| Description |
60 linear feet (126 boxes). |
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Eight series: General Correspondence; Administrative; Subject Correspondence; Replies to Questionnaires; Writings; Financial Documents; Members Lists, Printed Material, Scrapbooks; Additions. |
| Summary |
Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, questionnaires, reports, charters, financial records, grant proposals, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter documenting the activities of the National Self Government Committee (NSGC). General correspondence, 1901-1948, contains Welling's correspondence with educators, students and educational institutions and associations. Administrative records, 1909-1950, include correspondence with directors of the NSGC, minutes of meetings, reports, and constitutions and charters of student government organizations. Subject correspondence, 1913-1985, concerns NSGC publications, surveys in schools, self government in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, comments of students and officials about citizenship training in their schools, and grants from the NSGC to students and communities. Also included are replies to questionnaires, 1911-1924; writings, 1912-1947, of Welling with diaries, notebooks, speeches, and other items; financial documents; scrapbooks; photographs, ca. 1911-1913, of students; video cassette of New York project; and printed matter. |
| Restricted Access |
Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated. |
| Biography |
The National Self Government Committee was founded in New York City in 1904 by Richard Welling as the School Citizens Committee "to develop the alert citizens needed in a democracy by practice in schools, colleges and other youth groups." The organization is composed of educators and others interested in education for effective leadership and it supports school/community service programs that actively include students in the self-government process. |
| Finding Aids |
Collection guide available in repository and on internet. |
| Subject |
National Self Government Committee (New York, N.Y.)
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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)
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Civics -- Study and teaching.
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College student government.
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Education -- United States.
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Educational surveys -- United States.
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High schools -- United States.
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Student government.
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Universities and colleges -- United States.
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| Genre/Form |
Diaries.
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Photoprints.
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Scrapbooks.
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Videocassettes.
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| Added Author |
Agar, John G. (John Giraud), 1856-1935.
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Fairchild, Charles S. (Charles Stebbins), 1842-1924.
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Lindsay, Samuel McCune, 1869-1960.
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Putnam, George Haven, 1844-1930.
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Rush, Sophia Pollack.
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Stowe, Lyman Beecher.
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Welling, Richard, 1858-1946.
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| LCCN |
ms 72001075 |
| Call No. |
MssCol 2106
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| Research Call Number |
MssCol 2106
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