Boston Children's Service Association : Annual reports and photographs of antecedent agencies, 1819-1994 (Bulk, 1922-1994)

Quantity

4 Document cases

Provenance

These photographs and annual reports were donated to the Archives and Special Collections Department of the Healey Library at the University of Massachusetts Boston Library by the Boston Children's Service Association (BCSA) in June 1995. Though the photos were received from this organization, they were collected and taken by various agencies which became a part of the BCSA.

History

The Boston Children's Service Association was formed by the merger of the Boston Children's Aid Association and the Boston Children's Friend Society in 1960. Their history is one shared by many other organizations. Its antecedent agencies include the Boston Female Asylum, the Boston Children's Aid Society, the Boston Children's Friend Society and the Boston Society for the Care of Girls. For more information on the history of the agencies, see the finding aids of the antecedent agencies.

Scope and Content

The photographs are divided into two series. The first is a subject file. The second is slides, glass plates, etc. Within each subject, the photos have been separated, as best possible, to give an account of their origins. The folder title for the first series includes: subject and office of origin (if applicable). In many cases it was not possible to determine which agency created or had these photos created. All other mediums are in the second series, including slides and glass plate negatives, housed in Box 3 in individual sleeves or envelops for preservation purposes. In all cases, as much information about the photograph, photographer and subjects, as is known, is listed on the encasing. The collection also contains printed annual reports of BCSA from 1957 to 1994.

Abbreviations of antecedent agencies:

BFA Boston Female Asylum
BCAS Boston Children's Aid Society
BCFS Boston Children's Friend Society
BSCG Boston Society for the Care of Girls
BCAA Boston Children's Aid Association
BCSA Boston Children's Service Association

 

INVENTORY

Box 1: Subject File A-D

1. Adoption, BCSA
2-3. Adoption, unidentified (2 folders)
4. Advertisement, BCSA
5. Beach/Swimming, unidentified
6. Buildings, BCSA
7. Buildings, BSCG
8. Buildings, unidentified
9. Camping/Fishing, unidentified
10. Camp Life, BCAA
11. Camp Life, field trips, Boys Club
12. Camp Life, Boy Scouts/Girl Scouts
13. Camp Life, YMCA
14. Camp Life, unidentified
15. Children: Infants, BCAS
16. Children: Infants, unidentified
17. Children: older children, unidentified and BCSA
18. Children: boys, BCAS
19. Children: Toddlers and young children, unidentified
20. Christmas, BCAA
21. Christmas, unidentified
22. Disabled Children, unidentified
23. Doctor's Visit, BCAA
24. Doctor's Visit, unidentified

Box 2: Subject File E-Z

25. Farm Life, Groton Foster Home
26. Farming, unidentified
27. Group Photos, unidentified
28. Home Libraries (H.L.), BCAS, w/negs (see also: Box 3, f.5-10)
29. Landscape with lake, BCSA
30. Pre-School, unidentified
31-32. Publicity, BCSA (2 folders)
33. Publicity Campaign, BSCG
34. Publicity Drawings, BCAS
35. Publicity Program Photos, unidentified
36-37. Staff/Officers, BSCG (2 folders)
38-39. Staff/Officers, BCFS (2 folders)
40. Staff/Officers, secretaries luncheon, BCSA
41-43. Staff/Officers, BCAA (3 folders)
44-45. Staff/Officers, unidentified (2 folders)

Box 3: Slides, glass plates, etc.

1-2. Chicago World's Fair charts, glass plate, BCAS
3. Charles Birtwell, glass plate and negative, BCAS
4. Pine Farm School, glass plate and slide, BCAS
5-6. Home libraries, 1904, glass plate and negative, BCAS
"First general meeting of Home Libraries, Nov. 26, 1904 at Huntington Hall
7. Home Libraries, 1889, glass plate, BCAS
"Home Libraries group at 388 Commercial Street in yard, July 18, 1879"
8. Home Libraries, 1889, glass plate, BCAS
"Noyes Pl. looking from Salem St., HL children and friends, July 22, 1889"
9. Home Libraries, 1889, glass plate and slide, BCAS
"HL group taken in yard of tenement at 388 Commercial St., July 18, 1889"
10. Home Libraries, 1889, glass plate and slide, BCAS
"HL group taken in rear of house, 19 Sharing St., July 8, 1889"
11. Rock Lawn Farm, Foxboro, glass plate and slide, BCAS
12. Street scene with children, glass plate negative, unidentified
13. Baby in carriage, glass plate, unidentified
14. Street scene with women, men and children, glass plate negative, unidentified
15. Framed mittens, BFA, 1819
16. Boston Female Asylum building, calendar print and slide, 1950, BCAA
17. Slides of text, 12 slides, unidentified
18. Slides, country field and building, unidentified
19. Misc. negatives used in publications, 1962, 19 negs., BCSA
(perhaps negatives of some photographs in box 1 or 2)

      Box 4: Annual Reports, 1957-1994