Clara de Hirsch Home for Working Girls was a non-sectarian teenage girls' home in New York City, New York, US, located at 225 East 63rd Street. Incorporated in 1897, it was supported by endowment. Clara de Hirsch donated $200,000. Participating girls were between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years. They paid $3.00 to $6.00 a week for board and lodging. The Hirsch Home's mission was improve the girls' mental, moral, and physical condition; and to train them for self-support. It maintained trade classes in hand sewing, machine operating, dressmaking, and millinery.[1] Mrs. Oscar S. Strauss served as president, Carrie Wise was secretary, and Rose Sommerfield, was the resident director.[2] In 1960, the board of directors sold the building and in the following year, the organization merged with the 92nd Street YMHA.[3]
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This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Columbia University Press' "Directory of Social and Health Agencies of New York City" (1919)
- ^ Directory of Social and Health Agencies of New York City (Public domain ed.). Columbia University Press. 1919. pp. 86–.
- ^ The New York Charities Directory (Public domain ed.). Charity Organization Society in the City of New York. 1911. pp. 300–.
- ^ Friedman, Reena Sigman (1 March 2009). "Clara De Hirsch Home for Working Girls". Jewish Women: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia. Retrieved 30 March 2015.