The subseries contains 18 volumes of minutes of meetings of the Board of Trustees of the Orphan Asylum Society/Graham Home for Children (OAS) 1806-1974.

Minutes from 1822-1851 and 1975-1977 are missing. Some loose pages from the 1830's were interleaved with the 1887-1894 minutes, and remain with that volume (Vol. 4). An index to the minutes is available to researchers at the New-York Historical Society manuscript department.

Minutes are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from date of creation. Minutes older than one hundred years are open for research.

The Orphan Asylum Society merged with Windham Child Care in 1977 to become Graham Windham. For Minutes of Windham Child Care, see Series II.1. For post-1977 minutes of Graham Windham, see Series III.1. For OAS Committee Reports submitted to the Board, see Subseries I.5. For a 1973 board manual and other board-related administrative materials, see Subseries I.7.

The subseries contains loose copies of the act of incorporation, constitution, by-laws, rules and regulations, and extension of existance of the Orphan Asylum Society 1807-1944, arranged chronologically. Additional copies of some of these documents, including some from other years, are bound together with some annual reports in the following subseries, Subseries 1.3.

The subseries contains bound volumes and loose copies of annual reports of the Orphan Asylum Society (later Graham School of the Orphan Asylum Society, and then Graham Home for Children), 1806-1977. Bound volumes are arranged first, followed by loose copies. There are no loose copies of annual reports from 1824-1832, and there are no copies in any form of annual reports from 1908, 1937, 1942, 1947-1948, 1950-1957, 1960-1964, 1968-1969, 1972, and 1974.

Some of the early annual reports include the organization's constitution, by-laws, and minutes. One bound volume of annual reports has been bound with two speeches from 1821 and 1823. An index for the annual reports, as well as a summary of each annual report, is available to researchers at the New-York Historical Society manuscript department.

For annual reports of the Society for the Relief of Half Orphans and Destitute Children/Windham Child Care, please see Series II.

For annual reports of Graham Windham, formed in 1977 by the merger of the Graham Home and the Windham Child Care, please see Series III.

The subseries contains financial records (1808-1957, bulk 1820-1956) of the Orphan Asylum Society (1806-1929), renamed the Graham School (1929-1950) and Graham Home for Children (1950-1977), arranged by type and in rough chronological order. Most of the records are handwritten in bound volumes. Loose records are arranged in boxes after the volumes. The records are not inclusive. The names for types of records are not consistent. It is not always clear who created the records. Some records were kept by the Treasurer, some by the Assistant Treasurer, and some may have been kept by the Secretary, a board member, or the Superintendent.

Financial Records are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from their date of creation. Records older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries consists of five volumes of reports of the Visitor's Commitee (1842-1892), followed by two volumes of records and reports of the Investigating Committee (1900-1905), followed by one volume of records of the Correspondence Committee (1903-1922). The women of the Visitor's Committee visited the asylum regularly and reported their observations to the board. The Investigating Committee appears to have performed follow-up visits to children who had left the asylum, as well as investigations of children in the asylum. The Correspondence Committee recorded information about, and correspondence with, selected children who had left the asylum, following their lives for many years.

The volumes are followed by folders containing an inspection report by the State Board of Social Welfare (1935-36) forwarded to the Board, and a bound report of a visiting committee to the Board (1966).

Reports in this subseries are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from their date of creation. Records older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries contains records kept by the Superintendent of the Orphan Asylum Society, who was responsible for the day-to-day running of the OAS, and also contains other records relating to children and the school. Most of the material is in the form of bound volumes. Volumes are arranged by type, and then chronologically. Some additional volumes and loose materials are arrranged in folders after the volumes.

The titles of admission books/registers are not consistent, and some dates overlap. Some volumes are narrative records, with stories about each child, and these are labeled "narrative" in the container list. Others are chronological or alphabetical and provide demographic data. The "Superintendent's Journals" provide daily narrative reports of events at the OAS.

