Ledger and Scrapbooks, 1902-1978

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This series holds a variety of ledgers and scrapbooks created by workers and volunteers of The Children's Home Society of Florida. The ledgers were used to track finances, adoptions, and incoming children. The scrapbooks are made up of newsclippings from the Jacksonville area and were compiled by the workers and volunteers of the society.

The ledgers vary in content from general finance to child visitations, fund accounts tracking and mileage counts.Many of the ledgers have been used multiple times so a great majority of information has been removed, erased, or pasted over with different types of information. However, the ledgers are still readable and have retained many pages of their original content.

The scrapbooks were most likely created by various workers and volunteers of the society. The news clippings found in the scrapbooks come mostly from local Jacksonville newspapers and chronicle the early start of the society via the public eye. The biggest event of the young society was a May Day festival held at a local home in 1912. Here, thousands of dollars was raised for the society and it was billed as the biggest event ever to occur in the Jacksonville area. The scrapbooks also hold newspaper advertisements asking for donations to the society, human interest stories that describe the work of Marcus "Daddy" Fagg and his efforts to save the children of Florida, and articles that give general meeting information regarding the society and society events.

The Rose Keller scrapbooks were created by workers and volunteers from the Rose Keller division in Lakeland, Florida. These scrapbooks are made up mostly of photographs and were likely used as coffee table books for visitors waiting in the lobby. They chronicle everyday events up to the home's fiftieth anniversary in 1952.

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