Janet Fitchen papers, 1956-1995.
Collection Number: 4952

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Janet Fitchen papers, 1956-1995.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
4952
Abstract:
Subject files, research and field notes, correspondence, data and data analysis, transcripts, case files, manuscripts of books, maps, testimony, and other papers relating to Fitchen's work on rural poverty, mostly in New York State.
Creator:
Fitchen, Janet.
Quanitities:
3.4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Cultural anthropologist who concentrated on the rural United States. She wrote "Poverty in Rural America: A Case Study," an ethnographic study of poverty in upstate New York and "Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America," which describes changes now transforming rural communities in the Northeast. In 1992-93, she was an Associate with the Western Rural Development Center in Corvallis, Oregon, where she conducted research on rural poverty in several other regions of the United States. She taught in the Anthropology Department at Ithaca College and the Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. She was a consultant and trainer for human service programs around the nation, including community action programs, social service agencies, and Cooperative Extension as well as Head Start and rural school districts, as well as serving on several national and state advisory boards related to rural poverty.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Subject files, research and field notes, correspondence, data and data analysis, transcripts, case files, manuscripts of books, maps, testimony, and other papers relating to Fitchen's work on rural poverty, mostly in New York State.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Janet Fitchen papers. #4952. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
Access Restrictions:

Access restricted to the permission of the donor.

SUBJECTS

Subjects:
Rural poor -- New York (State) -- Study and teaching.

CONTAINER LIST
Container
Description
Date
Lectures, workshops, and talks
Box 1 Folder 1
Allegany Talk
1990
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 2
Rural Human Services Talk/Workshops
1990
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 3
Public Talks, Workshops, Guest Lectures
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 4
College and Community Lectures
192
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Box 1 Folder 4
The James Mickel Williams Lecture
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 5
Hunger-Poverty Talks
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 6
National Association for Rural Mental Health - Keynote "When Communities Collapse: Implications for Rural America"
1986
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 7
Presentation to President's Council on Rural America
1991
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Box 1 Folder 8
Testimony for NYS Senate Social Services Committee
1992
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Box 1 Folder 9
American Anthropological Association Presentation, "Changing Communities in Rural America"
1988
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 10
Testimony for the House Select Committee on Children, Youth, and Families
1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 11
Rural Sociological Society Task Force - Rural Poverty
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 12
Congressional Colloquium
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 13
Congressional Colloquium
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 14
Community Visits
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 15
Cornell University Talk, "Residential Mobility and Urban to Rural..."
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 16
Cornell Rural Sociology Presentation, "More Poverty in Upstate N.Y. ..."
1988
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 17
R.S.S. Talk, "Rural Poverty and Policy Research"
1988
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 18
R.S.S. Talk, "Redistribution of Poverty..."
1993
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Box 1 Folder 19
"Pathways from Poverty"
1995
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 20
Welfare Reform
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 21
National Rural Studies Committee
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 22
AAA Panel
1985
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 23
Corvallis Conference on Rural Poverty
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 24
Children in Poverty Conference
1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 25
NY State Education Department Conference
1989-1990
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 26
Miscellaneous Presentations
1987-1992
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 27
Forest Service Conference - Ithaca
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 28
Anthropology/Sociology Seminar Presentations
1992
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 29
Teen Parenting/Teen Pregnancy, "Women and Children at Risk" Presentation
1988-1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 30
Rural Rensselaer County Council - Rural Women Conference
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 31
Cooperative Extension, "When Rural Communities Collapse..."
1987
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 32
Farm Family Seminar - Albany
1987
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 33
R.S.S. Panel
1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 34
American Anthropological Association Panel, "Changing Indentity in Rural Communities in the United States"
1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 35
R.S.S. Session - Heterogeneity
1994
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Box 1 Folder 36
R.S.S. Ethics Panel
1994
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Box 1 Folder 37
Poverty Research Conference - Penn State
1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 38
Rural Household Livelihood Strategies - Penn State
1990
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 39
Pennsylvania Rural County Caucus Assembly
1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 40
The Aspen Institute Rural Poverty Research Meeting
1990
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 41
Wye Conference Aspen Institute - Research Needs in Rural Poverty
1988
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 42
Wye Conference, "White Poverty in Upstate N.Y."
