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              <text>Constitutions, programs, and reports of several institutions in Illinois.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Includes: The Cradle. Mooseheart Children's Home. Norsk Luthersk Missionshotel i Chicago. Evangelisk-Lutherske Indre-Missions-Forening i Illinois. Norwegian Lutheran Mission Home of Chicago. Evangelical Lutheran Home-Finding Society of Illinois. Lutheran Home Finding Society of Illinois. Skandinaviske Kvinders Hjaelpeforening for Fattige i Chicago. Pleasant View Lutheran Home. Includes a paper by Paula F. Pfeffer (Dept. of History, Mundelein College) "prepared for delivery at the 1985 meeting of the Illinois History Symposium"" "Class over adoption practices: the Illinois Children's Home and Aid Society versus The Cradle. 40 typescript p.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span&gt;Hazel Anderson material as background for Lovoll's Century of urban life (NAHA, 1988). Includes "Draft: History of Lutheran Social Service of Illinois" (6 p. typescript); "A history of Illinois Lutheran Welfare Association and statement of policy of the board of directors on unification, pp.1-2 (incomplete typescript). 4 p. typescript, timeline of institutions and organizations; 1986 interviews (typescript) with Christ and Emma Aasbrein, Leroy Carlson, Bergette Gramberg, Thomas Peterson (born 189 1, Art and Alice Nasheim, Evelyn Pfeuffer, Hulda Werness; materials on Unity Lutheran Church Girls' Home, photocopies of "Inner Mission Message" (1927-1943), Inner Mission Society of the Chicago area of the United Lutheran Church in America, United Lutheran Social Mission Society of Illinois (selected minutes, 1949-1961), "Home Finding News" (1949,1955), "Social Mission Message' (1949), "The Gleaner" (1951,1954), Lutheran Home Finding Society of Illinois (1955-1956; "Nursery Echoes" (Lutheran Day Nursery, 1986), miscellaneous.&lt;/span&gt;</text>
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