Details

Inclusive Dates

1852 - 1988

Linear Feet

54.4

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The materials in this collection are primarily related to the operations of the YMCA in Manhattan before the New York organization merged with the Brooklyn and Queens YMCA in 1957 and include later publications that document the role of the association in the history of the city. Later items include historical surveys and publications intended to emphasize the ongoing role of the YMCA in the life of the city. Areas of emphasis include branches, services to soldiers, early efforts to develop programs and structure, anniversary celebrations, programs and buildings. Numerous committee reports and meeting minutes provide a window into these operations. More recent materials also deal with the cessation of programs and the sale or lease of older YMCA buildings and other property. Also included in more recent materials are corporate and administrative records that include contracts, policy manuals, bylaws and financial reports. The collection also documents the work of the New York YMCA during the Civil War. There is material related to the US Christian Commission and the Sanitary Commission as well as correspondence with and about individual soldiers and their families. The New York YMCA had several committees of its own dedicated to serving soldiers, including the Devotional Committee and the Hospital Committee. There is also material documenting war work during the two world wars. Included in the war-related material are documents focusing the establishment of branches in eastern Europe and the Soviet Union after World War I. Also included in the collection are materials related to other organizations, especially the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded in New York in 1876. The New York YMCA supported this organization in numerous ways until the 1880s, when the relationship became less institutional, although individual members continued to participate. Much of the correspondence in this collection is from the period before 1946. R. R. McBurney is a major correspondent, as are founders and leaders of the New York organization such as Cephas Brainerd, James E. Stokes, Jr., William E. Dodge, Jr., Cleveland E. Dodge and many others.

Sites of Teaching & Learning

These sites of teaching & learning mention the Records of the YMCA of the City of New York

Location

• Kautz Family YMCA Archives, University of Minnesota
  222 21st Ave S, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA