TABLE OF CONTENTS


Introduction

Scope and Content Note

Restrictions

Administrative Information

Search Terms

A Finding Aid to the Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records. 1874-1938.

Manuscript Collection No. 335



Introduction

Repository: The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives
Creator: Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Title: Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records.
Dates: 1874-1938.
Quantity: 7.2 linear feet.
Abstract: Correspondence, minutes, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials.
Collection Number: MS-335
Language: Collection material in English.

Scope and Content Note

Correspondence, minutes, letterbooks, scrapbooks, and other materials.


Restrictions

Terms of Access and Use

The Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records are open to all users. The original manuscript collection is available in the Barrows-Loebelson Reading Room of the Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives.

Property and Literary Rights

Abraham J. Karp, by the act of donating the Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records to the American Jewish Archives, assigned all property rights to the American Jewish Archives. Literary rights are retained by the Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.). Literary rights may also be retained by specific creators of materials.

Questions concerning rights should be addressed to the Executive Director of the American Jewish Archives. For more information see the American Jewish Archives copyright information webpage.


Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Footnotes and bibliographic references should refer to the Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records and the American Jewish Archives. A suggestion for at least the first citation is as follows:

[Description], [Date], Box #, Folder #. MS-335. Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records. American Jewish Archives, Cincinnati, Ohio.

Provenance

The Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records were received from Abraham J. Karp, Rochester, New York, in 1982.

Processing Information

Processed by American Jewish Archives staff.

Accruals and Additions

No further accruals are expected to this collection.



Search Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the AJA's online catalog.

Jewish Orphan Asylum and Foster Home (Philadelphia, Pa.) -- Archives
Jewish orphanages -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
Jews -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Charities
Scrapbooks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia