YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago
records, 1853-1980
Descriptive Inventory for the Collection at
Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By Mary Janzen, Christopher Ann Paton,
Richard Popp; ed. Anthony Ochoa; rev.
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Title: YMCA of
Metropolitan Chicago records, 1853-1980
Main entry: YMCA of
Metropolitan Chicago
Inclusive dates: 1853-1980
Size:
about 95 linear feet (194 boxes & 150 unboxed volumes)
2 sound cassettes.
66 sound recordings. (0MM.136)
Restriction: For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).
Provenance statement: Gift
of the Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Chicago, most in
August 1981 (M1980.0002; M1981.0029; 1992.0128; 1993.0008).
Terms governing use: Copyright
may be retained by the creators of items, or their descendants, as stipulated
by United States copyright law, unless otherwise noted.
Please cite this collection as: YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago records (Chicago History Museum)
plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder number of a specific item.
This descriptive inventory contains the following sections:
Biographical/historical note,
Summary description of the collection,
Description of some material related to the
collection,
List of online catalog headings about the
collection,
Arrangement of the collection,
Detailed description of archival series in
the collection,
List of contents of the collection.
Biographical/historical note:
Since before the Civil War, the Young Men's Christian Association has been one of Chicago's principal social service organizations, at first serving young adult men and gradually extending its programs to boys and, eventually, to girls and young women. By 1980 its membership numbered 500,000 in 33 neighborhood units in the city and suburbs. The YMCA movement had started in England in 1844, and soon spread to North America. Chicago's first YMCA was organized in 1853, but failed as a result of the cholera epidemic of the following year. In 1858, a group of Chicago business leaders and philanthropists--concerned about the welfare of many young men who were new to urban life--met to organize the YMCA of Chicago. Their aim was to "stimulate vital piety among young men resident in, or visiting this city or vicinity." Cyrus Bentley, who had been secretary of the earlier association in 1853, was elected president of the new Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago.
The association offered full memberships with voting privileges only to men who were members of an evangelical church, although all men of "good moral character" could be elected associate members. Early work of the association included attending the sick and aiding young men in finding both jobs and respectable, clean boarding places. Weekly prayer meetings were held in the Board of Managers' room and in the city fire stations. A library and reading rooms were provided for members.
The association, having gained both members and favorable publicity during its first year, decided to expand its programs and goals. During the Civil War it conducted religion services and relief work at camps and hospitals, and began programs to aid the "worthy poor." Prominent Chicago businessmen such as John V. Farwell, Benjamin F. Jacobs, Edwin S. Wells, and Henry Weld Fuller were major contributors and also served as presidents of the association in the 1860s. Cyrus Hall McCormick, Jr., provided large amounts of financial support in the form of gifts and loans. Dwight L. Moody, who later became famous as an evangelist, worked as a YMCA librarian and city missionary in 1861. Moody served as the YMCA's president from 1865 to 1869/70 and, although he resigned from the Chicago YMCA to go to England in 1871, he remained a lifelong friend and supporter of the Chicago association.
Moody and Farwell were instrumental in raising funds for the Chicago association's first building, Farwell Hall, dedicated in 1867, and rebuilt twice in 1869 and 1874 after being destroyed by fire. At the time of its construction, the first Farwell Hall was the only YMCA building in the world fully equipped with dormitory and gymnasium. Although evangelistic work was a continuing emphasis following the construction of Farwell Hall, YMCA programs also included music, literature, sports and general educational activities.
By 1878, the Chicago association's members numbered just under 800. At this time the Chicago association began to open neighborhood units as well as programs for specific populations. Most other urban YMCAs refer to these units as "branches," but the Chicago Association calls its units and programs "departments," designating subdivisions of departments as "branches." A program for railroad workers was started in Chicago in 1878 at the request of a committee of railroad executives. The YMCA's Railroad Departments offered dormitories, reading rooms, libraries, and various recreational alternatives to saloons. Separate departments specializing in work with immigrants and students also were organized in the 1880s and 1890s.
The broadening of the purposes of the Chicago YMCA also increased the responsibilities of the men who had acted as "Superintendents" of association activities. By 1881, the position of "Superintendent" had evolved in to that of "General Secretary," a position first occupied by Anson T. Hemingway. Hemingway was succeeded as General Secretary by Loring Wilbur Messer, the first man with prior professional experience as a YMCA administrator to hold the position of General Secretary of the Chicago association.
Messer exerted a profound influence on the association's development. The year he became its General Secretary, 1888, the Chicago YMCA's membership numbered 5000. An important accomplishment of his first year was the revision of the constitution to include a more specific statement of the Y's primary purpose in relation to diversified program of physical, social, educational and religious activity. Under an amendment to the earlier constitution, women had been allowed to participate in YMCA activities as auxiliary members. The new purpose of the association, stated in the 1888 constitution as "the improvement of the spiritual, mental, social, and physical condition of young men", specifically barred women from membership.
In addition to this limitation of membership, Messer's most significant constitutional innovation was the application of what later became known as the "metropolitan plan" to Chicago. This plan permitted the association to establish, maintain, and provide general oversight to departments throughout the city while allowing them considerable scope for self-management. In the 1890s the YMCA began to expand, opening departments and branches of departments to serve the needs of varying types of young men throughout the city. Small facilities suitable for "mission work" were enlarged to accommodate recreational and education activities and departments began to purchase their own separate buildings. Messer proved as effective in encouraging material contributions as he was in effecting organization changes. By 1900 the Chicago YMCA had grown to approximately 6500 members enrolled in five general branches, five railroad departments, and 18 student associations.
In 1911 the association sent out university students to investigate the cheap hotels and lodging houses in the downtown district of Chicago, to gather evidence supporting the need for a YMCA hotel that would offer clean rooms at low rates. Although fund raising for the hotel progressed slowly, it finally opened in 1916 to serve a YMCA membership totaling over 30,000 (24,000 men and 6000 boys). That year the YMCA included seven city departments, six railroad departments, 12 students associations, three community departments, and one boys club in addition to the hotel.
The YMCA also moved to meet the needs of Chicago's rapidly growing Black population. In 1911 Julius Rosenwald, president of Sears, Roebuck and Company, had offered financial support for the construction of facilities for African Americans not only in Chicago but all over the United States. Messer took him up on his offer. The Wabash Avenue Department of the YMCA of Chicago, designated to serve Chicago's African American men, was dedicated in June 1913, having been constructed through a combination of Rosenwald's gift and funds raised in the African American community.
Many new buildings were completed between 1915 and 1930, five in 1926 alone, indicating the phenomenal growth of YMCA membership and activities during this time. YMCA camping activities increased greatly during these years, with the first permanent YMCA camp, Camp Duncan near Volo, Illinois, opening in 1923. Camp Martin Johnson near Ludington, the YMCA's first camp in Michigan, opened in 1925, followed by Camp Northwoods in 1929, the first YMCA camp in Wisconsin (at Lac du Flambeau). By 1958, the Chicago YMCA operated 13 permanent camps in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Although the Chicago YMCA did not escape the effects of the depression of the 1930s, it survived these hard times remarkably well. The YMCA residences suffered a considerable loss of income and carried some of their tenants almost on a relief basis. YMCA staff suffered drastic salary cuts, some eventually working for room and board. However, depreciation reserves (which had been established for buildings constructed through endowment funds) enabled the YMCA to maintain its buildings and to sustain most of its programs. Some expansion continued, particularly in the suburbs, but a few departments, including the last of the Railroad Departments and the Japanese Department, had to be discontinued. In 1934 the Chicago YMCA greatly strengthened its financial base by joining the Community Fund. A deficit of over $300,000 in 1932 was converted to a surplus of over $6000 by the close of 1934.
Beginning in the 1930s women were once more encouraged to participate in YMCA programs. The National Council of the YMCA in 1933 decided to let local associations determine their own membership policies. While some Chicago YMCA departments had already established girls' programs by this time, the Board of Managers decided officially to admit women to full membership in 1933. Wilhelmina Aveling became the Chicago YMCA's first program secretary for women.
In 1939 General Secretary William J. Parker was succeeded by Frank A. Hathaway, who had served under Parker as Associate General Secretary. While Parker had faced the difficulties of the depression, Hathaway dealt with the problems produced by World War II. Just as the YMCA had offered special services to soldiers in the Civil War and World War I, it provided for the needs of soldiers and their families in the early 1940's. YMCA facilities were open to men in uniform free or at reduced rates. Special recreational activities were planned by the Girls' Service Organization, and a program was developed to aid American prisoners of war and their next of kin. After the war ended, information and counseling bureaus and grants of three months' free memberships were offered to help veterans make the transition to civilian life.
Chicago YMCA educational programs also expanded in the 1940s, partly as a step in combating juvenile delinquency. Educational programs that in the nineteenth century had emphasized trade and vocational skills had come by the twentieth century to offer standard high school and college level work. The YMCA evening high school operated through the Central Department was accredited by the North Central Association in 1921, the first evening high school in the Midwest to be so recognized. In 1936 the Central Y.M.C.A. College of Chicago was made a fully accredited member of the North Central Association as a four year college.
YMCA programs changed in response to changes in the ethnic and racial composition of the city's population. In 1945 the Chicago YMCA's Board of Managers approved an anti-discrimination policy in membership, restaurant patronage, residential accommodations, and participation in athletics. YMCA privileges were to be open to all races and religions without restriction. That same year the Chicago YMCA's by-laws were amended to admit women as voting members of the association. In 1945 the Chicago YMCA had 84,000 members and 23 departments.
Under General Secretary Lloyd L. McClow, who succeeded Frank Hathaway in 1954, the importance of lay leadership was emphasized, as well as the need for broadening the base of support for the Chicago YMCA, which by 1956 had 114,000 members and 32 departments in Chicago and some of its suburbs.
McClow died in 1962 and Associated General Secretary John O. Root was appointed his successor in January 1963. Root, a native of Michigan, had been an employee of the Chicago YMCA since his graduation from George Williams College in 1946.
In the decade of the 1960s the YMCA continued to offer its traditional programs of recreational ad educational activities, serving 165,000 members through 38 departments and operating 12 summer camps by 1963. In addition the YMCA became involved in a variety of programs, largely federally-funded, to provide basic education and vocational training for disadvantaged inner city youth. From 1960 to 1965, as part of the Chicago Area Project the YMCA provided "detached workers" to counsel those teenagers who were more likely to frequent the streets than the YMCA facilities. Another federally-funded program, J.O.B.S. (Job Opportunities through Better Skills) which began in January 1964, brought the YMCA together with the Chicago Boys Clubs and Chicago Youth Centers in cooperative efforts to offer 46-week training courses for high school drop-outs.
Summary description
of the collection:
Office files of the central office of the YMCA of metropolitan Chicago (Ill.) primarily concerning administration, fund raising and building campaigns, program development, and coordination of activities of YMCA departments in Chicago neighborhoods and suburbs. Includes minutes of the board of trustees (1868-1975), the board of managers (1858-1975), the General Secretary's cabinet (1913-1962), and boards of directors of the branches, which are named departments, 1892-1962 varying by department; correspondence and other files of General Secretaries (1881-1965, incomplete); reports of annual meetings (1939-70); news clippings and other publicity (1887-1980); biographical materials on board members and General Secretaries; and other miscellaneous records. Topics include programs for boys, men, girls, and women. Includes materials on recreation and sports, race relations, adult education, and juvenile delinquency.
Includes information on establishment and operation of the Wabash Avenue YMCA to serve African Americans; information on Railroad Departments that served railroad workers based in Chicago; a Japanese Department in the early 20th century; and several Y camps, including Camp Duncan near Volo, Illinois (opened 1923), Camp Martin Johnson near Ludington, Michigan (opened 1925), Camp Northwoods at Lac du Flambeau, Wisconsin (opened 1929). By 1958, the Chicago YMCA operated 13 camps in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois.
Collection written in English.
Description of some material related to the collection:
Related materials at Chicago History Museum, Research Center, include the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago collection of visual materials (1986.0359); publications cataloged separately; and some architectural records for YMCA buildings are in the Architecture Archive.
List of online catalog headings about the collection:
The following headings for this collection were placed in the online catalog:
Subjects:
YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago--Archives.
Young Men's Christian Association (Chicago, Ill.)--Archives.
Central Y.M.C.A. College
Central YMCA Community College (Chicago, Ill.)
Central YMCA Schools (Chicago, Ill.)
United Service Organizations (U.S.). Service Club (Chicago, Ill.) --especially box 110 & 114
YMCA Hotel (Chicago, Ill.)
Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.) --especially box 142-143
Adult education--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--19th century.
Adult education--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--20th century.
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Camps--Illinois--20th century.
Camps--Michigan--20th century.
Camps--Wisconsin--20th century.
Charities--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--19th century.
Charities--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--20th century.
Community centers--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--20th century.
Evangelicalism--Illinois--Chicago.
Japanese Americans--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Juvenile delinquency--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--19th century.
Juvenile delinquency--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--20th century.
Real property--Illinois--Chicago.
Recreation--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--19th century.
Recreation--Illinois--Chicago Metropolitan Area--20th century.
Women--Illinois--Chicago--Societies and clubs--20th century.
Young Men's Christian associations--Illinois--Chicago.
Youth--Illinois--Chicago--19th century.
Youth--Illinois--Chicago--20th century.
Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations--20th century.
Form/Genre:
Audiocassettes.
Audiotapes.
Correspondence.
Minutes.
Reports.
Added entries:
Aveling, Wilhelmina, 1907-
Dedmon, Emmett. Great enterprises.
