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
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
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:
1967
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
The Indian Posts & Telegraphs Department set up this telegraph workshop at Alipore, Calcutta in early 1855 as a repair workshop, and gradually it started production of Telegraph and Telecom equipment. This workshop supplied Telegraph/Telecom materials throughout India (including the territory of Burma prior to 1937). This is one of a set of 45 p...
Created:
1920 - 1929
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Ames Library of South Asia.
Fold out two-sided pamphlet with photographs on one side showing woman holding child (images MSP02834) and charities on home front and war front (image MSP02834b). The other side (image MSP02834a) includes a letter to residents of rural Hennepin county
Created:
1939 - 1945
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Upper Midwest Literary Archives.
Military Thanksgiving celebration at the Cataract Hotel Ballroom in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In the front row is Eli Rudin the USO Director of the Jewish Women's Army Corps. Included in the second row are Max Larchen and Sidney Epstein.
Created:
1943
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
A large group of Czech-Americans, including members of the Kovarnik family, reenact the Thanksgiving Day story. The group is dressed in a variety of costumes, including "Pilgrim" and "Native American." One of the girls, dressed in a Native American costume, holds an American flag.
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
A family of recent immigrants from Asia seated at a table decorated for the International Institute's Thanksgiving Day celebration, 1967. Children and adults eat traditional Thanksgiving Day fare.
Contributor:
International Institute of San Francisco
Created:
1967
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Although typically called a wedding turban, the bukhani is worn over the groom's head during his procession to the bride's home to protect the gold jewelry he is wearing.
Although typically called a wedding turban, the bukhani is worn over the groom's head during his procession to the bride's home to protect the gold jewelry he is wearing.