Papers regarding workhouse and constitution of the American Hebrew Agricultural Association

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Baron de Hirsch Fund records undated, 1870-1991.

Contains Deed of Trust, By-Laws, Annual Reports, Corporation Minutes (1909, 1913-1919, 1923-1924, 1926-1933), Minutes of the Board of Trustees (1893, 1899, 1907, 1910, 1915-1916, 1918, 1923, 1926-1927, 1930-1933), and the minutes, correspondence, and reports of the various national and local committees. Financial materials include income and expenditure records (1891-1933), audits (1919-1923, 1926-1928), the records of agricultural loans and mortgages, bond and real estate holdings, and bequests. Includes also correspondence and other materials regarding the establishment of the Fund, correspondence of and other papers concerning the Baron and Baroness de Hirsch, and several histories of the Fund. Included in the wide range of activities are material on the work of the Agriculture Bureau and the Jewish Agriculture Society, Housing, English Classes, Immigration (including monthly reports for several ports of entry 1885-1916) and Immigrant Aid, German Refugee Aid in the early years of the Holocaust, Kings Park, N.Y. Test Farm, the Laundry Project, Peekskill Farm, Public Baths, Student Loans, the Baron de Hirsch Trade School, and the Woodbine Colony and Baron De Hirsch Agricultural & Industrial School. Contains also materials on the Colonization attempts made in Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Galveston, Texas, The Southwest, Washington, Canada, and Mexico.

Application for assistance from Hanna Louzada, New Brunswick, N.J.

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Letter to congregation in Jamaica asking assistance to build a synagogue

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Petition of Michael Jacobs for assistance

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Letter from Palestine asking for assistance

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Meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee 1918 in New York

Reproduction of a painting of a meeting of the Joint Distribution Committee (representing the American Jewish Relief Committee, the Central Rellief Committee and the People's Relief Committee) and the Executive Committee of the American Jewish Relief Committee, with chairman Felix Warburg, secretary Albert Lucas, stenographer Mrs. F. Friedman, executive director Boris Bogen, comptroller Harriet Lowenstein, associate treasurer Paul Baerwald and treasurer Arthur Lehman; Office of Mr. Felix M. Warburg, 52 William Street, New York

Rabbi Leo Baeck's arrival at La Guardia Airport, New York from London for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations American Jewish Cavalcade Portraits; Groups

Sitting l-r Leo Baeck, Maurice N. Eisendrath, Oscar M. Lazrus; Standing l-r Jane Evans, Henry W. Levy, Saul Elgart, Rabbi Daniel L. Davis, Louis Rittenberg and Leonard H. Spring

Rabbi Leo Baeck with Willard Johnson of the World Brotherhood and Rabbi S. Andhil Fineberg of the American Jewish Committee, after a dinner honoring Baeck; World Brotherhood; Bonn Portraits Groups; Men

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Dorothea (Dola) Guttmann Gould speaking at American Express stockholders meeting Portraits Women

This photograph was included in the meeting's published report

Elisabet Eliasberg writing in her first American home after fleeing Hitler's Austria; 73 Payson Avenue, New York City Portraits Women

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Reproduction of portrait of Philipp Oberlaender dressed as a frontiersman of the American West Portraits Men

Typed on verso: Philipp Oberlaender 1875 Eipel - 1911 im Sudan. Mitinhaber Sein Vater Moritz, spaeter Alleininhaber der Hronower Baumwollspinnerei in Hronow, Boehem. Grosswildjaeger, Stiftungen im Wiener und Prager Naturhistor. Museum 1910 geadelt. Verfasser von Jagdfahrten in Nordamerika Wien Verlag Huber & Lahm Nachf. 1911 261 Seiten mit 76 Abbildungen. Jagdschilderungen unter dem Pseudonym Count Orlando und Jagdaufnahmen in "Outdoor Life A Magazine of the West" published at Denver, Colorado Vol. XXII pages 525 & 615 1908 Vol. XXIII pages 27 & 253 do

Rabbi Leo Baeck's arrival at La Guardia Airport, New York from London for the Union of American Hebrew Congregations American Jewish Cavalcade Portraits; Groups

Sitting l-r Leo Baeck, Maurice N. Eisendrath, Oscar M. Lazrus; Standing l-r Jane Evans, Henry W. Levy, Saul Elgart, Rabbi Daniel L. Davis, Louis Rittenberg and Leonard H. Spring

Group portrait of the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee; Shanghai Portraits; Groups

Photograph contained within portfolio including title page and signatures

Leo Baeck with Maurice N. Eisendrath, President of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations Portraits; Groups; Men

Page 24 of the "American Jewish Cavalcade" scrapbook of Leo Baeck in New York found in ROS 10 Folder 3