Finding
aid
for the National Travelers
Aid
Association records
0485
Finding
aid
prepared by Sue Luftschein
USC Libraries Special Collections
Doheny Memorial Library 206
3550 Trousdale Parkway
Los Angeles, California, 90089-0189
213-740-5900
specol@usc.edu
2011 July
Title: National Travelers
Aid
Association records
Collection number: 0485
Contributing Institution:
USC Libraries Special Collections
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.21 Linear feet
1 box
Date (inclusive): 1942-1982
Abstract: The National Travelers
Aid
Assocation records consist primarily of papers and reports produced by the national association, and by the Wilmington office
of the USO, in the 1940s and 1960s. Much of the material was collected by one of the caseworkers in the Wilmington office,
Lola Selby, who was in charge of Travelers'
Aid
. Of especial interest are the papers and reports on services to mobile populations, and the scrapbook documenting the founding
and activities of the Wilmington office of the USO during World War II.
creator:
National Travelers
Aid
Association.
Preferred Citation
[Box/folder# or item name], National Travelers
Aid
Association records, Collection no. 0485, California Social Welfare Archives, Special Collections, USC Libraries, University
of Southern California
Conditions Governing Use
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.
Conditions Governing Access
Advance notice required for access.
Scope and Content
The National Travelers
Aid
Assocation records consist primarily of papers and reports produced by the national association, and by the Wilmington office
of the USO, in the 1940s and 1960s. Much of the material was collected by one of the caseworkers in the Wilmington office,
Lola Selby, who was in charge of Travelers'
Aid
. Of especial interest are the papers and reports on services to mobile populations, and the scrapbook documenting the founding
and activities of the Wilmington office of the USO during World War II.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
National Travelers
Aid
Association. -- Archives
Brochures
Los Angeles County (Calif.)--Social conditions--Archival resources
Reports
Scrapbooks
Travelers'
aid
societies--California--Los Angeles County--History--Archival resources
Travelers'
aid
societies--United States--History--Archival resources
Lola Selby, "A Study of Community Resources and Facilities in the San Pedro Area"
1942 March 2
Wilmington USO [scrapbook]
1942-1945
Migrant Boy study
1945, 1982
Scope and Content
Accompanied by letter with reminiscences from Lola Selby to Ruth Britton.
"The Structure and Function of Travelers
Aid
"
1946 January
Isabelle Axenfeld, "Principles of Travelers
Aid
Casework Service to Children"
1961
Papers on Travelers
Aid
service to mobile populations
1962-1965
Scope and Content
"Emphases in Travelers
Aid
Casework Service" by Ruth Chaskel
"Discussion paper by G. Gary White...of a paper given by Ruth Chaskel, Emphases in Travelers
Aid
..."
"Services to Unsettle People: Migrants, Transients and Non-residents" by Savilla Millis Simons
"Effect of Mobility on Family Life: Address given by Ruth Chaskel at the National Conference on Social Work Casework Section"
"Service to Mobile and Uprooted People--A Field of Practice" by Ruth Chaskel
"Travel Service--A Specific of Travelers
Aid
Society" by Elaine Miller
"The Mobile Poor: Testimonty Presented at the National Conference on Poverty in the Southwest" by Ethel W. Jacobs
"Social Service for the Mobile Poor in Urban Areas" by Savilla Millis Simons
Also includes brochures (Travelers
Aid
Primer, A Social Service to Meet the Needs of Mobile People) and a reprint of Barbara Carter's "The Jalopy Nomads" from The
Reporter, May 7, 1964.