Series II. Board and committee files, 1904-1987.

Containers:

Box 9-18

Scope and content:

Minutes and records from the governing Boards of the main office (Richmond), 1923-1987, and the Southwest Branch (Roanoke), 1904-1973. Board minutes touch on a range of topics, including property and financial matters, service statistics, personnel changes, fundraising, relevant legislation, community partnerships, and the relationship of the state office and the Roanoke branch. At times (particularly in earlier years), specific cases are discussed; as a result, access to many of these records is restricted. Please note that in some cases committee files were interfiled with the Board files. Therefore, it is best to check the records of each of the entities for a given time period in order to catch all relevant material. Other groups represented in this series include the Friends of the Children's Home Society and the Northern Virginia Advisory Committee.

Arrangement:

The series is arranged by office, with the Richmond files coming first (Boxes 9-16), followed by the Southwest Branch (Roanoke) files (Boxes 10-18). The Southwest Branch minutes are arranged in order of loose papers first, followed by volumes. There is some overlap between the two sets. There are occasional references to the work of the Southwest Branch in the Richmond office files and vice versa. Also, the records of a 1978 joint meeting between the two boards are filed towards the end of the Richmond section, in Box 16.

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