This folder contains materials created/collected by the YMCA's Urban Group, as well as other records of the North American YMCA's urban work. The majority of this collection is focused from the 1950s through the 1970s, when the urban population of the United States grew rapidly. Major topics include race relations and institutional inequality, y...
Created:
1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Men and women working in a laundry shop. Clayton Ostrin owned and managed a laundry business in North Minneapolis. Note the wooden steam pressing machines on the right of the picture.
Created:
1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Portrait of two women wearing the styles of the late 1910s. The note on the back of the postcard reads: "To knit and spin was once a girls' employment/Now to sit and have beaus is all a girls' enjoyment."
Creator:
Post Card Shop, Minneapolis, Minn. And Arcade, Duluth, Minn.
Created:
1919
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
