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Series II - Orphans' Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, 1851-1949

Scope and Contents

The series consists of records of the Orphans' Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, 1853-1949, arranged in four subseries as follows:

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  1. Subseries II.1 - Minutes Volumes, 1851-1947
  2. Subseries II.2 - Records of Children, 1851-1934
  3. Subseries II.3 - Financial Volumes, 1852-1947
  4. Subseries II.4 - Other Materials, 1851-1949

Subseries II.1 - Minutes Volumes, 1851-1947

Scope and Content

The subseries contains Minutes of the Board of Trustees of the Orphans' Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church 1851-1947, followed by Minutes of the Board's special and annual meetings 1906-1946, followed by minutes of the Ladies Committee 1853-1855, the Executive Committee 1862-1869, the Committee on Receiving and Binding Out Orphans 1853, and Minutes and Reports of the School Committee 1863-1876.

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1851-1859, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 189 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1860-1862, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 190 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1862-1864, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 191 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1864-1867, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 192 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1867-1870, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 193 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1870-1875, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 194 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1875-1884, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 195 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1884-1890, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 196 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1890-1901, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 197 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1902-1911, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-29, Volume: 198 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1911-1934, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-30, Volume: 199 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1934-1941, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-30, Volume: 200 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1941-1947, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 201 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes - Special and Annual Meetings of the Board of Trustees, 1906-1946, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 202 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes - Annual Meetings of the Board of Trustees, 1906-1946, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 203 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Ladies Committee, 1853-1855, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 204 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1862-1865, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 205 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1865-1869, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 206 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1870-1882, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 207 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1883-1891, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-31, Volume: 208 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1902-1904, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 209 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Executive Committee, 1907-1909, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 210 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes of the Committee on Receiving and Binding Out Orphans, 1853, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 211 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Minutes and Reports of the School Committee, 1863-1876, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 212 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries II.2 - Records of Children, 1851-1934

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains fifteen volumes of records related to children at the Orphans' Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York, 1851-1934, arranged according to record type and then chronologically.

Admissions/Dismissions, 1851-1857, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 213 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains 15 bound volumes of records related to children at the Orphan's Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church, 1851-1934.

Admissions/Dismissions, 1851-1866, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 214 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Register (Oversize), circa 1852-1888

Offsite-Box: LW-57, Volume: 215 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Applications, 1854-1865, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 216 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Applications, 1866-1877, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 217 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Applications, 1877-1891, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 218 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Applications, 1891-1914, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-32, Volume: 219 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Applications, 1914-1925, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-33, Volume: 220 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Surrrender Agreements, 1875-1888, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-33, Volume: 221 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Surrrender Agreements, 1888-1910, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-33, Volume: 222 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Surrrender Agreements, 1910-1934, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-33, Volume: 223 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Visitor's Book, 1860-1879, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 224 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Visitor's Book, 1909-1910, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 225 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

School Ledger and Diary, 1902-1909, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 226 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Record of Infectious Diseases, 1916-1932, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 227 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries II.3 - Financial Volumes, 1852-1947

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains 41 bound volumes of financial records of the Orphan's Home and Asylum of the Protestant Episcopal Church, arranged according to type. Financial records related to children are arranged at the end of the subseries.

Cash Accounts, 1852-1853, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 228 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cash Accounts, 1854-1856, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 229 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Cash Accounts, 1856-1859, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 230 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Monthly Receipts, 1880-1891, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 231 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Monthly Receipts, 1891-1905, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-35, Volume: 232 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Monthly Expenses, 1880-1905, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-34, Volume: 233 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1858-1860, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-35, Volume: 234 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1873-1880, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-35, Volume: 235 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1879-1885, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-35, Volume: 236 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1885-1894, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-35, Volume: 237 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1895-1902, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-35, Volume: 238 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1902-1907, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 239 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1907-1911, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 240 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1911-1917, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 241 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1917-1923, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 242 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1923-1928, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 243 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1928-1933, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 244 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1933-1937, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-36, Volume: 245 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1937-1942, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37, Volume: 246 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Treasurer's Accounts, 1942-1947, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37, Volume: 247 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Permanent Fund, 1895-1903, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37, Volume: 248 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Permanent Fund, 1907-1933, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37, Volume: 249 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Permanent Fund, 1933-1938, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37, Volume: 250 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Permanent Fund, 1938-1944, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37, Volume: 251 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Permanent Fund, 1944-1947, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 252 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Check stubs, 1912-1913, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 253 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Check stubs, 1919-1920, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 254 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Check stubs, 1937-1938, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 255 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Children's Accounts - records of payment and accompanying correspondence, circa 1863-1894

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 256 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1856-1860, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37A, Volume: 257 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Wages and List of Children Placed Out, 1860-1881, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37A, Volume: 258 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1876-1888, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37A, Volume: 259 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1889-1894, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37A, Volume: 260 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1895-1898, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-37A, Volume: 261 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1862-1875, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 262 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1892-1903, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-38, Volume: 263 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1895-1905, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-39, Volume: 264 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1896-1905, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-39, Volume: 265 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1898-1903, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-39, Volume: 266 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1899-1906, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-39, Volume: 267 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Payments for Children's Board, 1899-1907, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-39, Volume: 268 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Subseries II.4 - Other materials 1851-1949, 1851-1949

Scope and Contents

The subseries contains one box of mixed materials including meeting minutes from 1851, a historical sketch by one of the managers ca. 1905, a notice of the organization's rules and regulations and menu circa 1855-1863, and correspondence and administrative materials circa 1902-1949. The subseries also includes one box of file cards regarding employees, one metal cash box, and a bible.

Orphans's Home Meeting Minutes (1851) and Historical Sketch (ca. 1905), 1851 and circa 1905

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans's Home Rules and Regulations and Bill of Fare, circa 1855-1863

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 2 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans's Home School Correspondence, Reports, Receipts, 1902-1908 and 1913

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 3 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

List of Officers of the Orphans' Home (ring binder with interleaved materials and 1930 Constitution), circa 1930-1946 and 1947

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 4 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Financial Correspondence, 1933, inclusive

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 5 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Employee Correspondence A-G, circa 1941-1945

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 6 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Employee Correspondence H-O, circa 1941-1945

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 7 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Employee Correspondence P-Z and re: other matters, circa 1942-1947

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 8 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Withholding tax records, check stubs, misc., circa 1942-1949

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 9 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Withholding Certificates and Employee Index Cards, circa 1944-1946

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 10 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Report of First Directress to Members of the Corporation (2 copies), 1947 January 9

Offsite-Box: 28, Folder: 11 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Employee Index Cards, circa 1941-1945

Offsite-Box: 29 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Orphans' Home Metal Box (Artifact), undated

Offsite-Box: LW-64, object: 1 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)

Bible, 1903, inclusive

Offsite-Box: LW-39, Volume: 269 (Material Type: Mixed Materials)
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