
107   Lifshitz, Israel 1905-1925
107   Lintner, Jacob and Esther 1925
107   Lipchiz, Hyman undated, 1911
107   Lipitz, Abraham and Israel Lerner 1902-1903
107   Lipman, Anna undated, 1893-1902
107   Lipman, Jacob undated, 1915
Box   Title Date
108   Lipman, Michael and Pincus, Joseph undated, 1904-1906
108   Lipman, William 1898, 1911, 1913
108   Lipschitz, Israel undated, 1900, 1917-1918
108   Lukashevsky, Mary 1901-1903
108   Malshenker, Jacob 1904-1905
108   Marcus, Abraham undated, 1902-1903
108   Marmer, Isaac 1902
108   Marshall, Randolph 1902
108   Martin, Frank 1899-1901
108   May, Joseph 1903
108   Medowie, Harry and Goldstein, Louis 1899, 1906, 1908
108   Mencher, Alta undated, 1903
108   Mendelsohn, Sarah undated, 1897-1905
108   Mirkin, Morris and Becker, Jeremiah undated, 1903-1910
108   Mirowitz, Morris undated, 1913
108   Moland, Harry 1909
108   Morrito, Dominico and Emi Dio DeSantis 1912-1915
108   Moskowitz, Max 1914
108   Mutchnick, Louis 1904-1905
108   Namyoth, Nathan 1915, 1919
108   Napodensky, Barnet, Hyman, and Gabriel 1901-1909
108   Neistadt, Abram and Annie 1901-1905
108   Orsi, Luigi undated, 1912-1919
108   Paul, Nathan 1903
108   Peretzman, Abraham 1897
108   Peretzman, Malka 1909
108   Pollack, Louis and Isaac 1901-1915
Box   Title Date
109   Potashnick, David and Simon Soffer 1896-1905
109   Potashnick, Joseph 1903-1904, 1915
109   Potashnick, Max and Sarah 1902-1919
109   Pressman, Harry and Samuel Bluestone 1914
109   Rabinowitz, Joseph 1901-1915
109   Reiner, Reuben and Jennie undated, 1910-1914
109   Riegler, Gus 1901
109   Rosenbaum, Jacob 1902-1903, 1915
109   Rosenfeld, Abraham 1903-1925
109   Rosenfeld, Herman and Katie 1899-1915
109   Rosenthal, Joseph 1905
109   Sabsin, Levy and Bessie undated, 1893-1914
109   Sabsovich, Hirsch L. 1893-1906
109   Salzman, Chana and Douglas Robinson and Wolf Brezner 1893-1908
109   Schiff, Philip 1905-1909
Box   Title Date
110   Schmidt, Rachel 1897-1908
110   Schneider, Aaron 1904
110   Schofield, Philip 1913
110   Schutzberger, Samuel 1913-1919
110   Schwartz, Israel undated, 1910-1911
110   Segal, Rachel and William 1901-1902
110   Seigal, Wolf 1895
110   Shapiro, Jacob 1906, 1910
110   Shapiro, Louis 1902-1921
110   Sherr, Morris 1907
110   Shleifstein, Abram and I.V. Stone and Mary Waldman undated, 1902-1914
110   Shochotovitz, Joseph 1899-1903
110   Shubin, Lewis 1893-1907
110   Siegal, Abraham 1913
110   Siegal, Max 1913-1914
110   Siegel, Blume and Annie Pircus 1901
110   Silberman, Barnet 1897-1908
110   Silberman, Simon and Meyer Simonowitz 1900
110   Simonovitz, Marcus 1898, 1908
110   Sobel, Lewis undated, 1910-1920
110   Soffer, Simon 1914
110   Spector, Ira 1902-1905
110   Spector, Zauwel 1898
110   Spiegel, Samuel 1892-1893
110   Spritzky, Hill 1914-1915
110   Stein, Harry 1908-1909
110   Stephenson, Arthur H. and Samuel Kolechman 1901-1902
110   Ster, John 1919
110   Stone, Samuel E. 1918
110   Sturim, Heinich undated, 1915
110   Subber, Morris undated, 1901, 1912-1915
110   Stein, Morris and Philip Schiff 1904-1914
110   Swartz, Samuel 1906-1907
110   Swilling, Michael 1904
Box   Title Date
111   Tcherneshafsky, Zala and Benjamin and Henry Greenberg undated, 1902-1919
111   Toister, Isaac 1925
111   Tomlin, Charles 1903
111   Toomin, Joshua and Chava 1898-1904
111   Trachtman, Sarah undated, 1912-1913
111   Traiman, Rose 1901
111   Wall, Benjamin 1905-1907
111   Warschawer, Lena 1902-1905
111   Weiner, Charles 1900-1901
111   Weiner, Edward 1904-1905
111   Weiner, M.D. and Rosetta 1914
111   Weinstein, Harris 1914-1915
111   Weiss, Julius 1902-1905
111   Welshinsky, Barnet undated, 1899, 1902
111   Wentzell, Levi 1903
111   Westler, Jacob 1897
111   Wiener, Isaac 1903
111   Wiezle, Ellis 1903-1907, 1913
111   Wigman, Morris and Jacob Katarinsky 1909, 1914
111   Wilnitzky, Morris 1907
111   Witt, Emanuel undated, 1925
111   Wolkovisky, Solomon 1904-1905
111   Woodlinger, Samuel undated, 1919
111   Yarrow, Joseph 1919
111   Yudizky, William B. 1906-1911
111   Zass, Julius and Joseph 1914
111   Zchariovitch, Ziril undated, 1902-1909
111   Zellenmayer, Reuben 1903-1905
111   Zimmerman, Max 1914-1915
111   Zolot, George, Charles, and Simon 1898, 1900
111   Zuchovitz, Achilles 1909
111   Zucker, Berta and Joseph undated, 1914

