| Beskrivelse | Elmhirst Committee on Commitments grant funding documents, background material, and correspondence. Other records include Foundation financial status reports; memoranda from members of the Committee regarding specific fields and projects including Eduard Lindeman on funding alternative schools and adult education; social, and biological, research funding, the Foundation Study, and The Inquiry; Ruth Morgan on funding peace and feminist movements; and Louise Croly on funding Lydia Parrish's ethnomusicology research in the Georgia sea islands. Also, letters, reports and an organisational history of the work of the American Friends Service Committee in starting mountain crafts programs in depressed coal mining regions of West Virginia, forwarded by Anna Bogue; letters, and reports about the Young Negroes Co-operative League (12 Sep 1932) by George S Schuyler; an outline for a book on the history and development of social work in America attributed to Helen Mayers; and an outline for economist Rexford Tugwell's project for an Institute of Social Administration. |