Typed speech on “Cooperative housing.” Defines cooperative housing as the common control and ownership of homes by tenants. Explains reasons for and advantages to residents within cooperative housing. “With over one-half of our population residing in cities, the housing of families has undergone a radical change. The family's home and retreat once under complete control of the householder has largely disappeared, and in its stead has grown the apartment house under control of a landlord interested solely in more profits . . . Cooperative housing is the reassertion of the right of the man with a family to control the house in which he lives for the benefit of himself and his family.” Explains that England's method for developing cooperative housing will be adopted: “the state helping the people to help themselves.” Discusses groups in Brooklyn and Manhattan that organized cooperative housing, and how cooperation works, principles in cooperative laws of state of New York: “Every stockholder has one vote regardless of the stock he owns . . .” Names the most essential requirement as the tenant-owners possessing “the full power and the right machinery to control their own affairs . . .” Explains how to work out operating expenses, and having a sound plan for amortization, favorable social conditions and efficient management. (11 pages), No date

Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16

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The Charlotte Rumbold Papers Series comprises mostly correspondence to and from family members and colleagues from 1918 to 1937. The papers are arranged chronologically and include four letters from Roger Nash Baldwin, a prominent social activist who helped form the American Civil Liberties Union. The Caroline Rumbold Papers Series includes mostly correspondence to and from family members from 1918 to 1929. In the correspondence, their brother Frank Meeker Rumbold referred to his sister Charlotte as "Budge," and Caroline as "Toots" and "Tom." The Engelmann Family Papers Series includes typed translatations (from German) of letters of Lieutenant Adolph Engelmann to his parents during the Mexican War, 1846-1847. Charlotte Rumbold, a seventh-generation members of the Engelmann family, owned these family papers. The papers are arranged chronologically. The General Correspondence Series comprises letters from Charlotte's brother, Frank Rumbold, to his wife, along with several letters from her friend, writer Mary E. Buckley to her friend, Horace Swope. The Charlotte Rumbold Speeches Series includes her speeches on street life and housing conditions. The Caroline Rumbold Travel Diaries Series includes three diaries from her trip around the world in 1928 and 1929. Caroline Rumbold's travel diaries and her letters to siblings from her world tour are similar in content. The Miscellaneous Series includes Caroline Rumbold's scrapbook and Charlotte Rumbold's "Report of the Housing Committee of The Civic League of St. Louis."