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:
1930 - 1931; 1947 - 1962; 1966 - 1971
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contans materials created by/collected about Max Yergan, born in Raleigh, North Carolina in 1892. He became an officer in the Student Christian movement in 1915, beginning a 25-year long association with the YMCA. With the outbreak of World War I, he was sent to organize YMCA units among the African regiments that the British Army wa...
Creator:
Yergan, Max, 1892-1975
Created:
1927 - 1930
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Scrapbook kept by Florence Page Jaques containing newspaper and magazine clippings, letters, and other press releases. Materials cover both Florence Page Jaques and Francis Lee Jaques. The earliest dated contents are from 1920, and the latest from 1949. Bulk of materials date to 1938-1945. This scrapbook consists of 47 sheets and several loose n...
Scrapbooks, Photographs, and Memorabilia serves as an important source for studying the early history and programs of the Minneapolis YWCA. The scrapbooks are extensive compilations of items documenting YWCA activities. Typically, the scrapbooks contain announcements, tickets, printed programs, and extensive newspaper clippings that report on ac...
Creator:
Minneapolis YWCA
Created:
1919 - 1928
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:
1919 - 1927
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.
This is an issue of one of the Survey family of periodicals. The Survey was titled the Charities Review, Charities and the Commons in earlier stages. From 1912 the Survey was published weekly, but because weekly publication was prohibitively expensive and because of a constant clash between readers seeking technical material and readers seeking ...
Creator:
Survey Associates
Created:
1917-01-20
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Social Welfare History Archives.