National Child Labor Committee (U.S.) records
Contributors: National Committee on Federal Aid to Education
Language: eng
Number of pages: 7000
Subjects: Correspondence; Education; Finance; Social conditions; Child labor; Federal aid to education
Description: Correspondence, speeches, official records, reports, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, and scrapbooks containing form letters, press releases, and newspaper clippings concerning the work of the National Child Labor Committee in promoting the rights and education of children and youth in relation to labor.  Includes reports on child labor conditions in various industries; minute books and proceedings of annual meetings and national conferences of the National Child Labor Committee and of the National Committee on Federal Aid to Education; correspondence (1905-1912) of Alexander Jeffrey McKelway, secretary for the Southern States of the National Child Labor Committee; and two letters from Franklin D. Roosevelt.
Notes: Open to research.

Deposit, Mrs. Alexander Jeffrey McKelway, 1932.

Converted to gift, 1947.

Gift, Mrs. Gertrude Folks Zimand, 1954.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

Organization founded in 1904 and incorporated by an act of Congress in 1907 with the mission of promoting the rights and education of children and youth in relation to labor.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012051