Adoption

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Minutes, planning documents, publications, and organizational histories of the Children’s Home Society of Minnesota, founded in 1889. Board retreats, long-range planning, licensing, annual meetings, fund-raising and property acquisitions are also documented. Also includes the quarterly publication, The Minnesota Minnesota Children's Home Finder, dating from 1899-1971.

Abstract The E. Wayne Carp papers include research files, legal documents, interviews, publications and other materials related to the history of adoption policy in the United States, individuals and organizations active in the areas of adoptee rights and access to adoption case records, and Carp's research and legal consulting related to adoption policy. In particular the papers include information on Jean Paton, a founder of the adoptee rights and open records movements. Other topics of note...

Abstract The International Social Service USA (ISS) records contain: administrative files; program and service records; statistics; documents relating to ISSUSA relations with other organizations, states or territories, and countries; and the administrative records of ISS headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The records document a wide range of social services with an international dimension, including services to refugees and migrants and, particularly, international adoptions by families in the...

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The records comprise audio cassettes of speeches or papers presented at annual meetings of the National Council for Adoption (formerly the National Committee for Adoption) and personal files of the Council's founding president, Dr. William Pierce.