Irene Kaufmann Settlement

1920

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Irene Kaufmann Settlement
  • Title
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement
  • Identifier
  • MSP78.B002.F12.I01
  • Source Identifier
  • MSP78.B002.F12.I01
  • Description
  • A nurse from the Irene Kaufmann Settlement (IKS) is making a home visit. The IKS initiated numerous health programs, under the direction of Anna Heldman, that eventually became city services, including a visiting nurses service, a pre-natal nursing service, Better Baby clinics, and the supervision of medical inspection in the City's schools. To express the city's thanks to Heldman, in 1939, a year before her death, the name of Overhill Street was changed to Heldman Street. In 1957, after the IKS had moved from the Hill District to Pittsburgh's East End, the settlement was renamed the Anna B. Heldman Community Center. The Irene Kaufmann Settlement merged with the YM&WHA and evolved into the present-day Jewish Community Center (JCC) in Pittsburgh's Squirrel Hill neighborhood. The JCC continues the tradition of the IKS in providing programs and services to the nonsectarian local community.
  • Genre
  • photographs
  • Subject
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement (Pittsburgh, Pa.).Visiting Nurse Service.
    Children--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Nurses--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
    Jews--Pennsylvania--Pittsburgh.
  • Source
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs, 1897-1946, MSP 78, Rauh Jewish Archives, Library and Archives Division, Senator John Heinz History Center
  • Contributor
  • Detre Library & Archives, Heinz History Center
  • Collection
  • Irene Kaufmann Settlement Photographs
  • Rights Information
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