Woodbine Companies 

Box   Title Date
112   A.N. Horowitz Co. 1901-1909
112   Bushnell and Westcott undated, 1899-1907
112   Coast Knitting Co. 1907-1911
112   Coast Knitting Co. 1911-1914
112   Coast Knitting Co. undated, 1914-1915
112   Community Hat Works Inc. 1916-1917

Woodbine Companies - Daniel and Blumenthal 

Box   Title Date
113   Correspondence in re contract/deeds 1904
113   Correspondence in re factory transfer to Rabinowitz 1904-1906
113   Correspondence in re houses 1900-1902
113   Correspondence in re loan 1901
113   Correspondence in re lots, deeds, mortgages undated, 1900-1901
113   Correspondence in re lots, deeds, mortgages 1902-1904
113   Correspondence in re payroll and employees 1902-1904
113   Correspondence in re Rosen property foreclosure 1904-1905
113   Deeds 1896-1905
113   Miscellaneous undated, 1897

Woodbine Companies, continued 

Box   Title Date
113   Foster Paint and Varnish Co. undated, 1913
113   Guy Haas and Co. undated, 1894-1908
113   Hilton Co. 1913
113   Landsberg and Son circa 1901-1903
Box   Title Date
114   M.L. Bayard Co. 1896-1904
114   M.L. Bayard Co. 1905-1911
114   M.L. Bayard Co. 1913-1915
114   M.L. Bayard Co Correspondence in re labor relations and removal to Philadelphia 1910-1918
114   Morris, Imber, and Wertheimer 1902-1906
114   Morris Subber Co. 1906-1912
114   MRD Hat Co. 1919
Box   Title Date
115   MRD Hat Co. 1919
115   MRD Hat Co. 1920-1925
115   MRD Hat Co. Payroll 1919, 1925
115   Mt. Pleasant Manufacturing Co. 1896
115   Paper Box Factory (Harrowitz) 1911
115   Quaker City Knitting Co. 1901-1903
115   Quaker City Knitting Co. 1904-1906
115   Quaker City Knitting Co. 1907
115   Schoenman and Salsburg 1907
115   Soap Factory (Peretzman/Janofsky) 1908-1909
115   South Jersey Knitting Co. 1910-1915
115   South Jersey Underwear Co. 1903-1906
115   Standard Children's Clothing 1914-1916
115   Universal Lock Co. 1898-1900
Box   Title Date
116   Woodbine Antique Furniture Co. undated, 1910-1915
116   Woodbine Borough Clothing Co. 1919-1925

Woodbine Companies - Woodbine Children's Clothing Co. 

