Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee records


Collection 1421

1885-1923, undated
(16.5 Linear feet 34 boxes, 61 volumes, 10 flat files)
© The Historical Society of Pennsylvania1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Summary Information

Repository
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator
Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Title
Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee records
ID
1421
Date [inclusive]
1885-1923, undated
Extent
16.5 Linear feet 34 boxes, 61 volumes, 10 flat files
Author
Finding aid prepared by Willhem Echevarria.
Sponsor
This collection was processed as part of the Civic Engagement Collections Project. Funding for this project was provided by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).
Language
English
Language of Materials
This collection is mostly in English with some items in Cyrillic and German.
Text [Oversize]
Flat files 1-10
Text [Box]
1-34
Text [Volume]
1-61
Abstract
The Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee was a local philanthropic group which aided the sufferers in many disasters between 1878 and 1900, notably the Johnstown Flood, the Russian famine, the Armenian massacres, and other disasters that took place during the final decade of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth. During the Spanish-American War the Committee under the name National Relief Commission, helped soldiers, sailors, and their families. The collection consits of correspondence, business papers, magazines, clippings, applications for relief, treasurer's reports, minutes, investigations, and field reports related to each disaster for which the committee provided relief.

Preferred Citation

Cita as: [Indicate cited item or series here], Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee records (Collection 1421), The Historical Society of Pennsylvania.

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Background Information

Founded in Philadelphia during the 1880s, the Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee was formed by businessmen and philanthropists interested in relief work. The committee was supported not only by its founders but also by prominent members among the Philadelphia wealthy. One of the citizens involved with the committee, John H. Converse, lead efforts to link the work done by the Pennsylvania Sanitary Commission with that of the committee; chief among the goals in doing this was the development of a system to give medical aid to military personnel. The efforts were notorious during the Spanish American War, when the committee (using the more comprehensive National Relief Commission as their name) provided aid to soldiers in the form of hospital trains, stationed near military camps, and the procurement of medicines and supplies for soldiers from Pennsylvania and other states. Between 1893-1895 the committee provided help to the unemployed in many Philadelphia wards; and during the Johnstown Flood of 1889, the Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee was called by Daniel Hastings, governor of Pennsylvania, to spearhead the relief efforts to the area, a task complicated by typhoid fever breaks among the victims. The Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee also helped outside the continental U.S. The committee was involved in relief efforts during the Russian famine of 1892-1893, and the Armenian massacres of 1896. The committee also provided help to American soldiers in Cuba and Puerto Rico during the American occupation. Efforts were also made to provide monetary aid as well as good and supplies to the families of Pennsylvania soldiers active in the Spanish-American War.

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Scope and Contents

The Citizens’ Permanent Relief Committee records contains minutes, correspondence, financial records, reports, photographs, telegrams, printed journals, and newspaper clippings spanning from 1885 to 1923. The contents of the collection highlight the work done by the committee to aid disaster victims both nationally and internationally. The collection is divided into eight series: Office Files, Armenian Massacres, Cuban Relief, Johnstown Flood, National Relief Committee, Russian Famine, Unemployment Relief, and Miscellaneous.

Series I (Office Files) includes administrative information about the committee.  Series II (Armenian Massacres) contains documents about the attacks on the Armenian by the Ottoman Empire during the years 1894-1896. Documents in  Series III (Cuban Relief) pertain to matters happening in Cuba after the Spanish American War.  Series IV (Johnstown Flood) features documents related to CPRC’s involvement in the relief efforts of the victims of the 1889 flood.  Series V (National Relief Committee) contains documents that describe the work done by the National Relief Committee, name adopted by the CPRC during the Spanish American War.  Series VI (Russian Famine) features papers detailing the disaster in the Volga River during the 1890s.  Series VII (Unemployment Relief) contains records of aid given to unemployed citizens in different Philadelphia wards. This portion of the collection also contains papers about a benefit concert with guest Walter Damrosch, New York Symphony conductor.  Series VIII (Miscellaneous) contains documents about catastrophes in Charleston, Delaware, Greece, Iowa, Lock Haven, New Orleans, and Titusville, among others.

