Records of YMCA international work in Latin America 1881-2000.

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Records of YMCA international work in Latin America 1881-2000.

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Records of YMCA work in South America/Latin America include annual reports, convention reports, correspondence, financial records, histories, pamphlets, photographs, and newspaper clippings. The collection is comprised primarily of records of the South American Federation of Young Men's Christian Associations (later the Latin American Confederation or Consejo Latinoamericano de Asociación Cristiana de Jóvenes), documenting YMCA work in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, Peru, Venezuela, and Uruguay, as well as the work of smaller YMCA movements in Belize, Bolivia, British Guyana, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, and Nicaragua. Small files on YMCA work in the West Indies islands of Antigua, Aruba, Granada, St. Christopher, St. Maarten, Tobago, and Trinidad are also included.

12.8 cubic feet (17 boxes).

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

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