Ladies Industrial Relief Society Records

Collection

Identifier: 2004-03

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Records of the Ladies Industrial Relief Society and successor organizations date from the late 1880's to the 1980's. The collection includes by-laws and constitutions, financial records, annual reports, reports of the nursery, laundry and outdoor relief programs, meeting minutes journals, photos, scrapbooks, histories, diaries of Sophie Toller and reports of Friendly Visitors. This organization was later known as Family and Children's Services, then became Family Resources, Inc.

The Diaries of Sophie Toller were scanned in order to provide access without further damage to the fragile pages. Transcriptions of Family File Cards and Friendly Visitor cards available.

Dates

Creation: 1880s-1980s

Conditions Governing Use

Materials are available for use in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center only.

*Information about individuals assisted by the organization will be held confidential until 72 years after the record was created.

Request permission before copying materials.

Personal digital cameras and scanners are allowed in the Richardson-Sloane Special Collections Center on a case-by-case basis. The items that a researcher may want to scan or photograph must be examined and evaluated for physical condition, copyright issues, and donor restrictions by staff.

Copyright restrictions may apply; please consult Special Collections staff for further information.

The copyright law of the United States (title 17, United States Code) governs the making of reproductions of copyrighted material.

Under certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized to furnish a reproduction. One of these specific conditions is that the reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." If a user makes a request for, or later uses, a reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use," that user may be liable for copyright infringement.

Extent

17.05 Linear Feet (in one record center carton, twenty-two 5" legal archive boxes, three 2.5" legal archive boxes, two 21 x 17" flat boxes, one 3-ring binder, two loose items.)