Box   Title Date
116   in re advertising/promotions 1906, 1910
116   in re building specifications undated, 1907-1908
116   in re construction of new factory 1907-1915
116   in re contracts/bankruptcy 1904-1909
116   in re financial matters 1907, 1913
116   in re insurance 1905-1915
116   in re job orders 1904-1915
Box   Title Date
117   in re labor relations undated, 1905-1909
117   in re labor relations 1909-1915
117   in re labor relations 1918-1920
117   in re lot applications undated, 1910
117   in re partnerships 1905-1915
117   partnerships - in re (factory) repairs 1904-1907
117   partnerships - in re subsidies 1904-1906
117   partnerships - in re subsidies (IRO) 1906-1910
117   partnerships - in re utilities 1905-1915

Woodbine Companies, continued 

Box   Title Date
117   Woodbine Cloak Co. undated, 1925
117   Woodbine Clothing Co. 1904-1909, 1925
117   Woodbine Hat Co. [See Box 118]
117   Woodbine Knitting Co. 1908-1912
117   Woodbine Knitting Co. 1912-1914
117   Woodbine Willow and Basket Co. 1894-1896
117   Zolot Brick Yard undated, 1899, 1906

Woodbine Hat Co. - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
118   in re Business Conditions 1905-1917
118   in re Factory Repairs and Additions 1905-1913
118   in re Factory Repairs and Additions 1914-1915
118   in re Insurance 1908-1915
118   in re Labor Relations 1905-1915
118   in re Mortgages, Loans, Contracts undated, 1904-1913
118   in re Mortgages, Loans, Contracts 1914-1915
118   in re Utilities undated, 1905-1915

Woodbine Hat Co. - Other 

Box   Title Date
118   Engineer’s Sketches 1914-1915

Railroad - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
119   Contracts in re West Jersey and Seashore Railroad Co. 1909-1911
119   in re Crossings 1907-1909, 1916
119   in re Fires 1904-1912
119   in re Freight and passenger service 1905-1914
119   in re Land 1894-1908
119   Miscellaneous 1904-1914

Legal and Internal Affairs - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
120   in re Adventures in Idealism - Sabsovich, Katherine 1921
120   in re Employment - Levin, Jacob 1909
120   in re Feldman-Geller Controversy 1907
120   Greenstein, Samuel (Woodbine Mayor) 1924
120   Hand, Robert to J. Feldman (Woodbine postmaster) 1901
120   in re Job Applications 1912-1914

Legal and Internal Affairs - Correspondence - Levin, Jacob  

Box   Title Date
120   personal - in re Loans and Mortgages 1925
120   in re Loans and Mortgages - Woodbine Children’s Clothing Co. - Rabinowitz, Joseph 1905-1909
120   in re Loans and Mortgages - Woodbine Children’s Clothing Co. - Rabinowitz, Joseph 1913-1917

Legal and Internal Affairs - Correspondence - Sabsovich, Hirsch L. 

Box   Title Date
120   Administrative 1914-1915
120   Personal 1906-1915
120   Personal (2 folders) 1914-1915

Legal and Internal Affairs - Other 

Box   Title Date
120   Correspondence and Report - Levin, Jacob S. 1915-circa 1930
120   Elections 1912-1919, 1924, 1933
120   Ordinances 1903-1917
120   Political Protests in re Eastern Europe 1919

Woodbine Community Center 

Box   Title Date
121   General undated, 1929

Woodbine Community Center - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
121   General undated, 1930-1932
121   Administrative 1929
121   Administrative 1930
121   Administrative 1931
121   Administrative 1932
121   Administrative 1933
121   Kixman and Bowman undated, 1930-1933
121   in re Planning for Center 1903, 1925

Woodbine Community Center, continued 

Box   Title Date
121   Financial Reports and Records 1929-1933
121   "Report" 1932
121   Statistics in re Nationality undated
121   Woodbine Club Dedication Program 1928

Board of Education - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
122   General (incomplete) 1901-1915
122   in re Bond Issues undated, 1914-1925
122   in re Educational Building 1904-1905
122   Miscellaneous 1904-1914
122   in re "Finnegan’s Report" 1925
122   in re Insurance 1906-1915
122   in re Lecture Programs; dedication exercises 1905-1912; 1914
122   in re Teachers and Equipment 1905-1912, 1925

Board of Education, continued 

Box   Title Date
122   Commencement/Student Activities 1908-1915
122   Deed/Correspondence 1896-1901
122   Elections (incomplete) 1901-1924
122   Financial Data 1919, 1929
122   Meeting Minutes 1904
122   Reports and Histories circa 1916, 1927,1934
122   Woodbine Land and Improvement Company - Legal Documents circa 1904-1912

Catholic Chapel 

Box   Title Date
122   Correspondence 1903-1906

Memorial Baptist Church 

Box   Title Date
122   Petition and Correspondence 1899

Talmud Torah-Hebrew School 

Box   Title Date
122   Correspondence 1905-1909, 1914-1915

Tipheres Israel Synagogue 

Box   Title Date
122   Correspondence 1904

Woodbine Brotherhood 

Box   Title Date
122   Correspondence undated, 1894-1902
122   Correspondence (incomplete) 1903-1925
122   Incorporation Papers/Lot Map undated, 1893
122   Program 1896

Woodbine Colony, continued 

Box   Title Date
123   Athletic Association undated, 1910
123   Building and Loan Association - Annual Reports 1908-1909, 1916
123   Cape May County Fair Association undated, 1894-1921

Colony for Feeble Minded Males 

Box   Title Date
123   Docia, John (patient) 1931-1932
123   Official Opening 1921
123   Utilities 1921

Woodbine Colony, continued 

Box   Title Date
123   Educational Alliance - Correspondence in re Library Utilities 1912
123   Evening School 1893
123   Founder’s Day Celebrations - Correspondence 1909
123   Health Care 1903-1919, 1925
123   Health Ordinances 1907-1912
123   Independent Order of Odd Fellows - Convention 1925
123   Jewish Relief Committee 1916-1919
123   Ladies Aid Society - Contribution Acknowledgements 1917
123   Memorial Celebration 1991
123   Motion Pictures 1909
123   Overseer of the Poor (R. Reiner) - Expenses 1903-1909
123   Post Office 1905, 1913-1914
123   Relief Association 1893, 1908-1909

State Institution for Feeble Minded Children 

Box   Title Date
123   Admissions 1921
123   Background Information undated, 1913-1918
123   Physician’s Residence 1921

Woodbine Colony, continued 

Box   Title Date
123   Transportation undated, 1921-1925
123   Volunteer Fire Company undated, 1908-1918, 1925

Woodbine Hotel 

Box   Title Date
123   Burnheim, Maurice and Maria 1895-1896
123   Correspondence, Administrative 1898-1903
123   Rosenfeld, Herman 1903-1907, 1919

Woodbine Colony, continued 

Box   Title Date
123   World War I Effort undated, 1917-1919
Box   Title Date
124   Eliminated during re-processing
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Series V: Woodbine Agricultural School, undated, 1893-1927.

Boxes 125-139.
Scope and Content:

Series V includes student applications for admission, inquiries and detailed information regarding student protests at the school. Also included are administrative reports and topical files documenting the dedication and closing of the school as well as information on other agricultural education programs extant at the time. Scholarships, student statistics, financial operations records, publications, and annual reports are included in the series.

