Missouri Association for Social Welfare, Papers, 1908-1971 (C3475)
79 linear feet, 23 volumes, 6 boxes
INTRODUCTION
Correspondence, minutes, committee records, membership lists, background material on legislation, newsletters, treasurers' reports, and conference materials of the Missouri Association for Social Welfare (MASW).
DONOR INFORMATION
The Missouri Association for Social Welfare Papers were donated to the University of Missouri by the association on 18 June 1974 and 17 February 1975 (Accession No. 3947).
ORGANIZATIONAL SKETCH
The Missouri Association for Social Welfare (MASW) was organized in 1901 as the Missouri Conference of Charities and Corrections and renamed in 1915 the Missouri Conference for Social Welfare. The present name was adopted in 1934.
The objects and purposes of the MASW are to improve and extend the health and welfare of the people of the State of Missouri, and to promote the improvement of public and private social services and the prevention of poverty, crime, and disease in the State of Missouri. Its purpose may be accomplished through: research; education, including conferences and institutes; social planning; community organization; and cooperation with public and private agencies.
SCOPE AND CONTENT
The MASW Papers consist of correspondence, minutes, committee records, membership lists, background material on legislation, newsletters, treasurers’ reports, and conference materials arranged alphabetically by topic. Following the folder list is an organizational list that arranges the papers into the following six sections:
FOLDER LIST
| f. 1-27 | Adequate Public Assistance Committee, 1939 and 1945-1950. Incorporation of committee with MASW; correspondence between committee members, professionals, and congressmen on public assistance programs and legislation; minutes; publicity committee materials; and reports. |
| f. 28 | Ad Hoc Committee, 1952. Correspondence, minutes, statements and recommendations of committee designated to study authority and responsibilities of executive officials of MASW. |
| f. 29 | Administrative Assistant, 1949. Publications of MASW's "Building a Better State." |
| f. 30-31 | Administrative Committee, 1937-1941. Organization of committee, and coordination of an investigation and reporting of relief conditions in state. |
| f. 32 | Aid to Dependent Children Sub-committee, 1960-1961. Organization of committee to study the "DC program. |
| f. 33 | Alcoholism, 1950. Initiating a program for alcoholics. |
| f. 34 | American Association for Social Workers, 1945 and 1953-1954. Central Chapter bulletins for 1945; correspondence on self-sufficiency of assistance clients; minutes; article entitled "Self-Sufficiency of Assistance Clients." |
| f. 35 | American Public Welfare Association, 1937 and 1944-1945. Handbook for manual makers, letters to members, pamphlets, program for 1945 conference and list of attendants. |
| f. 36-46 | Association of State Conference Secretaries, 1937-1953. Organization of conferences, memoranda, bulletins, minutes, lists of attendants, lists of speakers and topics for conference presentations, speeches, and conference materials from numerous states. |
| f. 47-49 | Association of State Planning Executives, 1957-1961. Conference correspondence, speeches, lists of executives, and correspondence on a merger between state conferences and state planning executives in health and welfare fields. |
| f. 50-55 | Awards Committee, 1954-1962 and 1971. Correspondence, committee reports, lists and biographical materials of nominees for MASW service awards in the fields of health and welfare. |
| f. 56 | Blind, Study of, 1947. Establishing committee to study services for the blind, legislation concerning pensions for the blind, reports from the Bureau for the Blind. |
| f. 57-193 | Board of Directors, 1934-1962. Correspondence between the board and members concerning committee activities, appointments, programs, meetings, finances, and by-laws; annual reports; minutes; summaries of committee reports; and memoranda. |
| f. 194 | Campaign Committee Against the Equal Rights Amendment, 1938. |
| f. 195-198 | Candidates Committee, 1948-1950. Questionnaire on MASW's legislative program for candidates to the state legislature; correspondence between committeemen and interviewers; and tabulation of responses. |
| f. 199-246 | Chapter Correspondence, 1934-1946. Chapter-association relationship, membership drives, fundraising activities, committees; minutes; lists of members; and committee reports. |
| f. 199-200 | General correspondence, 1937-1941 |
| f. 201-204 | Boone County Chapter, 1935-1942
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| f. 205-207 | Buchanan County Chapter, 1936-1941 |
| f. 208-209 | Cole County Chapter, 1936-1940 |
| f. 210-222 | Jackson County Chapter, 1941-1945 |
| f. 223-246 | St. Louis Chapter, 1934-1946 |
| f. 247-348 | Child Care Committee, 1947-1957. Correspondence concerning health and welfare of children; memoranda; lists of members; committee reports; minutes; and legislative notes on juvenile delinquency, training schools, licensing of child welfare agencies, adoption practices, and compulsory school attendance. |
| f. 349-351 | Child Labor Committee, 1949 and 1952-1956. Correspondence with Labor Department and National Child Labor Committee on child labor, compulsory school attendance, juvenile delinquency and legislation.. |
| f. 352-353 | Child Welfare League, 1955-1956. Correspondence between Edward Parsons and Aase George concerning the program committee of the Southwest Regional Conference of the Child Welfare League. |
| f. 354-384 | Children's Code Commission, 1938-1948. Correspondence on creating commission, its activities, child welfare legislation; memoranda; reports; legislative drafts; and miscellaneous pamphlets. |
| f. 385 | Civil Defense Committee, 1951-1952. Miscellaneous materials on civil defense legislation |
| f. 386 | Civil Liberties Committee, 1937-1941. |
| f. 387 | Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, n.d. Constitution. |
| f. 388-391 | Clerical Services Committee, 1941-1944. Correspondence on organizing committee and its participation in MASW annual conference; minutes; and lists of members. |
| f. 392-549 | Community Chests and United Fund, 1946-1962. General correspondence concerning directory of statewide health and welfare agencies, allocation of funds, and budgets; materials on annual Community Chest and United Fund workshops; by-laws; minutes; and MASW budget requests to local United Funds and Community Chests, arranged alphabetically by name of town. |
| f. 406-549 | Buffalo-Washington budget requests. |
| f. 550-552 | Community Organization Committee, 1936-1941. Establishing the committee to promote the formation of MASW local chapters in each county and to coordinate community efforts in health and welfare activities. |
| f. 553 | Compulsory School Attendance Committee, 1951. |
| f. 554-1184 | Conferences, 1928-1970. Correspondence, memoranda programs, minutes, expense accounts, speeches, treasurer's records, publicity materials, and committee reports pertaining to MASW's annual conferences. |
| f. 1185-1203 | Corrections Committee, 1959-1962. Establishing committee, public defender legislation, probation and parole systems, and corrections institutional reform. |
| f. 1204-1206 | Crawford County Pilot Program, 1956-1957. Minutes and correspondence on establishing a chapter of MASW in Crawford County. |
| f. 1207 | Directories of Social Agencies, 1935-1941. Correspondence on publishing directory of social agencies, printer's accounts, and issuance of other directories. |
| f. 1208-2499 | Division Correspondence, 1935-1965. Correspondence, membership lists, conference programs, newspaper clippings, speeches, by-laws and constitutions, news releases, minutes, and treasurer's reports. |
| f. 1208-1366 | East Central, 1945-1961 |
| f. 1367-1534 | Jackson County, 1935-1959 |
| f. 1535-1568 | Kansas City, 1959-1961 |
| f. 1567-1667 | Northeast, 1945-1961 |
| f. 1668-1802 | Northwest, 1945-1961 |
| f. 1803-1819 | Ozarks, 1958-1961 |
| f. 1820-2132 | St. Louis, 1945-1965 |
| f. 2133-2199 | South Central, 1946-1965 |
| f. 2200-2269 | Southeast, 1945-1961 |
| f. 2270-2395 | Southwest, 1945-1961 |
| f. 2396-2499 | West Central, 1945-1961 |
