Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Staff and Administration Records
Scope and Content
Staff and Administration records consist of correspondence, minutes and reports related to various departments and individual staff members. Included are departmental reports from 1941-1978 and operations surveys from 1932-1960. Of particular interest is correspondence related to Janet L. Roper, who served as SCI’s House Mother from 1915-1943, founding the Missing Seamen Bureau in 1919. Also included is a manuscript copy of an unpublished biography of Roper written by Jonathan Finn, as well as a manuscript copy of short biographical excerpts written by Roper’s daughter in a ledger book in 1939.
Dates
- 1902-1978
Creator
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (Organization)
Extent
3 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order according to creator and subject file.
Source
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (Organization)
Creator
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (Organization)
- Title
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Staff and Administration Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Johnathan Thayer, 2011. Revised and machine readable finding aid created by Dan Brenner, Spring, 2016.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us
QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu
