Judah L. Magnes Memorial Museum collection 1967-1991

This collection is comprised of calendars of events, invitations, programs, promotional fliers, pamphlets, brochures and press releases concerning upcoming events and programs. The following publications can also be found in this collection: Alameda County Newsletter (1967) and Magnes News (1981-1992)Founded in 1962, the Judah L. Magnes Museum explores the depth, vitality, and complexity of Jewish life and culture. The Magnes accomplishes this mission by presenting important exhibitions that draw on its rich collections of fine arts and ceremonial objects, the archives of the Western Jewish History Center, and the Blumenthal Rare Book and Manuscript Librar

Baron de Hirsch Fund records undated, 1870-1991.

Contains Deed of Trust, By-Laws, Annual Reports, Corporation Minutes (1909, 1913-1919, 1923-1924, 1926-1933), Minutes of the Board of Trustees (1893, 1899, 1907, 1910, 1915-1916, 1918, 1923, 1926-1927, 1930-1933), and the minutes, correspondence, and reports of the various national and local committees. Financial materials include income and expenditure records (1891-1933), audits (1919-1923, 1926-1928), the records of agricultural loans and mortgages, bond and real estate holdings, and bequests. Includes also correspondence and other materials regarding the establishment of the Fund, correspondence of and other papers concerning the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, and several histories of the Fund. Included in the wide range of activities are material on the work of the Agriculture Bureau and the Jewish Agriculture Society, Housing, English Classes, Immigration (including monthly reports for several ports of entry 1885-1916) and Immigrant Aid, German Refugee Aid in the early years of the Holocaust, Kings Park, N.Y. Test Farm, the Laundry Project, Peekskill Farm, Public Baths, Student Loans, the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, and the Woodbine Colony and Baron De Hirsch Agricultural & Industrial School. Contains also materials on the Colonization attempts made in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Galveston, Texas, The Southwest, Washington, Canada, and Mexico.Contains also correspondence with the Jewish Colonization Association regarding the work of the Fund, the National Council of Jewish Women, the Clara de Hirsch Home for Working & Immigrant Girls, the Jewish Agricultural Society, the National Farm School, the Trade School, Woodbine, and the foreign offices of I.C.A. in Argentina, Canada, Kiev, St. Petersburgh, and Vilna. There is included also an 1890 census of the population and a census of heder attendence of the Lower East Side of New York City, material on charitable work in Russia, and many letters requesting individual assistance.Includes correspondence and reports of about 150 national and local American Jewish organizations relating to work with immigrants. Of greatest significance are the Baltimore Hebrew Benevolent Society, Boston Hebrew Industrial School (later the Hecht House), National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives at Denver, Federation of Oriental Jews of America, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, National Conference of Jewish Charities, National Council of Jewish Women, National Farm School (later the Delaware Valley College of Science & Agriculture), (New York) Clara de Hirsch Home for Working & Immigrant Girls, New York Educational Alliance, New York Jewish Immigration Committee, New York Kehillah, New York United Hebrew Charities, and St. Louis Jewish Educational Alliance, and organizations in Atlanta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Denver, Hoboken, Indianapolis, Louisville, Memphis, New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Savanah and Scranton. Important individuals found in the correspondence include Cyrus Adler, Moses Aaron Dropsie, Lina Frank Hecht, Max J. Kohler, Joseph Krauskopf, Judah Leon Magnes, Louis Marshall, Julius Rosenwald, Jacob Henry Schiff, Adolphus S. Solomons, Oscar Solomon Straus, Arthur Hays Sulzberger, and Henrietta Szold. Contains also materials re Jewish communal life (1870-1890, 1911).Contains Deed of Trust, Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws, Board of Trustees and Executive Committee Minutes (1890-1933), and the Minutes of the Special Survey, Agricultural and Industrial Work, General Education, Improved Habitation, and Improved Housing Advisory Committees. Papers of the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, The Borough Homes Corporation, and the National Farm School are also included. Among the Woodbine Land and Improvement Company papers are its Certificate of Incorporation, By Laws, Minutes (1892-1894, 1903-1948), financial records, and items related to its dissolution. The Jewish Agricultural Society files include its Deed of Trust, Certificate of Incorporation, By Laws, financial agreement between the Hirsch Fund and the Society, Minutes (incomplete 1900-1955), Annual Reports (1900-1950), mortgage records, several histories of Jewish farming in the United States, and the papers of the Communite Farmers, Inc., the Home Special Fund, and the Jewish Agriculturists Aid Society of America.far031