Hathaway, Frank A., 1886-1970.
Hemingway, Anson T., 1844-1926. --especially box 174
McClow, Lloyd L., d. 1962.
McCormick, Cyrus Hall, 1809-1884.
McCormick, Cyrus H. (Cyrus Hall), 1859-1936.
Messer, Loring Wilbur, 1856-1923.
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899.
Parker, William J., 1876-1955.
Root, John O., 1919-2005.
Rosenwald, Julius, 1862-1932.
Stotz, Herman A., 1880-1954.
Vynalek, James C., 1898-1964.
Wyant, A. R. E. (Andrew Robert Elmer)
WIND (Radio station : Chicago, Ill.)
Young Men's Christian Association (Chicago, Ill.)
United States--Illinois--Cook County.
Arrangement of the
collection:
The collection is arranged in 7 series:
Series 1. Historical records 1853-1973 (box 1-12):
Subseries 1. Indexed records, 1853-1962 (box 1-11)
Subseries 2, Stotz/Ruehrwein files on YMCA historical records, 1908-1973 (box 11-12)
Series 2. Board of trustees 1868-1975 (box 12-43 & vol. 1-12):
Subseries 1. Meeting minutes, 1868-1975 (box 12-13 & vo1. 1-12)
Subseries 2. Treasurer's reports and record of productive funds 1934-1966 (box 13-14)
Subseries 3. Vital records of the YMCA, 1861-1966 (box 15-43)
Series 3. Board of managers, 1858-1975 (box 43-87 & vol. 13-44):
Subseries 1. Meeting minutes (box 43-50 & vol. 13-27)
Subseries 2. Reports to Board of managers (box 50-69)
Subseries 3. Committee minutes and reports, 1890-1975 (box 69-84 & vol. 28-43)
missing vol. 34
Subseries 4. Treasurer's reports and budgets (box 84-86)
Subseries 5. Voting members' annual meetings 1939-1970 (box 86-87 & vol. 44)
Series 4. General Secretaries' papers, 1881-1965 (box 87-116)
Subseries 1. L. Wilbur Messer corres. & scrapbooks, ca. 1881-1935 (box 87-90 & vol. 45-48)
missing vol. 47
Subseries 2. William J. Parker files, ca. 1910-ca. 1939 (box 90-95)
Subseries 3. Frank A. Hathaway, Lloyd L. McClow, John O. Root, ca. 1927-1965 (box 95-116)
Series 5. Metropolitan Office Records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177):
Subseries 1. General Secretaries' cabinet agendas and reports, 1913-1962 (box 116-122)
Subseries 2. Operations manuals and reports, 1861-1971 (box 123-126)
Subseries 3. Comptroller's reports, 1931-1965 (box 127-134)
Subseries 4. Reports to National Council, 1936-1948 (box 134-136)
Subseries 5. Miscellaneous records, 1861-1970 (box 136-148)
Subseries 6. News clippings and leaflets, 1887-1980 (box 148-172 & vol. 49-72)
Subseries 7. Centennial Celebration Files, 1955-1958 (box 172-174 & vol. 73-77)
Subseries 8. Association of Retired Secretaries, L. Wilbur Messer Chapter, 1931-1964 (box 175-177)
Series 6. Department records, 1883-1977 (box 177-189 & vol. 78-150):
Subseries 1. Minutes of Boards of directors, 1908-1962 (vol. 78-149)
Subseries 2. Board attendance records, 1928-1975 (box 177-180)
Subseries 3. Miscellaneous department records, 1883-1977 (box 181-189 & vol. 150)
Unprocessed boxes of manuscripts
Series 7. Original sound recording (box 190-194) - stored separately
Detailed description of archival series in the collection
Series 1 Historical records,
1853-1973 (box 1-12)
The YMCA "historical records" files are the products of the Association's concern for its history and for the preservation of the records to document it. Series 1 is made up of two subseries. Subseries 1, Indexed Records, 1853-1973, consists of materials which the UMCA preserved for their historical interest and reference value. Subseries 2, Stotz/Ruehrwein Files of YMCA Historical Records, 1908-73, is the administrative files of a project to collect and preserve the YMCA's historical records which was carried out in the late 1940s and early 1950s. It was this project which produced the indexed historical records of subseries 1. Similar materials are also found in series 5, Metropolitan Office Records, Subseries 5, and Miscellaneous Records.
Subseries 1. Indexed
records, 1853-1962 (box 1-11)
This subseries is a file of early documents, publications, reports, correspondence, and historical and biographical information compiled for use in various publications. It has been kept in its original order, except for the transfer of photographs to Chicago History Museum's Prints & Photographs Collection and published materials to the library.
The indexes to Subseries 1 are found in box 1, including an index to the photographs, which are numbered individually. An annotated copy of the index to the documents and papers file is included in the first folder. These indexes include items that were missing from the file or not included in the index at the time the collection was received by Chicago History Museum (CHM) as well as items that have been transferred to Chicago History Museum's Prints & Photographs Collection and published materials to the library. These indexes are an item-by-item listing.
The main groups of records in this subseries include: biographies of laymen and secretaries of the YMCA (filed alphabetically by last name); information folders on each department and camp which included some documents, publicity items, and excerpts from board minutes compiled by Miss Mallory; histories and reminiscences compiled at various times (see also box 143, folder 4); papers of L. Wilbur Messer concerning the controversy in the early 1900s over relations between local associations and the state and international YMCA organizations; and a group of files (arranged chronologically) which document various periods in the YMCA's growth and development from its beginnings in the 1850s through the post-World War II years.
Subseries 2, Stotz/Ruehrwein files on YMCA
historical records, 1908-1973 (box 11-12)
members who in the late 1940s and early 1950s were responsible for surveying and selecting for preservation a large portion of the YMCA records which were eventually transferred to the Chicago History Museum. This subseries concerns goals and methods for storing and cataloging the YMCA's inactive, valuable records and also contains some miscellaneous historical data. Memoranda by Abijah Jarman in 1963 and by Faith Shriner in 1972 and 1973 reported on the subsequent status of the materials collected by Stotz and Ruehrwein. (See Series 5, Subseries 0 for Stotz's files on another subject: the L. Wilbur Messer chapter of the International Association of Retired Secretaries).
Series 2. Board of
trustees 1868-1975 (box 12-43 & vol. 1-12)
The records in Series 2 relate directly to the Board of Trustees, a group of twelve men (appointed for life) who hold title to all YMCA real estate and have ultimate control over it. The trustees make decisions regarding land sales and purchases, building construction and repairs, and disposal of funds deriving from the YMCA's properties. Acting as the agent of the trustees, the Board of Managers actually operates the real estate and handles financial transactions but submits reports and recommendations to the trustees for review and ratification.
Subseries 1. Meeting
minutes, 1868-1975 (box 12-13 & vo1. 1-12)
This subseries contains the minutes of the Board of Trustees. Filed with the minutes are reports presented at meetings, mostly concerned with financial operations, investments, and building projects. (This is the original set.)
Subseries 2.
Treasurer's reports and record of productive funds 1934-1966 (box 13-14)
This subseries contains reports of the Board of Trustees' treasurer, which show monthly receipts and disbursements. Also included is the "Official Record of Productive Funds," first compiled in 1939, which describes the Trustees' handling of investable funds and lists wills, gifts, trusts, and estates held by the YMCA. Subsequent yearly reports of productive funds are found in the Trustees' minutes, subseries 1, and in the Comptroller's reports, Series 5, subseries 3.
Subseries 3. Vital
records of the YMCA, 1861-1966 (box 15-43)
This subseries consists primarily of legal documents and fund-raising records designated as vital records by various YMCA Secretaries, trustees, and managers over the years and stored in a vault at one time. They include articles of incorporation and by-laws for the Chicago Association and for some of the departments; legal opinions from the YMCA attorneys and policy statements; building subscription lists, petitions for new departments, and a list of YMCA properties, 1899-1915; pledges, bequests, special funds, loans, contracts, annuity agreements, and leases; financial records, including audits for 1890-1902 and 1936-1947; annual reports preparation papers for the years 1927-49; special studies and long-range plans; and a few departments minutes and real property documents.
The materials are arranged as they were kept by the Association with department papers first (alphabetically arranged by name of department), followed by: Board of Managers; camps; properties; the Association head-quarters building at 19 S. LaSalle (which housed the General Secretary's offices, as well as the Central Department and the Central YMCA Schools); and bequests and gifts (arranged alphabetically by donor surname or name of fund).
Papers in this subseries relate to materials in other series, especially Series 3, Board of Managers, Series 6, Department Records, and subseries 5, Miscellaneous Records, of Series 5, Metropolitan Office Records. Contracts for the Young Men's Era Publishing Co. are located in box 28, folder 5 and correspondence, minutes, and reports of this company in box 136, folders 8-10 and box 137, folders 1-5.
Series 3. Board of
managers, 1858-1975 (box 43-87 & vol. 13-44)
Series 3 contains the records of the Board of Managers and its committees. The Board of Managers is the main governing body of the YMCA of Chicago. Although certain of its actions are subject to approval by the Board of Trustees or the Voting Members, it has principal responsibility for supervising operations and making policy.
Members of the Board of Managers are often businessmen or distinguished members of the community, who donate their service to the YMCA. They serve 3-year terms and are chosen from among the Voting Members. Voting Members constitute a body of several hundred persons, who meet once a year to elect members and officers of the Board of Managers, authorize sales of real estate and amend by-laws. Voting Members are in turn elected by the Board of Managers, and serve 5-year terms. A Nomination Committee made up of one member of the Board of Trustees, one member of the Board of Managers, and three other Voting Members, selects those to be elected as officers and members of the Board of Managers and as Voting Members.
The Board of Managers is responsible for hiring and directing all employed personnel of the YMCA (including those of the departments), establishing and discontinuing departments, appointing Boards of Directors for the departments, and approving budgets and policies. It acts as the agent of the Board of Trustees in handling affairs regarding real estate, such as investments, construction, and alteration of buildings.
The president of the board appoints standing committees, which handle most of the business of the board. The committees make reports and recommendations to the full board, which then acts upon them. The number and names of the various committees changed over the years, but their areas of responsibility generally consisted of business, future plans, membership, personnel, programs, and real estate.
Subseries 1. Meeting
minutes (box 43-50 & vol. 13-27)
This subseries contains meeting minutes of the Board of Managers from 1858 to 1975. The first two volumes are original minute books, 1858-1910; following these are a bound set of copies of the official minutes, 1858-1962. With the exceptions of the two volumes dated 1858-1910, the YMCA retained the originals, which may contain some exhibits and appendices not included in these copies. Minutes from 1962 to 1975 are not bound, and included agendas and exhibits presented at meetings; those for 1966-69 also include the minutes of the Executive Committee.
Subseries 2. Reports
to Board of managers (box 50-69)
This subseries consists of reports from committees, budgets, reports from departments, letters and other materials presented at meetings of the Board of Managers. There is a complete run of these materials from 1900 to June 1962.
Subseries 3.
Committee minutes and reports, 1890-1975 (box 69-84 & vol. 28-43)
Missing vol. 34
This subseries contains minutes and records of committees of the Board of Managers. There are two groups of records in this subseries: the first consists of committee minutes, which were complied in the late 1950s and early 1960s for the major committees; the second group contains other types of records generated by some of the committees, including committee rosters, correspondence, agendas and materials presented at committee meetings, and reports to the Board of Managers.
Committee minutes and records vary in completeness and content. Each of the groups of records in this subseries is arranged alphabetically by name of committee; name changes of committees have been cross-referenced in the container list.
Subseries 4.
Treasurer's reports and budgets (box 84-86)
This subseries contains the Board of Manager's Treasurer reports, 1939-66, which show cash receipts and disbursements by month. Prior to 1933 these reports were filed with the reports to the Board of Managers in subseries 2. Also included in this subseries are budget reports for the years 1957, 1958, 1960, 1961, 1963, and 1964, which give detailed breakdowns of income and expenses.
Subseries 5. Voting members'
annual meetings 1939-1970 (box 86-87 & vol. 44)
This subseries contains transcripts of annual meetings of the Voting Members. It includes verbatim typescripts of meetings for 1939-1959 (1949 and 1956 are missing). Information on arranging and setting up these meetings can be found in the minutes of the Voting Members Meeting Committee, in subseries 3.
Sound recordings related to the annual meetings, 1955-1970 & undated, are described in Series 7. Original sound recordings and listed in boxes 190-191 in the List of contents of the collection.
Series 4. General Secretaries' papers, 1881-1965 (box 87-116)
Series 4 contains correspondence, reports and other reference materials of the five General Secretaries of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago from approximately 1881 to 1965. The General Secretary was the chief full-time employee of the YMCA, responsible for general administration and fundraising. The records document the growth and purposes of the YMCA during these years, including construction of new buildings, activities of individual departments, annual meetings, the role of religion in YMCA activities, and national and international programs. A large portion of the records document the establishment of the Julius Rosenwald Fund's programs for constructing YMCAs for black men and boys in many U.S. cities. Files in all three subseries are arranged alphabetically by topic or type of material.
The series is divided into three subseries:
Subseries 1. L.
Wilbur Messer corres. & scrapbooks, ca. 1881-1935 (box 87-90 & vol.
45-48)
(missing vol. 47)
This subseries consists of correspondence and scrapbooks of L. Wilbur Messer, dated ca. 1881 to 1935. Messer was General Secretary in Chicago from 1888 until his resignation in 1923, the year he died. Subseries 1 includes the surviving correspondence from his years in office, reports, and scrapbooks of correspondence, newspaper clippings, fliers, and programs concerning Messer's public appearances and the growth of the Chicago YMCA. One scrapbook contains newspaper clippings concerning the establishment in the late 1800s of separate YMCA facilities for blacks.
Subseries 2. William
J. Parker files, ca. 1910-ca. 1939 (box 90-95)
This subseries consists of correspondence and some reports of Messer's successor, William J. Parker, who held the office of General Secretary from 1923 until 1939. A major subject in this subseries is the construction of African American YMCAs in Chicago and across the nation, from around 1915 through the 1920s, as a result of partial funding for such projects provided through the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Correspondence and statistics concerning the original Rosenwald gift and the applications for aid from various cities can be found in the folders labeled "Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs."
Subseries 3. Frank A.
Hathaway, Lloyd L. McClow, John O. Root, ca.
1927-1965 (box 95-116)
This subseries is a conglomerate file of the records of Frank A. Hathaway, Lloyd L. McClow, and John O. Root, ca. 1927-1965. Hathaway was General Secretary from 1939 to 1954, McClow from 1954 to 1962, and Root from 1963 on. Very few of Hathaway's files have survived. McClow apparently continued to use some of them during his years as secretary, and these are intermingled with his own records. McClow died suddenly in 1962 and John O. Root began his work as General Secretary by continuing to use McClow's files. This subseries represents the work of all three men, primarily McClow, and consists of correspondence and reports dating mostly from the 1940s to 1965. A few items evidently culled from earlier records for use as reference materials date from as early as the 1920s.
Series 5. Metropolitan office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177)
This series includes a number of types of records generated by the metropolitan offices of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. The metropolitan offices were responsible for fundraising, program development, public relations, and coordination of the many departments within their jurisdiction. The records are incomplete and do not give a full picture of the YMCA's activities, but some significant groups of materials have been retained which document aspects of the YMCA's organization, programs, and early history.
Subseries 1. General
Secretaries' cabinet agendas and reports, 1913-1962 (box 116-122)
This subseries contains records of the General Secretary's cabinet, which was composed of the General Secretary from the metropolitan office and Executive Secretaries (the chief staff members) from each department. Regular meetings of the cabinet were held to discuss programs and activities. A complete set of records of these meetings from 1913-62 is included here, although the content of the files varies, as different General Secretaries changed the format of the meetings. Minutes were kept only until 1925. From 1925-39 the file consist of a numbered set of bulletins to executive secretaries, which includes notice of meetings as well as other memoranda from the general secretary to the secretaries of the departments. Records from 1939-62 contain agendas and materials presented at meetings. Also included in the file are attendance records and reports about programs and plans.
In addition, sound recordings in found in Series 7 (boxes 191-194) include some cabinet meetings and other staff meetings and speeches).
Subseries 2.
Operations manuals and reports, 1861-1971 (box 123-126)
This subseries contains policy and practice manuals compiled by the general secretary's office: copies of the constitution and by-laws, personnel, business, and membership policies, samples of public relations and religious literature, and professional staff training manuals and courses. Also included are several reports on power plants, employee attitudes, and the structure and organization of the YMCA.
Subseries 3.
Comptroller's reports, 1931-1965 (box 127-134)
This subseries consists of reports of the Comptroller, which are yearly financial summaries containing consolidated balance sheets and analysis of income and expenses, reports on productive funds from 1939 on (which are funds and properties held for investment purposes, as well as endowments, reserves and other special funds), and balance sheets for each of the departments.
Subseries 4. Reports
to National Council, 1936-1948 (box 134-136)
This subseries consists of copies of yearly reports from the Chicago YMCA to the National Council of the YMCA. These reports detail registered enrollments and attendance at activities, individual services such as counseling, swim tests, and camping, and list all employed personnel of the metropolitan office and each department, giving positions and salaries.
Subseries 5.
Miscellaneous records, 1861-1970 (box 136-148)
This subseries contains records, reports, and correspondence, arranged chronologically. It includes such subjects as early publishing activities, the 50th anniversary celebration in 1908, the Century of Progress exhibition, YMCA expansion plans and fundraising.
Subseries 6. News
clippings and leaflets, 1887-1980 (box 148-172 & vol. 49-72)
This subseries contains news clippings and some promotional literature, from 1887 through the 1970s. Newsclippings from Chicago daily and neighborhood papers detail activities and programs of the YMCA, as well as showing them types of social problems the YMCA was concerned about. Files were kept very well during some years and not in others. Early clippings and leaflets are mostly bound in scrapbooks, arranged chronologically. Some scrapbooks or files were kept for specific activities or financial campaigns. In addition to files arranged by date, there are files arranged by department name (1967-74) and by subject (1975-1980).
Subseries 7.
Centennial Celebration Files, 1955-1958 (box 172-174 & vol. 73-77)
This subseries documents the Chicago YMCA's celebration of its hundredth anniversary in 1958. Major activities included a fund drive to raise $7,000,000 for building expansion and renovation, a youth conference, a historical pageant with a cast of 2000, and the publication of an official history, Great Enterprises, written by Emmet Dedmon, with research assistance by Bruce M. Cole of the YMCA staff. Included here are research notes and drafts of manuscripts of this volume.
Two card file boxes after box 174 relate to the writing of Great Enterprises.
Subseries 8.
Association of Retired Secretaries, L. Wilbur Messer Chapter, 1931-1964 (box
175-177)
This subseries contains the records of the L. Wilbur Messer Chapter of the International Association of Retired Secretaries (IARS). They include minutes, correspondence, address lists, newsletters, and program files kept by Herman A. Stotz, who before his retirement was the manager of YMCA properties. Stotz held a variety of offices in the Chapter, beginning in 1945 with secretary-treasurer and later president and vice-president. His files incorporated the files of the first Chapter secretary-treasurer, John W. Adams, 1934-1944, who subsequently became its president. The principal activity of the Chapter was annual reunion held at the YMCA camp at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin. Of special interest is the member personal data files (box 177, folders 1-2), which contain information on the backgrounds of YMCA executives.
Series 6. Department records,
1883-1977 (box 177-189 & vol. 78-150):
This series consists of records generated by the various departments (chiefly composed of neighborhood units) of the YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago. The major portion of the series is composed of minutes of the Board of Directors of the departments which were sent to the metropolitan head-quarters.
Subseries 1. Minutes
of Boards of directors 1908-1962 (vol. 78-149)
This subseries is a set of bound minutes from the departments' Board of Directors. These boards (which were at first called "committees of managements" for each department) are a group of laymen from the community who are responsible for fundraising and overseeing their departments' programs. Board minutes discuss fund drives, budgets, program development and changes, and personnel changes. Minutes are arranged in alphabetical order by department.
Subseries 2. Board attendance
records, 1928-1975 (box 177-180)
This subseries includes attendance records and lists of boards of directors. Information in these records sometimes includes occupations, religious affiliations and racial composition of the boards and of the areas of the city and suburbs which they served.
Subseries 3. Miscellaneous
department records, 1883-1977 (box 181-189 & vol. 150)
This subseries contains some minutes which the YMCA did not keep as part of the bound set in subseries 1, and various other records and reports of some departments, especially of early departments which were discontinued, and of the YMCA Hotel. These are also filed alphabetically by department.
Series 7. Original sound
recording (box 190-194) - stored separately
Restriction: For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).
Sound recordings related to the annual meetings of Voting Members, 1955-1970 & undated, are listed in boxes 190-191 of this collection.
Additional sound recordings, arranged chronologically, include other meetings, speeches, and radio programs and announcements and are listed in boxes 191-194.
List of contents of the collection:
NOTE: The large bound volumes in this collection that are not in regular boxes have been numbered in the left column in a single sequence throughout the container list below.
These large volumes are stacked on the shelves or stored separately in extra-large boxes at the end of the collection.
Series 1. Historical
records 1853-1973 (box 1-12)
Abbreviations used in this list:
corres. = correspondence
docs. = documents
misc. = miscellaneous
re. = regarding
Subseries 1. Indexed
records, 1853-1962
box 1
folders:
1 Historical records: documents, original and verified copies of list of indexed records
2 Historical records: index to photographs that were transferred to Prints & Photographs Coll.
3 List of Board of Managers and Trustees
4 Distinguished service biographies
5 Biographies, background information
6 Biographies, laymen: Bailey, Edward P.
7 Biographies, laymen: Bennet, R. J.
8 Biographies, laymen: Bentley, Cyrus
9 Biographies, laymen: Blatchford, E. W.
10 Biographies, laymen: Bouton, N. S.
11 Biographies, laymen: Broeksmit, John S.
12 Biographies, laymen: Burns, John L.
13 Biographies, laymen: Chenyer, Bishop
14 Biographies, laymen: Eckels, James H.
15 Biographies, laymen: Farr, Newton C.
16 Biographies, laymen: Farwell, John V. Jr. and Sr.
17 Biographies, laymen: Francis, William
18 Biographies, laymen: Fuller, Henry W.
19 Biographies, laymen: Goodspeed, C. T. B.
20 Biographies, laymen: Gregg, Col. Clifford C.
21 Biographies, laymen: Griffith, C. L.
22 Biographies, laymen: Hall, A. B.
23 Biographies, laymen: Harris, Norman W.
24 Biographies, laymen: Harvey, Turlington W.
25 Biographies, laymen: Henderson, C. M.
26 Biographies, laymen: Hollister, John H., M. D.
27 Biographies, laymen: Houghtelling, James L.
28 Biographies, laymen: Hubbard, Henry M.
29 Biographies, laymen: Hypes, S. L.
30 Biographies, laymen: Isham, Ralph
31 Biographies, laymen: Jacobs, Benjamin F.
32 Biographies, laymen: Keep, Albert
box 2
folders:
1 Biographies, laymen: Keith, Elbridge G.
2 Biographies, laymen: Lawson, Victor F.
3 Biographies, laymen: McCormick, Cyrus H.
4 Biographies, laymen: McDermott, E. H.
5 Biographies, laymen: McKibbin, George B.
6 Biographies, laymen: MacLean, M. H.
7 Biographies, laymen: Moody, Dwight L.
8 Biographies, laymen: Oates, James F. Jr.
9 Biographies, laymen: Ramsey, Fred H.
10 Biographies, laymen: Robbins, C. C.
11 Biographies, laymen: Rosenwald, Julius
12 Biographies, laymen: Shedd, John G.
13 Biographies, laymen: Short, Jeffrey R.
14 Biographies, laymen: Sidley, William P.
15 Biographies, laymen: Teter, Lucius
16 Biographies, laymen: Ward, Samuel Dexter.
17 Biographies, laymen: Welles, Donald P.
18 Biographies, laymen: Wells, Edwin S.
19 Biographies, laymen: Wuehrmann, H. F.
20 Biographies, secretaries: Adams, Glen D.
21 Biographies, secretaries: Allen, R. A.
22 Biographies, secretaries: Arthur, George Robert
23 Biographies, secretaries: Atkinson, P. C.
24 Biographies, secretaries: Aveling, Wilhelmina
25 Biographies, secretaries: Baines, Percy
26 Biographies, secretaries: Barnett, Eugene E.
27 Biographies, secretaries: Bowers, Abraham
28 Biographies, secretaries: Brewer, Murray A.
29 Biographies, secretaries: Cook, William
30 Biographies, secretaries: Cooke, Ralph W.
31 Biographies, secretaries: Copeland, A. G.
32 Biographies, secretaries: Dennis, Merle E.
33 Biographies, secretaries: Eddy, A. S.
34 Biographies, secretaries: Ellis, James D.
35 Biographies, secretaries: Evar, James A.
36 Biographies, secretaries: Foster, Paul C.
37 Biographies, secretaries: Freeman, Alexander
38 Biographies, secretaries: Gogle, M. F.
39 Biographies, secretaries: Grow, Fred A.
40 Biographies, secretaries: Hall, Chester A.
41 Biographies, secretaries: Hart, Walter T.
42 Biographies, secretaries: Hathaway, Frank A.
43 Biographies, secretaries: Hein, L. H.
44 Biographies, secretaries: Hemingway, A. T.
45 Biographies, secretaries: Hiller, J. A.
46 Biographies, secretaries: Hollister, L. C.
47 Biographies, secretaries: Houser, Sanborn O.
48 Biographies, secretaries: Jarman, Abijah
49 Biographies, secretaries: Larson, A. J.
50 Biographies, secretaries: Lichtenheld, G. P.
51 Biographies, secretaries: Maske, Richard A.
52 Biographies, secretaries: McClow, Lloyd L.
53 Biographies, secretaries: McCurtheon, O. Stuart
54 Biographies, secretaries: McFarland, James F.
55 Biographies, secretaries: Messer, L. Wilbur
56 Biographies, secretaries: Miller, W. S.
57 Biographies, secretaries: Morris, O. O.
58 Biographies, secretaries: Mott, John R.
59 Biographies, secretaries: Nelson, John L.
60 Biographies, secretaries: Parker, William J.
61 Biographies, secretaries: Perkins, J. G.
62 Biographies, secretaries: Prince, Harold S.
63 Biographies, secretaries: Reed, Andrew J. Jr.
64 Biographies, secretaries: Rompel, Victor H.
65 Biographies, secretaries: Rouse, C. B.
66 Biographies, secretaries: Rowe, William T.
67 Biographies, secretaries: Ruehrwein, E. W.
68 Biographies, secretaries: Shedd, Charles C.
69 Biographies, secretaries: Smith, Ivan C.
70 Biographies, secretaries: Sprowles, Fred J.
71 Biographies, secretaries: Stotz, H. A.
72 Biographies, secretaries: Voll, Leonard S.
73 Biographies, secretaries: Vynalek, James C.
74 Biographies, secretaries: Weidensall, Robert
box 3
folders:
1 Biographies, secretaries: Westgate, William T.
2 Biographies, secretaries: Williams, A. C.
3 Biographies, secretaries: Williams, H. T.
4 Biographies, secretaries: Wyant, Dr. Andrew R. E.
5 Board of Managers, excerpts from minutes, 1858-1912
6 Administration
7 Administration
8 Program and membership
9 Community and agency relations
10 Expansion and community
11 Departments: Auburn-Highlands
12 Departments: Austin
13 Departments: Association Building
14 Departments: Beverly
15 Departments: Central
box 4
folders:
1 Departments: Central
2 Departments: Chatham (Grand Crossing)
3 Departments: Division Street
4 Departments: Duncan (West Side)
5 Departments: Duncan-Logan Square
6 Departments: Duncan-Maxwell Street
7 Departments: Duncan-Medical Center
8 Departments: Elmhurst
9 Departments: Harvey Memorial
10 Departments: High Ridge (Rogers Park)
11 Departments: Hotel: Historical
12 Departments: Hotel: Operations
box 5
folders:
1 Departments: Hotel: Policy
2 Departments: Hotel: Inventory
3 Departments: Hotel: Talk, papers, printed matter, etc.
4 Departments: Hyde Park
5 Departments: Indian Boundary (formally Downers Grove)
6 Departments: Irving Park
7 Departments: Isham (North Avenue-Larrabee) (includes North Side Boys Club Records)
8 Departments: Laundry
9 Departments: Lawson
10 Departments: Leaning Tower (Ilg Park)
11 Departments: Lincoln-Belmont
12 Departments: Mont Clare-Leyden
13 Departments: Northwest Suburban
14 Departments: 111th Street
15 Departments: Palos-Orland
box 6
folders:
1 Departments: Ravenswood (Wilson Avenue)
2 Departments: Sears Roebuck
3 Departments: South Chicago
4 Departments: South Shore
5 Departments: Southtown (Englewood)
6 Departments: Southtown (Englewood)
7 Departments: Southwest Suburban (Clearing)
8 Departments: West Communities
9 Departments: West Suburban
10 Camps: Channing
11 Camps: Hastings Lake
12 Camps: Martin Johnson
box 7
folders:
1 Camps: Palos Hills
2 Camps: Ravenswood West (Cutten)
3 Histories and reminiscences: Highlights in the History of the YMCA of Chicago, 1858-1944
4 Histories and reminiscences: Recollections of Early Days of the Chicago YMCA
5 Histories and reminiscences: Fifty Five Years: The Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago
6 Histories and reminiscences: Some Significant Gleanings from the History of the Young Men's Christian Association of Chicago, 1940
7 Histories and reminiscences: Reports of manager of institutional work, 1906-07
8 Histories and reminiscences: Scattered Stalks from the Sheafs of the History of the Chicago YMCA and the Development of its Activities
9 Histories and reminiscences: Historical Development of Policies and Activities in the YMCA of Chicago
10 Histories and reminiscences: Excerpts from the minutes of the Board of Managers, 1958-1900
11 Histories and reminiscences: A Chronology of the YMCA of Chicago, 1852-1910
12 Histories and reminiscences: A Chronology of the YMCA of Chicago, 1958-1932
13 Histories and reminiscences: excerpts from My Life with Young Men, by Richard C. Morse
L. Wilbur Messer papers concerning relations between local associations and state and international:
14 Messer: Correspondence, addresses and meeting notes, 1901-1904
box 8
folders:
1 Messer: Correspondence, addresses and meeting notes, 1899-1920
2 Messer: Correspondence, addresses and meeting notes, 1899-1920
3 Messer: Correspondence, addresses and meeting notes, 1899-1920
4 Messer: Pamphlets and articles, 1898-1916
5 Messer: Proceedings of subcommittee on relations of international and state committees to railroad work, metropolitan organizations, training schools and summer conferences, 1903
6 William J. Parker papers, 1919-1941
box 9
folders:
1 Discontinued departments: Central YMCA College
2 Discontinued departments: Intercollegiate Department
3 Discontinued departments: Pullman Department
4 Discontinued departments: Railroad Department: Pennsylvania Lines, 1897-1900
5 Discontinued departments: Railroad Department: Chicago and Eastern Illinois (C&EI), 1913
6 Discontinued departments: Railroad Department: Grand Trunk, 1913
7 Discontinued departments: Railroad Department: Chicago and North Western, 1934
8 Discontinued departments: Railroad Department: Dearborn Station (16th Street), 1889-1890, 1917
9 Discontinued departments: Student departments
10 Discontinued departments:
Japanese departments
11 Chronological files: 1853-1854: The First Association
12 Chronological files: 1858-1861: Beginnings of the Present Association
13 Chronological files: 1861-1871: The Civil War and Post War Years
box 10
folders:
1 Chronological files: 1872-1882: The Period of Program Pioneering
2 Chronological files: 1882-1892: The Period of Program Experimentation
3 Chronological files: 1893-1906: The Period of Definite Program Direction
4 Chronological files: 1907-1916: The Period of Aggressive Program Promotion
5 Chronological files: 1917-1919: Program Adaptation to World War Conditions
6 Chronological files: 1902-1931: The Expansion Plan and Its Products
box 11
folders:
1 Chronological files: 1902-1931: The Expansion Plan and Its Products
2 Chronological files: 1941-1946: The Period of World War II
3 Chronological files: 1946-1951: Post-War Adjustments
4 Chronological files: 1858-1944: Chronologies of the YMCA of Chicago
Series 1. Historical
records 1853-1973 (box 1-12) - continued:
Subseries 2. Stotz/Ruehrwein files on YMCA historical
records, 1908-1973
box 11 - continued:
folders:
5 Survey of departments' records 1948-1951
6 Historical bibliography of the YMCA of Chicago
7 Real estate and legal matters 1932-1947
8 McClow correspondence 1947
9 Notes related to history of the Chicago Association 1944-1953
10 Historical items related to policy and procedure
11 Background material 1945-1947
12 Persons and personnel affecting the Chicago Association history 1927-1938
13 Miscellaneous 1948
14 Mementoes 1940-1947
15 Newsclippings and miscellaneous 1908-1946
16 Histories: Chicago YMCA and others 1943-1951
17 Historical records: inventories and correspondence 1952-1953
18 Chart of filing system 1948
box 12
folders:
1 Historical records policy and procedures 1947-1951
2 National Council correspondence 1945-1946
3 Correspondence A-Z 1939-1948
4 Reorganization of historical records: notebook 1947-1953
5 Archives 1952
6 Veterans of General Secretary's cabinet 1952-1954
7 Historical records worksheets 1955
8 Department boundaries 1953
9 Correspondence and notes about photographs 1955
10 Notes about historical publications, undated
11 Report on work on historical records 1954
12 Correspondence 1955
13 Notes on historical records 1955, 1958
14 Historical exhibits 1944
15 Abijah Jarman: correspondence and notes 1961-1963
16 Faith Shriner: report and memoranda on vault records storage 1972-1973
Series 2. Board of
trustees 1868-1975 (box 12-43)
Subseries 1. Meeting
minutes, 1868-1975 (box 12-13 & vo1. 1-12)
Volumes (unboxed) that
are stacked on shelf in order by each volume number:
Vol. 1 Trustees minutes: March 28, 1868-December 4, 1901 (original)
Vol. 2 Trustees minutes: March 28, 1868-December 4, 1901 (typescripts)
Vol. 3 Trustees minutes: March 3, 1902-November 15, 1929
Vol. 4 Trustees minutes: March 21, 1930-December 19, 1940
Vol. 5 Trustees minutes: June 11, 1941-December 1, 1943
Vol. 6 Trustees minutes: January 13, 1944-September 20, 1946
Vol. 7 Trustees minutes: March 27, 1947-November 12, 1948
Vol. 8 Trustees minutes: December 31, 1948-October 17, 1950
Vol. 9 Trustees minutes: January 4, 1951-December 16, 1953
Vol. 10 Trustees minutes: January 19, 1954-October 8, 1957
Vol. 11 Trustees minutes: January 30, 1958-October 18, 1960
Vol. 12 Trustees minutes: April 20, 1961-October 11, 1963
box 12 - continued:
folders:
17 Trustees minutes: April 21, 1964-June 9, 1966
box 13
folders:
1 Trustees minutes: April 25, 1967-April 23, 1968
2 Trustees minutes: September 18, 1968-June 9, 1969
3-5 Trustees minutes: 1970-1975
6 Trustees: Lists of members and officers 1868-1967
Series 2. Board of
trustees 1868-1975 (box 13-43) - continued:
Subseries 2.
Treasurer's reports and record of productive funds 1934-1966
box 13 - continued:
7 Treasurer's reports 1934-1943
box 14
folders:
1-4 Treasurer's reports 1944-1966
5-7 Official record of productive funds 1939-1946
Series 2. Board of
trustees 1868-1975 (box 13-43) - continued:
Subseries 3. Vital
records of the YMCA, 1861-1966
box 15
folders:
1 Departments: Austin: building fund subscribers, 1925
2 Departments: Austin: Hill, F.A. agreement, 1928-1929
3 Departments: Austin: pledge: original underwriting letters, 1923
4 Departments: Beverly Youth Foundation gift, 1948-1949
5 Departments: Central: by-laws of Central Department., undated
6 Departments: Central: expansion discussion, 1904
7 Departments: Central: operations budgets, program, membership, Boys Schools, 1903-1904
8 Departments: College: Educational Work supervision plan, undated
9 Departments: Division: statement of Division Street building, 1936-1943
10 Departments: Division: subscription lists, 1910, & misc.; Wieboldt gift of lot, 1906-1913
11 Departments: Duncan: drowning in pool: Chester, January 5, 1907
12 Departments: Duncan: Duncan, Joseph S. capital gifts, terms, conditions & obligations, 1940
13 Departments: Duncan: Duncan Memorial Fund correspondence, 1942-1943
14 Departments: Duncan: Hedenberg, et al., J.W. Guarantee subscriptions $50,000, 1893
15 Departments: Duncan: subscription lists for building, 1894
16 Departments: Duncan: Western Secretarial Institute memberships, 1900
17 Departments: Englewood: articles of incorporation Dec. 27, 1886
18 Departments: Englewood: building fund $30,000, 1929
19 Departments: Englewood: constitution and by-laws, November 28, 1886
20 Departments: Englewood: Elmore, Howard W. building fund subscription, 1932
21 Departments: Englewood: Englewood YMCA to Chicago YMCA warranty deed, October 15, 1897
22 Departments: Englewood: minutes, 1896-1897, subscription list, correspondence & bills
23 Departments: Harvey: contribution list 1944
24 Departments: Harvey: declaration and agreement to establish YMCA in Harvey 1944
25 Departments: Hotel: condensed reports, May 21, to Sept. 30, 1930
26 Departments: Hotel: Cusak and Co. poster contract, correspondence on dispute, 1913-1915
box 16
folders:
1 Departments: Hotel: Field, Marshall estate deed, hotel mortgage, Oct. 1921
2 Departments: Hotel: Field, Marshall estate deed $500,000 loan, resolution, November 24, 1915
3 Departments: Hotel: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. loan $600,000, July 9, 1931; 1916-1943
4 Departments: Hotel: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. loan $600,000, July 9, 1931; 1916-1943
5 Departments: Hotel: Metropolitan Life Insurance Co. loan $600,000, July 9, 1931; 1916-1943
6 Departments: Hotel: redistribution of reserves as approved at Meeting, Sept. 2, 1942
7 Departments: Hotel: rent regulations, O.P.A. (Office of Price Administration), 1911-1917
8 Departments: Hotel: subscriptions to YMCA Hotel building fund, 1915-1930
9 Departments: Hyde Park: building fund subscribers, 1921
10 Departments: Hyde Park: contributors letters, Mrs. E. C. Wilson, Mrs. Annie M. Swift, John B. Lord, 1921
11 Departments: Hyde Park: loan extension agreement, $8000, with Fred D. Hills, Oct. 1918
12 Departments: Hyde Park: loan fund, Edward C. Jenkins, plan investments, etc., 1936-1939
13 Departments: Hyde Park: loan of University of Chicago, $30,000, July 1906
14 Departments: Hyde Park: petition for YMCA in Hyde Park, May 1, 1902
15 Departments: Hyde Park: petitions, 39th to 43rd Streets, undated
box 17
folders:
1 Departments: Hyde Park: special audit of Hyde Park records Sept. 1943
2 Departments: Hyde Park: special audit of Hyde Park records Sept. 1943
3 Departments: Irving Park: building fund subscribers 1924
4 Departments: Irving Park: Walter Haslteen Memorial Scholarship memorial fund 1945-1946
5 Departments: Lawson: capitalization by sections, a study 1932
6 Departments: Lawson: Harris, A. W. Negro loan fund corres. 1942-1943
7 Departments: Lawson: property purchase 1934
8 Departments: Lawson U.S. Army housing contract 1943
9 Departments: Lincoln-Belmont: building fund subscribers 1926
10 Departments: North Avenue: North Side Boys' Club, location report, undated
11 Departments: 111th Street: Brandy, Charles H. cancellation of pledge, 1932
12 Departments: 111th Street: building fund subscribers, 1924
13 Departments: Railroad: C&A&M: Chicago Burlington & Quincy Railroad, department at 18th & Western, a study
14 Departments: Railroad: C&A&M: contract covering operation of YMCA at Glenn Yards
15 Departments: Railroad: C&A&M: Illinois Central Department, a study
16 Departments: Railroad: C&A&M: South Chicago Railroad Department petitions
17 Departments: Railroad: C&A&M: South Chicago Railroad Department petitions
18 Departments: Railroad: C&A&M: South Chicago Railroad Department petitions
19 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & Eastern Illinois: coupon system
20 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & Eastern Illinois: lease, 10year operating agreement, 1910, 1924
21 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & Eastern Illinois: organization, sign equipment, etc., 1902-1903
box 18
folders:
1 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & Eastern Illinois: statement on C&EI, W. J. Jackson, April 19, 1904
2 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & North Western: annual contribution of $1500, promised, February 15, 1897
3 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & North Western: closing of department, papers, corres.
