Box 8

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Seal Sale scrapbook: Various documents including letters (appeal, thank you), annual dinner invitations, reports, brochures.

Scope and Content Note Certificate from awarded by State Committee on Tuberculosis and Public Health; advertising materials and seals; correspondence, music, plan for one-minute TV promotion produced in Minneapolis; biography & photo of Edward N. Mayer, Jr.; 1950 spreadsheet for town campaigns; invitation and program, Marriage Counseling Institute; reports of seal sales by towns; correspondence regarding trailers to be shown in movie theaters, confusion of independent giving campaign and Community Chest...

Scope and Content Note Certificate from State Committee; advertising materials; letter to a pastor (1949); 1935 news pamphlets, “County Health Committee Service Record of Accomplishment,” “Recent Display at Rochester Exposition,” “County Girl Scouts Assist in Campaign Preparation”; 1951 Christmas Seal Sale spreadsheet; instructions for County Health Committee Dinner; seal sales reports; 1950 census of Rochester and surrounding towns; 1951 Seal Sale stationery; divided instruction and model sections for typing...

Scope and Content Note Contribution note, agenda, certificate from State Committee, sheet music: “One Little Candle,” article about 1952 seal design as a collector’s item with short history of double-barred cross; Brighton-Pittsford Post editorial; typescript of talks: “Tuberculosis and the Living,” “The Christmas Candle,” “’Miracle Drugs’ and TB”; cover letter for publicity kit; copies of legislation regarding solicitation of funds from school children with correspondence; records of personal solicitations...

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Documents regarding that year’s seal sale.

Scope and Content Note Seals, advertising materials, certificate from State Committee, letter to pastor, letter regarding forgotten county contribution (1955); list of reasons for letters of apology; reports of county sale; personal solicitation receipts; divided instruction and model sections for scholastic press project, seal sale supplies, mail sale, $2 letter, $3 letter, $4, $5, $10 letter, personal appeal, organizations, county luncheon, chairmen’s kits, Boy Scout letter, pastor’s letter, publicity, coin...

Scope and Content Note Advertising notepaper; seals; reports; correspondence regarding articles in newsletters and Boy Scout assistance; daily report forms; personal appeal lists; record of school appeals; list of radio and TV announcers; personal solicitation receipts; thank you letters; volunteers for sale stuffings; personal notes regarding contributions, newspaper page from Miami Herald; divided instruction and model sections: scholastic press project, seal sale supplies, mail sale, $2 letter, $3 letter, $4,...

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Advertising handouts and seals, “Health Briefs”; divided instruction and model sections: scholastic press project, seal sale supplies, mail sale, $2 letter, $3 letter, $4, $5, $10 letter, personal appeal, county luncheon, pastor’s letter, publicity, reports, follow ups, explanations and complaints, Luncheon Christmas Seal Sale Christmas, miscellaneous letters, Girl Scouts letter, Boy Scouts letter.

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Handouts, seals, form letters, inventory of Seal Sale Room Closet; divided instruction and model sections: scholastic press project, seal sale supplies, mail sale, $2 letter, $3 letter, $4, $5, $10 letter, personal appeal, county luncheon, pastor’s letter, publicity, reports, follow ups, explanations and complaints, Luncheon Christmas Seal Sale Christmas, miscellaneous letters, Girl Scouts letter, Boy Scouts letter.

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Articles and editorials regarding local and national health care from the Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle.

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Articles and editorials regarding health care with a focus on local issues from various city and county papers.

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Community Chest Red Cross Drive, May 7-18, 1959.

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Articles regarding resignations of Health Association executives over policy issues; articles and editorials about local health care from the Times-Union and Democrat & Chronicle.

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Articles and editorials regarding health care with a focus on local issues from various city and county papers.

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Articles and editorials regarding health care with a focus on local issues from various city and county papers.

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Newspaper articles (various publications).

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Brochures, fliers, invitations used by the Westside Neighborhood Health Committee.

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Miscellaneous ephemera, advertising brochures, posters, order forms for posters designed and promoted by many different concerns.

Abstract The records of the Health Association of Rochester and Monroe County, which date from the year of its founding in 1917 as the Rochester Tuberculosis Committee, describe the organization’s efforts to prevent, treat, and cure tuberculosis in the Rochester and Monroe County areas. The collection includes founding documents, annual reports, histories, meeting minutes, photographs, newsletters, reports, glass slides, and ephemera. The organization would evolve to encompass practically all aspects...