Woodbine Agricultural School - Administrative Reports 

Box   Title Date
125   General undated, 1896-1905
125   General undated, 1905-1914
125   General 1901-1905, 1913-1915
125   C. Phelps 1904-1905
125   E. Tisserand 1897-1901, 1907
125   External 1899-1915
125   Superintendent 1899-1900
125   Superintendent 1901-1903
Box   Title Date
126   Superintendent (2 folders) 1904-1905
126   Superintendent (2 folders) 1906-1909
126   Superintendent 1910-1914
126   Superintendent 1915-1917
126   Sample Report Sheets circa 1899

Woodbine Agricultural School - Agricultural School Committee 

Box   Title Date
126   Correspondence in re closing school 1916-1919
126   Minutes and Correspondence 1904-1920
126   Reports 1905-circa 1916

Woodbine Agricultural School, continued 

Box   Title Date
127   Committee of Ten 1913-1914

Woodbine Agricultural School - Correspondence 

Box   Title Date
127   General Administrative undated, 1897-1909
127   General Administrative undated, 1904, 1914
127   General Administrative 1914-1921
127   Abramovitz, Isaac and Chana 1898-1914
127   Birkhahn, George 1921
127   Palitz, Bernard 1915, 1919

Woodbine Agricultural School, continued 

Box   Title Date
127   Accreditation of 1913
127   Agricultural Advice Requests 1918-1919
127   "Agricultural Education" (speech) undated
127   Agricultural Education in the U.S. undated, 1904-1916
127   Agricultural Education Programs 1913-1914
127   Articles and Clippings 1899-1917
127   Athletics 1913
127   Commencement 1903-1908
127   Conference on Agricultural Cooperation 1913
127   Dedication of 1900
Box   Title Date
128   Establishment of undated, 1893, 1897
128   Farmers' Week 1913
128   Female Education 1900
128   Fireman's Hospital Memorial Fund (Peekskill, N.Y.) 1918-1919
128   Founder's Day Celebration 1909
128   Grape-Pricing Controversy 1911
128   Greenhouse Specifications and Construction 1894-1911
128   History of undated, 1914

Woodbine Agricultural School - Inquiries 

Box   Title Date
128   in re School 1919-1920
128   in re School 1919-1921
128   in re School 1921-1925

Woodbine Agricultural School, continued 

Box   Title Date
128   Jewish Colonization Association Subsidies 1898-1914
128   Kashrut 1908, 1914
128   King's Park, N.Y. (Test Farm) undated, 1905-1906
128   Land Boundaries and Plots undated, 1907-1910
128   Land Rentals 1910
128   Livestock, Sale of undated, 1905-1915, 1921
128   Matron Position (e.g. house mother) 1906-1907

Woodbine Agricultural School - Model Farm 

Box   Title Date
128   Correspondence 1906-1907
128   Pest Control 1906

Woodbine Agricultural School, continued 

Box   Title Date
129   National Farm School (Philadelphia) 1899-1901, 1925
129   Nature Club Proposal 1912
129   Promotional Materials circa 1898-1918
129   Religious Education and Activities 1902, 1912-1914
129   Schedules for Curriculum 1904
129   Schedules for Meals, Courses 1909-1916
129   Soil Surveys and Reports undated, 1898-1905
129   Specifications and Construction 1899-1904
129   Specifications and Contracts undated, 1899-1911

Woodbine Agricultural School - Staff 

Box   Title Date
129   General 1900-1909
129   General 1911-1914
129   Inquiries and References 1919
129   Working Conditions 1906-1908, 1914
129   Tobacco Crops 1907-1909

