This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Florence Crittenton Mission (NFCM), which was chartered by Congress in 1898. Florence Crittenton homes were maternity homes and hospitals established in cities throughout the U. S. and Canada to provide residential care for unmarried mothers and their children and to undertake prev...
Creator:
National Florence Crittenton Mission
Created:
1936; 1947; 1972 - 1975; 1984; 1987
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
YMCA work with and by blacks began in 1853 when Anthony Bowen established the first ""colored"" association in Washington D.C. As Anthony Bowen's work in the 1850s indicates, African Americans embraced the YMCA early on. By the late 1860s, the YMCA found a firm foothold in the community with associations established in New York City, Philadelphi...
Creator:
National Council of the Young Men's Christian Associations of the United States of America. Colored Work Department.
Created:
1936; 1944
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Organized in 1901 by Reverend C.T. Walker of the Mount Olivet Baptist Church as the Colored Men’s Branch, this branch first started in mid-Manhattan. It was later moved to the Harlem area and its name changed in 1919 to the One Hundred-Thirty Fifth Street Branch. In 1933 it opened a new building, and two years later took the name Harlem Branch...
Creator:
Harlem Branch YMCA
Created:
1936; 1941
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This photograph of attendees of the 66th Annual B'nai Brith banquet was taken at the Lowry Hotel in downtown St. Paul. B'nai Brith chapters were established in St. Paul in 1871 and Minneapolis in 1877. The organization was founded in the United States in 1843 by German Jews interested in meeting socially and creating business contacts away from ...
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
Clarence ("Cap") Wigington (1883-1967) was the first African-American registered architect to practice for any substantial length of time in Minnesota. In 1915, one year after moving to St. Paul, Wigington took a qualifying exam as a senior draftsman and became the first African American municipal architect in the United States. He had the highe...
Creator:
Wigington, Clarence Wesley, 1883-1967
Contributor:
Bassford, Carles A.
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Northwest Architectural Archives.
This folder includes records related to the overall development and operations of the United Way organization; minutes of various boards and committees; program files formed around functional activities, studies, relationships, and topical reference materials; files on member agencies, formed primarily around the budget allocation process; and s...
Creator:
United Way of Minneapolis
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder includes records related to the overall development and operations of the United Way organization; minutes of various boards and committees; program files formed around functional activities, studies, relationships, and topical reference materials; files on member agencies, formed primarily around the budget allocation process; and s...
Creator:
United Way of Minneapolis
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Booklet entitled "Bibliography of Music for the Dance", with listings of musical pieces organized by dance type, such as waltz, polka etc. Booklet published in 1936. This particular copy was stamped on the cover with "Library, the Museum of Modern Art, Theatre Dept." and has 'discarded' written over the stamp and initialed (?) by an unknown pers...
Creator:
Elizabeth Baker Long; Mary McKee
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Special Collections and Rare Books.
This folder includes records related to the overall development and operations of the United Way organization; minutes of various boards and committees; program files formed around functional activities, studies, relationships, and topical reference materials; files on member agencies, formed primarily around the budget allocation process; and s...
Creator:
United Way of Minneapolis
Created:
1936
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.