Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Public Relations Records
Scope and Content
Includes materials related to SCI’s Department of Public Relations including correspondence, clippings and press releases related to the operations of the Institute. Also included are scrap books with clippings, correspondence, photographs, pamphlets and other ephemera related to SCI and the maritime community in general. Of particular note is correspondence related to SCI’s film and radio initiatives, including the promotional film “Home is the Sailor,” produced by SCI in the 1940s. Also included are transcripts from World War II correspondent George Hick’s wartime program “Men of the Sea.”
Dates
- 1911-1978
Creator
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (Organization)
Extent
26.25 Linear Feet (54 oversized items)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Arranged in alphabetical order according to creator and subject file within four sub-series: News Clippings, Press Releases, Scrap Books, and Subject Files.
Creator
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (Organization)
Source
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York and New Jersey (Organization)
- Title
- Seamen's Church Institute of New York & New Jersey Public Relations Records
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Processed by Johnathan Thayer, 2011. Revised and machine readable finding aid created by Dan Brenner, Fall, 2016.
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
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
