Social Work Library: Historical Resources on Social Justice Issues (Archival)

Listed below are some archival sources that may be helpful for historical research in policy and community organization classes. The resources are listed in 3 parts:

A. Digital Collections with text, visual images, and chronologies from America's past

U.S. Primary Sources and Selected Secondary Sources

National Conference of Social Welfare Proceedings (1874-1982)
http://www.hti.umich.edu/n/ncosw/
These proceedings were issued under earlier names of the Conference as follows: 1874, Conference of Boards of Public Charities; 1875-1879, Conference of Charities; 1880-1881, Conference of Charities and Correction; 1882-1916, National Conference of Charities and Correction; 1917-1956, National Conference of Social Work; 1957-, National Conference on Social Welfare. They are fully searchable and are freely available to the public.

Archive of Americana
The comprehensive historical collections that form the Archive of Americana contain books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera.

A.Gerritsen Collection of Women's History (1543-1945)
Gerritsen constitutes one of the world's foremost international collections in the area of women's history and the early women's movement. Imprints range from 1543 to 1945, with particular strength in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Half of the 4,311 monographs and 265 serials in the collection are in English, and half in other languages -- esp. French and German. The online version of Gerritsen provides page images supported with searchable text (OCR). Mirlyn already includes title-level records for the microform edition of Gerritsen, and will eventually be updated to include reference to the digital files.

Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876)
Early American Newspapers features cover-to-cover reproductions of hundreds of historic newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. For students and scholars of early America, this unique collection -- based largely on Clarence Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers,1690-1820" -- offers an unprecedented look back into the extraordinary history of the United States -- the story of its people, ideals, commerce and everyday life.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans (1639-1800)
Based on the renowned American Bibliography by Charles Evans. The definitive resource for every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America, from agriculture and auctions through foreign affairs, diplomacy, literature, music, religion, the Revolutionary War, temperance, witchcraft, and just about any other topic imaginable. Upon completion, Evans Digital will consist of more than 36,000 works and 2,400,000 images.

American Periodicals Series (1741 to 1941)
The American Periodicals Series (APS) includes digital images and searchable text (OCR) for more than 1,100 periodicals which began publication between 1740 and 1900. Coverage extends from 1741 to 1941. APS Online is not entirely completed, and work continues on
adding features such as search term highlighting. Mirlyn currently includes records for the microfilm version of APS titles, and will eventually add information on the online versions.

Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker (1801-1819)
Covering every aspect of American life during the early decades of the United States, this rich primary source collection provides full-text access to the 36,000 American books, pamphlets and broadsides published in the first nineteen years of the nineteenth century. Its intuitive interface allows students and scholars to explore the development of the American nation as never before.

Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000
http://www.alexanderstreet6.com/wasm/index.html
The University Libraries subscribes to "Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000". It is an electronic archival collection originally founded by SUNY Binghamton, and now supported by the Alexander Street Press and the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender (SUNY Binghamton).

The orginal site was organized around a collection of over 1050 primary documents. "The Women and Social Movements website offers new ways for students, teachers, and scholars to study American History. We (SUNY Binghamton) are pleased to announce that an expanded version of this website, jointly published by the Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender at SUNY Binghamton and Alexander Street Press, is now live! It includes thousands of pages of books, pamphlets, and proceedings - in addition to the document projects found on this website.

Beginning in March 2004, new document projects produced through the Center will be published quarterly on the Alexander Street Women and Social Movements subscription site. Moreover, the Alexander Street website features a Dictionary of Social Movements, an extensive author database, and their award-winning Semantic Indexing?. Together, these tools allow you to access the document projects and primary sources in ways that are impossible on this or any other simple website. We plan to mount additional resources regularly, including 10,000 pages of primary materials and a dozen new document projects each year, a growing body of images, a Chronology of U.S. Women's History, book and website reviews, and new teaching tools that employ the site's documents.

As we expand the materials on the Alexander Street site, many of the resources located here will be removed - including 20 document projects that will be taken down by April 1, 2004." Retrieved March 9, 2004 from the web site: Women and Social Movements in the United States 1775-2000, http://womhist.binghamton.edu/.

The Making of America
http://moa.umdl.umich.edu/
A digital library of primary sources in American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction. The collection is particularly strong in the subject areas of education, psychology, American history, sociology, religion, and science and technology. The collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints. For more details about the project, see About MoA. Making of America is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

New Additions: 134 more volumes focusing on New York City were recently added to MoA. Digital conversion of the volumes was made possible through a gift from UM alumnus Lawrence Portnoy. The digital conversion of the complete run of the Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers was funded by a generous donation from a Friend of the Library.