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Arrangement Overview

I. Office Files, 1893-1923, undated; 1 box, 3 volumes

II. Armenian Massacres, 1896; 1 box, 2 volumes, 1 flat file

III. Cuban Relief, 1898; 1 box, 2 volumes

IV. Johnstown Flood, 1889-1894, undated; 5 boxes, 10 volumes, 2 flat files

V. National Relief Committee, 1892-1896, undated; 9 boxes, 26 volumes, 2 flat files

VI. Russian Famine, 1890-1896, undated; 5 boxes, 1 flat file

VII. Unemployment Relief, 1893-1895, undated; 12 boxes, 16 volumes, 1 flat file

VIII. Miscellaneous, 1885-1898, undated; 1 box, 2 flat files

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

 The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

1300 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA, 19107
215-732-6200

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open for research.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Justice Williams, 1947.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

Pennsylvania Railroad Women's Division for War Relief papers, Am. 2999

John Bach McMaster research papers for a history of the Johnstown Flood Relief Commission, Collection 1430

Northern Dispensary of Philadelphia for the Medical Relief of the Poor records, Collection 1687

William Hasell Wilson papers, Collection 075B

At other repositories:

Paul Viollet collection, Material relating to the Armenian massacres of 1894-1896 and Middle Eastern politics, 1881-1903 (inclusive), 1893-1903 (bulk), Historical and Special Collections, Harvard University Law School

Robert D. Christie papers, 1889-1967, Senator John Heinz History Center

Henry Charles Lea Papers, ca. 1830-1935, Rare Book & Ms Library Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania

Russian Famine pamphlet collection, 1921-1933, Hoover Institution Library and Archives, Stanford University

Cummings family papers, 1826-1961, Massachusetts Historical Society

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Controlled Access Headings

Genre(s)

  • Correspondence.
  • Financial records.
  • Minutes.

Personal Name(s)

  • Damrosch, Walter, 1862-1950.
  • Hastings, Daniel, 1849-1903.

Subject(s)

  • Armenian massacres, 1894-1896.
  • Charitable Organizations-Philadelphia.
  • Cuba--1890-1910.
  • Disaster Relief--National and International.
  • Johnstown Flood.
  • Poverty, Alleviation of--19th and 20th Century.
  • Russian Famine.
  • Spanish-American War, 1898--Campaigns--Cuba.
  • Spanish-American War, 1898--Campaigns--Puerto Rico.
  • Spanish-American War, 1898--Pennsylvania.
  • Spanish-American War, 1898.
  • Unemployment--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

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Collection Inventory

I. Office Files (1893-1923, undated) 

Scope and Contents

This series contains general administrative information about the committee and their plans of operation. Files consist of correspondence, minutes, reports, and a deed.
Box Folder

Correspondence (1916-1923) 

 1 1

Deed of Trust (1915) 

 1 2
Volume

General Plan of the Operations of the Citizen's Permanent Relief Committee (1893) 

 1-2
Box Folder

Minutes (1906) 

 1 3-4

Minutes (1907) 

 1 5

Minutes (1908) 

 1 6

Minutes (1909-1910) 

 1 7

Minutes (1911) 

 1 8

Minutes (1912-1913) 

 1 9

Minutes (1914-1915) 

 1 10

Minutes (1917-1919, 1923) 

 1 11

Miscellaneous--Lists of members; Inventory of Trunk "A"; Inventory of Trunk No. 1(1891-1923, undated) 

 1 12
Volume

Report--Permanent Relief Commitee of Philadelphia (1893-1894) 

 3

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II. Armenian Massacres (1896) 

Scope and Contents

This series features correspondence, lists of members, minutes, newspaper clippings, printed matter, and reports about the attacks (also known as the Hamidian Massacres) perpetrated on Armenian by the Ottoman Empire during the years 1894-1896.
Box Folder

Correspondence--January (1896) 

 2 1

Correspondence--Feburary (1896) 

 2 2-4

Correspondence--March (1896) 

 2 5-7

Correspondence--April (1896) 

