Collections : [Rare Book & Manuscript Library]

Included are Reports of Five Seminars on the early development of children (1968-1972), A History and Review of the First Year of Sesame Street (1970), and the first seven issues of "Sesame Street Magazine."

This collection illustrates the research process of a distinguished professor, and also brings a great deal of otherwise scattered (in Russian archives) material together on topics of human sexuality in Imperial Russia.

The records include addresses, annual reports, correspondence, memos, minutes, program files, newsclippings, administrative records, photographs, video tape, and film. They include material dating from the decades prior to the establishment of the settlement which shed light on the philosophy and motivation of its founders, and offer a unique view of the first wave of the settlement house movement in America. The records document social conditions, demographic change, political activity and philanthropy in New York City. Addresses by East Side House founder Everett P. Wheeler, included in Series I, document his family history and career as a lawyer and civic reformer prior to the founding of East Side House. Wheeler's correspondence details his role in establishing the settlement and managing it during its first decades.

Papers of the Society, including correspondence among the officers and directors of the Society, memoranda, reports, legal papers, minutes, financial records, radio scripts, clippings, scrapbooks, comic books, and a subject file of pamphlets and clippings on all aspects of crime prevention. Also, an extensive history of the Society.