| f. 2500-2574 | Editorial Committee, 1931-1957. Memoranda, correspondence, drafts of articles and miscellaneous items submitted for publication, copies of MASW's newsletters and bulletins, and issues of its official publication, "Building a Better State." |
| f. 2575-2585 | Employment Standards Committee, 1949-1953. Membership lists, correspondence, and pamphlets on minimum wage legislation. |
| f. 2586-2589 | "Everybody's Business," 1957-1961. Correspondence and issues of MASW's newsletter. |
| f. 2590-2610 | Executive Committee, 1942-1962. Minutes and correspondence between executive secretaries and members of the executive committee on conferences, meetings, publication of bulletins, membership fees, legislation, finances, resignations, appointments, juvenile delinquency pamphlet, and votes on policies. |
| f. 2611-2711 | Executive Secretaries and Secretaries, 1937-1963. Correspondence on MASW publications, bulletins, fees, meetings, appointments, resignations, letters of recommendations, merit examinations, and speaking engagements; minutes of board of directors; and articles by Mary Brooks. |
| f. 2772 | Fair Employment Practices Committee, 1944. Miscellaneous materials on National Council for a Permanent Fair Employment Practices Committee. |
| f. 2773-2790 | Family and Child Welfare Committee, 1937-1943. Reports and correspondence on organizing committee, child welfare legislation, and arranging meetings. |
| f. 2791-2792 | Family Court Committee, 1959-1961. Correspondence and bibliography on family courts and family court legislation. |
| f. 2793-2808 | Field Work Reports, 1939-1940 and 1947-1949. Summary reports of MASW's field representatives and case stories. |
| f. 2809-3063 | Finance and Budget Committee, 1936-1964. Correspondence; income reports; accounts and receipts; insurance fidelity bonds; treasurer's reports; expense accounts; long range financing reports; lists of contributors; and materials on 1958 cookie book project. |
| f. 3064-3089 | Foundations, Trusts, and Corporations, 1932, 1938-1942 and 1947-1956. Lists of corporations, trusts, and foundations, and correspondence requesting funds for various MASW projects (e.g., survey of need for public assistance in Missouri and study on public education). |
| f. 3090-3091 | Governors' Correspondence, 1937-1943. With Governor Lloyd C. Stark on proposed public welfare department, appointments to Social Security Commission, and merit system examinations. Copy of Governor Forrest C. Donnell's first message to the 62nd General Assembly, January 6, 1943.
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| f. 3092-3178 | Health Committee, 1935-1960. Lists of members, pamphlets, legislative bills, minutes, reports on health legislation, and correspondence on organizing the health committee, the Missouri Health Council, legislation, tuberculosis, cancer, cerebral palsy, the mentally ill, county health centers, state mental hospitals, and expanding health facilities in Missouri. |
| f. 3179-3183 | Historical data on the association, 1937-1943. Miscellaneous materials on the MASW and correspondence referring to Ralph L. Smith's thesis on the history of MASW. |
| f. 3184 | Hoover Commission, 1949-1950. Materials on the reorganization plans of the Federal Security Agency. |
| f. 3185-3197 | Housing Committee, 1940-1952. Organization of committee, housing conditions, and housing legislation; minutes; and notes on legislation. |
| f. 3198-3401 | Human Rights Committee, 1944-1962. Minutes; membership lists, material on legislation; human rights questionnaires; MASW human rights study (1949); Elsa Williamson's reports on "Missouri's Two State Universities" (1949) and "Segregated Schools in Missouri" (1953); John Kessler's reports on "St. Louis Public Schools" (1950) and "Racial Discrimination in St. Louis Hotels" (1951); and correspondence on equal educational facilities, fair employment practices, public accommodations bill, hotel discrimination, segregation of recreational facilities, Sunday closing laws, and establishment of Missouri Human Rights Commission. |
| f. 3402-3417 | Immigration, 1945-1951. Correspondence, pamphlets, legislation, editorials, and articles on displaced persons; copy of The Proceedings of the National Resettlement Conference of Displaced Persons in Chicago (1949); and materials on proposed Missouri commission on displaced persons. |
| f. 3418-3424 | Income Taxes, 1942-1951. Materials on the victory tax and tax withholding statements of MASW employees. |
| f. 3425 | Inter-Organization Clearance Committee, 1943. Organizing a committee for St. Louis organizations engaged in similar community activities. |
| f. 3426 | Nell Jasper, 1938. Biographical information and death notice. |
| f. 3427-3447 | Juvenile Court Committee, 1948-1957. Testimonies before senate committee on juvenile delinquency; materials on legislation; and correspondence on juvenile court laws and juvenile delinquency. |
| f. 3448-3473 | Juvenile Delinquency Committee, 1935-1964. Organization of committee, legislation, child welfare and delinquency questionnaire, juvenile delinquency pamphlet (1950), and juvenile court study (1964). |
| f. 3474-3630 | Legislative Committee, 1935-1961. Minutes, membership lists, bulletins, legislative notes, reports, and correspondence on health and social welfare legislation in Missouri. |
| f. 3591-3630 | MASW's Legislative News, which summarizes legislation and reports on the status of bills in the general assembly. |
| f. 3631 | Liaison Committee, 1960. Committee organized to evaluate mergers with organizations of similar interests. |
| f. 3632-3663 | Licensing Committee, 1947-1955. Pamphlets, memoranda, legislation, and correspondence on licensing child welfare agencies in Missouri. |
| f. 3664 | Medical Care Subcommittee, 1958-1960. Materials on medical care for recipients of public assistance. |
| f. 3665-3872 | Membership Committee, 1934-1963 and 1966. Membership lists of individuals and organizations; minutes; and correspondence on organization of the committee and recommendations for membership. |
| f. 3873-3901 | Mental Health Committee, 1950 and 1953-1960. Membership lists, articles on mental health, minutes, mental health bulletins, legislation, reports, and correspondence on mental institutions in Missouri, Missouri Committee for Mental Health and the proposed ten-year mental health program for Missouri, 1961-1971. |
| f. 3902-3907 | Mentally Retarded Committee, 1953-1954. Materials on Excelsior Springs meeting. |
| f. 3908-3931 | Merit System, 1936-1943. Merit system examinations and civil service legislation in Missouri. |
| f. 3932-4004 | Minimum Wage Committee, 1940 and 1944-1949. Membership lists, minutes, questionnaires on minimum wage, notes on legislation and House minimum wage hearings, miscellaneous pamphlets and articles, Labor Department statistics, MASW's handbook "Toward a Living Wage in Missouri" (1946), Mary Brooks's article on "Some Essentials of a State Minimum Wage Law" (1947), reports on minimum wage laws in other states, and correspondence on minimum wage. |
| f. 4005-4087 | Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1942-1957. Bills and receipts concerning office supplies and equipment, the office lease, and telephone and printing services; correspondence on legislation; announcements of meetings, and requests for publications and information on MASW. |
| f. 4088-4089 | Missouri Association for Mental Hygiene, 1938 and 1940-1941. Pamphlets, newsletters, articles, and correspondence between Helen H. Sala and Helen Brown. |
| f. 4090-4109 | MASW, 1935-1971. Bound volumes of files on association's activities from the records of Bertha Howell, John Neal, committee chairmen, and executive secretaries; statements of MASW's objectives; pamphlets on long-range goals; and correspondence on changing the association's name and office location. |
| f. 4110-4113 | Missouri Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1908-1910, 1912 and 1914. Proceedings of the annual meetings. |
| f. 4114-4129 | Missouri Conference for Social Welfare, 1915, 1918 and 1920-1937. Proposed five-year program for the conference; bound volumes of material on the conference's activities from the files of Bertha Howell, John Neal, and the executive secretaries; minutes of committee meetings; and the conference's "Directory of Social and Health Agencies in Missouri" (1930). |
