Early Adventures in Social Casework: The Charity Agent,1880–1910

New York Charity Organization Society Sixth Annual Report, February 20, 1888, pp. 20–21, from Community Service Society Archives (hereinafter referred to as CSSA).

Correspondence from Miss Kate Bond, 230 West Fifty-ninth Street, New York, N.Y., received in New York COS central office, May 28, 1888, from CSSA.

New York COS executive committee minutes, November 17, 1890, from CSSA.

Devine Edward T. , When Social Work Was Young, Macmillan Co., New York, 1939, p. 25.

“Fortieth Anniversary Dinner,” a New York COS report, January 10, 1928, p. 4, from CSSA (typewritten).

“Fortieth Anniversary Dinner,” a New York COS report, January 10, 1928, p. 34.

Monthly Bulletin, May 15, 1886 (published by the New York COS), from CSSA.

“A Busy Midwinter Day at a District Office,” Charities, Vol. III, June 10, 1899, pp. 7–9.

“Minutes and Discussions,” in Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Chicago, Illinois, June 8–11, 1893, National Conference of Charities and Correction, Boston, 1893, p. 451.

Folks Homer , “College Graduates in Benevolent Work,” The International Congress of Charities, Corrections and Philanthropy, proceedings of the conference held in Chicago, Illinois, June 1893, Part VII, “Sociology in Institutions of Learning,” Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1894, pp. 21–30.

Brackett Jeffrey R. , “The Worker: Purpose and Preparation,” in Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Portland, Maine, June 15–22, 1904, National Conference of Charities and Correction, New York, 1904, p. 2.

List of agents and salaries paid, prepared by the New York COS, January 1903, from CSSA.

Peabody Francis Greenwood , Reminiscences of Present-Day Saints, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1927, p. 136.

Peabody Francis Greenwood , Reminiscences of Present-Day Saints, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1927, p. 137.

Fulcomer Daniel , “Instruction in Sociology in Institutions of Learning,” in Proceedings of the National Conference of Charities and Correction, held in Nashville, Tennessee, May 23–29, 1894, National Conference of Charities and Correction, Boston, 1894, pp. 67–79.

“The Training Class in New York,” Charities Review, Vol. VIII, May 1898, p. 113.

See Meier Elizabeth G. , A History of the New York School of Social Work, Columbia University Press, New York, 1954, pp. 8–9.

“The Winter Course in Philanthropy,” Charities, Vol. XI, September 1903, p. 21.

Devine Edward Thomas , When Social Work Was Young, Lentilhon and Co., New York, 1901, p. 76.

List of appointments and salaries paid, prepared by the New York COS, May 10, 1904, from CSSA.

Devine , The Practice of Charity, op. cit., p. 27.

For additional information about this period, and also an account of subsequent development, see Becker Dorothy G. , The Visitor to the New York City Poor, 1843–1920, Chapters 6–8, New York School of Social Work, Columbia University, New York, 1960 (doctoral dissertation, University Microfilms Publication No. 60–3042).