An annual report documenting the main activities of the charity for the years 1917-1918. Departmental reports include: the relief department, visiting nurses, Wilder public baths, day nursery, health center, central registration bureau, food conservation, survey work and research.
A brief report on the activities of the Amherst H. Wilder Charity for the previous two years. The report includes information on the public baths, the Child Guidance Clinic, the Day Care Centers, the dispensary, social research, the Children's Center Building and the Wilder Administration Building.
A report published "on the occasion of the opening of the Amherst H. Wilder Health Center" to document the activities of the Wilder Charity from its beginning in 1906 to 1952. The report contains summaries of the organization's contributions to St. Paul health services, St. Paul community leisure time services, St. Paul's community organization services, and brief information on the Minnesota Foundation.
Photograph of the nursery building (later the Children's Center) located at the corner of Marshall Avenue and St. Albans Street, St. Paul, Minnesota. The building once housed the Protestant Orphan Asylum and was for a time home to the Wilder Child Guidance Clinic.
Amherst H. Wilder Foundation (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Date Created:
1959
Description:
A report on the Amherst H. Wilder Foundation and its associate organizations, the Minnesota Foundation and the Victor M. Watkins Convalescent Home. The report includes background on the Foundation and the Wilder family, information on its operating policy and current services, background on the convalescent home (named after the first director of the charity), and details about the incorporation and activities of the Minnesota Foundation. It also contains details of new Wilder programs established in the 1950s, including Bremer House, Camp Wilder and a community transportation system.
Paper presented by Monsignor James M. Reardon at the 1909 annual conventions of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of St. Paul, Minnesota, and of the Catholic Total Abstinence Union of America. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5072 .R4 1909
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
Rabbi Herman Cohen's response to Mrs. P. Braufman's request to read her letter and advise as to its tone and content. (See local identifiers MHS-D-593 and MHS-D-594)
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The St. Paul Free Medical Dispensary was incorporated in 1897. Cornelia Day Wilder (1868-1903) was an early supporter, and James J. Hill was Board President. In 1923, Amherst H. Wilder Charities assumed complete financial and management responsibility for the organization. Physicians and residents at the dispensary worked free of charge to provide free medical and dental care to individuals in need.
Portrait photograph of the Board of Directors for the Workman's Circle Loan Association, posed at a table. Workman's Circle groups loaned money to members cost free. A person paid a small fee to be a member and could then apply for a loan. He or she would then pay the loan back at a scheduled rate.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
The Board of Directors of the Workman's Circle Loan Association sitting at a table, working and chatting. Both St. Paul and Minneapolis had Workmen's Circle chapters.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
A card listing the weekly clinics available at the Wilder Partidge Street Health Center. Details include the days, times, types of clinics and the names of doctors or organizations running the clinics.
Société de Temperance de la Paroisse St. Louis, de St. Paul, Minnesota
Date Created:
1875
Description:
Constitution and regulations of the Temperance Society of the Parish of Saint Louis King of France in St. Paul, Minnesota, a Roman Catholic French national parish serving French Candadian immigrants. Lists the Society's dues, member expectations, violations, fines, policies, and parliamentary procedures for conducting Society business. University of St. Thomas, Archibishop Ireland Memorial Library call number: HV5298.S3 C5 1875
Contributing Institution:
University of St. Thomas - Archbishop Ireland Memorial Library
A comprehensive directory of the charitable, civic, educational and religious resources of St. Paul. Commissioned and published by the Amherst H. Wilder charity in 1913, the directory was distributed free of cost to individuals and agenices carrying out charitable or social service work.
Photograph of three young boys and a girl standing next to a Christmas tree, which is just visible. From the Protestant Orphan Asylum, 670 Marshall Avenue, St. Paul, Minnesota.
Photograph of an unidentified girls' basketball team from one of the neighborhood Wilder Health Centers, which sponsored athletic events and teams around the city.
Girls, some holding dolls or teddy bears, in this group photograph of the Girl's Club at Neighborhood House. Neighborhood House was founded by the Hebrew Ladies Benevolent Society. Neighborhood House was founded primarily to provide recreational, educational and social activities to residents of the West Side neighborhood. It maintained an active recreational program for girls in the neighborhood, teaching sewing, cooking and other domestic arts.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
A photograph of four unidentified girls standing in front of Central Community House, holding hands. Central Community House in St. Paul was established in 1921. It offered recreational and social activities for children, as well as baby clinics and day care for mothers working factory jobs during World War II.
Contributing Institution:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives
Twelve girls use the library at the St. Paul Girls' Home (orphanage), 933 Carroll Ave., St. Paul. An unidentified Sister of St. Joseph helps two of the students.