| f. 4130-4133 | Missouri Correction Association, 1955-1969. Newspaper clippings; newsletters; summaries of meetings; Bureau of Prisons booklet entitled "New Roles for Jails" (1969); and correspondence on proposed merger between the Missouri Correction Association and MASW and on Citizens Action Committee of the National Council on Crime and Delinquency. |
| f. 4134-4846 | Missouri Council on Children and Youth, 1950-1965, 1967, and 1971. Statistics on children in Missouri; questionnaire and correspondence on organizing MASW's White House Conference on Children and Youth and its Advisory Council on Children and Youth; minutes; legislative notes; membership lists; and materials and correspondence on MCCY's "Today's Children--Tomorrow's Citizens" (1951), "Ten Year Program for Children in Missouri" (1952), publication of the Bulletin, training school report (1954), legislative workshop (1954), foster care reports, migratory labor reports, "Troubled Children in Missouri Schools" reports, "Foster Care News Review" (1962), and other committee activities. |
| f. 4847-4866 | Missouri Health Council, 1948-1957. Statement of organization of the council, 1948; minutes; proposed amendments; annual conference programs; correspondence among council members; report of a survey of American Public Health Association on the Missouri Division of Health; sample survey forms; lobbyist efforts to amend the Health Center "ct, 1949; survey by Missouri Health Council on the Missouri Division of Health; treasurer's reports; calendars of events; study of indigent ill; revised statement of organization, 1956. |
| f. 4867-4917 | Missouri-Kansas Joint Conference, 1942-1944. Correspondence among MASW members, with the Kansas Conference of Social Work, and others about the conference. |
| f. 4918 | Missouri Library Commission, 1939-1944. Correspondence with commission about copies of bills and Missouri House and Senate journals to be sent to MASW. |
| f. 4919-4924 | Missouri Recreation Association, 1953-1959. Constitution and by-laws, 1953; report of First Missouri Governor's Recreation Conference; minutes; correspondence among members; copy of House Bill No. 216, 68th General Assembly; reports of committees; lists of officers and boards of directors; pamphlet advocating a Recreation Enabling "ct, revised constitution and by-laws, 1957; copy of House Bill No. 279, 69th General Assembly; lobbyist activity; proceedings of Missouri Recreation Conference, 1957; Proceedings of Second Missouri Governor's Recreation Conference, 1958. |
| f. 4925 | Missouri Social Hygiene Association, 1932-1933. Constitution, by-laws, monthly service reports containing outlines of activities, and treasurer's reports. |
| f. 4926 | Missouri Society for Crippled Children, 1944-1945. Copies of Missouri Society for Crippled Children, Inc. bulletins: June, September, and December 1944, and March and June 1945. |
| f. 4927-4933 | Missouri State Eleemosynary Institutions, 1936-1940. Copies of letters W. Ed Jameson sent to legislators containing general information about the Missouri state eleemosynary institutions. These include four mental hospitals located at Fulton, St. Joseph, Nevada, and Farmington; the Missouri State School for Feeble-minded located at Marshall; the State Sanatorium for Tuberculosis located at Mt. Vernon; the Children's Home located at Carrollton; the Department for the Blind; and the Division of Old Age Assistance |
| f. 4934-4935 | Missouri State Teachers Association, 1945-1946. MST" legislative committee bulletins, April 1945-January 1946; pamphlets on state funding for public schools; a Reader's Digest article on teachers' pay. |
| f. 4936-4945 | Missouri Welfare League, 1931-1949. Constitution and by-laws; pamphlets; yearly reports; 1933 reports on Industrial Home for Negro Girls, Missouri Penitentiary, Women's Department Penitentiary, Intermediate Reformatory Algoa Farms, Missouri Training School for Boys, and State Industrial Home for Girls; reports on Missouri statutes with recommendations, newspaper clippings, lobbyist platform, correspondence among members and with MASW. |
| f. 4946-4947 | National Association of State Conference and Planning Organizations, 1961-1962. Correspondence among by-law committee members, by-laws, minutes of board of directors meeting, mailing list for member organizations. |
| f. 4948-4971 | National Conference of Social Work, 1935-1955. Correspondence, pamphlets about meetings, planning questionnaires, calendars of events, tentative program plans, speeches, planning notes for regional conferences, copies of conference bulletin. |
| f. 4972-4979 | National Council on State Legislation, 1949-1953. Pamphlet on history of Council, correspondence between MASW and Council, meeting programs, convention minutes, correspondence among members of MASW about the Council. |
| f. 4980-4992 | National Mid-Century Committee on Children and Youth, 1951-1953. Pamphlets, reports, and bulletins from the Mid-Century Committee organization, correspondence between the Committee and MASW, minutes, recommendations, fund raining activities, press releases, survey of public opinion on youth problems. |
| f. 4993-5005 | National Social Welfare Assembly, 1948-1960. Articles on sheltered care for the aged, annual reports, minutes, charts and pamphlets, texts of speeches, report of the committee on future program, information bulletins, manpower survey of social welfare personnel. |
| f. 5006-5107 | Nominations and By-Laws Committee, 1934-1962. Materials on elections to committee, work of committee, results of elections of officers of MASW, election procedures and costs, attendance records of officers and members-at-large at board meetings, biographical sketches of officers, minutes of board of directors' meetings, and correspondence with MASW executive secretary. Materials of by-laws committee including MASW by-laws, divisional by-laws, amendments, application for tax exempt status, postal rates for non-profit organizations, avoiding appearance of lobbyist activities so as not to endanger MASW's tax-exempt status, MASW handbook for division and committee chairmen, and analysis of Missouri's Fair Labor Standards "ct. |
| f. 5108-5144 | Nonsegregated School Study, 1952-1955. Drafts and printed copy of study contrasting expenditures for segregated education, separate-but-equal education, and integrated education in St. Louis, Boone County, Butler County, and the Hannibal area; projection of future costs of education in St. Louis; list of financial contributors; tabulation sheets; and requests for copies of the report. |
| f. 5145-5150 | Official Welfare Services in Missouri, 1936-1939. Requests for copies of "Official Welfare Services in Missouri, Their Development and Correlation, 1821 to 1936" and responses by MASW. |
| f. 5151-5201 | Personnel Committee, 1937-1963. Definition and analysis of merit system; minutes of committee on personnel; recommended and revised personnel practices; impartial arbitration for settling labor disputes in social welfare agencies; subcommittee report on retirement benefits for state employees; salary disparities between urban and rural social workers; discrimination at the Missouri State Employment Service; Governor Forrest Smith's attitude towards social work as a profession; unionization of social workers; MASW interest in Missouri state training schools; certification of professional psychologists; residency requirements for state professional personnel; retirement program for MASW staff; search for new MASW executive secretary, 1963. |
| f. 5202 | Physically Handicapped Committee, 1942-1943. Missouri Society for Crippled Children petition for MASW special committee on the problems of the handicapped during the war, Alberta Chase first chairman of committee, information on rejected draftees, list of executive committee members, finding representatives in the fields of the deaf and blind, list of tentative committee plans. |
| f. 5203 | Physicians Committee, 1937. Principles and proposals of the committee and names of doctors supporting them; MASW interest in the proposals. |
| f. 5204-5382 | President's Correspondence, 1937-1961. Correspondence with the executive secretary, board members, the office staff, and others on topics of board meetings, committee personnel, membership and money raising campaigns, recommendations for appointment, state conferences, special situations and projects, and miscellaneous. |