American Fiction 1851-1875 (Wright University and Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC))
http://www.letrs.indiana.edu/web/w/wright2/marc/index.html
Good source for period-piece illustrations and fictional treatment of social ills.

American Folklife Center
http://www.loc.gov/folklife/
Collections and Special Presentations Available Online

Digital Image Collections
http://www.lib.umich.edu/finearts/digimagecollections.html
A selected list of digital image collections from museums available on the net.

American Memory Photo & Print Images (Library of Congress)
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amviewer.html#photograph

American History by the History Net
http://americanhistory.about.com/mbody.htm
Colonial America Daily life and history of Colonial America and the thirteen original colonies
Chart of the Thirteen Original Colonies
18th Century in American History
19th Century America's adolescence, from learning to fight, to fighting themselves, to a world power
20th Century The most amazing century, from Twain to Clinton
And much more

Encylopedia of Informal Education (secondary source0
http://www.infed.org/encyclopaedia.htm
Ideas, thinkers and practices within informal education and lifelong learning, include Paulo Freire with his emphasis on dialogue and his concern for the oppressed; Eduard Lindeman,friend and colleague of John Dewey who shared with him a concern for social justice, a belief in the possibilities of education and human action, and a deep commitment to democracy; and Jane Addams who stated that intellectual life requires for its expansion and manifestation the influences and assimilation of the interests and affections of others. To search the encyclopaedia of informal education, click here.

Equal Rights Ammendment
http://www.equalrightsamendment.org/
The Equal Rights Amendment, first proposed in 1923, is still not part of the U.S. Constitution. The ERA has been ratified by 35 of the necessary 38 states. When three more states vote yes, the ERA might become the 28th Amendment. In these pages, find out about this historic amendment ... and join the effort to achieve equal rights for women and men.

Section 1. Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex.
Section 2. The Congress shall have the power to enforce, by
appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Section 3. This amendment shall take effect two years after the date
of ratification.

The Making of Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor District Library)
http://moaa.aadl.org/ See also Additional Resources for listing of Ann Arbor, Washtenaw County, and Michigan resources.

Detroit: The History and Future of the Motor City (Ren Farley, Population Studies Center, ISR)
http://detroit1701.psc.isr.umich.edu/

Milestones in the Development of Social Work and Social Welfare (NASW)

Milestones in the Development of Social Work and Social Welfare 1750 BC to 1700s AD
Social Work Milestones: 1800s
Social Work Milestones: 1900 to 1949
Social Work Milestones: 1950 to Present

Indian Land Cessions in the United States, 1784-1894
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwss-ilc.html
Contains the second part of the two-part Eighteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. It features 67 maps, schedules of treaties, and land cessions compiled by Charles C. Royce.

Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/
This site contains the fully searchable digitized text of all seven volumes from the original 1903-04 U.S. Government Printing Office publication. Based at Oklahoma State University Library, these volumes contain U.S. government treaties with Native Americans from 1871-1970 as well as U.S. laws and executive orders. Information can be accessed from the table of contents, through the index of each volume, or by keyword search.

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project.
http://thorpe.ou.edu
Housed at the University of Oklahoma Law Library, this project is a cooperative effort between the Unviersity of Oklahoma Law Center, the National Indian Law Library, and Native American tribes. The site provides access to constitutions, tribal codes, a digitized version of the Handbook of Federal Indian Law (1941) by Felix S. Cohen, documents of Indian land cessions, Indian Reorganization Act Era Constitutions and Charters, and many other resources for researchers of Native American legal issues.

Artifacts & Disclosures: Michigan's LGBT Heritage. Click on the Timeline to view all the Michigan events and images in the exhibit from that era, beginning with the 1960s.

The Disability Rights and Independent Living Movement, 1960-
Nearly 100 in-depth oral histories and a collection of unique archival materials documenting the disability rights and independent living movement are now available online through a new website hosted by the Bancroft Library�s Regional Oral History Office at UC Berkeley.

Canadian Primary Sources:

Aboriginal Peoples
http://www.canadian-studies.net/accesscanada/portal/aboriginalpeoples.html
One of many portals at Access Canada, this comprehenisve site is compiled and maintained by the Library and Resources Group (LARG) of the British Association for Canadian Studies (BACS), with active support from the Academic Relations Office of the Canadian High Commission, London. It is part of a Sustained Studies project on Academic relations and new technologies in a changing world: Britain and Canada 1970-2010, funded by the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom and Foreign Affairs Canada.

The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documements
http://puffin.creighton.edu/jesuit/relations
These missionary texts are one of the major sources of information about the early years of French contact and colonization in North America; they describe aboriginal societies and economic, cultural, demographic, and religious impact of contact. This site contains the entire English translation of the original late 19th-century documents. Each file contains the total English contents of a single published volume.