4 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & North Western: early railroad work, publicity
5 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & North Western: investigation recommend improvements, July 28, 1902
6 Departments: Railroad: Chicago & North Western: title certificate, articles of incorporation, Oct. 15, 1873
7 Departments: Railroad: Dearborn: by-laws of Dearborn YMCA
8 Departments: Railroad: Dearborn: organization papers, 1897-1918
9 Departments: Railroad: Dearborn: reorganization, reports, studies, petitions, 1901-1902
10 Departments: Railroad: Grand Trunk: building pledges, 1898, undated
11 Departments: Railroad: Grand Trunk: improvements, correspondence, July-August 1902
12 Departments: Railroad: Grand Trunk: agreement and lease, YMCA and Grand Truck, 1919
13 Departments: Railroad: Pennsylvania: investigation report concerning YMCA at 59th Street, 1904
14 Departments: Railroad: warranty deed, John V. Farwell & wife, 1889
15 Departments: Sears: construction plans and other miscellaneous papers, 1910
16 Departments: Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co.: guarantee of profit, Nov. 17, 1910
17 Departments: Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co.: note for $11,700 cancelled, June 10, 1910; purchase of property proposal, May 24, 1910; repurchase agreement with Julius Rosenwald, May 24, 1910
18 Departments: Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co.: sale authorization, June 13, 1910
19 Departments: Sears: Sears, Roebuck & Co.: sale of lots 3, 4, and 5, March 1, 1916
box 19
folders:
1 Departments: South Chicago: building fund subscribers, 1924
2 Departments: South Chicago: documents relating to defalcation, 1940
3 Departments: South Shore: miscellaneous and building fund corres., 1943-1944
4 Departments: Student: Armour Institute, by-laws, undated
5 Departments: Student: Inter-collegiate, budget guarantee, 1896
6 Departments: Student: Inter-collegiate, by-laws
7 Departments: Student: Northwestern University, by-laws and plans, 1901-1902
8 Departments: Student: physicians and surgeons, by-laws, undated
9 Departments: Student: policy of a student department, undated
10 Departments: Student: reorganization of student YMCAs, undated
11 Departments: Student: Rush Medical, by-laws, undated
12 Departments: Student: University of Chicago, by-laws, undated
13 Departments: Student: University of Illinois, Dentistry, by-laws, undated
14 Departments: Wabash: Board of Education lease, 1932
15 Departments: Wabash: Colored People's Appeal to YMCA, 1905
16 Departments: Wabash: Harris, Albert W.: corres. with William J. Parker, 1945
17 Departments: Wabash: subscription notes, 1932
18 Departments: Wabash: U.S. Army contract, lodgings, 1948
19 Departments: WS Professional: building fund subscribers, 1924
20 Departments: WS Professional: proposed building agreement, Dr. Truman W. Brophy, 1925
21 Departments: WS Professional: U.S. Army contract, 1942
22 Departments: Wilson Ave: Bennet, R.J., offer of $15,000 gift, 1901
23 Departments: Wilson Ave: building fund committee plans, 1902
24 Departments: Wilson Ave: building fund subscribers, 1927
25 Departments: Wilson Ave: Coolidge, E.C., building fund pledge, 1928-1920
26 Departments: Wilson Ave: (Old) Ravenswood Athletic Field, 1898-1903
27 Board of Managers: analysis of building funds, 1927
box 20
folders:
1-9 Board of Managers: annual report preparation, 1927-1935
box 21
folders:
1-7 Board of Managers: annual report preparation, 1936-1940
box 22
folders:
1-8 Board of Managers: annual report preparation, 1940-1942, 1945
box 23
folders:
1-6 Board of Managers: annual report preparation, 1946-1949
7 Board of Managers: Area Project, contract, 1935
8 Board of Managers: Association of Commerce, Endorsement Application, 1917-1918, 1948-1951
9 Board of Managers: auditor's reports, Nov. 5, 1890-Feb. 11, 1902
10 Board of Managers: auditor's reports, 1901
box 24
folders:
1-2 Board of Managers: auditor's reports, 1902-1903
3 Board of Managers: auditor's reports, 1936-1940, 1941-1943, 1944-1947 (Arthur Anderson & Co.)
4-5 Board of Managers: auditor's reports, 1936-1940, 1941-1943, 1944-1947
6 Board of Managers: annuity agreements: Butler, Mrs. Jessie Peabody, April 7, 1926
7 Board of Managers: annuity agreements: Farwell, John V., Corres., 1927-1942
8 Board of Managers: annuity agreements: Grein, Joseph, 1941
9 Board of Managers: annuity agreements: Lang, Emma M. and Annie A., August 29, 1936
10 Board of Managers: annuity agreements: MacLeish, Andrew, Jan. 4, 1909
11 Board of Managers: association survey of Chicago, 1921
12 Board of Managers: budget guarantee, Millard Avenue Department, 1880-1901
13 Board of Managers: building measurements and other information, 1911
14 Board of Managers: canvass of 1901, preliminary report
15 Board of Managers: census reports, 1939
box 25
folders:
1-4 Board of Managers: Chamber of Commerce, endorsement applications, 1929-1937, 1937-1942, 1943-1946, 1947-1961
5 Board of Managers: Chicago and Northwester Railway, corres. regarding C&NW Fund, 1944
6 Board of Managers: Chicago Ball Club contract, May 1892
7 Board of Managers: Chicago Community Trust, 1936-1961
8-10 Board of Managers: Chicago Community Trust, 1936-1961
11 Board of Managers: Chicago Loop Study, E. J. Brownson and I. W. Howeth, 1894
12 Board of Managers: constitution, copy certified by W. J. Parker, 1903
13 Board of Managers: early secretarial reports, 1898-1903
14 Board of Managers: exchange of securities, N. W. Harris and Co., 1902
15 Board of Managers: expenses and income, 1950
16 Board of Managers: foreign work, Chicago YMCA, 1901
17 Board of Managers: Halsted Street, mission enterprises, 1902
18 Board of Managers: Illinois Unemployment Compensation Act, 1937
box 26
folders:
1 Board of Managers: income and expense statement, 1930
2 Board of Managers: incorporation acts, constitution, Chicago YMCA, 1861
3 Board of Managers: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), corres. Questionnaire, 1941
4 Board of Managers: licenses for billiards, correspondence, 1932-1936
5 Board of Managers: loan notes, Harris Trust Co., 1932-1938
6 Board of Managers: map of Chicago with department building pictures, undated
7 Board of Managers: minutes of meetings, Sept. 1896-Feb. 1897, Jan. 24, 1929
8 Board of Managers: minutes of meetings, Sept. 1896-Feb. 1897, Jan. 24, 1929
9 Board of Managers: Northwestern University Student Endowment Fund, 1946-1948
10 Board of Managers: opinions: accident liability, members and public, March 2, 1912
11 Board of Managers: opinions: bequests, gifts and endowment funds
12 Board of Managers: opinions: cafeteria and restaurant licenses, Feb. 26, 1912
13 Board of Managers: opinions: corporate title of YMCA, Nov. 14, 1930
14 Board of Managers: opinions: disinfecting bathing suits and towels, Dec. 16, 1913
15 Board of Managers: opinions: employees purchases, 1941
16 Board of Managers: opinions: inheritance tax matters, Feb. 20, 1914
17 Board of Managers: opinions: Internal Revenue and war tax, 1917-19
18 Board of Managers: opinions: liability for loss of clothing and valuables from lockers, July 2, 1912
19 Board of Managers: opinions: National Labor Relations Act, 1937, 1941
20 Board of Managers: opinions: National Labor Relations Act, 1937, 1941
21 Board of Managers: opinions: right to accept gifts for work with women, Oct-Nov 1913
22 Board of Managers: opinions: school or college, right to conduct, April 25, 1922
23 Board of Managers: opinions: YMCA in Indiana, Feb. 10, 1921
box 27
folders:
1 Board of Managers: original charter and constitution of the Chicago YMCA, 1881-1891
2 Board of Managers: original charter of the Chicago YMCA, certified copy, 1861
3 Board of Managers: prior service gratuity plan, 1944-1951
4 Board of Managers: power plant study
5 Board of Managers: power plant study
6 Board of Managers: receipts, 1873-1874
7 Board of Managers: receipts, central building fund, 1892-1894
8 Board of Managers: receipts and bills, 1895-1803
9 Board of Managers: Retailer's Occupation Tax, applications for certification of registration 1942
10 Board of Managers: secretarial staff data, 1904
11 Board of Managers: statement of securities of savings plan fund, 1944
12 Board of Managers: opinions: Stock Yards Department, undated
13 Board of Managers: Stotz, Herman A., memorial fund, 1954
14 Board of Managers: tax decisions, also corres. on tax, 1935-1936
15 Board of Managers: United YMCA Schools agreement, 1920
16 Board of Managers: wage regulations, War Labor Board, 1942-1943
17 Board of Managers: Wieboldt Foundation reports, 1938
box 28
folders:
1 Board of Managers: Wieboldt Foundation reports, 1938-1945, 1947-1952
2 Board of Managers: Wieboldt Foundation reports, 1938-1945, 1947-1952
3 Board of Managers: Wieboldt Foundation reports, 1938-1945, 1947-1952
4 Board of Managers: Year Book reports, 1933
5 Board of Managers: Young Men's Era Publishing Co., agreements, 1893-1999
6 Camps: Channing, Joseph R. Noel's gift for purchase, July 1924
7 Camps: Duncan, additional land purchase, dam site agreement, 1925-1941
8 Camps: Hyde Park, blueprint of camp layout, undated
9 Camps: Johnson, Martin, annuity agreement, legal papers, 1923-1930
10 Camps: Johnson, Martin, annuity agreement, legal papers, 1923-1930
11 Camps: MacLean Camp property, Rockland Lake, Wisconsin
12 Camps: MacLean Camp property, Rockland Lake, Wisconsin
13 Camps: Waldman, Mr. and Mrs. William H. agreement
14 Properties: Japanese YMCA, 36th Street property, 1918-1946
box 29
folders:
1 Properties: Lake Forest, title guarantee policy, deed, corres., 1929-1948
2 Properties: Lists of YMCA properties, several years, tax matters, 1899-1915
3 Properties: Monroe Street property, closing statements, corres., 1949-1950
4 Properties: valuation of properties, Special Committee, 1902
5 Association building: Andrews, Martin vs. Laban S. Major, bill in chancery, 1876
6 Association building: Association building account, examination, Herman B. Prentice
7 Association building: Barnes, Jessie C. extension of note for $14,000, 1906
8 Association building: Bonds: first mortgage bonds statement
9 Association building: Bonds: refunding bond issue
10 Association building: Bonds: $600,000 bond issue, report, resolution, offer
11 Association building: Bonds: statement of bounds carried on the books, 1909
12 Association building: building fund, stock certificates
13 Association building: building manager's report, 1910-1913
14 Association building: Burton, Jas. C. (killed during building construction) Inquest, 1892
15 Association building: certificates of indebtedness, coupons
16 Association building: employment terms: vacation rules
17 Association building: employment terms: wages, rates, hours, 1912, 1916
18 Association building: Farwell, John V. papers, affidavits of deeds
19 Association building: Farwell, John V. papers, affidavits of deeds
box 30
folders:
1 Association building: Farwell, John V. and N. S. Bouton, Declaration of trust
2 Association building: Fund Statement, $84,000, 1902
3 Association building: Indebtedness, 1896, 1902-1903
4 Association building: Indebtedness, 1896, 1902-1903
5 Association building: Indebtedness, 1896, 1902-1903
6 Association building: Leases: Auditorium, Feb. 3, 1899
7 Association building: Leases: Central Department, 1907
8 Association building: Leases: Natatorium, 1897
9 Association building: Loans: Agreement, E. K. Butler
10 Association building: Loans: Auditorium Syndicate
11 Association building: Loans: Harris Trust Co.
12 Association building: Loans: Merchants Loan & Trust Co.
13 Association building: Loans: Merchants Trust Co.
14 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: Interest Claims on Loans
15 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: Lease of natatorium to secure loan
16 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: Loan authorization
17 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: Loan security, 1893-1994
18 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: Loan security, 1893-1994
19 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: $25,000 loan
20 Association building: McCormick, Cyrus H.: $25,000 loan
21 Association building: McCormick, Leander J., Warranty Deed
22 Association building: Mortgages and miscellaneous papers
23 Association building: Natatorium agreement with Central Department, 1908
24 Association building: Northern Trust Co., Trust Deeds
25 Association building: NW Mutual Life Insurance Co.: Life insurance on loan
26 Association building: NW Mutual Life Insurance Co.: Loan
27 Association building: NW Mutual Life Insurance Co.: Mortgage
28 Association building: NW Mutual Life Insurance Co.: Mortgage
29 Association building: NW Mutual Life Insurance Co.: $700,000
30 Association building: Rue, John C. Judgment against the Association, 1870
31 Association building: Sale of Madison Street Property, contract and memoranda
box 31
folders:
1 Association building: Stein, Roe and Farham, contracts, inventories, memoranda, 1951
2 Bequests and gifts: Adams, John Quincy, 1901, 1939
3 Bequests and gifts: Aldis, Arthur T., 1933-1934
4 Bequests and gifts: Aldis, Arthur T., 1933-1934
5 Bequests and gifts: Anniversary Fund, 1908-1910
6 Bequests and gifts: Arthur, George R.: Correspondence, 1937-1946
7 Bequests and gifts: Arthur, George R.: Will
8 Bequests and gifts: Baldwin, Rosecrans, 1942
9 Bequests and gifts: Baumgartner, Harry W., 1945
10 Bequests and gifts: Barnes, Clifford W., 1944-1945
11 Bequests and gifts: Barnhardt, Kenneth, 1914, 1939
12 Bequests and gifts: Beatty, Harland Grant, 1919-1922
13 Bequests and gifts: Bloom, Enna F., 1922-1939
14 Bequests and gifts: Budd, Wilbur F., 1948-1949
15 Bequests and gifts: Buffington, E. J., 1937
16 Bequests and gifts: Building Campaign Funds, Analysis, 1927
17 Bequests and gifts: Chapman, Jas. R., 1920-1922
18 Bequests and gifts: City-Wide Campaign Fund, 1927
19 Bequests and gifts: Clark, George M., 1924-1925
20 Bequests and gifts: Cobb, Silas R., 1895
21 Bequests and gifts: Coe, Charlotte, 1908-1946
22 Bequests and gifts: Cone, Marshall, 1914-1916
23 Bequests and gifts: Contributions to General Camp Fund, 1924-1929
24 Bequests and gifts: Cox, Clara M. and James A., 1946-1947
25 Bequests and gifts: Craig, William W., 1935-1938
26 Bequests and gifts: Craigmile, James, 1899
27 Bequests and gifts: Crerar, John, 1914
box 32
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Croft, Horace I., 1938-1939
2 Bequests and gifts: Cross, Albert E., 1937-1947
3 Bequests and gifts: Cross, Albert E., 1937-1947
4 Bequests and gifts: Cross, Albert E., 1937-1947
5 Bequests and gifts: Cutten, Arthur, 1925
6 Bequests and gifts: Davis, John L., 1905-1931
7 Bequests and gifts: Dickinson Fund, Albert, 1926-1943
8 Bequests and gifts: Dickinson Fund, Albert, 1926-1943
9 Bequests and gifts: Division Street Department, 1948
10 Bequests and gifts: Dole, Andrew, Memorial Fund, 1940-1946
11 Bequests and gifts: Dole, Andrew, Memorial Fund, 1940-1946
12 Bequests and gifts: Dole, John N., 1931-1939
13 Bequests and gifts: Dryer, Frank O., 1931-1934
14 Bequests and gifts: Duncan, Joseph S., 1932-1937
15 Bequests and gifts: Duncan, Joseph S., 1932-1937
box 33
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Duncan, Joseph S., 1926-1952
2 Bequests and gifts: Duncan, Joseph S., 1926-1952
3 Bequests and gifts: Duncan, Joseph S., 1926-1952
4 Bequests and gifts: Duncan, Joseph S., 1926-1952
5 Bequests and gifts: Eckhardt, B. A., 1921-1922
6 Bequests and gifts: Educational Scholarship Fund, 1949-1951
7 Bequests and gifts: Emery, E. W., 1941
8 Bequests and gifts: Ethinger, Charles D., 1916-1936
9 Bequests and gifts: Farwell, John V., 1936-1944
10 Bequests and gifts: Farwell, John V., 1936-1944
11 Bequests and gifts: Farwell, John V., 1936-1944
12 Bequests and gifts: Fulton, Frank M., 1938-1939
13 Bequests and gifts: Funds-General Memoranda, 1911
14 Bequests and gifts: Gale, Philip B., 1945
15 Bequests and gifts: Gallagher, Michael, 1947-1948
16 Bequests and gifts: General Endowment Fund, 1911
17 Bequests and gifts: Goodspeed, C. T. B.
18 Bequests and gifts: Gould, Leanard, 1902-1939
19 Bequests and gifts: Graybeal, James, 1947
20 Bequests and gifts: Greeley, Anna Josephine, 1927-1930
21 Bequests and gifts: Greenwald, Mrs. Clara, 1928-1936
22 Bequests and gifts: Gray, Charles F., 1932-1949
23 Bequests and gifts: Grow, Fred A., 1950-1951
24 Bequests and gifts: Hamill, Ernest, 1927-1928
25 Bequests and gifts: Harris, Norman Wait, 1924-1931
box 34
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Harter, Mrs. Mary, 1941-1949
2 Bequests and gifts: Hawley, Sarah A., 1912-1915
3 Bequests and gifts: Heron, Presley M., 1932-1940
4 Bequests and gifts: Hewitt, John H., 1924-1948
5 Bequests and gifts: Hill, Martha S., 1914
6 Bequests and gifts: Hillman, Edward, 1927-1928
7 Bequests and gifts: Hirst, John W., 1936
8 Bequests and gifts: Hitchcock, Howard H., 1932
9 Bequests and gifts: Holden, Nelson B., 1927-1942
10 Bequests and gifts: Hollis, Harriet Frances, 1951
11 Bequests and gifts: Holt, Charles, 1930
12 Bequests and gifts: Hooker, Henry M., 1913
13 Bequests and gifts: Hoover, Frank W., 1931
14 Bequests and gifts: Howes, Frank W., 1934
15 Bequests and gifts: Hubbard, Henry M., 1908
16 Bequests and gifts: Humboldt Park YMCA Building Fund, 1949
17 Bequests and gifts: Hyde Park Subscription List, 1921
18 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Central, 1932
19 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Lawndale, 1922
20 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Lincoln Square, 1926
21 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Logan Square, 1929
22 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Near West Side, 1926
23 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Rogers Park, 1926
24 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Uptown Department, 1924
25 Bequests and gifts: Initial Gifts: Woodlawn Department, 1926
26 Bequests and gifts: Isham, Ralph, 1939-1953
box 35
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Isham, Ralph, 1939-1966
2 Bequests and gifts: Isham, Ralph, 1939-1966
3 Bequests and gifts: Isham, Ralph, 1939-1966
box 36
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Jackson, Huntington W., 1902
2 Bequests and gifts: Johnson, Florence M., 1929-1940
3 Bequests and gifts: Jones, Arthur B., 1914-1927
4 Bequests and gifts: Jones, Fred B., 1933-1937
5 Bequests and gifts: Keep, Albert, 1915-1939
6 Bequests and gifts: Kimball, Charles F., 1917-1934
7 Bequests and gifts: Lawson, Victor F., 1925-1952
8 Bequests and gifts: Lawson, Victor F., 1925-1952
9 Bequests and gifts: Lawson, Victor F., 1925-1952
10 Bequests and gifts: Lawson, Victor F., 1925-1952
box 37
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Lawson, Victor F. and Margaret E. Bertram, 1940
2 Bequests and gifts: Legacy Prepayment Fund, 1942-1951
3 Bequests and gifts: Lehmann, Augusta E., 1942-1951
4 Bequests and gifts: Lengacher, Oscar F., 1916
5 Bequests and gifts: Little, Arthur D., 1940-1941
6 Bequests and gifts: Lusch, Harry B., 1930-1931
7 Bequests and gifts: Matheson, Albert, 1950
8 Bequests and gifts: McCommon, George H., 1924-1937
9 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Cyrus H., 1924-1937
10 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Cyrus H., 1924-1937
11 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Cyrus H., 1924-1937
12 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Cyrus H., 1924-1937
13 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Cyrus H., 1924-1937
14 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H. (Nettie), 1920-1924
15 Bequests and gifts: McCormick, Mrs. Cyrus H. (Nettie), 1920-1924
16 Bequests and gifts: McCumber, Julia P., 1925
17 Bequests and gifts: McDonald, J. S. & Co., 1912
18 Bequests and gifts: MacLean, John Bartlett, 1939-1941
19 Bequests and gifts: MacQueen, Winfield N., 1941
20 Bequests and gifts: Mandel, Mrs. Emanuel, 1942-1949
21 Bequests and gifts: Marshall, Raphael P., 1949
22 Bequests and gifts: Martin, Alfred T., 1930-1931
23 Bequests and gifts: May, Alice Chapin, 1945-1949
24 Bequests and gifts: Mead, A. B., 1925-1926
25 Bequests and gifts: Messer, Elizabeth Garcelon, 1940-1941
26 Bequests and gifts: Messer, Elizabeth Garcelon, 1940-1941
27 Bequests and gifts: Messer, Loring Wilbur, 1923-1925
box 38
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Millard, Frank H., 1930-1939
2 Bequests and gifts: Miller, William C., 1932-1945
3 Bequests and gifts: Miller, William H., 1950
4 Bequests and gifts: Mixsell, Harry W., 1947-1950
5 Bequests and gifts: Murdock, Thomas, 1911-1916
6 Bequests and gifts: Murdock, Thomas, 1911-1916
7 Bequests and gifts: Nichols, Edgar H., 1916-1921
8 Bequests and gifts: Nobach, William J., 1950-1951
9 Bequests and gifts: Northern Trust Co., 1917
10 Bequests and gifts: Odeneal, William, 1922-1923
11 Bequests and gifts: Olmstead, Ralph W., 1946
12 Bequests and gifts: 111th Street Building, 1924
13 Bequests and gifts: Owings, May L., 1912-1942
14 Bequests and gifts: Owings, May L., 1912-1942
box 39
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Parker, Francis W., 1923-1939
2 Bequests and gifts: Parker, Helen Baker, 1947-1951
3 Bequests and gifts: Parkins, Elgin A., 1915-1917
4 Bequests and gifts: Porter, Frank W., 1935-1937
5 Bequests and gifts: Powell, Hannah B. Clark, 1935-1944
6 Bequests and gifts: Price, Edward V., 1935-1949
7 Bequests and gifts: Princeton Foundation, 1930-1932
8 Bequests and gifts: Reynolds, James L., 1874-1904
9 Bequests and gifts: Roempler, Henry O., 1925-1929
10 Bequests and gifts: Rollin, George A., 1918-1919, 1939
11 Bequests and gifts: Rosenwald, Julius, 1915-1920
12 Bequests and gifts: Rosenwald, Julius, 1915-1920
13 Bequests and gifts: Rutherford, Thomas A., 1930-1949
14 Bequests and gifts: Ryan, John., 1941
15 Bequests and gifts: Ryerson, Martin A., 1932
16 Bequests and gifts: Sage, Ellen, 1914
box 40
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Schoelkopf, Henry, and Henry Schoelkopf, Jr., 1931-1942
2 Bequests and gifts: Shultz, W. W., 1911
3 Bequests and gifts: Scott, George, 1914
4 Bequests and gifts: Shepard, Edward, 1922-1928
5 Bequests and gifts: Sidley, William P., 1937-1952
6 Bequests and gifts: Simpson, Tommy Memorial Camp Fund, 1949-1950
7 Bequests and gifts: Smith, Emaroy, June 19, 1942-1945
8 Bequests and gifts: South Chicago Building Fund, 1928-1929
9 Bequests and gifts: Southwell, Henry E., 1918
10 Bequests and gifts: Starkey, Emily, 1931
11 Bequests and gifts: Straus, Max, 1940
12 Bequests and gifts: Strohm, Charles E., 1941-1949
13 Bequests and gifts: Student Endowment Fund, 1938
14 Bequests and gifts: Swift, Ann M., 1923-1924
15 Bequests and gifts: Swift, G. F., 1904
16 Bequests and gifts: Templeton, Jessie Galbraith and Mary, 1932-1936
17 Bequests and gifts: Templeton, Hannah, 1933
18 Bequests and gifts: Templeton, Mary, 1916-1936
19 Bequests and gifts: Templeton, Robert, 1936-1939
20 Bequests and gifts: Templeton, Robert, 1936-1939
box 41
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Templeton, Thomas, 1912-1933
2 Bequests and gifts: Terry, Otis Norman (alias Gunderson), 1914-1918
3 Bequests and gifts: Thompson, Leverett, 1921
4 Bequests and gifts: Trice, Sandy W., 1951
5 Bequests and gifts: Van Cleef, Frances G., 1956
6 Bequests and gifts: Van Dusen, Martin C., 1936-1937
7 Bequests and gifts: Ward, Elizabeth J., 1926-1927
8 Bequests and gifts: Washington Park Department Endowment Fund, 1949
9 Bequests and gifts: Watson, William J., 1940
10 Bequests and gifts: Watson, William J., 1940
11 Bequests and gifts: Watson, William J., 1940
box 42
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Watson, William J., 1950-1965
2 Bequests and gifts: Watson, William J., 1950-1965
3 Bequests and gifts: Weber, Harry P., 1941-1952
4 Bequests and gifts: Werkmeister, Mrs. Minnie, 1941
5 Bequests and gifts: Westgate, William T. 1937-1940
6 Bequests and gifts: Westside Professional Schools Building Fund
7 Bequests and gifts: Wheeler, Arthur D., 1912
8 Bequests and gifts: Wheeler, Gilbert C., 1912-1914
box 43
folders:
1 Bequests and gifts: Williams, Hobart W., 1885-1939
2 Bequests and gifts: Willing, Henry J., 1904
3 Bequests and gifts: Wilson, Frank D., 1949
4 Bequests and gifts: Wolfe, Mary E., 1932
5 Bequests and gifts: Wyant, A. R. E. Eri Hubert Wyant Fund, 1940-1945
6 Bequests and gifts: Zeis, Oliver M., 1931-1945
Series 3. Board of Managers, 1858-1975 (box 43-87)
Subseries 1. Meeting
minutes, 1858-1975 (box 43-50 & vol. 13-27)
Volumes(unboxed) that are stacked on shelf in order
by each volume number:
Vol. 13 1858-88 (original)
Vol. 14 1858-88 (typescript copy)
Vol. 15 1889-1900 (original)
Vol. 16 1901-1910 (original)
Vol. 17 1889-191910 (typescript copy)
Vol. 18 1911-1924
Vol. 19 1925-1934
Vol. 20 1935-1940
Vol. 21 1941-45
Vol. 22 1946-1948
Vol. 23 1949-1951
Vol. 24 1952-1954
Vol. 25 1955-1957
Vol. 26 1958-1960
Vol. 27 1961-1962
box 43 - continued:
7 1963-1964
box 44
1-3 Minutes: 1965-February 1966
box 45
1-4 March 1966-January 1967
box 46
1-5 February 1967-February 1968
box 47
1-5 February 1968-January 1969
box 48
1-3 February 1969-December 1970
box 49
1-3 1971-1973
box 50
1 1974-1975
Series 3. Board of
Managers, 1858-1975 (box 43-87) -
continued:
Subseries 2. Reports
to board of managers, 1900-1963 (box 50-
box 50 - continued:
2-4 1900-1901
box 51
1-7 1901-1903
box 52
1 1904 (1 vol.)
box 53
1 1905 (1 vol.)