| f. 5383-5429 | Press Publicity Releases, 1937-1944. Correspondence in the preparation of articles on social welfare topics to be published in newspapers throughout the state and in MASW's "Building " Better State;" lists of titles, authors, and dates of articles published; some typed copies of articles and newspaper clippings. |
| f. 5430-5433 | Probation and Parole Committee, 1937-1944. Application for position of chief probation officer; correspondence among MASW members about public welfare positions throughout the state; examination questions for probation and parole officers; correspondence on personnel of MASW's committee on probation, parole, and penal institutions; plans for state penal institutions and training schools for delinquents. |
| f. 5434-5483 | Program Committee, 1947-1962. Correspondence on proposed annual programs and issues MASW wishes to emphasize for coming year; survey form and tabulations of members' opinions on importance of programs; reports on programs, structure, and financing of MASW; comments of members; financial contributions campaigns. |
| f. 5484-5505 | Public Relations Committee, 1953-1963. Public relations ideas, membership drives, coordination between MASW committees, and scheduling of meetings; lists of Missouri newspapers, radio stations, and television stations; sample news releases; miniature brick paper weights for "building a better state"; development of a slide and commentary presentation on problems in the social welfare field. |
| f. 5506-5518 | Public Health and Welfare Department, 1945-1946. Correspondence on MASW's part in the development of Missouri's Public Health and Welfare Department, newspaper clippings, organizational chart of state welfare service, requirements and recommendations of persons for state welfare jobs. |
| f. 5519-5578 | Public Social Services, 1951-1962. Minutes of committee; correspondence; petitions of citizens asking for investigation by legislature of old age assistance, child welfare, and general relief; analysis of appropriations needed by the Public Health and Welfare Department, 1951-1953; case histories of persons and families on inadequate public relief; questions and answers on public assistance programs; bills in Missouri legislature; correspondence and reports on welfare topics: privacy of public assistance rolls, family responsibility and lien and recovery provisions in old age assistance, assistance withheld from families with employable unemployed members. |
| f. 5579-5636 | Public Welfare Survey, 1935-1937. Reports prepared by the Works Progress Administration on public welfare provisions in forty-four states. |
| f. 5579-5580 | Alabama |
| f. 5581 | Arizona |
| f. 5582 | Arkansas |
| f. 5583 | California |
| f. 5584 | Colorado |
| f. 5585 | Connecticut |
| f. 5586 | Delaware |
| f. 5587-5588 | Florida |
| f. 5589-5590 | Georgia |
| f. 5591 | Idaho |
| f. 5592-5593 | Indiana |
| f. 5594-5595 | Iowa |
| f. 5596 | Kansas |
| f. 5597 | Kentucky |
| f. 5598 | Louisiana |
| f. 5599 | Maine |
| f. 5600 | Maryland |
| f. 5601 | Massachusetts |
| f. 5602 | Michigan |
| f. 5603-5604 | Minnesota |
| f. 5605 | Mississippi |
| f. 5606-5608 | Missouri |
| f. 5609-5610 | Montana |
| f. 5611-5612 | Nebraska |
| f. 5613 | Nevada |
| f. 5614 | New Hampshire |
| f. 5615 | New Jersey |
| f. 5616 | New Mexico |
| f. 5617 | New York |
| f. 5618 | North Carolina |
| f. 5619-5620 | North Dakota |
| f. 5621 | Ohio |
| f. 5622 | Oklahoma |
| f. 5623 | Oregon |
| f. 5624 | Pennsylvania |
| f. 5625 | South Carolina |
| f. 5626-5627 | South Dakota |
| f. 5628 | Tennessee |
| f. 5629 | Texas |
| f. 5630 | Utah |
| f. 5631 | Vermont |
| f. 5632 | Virginia |
| f. 5633-5634 | Washington |
| f. 5635-5636 | Wisconsin |
| f. 5637 | Publications Evaluation Committee, 1961-1962. Correspondence of special committee appointed in September of 1961 by president of MASW, Florence Chick, to study and evaluate MASW's publications program. |
| f. 5638-5644 | Publicity Committee, 1938-1968. Correspondence, press releases, newsclippings, material on Missouri Federation for the Merit System, booklet on recreation for war workers, survey assessing consumer demand after World War II. |
| f. 5645-5655 | Race Relations Committee, 1939-1954. Correspondence; description of committee functions: make arrangements for Negro delegates to MASW State conference, offer suggestions to program committees on race relations, study race relations problems, carry on any kind of action desired by the committee which is not inconsistent with principles of MASW; committee minutes and reports; committee recommendations: anti-lynching legislation, integration of minority and ethnic groups, fair employment practices; newspaper clippings from Kansas City Call. |
| f. 5656-5667 | Recreational and Group Work Committee, 1938-1947. Correspondence; minutes; organizational problems; MASW Institute for Group Work, Recreation, and Physical Fitness focusing on volunteerism; committee evaluation and plan of action. |
| f. 5668-5674 | Redistricting Committee, 1958-1962. Correspondence, suggestions for evaluation of districts, maps showing divisions, report of committee. |
| f. 5675-5697 | Refugee Relief "ct, 1953-1956. Correspondence on organization and operation of Governor's Refugee Relief Committee; bulletins, pamphlets, reports, and publicity on relief work; selected references on migratory workers, their families, problems, and programs. |
| f. 5698-5877 | Regional Conference Material, 1940-1945. Correspondence, preparations, and programs for regional conferences; programs; membership lists; case records; and newspaper clippings. |
| f. 5751-5775 | East Central Division |
| f. 5776-5807 | Northeast Division |
| f. 5808-5820 | South Central Division |
| f. 5821-5841 | Southeast Division |
| f. 5842-5862 | Southwest Division |
| f. 5863-5877 | West Central Division |
| f. 5878-6017 | Registration and Certification, 1934-1942. Correspondence and minutes; survey of programs in other states; draft of bill to create Missouri State Department of Public Welfare; applications for registration and certification; examination questions with comments by committee members; questionnaires to evaluate program; plans to suspend program during World War II and to reactivate thereafter; and financial records including bank book, check book and ledgers. |
| f. 6018-6075 | Relief Committee, 1935-1947. Correspondence, minutes, studies, and reports; newsclippings and pamphlets about the relief situation. |
| f. 6020 | Bound relief committee materials of the St. Louis County Chapter of MASW, 1936-1937. |
| f. 6029 | Bound relief committee materials of the Special Committee on Relief of MASW, 1939-1940. |
| f. 6030, 6031 | Case histories of relief clients. |
| f. 6033 | Report on relief needs in St. Louis, 1940. |
| f. 6035 | WP" nursery school survey, 1940. |
| f. 6042-6045 | Case histories of relief clients. |
| f. 6059 | Report on General Relief, 1940 |
| f. 6061 | Handbook for members of county social security commissions, 1941 |
| f. 6069 | Report of Social Welfare Administration Committee of MASW, 1943. |
| f. 6076 | Research, 1958. Program objectives of sub-committee on research. |
| f. 6077-6081 | Residence Laws, 1955-1960. Correspondence, reports, and statements about restrictive residence laws that hinder adequate welfare assistance. |
| f. 6077 | "The Constitution and the Right of Free Movement," "Residence Laws: Road Block to Human Welfare," "The Social Cost of Residence Laws." |
| f. 6078 | Minutes of the National Social Welfare Assembly, Inc. "d Hoc Meeting on Residence Laws, 1957. |
| f. 6082 | Retirement, 1960-1962. Correspondence exploring means of providing a retirement plan for MASW employees. |
| f. 6083-6111 | Rural Problems Committee, 1939-1944. Correspondence and minutes; development of a rural resource directory for the state of Missouri. |
| f. 6112-6161 | Rural Resources Directory, 1944-1956. Requests by citizens and organizations to purchase the directory; information provided by social welfare organizations to revise the directory. |
| f. 6162 | St. Louis Juvenile Court, 1941-1943. Report of the probation officer of the court. |
