Re: Seeking Primary Historical Sources

[Bill Meezan <meezan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:57 AM 4/15/98 -0400, you wrote:
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>I am working on an introductory child welfare text under contract with
>Allyn&Bacon.  For illustrative material I conducted an ethnography last
>year of our local child welfare office.  I am now beginning work on the
>historical chapter and am looking for primary sources which will be
>comparable to the ethnographic material I'm using in the other chapters.
>Examples of the types of material I am seeking are:
>
>--Child welfare case records from various time periods
>--Notes on case conferences
>--Curricula and materials from in-service training
>--Letters, diaries, etc. of child welfare workers
>--Articles from newspapers and magazines by child welfare workers and also
>general interest articles about child welfare
>--autobiographies, biographies, etc.
>
>I would appreciate hearing from anyone who has knowledge of archives,
>agency records, or any other locations which might yield such information
>or any related data which would be helpful.
>
>Thanks for any help you folks can give me.
>
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>Philip Popple, Director
>School of Social Work
>Western Michigan University
>Kalamazoo, MI 49008
>
>
The California Social Welfare Archives is housed at the Library at USC
School of Social Work, and has much of this type of information.  I would
suggest you call the librarian, Ruth Britton, at (213) 740-1777.

I hope this helps.

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