Closing of Woodbine Agricultural School 

Box   Title Date
130   Disposal of Equipment 1919
130   Disposal of Goods and Equipment undated, 1918-1921
130   Financial Settlement (J. Cohen) 1920-1921
130   Greenhouses, Sale of 1919-1921
130   Insurance Coverage undated, 1912-1921
130   Land Sale and Rental undated, 1918-1921
130   Land Sale and Rental, S.E. Stone 1918-1920
130   Land Transfer to State of N.J. 1917-1921
130   Land Transfer to State of N.J. 1921
130   New Jersey Department of Health 1919
130   Security ("Watchmen") 1920
130   Subscription Cancellations 1918-1919
130   Weather Bureau 1919

Woodbine Agricultural School - Admissions 

Box   Title Date
131   Administrative Correspondence (incomplete) 1905-1920
131   Applications, A-K circa 1912-1915
131   Applications, L-Z circa 1912-1915
131   Statistics and Summaries undated, 1914-1915

Woodbine Agricultural School, continued  

Box   Title Date
131   Student Attendance Data undated, 1906-1915

Woodbine Agricultural School - Students 

Box   Title Date
131   Student Protests undated, 1900-1909
131   Student Protests 1911-1914
131   Student Protests News Clippings, (English and Yiddish) circa 1904
131   Inquiries in re 1909-1916
131   Inquiries in re 1919
131   Inquiries in re 1919-1921, 1925
Box   Title Date
132   Alumni Association undated, 1901-1903, 1912-1919
132   Contests, Prizes, Exhibits undated, 1904-1910
132   Correspondence (former students) 1905, 1910
132   Correspondence in re Farm Placement, non-students 1913-1914
132   Correspondence in re Farm Placement, non-students 1914
132   Correspondence in re Farm Placement, students undated, 1907-1919
132   Correspondence Girls’ Department 1897-1903
132   Correspondence in re Palestinian Colony, undated, 1919
132   Correspondence, Relkin, Samuel 1919
132   Correspondence in re Student Death 1912
132   Correspondence, in re Venereal Disease 1915
132   Correspondence and Reports in re Student Follow-Ups undated, 1905-1920
132   Directories undated, 1914-1915
132   Graduates 1893-1918
132   Graduates, World War I 1918-1920
132   Speech in re Superintendent’s (Sabsovich) Birthday 1899

Woodbine Agricultural School - Finances and Operations 

Box   Title Date
133   Budget undated, 1915-1916
133   Correspondence in re Accidents and Insurance 1912-1915
133   Correspondence in re Construction and Repairs undated, 1906-1914
133   Correspondence in re Finances 1901-1919
133   Correspondence in re Henry Geller - General undated, 1906-1912
133   Correspondence in re Henry Geller - Property 1907-1910
133   Correspondence in re Henry Geller - Settlement 1912
133   Salary Lists and Related Correspondence 1906, 1914-1916
133   Statements and Expenditure Lists undated, 1905-1919
133   Steam and Electricity 1914-1915
133   Utilities undated, 1908-1909
133   Utilities 1910-1916

Woodbine Agricultural School - Peekskill, NY 

Box   Title Date
134   General 1917-1923
134   General 1923-1924
134   Board of Health 1919
134   Caretaker (F. Tompkins) 1921
134   Construction and Utilities 1919-1921
134   Disposal of Goods and Equipment 1920-1921
134   Disposal of Property undated, 1920-1921
134   Expenses - General Statements 1917-1920
134   Expenses - Invoices 1917-1921
134   Expenses - R.H. Macy and Co. 1917
134   Expenses - Birkhahn, George 1917-1919
134   Expenses - Purmell, David 1919-1920
134   Expenses - Purmell, David 1921
134   Expenses - Rosen, Joseph 1917-1920
134   Injuries - E. Danneman 1920
134   Injuries - V. Ferrara 1920
134   Insurance 1919-1921
134   Livestock undated, 1918-1920
134   Matron (H. Senger) 1919
134   National Farm School Donations 1921
134   Paulding Farm 1917, 1919
134   Potashnik Claim for Damages 1918-1919
Box   Title Date
135   Purmell, David (Resignation) 1920-1921
135   Selection of Site undated, 1916-1918
135   Townsend Farm Acquisition 1916-1919
135   Townsend Farm Tax Assessments 1912-1921
135   Townsend Property Rentals undated, 1919-1921
135   Visits to the Farm 1919-1921
135   Well, Drilling of 1919