| f. 6163 | Salary Survey, 1949-1950. Correspondence with the National Survey of Salaries and Working Conditions in Social Work, and advisory committee to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. |
| f. 6164-6165 | SCANS Committee, 1963. Correspondence and reports on funding and implementation of SCANS. |
| f. 6166-6172 | Social Action, 1938-1956. Correspondence with Missouri state and national representatives and senators and with the Missouri State Social Security Commission on the subject of adequate appropriations for public assistance. |
| f. 6170 | Investigation into the dismissal of John K. Rowland of the St. Louis office of the State Social Security Commission, 1939. |
| f. 6172 | Materials on "The Pursuit of Practical Politics," a one-day institute sponsored by MASW, held at Washington University, 1955. |
| f. 6173-6176 | Social Insurance Committee, 1938-1943. Committee's purpose to study and do research in the fields of social insurance (old age assistance, unemployment compensation, workmen's compensation) and to broaden the scope to include the entire insurance needs of the people, especially health insurance. Correspondence; report on liberalizing of unemployment compensation; committee report on social insurance, 1941-42. |
| f. 6177-6186 | Social Security, 1930-1960. Correspondence with the Social Security Commission, pamphlets, reports. |
| f. 6178 | Social Security Bill, 1935. |
| f. 6185 | "Instructions in Public Relations; Interpretation Through Daily Contacts," 1941. |
| f. 6186 | "Social Security Coverage for Employees of Non-Profit Agencies," 1950. |
| f. 6187 | Social Service Sub-Committee, 1944 and 1958. Correspondence, minutes, and membership list of the sub-committee on social services of MASW's committee on the welfare of the aging. |
| f. 6188-6190 | Social Welfare Administration Committee, 1941-1944. Minutes, correspondence with legislators, MASW statement on the Missouri Constitution's social welfare provisions and on recommended appropriations for public assistance. |
| f. 6191-6202 | Social Welfare Questionnaire, 1936-1938. MASW collected data on social welfare through questionnaires about child and family welfare and delinquency and relayed data to governor-appointed committee to suggest uses of social security money. |
| f. 6191 | Bates County; correspondence with school superintendents; St. François County; Buchanan County; compilation of questionnaires; Warren County; description of new Social Security Commission, 1938. |
| f. 6192 | Definitions and instructions for filling in schedule on family welfare, Bates County. |
| f. 6193 | Benton County, Boone County, Buchanan County. |
| f. 6194 | County, Cass County, Clinton County. |
| f. 6195 | Daviess County, DeKalb County, Franklin County |
| f. 6196 | Gasconade County, Greene County |
| f. 6197 | Johnson County, Lafayette County, Lawrence County, Lewis County |
| f. 6198 | Mercer County, Moniteau County, Morgan County. |
| f. 6199 | New Madrid County, Nodaway County, Pemiscot County, Randolph County. |
| f. 6200 | Ray County, Reynolds County, St. Charles County, St. Francois County, Ste. Genevieve County. |
| f. 6201 | Saline County, Scotland County. |
| f. 6202 | Scott County, Shelby County, Texas County. |
| f. 6203-6230 | Speakers' Bureau, 1938-1943. Purpose of speakers' bureau was to secure one hundred speakers from all parts of the state to speak before organized groups on the main points of MASW's legislative program. Includes correspondence among MASW members and with groups throughout the state; lists of speakers; suggestions, notes, and texts of speeches; forms filled out by speakers. |
| f. 6231-6233 | Special Education Committee, 1937. Committee's purpose was to further understanding and appreciation for MASW's legislative program, which included reorganization of the administration of welfare services. Correspondence among MASW members and with representatives of community groups throughout state; list of persons invited to join committee with notation of acceptance and status on Speakers' Bureau. |
| f. 6234-6255 | Speeches, 1938-1940. Texts of speeches delivered at the 38th, 39th, and 40th annual conferences of MASW. Topics cover a range of social welfare issues. |
| f. 6234-6241 | Speeches, 1938. |
| f. 6234 | "Missouri's Progress in Social Security," George I. Haworth
"Guarding the Child in Foster Care," Walter Sherman |
| f. 6235 | "Self Education in Mental Hygiene in Social Work," Robert E. Britt
"Resources of Mental Hygiene in Social Work," Ruth Lewis
"The Resources of Mental Hygiene in Social Work," Emmett Hoctor
"Should Missouri Qualify for Federal "id for the Blind?," J.F. Hardesty |
| f. 6236 | "Should Missouri Participate in Federal "id to the Blind?," Mary E. Ryder
"Federal Assistance for Care of the Blind in Missouri," M.C. Bertram
"Old Age Assistance in Missouri," Reba E. Choate
"Old Age Assistance from an Urban Viewpoint," Juanita Kirkham
"Reduction of the Old Age Assistance Age Limit to 65," Melvin W. Sneed.
"The State's Responsibility for Informing the Public about Social Security," Louis Resnick |
| f. 6237 | "The Need for a Children's Code in Missouri," Judge Fred Hoffmeister
"Child Labor in Missouri," Mrs. Walter McNab Miller
"School Attendance Laws," Dr. W.E. Rosenstengel
"Social Legislation in Missouri," Agnes K. Hanna |
| f. 6234-6241 | "Public Health Problems and Needs in Missouri--Medical Aspects," Alphonse M. Schwitalla |
| f. 6238 | "Categorical Relief," John K. Rowland
"Non-Categorical Relief," Frieda Romalis
"The Changing Role of the Private Agency," Howard Slutes
"Recent Developments in Probation and Parole in Missouri," Robert C. Edson |
| f. 6239 | "Missouri's Material and Infancy Welfare Program," James W. Chapman
"The State Health Department's Program for Maternity and Infancy Welfare," Paul Fletcher
"The Child in the Family Service Program," Christine Brunk |
| f. 6240 | "Safe-Guarding the Child in Foster Care," Walter R. Sherman
"Fitting the School to the Child," Roberta D. Tarpley
"Techniques of Group Work," Mabel Butler |
| f. 6241 | "Need for Leadership in Group Work," M.H. Sogolow
Untitled discussion paper on group work by Claudia Lide
"Group Work Approach to the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency," Edmund Radzuk
"Group Work Approach to the Problem of Juvenile Delinquency," Karl G. Johanboeke |
| f. 6242-6248 | Speeches, 1939 |
| f. 6242 | "Missouri's Need for Public Assistance," Ida Hoxie
"The Place of Case-Work in the Urban Program of Public Assistance," Caroline Bedford |
| f. 6243 | "The County Secretary Looks at his Job," Hubert Harris
"The Contribution of the Local Advisory Committee in the Administration of Public Assistance," Elizabeth Diesing
"Problems in Administering Public Assistance," by Arthur Nebel |
| f. 6244 | "Federal, State and County Relationships in Public Welfare--Who Pays the Bills?," Arthur C. Meyers
"The Need for Administrative Integration," William L. Bradshaw
"Trends in the "mount of Assistance Extended to Cases," Melvin W. Sneed |
| f. 6245 | "A Well Balanced Public Assistance Program for Missouri--Is the Necessary Money Available?," Charlton F. Chute
"How a Parole Officer Fits Into a Community Crime Prevention Program," Charles V. Little
"Organizing a Community for Prevention of Delinquency," Helen Kahn |
| f. 6246 | "The Share Cropper Problem in Southeast Missouri," C.E. Lively
"Malaria--" Public Health Problem in Missouri," W. Scott Johnson
"Industrial Hygiene in Missouri," unknown speaker
"Maternal and Child Health Situation in Missouri," James Chapman
"Specific Public Health Problems--Venereal Disease," Harriet S. Cory
"Tuberculosis Control Measures," Mabel R. Marvin |
| f. 6247 | "Health and Medical Care--" Social Responsibility," Mrs. Charles Basset
"What Constitutes an Adequate Child Guidance Program," Blanche White
"Missouri's Workmen's Compensation Law," Edgar Nelson |
| f. 6248 | "The Value of Group Work to a Democracy," H.R. Metering
"The Need for Case Work and Group Work Correlation," Marian Epstein
"Correlating Group Work and Case Work Services," Frieda Romalis |
| f. 6249-6255 | Speeches, 1940 |
| f. 6249 | "Changing Objectives in Case Work with Children," Virginia Arms
"The Strengths of Family Life," by Ruth Blakeslee
"Family Living in Missouri," Elizabeth Johnson |
| f. 6250 | "Family Living in Missouri," Grace Hart