2-3 1906
box 54
1-6 1907-1910
box 55
1-6 1910-1913
box 56
1-5 1913-1915
box 57
1-7 1916-1922
box 58
1-7 1923-1929
box 59
1-6 1930-1934
box 60
1-6 1935-1938
box 61
1-7 1939-1942
box 62
1-7 1942-1946
box 63
1-6 1946-1949
box 64
1-6 1949-1952
box 65
1-6 1952-1955
box 66
1-6 1955-1958
box 67
1-6 1958-1960
box 68
1-6 1961-April 1963
box 69
1 May-June 1963
Series 3. Board of
Managers, 1858-1975 (box 43-87) - continued:
Subseries 3. Committee
minutes and reports, 1890-1975 (box 69-84 & vol. 28-43)
box 69 - continued:
folders:
2 Building Committee, 189--1892
Vol. 28 Business Committee, 1923-1934
Vol. 29 Business Committee, 1935-1940
Vol. 30 Business Committee, 1941-1945
Vol. 31 Business Committee, 1946-1950
Vol. 32 Business Committee, 1951-1956
Vol. 33 Business Committee, 1957-1963
box 69 - continued:
folders:
7-9 Business Committee, 1958-1962
box 70
folders:
1 General Agencies Committee 1932-1944 also known as Committee on Relations with Other Agencies
2 Inner City Fund Committee, 1961
3 Inter-Agency Projects Committee, 1964
4 Minutes: Investment Committee, 1961-1963, 1966-1969
5 Minutes: Marketing Committee, 1963-1966 merged with Program Committee, 1966
Vol. 35 1928-1957
Vol. 36 1958-1963
6 Minutes: Metropolitan Board Development Committee 1946-1962 name changed from Lay Leadership Committee, 1962
7 Minutes: Metropolitan Board Development Committee 1946-1962 name changed from Lay Leadership Committee, 1962
8 Minutes" Metropolitan YMCA Women's Board, 1958-1964
Vol. 37 1932-1960
9 Minutes: Nomination Committee, 1961-1962
10 Minutes: Operations and Management Services Committee 1966-1968 name changed from Financial Operations Committee, 1966
Vol. 38 1938-1949
Vol. 39 1951-1959
11 Minutes: Personnel Committee, 1960-1964
12 Minutes: Planning Committee, 1963-1966 name changed from Research and Planning Committee, 1966
box 71
folders:
1-3 Minutes: Planning Committee 1967
Vol. 40 1933-1952
Vol. 41 1953-1959
Vol. 42 1960-1963
4 Minutes: Program & Membership Committee 1963-1964. Program Committee & Membership Committee combined, 1963
5 Minutes: Program Marketing Committee 1966-1969. Program Committee & Marketing Committee combined, 1966
6 Minutes: Public Relations Committee, 1964-1968
7-9 Minutes: Real Estate Committee, 1932-1944
box 72
folders:
1 Minutes:
Real Estate Committee, 1945-1949
Vol. 43 1950-1960
2 Minutes: Real Estate Committee, 1961-1966
3 Minutes: Staff Planning Commission, 1968-1969
4 Minutes: Student Project Committee, 1961-1962
5 Minutes: Urban Action Commission, 1968
6 Minutes: Voting Members Meet Committee, 1950-1963
7 World Service Committee, 1950-1963
8 Y-Inventors' Club Committee, 1957-1960
9-10 Records: Business Committee, 1961-1963
box 73
folders:
1 Records: Business & Operations Committee, 1963
2 Records: Committee for Detached Workers report, 1966
3-4 Records: Executive Committee, 1960-1961, 1963-1965
box 74
folders:
1-2 Records: Executive Committee, 1966-1970
box 75
folders:
1-4 Records: Executive Committee, 1971-1975
5 Records: Financial Operations Committee, 1964
box 76
folders:
1-2 Records: Financial Operations Committee, 1965
3-6 Records: Future Plans Committee, 1946-1954
box 77
folders:
1-4 Records: Future Plans Committee, 1955-1958
box 78
folders:
1-2 Records: Future Plans Committee, 1959-1962
box 79
folders:
1-4 Records: Investment Committee, 1970-1972, 1974-1975
box 80
folders:
1 Records: Metropolitan YMCA Women's Board, 1963-1967
2-4 Records: Operations & Management Services Committee, 1966-1967
box 81
folders:
1-2 Records: Operations & Management Services Committee, 1966-1967
box 82
folders:
1-2 Records: Operational Policy Committee, 1970-1972
box 83
folders:
1-5 Records: Operational Policy Committee, 1973-1975
box 84
folders:
1 Records: Organization Planning Committee resource material, 1963
Series 3. Board of
Managers, 1858-1975 (box 50-87) -
continued:
Subseries 4.
Treasurer's Reports and Budgets 1939-1966
box 84 - continued:
folders:
2-4 Treasurer's reports, 1939-1966
5 Budget, 1957
box 85
folders:
1-4 Budgets, 1958, 1960-1961, 1963
box 86
folders:
1 Budget, 1964
Series 3. Board of managers,
1858-1975 (box 43-87) - continued:
Subseries 5. Voting members'
annual meetings 1939-1970 (box 86-87 & vol. 44)
Note: Sound recordings related to the annual meetings, 1955-1970 & undated, are described in more detail under box 190-191 in this container list.
box 86 - continued:
folders:
2-7 Annual meeting transcripts, 1939-1948, 1950-1953
box 87
folders:
1-2 Annual meeting transcripts, 1954-1955, 1957-1959
Vol. 44 100th annual meeting correspondence, tributes 1958
Series 4. General Secretaries'
papers, 1881-1965 (box 87-116):
Subseries 1. L.
Wilbur Messer corres. & scrapbooks, ca. 1881-1935 (box 87-90 & vol.
45-48)
missing vol. 47
box 87 - continued:
folders:
3 "The Attitude and Relation of the Association to the Federations of Social Agencies and to Financial Federations" by L. Wilbur Messer, 1920
4 Biography of Messer - orders for copies, 1934-1935
5-9 Board of Managers: reports to, 1888-1894
box 88
folders:
1-2 Board of Managers: reports to, 1895-96
3 Building costs and values, ca. 1890
4 Building insurance, undated
5 Building subscriptions and plans, ca. 1890
6-9 Correspondence, 1889-1896
10 Corres. & other docs. re. construction of YMCA building on LaSalle Street, ca. 1892
11-14 Correspondence, 1893, 1897, 1899-1911
box 89
folders:
1-6 Correspondence, 1912-1914, 1917-1923, undated
7 Department: Austin, undated
8 Department: Immigration Department, 1912-1913
9 Department: Morgan Park, 1913
10 Department: North Side, undated
11 Finances - collateral which the YMCA offers for loans, 1917
12 "L. Wilbur Messer, an Appreciation and Interpretation" by Ralph Cook
13 Minutes, general, ca. 1910 and undated
14 News clippings, history of YMCA and general, 1908-1914 and undated
14 Reports and descriptions of YMCA work, undated
14 Report on relation of YMCA to the church, 1913
Vol. 45 Scrapbook of news clippings, leaflets, etc., 1880s-ca. 1895
Vol. 46 Scrapbook of programs and correspondence, 1883-1905
Vol. 48 Scrapbook of news clippings and correspondence, 1922-1923
box 90
folders:
1 Shanghai Young Men; Hong Kong Young Men, 1914
2 Statistics on YMCA work, 1917-1919
3 World tour memorabilia - programs, schedules, bulletins, 1913-1914
4 World tour newspaper clippings, 1913-1914
5 World tour travel letters, 1913-1914
6 Miscellaneous, undated
Series 4. General
Secretaries' papers, 1881-1965 (box 87-116) - continued
Subseries 2. William
J. Parker files, ca. 1910-ca. 1939 (box 90-95)
box 90 - continued:
folders:
7-10 Constitutional Convention: background materials, 1923
11 Constitutional Convention: Committee of 33 and financing of general agencies, 1923-1924
box 91
folders:
1 Constitutional Convention: National Council budget information, 1923-1926
2 Department: Committee on Business and Administrative Efficiency, 1914-1917
3 Department: Educational Department, ca. 1915
4 Department: committee and commission minutes and reports, 1916-1919
5-7 Insurance: Association Mutual Insurance Company, 1914-1918
box 92
folders:
1-3 Insurance: Association Mutual Insurance Company, 1919-1923
4-7 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: correspondence, ca. 1910-1930
8 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: reports and statistics, 1918-1927
box 93
folders:
1 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Akron
2 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Atlanta
3 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Atlantic City
4 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Baltimore
5 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Brooklyn
6 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Buffalo
7 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Cincinnati
8 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Cleveland
9 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Columbus
10 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Dallas
11 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Dayton
12 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Denver
13 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Detroit
14 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Evanston
15 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Germantown
16 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Germantown YWCA
17 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Hartford
18 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
19 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Indianapolis
box 94
folders:
1 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Indianapolis YWCA
2 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Jacksonville
3 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Jersey City
4 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Kansas City, Missouri
5 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Little Rock
6 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Los Angeles
7 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Montclair, New Jersey
8 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Nashville
9 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Newark
10 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: New Orleans
11 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: New York City
12 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: New York City YWCA
13 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Oakland
14 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Oakland YWCA
15 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Orange, New Jersey
16 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Philadelphia
17 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Philadelphia YWCA
18 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Pittsburgh
19 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Richmond
20 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: San Francisco
21 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Seattle
22 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: St. Augustine, Florida
23 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: St. Louis
24 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: St. Paul
25 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Toledo
box 95
folders:
1 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
2 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Washington, D.C.
3 Rosenwald, Julius, & colored YMCAs: Youngstown, Ohio
Series 4. General
Secretaries' papers, 1881-1965 (box 87-116) - continued:
Subseries 3. Frank A.
Hathaway, Lloyd L. McClow, John O. Root, ca. 1927-1965
(box 95-116)
box 95 - continued:
folders:
4 "Aids to Executive Effectiveness" by L. L. McClow 1944
5-14 Annual Meetings, 1949-1958
box 96
folders:
1-2 Annual meetings, 1959-1960
3 Bequests and funds, 1930-ca. 1952
4 Bequests - Albert Dickinson estate, ca. 1936-ca. 1954
5 Board of Managers: memos and miscellaneous, 1952-1960
6 Board of Managers: Nomination Committee, 1958-1961
7 Board of Managers sections: architectural, ca. 1955-1963
8 Board of Managers sections: auditing, 1954-1959
9 Board of Managers sections: community and contributions, 1951-1955
10 Board of Managers sections: development program, 1961
11 Board of Managers sections: financial services, 1951-1955
12 Board of Managers sections: general, 1952-1957
13 Board of Managers sections: maintenance, 1962
14 Board of Managers sections: membership and centennial fund, ca. 1961-1963
15 Board of Managers sections: personnel, 1954-ca. 1962
16 Board of Managers sections: program, 1949-1963
box 97
folders:
1 Board of Managers sections: public relations, 1952-1961
2 Board of Managers sections: purchasing, 1952-1961
3 Board of Trustees miscellaneous, 1938-1960
4 Building and capital needs committee, 1957-1960
5 Building office (property management, real estate, etc.), 1961-1963
6 Camps: Kroehler, Rodney camp, ca. 1953-1963
7 Camps: Nawakwa camp, ca. 1929 and undated
8 Community Fund of Chicago, 1955-1956
9 Contributions, 1951-1960
10-11 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: A-B
12 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Bates, George A.
13 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: C
14 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Christmas letters
15 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: D-E
box 98
folders:
1-3 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: F-H
4 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Isham, Mrs. Ralph
5-7 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: J-L
8 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Leslie, John W.
9 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: M
10 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Marsh, Fletcher A.
