This folder contains materials created/collected by the Big Brothers of America's National Study and Planning Committee. The National Study and Planning Committee, chaired by Kenneth Rogers and Joseph McCoy, surveyed local organizations to collect information about the nature of existing organizations and to plan for the structure and function o...
Creator:
Big Brothers of America
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the Big Brothers of America's National Study and Planning Committee. The National Study and Planning Committee, chaired by Kenneth Rogers and Joseph McCoy, surveyed local organizations to collect information about the nature of existing organizations and to plan for the structure and function o...
Creator:
Big Brothers of America
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the Big Brothers of America's National Study and Planning Committee. The National Study and Planning Committee, chaired by Kenneth Rogers and Joseph McCoy, surveyed local organizations to collect information about the nature of existing organizations and to plan for the structure and function o...
Creator:
Big Brothers of America
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the Big Brothers of America's National Study and Planning Committee. The National Study and Planning Committee, chaired by Kenneth Rogers and Joseph McCoy, surveyed local organizations to collect information about the nature of existing organizations and to plan for the structure and function o...
Creator:
Big Brothers of America
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
A book of verse about the animals the author saw on his trips to the zoo. Co-authored with the author's cat; signed by the cat on behalf of the author.
Creator:
Cullen, Countee; Cat, Christopher
Contributor:
Sebree, Charles (illustrator)
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Archie Givens, Sr. Collection of African American Literature.
This folder contains materials collected/created by Rachael Davis DuBois. Rachel Davis DuBois (1892-1993) was born in Clarkesboro, New Jersey, the daughter of Quaker farmers. She attended Bucknell University and taught school in New Jersey until 1920. From 1920 to 1924, she was active in the peace movement. Subsequently, the improvement of racia...
Creator:
DuBois, Rachel Davis
Created:
1932; 1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
The collection consists of the papers of Richard M. Elliott, professor and chairman of the Psychology Department at the University of Minnesota (1919-1956). The papers contain Elliott's personal and professional correspondence, lecture notes, history of the Psychology Department and work with the Appleton Century Crofts publishing company. The p...
Creator:
Elliott, Richard Maurice, 1887-1969
Created:
1940; 1945 - 1946; 1958
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
The Music School of Henry Street Settlement was formed in 1927, although the Settlement had offered musical activities for residents of New York City's Lower East Side for many years. The new school, which opened to students in the fall of 1928, offered classes in instrumental and vocal music, dancing, and instrument construction and repair.
Creator:
Henry Street Music School
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The Music School of Henry Street Settlement was formed in 1927, although the Settlement had offered musical activities for residents of New York City's Lower East Side for many years. The new school, which opened to students in the fall of 1928, offered classes in instrumental and vocal music, dancing, and instrument construction and repair.
Creator:
Henry Street Music School
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
Letter to Philip Hitti (residing in Princeton, New Jersey) written by his brother (Joseph) Yusuf K. Hitti (residing in Beirut, Lebanon) written in 1940.
Creator:
Hitti, Yusuf
Contributor:
Hitti, Philip (recipient); Barakat, Sarah (transcription, translation)
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
1940 Federal Duck Stamp, featuring a pair of black ducks in flight, with reeds behind them. Image created by Francis Lee Jaques. Matted with the original watercolor painting upon which the duck stamp was based, JC.1992.1.1.
1940 Federal Duck Stamp, featuring a pair of black ducks in flight, with reeds behind them. Image created by Francis Lee Jaques. Mounted with a lithograph of the Duck Stamp design, JC.2018.1.17.
Original watercolor (watercolor on illustration board) painting for the 1940 Federal Duck Stamp, featuring a pair of black ducks in flight, with reeds behind them. Matted with a copy of the published stamp, JC.2018.1.15.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Conference on Christians and Jews related to discrimination and race. The National Conference of Christians and Jews, was formed in 1928 to facilitate cooperation between religions on civic and social justice issues and to promote understanding and mutual respect through education ...
Creator:
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Created:
1940
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:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Drawing, depicting a hand in the air holding the pommel of a sword. Underneath to the left: marching German soldiers (one of them on a horse), to the right: a landscape with trees
Creator:
Paske
Contributor:
Nationalsozialstische Deutsche Arbeiter-Partei
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
Hennepin County Library, James K. Hosmer Special Collections.
This map includes the location of the Perine's Headquarters for University Textbooks and Supplies along with a list of buildings found on the University of Minnesota Campus.
Creator:
Perine Book Company
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
A cartograph of the University of Minnesota drawn from the stratosphere directly above the river bank on three successive mornings - revealing much of the art of higher education.
Creator:
Semans, Nadine Evers
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Cartographic Details: Scale 1:250,000. approximately 1 in. to 4 miles ; Modified polyconic projection (W 97‚Å∞15 π--W 89‚Å∞30 π/N 49‚Å∞22 π--N 43‚Å∞30 π). Published in accordance with Act of Congress approved November 9, 1921, creating the Federal Aid Highway System; highways corrected to August 1, 1940. Each sheet has an index map. Inset on she...
Creator:
United States. Public Roads Administration.
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, John R. Borchert Map Library.
Highlights of the 1940 National Championship year (long version). The film features halfbacks Bruce Smith and George Franck. The film includes many examples of Bruce Smith's football skills, but his most famous play as a Golden Gopher was spliced from this and other 1940 highlight reels. On November 9, 1940, Michigan (#3) came to Minneapolis to ...
Creator:
University of Minnesota
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
Highlights of the 1940 National Championship year (short version). The film features halfbacks Bruce Smith and George Franck. The film includes many examples of Bruce Smith's football skills, but his most famous play as a Golden Gopher was spliced from this and other 1940 highlight reels. On November 9, 1940, Michigan (#3) came to Minneapolis to...
Creator:
University of Minnesota
Created:
1940
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
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