1988
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 43
"Agricultural Trends Affecting Rural Communities"
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 44
US/European Symposium
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 45
Conference on Communities and Watershed Planning - Cornell University
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 46
Summer Institute
1992-1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 47
Summer Institute - National Rural Studies Committee (NRSC)
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 48
NRSC Summer Institute Materials
1994
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 49
Presentation, "A Framework for Analyzing Poverty of Rural People and Places"
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 50
E.F.N.E.P. Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program Workshops, "The Aide and the Homemaker"
1984
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 51
E.F.N.E.P. Workshop Questionnaire Tabulation
1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 52
E.F.N.E.P. Analysis of Program
1979
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 53
E.F.N.E.P. Materials from Workshops - Alaska, Oklahoma, Arizona, Montana, Tennessee, Ohio
1984
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 54
E.F.N.E.P. Workshops - West Virginia
1977
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 55
E.F.N.E.P. - North Dakota
1978
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 56
Correspondence - Workshop Related
1974-1986
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 57
E.F.N.E.P. Correspondence, etc.
1985-1986
Restricted
Writings
Box 1 Folder 58
An Abiding Place
1988-1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 59
Instructions for National Rural Studies Committee Book Chapter
1992
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 60
Book: Homelessness in America: A Reference Connection; Information on Fitchen's Chapter, "The Case of Rural Homelessness"
1994-1995
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 61
Review of Chapter from Endangered Spaces
1986-1988
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 62
Westview Press - Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 63
Publicity for Book, Endangered Spaces
1991-1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 64
Mailing List - Copies of Endangered Spaces
1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 65
Westview Press - Endangered Spaces
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 66
Endangered Spaces - Book Reviews
1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 67
Book: Reviews, Responses, and Correspondence for Endangered Spaces
1991
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 68
Brainstorming for Possible Book on Rural Poverty
1993
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 69
Material Related to Rural Poverty: An Anthropological Case Study in New York
1979-1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 70
Correspondence - Book
1981
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 71
Book Revision - Poverty in Rural America
1994-1995
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 72
Book Review - Poverty in Rural America
1981-1982
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 73
Poverty Book - Outline, Drafts
1988-1989
Restricted
Box 1 Folder 74
Poverty Chapter for Mil Duncan's Book
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 1
College Anthropology Papers
1956-1958
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 2
Undergraduate Thesis
1958
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Box 2 Folder 3
"The People of Road Junction"
1971
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 4
Paper - College, "The Ambivalent Role of Local Political Leaders in East and British Central Africa"
1964
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 5
College Papers - University of Illinois
1961
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 6
"A Day with Mary Cronin," Revised - College
1979
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 7
"The Role of Women in East Africa..." [Janet Matthews]
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 8
"A Community Study of Philo, Illinois," University of Illinois, JMF
1962
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 9
"Critical Review of a Study of Values," Vassar College
1958
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 10
"Clifford S. Rich," Ph.D. Work at Cornell University
1972
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 11
Northeastern Anthropological Association Paper - "The Single Parent Family"
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 12
Paper - Society for Applied Anthropology, "Rural Poverty in Northern Appalachia"
1974
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 13
American Anthropological Association Paper: "Family and Neighborhood in a Rural Depressed Area, USA"
1974
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 14
"Special Housing Problems of the Rural Poor"
1976
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 15
"Individualism," Current Working Version of Paper
1986
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 16
"Hunger in Amercia," Public Version
1988
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 17
"Protecting Privacy in Action-Oriented Fieldwork"
1977
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 18
Society for Applied Anthropology Paper, "Applying Anthropological Perspectives to Anti-Poverty Programs"
1979
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 19
A.A.A. Paper, "Anthropology in Human Service Programs"
1979
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 20
N.E.A.A. Paper, "Social Impacts of Agricultural Change..."
1987
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 21
Rural Sociological Society Paper, "Rural Poverty and School Child..."
1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 22
R.S.S. Paper, "Residential Mobility as a Form of Homelessness in Rural N.Y."
