This collection contains photographs from the Harlem Branch (135th Street) of the YMCA. Organized in 1901 by Reverend C. T. Walker of the Mount Olive 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 B...
Created:
1950 - 1969
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Children playing volleyball in the street adjacent to the Youthmobile, which traveled out into the community to be used as a based for youth programming.
Created:
1960 - 1970
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.