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.