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 23
R.S.S. Paper for "Sonya Panel"
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 24
R.S.S. Method, "How Do You Know What to Ask..."
1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 25
R.S.S. Paper, "Natives and Newcomers in Rural N.Y."
1990
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 26
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Agricultural Change and Rural Society in the U.S."
1987
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 27
A.A.A. Paper, "Homelessness in Rural America..."
1990
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 28
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Reciprocity in Rural Poverty Research"
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 29
A.A.A. Paper, "Rural Poverty and Welfare Reform..."
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 30
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Reciporcity in Rural Poverty Research"
1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 31
A.A.A. "Changing Communities in Rural America"
1988
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 32
Paper - Karen A. Curtis
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 33
A.A.A. Paper, "Rural Poverty and Welfare Program..."
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 34
"Rural Poverty and Residential Mobility..."
1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 35
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Poverty and the 'Single Parent Family'"
1992
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 36
R.S.S. Paper, "Poverty and the 'Single Parent Family'"
1992
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 37
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Diversity Without Development..."
1993
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Box 2 Folder 38
A.A.A. Paper, "Impoverization of Rural U.S. Communities through Exchange Migration"
1993
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 39
Miscellaneous Poverty Thoughts
1988-1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 40
Mobility
1988-1992
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 41
Mobility - Outline, Materials for Previous Papers
1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 42
Originals of Current Papers - J.M.F.
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 43
Outline for Case Descriptions
1986
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 44
Paper Sent to Human Organization for Publication
1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 45
Miscellaneous Work
1984-1985
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 46
R.S.S. Paper, "Spatial Redistribution of Poverty..."
1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 47
Paper - "A Cultural Anthropologist at Work in America"
1982
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 48
Paper - Adapted from Endangered Spaces, "Low-Level Radioactive Waste Disposal"
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 49
Paper - University of Illinois, "'Peasantry' as a Social Type"
1961
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 50
Paper based on Keynote Address, "A Time of Change in Rural Communities"
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 51
Possible Paper, "Welfare Reform for Rural America"
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 52
S.F.A.A. Paper, "Single-Parent Family"
1992
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 53
Human Services in the Rural Environment Paper, "When Communities Collapse"
1987
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 54
Paper, "Toxic Chemcal Pollution of Residential Areas"
1986
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 55
"Residential Mobility Among the Rural Poor"
1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 56
R.S.S. Paper, "Agricultural Change, Community Change, and Rural Poverty"
1987
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 57
"The Dynamics of Rural Impoverization"
1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 58
S.F.A.A. "Anthropological Work in Environmental Problems in U.S. - The Case of Groundwater Contamination"
1988
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 59
N.R.S.C. Paper, "A Geographic Sampler of Rural Poverty"
1993
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 60
"Rural Poverty and Residential Mobility"
1992
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 61
N.R.S.C.
1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 62
Paper, "Cultural Values Affecting Risk Perception"
1986
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 63
"The Academic Community and the Image of Limited Good"
1982
Restricted
Correspondence
Box 2 Folder 64
Correspondence, A-C
1972-1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 65
Correspondence, D-F
1972-1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 66
Correspondence, G-K
1972-1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 67
Correspondence, L-Q
1972-1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 68
Correspondence, R-S
1972-1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 69
Correspondence, T-V
1972-1995
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Box 2 Folder 70
Correspondence, W-Z
1972-1995
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 71
Correspondence, Professor Emilia Martinez-Brawley
1990
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 72
Allegany - Current and Planned
1991-1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 73
Correspondence, Laura B. Chodus - Regent
1988-1989
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 74
Correspondence, Mark Cohen
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 75
Correspondence Addresses
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 76
Correspondence, General
1992-1994
Restricted
Box 2 Folder 77
Correspondence, Mississippi State
1992-1993
Restricted
Research related
Box 3 Folder 1
North County G.N.L. Planning
1992
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 2
Allegany County Field Notes
1987
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 3
State Write-Ups, Research Notes
1992-1993
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 4
Mobility - 20 Departments of Social Services Cases - Allegany County
1991
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 5
Mobility Aspen Research - Questionnaire: D.S.S. Resdiential
1991
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 6
Mobility - Aspen Research - Questionnaires: Headstart
1991
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 7
Mobility - Aspen Research - Questionnaire Possibilities
1990
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 8
N.Y. Questionnaire Respondents
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 9
N.Y. Questionnaires - Respondents
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 10
Mark Cohen
1992
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 11
Steuben Addison Elementary School Data
1991-1992
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 12
Research Description - Research on Rural Poverty
1992-1993
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 13
Research for Book - List of Interviews
1986-1988
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 14
Data Sources - Field Notes - Allegany, Chenango, Delaware
1986-1989
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 15
United States Notes on Visits
1984
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 16
North Carolina Field Notes
1992-1993
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 17
Northern California Field Notes
1992
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 18
Sentence Completion Survey
1987
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 19
Sentence Completion Survey
1987
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 20
New Mexico Arrangements to Conduct Research
1992
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Box 3 Folder 21
New Mexico Borderlands Research Notes
1993
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Box 3 Folder 22
New Mexico Research Pueblos, etc.
