National Self Government Committee records, 1901-1985, bulk (1911-1985) | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Summary:Collection consists of correspondence, minutes, questionnaires, reports, charters, financial records, grant proposals, scrapbooks, photographs, and printed matter documenting the activities of the National Self Government Committee (NSGC). General correspondence, 1901-1948, contains Welling's correspondence with educators, students and educational institutions and associations. Administrative records, 1909-1950, include correspondence with directors of the NSGC, minutes of meetings, reports, and constitutions and charters of student government organizations. Subject correspondence, 1913-1985, concerns NSGC publications, surveys in schools, self government in Civilian Conservation Corps camps, comments of students and officials about citizenship training in their schools, and grants from the NSGC to students and communities. Also included are replies to questionnaires, 1911-1924; writings, 1912-1947, of Welling with diaries, notebooks, speeches, and other items; financial documents; scrapbooks; photographs, ca. 1911-1913, of students; video cassette of New York project; and printed matter