Latin America and South America Primary Sources:

Amazon Watch
http://www.amazonwatch.org/
This site presents a wide range of environmental rights issues for indigenous peoples throughout the Amazon region. It contains digitial maps, video clips, photos, reports, news clippings, annual reports, and overviews of specific countries. Extremley valuable and visually attractive site.

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/index.html
Affilated with the University of Texas-Austin, this site supports LANIC's mission "to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, or on Latin America." Information is organized by topic as well as by region and country.

SAIIC--The South and Meso American Indian Rights Center.
http://saiic.nativeweb.org/
This site provides access to the advocacy work of SAIIC on behalf of Latin America's indigenous peoples. It contains news, publications, and full-text articles from the SAIIC's biannual journal, Abya Yala News.

Achievements of Individual Advocates:

Edward S. Curtis' "The North American Indian" This site contains selected images and text from this early 20th-century work and has excellent related resources.

Eugene V. Debs 1855-1926. "Years ago I recognized my kinship with all living things, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on the earth. I said then and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free." The Eugene V. Debs Foundation, a commercial entity offering items for sale, is not an archival repository, but offers historical information on its site.

Nobel E-Museum (Jane Addams)
http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1931/press.html
The Nobel Peace Prize 1931 Presentation Speech by Halvdan Koht, member of the Nobel Committee, on December 10, 1931.

In Search of Clara Swieczkowska (1892-1986) Detroit Social Worker and Community Activist

The Truth about Helen Keller (Did you know Helen Keller was a tireless advocate of the poor and disenfranchised?)

Social Work Pioneers (NASW)

B. Archival Repositories housing primary sources on Social Welfare History

1. National Collections

Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (University of Illinois at Chicago)
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/

California Social Welfare Archive (CSWA) (University of Southern California. California Social Welfare Archives
http://www.usc.edu/libraries/archives/arc/libraries/cswa/

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA)
http://www.archives.gov/search/index.html

Rockefeller Archive Center
http://archive.rockefeller.edu/
Since 1984 the Center has focused on "the general history of philanthropy and [begun] to acquire the records of non-Rockefeller foundations, starting with the records of the Russell Sage Foundation and the Commonwealth Fund. Other significant non-Rockefeller collections now include the records of the Social Science Research Council, the John and Mary Markle Foundation, the Culpeper Foundation, the Foundation for Child Development, and the Lucille P. Markey Charitable Trust. The Center's 66 million pages of documents, 500,000 photographs, 2,000 films and 4,500 reels of microfilm provide unique insights into worldwide developments and issues of the 19th and 20th centuries...Major subjects researched at the Center include African-American history...philanthropy...the social sciences, social welfare, and women's history." See Social Welfare and Moral Reform Organizations & Institutions (Includes temperance work, Sabbath and Sunday school societies, etc.)

Social Welfare History Archives (University of Minnesota University Libraries)
http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/
An overview of the collection is available at http://special.lib.umn.edu/swha/holdings_long.html

Sophia Smith Collection (Smith College)
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/home.html
The Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College is an internationally recognized repository of manuscripts, photographs, periodicals and other primary sources in women's history. Subject strengths include birth control, women's rights, suffrage, the contemporary women's movement, U.S. women working abroad, the arts (especially theatre), the professions (especially journalism and social work), and middle-class family life in nineteenth- and twentieth-century New England. Finding aids, for example the National Congress of Neighborhood Women, are available online.

September 11th 2001 Oral History Narrative and Memory Project
(Columbia University Oral History Research Office)
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/oral/sept11.html
Includes more than 400 people in a broad number of categories who live in the New York region and a number who live in Washington, D.C. Interviewed 120 American and immigrant Muslims, Latinos, and Afghans as well as artists whose work and lives were affected by the aftermath.

Swarthmore College Peace Collection
http://www.swarthmore.edu/Library/peace/
The Swarthmore College Peace Collection's mission is to gather, preserve, and make accessible materials that document non-governmental efforts for nonviolent social change, disarmament, and conflict resolution between peoples and nations. The SCPC was established about 1930, when Jane Addams of Hull-House in Chicago donated her books and papers related to peace and social justice to Swarthmore College. In addition, the organization she helped found -- the Woman's Peace Party, later called the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom -- began depositing its files at about the same time. From these two collections, the SCPC has grown to encompass the papers of many individuals and the records of numerous organizations, reflecting the spread of the peace movement (circa 1815 to the present), in the United States and around the world. The SCPC also holds material on such subjects as pacifism, women and peace, conscientious objection, nonviolence, civil disobedience, progressivism, the Vietnam era, African-American protest, feminism, civil liberties, the history of social work, and other reform movements. Over half of the Collection documents women's prominent role in the peace movement and activities in the public realm.

