The United Service Organizations (USO) was formed in the months before the United States entered World War II by a coalition of six civilian agencies to coordinate their civilian war efforts, including the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). The YMCA and other welfare agencies had already been seeking ways to serve the morale needs of th...
Created:
1943 - 1946
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the United Neighborhood Houses of New York, a federation of New York City settlement houses. The United Neighborhood Houses of New York, Inc. (UNH) was founded by Mary K. Simkhovitch and John L. Elliott in 1900 as the Association of Neighborhood Workers, a federation of York City settlement hou...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1943 - 1947
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains pamphlets and booklets published or collected by the YMCA of the USA reflecting the broad and evolving nature of YMCA programs and activities over the years. This folder specifically contains the pamphlet "The Races of Mankind," by Ruth Benedict and Gene Weltfish. This pamphlet was designed to be sent off with World War II s...
Contributor:
Kautz Family YMCA Archives, compiler.
Created:
1943
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA 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 - 1959
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by Paul Kellogg, editor of the Survey magazine, 1909-1952, and an active social reformer. Paul Kellogg conceived of the Survey as a broadly educational enterprise operating ""along the borders of research, journalism, and the general welfare."" It was to be an open forum, limited only by the facts...
Creator:
Kellogg, Paul Underwood
Created:
1938; 1939; 1941
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the National Recreation Association which was founded in 1906 as the Playground Association of America and later known variously as the Playground and Recreation Association of America (1911), National Recreation Association (1930), and National Recreation and Park Association (1965). Initially...
Creator:
National Recreation Association
Created:
1936 - 1948
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1935 - 1937
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History 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:
1934
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1934 - 1935
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
The subject contained within this United Neighborhood of New York scrapbook include the activities, administration, and philosophy of settlement houses and community centers as well as the development of professional social work. Includes documentation of issues and programs relating to: housing standards and tenement law reform, immigration and...
Creator:
United Neighborhood Houses of New York
Created:
1933 - 1934
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.