 2 8

Correspondence--May (1896) 

 2 9

Correspondence--December (1896) 

 2 10

Correspondence (1897) 

 2 11

Correspondence (undated) 

 2 12

Lists--Committees and Memberships (1896) 

 2 13

Minutes--Committee on Churches; Committee on Trade and Professions; Mass Meeting (1896) 

 2 14
Volume

Minutes--Executive Commitee; Finance Committee (1896) 

 4-5
Box Folder

Newspaper Clippings (1896) 

 2 15
Oversize

Newspaper-- The Germantown Independent (1896) 

 Flat File 8
Box Folder

Printed Matter (1896) 

 2 16
Oversize

Printed Matter--Sheet Music [ Armenia's Appeal];  The Independent [Newspaper] (1896) 

 Flat File 4
Box Folder

Report--Sub Committee on Need of Relief (1896) 

 2 17

Reports from Armenia (1896) 

 2 18

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III. Cuban Relief (1898) 

Scope and Contents

This portion of the collection includes correspondences, minutes, a letterpress copybook, a scrap book, and miscellaneous items pertaining to relief efforts in Cuba after the Spanish American War in 1898.
Box Folder

Correspondence--January (1898) 

 3 1-2

Correspondence--February (1898) 

 3 3

Correspondence--March (1898) 

 3 4

Correspondence--April (1898) 

 3 5

Correspondence (undated) 

 3 6

Committee--Minutes (1898) 

 3 7

Miscellaneous (undated) 

 3 8
Volume

Letterpress Copybook (1898) 

 6

Scrapbook (1898) 

 7

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IV. Johnstown Flood (1889-1894, undated) 

Scope and Contents

This series is comprised of correspondence, financial papers, newspaper clippings, records of offers of aid and relief contributions, printed matter, reports, and telegrams about the CPRC involvement in the relief efforts of the victims of the 1889 flood that affected the Johnstown, Pennsylvania after the failure of the South Fork Dam.
Box Folder

Correspondence--June (1889) 

 4 1-3

Correspondence--July (1889) 

 4 4

Correspondence--August (1889) 

 4 5

Correspondence--September (1889) 

 4 6

Correspondence--October (1889) 

 4 7

Correspondence--November (1889) 

 4 8

Correspondence--December (1889) 

 4 9

Correspondence--January (1890) 

 4 10

Correspondence--February (1890) 

 4 11

Correspondence--March, April (1890) 

 4 12

Correspondence--May to August (1890) 

 4 13

Correspondence--September, October (1890) 

 4 14

Correspondence (1891) 

 4 15

Correspondence (1892) 

 4 16-17

Correspondence (1893, undated) 

 4 18
Volume

Explanation of Charity (1889) 

 12-14
Box Folder

Financial--Bills, Recipts, and Vouchers (1889) 

 5 1-6

Financial--Donations (circa 1890) 

 5 7

Financial--Letters from Financial Committee (1889) 

 5 8
Volume

Financial--Lists of Contributors and Donantions 

 8-11
Box Folder

Financial--Statements (1889) 

 5 9-10

Financial--Miscellaneous (1889) 

 5 11

Governor's Indemnity Bond (1889) 

 6 1

Inquiries for Person's Whereabouts (1889) 

 6 2

Jersey Shore Relief (1889) 

 6 3

Lewistown Relief (1889) 

 6 4
Oversize

List--Relief Applicants (1889) 

 Flat File 6
Box Folder

Lock Haven Relief (1889) 

 6 5

Newspaper Clippings (1889) 

 6 6

Newspaper Clippings (1890-1892) 

 6 7

Offers of Aid and Assistance (1889) 

 6 8-12

Offers of Aid and Assistance (undated) 

 6 13

Offers of Undertakers (1889) 

 6 14

Printed Matter--Blank Forms (undated) 

 6 15
Oversize

Printed Matter--Broadsides, Posters (1889-1890) 

 Flat File 2
Box Folder

Printed Matter--Form Letters, Announcements, Bulletins (1889) 

 6 16

Relief Commission--Tour (1889) 