Urban Experience in Chicago: Hull-House and its Neighborhoods, 1899 - 1963 (University of Illinois at Chicago)
http://www.uic.edu/jaddams/hull/urbanexp/

2. Michigan Collections on Social Welfare History

African American History Museum Research Library
http://www.maah-detroit.org/
Administrative files of the Museum from 1967 to the present and tapes of various oral history interviews with African American Detroiters.*

Ann Arbor District Library
http://www.aadl.org/
The Ann Arbor District Library has a clipping file on local issues and the Ann Arbor Board of Education minutes.

Archdiocese of Detroit Archives
http://www.archdioceseofdetroit.org/
Historical materials range from the papers of the diocesan bishops dating back to the 18th-century to manuscripts and publications pertaining to social welfare and community activism*

Bacon Memorial Public Library
http://www.wyandotte.lib.mi.us/
Wyandotte newspapers from 1882 and index, county and local histories, church records, city directories, Ford City records, 19th-century tax rolls and court dockets and voter registration rolls.*

Baldwin Public Library
http://www.baldwinlib.org/
Primary research materials housed at the Library consist of Birmingham city directories from 1926 to the present, the Birmingham Eccentric from 1878 to the present; annual reports of the local police and fire departments; and Birmingham Board of Education meeting Minutes from the 1920s to the present. Also has fifty oral history interviews conducted in the 1970s.*

Bentley Historical Library
http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/
The Bentley Historical Library houses the Michigan Historical Collections which document the history of Michigan since statehood in 1835. A great number of collections bear on the historical evolution of southeast Michigan. The Bentley also serves as the archives of the University of Michigan.* None of the materials leave the building, so it is a good idea to make an appointment to speak to a Bentley librarian. The University of Michigan EAD (Encoded Archival Description) Finding Aids site provides World Wide Web access to finding aids or descriptive inventories for archival records and manuscript collections at the Bentley Historical Library. Over 725 Bentley Library finding aids are now available on-line. More finding aids will be added periodically

Politics and government BHL strives to reflect all sides of public debate on political, economic, and social issues. One of the continuing goals of the library is to illuminate the lives of leading political figures, the activities of political organizations and interest groups, and the vicissitudes of political movements. Materials placed here document political affairs on the state and local levels of Michigan, yet they also provide perspectives on regional, national, and international affairs.	Landowner maps and atlases
Detroit including Political and Social Reform and Activism African-American organizations and leaders Local Ann Arbor area history	City Directories Details about library holdings are available through MIRLYN by searching the name of the city or county with the subdivision --Directories.
Civil War letters and diaries	Women's history
Newspapers and newspaper history Runs of special topic or non-mainstream press. These include The Signal of Liberty, an important antislavery journal published in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Father Charles Coughlin's Social Justice, Henry Ford's Dearborn Independent, various temperance and prohibition publications, and issues of counterculture underground newspapers published in the 1960s (Underground press in Michigan).	Newspaper Titles by Decade

Benson Ford Research Center (Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village Research Center)
http://www.hfmgv.org/research/default.asp
The collections are divided into the following areas: automotive history, prints and photographs, the museum's institutional archives, general books and periodicals, special collections, and the Edse B. Ford Design History Center. The holdings of the Automotive History Collection include the records of the Ford Motor Company through 1950 and the papers and personal photographs of Henry and Clara Ford and other Ford family members, friends, and employees. The photograph collections consists of images from 1910-1950 from the Detroit Publishing Company, Detroit Edison Company, Thomas A. Edison, and the Wright brothers. The Edison Institute Collection documents the school system established by Henry Ford.

Center for the History of Medicine
http://www.med.umich.edu/medschool/chm/index.htm
The faculty and staff at the Center for the History of Medicine are engaged in several large research projects, including American immigration and public health history and policy; history of pediatrics and child health in America; history of women�s health; history of epidemic disease; history of eugenics and human genetics in modern America; and the history of drug and alcohol addiction in American society.
See also, The History of the Health Sciences in Michigan: A Guide to Research Sources. The guide provides a digital overview of over 1400 primary sources, held by 35 repositories, relating to the history of the health sciences in Michigan and to the influence of Michigan and Michiganians upon the development of the health sciences nationally and internationally. Materials described include archival records, personal papers, and both original photographic images and photographic representations of health science-related artifacts spanning the last three hundred years of Michigan history.

Citizens Research Council of Michig an
http://www.crcmich.org/
Founded in 1916, the nonprofit Research Council conducts research and published information on state and local policy issues. Research documentation and historical data since approximately the 1940s are available.*

William L. Clements Library
http://www.clements.umich.edu/
Manuscript collections of particular relevance to the history of Southeast Michigan include: Papers of General Thomas Gage; Sir Jeffery Amherst Collection; Lewis Cass Papers; Jehu Hay Diary; Lucius Lyon Papers; Michigan Collection; Northwest Territory Collections' Riopelle Collection; War of 1812 Collection; James Stirling Letterbrook; and the John R. Williams Papers.* The Library's Photographic Division has grown to over 70,000 images, and now includes several hundred photograph albums, photographic books, reference works, and related materials.

Dearborn Historical Museum
http://www.steve-hatfield.com/dhistmus.htm
Since 1939, the Historical Records and Library has collected and preserved materials depicting the historical development of Dearborn and surrounding areas. These records include the papers of Henry Dearborn (1751 -1829); city, township, and village records; the papers of prominent individuals.*

Detroit City Council Planning Commission
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/
The Commission's holdings include Detroit Common Council and City Council journals and meeting minutes, as well as zoning and land use hearings before the Planning Commission. See also the Detroit Municipal Reference Library below.

Detroit City Planning and Development Department
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/
Sources include census data, land and building data files, local surveys such as the Detroit Citizens Survey, and a variety of other data files in Detroit.

Detroit Elections Commission
http://www.ci.detroit.mi.us/
Maintains voter registration data since the 1920s. Aggregate data is available at the Michigan Secretary of State office in Lansing. Latest returns for the state are available online at 2002 Official Michigan General Election Results (by county)

Detroit Historical Museum
www.detroithistorical.org
Established in 1928 to preserve and display three dimensional objects depicting how people lived in the past and how Detroit continues to grow and progress. See also Enterprising Women Exhibition, coming October 18, 2004�January 9, 2005, Pewabic Pottery History and Mary Chase Perry and the Pewabic Pottery.

Detroit Municipal Reference Library
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/mrl/
Serving as the immediate repository for city and county documents, the Library holds all annual reports, minutes, studies and publications by either government, including the Journal of the Common Council.
(See also Burton Historical Collection)

Detroit Public Library
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/

Burton Historical Collection
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/burton/burton_index.htm
Books and manuscript material in the Burton Collection focus on the history of Detroit and the Great Lakes area since the 17th century. Other materials include a large map collection, pamphlets, newspapers, business records, newspaper clippings, broadsides, and scrapbooks. Archives include papers of individuals, groups, businesses, churches, and the records of the various divisions and agencies of the City of Detroit (see also Detroit Municipal Reference Library). Within the manuscript collections, material of particular relevance to the history of Detroit include the papers of Ernie Harwell, Anthony Wayne, Lewis Cass, and Douglass Houghton.*

E. Azakia Hackley Collection
http://www.detroit.lib.mi.us/hackley/hackley_index.htm
One of the finest research facilities in the world for the study of the history and achievements of African Americans in the performing arts. The archives contains many rare books and manuscript materials on organizations such as the MOTOWN Recording Company and the National Association of Negro Musicians, as well as prominent individuals such as Lavinia Williams and Roland Hayes. The Photograph and Print Collection contains items dating from the Mid 19th century, including portraits of performers, organizations, vocal and instrumental groups, and still photographs from black films and stage productions. The Recording Sound Collection includes music either performed or composed by African American musicians, such as African chant, spirituals, ragtime, jazz, gospel, and opera.*

Detroit Public Schools (Professional Library and Archives)
http://www.detroitk12.org/board/
The holdings include: Board of Education proceedings since 1881; Board of Education directories since 1895; Board of Education annual reports since 1843; scattered school registers dating to 1880; school budget reports; PTA yearbooks; program reports and evaluations; courses of study dating back to 1917; public school radio broadcasts from 1934; union contracts; millage campaign records; biographical files; and principals' notes dating to 1919.

Focus Hope
http://www.focushope.edu/
Retains records, press releases, and clippings documenting its community activities since its founding in 1968.* For history and mission of Focus Hope, click here.

Folklore Archive
The WSU Folklore Archive, a depository for student and professional ethnographic projects from 1939-1999, is housed in the Reuther Archive of Labor and Urban Affairs on campus and at the Michigan Folk Arts Division Collections, The Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI. Funding aids will soon be available.

