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