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 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:
1944 - 1950
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
This folder contains materials created/collected by the Five Towns Community House, which served five suburban communities on Long Island in Nassau County, New York. The Five Towns Community House began in 1907 when Mrs Margaret Sage, wife of philanthropist Russell Sage, advanced funds to purchase the land for the school and securities to be hel...
Creator:
Five Towns Community House
Created:
1946 - 1965
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:
1947; 1948; 1950; 1960; 1965
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, University Archives.