Gerald R. Ford Library (University of Michigan)
http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
Included in President Ford's voluminous records are materials relating primarily to various categories of economic assistance for Detroit during his administration, various presidential trips to Detroit, meetings with city officials, the automobile industry, and labor unions.*

Henry Ford Hospital Archives and Historical Collections
http://www.henryford.com/body.cfm?id=37084
Focuses on the institutional history of the Hospital and its personnel. The holdings include: a monograph collection of approximately 150 volumes; a photograph collection dating from 1909; a biography file of information and portrait photographs; a vertical file of information on Hospital departments, activities, and events; and a publications file which includes runs of newsletters, magazines, and bulletins published by hospital staff, doctors, and patients from the mid-1940s to the present.*

Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village Research Center
See Benson Ford Research Center

Grosse Point Historical Society
Holdings include a small collection of the Garden Club of Michigan which performed community work in Detroit.*

Holocaust Memorial Center Morris and Emma Schaver Library and Archives
http://www.holocaustcenter.org/
The holdings the Library/Archives concentrate on survivors or observers of the Jewish Holocaust during World War II. The Web site includes an Oral History Index which lists interviews that have been conducted by the Holocaust Memorial Center as well as a few that have been donated to the collection by other institutions or individuals. Included in its collection are the Philip Slomovitz Papers; the Emma Schaver Papers; the Jewish News on microfilm; and numerous photos; scrapbooks, and memorabilia of the era.

Institute for Social Research
http://www.isr.umich.edu/
The University of Michigan Institute for Social Research (ISR) is one of the largest and oldest academic survey and social research organizations in the world. The ISR is dedicated to social science in the public interest. For more than 50 years, the ISR has advanced public understanding of human behavior through empirical research of extraordinary depth and breadth. Representing the disciplines of psychology, political science, economics, anthropology and public health, ISR research scientists have directed some of the longest-running and most widely cited and utilized studies in the nation. These include:

Survey of Consumer Attitudes 1946- Monitoring the Future Study 1975-

National Election Studies 1948- World Values Surveys 1981-

Panel Study of Income Dynamics 1968- Health and Retirement Study 1992-

Organizationally, the ISR is comprised of the following:

Survey Research Center Research Center for Group Dynamics

Population Studies Center Center for Political Studies

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research: 18,000 data files cover basic political, historical, and economic data for the U.S., and data on quality of American life, work patterns and attitudes, women's roles, consumer attitude, and contemporary and historical economic and political behavior.

Jewish Community Archives
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/collections/urban.htm#Jewish_archives
Collects and preserves the historical records of:

Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit Part 1 1899-1990 (Formerly the Jewish Welfare Federation)	Jewish Community Council 1937-1984
United Jewish Foundation	Leonard N. Simons 1940-

Joseph Labadie Collection
http://www.lib.umich.edu/spec-coll/labadie/
The Joseph A. Labadie Collection, one of the oldest collections of radical history in the United States, documents a wide variety of social protest movements and organizations of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While the printed materials�some 8,000 serials, 35,000 monographs, and 20,000 pamphlets�are without doubt the major strengths of the Collection, the manuscript holdings provide added coverage of certain subjects and persons involved in radical movements.

Michigan Department of Civil Rights, Library and Research Division
http://www.michigan.gov/mdcr
The Detroit Office maintains a technical library for the use of staff, government, researchers, the press and the public. The division analyzes the economic and social conditions of minorities in Michigan on a continuing basis. It produces analytical reports from unpublished census data, immigration data, education data, and other sources on Blacks, Hispanics, Native Americans, Asians, and Pacific Islanders and produces reports on language and ethnic groups.*

Michigan Municipal League Library
http://www.mml.org/
The League collects and retains copies of ordinances, charters, articles, policies, published reports, minutes, and agendas from virtually every city and village in Michigan, and subscribes to approximately 180 municipal-related periodicals.

Michigan State University Libraries. The American Radicalism Collection, Special Collections Division
http://www.lib.msu.edu/coll/main/spec_col/radicalism/index.htm
The American Radicalism Collection holds over 17,000 items. It includes books, pamphlets, periodicals, posters, and ephemeral material covering a wide range of viewpoints on political, social, and economic issues in America. The emphasis in the collection is on materials produced by radical groups - both left and right. The collection, for example, has materials devoted to Timothy Leary, the Black Panther Party, Neo-Nazi Organizations, the Christian Right, and Steve Gaskin, founder of the commune the Farm. While the American Radicalism Collection is strongest in publications from the American Left in the twentieth century, as well as in resources for the study of American Labor History, there is considerable material from the right, most notably the Ku Klux Klan of the 1920's and 1930's.

Michigan Townships Association
http://www.michigantownships.org/
The association compiles information regarding the duties and policies of township officials in such areas as fire protection, budgets, and local legislation.