The records in this subseries are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from their date of creation. Records older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries consists of eight folders of documents followed by one volume, containing various records retained by the OAS/Graham Home. Materials include a letter to the Orphan Asylum (1892) requesting a baby girl by mail and a thank you note from the Director of the Menagerie of the Department of Public Parks thanking the boys of the Orphan Asylum for donating a screech owl. Both of these letters had been framed and displayed by the agency; they have now been removed from their frames for the purpose of conservation. Other materials in the subseries include a Board of Trustees manual, informational documents about the OAS, and employee records.

The records in this subseries are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from their date of creation. Records older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries consists of ten folders of brochures, pamphlets, programs, and newsletters, arranged by date, followed by published reports and books by administrators of the OAS/Graham School, and books by and/or about the OAS and its founders.

The subseries contains three boxes, and two additional folders in an oversize box, containing primarily photographic prints, as well as a smaller quantity of negatives, contact sheets, mock-ups for annual reports and brochures, two loose pages from a photo album, one ink sketch, and some paper materials related to the photographs and interfiled with them.

Subjects include children and activities at the OAS, benefits and other events, celebrity visitors, and annual report materials. Most photographs were created for publicity purposes or for internal documentation. Photographic formats include prints mounted on board or paper, many sizes of loose prints, and stereoscopic prints. Professional photographers represented in the collection include Alfred J. Merz and Daniel Berry, and there is one print by Lewis Hine. The materials were kept by the Development Department and were arranged by subject and date. Original folder titles have been maintained.

The subseries also contains one box of wooden printing blocks with negative images used in OAS printed materials circa 1910-1950's, and one scrapbook/photograph album documenting Black Solidarity Week 1974. The printing blocks and the scrapbook are arranged at the end of the subseries.

The subseries contains newspaper clippings and articles regarding the Graham School/Graham Home circa 1876-1977, and a set of bound copies of two periodicals from 1853-1856 --The Advocate and Guardian and The Child's Paper.

Additional pre-merger Graham Home clippings may be found in Subseries III.8 (in volume 216), along with post-merger clippings. Windham clippings are in Subseries II.6.

The series contains Minutes of the Society for the Relief of Half-Orphan and Destitute Children and its subsequent organizations (Windham Society for the Care of Boys, Windham Children's Services, Windham Child Care) from 1923-1977, up to the merger with the Graham Home for Children. Minutes from 1933-1945 are missing. Minutes prior to 1923 may be found at the Butler Library, Columbia University.

An index to the minutes is available to researchers at the New-York Historical Society manuscript department.

Minutes are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from date of creation. Minutes older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries contains 3 bound volumes of minutes of committees.

Minutes are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from date of creation. Minutes older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries consists of Annual Reports of the Society for the Relief of Half Orphans and Destitute Children, bound together in volumes, 1853-1937, and loose copies of Annual Reports of the organization 1868-1949 and its successor organization, Windham Children's Service, 1964-1973 (not inclusive).

An index to the annual reports is available to researchers at the New-York Historical Society manuscript department.

The subseries includes a pamphlet memorializing founder Eliza Tomlinson (1862), and three folders of administrative documents (1926-1976).

The pamphlet in Folder 1 is available for research. Folders 2, 3, and 4 are closed to the public for a term of one hundred years from date of creation. Documents older than one hundred years are open for research.

The subseries includes autographed original photographs of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, President Harry Truman, Mayor Robert Wagner, Adlai Stevenson, Leonard Bernstein, Danny Kaye, Emmett Kelly, and Elizabeth Arden, most signed "to the Windham Children." These photographs had been framed and displayed by the Windham agency, but have now been removed from their frames for conservation purposes. Researchers may view photocopies of these signed portraits, not the originals.

The subseries does not include photographs of the Windham Agency. However, a few photographs from the agency before its merger with the Graham Home may be found arranged with post-merger photographs in Box 89, Folder 6 of Series III.9.

The subseries contains 6 bound volumes of minutes of meetings of the Graham-Windham Board of Directors, 1977-2000, followed by 4 boxes of board minutes and related materials 1983-1999.