Industrial Removal Office records undated, 1899-1922

Contains Board of Directors minutes (1903, 1907), Executive Committee minutes (1907), Removal Committee minutes (1903-1917), Annual Reports (1910, 1913), Monthly Reports (1901-1919), Monthly Bulletins (1914-1915), studies of those removed, Bressler's "The Removal Work, Including Galveston," and several papers relating to the IRO and immigration. Financial papers include a budget (1914), comparative per capita cost figures (1909-1922), audits (1915-1918), receipts and expenditures (1918-1922), investment records, bank balances (1907-1922), removal work cash book (1904-1911), office expenses cash account (1903-1906), and the financial records of other agencies working with the IRO (1906). Includes also removal case records of first the Jewish Agricultural Society (1899-1900), and then of the IRO (1901-1922) when it took over its work, family reunion case records (1901-1904), and the follow-up records of persons removed to various cities (1903-1914). Contains also the correspondence of traveling agents' contacts throughout the U.S. from 1905-1914, among them Stanley Bero, Henry P. Goldstein, Philip Seman, and Morris D. Waldman.The more important organizations whose correspondence is found in the collection are the American Immigration & Distribution League, American Jewish Committee, American Palestine Company (Samson Benderly), Baltimore Baron de Hirsch Committee, Baron de Hirsch Fund, Boston YMHA (Jacob de Haas), Brooklyn Hebrew Education Society, Brooklyn United Jewish Aid Society, Central Committee for the Relief of Jewish Sufferers in Russia, Chicago Hebrew Institute, Chicago Jewish Agriculturists' Aid Society, Denver National Jewish Hospital for Consumptives, Federation of American Zionists, Federation of Oriental Jews of America, Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, Jewish Agricultural Society, Jewish-Socialist-Territorialist-Labor-Party of America, Montreal Baron de Hirsch Institute & Hebrew Benevolent Society, National Committee for Relief of Sufferers of Russian Massacres, National Council of Jewish Women, National Desertion Bureau, National Farm School, National Liberal Immigration League, N.Y. Clara de Hirsch Home for Immigrant & Working Girls, N.Y. Educational Alliance, N.Y. Ellis Island Station of HIAS & UHC (Irving Lipsitch), N.Y. Emanuel Sisterhood, N.Y. Free Synagogue, N.Y. Hebrew Orphan Asylum, N.Y. Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society, N.Y. Henry Street Settlement, N.Y. Jewish Daily Forward (Abraham Cahan), N.Y. Jewish Daily News, N.Y. Jewish Immigration Committee, N.Y. Kehillah, N.Y. Provisional Executive Committee for General Zionist Affairs, N.Y. Roumanian Hebrew Aid Society, N.Y. Tenement House Committee.N.Y. United Hebrew Charities, N.Y. Workmen's Circle, N.Y. YMHA, North American Civic League for Immigrants, Philadelphia Independent Order of B'nai Sholom, Roumanian Relief Committee, U.S. Dept. of Labor Immigration Bureau, Woodbine Baron de Hirsch Agricultural School and the Zionist Organization of America. Correspondence with trade unions includes the I.W.W., I.L.G.W.U., Journeymen Tailors Union of America, N.Y. Joint Board of the Cloak & Shirtmakers Unions, N.Y. Pants Operators Union, United Cloth Hat & Cap Makers of North America, Omaha Tailors Union, and the St. Louis Cloak & Shirtmakers Union. In addition to the numerous local chapters of the Independent Order of B'nai Brith, there can be found the correspondence of local agents from throughout the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, as well as offers of employment that were either accepted or rejected. The Bureau of Information & Advice, established by the IRO to advise on business opportunities, conducted a nationwide survey in 1912 of the population and Jewish living conditions of large and small cities and towns. Other similar surveys were made by the IRO in 1906, 1907, & 1909. Contains also the correspondence from the Paris office of the Jewish Colonization Association (1901-1909, 1912-1922, from 1901-1903 with the Roumanian Relief Committee which the IRO absorbed) and with various Russian offices of ICA from 1909-1914. Correspondence from other foreign agencies, among them the Hebrew Immigration Society of St. John, Canada, is also included.In addition to letters of personal request from immigrants (1901-1922) and from persons seeking aid from abroad, the more prominent people whose correspondence is included are Jane Addams, Cyrus Adler, Reuben Arkush, Joseph Barondess, Samson Benderly, Eugene S. Benjamin, Nathan Bijur, Louis Brandeis, Abraham Cahan, John Foster Carr, Jacob de Haas, Charles Hallgarten, Alfred Jaretzki, Jeremiah Jenks, Max J. Kohler, Irving Lipsitch, Morris Loeb, Judah L. Magnes, Louis Marshall, H. Pereira Mendes, John Paley, Leon Sanders, Solomon Schechter, Jacob H. Schiff, Cyrus Sulzberger, William Howard Taft, Leo Weil, and Stephen Wise.Industrial Removal Office founded 1901--dissolved 1922.far031