Mount Clemens Public Library
http://www.macomb.lib.mi.us/mountclemens/
An exemplary Local History site includes many online resources, such as The Centennial History of
Mount Clemens, Michigan, 1879-1979, Oral history interviews with long-time Mount Clemens residents, and 1875 Macomb County map, (with notes on the founding and early settlers of the townships and villages), and much more.

National Council of Jewish Women, Greater Detroit Section, Archives
http://www.ncjwgds.org/history.html
Founded in 1891, the NCJW is the oldest Jewish women's organization in Detroit. The archives houses documents, ledgers, and photographs documenting the group's activities for more than a century, as well as oral history interviews on audio and video tape.*

Pewabic Pottery Archives
http://www.pewabic.com/
Pewabic Pottery 10125 East Jefferson Avenue, Rivertown, Detroit 48214 Tel: +1 313 822 0954 Founded in 1903 during the height of the Arts & Crafts Movement in America, Pewabic Pottery is today a non-profit organization dedicated to the preservation of the Arts & Crafts ideals while advancing contemporary ceramic arts through its full curriculum of educational programs. Pewabic is a Chippewa Indian term that means "clay with a copper color" and is a tribute to the Upper Michigan Peninsula's Copper Country where Perry was born. Under her leadership, Pewabic Pottery gained national recognition for its glazes as well as for its production of architectural tiles that were installed in such buildings as the Guardian Building, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Immaculate Conception Cathedral in Washington, D.C. Among the finest public collections of Pewabic Pottery are the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., the Detroit Institute of Arts, and Albion College, Albion, Michigan. (Notes from Painting with Fire: Pewabic Vessels in the Margaret Watson Parker Collection, published on the occasion of an exhibition at the University of Michigan Museum of Art September 23, 1995 - January 7, 1996 )

A primary mission of the archives is to preserve the pottery and associated documents, manuscripts, photographs, blueprints, sketches, drawings, and books. The most important materials found are in the Mary Chase Perry Stratton Collection which includes the records of the Detroit Society of Arts and Crafts.*

See also Enterprising Women Exhibition, coming to the Detroit Historical Museum October 18, 2004�January 9, 2005, Pewabic Pottery History and Mary Chase Perry and the Pewabic Pottery.

Polish American Archives/Central Archives of American Polonia
http://www.polishroots.org/reference/orchard_lake.htm
The Polish American Archives at Orchard Lake is an educational institution whose purpose is to safeguard written documents and other memorabilia which pertain to Polish culture. The Archives contain records, artifacts and memorabilia, and publications associated with the Catholic Church, Polish-American societies, schools, and literature. and the Orchard Lake Schools.

Southeast Michigan Council of Governments (SEMCOG)
http://www.semcog.org/
SEMCOG is a voluntary association of governmental units in Livingston, Macomb, Monroe, Oakland, St. Clair, Washtenaw and Wayne Counties. Its principal activity is long-range planning and adopotion of regional plans and policies in the areas of transportation, land use, public safety, housing, water and air quality, and other environmental concerns. The library has master plans, facility plans, and ordinances for communities in Southeast Michigan.*

State Archives of Michigan
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/archive/index.html
With documents dating back to 1792, the State Archives of Michigan houses much of Michigan's record heritage. More than 80 million state and local government records and private papers, 300,000 photographs and 500,000 maps, plus films and audio tapes are available for public research. Records in the State Archives are particularly useful for tracing genealogy, legislative history/intent, land surveys, military service, and governmental policy on mental health, public health, education, labor, welfare and corrections. For Southeast Michigan there are also tax assessment rolls, records of original land owning, prison records, court records, naturalization records, education records, mental health records, railroad records, corporate annual reports, and election records. Circulars of interest to the history of social work are:

GOVERNMENT RECORDS RELATING TO THE HANDICAPPED	INFIRMARIES, SANITORIA AND POOR HOMES, CONFIDENTIAL RECORDS,(and how to get permission to see confidential records)
CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES	MINORITY RECORDS I - AFRICAN-AMERICANS (includes School Desegregation, 1973-1978; Commission Meetings, Judge Crockett, Detroit Riot, 1960-1974; Muslims, Racial Report and Segregated Housing Units, 1973; Black Panthers, Blacks and Racial Violence, 1940-1959, 1963-1974, 1976-1977; Civil Rights and Segregation Reports, 1940-1976; Black English, 1979-1980; Slavery 1849-1910; New Detroit & National Association of Black Social Workers, 1969-1974; Ku Klux Klan etc.)
MINORITY RECORDS II: NATIVE AMERICANS	MINORITY RECORDS III: ASIANS & HISPANICS
SCRAPBOOKS AND ALBUMS	STUDIES ( Social Workers Study, 1969-1971,Welfare Study, 1963-1971, Welfare Case Study, 1970-1971, Mental Health Study, 1948, Public Welfare in Michigan, 1936, Local Public Welfare, 1936, Welfare and Relief Study, 1936, Social Work Education, 1954-1955;)
TASK FORCES, COUNCILS and BOARDS (Prison Disturbances Task Force Reports 1981; Prison Disturbances Task Force Papers 1980 Prison Overcrowdings, Task Force Files 1980, Mental Health Advisory Board 76-48 Records 1964-1970 Mental Health Unification Task Force 89-438 Records 1979-1980)	RECORDS RELATING TO YOUTHS
RECORDS RELATING TO WOMEN