"Family Living in Rural Missouri," Elisabeth Tuttle
"Funds Needed to Finance the Three Public Assistance Programs Under the State Social Security Commission of Missouri," Julian Silverberg |
| f. 6251 | "What is Rural Social Welfare," Arthur Nebel
"Illness "s " Factor in the Missouri Relief Problem," Mark P. Hale |
| f. 6252 | "Some Experiments in Providing Medical Care for Low Income Groups," Ronald B. Almack
"Frontiers in American Race Relations," Charles S. Johnson. |
| f. 6253 | "Administrative Problems of the State Social Security Commission," Wallace Crossley. |
| f. 6254 | "Administrative Problems of the State Social Security Commission," George I. Haworth
"The White House Conference on Children in a Democracy," Mrs. ".B. McGlothlan |
| f. 6255 | "Balkanizing Public Welfare Personnel" by Benjamin E. Youngdahl
"The Merit System in the State Social Security Commission," Proctor Carter
"Essentials of a Child Welfare Program," Ethel Very.
"A City Surveys Its Resources for Children," Florence Chick
"Organizing for Child Welfare in a Rural Community," Marcia J. Chadwick. |
| f. 6256-6261 | Spokesmen for Children, 1955-1957. Organization engaged in lobbying and educational activities. Annual reports, testimony on proposed legislation presented by organization before Congressional subcommittees, and newsletters to members. Edward Parsons, executive secretary of MASW, was elected to the board of directors of Spokesmen for Children in February of 1956. |
| f. 6262 | Staff Travel Committee, 1960. Correspondence on the manner in which staff travel expenses would be reimbursed by MASW. |
| f. 6263 | Stamp Collecting Project, 1950-1951. Correspondence among MASW members about collecting canceled postage stamps as a fund-raising project. |
| f. 6264 | State Historical Society, 1929-1940. Correspondence between MASW and the State Historical Society of Missouri about an MASW draft of Official Welfare Services in Missouri and about providing the State Historical Society with back issues of "Building a Better State" and other MASW publications. |
| f. 6265-6271 | Strategy Board, 1937-1939. Board, appointed by president of MASW, had power to act between meetings of board of directors on matters requiring immediate attention. Correspondence among board members on organization and issues. |
| f. 6272-6278 | Structure and Function Committee, 1941-1947. Correspondence, lists of committee members, recommended personnel practices, report on committee reorganization, revision of principles of MASW, recommended major changes, and by-laws. |
| f. 6279-6305 | Training Schools Committee, 1949-1954. Some correspondence among committee members; drafts and annotated copies of training school visiting committee's reports on the State Training School for Boys at Boonville, the State Training School for Girls at Chillicothe, and the State Training School for Negro Girls at Tipton. |
| f. 6306-6418 | Treasurer, 1934-1962. Monthly treasurer's reports, financial statements, membership dues records, bills, budget projections, correspondence on financial matters. |
| f. 6419-6424 | Unemployment, 1937-1943. MASW correspondence with Missouri Unemployment Compensation Commission members, testimony before the commission on unemployment (particularly in the railway industry and in domestic service), pamphlets on unemployment compensation and social security, reports by the commission including the Barton Committee report. |
| f. 6425-6444 | United Charities, 1935-1946. Correspondence between MASW and United Charities officials; MASW reports of current income and expense and of tentative budget; manual of budgeting principles and procedure; list of prepared speeches on social welfare issues; list of United Charities organizations. |
| f. 6445 | University of Missouri, 1935-1942. Correspondence with persons at the University of Missouri who were interested in social welfare, summary of the study of personnel needs in social work in Missouri, survey of social workers in Missouri, report on physical status and health of farm security clients in Southeast Missouri. |
| f. 6446-6447 | Veterans Material, 1944-1945. Articles and reports on veterans at the end of World War II; services for veterans at the University of Missouri and at Central Missouri State Teachers College. |
| f. 6448-6450 | Vice President's Correspondence, 1942-1954. Letters of notification of election to vice-presidency; correspondence of vice-presidents with the executive secretary and with other MASW members; presentation before the State Senate Appropriations Committee, 1951. |
| f. 6451-6453 | Volunteers Committee, 1941-1943. Organizational correspondence, pamphlet about the social welfare volunteer, list of meetings of interest to lay people held by the National Conference of Social Work, organization of tea for volunteers. |
| f. 6454-6464 | Ways and Means Committee, 1937-1941. Organizational correspondence, membership and contributions campaign correspondence, form letter appeals for financial support, finance drive reports, monthly treasurer's reports, planning and budgeting for future expenses. |
| f. 6465-6529 | Welfare of the Aging Committee, 1949-1962. Correspondence, minutes, reports, statistics on the aged in Missouri, news releases, conference material, membership lists, pamphlets, questionnaire on social security. |
| f. 6530-6573 | White House Conference on Aging, 1958-1961. Correspondence on organization and delegate selection, reports, membership lists, survey forms, news releases. |
| f. 6574-6626 | White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1947-1963. Nomination and selection of delegates, platform for consideration, list of committee members, minutes, reports and recommendations, pamphlets and booklets. |
| f. 6574 | Consent to medical treatment and release of liability; statistics on youth. |
| f. 6575 | Recommendations of nominating committee for delegates to national White House conference; summary of recommendations--1960 WHCCY; foster care committee recommendations; recreation committee recommendations; tax structure subcommittee recommendations; recommendations: mid-century WHCCY. |
| f. 6576 | Lists of committee members. |
| f. 6577 | Persons interested in child welfare in Kansas City; Greene County Child Welfare Advisory Committee Study Projects; list of cities with Negro high schools. |
| f. 6579 | Organization of state and local planning bodies. |
| f. 6580 | Report on conference on state planning for children and youth. |
| f. 6581 | Pamphlet on Midcentury White House conference news release; list of state committee members. |
| f. 6582 | Needs, resources for children--adoption, foster home placement, institutions report and recommendations. |
| f. 6585 | Pamphlets; list of Missouri delegates; letters to members of WHCCY asking them to join MASW. |
| f. 6586 | Selection of an executive director--Midcentury WHCCY. |
| f. 6588 | Pamphlet on nutrition |
| f. 6589 | List of contributors to WHCCY |
| f. 6590 | List of cities containing Negro high schools; financial reports Missouri White House Conference; selection of delegates to White House Conference; minutes. |
| f. 6591 | Final state report. |
| f. 6592 | Budget--WHCCY; recommendations. |
| f. 6593 | Program; Midcentury WHCCY; December 3-7, 1950; findings of the work groups. |
| f. 6594 | Midcentury WHCCY bulletin; schedule of meetings; information sheets; findings of the work groups; conference findings. |
| f. 6595 | Bulletins; proposed platform for consideration by delegates--plenary session; recommendations; pledge to children. |
| f. 6596 | List of organizations affiliated with MASW. |
| f. 6597 | "Missouri's Children and Youth at the Mid Century", booklet |
| f. 5699 | Membership lists; evaluation committee meeting. |
| f. 6600 | Schedule for child caring instructions; auxiliary mailing list of committee members. |
| f. 6602 | Annual report; list of youth delegates. |
| f. 6604 | "Strengthening Family Life"; subcommittee on family life draft recommendations. |
| f. 6605 | List of delegates and youth delegates and alternates; minutes. |
| f. 6607 | "Report of the Missouri Committee for the 1960 White House Conference on Children and Youth"; "Preliminary Report of the Committee on Basic Background Information and Local Community Participation"; "Children Discharged from Foster Care in Missouri".
