An annual report of the Amherst H. Wilder Charity documenting the main activities of the charity for the year 1919. The report includes a financial statement, information about the Administration Building and detailed reports from the Relief Department, Visiting Nurse Department, the Wilder Public Baths, the Day Nursery, the Wilder Health Centers and the Central Registration Bureau.
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.
A narrative account of the daily management and functioning of the organization, a St. Paul orphanage established shortly after the end of the Civil War. The handwritten account records the monthly board meetings, notes the number of children resident each month, lists donations received, and documents the daily issues and concerns of running of the orphanage. Volume III covers 1892 to 1898. Two additional minutes books are in the collection of the Minnesota Historical Society.
An annual report of the Amherst H. Wilder Charity documenting the main activities of the charity for the fiscal year 1914. The report includes information about activities in the Administration Building as well as detailed reports on the Relief Department, Visiting Nurses Department, Day Nursery and social service work at the city and county hospitals.
An annual report of the Amherst H. Wilder charity) documenting the main activities of the charity for the fiscal year 1919. The report includes a financial statement, information about the Administration Building and detailed reports from the Relief Department, Visiting Nurse Department, the Wilder Public Baths, the Day Nursery, the Wilder Health Center, the Social Service Department and the charity's cooperation with other agencies in St. Paul. The Visiting Nurses report discusses the recent influenza epidemic.
First volume from the organization, describing the original formation and activities of the charity in the early 20th century. The handwritten record book predates the official incorporation of the three family charities into a single charity, The Amherst H. Wilder Charity, in 1910.
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 survey carried out at the request of the St. Paul Association of Commerce. After visiting more than 5,000 dwellings, Wilder researchers concluded that housing conditions were "a menace to the health, safety and privacy of thousands of St. Paul people." The findings from the report led to the enactment of the first St. Paul housing ordinance in March, 1918.