United States Historical Census Data Browser
http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/census/
The data presented describe the population and economy of U.S. states and counties from 1790 to 1960. In addition to basic counts of population and housing units, all decades contain information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition. Beginning with 1840, some economic characteristics such as education and occupation are included. Later decades have many variables, including ancestry, literacy, and income variables. In a few cases, the census data were augmented with information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Council of Churches of Christ. The available data differ somewhat from decade to decade, according to what was collected in the census and the items chosen for transcription to electronic form. For the early decades, most of the enumerated items are included. For later decades, only a portion of characteristics have been transcribed. No information is available below the county level, and only states are included (no information on western territories before statehood, or for the District of Columbia). Related Web sites are Center for Geographic Information, Michigan Metropolitan Information Center (MIMIC), and American FactFinder.

Walter P. Reuther Library Archives of Labor and Urban Affairs
http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/collections/collections.html

Official archives of nine major international labor unions.	Personal papers of Wade H. McCree, Rosa Parks, Ann Shafer, Mildred Jeffrey, and dozens of others
Records of forty organizations (Detroit Economic Development Corp., Detroit Human Rights Department, Women�s International League for Peace & Freedom: Meta Riseman Collection League of Women Voters, NAACP, SEMCOG)	Materials related to urban affairs: Collections on Detroit, Folklore Archive, (oldest and largest record of urban folk traditions in the United States),
Douglas Fraser Center for Workplace Issues	Records of Human Service Organizations such as United Community Services: Central Files

Wayne State University Archives (Official repository for records of WSU and its predecessor institutions) http://www.reuther.wayne.edu/collections/collections.html

Detroit College of Medicine 1868-	Detroit Normal School 1881-
Detroit Junior College 1917-	Wayne State University
Topics include social work, Detroit labor education, newspaper disputes, occupational health and safety, public health nursing, and un-American activities during WW II.

Wayne County Clerk
http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/archive/county/wayne.html
The County Clerk's office provides aggregage data for marriages since 1897 to the public. Birth, Death, Marriage, and Divorce Records are indexed under the Alphabetical Soundex-Code, are housed in a restricted area and searched by the staff. Microfilm viewing is only available to the public with regard to Divorce Records. Microfilm viewing of Death and Marriage Records must be employee assisted.

A. Digital archives | B. Archival Repositories |
C. Selected Local Records by Historical Eras:
Pre and Post Civil War Era | Progressive Era | Depression Era | Post-WWII Boom | Post-Modern Era
Part I: General Library Sources for the Literature Review
Part II: Subject-Specific Databases for the Literature Review

Sources used for this guide:

*Boryczka, R. (1994). Guide to Resources for Urban-Related Research in the Metropolitan Detroit Area. Detroit, Wayne State University, College of Urban, Labor and Metropolitan Affairs.

Survey of the Michigan Social Welfare History Consortium 2002-

The History of the Health Sciences in Michigan: A Guide to Research Sources

Documenting the Historical Experiences of African Americans in Southeastern Michigan with Regard to Health Care, the Health Professions and the Health Sciences

Survey of Consumer Attitudes 1946-	Monitoring the Future Study 1975-
National Election Studies 1948-	World Values Surveys 1981-
Panel Study of Income Dynamics 1968-	Health and Retirement Study 1992-

Survey Research Center	Research Center for Group Dynamics
Population Studies Center	Center for Political Studies
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research: 18,000 data files cover basic political, historical, and economic data for the U.S., and data on quality of American life, work patterns and attitudes, women's roles, consumer attitude, and contemporary and historical economic and political behavior.

Historical Research on Social Justice Issues Part III. Archival Collections

A. Digital Collections with text, visual images, and chronologies from America's past

U.S. Primary Sources and Selected Secondary Sources

Canadian Primary Sources:

B. Archival Repositories housing primary sources on Social Welfare History

Historical Research on Social Justice Issues
Part III. Archival Collections