|
| f. 6608 | "Day care in Missouri." |
| f. 6609 | "Adoption of Children with Special Needs in Missouri, 1957." |
| f. 6610 | "A Study of Institutions for Children and Adolescents in the State of Missouri with Special Reference to Residential Treatment of Emotionally Disturbed Youth." |
| f. 6611 | "1959 Survey of Current Practices and Procedures of Missouri Juvenile Courts." |
| f. 6612 | "Report of Teen-Age Employment Sub-Committee;" "Report of Missouri White House Conference Sub-Committee on Recreation;" "Strengthening Family Life in Missouri." |
| f. 6614 | "Scope of Services of County Welfare Offices;" "Services to Children of Migratory Laborers;" "Handicapped Children in Missouri." |
| f. 6615 | "Report of Committee on Child Health," "Education in the Atomic Age;" "Subcommittee on Tax Structure;" "Outline of Needs for Financing Programs for Children and Youth;" "Report of Research Committee." |
| f. 6616 | "Education in the Atomic Age;" minute of White House Conference meeting. |
| f. 6617 | "Needs of the Mentally Retarded Child." |
| f. 6620 | "Missouri's Children and Youth, 1950-1960" |
| f. 6621 | "Massachusetts Committee on Children and Youth Plan of Program and Organization, 1960." |
| f. 6627-6644 | White House Conference on Children and Youth--Implementation, 1951. Membership lists of individuals and organizations participating in the Implementation Conference, news releases, agenda, reports, and correspondence. |
| f. 6645-6646 | Work Projects Administration and Federal Works Projects Administration, 1935-1936. WP" bulletin on survey projects; correspondence; relief office workers pledge money to Jefferson City Community Chest; WP" Digest of Old Age Assistance Laws, 1935. |
| f. 6647 | Youth Correction Authority "ct, 1940. Official draft of The American Law Institute's Youth Correction Authority "ct. |
| vol. 1-23 | Financial Records |
| vol. 1 | 1942 |
| vol. 2 | 1943 |
| vol. 3 | 1944 |
| vol. 4 | 1945 |
| vol. 5 | 1946 |
| vol. 6 | 1047 |
| vol. 7 | 1948 |
| vol. 8 | 1949 |
| vol. 9 | 1950 |
| vol. 10 | 1951 |
| vol. 11 | 1952 |
| vol. 12 | 1953 |
| vol. 13 | 1954 |
| vol. 14 | 1955 |
| vol. 15 | 1956 |
| vol. 16 | 1957 |
| vol. 17 | 1958 |
| vol. 18 | 1959 |
| vol. 19 | 1960 |
| vol. 20 | 1961 |
| vol. 21 | 1962 |
| vol. 22 | 1963 |
| vol. 23 | 1964 |
| Boxes 1-6 | Membership Records |
| Box 1 | Ap-Cop |
| Box 2 | Cor-Hal |
| Box 3 | Ham-Loe |
| Box 4 | Lof-Po |
| Box 5 | Pr-Sto |
| Box 6 | Str-Z and Organizations |
| f. f. 3179-3183 | Historical data on association, 1937-1943 |
| f. f. 4090-4109 | Bound volumes of files on association's activities from the records of Bertha Howell, John Neal,
committee chairmen, and executive secretaries. |
| f. 5204-5382 | President, 1937-1961 |
| f. 6448-6450 | Vice President, 1942-1954 |
| f. 2611-2771 | Executive Secretaries and Secretaries, 1937-1963 |
| f. 6306-6418 | Treasurer, 1934-1962 |
| f. 57-193 | Board of Directors, 1934-1962 |
| f. 2590-2610 | Executive Committee, 1942-1962 |
| f. 6265-6271 | Strategy Board, 1937-1939 |
| f. 1-27 | Adequate Public Assistance, 1939 and 1945-1950 |
| f. 28 | Ad Hoc, 1952 |
| f. 30-31 | Administrative, 1937-1941 |
| f. 32 | Aid to Dependent Children Subcommittee, 1960-1961 |
| f. 50-55 | Awards, 1954-1962 and 1971 |
| f. 194 | Campaign Committee Against the Equal Rights Amendment, 1938 |
| f. 195-198 | Candidates, 1948-1950 |
| f. 247-348 | Child Care, 1947-1957 |
| f. 349-351 | Child Labor, 1949 and 1952-1956 |
| f. 385 | Civil Defense, 1951-1952 |
| f. 386 | Civil Liberties, 1937-1941 |
| f. 388-391 | Clerical Services, 1941-1944 |
| f. 550-552 | Community Organization, 1936-1941 |
| f. 553 | Compulsory School Attendance, 1951 |
| f. 1185-1203 | Corrections, 1959-1962 |
| f. 2500-2574 | Editorial, 1931-1957 |
| f. 2575-2585 | Employment Standards, 1949-1953 |
| f. 2772 | Fair Employment Practices, 1944 |
| f. 2773-2790 | Family and Child Welfare, 1937-1943 |
| f. 2791-2792 | Family Court, 1959-1961 |
| f. 2809-3063 | Finance and Budget, 1936-1964 |
| f. 3092-3178 | Health, 1935-1960 |
| f. 3185-3197 | Housing, 1940-1952 |
| f. 3198-3401 | Human Rights, 1944-1962 |
| f. 3425 | Inter-Organization Clearance, 1943 |
| f. 3427-3447 | Juvenile Court, 1948-1957 |
| f. 3448-3473 | Juvenile Delinquency, 1935-1964 |
| f. 3474-3630 | Legislative, 1935-1961 |
| f. 3631 | Liaison, 1960 |
| f. 3632-3663 | Licensing, 1947-1955 |
| f. 3664 | Medical Care Subcommittee, 1958-1960 |
| f. 3665-3872 | Membership, 1934-1963 and 1966 |
| f. 3902-3907 | Mentally Retarded, 1953-1954 |
| f. 3932-4004 | Minimum Wage, 1940 and 1944-1949 |
| f. 5006-5107 | Nominations and By-Laws, 1934-1962 |
| f. 5151-5201 | Personnel, 1937-1963 |
| f. 5202 | Physically Handicapped, 1942-1943 |
| f. 5203 | Physicians, 1937 |
| f. 5430-5433 | Probation and Parole, 1937-1944 |
| f. 5434-5483 | Program, 1947-1962 |
| f. 5484-5505 | Public Relations, 1953-1963 |
| f. 5519-5578 | Public Social Services, 1951-1962 |
| f. 5637 | Publications Evaluation, 1961-1962 |
| f. 5638-5644 | Publicity, 1938-1968 |
| f. 5645-5655 | Race Relations, 1939-1954 |
| f. 5656-5667 | Recreational and Group Work, 1938-1947 |
| f. 5668-5674 | Redistricting, 1958-1962 |
| f. 6018-6075 | Relief, 1935-1947 |
| f. 6076 | Research, 1958 |
| f. 6083-6111 | Rural Problems, 1939-1944 |
| f. 6164-6165 | SCANS, 1963 |
| f. 6173-6176 | Social Insurance, 1938-1943 |
