Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks, 1940s-1960s

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Summary

Title:
Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks
Dates:
1940s-1960s
Abstract:
This collection of scrapbooks originated with Family Service of Los Angeles Area and the Welfare Planning Council. The albums contain clippings regarding adoption; materials on the activities and functions of the Southeast Advisory Council of Family Service; the Welfare Planning Council; and the Neighborhood Youth Association of the Episcopalian Church. Also included is an album celebrating Evelyn Davis' nomination and reception of the Koshland Award. The dates of the scrapbooks' material range from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.
Extent:
20.0 linear ft. 11 boxes
Language:
English
Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name],Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks, Collection no. 0426, California Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Background

Scope and content:

This collection is an unusual assortment of scrapbooks originating, mainly, with Family Service of Los Angeles Area and the Welfare Planning Council. Five albums (from Family Service) contain solely clippings of newspaper stories about adoption from California newspapers. Album no. 3 has information identifying the agency that gathered these clippings for Family Service--Allen's. Two albums (nos. 6 and 7) contain materials on the activities and functions of the Southeast Advisory Council, Family Service. Two others concern the Welfare Planning Council: albums nos. 9 and 10, while album no. 8 concerns the Neighborhood Youth Association of the Episcopalian Church. Finally, album no. 11 celebrates Evelyn Davis' nomination and reception of the Koshland Award. The dates of the scrapbooks' material range from the late 1940s to the early 1960s.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Finding aid prepared by Rose Roberto, Clay Stalls
Date Prepared:
1999 December 1
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using the Archivists' Toolkit 2011-08-24T03:31-0700

Access and use

Restrictions:

Advance notice required for access.

Terms of access:

The use of archival materials for on-site research does not constitute permission from the California Social Welfare Archives to publish them. Copyright has not been assigned to the California Social Welfare Archives, and the researcher is instructed to obtain permission to quote from or publish manuscripts in the CSWA's collections from the copyright holder.

Preferred citation:

[Box/folder# or item name],Family Service of Los Angeles Area and Welfare Planning Council scrapbooks, Collection no. 0426, California Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University of Southern California

Location of this collection:
Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library, Room 209
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0411, US
Contact:
(213) 740-5900
specol@usc.edu
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