Woodbine Agricultural School - Delhi (Louisiana) Agricultural School 

Box   Title Date
136   Palitz, Bernard A. undated, 1919-1921

Woodbine Agricultural School - Delhi (New York) Agricultural School - Students 

Box   Title Date
136   Brounstein, Louis circa 1927
136   Brustein, Max 1926-1927
136   Friedland, Simon circa 1922
136   Frishman, Morris circa 1925
136   Gelfond, Irving circa 1927
136   Hochman, Irving circa 1924
136   Jobrack, Hyman circa 1922
136   Kahaner, Benjamin circa 1923
136   Katzman, Abraham 1923
136   Kleinstein, Elias circa 1923
136   Mamodes, Joseph circa 1925
136   Norkin, Samuel 1922
136   Shapiro, Isidor circa 1922-1923
136   Shilepsky, Percy circa 1923
136   Siegel, Louis circa 1923-1924
136   Tannenbaum, Joseph 1924
136   Victor, Edward circa 1923-1924

Woodbine Agricultural School - State Institution of Applied Agriculture (Farmingdale, Long Island) - Scholarship Applications 

Box   Title Date
136   General 1920-1921
136   "Dead End" 1918-1919
136   Pending circa 1921-1925
136   Rejected circa 1921-1923

Woodbine Agricultural School - State Institution of Applied Agriculture (Farmingdale, Long Island) - Scholarship Follow-Ups 

Box   Title Date
136   Correspondence 1924
136   Newspaper Advertisements - Correspondence 1921
136   Payments 1920-1922

Woodbine Agricultural School - State Institution of Applied Agriculture (Farmingdale, Long Island) - Scholarships 

Box   Title Date
136   Correspondence in re 1920
Box   Title Date
137   Axelrod, Samuel 1922
137   Benjamin, Abraham 1922
137   Benjamin, Israel 1921-1923
137   Berginsky, Benjamin 1923
137   Berman, James 1921
137   Bloom, Daniel 1919-1921
137   Boyer, Harry 1921-1922
137   Cohen, David undated, 1922-1924
137   Daniels, Nathaniel 1921-1922
137   Epstein, Irving 1921
137   Farhy, Leon 1926-1927
137   Gapin, George 1921-1922
137   Gitnik, Louis 1921
137   Goldberg, Barney 1920
137   Goldenbaum, Isidore 1920-1923
137   Goldenberg, Isaac undated, 1921-1924
137   Goldentyer, Nathan 1920-1921
137   Goldin, Herman Louis 1922-1923
137   Gottfried, Lawrence undated, 1925-1926
137   Gronich, Max undated, 1919-1920
137   Gropman, Benjamin undated, 1922
137   Hamerman, Samuel 1926
137   Izsak, Frank 1922-1923
137   Jacobson, Rubin 1921-1922
137   Jelinek, William 1923
137   Kogut, Julius 1921
137   Kraus, Philip 1923
137   Le Vann, Joe L. 1920-1922
137   Levine, Milton 1923
137   Levine, Yale undated, 1925
137   Luban, Milton undated, 1924-1925
137   Mandel, Samuel undated, 1925
137   Marcus, Samuel 1927
137   Meyers, Alfred undated, 1923-1925
137   Pearl, Philip F. undated, 1920-1922
137   Pinco, Jesse L. undated, 1920-1921
137   Rosenberg, LaSalle 1920-1921
137   Sackman, Louis undated, 1923-1925
137   Sbar, Robert 1920
137   Segall, Nathan undated, 1924-1925
137   Serebnick, Harry 1921-1922
137   Silverberg, David 1921-1923
137   Tumin, Martin undated, 1921
137   Weinberg, Arthur undated, 1923
137   Weiner, Felix 1921
137   Werier, Louis A. 1922