| f. 6188-6190 | Social Welfare Administration, 1941-1944 |
| f. 6231-6233 | Special Education, 1937 |
| f. 6262 | Staff Travel, 1960 |
| f. 6272-6278 | Structure and Function, 1941-1947 |
| f. 6279-6305 | Training Schools, 1949-1954 |
| f. 6451-6453 | Volunteers, 1941-1943 |
| f. 6454-6464 | Ways and Means, 1937-1941 |
| f. 6465-6529 | Welfare of the Aging, 1949-1962 |
| f. 6187 | Social Service Subcommittee, 1944 and 1958 |
| f. 554-1184 | Conferences, Annual, 1928-1970 |
| f. 4867-4917 | Conference, Missouri-Kansas Joint, 1942-1944 |
| f. 5698-5877 | Conferences, Regional, 1940-1945 |
| v. 1-23 | Financial Records, 1942-1964
| | boxes 1-6 | Membership Records
| | f. 5383-5429 | Press Releases, 1937-1944 |
| f. 6191-6193 | Questionnaire, Social Welfare, 1936-1938 |
| f. 2793-2808 | Reports, Field Work, 1939-1940, 1947-1949 |
| f. 6163 | Report, St. Louis Juvenile Court, 1941-1943 |
| f. 6234-6255 | Speeches, 1938-1940 |
| f. 5108-5144 | Study, Nonsegregated School, 1952-1955 |
| f. 5579-5636 | Survey, Public Welfare, 1935-1937 |
| f. 6163 | Survey, Salary, 1949-1950 |
| f. 34 | American Association for Social Workers, 1945, 1953-1954 |
| f. 35 | American Public Welfare Association, 1937 and 1944-1945 |
| f. 36-46 | Association of State Conference Secretaries, 1937-1953 |
| f. 47-49 | Association of State Planning Executives, 1957-1961 |
| f. 352-353 | Child Welfare League, 1955-1956 |
| f. 354-384 | Children's Code Commission, 1938-1948 |
| f. 387 | Civil Service Assembly of the United States and Canada, n.d. |
| f. 3184 | Hoover Commission, 1949-1950 |
| f. 4088-4089 | Missouri Association for Mental Hygiene, 1938 and 1940-1941 |
| f. 4110-4113 | Missouri Conference of Charities and Corrections, 1908-1910, 1912 and 1914 |
| f. 4114-4129 | Missouri Conference for Social Welfare, 1915, 1918 and 1920-1937 |
| f. 4130-4133 | Missouri Correction Association, 1955-1969 |
| f. 4134-4846 | Missouri Council on Children and Youth, 1950-1965, 1967, and 1971 |
| f. 4847-4866 | Missouri Health Council, 1948-1957 |
| f. 4918 | Missouri Library Commission, 1939-1944 |
| f. 4919-4924 | Missouri Recreation Association, 1953-1959 |
| f. 4925 | Missouri Social Hygiene Association, 1932-1933 |
| f. 4926 | Missouri Society for Crippled Children, 1944-1945 |
| f. 4927-4933 | Missouri State Eleemosynary Institutions, 1936-1940 |
| f. 4934-4935 | Missouri State Teachers Association, 1945-1946 |
| f. 4936-4945 | Missouri Welfare League, 1931-1949 |
| f. 4946-4947 | National Association of State Conference and Planning Organizations, 1961-1962 |
| f. 4948-4971 | National Conference of Social Work, 1935-1955 |
| f. 4972-4979 | National Council on State Legislation, 1949-1953 |
| f. 4980-4992 | National Mid-Century Committee on Children and Youth, 1951-1953 |
| f. 4993-5005 | National Social Welfare Assembly, 1948-1960 |
| f. 6256-6261 | Spokesmen for Children, 1955-1957 |
| f. 6425-6444 | United Charities, 1935-1946 |
| f. 6530-6573 | White House Conference on Aging, 1958-1961 |
| f. 6574-6626 | White House Conference on Children and Youth, 1947-1963 |
| f. 6627-6644 | White House Conference on Children and Youth--Implementation, 1951 |
| f. 6645-6646 | Work Projects Administration and Federal Works Projects Administration, 1935-1936 |
| f. 33 | Alcoholism, 1950 |
| f. 56 | Blind, Study of, 1947 |
| f. 29 | "Building a Better State" |
| f. 199-246 | Chapter Correspondence, 1934-1946 |
| f. 392-549 | Community Chests and United Fund, 1946-1962 |
| f. 1204-1206 | Crawford County Pilot Program, 1956-1957 |
| f. 1207 | Directories of Social Agencies, 1935-1941 |
| f. 1208-2499 | Division Correspondence, 1935-1961 |
| f. 1208-1366 | East Central, 1945-1961 |
| f. 1367-1534 | Jackson County, 1935-1959 |
| f. 1535-1568 | Kansas City, 1959-1961 |
| f. 1567-1667 | Northeast, 1945-1961 |
| f. 1668-1802 | Northwest, 1945-1961 |
| f. 1803-1819 | Ozarks, 1958-1961 |
| f. 1820-2132 | St. Louis, 1945-1965 |
| f. 2133-2199 | South Central, 1946-1965 |
| f. 2200-2269 | Southeast, 1945-1961 |
| f. 2270-2395 | Southwest, 1945-1961 |
| f. 2396-2499 | West Central, 1945-1961 |
| f. 2586-2589 | "Everybody's Business," 1957-1961 |
| f. 3064-3089 | Foundations, Trusts, and Corporations, 1932, 1938-1942, 1947-1956 |
| f. 3090-3091 | Governors' Correspondence, 1937-1943 |
| f. 3402-3417 | Immigration, 1945-1951 |
| f. 3418-3424 | Income Taxes, 1942-1951 |
| f. 3426 | Nell Jasper, 1938 |
| f. 3908-3931 | Merit System, 1936-1943 |
| f. 5145-5150 | "Official Welfare Services in Missouri," 1936-1939 |
| f. 5675-5697 | Refugee Relief Act, 1953-1956 |
| f. 5878-6017 | Registration and Certification, 1934-1942 |
| f. 6077-6081 | Residence Laws, 1955-1960 |
| f. 6082 | Retirement, 1960-1962 |
| f. 6112-6161 | Rural Resources Directory, 1944-1956 |
| f. 6166-6172 | Social Action, 1938-1956 |
| f. 6177-6186 | Social Security, 1930-1960 |
| f. 6203-6230 | Speakers' Bureau, 1938-1943 |
| f. 6263 | Stamp Collecting Project, 1950-1951 |
| f. 6264 | State Historical Society, 1929-1940 |
| f. 6419-6424 | Unemployment, 1937-1943 |
| f. 6445 | University of Missouri, 1935-1942 |
| f. 6446-6447 | Veterans, 1944-1945 |
| f. 6645-6646 | Work Projects Administration and Federal Work Projects Administration, 1935-1936 |
| f. 6647 | Youth Correction Authority Act, 1940 |
| f. 4005-4087 | Miscellaneous correspondence, 1942-1957 |
|