Union Chrétienne de Jeunes Gens de New York (French Branch YMCA) records. 1889-1929.

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Union Chrétienne de Jeunes Gens de New York (French Branch YMCA) records. 1889-1929.

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Collected minutes, advertising cards, event tickets, correspondence, committee records, annual reports and newspaper clippings from the French Branch of the YMCA of New York City.

2 cubic feet (6 boxes).

fre,

eng,

University of Minnesota Libraries. Kautz Family YMCA Archives. [ymca]

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SNAC Resource ID: 6619498

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Stokes, James, 1841-1918

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Union chrétienne de jeunes gens de New York.

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The French branch of the YMCA in New York City was established in 1889. However, its roots went back to 1882, when some members of the l'Église Évangélique Française de New York on West 16th Street formed the Union Chrétienne. The effort to establish YMCA branches targeted at specific language groups was spearheaded by James Stokes, a long time benefactor of the YMCA and an advocate of strengthening the links between the American YMCA and associations abroad. Funding was secured to ...

Young Men's Christian Association of the City of New York

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The YMCA was established in New York 1852 to provide young men new to the city a Christian alternative to the attractions of city life. The New York YMCA, played an important role in the development of local and national social welfare organizations, including the Sanitary Commission, founded in New York in 1861; the U. S. Christian Commission, established in the same year by northern YMCAs to help troops and prisoners of war; the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, founded in 1876; an...