1992-1993
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Box 3 Folder 23
New Mexico - TX Research Borderlands/Reading Material
1991
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Box 3 Folder 24
New Mexico Research San Miguel - Mora
1988-1993
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 25
New Mexico Research Income and Poverty Status
1990
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Box 3 Folder 26
Research Write-Ups, Analysis, Ideas
1992-1993
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 27
Field Notes II
19701-1971
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 28
Field Notes III
1971-1972
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 29
Miscellaneous Research
19992-1994
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 30
Economic Research Service Materials
1987-1988
Restricted
Personal and miscellaneous files
Box 3 Folder 31
Personal File - Vita
1989-1995
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 32
Candidacy Examination to Cornell University for J.M. Fitchen
1972
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Box 3 Folder 33
Personal/Employment Ithaca College, Cornell University
1995
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Box 3 Folder 34
Personal File Cornell Appointments
1984-1995
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Box 3 Folder 35
Personal File Cornell Contacts
1990-1991
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 36
Personal File Cornell Position
1991-1995
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Box 3 Folder 37
Personal File Cornell University Rural Sociology Department
1992
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Box 3 Folder 38
Personal File Cornell University Anthropology Department
1976-1989
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 39
Material for Tenure
1992-1995
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 40
Personal File Western Rural Development Center/National Rural Studies Committee Center Associate
1991-1999
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 41
N.R.S.C. Center Associate Activities
1992-1993
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 42
School Board Material (Previously Located in 3-Ring Binder)
1972-1977
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 43
CARDI - Community and Rural Development Institute
1990-1995
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 44
Articles Sent to J.M.F. for Review - Rural Sociology
1993-1994
Restricted
Box 3 Folder 45
Peer Review
1992-1995
Restricted
Box 4 Folder 1
Rural poverty video
1974-1989
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Box 4 Folder 2
Student file: Jayne Spring
Restricted
Box 4 Folder 3
Student file: Myram Contiguglia, Diane Crews
1990
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Box 4 Folder 4
Rural Poverty - newspaper clippings, reports from around the U.S., contacts with reporters
1987-1992
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Box 4 Folder 5
Grants, proposals, etc.
1988-1991
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Box 4 Folder 6
Miscellaneous
1986, 1989
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Box 4 Folder 7
"Rural Poverty" chapters I-VII
Restricted
Box 4 Folder 8
"Rural Poverty" chapters VIII-end
Restricted
Box 4 Folder 9
Food and Foodways article
1988
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Box 4 Folder 10
Journal of Rural Community Psychology
1990
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Box 4 Folder 11
Urban Anthropology, Summer
1991
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Box 4 Folder 12
Rural Sociologist article
1988, 1990
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Box 4 Folder 13
Practicing Anthropology
1988
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Box 4 Folder 14
Human Organization
1989
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Box 4 Folder 15
Cooperative Extension program, Tuskegee University
1989
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Box 4 Folder 16-17
Featured publications
1960-1991
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Box 4 Folder 18-19
The Outreach Manual
1979
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Box 4 Folder 20
Working with Families
1977
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