 7 1

Relief Contributions (1889) 

 7 2-13

Relief Contributions (undated) 

 8 1-2

Reports--Auditing Committee; Committee Examining the Situation at Johnstown (1889) 

 8 3

Report--J.B. Kremer, Secretary of the Flood Relief Commission (1889) 

 8 4
Volume

Reports from Pittsburgh (1890) 

 15-17

Report of the Secretary of the Flood Relief Commission 

 18
Box Folder

Requests for Assistance (1889) 

 8 5

Shippments (1889) 

 8 6

Suggestions--W.V. McKean (1889) 

 8 7

Telegrams--Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company (1889) 

 8 8

Telegrams--Governor Beaver 

 8 9

Telegrams--from Johnstown (1889) 

 8 10

Telegrams--Pittsburgh Committee (1889) 

 8 11

Telegrams--Relief Parts en Route (1889) 

 8 12

Telegrams--Williamsport 

 8 13

Telegrams--Miscellaneous 

 8 14

Miscellaneous--Lists and Notes (1889, undated) 

 8 15

Miscellaneous (1890-1894, undated) 

 8 16-17

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V. National Relief Committee (1892-1899, undated) 

Scope and Contents

This series features auxiliary committees’ files, correspondence, financial reports, lists of goods provided to soldiers, member lists, minutes, photographs, and reports of the work done by the National Relief Committee which was the name adopted by the CPRC during the time United States was involved in the Spanish American War.
Box Folder

Auxiliaries (1898) 

 8 18
Volume

Auxiliary Committees (1898) 

 27
Box Folder

Camp Alger (1898) 

 8 19

Correspondence (1898) 

 9 1-10

Correspondence (1899) 

 10 1-2

Correspondence (undated) 

 10 3
Volume

Delivery Book--Porto Rico (1898) 

 26
Box Folder

Financial--Bills and Receipts--A (1898) 

 11 1

Financial--Bills and Receipts--B (1898) 

 11 2

Financial--Bills and Receipts--C (1898-1899) 

 11 3

Financial--Bills and Receipts--D, E (1898) 

 11 4

Financial--Bills and Receipts--F (1898) 

 11 5

Financial--Bills and Receipts--G (1896-1898) 

 11 6

Financial--Bills and Receipts--H, I (1898-1899) 

 11 7

Financial--Bills and Receipts--J, K, L (1898-1899) 

 11 8

Financial--Bills and Receipts--M, N, O (1898-1899) 

 11 9

Financial--Bills and Receipts--P (1898-1899) 

 11 10-13

Financial--Bills and Receipts--Q, R (1898-1899) 

 12 1-2

Financial--Bills and Receipts--S (1898-1899) 

 12 3

Financial--Bills and Receipts--T (1898-1899) 

 12 4

Financial--Bills and Receipts--U,V (1898) 

 12 5

Financial--Bills and Receipts--W (1898-1899) 

 12 6-8

Financial--Bills and Receipts--Y, Z (1898) 

 12 9

Financial--Contributions and Donations (1898) 

 12 10

Financial--Expenditures--August, September (1898) 

 12 11

Financial--Expenditures--October, November (1898) 

 12 12

Financial--Expenditures--December, January (1898-1899) 

 12 13

Financial--Expenditures (undated) 

 12 14

Financial--Expenditures--Money Given to Family of Soldiers (1898-1899) 

 13 1-2

Financial--Expenditures--Office Expenses (1898-1899) 

 13 3

Financial--Expenditures--Personnel (1898-1899) 

 13 4-6

Financial--Expenditures--Relief of Families of Soldiers (1898-1899) 

 13 7
Volume

Financial--Names of Persons Having Recieved Relief from the Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee (1893-1894) 

 45

Financial--Penn Storage and Van Company (1898) 

 23

Financial--Petty Cash--War with Spain 

 25

Financial--Soldiers Recieving Money and Tickets (1898) 

 28-30

Financial--Treasurer's Receipts and Expenses (1898) 

 24
Box Folder

Financial--Treasurer's Reports (1898-1899) 