The boxed material includes duplicates of the minutes in the bound volumes, as well as related material not found in the volumes. The boxed material may have been kept by the Development Department or another department. Original folder titles have been retained. Minutes from 1982 September - 1983 October are not in a bound volume, but may be found in box 29.

An index to the minutes is available to researchers at the New-York Historical Society manuscript department.

Records in this subseries are closed to the public for a period of 100 years from the date of their creation.

The subseries contains minutes and meeting materials of the Executive Committee 1987-1998, the Personnel Committee 1989-2000, the Finance Committee 1982-2000, the Executive Council 1997, the Fund Development Committee 1988-1998, the Cultural/Recreational Committee 1989, the Capital Campaign Building Committee 1989-1992, the Facilities Property Committee 1992, the Board Program Committee 1992-1993, and the Development Committee 1990-1997, arranged in that order, and by date.

Records in this subseries are closed to the public for a period of 100 years from the date of their creation.

The subseries contains Graham Windham annual reports from 1977-2006. There are no annual reports for 1986-1988 or 2001-2002.

The agency did not produce annual reports in 1986-1988; however, it distributed programs at the annual galas in those years incorporating some of the information that would typically be included in an annual report. For copies of gala programs, please see Subseries III.6 - Office of Development - Printed Matter.

An index to the annual reports is available to researchers at the New-York Historical Society manuscript department.

The subseries contains seven boxes of memoranda, reports, grant proposals, correspondence and related materials from the office of Graham Windham's President and Chief Executive Officer Joyce Lapenn, from 1989-1996. Folders are arranged topically, in the order in which they were arranged at Graham Windham. Records in this subseries are closed to the public for a period of 100 years from the date of their creation.

On July 1, 1967, the New York State Legislature established the Greenburgh-Graham Union Free School District on the campus of Graham School in Hastings-on-Hudson, New York, to provide specialized education to the children under its jurisdiction.

The subseries consists of minutes and related materials of meetings of the Board of Education of the Greenburgh-Graham Union Free School District 1997-1999 and minutes and materials from the School Board Nominating Committee 1996-2001, and various materials from the Graham School 1970-2009, including printed materials and materials that were kept at the Graham School but are related to other programs.

The School Board Nominating Committee minutes and related materials are arranged first, followed by the GGUFSD Board of Education meeting materials, in boxes 50-52. The Board of Education meeting materials had been bound in binders as board packets, marked with the name of Poul Jensen, Vice President of the Board. The original binders have been discarded, and all materials assembled in binders have been re-foldered in archival folders in the same arrangement. Most board packets include minutes of the previous meeting, an agenda for the upcoming meeting, and supplementary materials. Materials in boxes 50-52 are closed to the public for a period of 100 years from the date of their creation.

The subseries also contains mixed materials (mainly printed matter) from the school including school newsletters 1974-1986 and 2008-2009; examples of student work from the 1970's; a brochure, staff handbooks, invitations and other printed material; and clippings and articles, all in Box 53. Box 54 contains other administrative materials related to the school, as well as to other programs of Graham-Windham and the agency in general. These materials include procedural instructions, newsletters, and informational materials. They have been kept in original order.

The subseries concludes with school yearbooks 1989-2008.

Additional pre-1977 school brochures may be found in Series 1.8 - printed matter, while other brochures from after the 1977 merger may be found in Series III.6 - development department printed matter.

The Office of Development at Graham Windham is responsible for all fundraising and public relations. Material from the department has been subdivided into four subseries (III.6-9) based on material type. Printed materials produced and/or collected by the Office of Development have been arranged as subseries III.6.

A few folders in the subseries include memos, notes, or correspondence related to the printed matter; however, most memos, notes, reports, correspondence and other administrative material of the Development Department is arranged in subseries III.7.

Materials in Subseries III.6 are arranged by type in the following order: event programs and invitations 1986-2010; informational and fundraising pamphlets, brochures, fliers, advertisements and miscellaneous printed matter 1980-2006 and undated; alumni newsletters 1994-1997; employee newsletters 1994-1996; newsletters for the general public 1983-2011.