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Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Germantown Branch Records

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Call Number:
260
Repository:
Temple University Libraries: Special Collections Research Center
Extent:
6 linear feet (7 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Germantown Branch Records, Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Date:
1874-1971 (inclusive)
Form:
Correspondence, Manuscripts, Minutes (administrative records), Publications (documents), and Reports
Abstract:

This collection contains correspondence, minutes, publications, and reports related to the Germantown Branch of the Young Men's Christian Association in Philadelphia.

This collection is organized in 4 series:

Series 1: Board of Managers, 1974-1968

Series 2: Office Files, 1926-1971

Series 3: Financial and Membership Records, 1894-1971

Series 4: Publications, 1881-1971

Donated by the Young Men's Christian Association of Germantown, June 1976.

Finding aid revised according to contemporary archival standards in May 2014 by Katy Rawdon, Coordinator of Technical Services.

Special Collections Research Center:

Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.) Records

Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Christian Street Branch Records

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Access Restrictions

Collection is open for research.

Use Restrictions

The Young Men's Christian Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Germantown Branch Records are the physical property of the Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Temple University holds intellectual property rights only for material donated to the university with such rights specifically assigned. For all other material, intellectual property rights, including copyright, belong to the authors or their legal heirs and assigns. Researchers are responsible for determining the identity of rights holders and obtaining their permission for publication and for other purposes where stated.

Collection Inventory

Annual Reports, 1874, 1881-1900, 1910-1922, 1930-1936.
Box 1
Annual Reports and Annual Meetings, 1943-1962.
Box 1
Board of Managers. Minutes, 1889-1901, 1910-1922, 1938-1955.
Box 1
Board of Managers. Minutes, 1956-1970.
Box 2
Finance Committee, 1936, 1939, 1944.
Box 2
Reports to Board of Managers, 1945-1966.
Box 2
Reports to Board of Managers, 1967-1968.
Box 3
Board Manual, 1966.
Box 3

Buildings for Brotherhood. Receipts, 1958-1959.
Box 3
Correspondence, 1940-1944, 1946-1948, 1970-1971.
Box 3
Correspondence. Miscellaneous, 1940s-1960s.
Box 3
Debt Liquidation, 1940-1944.
Box 3
Fifty-fifth Anniversary Building and Extension Fund, undated.
Box 3
Subscriptions, 1926, 1928.
Box 3
First Presbyterian Church in Germantown. Committee on Retirement Home in Germantown, 1963-1964.
Box 3
Insurance Correspondence, 1945-1946, 1948-1967.
Box 3
Review of Building Modernization Plans and Listing of Suggested Projects, 1961.
Box 3
Rittenhouse YMCA, 1922, 1930-1931, 1935-1939, 1944-1961.
Box 3
Rittenhouse YMCA, 1962-1969.
Box 4
YMCA of Philadelphia and Vicinity. Report of a Survey of the Philadelphia YMCA of Philadelphia and Vicinity, 1945.
Box 4

Rittenhouse YMCA. Checkbooks, 1939-1949.
Box 4
Budget, 1955-1970.
Box 4
Annual Budget Conference, 1971.
Box 4
Ledger, 1927-1936.
Box 4
Treasure's Reports, 1919-1928.
Box 4
Financial Reports, 1939, 1952-1962, 1967-1968.
Box 4
Accountants' Reports, 1963-1964.
Box 4
Accountants' Reports, 1965-1969.
Box 4
Audit, 1954/1965.
Box 4
Audit. Camp Carson, 1960-1961, 1963-1964.
Box 4
Financial Correspondence, 1953, 1961-1970.
Box 4
Membership Record, 1894-1903.
Box 5
Physical Description

(OVERSIZE BOX)

YMCA of Germantown. Monthly Publication, May 1881.
Box 4
Physical Description

(vol. 1)

YMCA of Germantown. Monthly Publication, December 1900.
Box 4
Physical Description

(vol. 20)

YMCA of Germantown. Red Triangle, 1945-1964.
Box 4
National YMCA. YMCA Bulletin, 1968-1971.
Box 4
The Survey of the Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York, June 1925-July 1926.
Box 6
John R. Mott. Confronting Young Men with the Living Christ, 1923.
Box 6
Seal of the Rittenhouse YMCA, undated.
Box 6
Membership Record, 1894-1903.
Box 7
Mermaid Club. Minutes, 1896-1900.
Box 7

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