 14 1-2
Volume

Goods Delievered (1898) 

 31

Goods Recieved (1898) 

 32
Box Folder

Lists--Soldiers Discharged from Philadelphia Hospital (1898) 

 14 3

Lists--Soldiers Recieved in Philadelphia Hospitals (1898) 

 14 4

Lists--Soldiers from Pennsylvania Burried on Battlefields (1898) 

 14 5

Lists--Soldier Deaths at Philadelphia Hospitals (1898) 

 14 6
Volume

Lists of Names (undated) 

 37
Box Folder

Member Lists (undated) 

 14 7

Minutes of Committees (1898-1899) 

 14 8
Volume

Minutes of Committees (1898) 

 19-21

Minutes--Finance Committee (1898) 

 22

Names of Soldier's Families Applying for Relief (1898) 

 35-36

Order Books--Porto Rico (1898) 

 33-34

Pennsylvania Regiments and Their Stations (1898) 

 38
Oversize

Photographs--Cuba and Porto Rico (1898) 

 Flat File 1A
Volume

Printed Matter-- New Testament and Psalms;  The Book of Common Prayer (1892) 

 42-43

Printed Matter-- Patriotic and Naval Songster (1898) 

 44
Box Folder

Printed Matter (1890-1898, undated) 

 14 9

Reports (1898) 

 14 10
Oversize

Reports [printed] (1898) 

 Flat File 3
Volume

Report of the Executive Committee (1898-1899) 

 40
Box Folder

Reports--Field Reports--Camp Alger (1898) 

 14 11

Reports--Field Reports--Cuba (1898) 

 14 12

Reports--Field Reports--Delaware Camps (1898) 

 14 13

Reports--Field Reports--New Jersey Camps (1898) 

 14 14

Reports--Field Reports--Porto Rico (1898) 

 14 15

Reports--Final Report of Executive Council (1898) 

 14 16

Reports--To Govenor Hastings (1898) 

 14 17

Reports--Personal Hygiene for the Soldiers (1898) 

 15 1

Reports--Field Reports--Washington, Tampa (1898) 

 15 2

Supplies (1898) 

 15 3
Volume

Volunteer Service, Assistance, and Gifts (1898) 

 39

Women's Emergency Relief--Order Book (1898) 

 41
Box Folder

Miscellaneous (1898) 

 15 4
Box

Miscellaneous--Ink Seal (undated) 

 16

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VI. Russian Famine (1890-1896, undated) 

Scope and Contents

This portion of the collection contains correspondence, financial records, minutes, newspaper clippings, journals, magazines, and pamphlets about the disastrous famine that affected the Volga River area of Russia after 1891.
Box Folder

Correspondence (1892) 

 15 5-7

Correspondence (1892) 

 17 1-10

Correspondence (1892) 

 18 1-11

Correspondence (1893) 

 19 1

Correspondence (undated) 

 19 2

Correspondence--From State Department and Representatives in Russia (1892) 

 19 3

Correspondence--Copies (1892) 

 19 4-8

Financial--Bills of Lading (1892) 

 19 9

Financial--Bills--Flour (1892) 

 19 10

Financial--Bills Paid (1892) 

 19 11-12

Financial--Statement of Expenses--Conemaugh (1892) 

 20 1

Insurance Policy (1892-1893) 

 20 2

Minutes (1892) 

 20 3-4

Newspaper Clippings (1892) 

 20 5

Printed Matter--Broadsides, Circular Letters, Leaflets, Pamphlets, Invitations (1891-1892, undated) 

 20 6-7

Printed Matter--Journals-- Free Russia [3 Issues] (1893) 

 20 8

Printed Matter--Journals-- The Miller's Review--March 15 (1892) 

 20 9

Printed Matter--Journals-- The Weekly Northwestern Miller--February 19 (1892) 

 20 10

Printed Matter--Journals-- The Weekly Northwestern Miller--February 26 (1892) 

 20 11

Printed Matter--Journals-- The Weekly Northwestern Miller--March 4 (1892) 

 20 12

Printed Matter--Magazine-- The Russian Famine of 1891-1892 (1893) 

 20 13

Printed Matter--Pamphlet-- Report of the Russian Famine Relief Committee (1893) [2 copies] 

 20 14

Printed Matter--Pamphlet--Letters from Russia to Ledger, Times, and Inquirer (1891-1892) 

 20 15
Oversize

Russian Relief Fund--Poster (undated) 

 Flat File 5
Box Folder

Miscellaneous (1890-1896, undated) 

 20 16
Box

Printed Matter--Newspaper [in cyrillic] and Proclamation [German] (1892, undated) 

 21

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VII. Unemployment Relief (1893-1895, undated) 

Scope and Contents

This series contains correspondence, financial documents, lists of applicants, minutes, printed matter, reports, and vouchers and records of money given to unemployed citizens in different Philadelphia wards. Documents about a benefit concert and dinner featuring long-time New York Symphony conductor Walter Damrosch are also part of this series.
Box Folder

Correspondence (1893) 

 22 1-8

Correspondence (1894) 

 22 9-10

Correspondence (1894) 

 23 1-11

Correspondence (1894) 

 24 1-8

Correspondence (1895) 

 24 9-11

Correspondence--Mayor Edwin S. Stuart (1893) 

 25 1-2

Correspondence--Mayor Edwin S. Stuart (1894) 

 25 3-7

Correspondence--Mayor Edwin S. Stuart (1895) 

 25 8

Correspondence--Letters from Contributors (1893) 

 25 9-10

Correspondence--Letters from Contributors (1894) 

 25 11-12
Volume

Correspondence--Letterpress Copybook (1894-1895) 

 46

Financial--Account Book for Wagner Festival (1894) 

 59
Box Folder

Financial--Applications for Appropriations--Wards 1st, 2nd, 3rd (1893-1894) 

 26 1

Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th (1893-1894) 

 26 2

Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 8th-19th (1893-1894) 

 26 3

Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 20th-28th (1893-1894) 

 26 4

Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 29th-33rd (1893-1894) 

 26 5

Financial--Application for Appropriations--Wards 34th, 36th, 37th (1893-1894) 

 26 6

Financial--Bills Paid--October, November, December (1893) 

 26 7

Financial--Bills Paid--January, February, March (1894) 

 26 8

Financial--Bills Paid--April, May, June (1894) 

 26 9
Volume

Financial--Lists of people who have recieved aid from the Citizens' Permanent Relief Committee(1894) 

 53
Box Folder

Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Central Committee (1894) 

 26 10

Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 5th, 6th (1893-1894) 

 26 11

Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 8th, 9th, 10th, 13th, 14th, 17th, 19th (1893-1894) 

 26 12

Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 20th, 24th, 25th, 26th, 27th (1894) 

 26 13

Financial--Promisory Notes of Relief Recepients--Wards 28th, 29th, 33rd, 34th, 35th (1893-1894) 

 26 14

Financial--Receipts--Appropriations from Wards (1893) 

 27 1

Financial--Appropriations from Wards (1894) 

 27 2-6
Volume

Financial--Receipt Book (1894) 

 57
Box Folder

Financial--Receipts--Contributions (1893) 

 27 7-8

Financial--Receipts--Contributions (1894) 

 27 9-10
Volume

Financial--Records of Distributions of Funds--17th Ward (1893-1894) 

 54

Financial--Payroll and Expenses (1894) 

 58
Box Folder

Financial--Fiscal Reports--Wards 1 to 16 (1893-1894) 

 28 1

Financial--Fiscal Reports--Wards 17 to 25 (1893-1894) 

 28 2

Financial--Fiscal Reports--Ward 26th (1894) 

 28 3

Financial--Fiscal Reports--Wards 27 to 37 (1893-1894) 

 28 4

Financial--Miscellaneous (1894) 

 28 5
Volume

Forms--Receipt Booklets (1893-1894) 

 50

Lists--Applicants for Labor; Employers (1894, undated) 

 48

Lists--Names Sent to Director--Department of Public Works (undated) 

 47

Lists--Names, Wards, Vocations (undated) 

