Neighborhood House Records, 1915-1980

Container Title
M79-162
Part 4 (M79-162): Additions, 1915-1980
Physical Description: 1.1 cubic feet (3 archives boxes and 1 oversize folder), and 658 photographs and 3 negatives (in 3 archives boxes, 3 flat boxes, and 1 oversize folder) 
Scope and Content Note: Additions documenting the activities of Gay Braxton, head resident, and Mary Lee Griggs, director of Parent Education and Play School; events sponsored by Neighborhood House itself, such as hosteling and boys camping; and scrapbooks of the Camp Fire Girls and the Orioles, which met at Neighborhood House. Important records include the various studies, survey data, and analysis (1926-1977) of the neighborhood population, many of whom were immigrants. One folder concerns the Triangle urban renewal project, 1973. Types of records include publications, constitutions, histories, clippings, reports, scrapbooks, speeches, and photographs. Also present are a few personal papers of Mary Lee Griggs including materials concerning Gay-Lee, the vacation home of Griggs and Braxton in Ephraim (Door County), Wheelock School (Boston) yearbooks for 1919 and 1920, and family photographs.
Mary Lee Griggs personal papers
Box   1
Gay-Lee guest log
Box   1
Gay-Lee cabin
Box   1
Wheelock School (Boston)--yearbooks, 1919-1920
Neighborhood House
Box   1
Publications
Box   1
Constitution by-laws, articles of incorporation
Box   1
Histories, recollections, reminiscences
Box   1
Auxiliary Board
Box   1
Triangle urban renewal project, 1973
Box   1
Clippings, 25th anniversary, 1941
Box   1
Clippings, miscellaneous
Box   1
Better Homes and Gardens Committee flower show
Box   1
Achievement exposition, 1929
Box   1
Play School
Box   1
Gay Braxton memorial play school room
Box   1
Guest book, 1933-1968
Box   2
Folder   1
Reports and talks by Gay Braxton
Box   2
Folder   2
Activities, 1977-1980
Box   2
Folder   3
“Handbook for Volunteer Leaders” [reference], 1932
Box   2
Folder   4
Reference articles
Box   2
Folder   5
Miscellaneous
Box   2
Folder   6
Griggs retirement, 1966
Scrapbooks
Box   2
Folder   7
#1, 1947
Box   2
Folder   8
#2, 1936
Box   2
Folder   9
#3, undated
Box   2
Folder   10
Orioles club, 1939-1940
Box   2
Boys camping, 1941-1942
Box   2
Hosteling, 1944-1946
Neighborhood studies
Beneficiary study data
Box   2
1941
Box   2
1943 March-July
Box   2
1944
Box   2
“Report on study of Neighborhood House,” 1949
Box   2
Report by National Federation, 1957
Box   2
Need assessment study, 1977
Neighborhood surveys data
Box   3
Folder   1
1926
Box   3
Folder   2
1932
Box   3
Folder   3
1946
Camp Fire Girls awards
Oversize Folder  
Braxton, 1915
Oversize Folder  
Griggs, 1931