Title:: Girls' Industrial Home (Delaware, Ohio) Journal 1894-1895, 1924-19461894-1895

Access and use

Location of collection:
College of William and Mary
Special Collections Research Center
Earl Gregg Swem Library
College of William and Mary
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PO 8795
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795
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Summary

Extent:
0.10
Creator:
Girls' Industrial Home (Delaware, Ohio) arrangement
Language:
The records are in: English

Background

Scope and content:

Journals of the Girls' Industrial Home, a reform school in White Sulphur, Delaware County, Ohio, 1894-1895. Recorded are daily transactions at the school, from chores and meals to visits of the chaplain and board members. The journal documents predominantly the management and administration of the reform school. Occasionally it mentions the arrivals of new girls. Also documented are arrangements for holiday meals and entertainment, supplies ordered, crockery broken, gifts received.A few pages in the front and toward the back of the journal were used in the years 1924-1929 and 1946 as a farm journal or diary for "Hillcrest," most likely in the same area, as a wedding in Rome, Delaware County is mentioned.

Biographical / historical:

State Reform and Industrial School for Girls established in 1868; in 1878 name changed to Girls’ Industrial Home; in 1913 name changed to Girls’ Industrial School; Delaware, Ohio. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Girls Industrial Home (Delaware, Ohio)">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Girls Industrial Home (Delaware, Ohio)</a>.

Acquisition information:
The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 05/10/2009.
Physical description:
1 vol.