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 - 1989
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Kautz Family YMCA Archives.
Swim scene at Camp Tikvah, Aitken, Minnesota. Around 1948 The Minneapolis Jewish Federation created the Jewish Camping Association and purchased a former resort located on three hundred acres near Aitken, MN. The camp was renamed Camp Tikvah (Hope). The Emanuel Cohen Center (soon to become the Jewish Community Center of Minneapolis) took over op...
Contributor:
Tillipman, Harvey
Created:
1960 - 1979
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
The Swiss Singing Society performs for a crowd at Swiss Nationality Night, April 28, 1967. Women and men are dressed in brightly colored Swiss folk costumes.
Contributor:
International Institute of San Francisco
Created:
1967
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Immigration History Research Center Archives.
Apothecary jar. Pitcher-shaped jar with pedestal base, short cylindrical spout and flat, C-shaped handle; jar is decorated with two blue and white putti sitting in a landscape; triangular maker's mark bisected by 5 hatch marks on bottom. Contains manufacturer markings:"Sy. de lupuli."
Created:
1801 - 1900?
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Owen H. Wangensteen Historical Library of Biology and Medicine.
Sylvia Borken stands at the produce counter of Knox Market, which was located at Knox and Plymouth Avenues in Minneapolis. Many small Jewish family-owned and run grocery stored served the North Side neighborhood. Small business ownership was an avenue to success that was open to the earliest group of Jewish immigrants.
Created:
1950
Contributed By:
University of Minnesota Libraries, Nathan and Theresa Berman Upper Midwest Jewish Archives.
