Association Hall was part of the first purpose-built YMCA. Located on Fourth Avenue at 23rd Street in New York City, Association Hall was the location of concerts, readings, religious services and lectures.
Created:
1860 - 1879
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Association Hall was part of the first purpose-built YMCA. Located on Fourth Avenue at 23rd Street in New York City, Association Hall was the location of concerts, readings, religious services and lectures.
Created:
1860 - 1879
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Soldiers and other men and women standing in front of a the supply base operated by the United States Christian Commission, an organization started by the YMCA. A crate labeled "U.S. Christian Commission" leans against a barrel. An amputee on crutches standing next to a young boy are in the center.
Created:
1861 - 1865
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Four men in front of a tent and a covered wagon. banner hanging from a canopy or camoflauge of tree boughs propped above the tent on poles reads "United States Christian Commission."
Created:
1864
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
David C. Bell, first president of the Minneapolis YMCA, circa 1866-1900. Bell was a Minneapolis businessman who became the first president of the Minneapolis YMCA in 1866 when he was 25 years old. Bell volunteered with the YMCA throughout his life and was the president of the Minneapolis YMCA five different times between 1866 and 1888.
Created:
1866 - 1900
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Cover of a pamphlet containing the constitution and bylaws of the African American student YMCA organized in 1869 at Howard University in Washington D.C.
Creator:
Christian Association of Howard University
Created:
1870
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Cornelius Vanderbilt II, favorite grandson of his grandfather, "Commodore" Vanderbilt, provided funds to establish the first railroad YMCA in New York City. Built in Grand Central Depot, at the time the world's largest rail facility, the Railroad Branch occupied two rooms in the Depot that opened in 1875. Vanderbilt, a devout Episcopalian, perso...
Created:
1870
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Portrait of General George D. Johnston, of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, b. 1832, travelling secretary for African American Association work in the South, 1877-1878.
Created:
1875 - 1880
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Members of the first YMCA World's Committee in 1878.Front Row: Christian Klug (Elberfeld, Germany); Luc Dorian (Paris, France), vice-president; Charles Fermaud (Geneva, Switzerland), president; Edwin Shipton (London, England), vice-president; Paul Piguet (Geneva, Switzerland).Back Row: Hermann Eidenbenz (Zurich, Switzerland); Henri Cuchet (Genev...
Created:
1878
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The Bowery branch of the YMCA, founded in 1872, was located at 134 Bowery in Manhattan. The image shows the elevated train tracks, street life and a shop, Eagle Picture Frame Manufacturing Co.
Created:
1880?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The image shows several dozen men in the reading room of the 23rd Street YMCA in New York City. The books are stored around the sides of the room on shelves rising some 30 feet toward the ceiling. The books on some of the shelves are behind screening. The room has a clock, hanging lamps and an ornate ceiling.
Created:
1880?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The image shows several dozen men in the reading room of the 23rd Street YMCA in New York City. The books are stored around the sides of the room on shelves rising some 30 feet toward the ceiling. The books on some of the shelves are behind screening. The room has a clock, hanging lamps and an ornate ceiling.
Created:
1880?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
In 1885 the Brooklyn YMCA dedicated its first purpose-built building, at 502 Fulton Street--the Brooklyn Central YMCA. The new building included a "swimming bath" 14 feet wide, 45 feet long and 5 feet deep that was reported to be the first swimming pool in a YMCA facility.
Created:
1880 - 1889
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
In 1885 the Brooklyn YMCA dedicated its first purpose-built building, at 502 Fulton Street--the Brooklyn Central YMCA. The new building included a "swimming bath" 14 feet wide, 45 feet long and 5 feet deep that was reported to be the first swimming pool in a YMCA facility.
Created:
1880 - 1889
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Portrait of William A. Hunton (1863-1916), the first full-time, paid director of an African American YMCA and the first African American secretary employed by the International Committee of the YMCA.
Created:
1880 - 1900
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Sumner Dudley and young men grouped in front of a large canvas tent, holding paddles and a mallet, at the first YMCA camp. Sumner Dudley was founder of the camp anc sits in the center of the group with a mallet. The camp was later named for him.
Created:
1887
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Broadside advertising the first African American YMCA, in Norfolk, Virginia, with announcements of meetings to be held at the St. John's A.M.E. Church, Cumberland Street by YMCA secretaries Henry Edwards Brown and William Hunton
Created:
1888
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The image shows a crowded street scene, with carts, wagons, horses, people, elevated train tracks, shop and advertising signs focused on 153 Bowery, the second home of this Bowery branch YMCA, opened in 1889.
Created:
1889?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This branch, located at West 72nd Street and the Hudson River, served railroad men passing through New York City. The YMCA in New York had multiple branches throughout the area, including branches located in Grand Central Station and in Pennsylvania Station.
Created:
1890?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Syndicate Block Building, home of the Minneapolis YMCA, corner of 5th Street and Nicollet Avenue, looking southdown Nicollet (Minneapolis Dry Goods store on corner).
Created:
1890
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Syndicate Block building, home of the Minneapolis YMCA from 1883 to 1892, corner of 6th Street and Nicollet Avenue, looking down Nicollet Avenue. Tower at left in the distance is at 4th and Nicollet.
Created:
1890
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Minneapolis YMCA Secretary Willis M. McDonald of Excelsior, Minnesota (front row in vest, cap, and white tie) accompanies a group of boys on a picnic on the western shore of Cedar Lake in the summer of 1890.
Created:
1890
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
View of Baltimore, Maryland black YMCA building taken from the corner, showing Young's Pharmacy and African American men on the sidewalk in front of the building
Created:
1890 - 1910
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The New York YMCA has a long tradition of outreach to immigrants, providing language and citizenship classes and meeting steamers at the piers to offer assistance and provide introduction cards to YMCAs in cities where the immigrants were headed.
Created:
1890 - 1910
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The New York YMCA has a long tradition of outreach to immigrants, providing language and citizenship classes and meeting steamers at the piers to offer assistance and provide introduction cards to YMCAs in cities where the immigrants were headed.
Created:
1890 - 1910
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Facsimile copy of James Naismith's original typed rules for basketball from 1891, two pages, with a caption added by Naismith in 1931 at the bottom of the 2nd page.
Creator:
Naismith, James, 1861-1939
Created:
1891
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Interior of the Minneapolis YMCA Central Branch, located at 10th Street and Mary Place, showing members dining in the restaurant and a woman working behind the counter.
Created:
1892 - 1900
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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