 49
Oversize

Lists--Persons Receiving Aid & Records of Employment (undated) 

 Flat File 7
Box Folder

Minutes--Advisory Board (1893) 

 29 1

Minutes--Advisory Committee (1893) 

 29 2

Minutes--Advisory Committee of Five (1893-1894) 

 29 3-5
Volume

Minutes--Central Workmens Relief Association (1893) 

 51
Box Folder

Minutes--Committee to Devise Permanent Plan (1893) 

 29 6

Minutes--Emergency Advisory Board (1893) 

 29 7
Volume

Minutes--Executive Committee (1893-1894) 

 61

Minutes--Financial Committee (1893-1894) 

 60
Box Folder

Minutes--Joint Committee on Labor (1894) 

 29 8

Minutes--Sub Committee of Five (1893) 

 29 9

Printed Matter-- The Art Club of Philadelphia--Constitution, By-Laws, and List of Members (1894) 

 30 1

Printed Matter--Charity Organization Society--History of Charity Organization in the United States (1893) 

 30 2

Printed Matter-- The City Mission Directory (1894) 

 30 3

Printed Matter-- Lesson of the Homestead Troubles (1892) 

 30 4

Printed Matter--Manufacturer's Club of Philadelphia--6th Annual Report (1893) 

 30 5

Printed Matter--The Philadelphia Bourse--List of Subscribers to Capital Stock (1893) 

 30 6

Prinited Matter--Philadelphia Society for Organizing Charity--15th Annual Report (1894) 

 30 7

Printed Matter--The Union League of Philadelphia--Officers and Members (1893) 

 30 8

Printed Matter--Western Association of Ladies for the Relief and Employment of the Poor--47th Annual Report (1894) 

 30 9

Printed Matter--Broadsides, Circular Letters, Invitations (1893-1894, undated) 

 33 1
Volume

Relief Records--19th Ward Auxiliary Branch 

 55

Reports--Records of Advisory Committee (1893-1895) 

 56
Box

Vouchers (1893-1894) 

 31-32
Box Folder

Walter Damrosch Concert--Agreements (1894) 

 33 2

Walter Damrosch Concert--Correspondence (1894, undated) 

 33 3-6

Walter Damrosch Concert--Dinner--Acceptances (1894) 

 33 7

Walter Damrosch Concert--Dinner--Correspondence (1894) 

 33 8

Walter Damrosch Concert--Dinner--Regrets (1894) 

 33 9

Walter Damrosch Concert--Financial--Bills, Receipts (1894, undated) 

 33 10

Walter Damrosch Concert--Printed Matter--Broadsides, Leaflets, Newsclippings, Programs (1894, undated) 

 33 11

Miscellaneous (1893-1894, undated) 

 33 12
Volume

Miscellaneous--33rd Ward--Receipt Books [Blank] (undated) 

 52

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VIII. Miscellaneous (1885-1898, undated) 

Scope and Contents

This series covers the committee’s efforts in providing help for other disasters. This portion of the collection includes papers and newspaper clippings about catastrophes in Charleston, Delaware, Greece, Iowa, Lock Haven, New Orleans, and Titusville, among others.
Oversize

Blueprints (1893-1864) 

 Flat File 1B
Box Folder

Charleston Relief Fund--Lists of Contributors (1886) 

 34 1

Cholera Alarm (1897) 

 34 2

Delmar, Delaware Fire (1892) 

 34 3

Greece--Earthquake (1894) 

 34 4

Irventon Fire and Flood (1892) 

 34 5

Leechburg Fire (1889) 

 34 6

Lock Haven Flood (1894) 

 34 7
Oversize

Map--New Map of the City of Philadelphia (1893) 

 Flat File 9
Box Folder

New Orleans (1893) 

 34 8

Newclippings (1895, undated) 

 34 9

Oil City and Titusville Flood and Fire (1892) 

 34 10-11

Pomeroy Tornado [Iowa] (1893) 

 34 12

Petrolia Fire (1890) 

 34 13

Southern Hurricane (1893) 

 34 14

Miscellaneous (1885-1898, undated) 

 34 15

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