11 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: McClow memorial fund
12-13 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: P, S,
14 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Sears Roebuck
15-17 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: T, V-W
18 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Wieboldt Foundation
19 Correspondence, alphabetical, ca. 1954-1965: Miscellaneous 1956-1962
20 Department: departmental appraisals, committee on standards forms, etc., 1949 and undated
21 Department: Auburn-Highland, 1948-1960
22 Department: Austin, 1953-1956
23 Department: Beverly, 1948-1959
24 Department: Central, ca. 1951-ca. 1952
box 99
folders:
1 Department: Central, ca. 1957-ca. 1963
2 Department: Central - junior college committee, 1960
3 Department: Central YMCA College: bulletins, news stories, public opinion reports, etc., 1945
4 Department: Central YMCA College: Dr. Works' report of 1943, F.R. Dunn's these of 1940
5 Department: Chatham, ca. 1950-ca. 1963
6 Department: Chinese Young Men's Christian Institute, 1900-1947
7 Department: Clearing, 1950-ca. 1956
8 Department: Division Street, 1948-1963
box 100
folders:
1 Department: Downers Grove, 1954-1963
2 Department: Duncan, 1935-1963
3-4 Department: Duncan-Logan Square, 1921-1963
5 Department: Duncan-Maxwell Street, 1951-1963
6 Department: Duncan-North Avenue, 1952-1963
7 Department: Elmhurst, 1952-1961
8-9 Department: Harvey, 1943-1959
10-11 Department: High Ridge, 1950-1954
box 101
folders:
1-2 Department: Hotel, 1927-1963
3 Department: Hotel, depreciation reserve policy, 1940-1949
4 Department: Hotel, racial discrimination case, Samuel Outlaw, 1961
5 Department: Hyde Park, 1949-1963
box 102
folders:
1-3 Department: Ilg Park, Robert A. Ilg (formerly Skokie Valley Department), 1954-1962
4 Department: Irving Park, 1954-1962
5 Department: Isham, Ralph, 1951-1963
box 103
folders:
1 Department: Japanese Young Men's Christian Institute, ca. 1927-1947
2 Department: Laundry, 1948-1961
3 Department: Lawson, 1937-1962
4 Department: Lincoln-Belmont, 1928-1962
5 Department: Maxwell Street, 1930-1931
6 Department: Medical Center (West Side Professional Schools) plans for new building, ca. 1938-1952
7 Department: Medical Center, 1944-1959
box 104
folders:
1 Department: Mont Clare-Leyden, 1951-1963
2 Department: Northwest Suburban, 1954-1963
3 Department: 111th Street, 1942-1963
4 Department: Palos-Orland Park, 1959-1963
5 Department: Park Forest, 1954
6-7 Department: Park Ridge, 1953-1963
box 105
folders:
1 Department: Ravenswood, 1952-1963
2 Department: Sears Roebuck, 1947-1963
3 Department: South Chicago, 1946-1963
4-5 Department: South Shore, 1946-1963
6 Department: Southtown, 1949-1958
box 106
folders:
1 Department: Southtown, 1959-1963
2-3 Department: Southwest suburban, 1953-1963
4 Department: Wabash Avenue, 1950-1963
5-7 Department: Washington Park, 1946-1963
box 107
folders:
1 Department: Washington Park building campaign: Correspondence and other, 1945-1946
2 Department: Washington Park building campaign: General, ca. 1946
3 Department: Washington Park building campaign: Cost study ca., 1948
4 Department: Washington Park building campaign: General, 1952
5 Department: Washington Park building campaign: List of industrial prospects ca., 1952
6 Department: Washington Park building campaign: West Communities, 1948-1963
7 Department: Washington Park building campaign: West Suburban, 1946-1954
box 108
folders:
1-2 Department: Washington Park building campaign: West Suburban, 1954-1963
3 Employed Officers' Alliance, 1955-1960
4 General Agencies, 1932-1955
5-7 General Secretary's Cabinet fall conference, 1953-1958, 1961
8 Personnel policies, 1954-1962
box 109
folders:
1 Reports: Expansion Survey Report number 1, 1949
2 Reports: Expansion Survey Reports number 2 & 3, 1950
3 Reports: Survey of public opinion for the YMCA, 1950
4 Reports: Operating procedures report, 1959
5 Reports: Six Targets for 1951, Chicago YMCA
6 Reports: Six Targets for 1951, progress report
7 Reports: Six Targets for 1951, final report
8 Union matters, 1946
box 110
1-2 Union matters, 1946-1947
3 United Nations, 1955-1957
4 University of Good Government, ca. 1951
5 United Service Organization (USO), 1949-1961
6 Volunteers, ca. 1947-ca. 1951
7 Voting members, 1940-1956
box 111
folders:
1-3 George Williams College, 1949-1961
4 George Williams College: Alumni address directory, 1962
5 George Williams College: Cooperative planning committee, 1957-1959
6 George Williams College: Presidential inauguration, 1961
7 Women's Board, 1958-1960
8 Women and girls work, 1939-1962
box 112
folders:
1-3 World Alliance, 1951-1962
4 World Alliance: Centennial, 1954-1955
5 World Alliance: Executive committee, 1958-1960
box 113
folders:
1-2 World Alliance: meeting reports
3 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: formation of, 1950-1952
4 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: board, constitution and by-laws, 1957-1961
5 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: mailings, and membership information, 1955-1961
6 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: correspondence, miscellaneous, 1955-1960
7 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: correspondence, miscellaneous, 1955-1960
box 114
folders:
1 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: correspondence: L.A. Moyse, Charles Tidball, Douglas Deane, 1958-1960
2 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: correspondence: Douglas Deane, 1958-1960
3 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: correspondence: Kurt Miethke, L.A. Moyse, Charles Tidball, etc., 1961-1962
4 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: European conference, 1962
5 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: Finances, 1956-1960
6 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: General, 1950-1955
7 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: Geneva meeting, 1961
8 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: Library, 1956-1958
9 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: North American Association of Secretaries, 1953-1960
10 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: North American Association of Secretaries, 1953-1960
box 115
folders:
1-10 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: Other countries A-Z, 1955-1962
11 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: Retirement matters, 1960-61
12 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: "Secretary" (publication), 1956-1962
13 World Federation of Associations of Secretaries: Special project, 1961-1962
14 World service, ca. 1953-1960
box 116
1 World service - - new building in Athens, Greece, 1957
2 Youth of Chicagoland survey by Sears Roebuck, undated
3 Youth citizenship luncheon, 1951-1961
Series 5.
Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177):
Subseries 1. General
Secretary's cabinet agendas and reports (box 116-122)
box 116 - continued:
5-7 Minutes of executive secretaries' meetings, 1913-1925
8 Bulletins to executive secretaries, 1926-1928
box 117
1-5 Bulletins to executive secretaries, 1928-1936
box 118
1-2 Bulletins to executive secretaries, 1936-1939
3-6 Meeting agendas, 1939-1954
box 119
1-5 Meeting agendas, 1954-1956
box 120
1-6 Meeting agendas, 1957-1959
box 121
1-6 Meeting agendas, 1959-1960
box 122
1-6 Meeting agendas, 1960-1962
Series 5. Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 2.
Operations manuals and reports 1861-1971 (box 123-126)
box 123
folders:
1 Constitution and by-laws, 1861-
2 Policies and practices manuals, 1861-1939
3-5 Policies and practices manuals: F. A. Hathaway's copies, 1935-1951
6 Business manual, 1916-1921
7 "How the Association Conducts Its Business Affairs", 1928
8 Center Board Handbook, 1921
9 Policy and practice reinvestments in residences, 1938
10 Personnel salary schedules, 1942, 1944-1948
11 Personnel manual, 1954
box 124
1 Membership policy and practices manuals, 1939-1951
2-4 Tools, information bulletins of program services offices, 1948-1956
5-7 Administration 221, training course for Y secretaries, 1946-1947
box 125
1-3 Administration 329, training course for Y secretaries, 1945-1947
4 Interpretation of Y programs manual, 1948-1949
5 Training manual, 1947-1948
6-8 Public relations literature manual and samples, 1945-1949
box 126
1 Public relations literature manual and samples, 1946-1948
2-5 Religious literature samples, 1940-1959
6 Report on structure and organization of YMCA, 1940
7-8 Power plant studies, 1935-1939, 1939-1943
9 "Administrative Duties & Responsibilities of Section Heads of the Board of Managers", 1953
10 Employee morale study, 1957
11 Employee value patterns study, undated
12-13 Y Inventors Club manual and reports, 1955-1960
Series 5. Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 3.
Comptroller's reports, 1931-1965 (box 127-134)
box 127
1-5 Auditor's reports, 1931-1938
6 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1939
box 128
1-4 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1940-1942, 1945
box 129
1-3 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1946, 1949-1950
box 130
1-3 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1951-1953
box 131
1-3 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1954-1956
box 132
1-3 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1957-1959
box 133
1-3 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1960-1962
box 134
1-2 Comptroller's report with report of productive funds, 1963, 1965
Series 5. Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 4. Reports
to National Council, 1936-1948 (box 134-136)
box 134 - continued:
3-4 Reports to National Council, 1936-1937
box 135
1-7 Reports to National Council, 1938-1944
box 136
1-4 Reports to National Council, 1945-1948
Series 5. Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 5.
Miscellaneous records, 1861-1970 (box 136-148)
box 136 - continued:
folders:
5 YMCA of Chicago act of incorporation 1861, 1867, and suit to amend 1873
6 Old property matters, 1888-1898
7 Resale of stock to finance building project, 1889-1891
8 Young Men's Era Publishing Company: Statements & memos re. transfer of ownership from W.W. Vanarsdale, 1889-1892
9 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Minutes of corporate meeting 1890
10 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Executive Committee reports 1890-1893
box 137
1 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Correspondence and agreements 1891-1901
2 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Bond agreements and stock certificates 1832
3 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Monthly statements of income &expenditures 1890-1894
4 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Insurance policies, leases, miscellaneous receipts 1894-1895
5 Young Men's Era Publishing Co.: Copyright registrations and royalty accounts 1893-1895
6-7 Alumni Endowment Fund 1900-1901 (2 vols.)
box 138
folders:
1 Subscription books, 1868-1870, 1898-1907 (53 vols.)
2 "Question between Mr. L.W. Messer and the Physical Section Committee of the Central Department," 1905
3 50th anniversary of Chicago YMCA: Life sketches of secretaries, 1908
4 50th anniversary of Chicago YMCA: Proceedings and programs, 1908
box 139
folders:
1 50th anniversary of Chicago YMCA: Citizens Advisory Committee minutes and correspondence, 1907-1908
2 50th anniversary of Chicago YMCA: Citizens Advisory Committee-James B. Forgan papers correspondence, 1908
3 Forgan, James B. (Board of Trustees) papers 1910-1913
4 Reports on investigation of cheap lodging houses 1911
5 YMCA Employed Officers Conference 1911-1913
6 "Report of the Committee of Five" Seldon P. Spencer, chairman, tentative draft 1913
7 Employees bond 1914
8 War work 1917, 1919
9 Membership of the Board of Trustees, prepared by W.J. Parker 1919
9a Richard Fairchild - Henry Osgood correspondence, Ian. 1919
10 Expansion plan 1920
box 140
folders:
1 Expansion plan survey 1921 (1 vol.)
2 Parker, W.J. "YMCA Report on Investments" 1922
3 Butler, Arthur Percival "A Study of a Young Men's Christian Association Dormitory", University of Chicago M.A. thesis 1924 (1 vol.)
4 Hogan, Ralph Montague: "The Technique of Activity and Trait Analysis Applied toYMCA Executive Secretaries as a Basis for Curricular Materials", University of Chicago dissertation 1927 (1 vol.)
box 141
folders:
1 Hogan, Ralph Montague: "Activities of YMCA Executive Secretaries: A Shortened-Form Analysis of a List of Activities as Derived in Connection with the Dissertation" 1927 (1 vol.)
2-3 Hogan, Ralph Montague: "Activities of YMCA Executive Secretaries: A Complete Analysis of List of Activities as Derived in Connection with the Dissertation" 1927 (2 vols.)
box 142
folders:
1-3 Expansion plan 1928
4-9 Work with women and girls 1927-1941
10 Century of Progress: Committee minutes and reports 1933
box 143
folders:
1 Century of Progress: Miscellaneous materials 1933-1934
2 Century of Progress: Report 1933
3 Century of Progress: Reports 1934
3a Edy, Sherwood, "The Delta Cooperative Farm". 1936
4 Hart, Waler T. "Reminiscences Of-An-Idle-Hour" 1936
5-9 Westgate, William T. estate papers 1936-1938
box 144
folders:
1 Westgate, William T. estate papers 1864-1938
2 Zeigler, Dr. L. C. H. E. correspondence and memoranda 1938-1949
3 United Service Organization (USO) 1945-1946
4 YMCA Was Prisoners Aid 1944-1945
5-6 Index to publications ca. 1920s
box 145
folders:
1-2 Hart, Fred J. correspondence 1944-1945
3 Public opinion survey
4 Expansion survey reports 1949
5 Washington Park building fund contributions 1946-1952
box 146
folders:
1-3 Washington Park building fund contributions 1946-1952
4 Washington Park/Wabash contributions 1955-1958
Shelf McClow Fund, Southside Building Fund, Centennial Fund pledge cards 1946-1963 (in card file box)
5 Descendants of original corporate members, Chicago YMCA 1958
6 Wyant, Dr. Andrew R. E.: Pamphlets 1929-1964
box 147
folders:
1-3 Wyant, Dr. Andrew R. E.: Papers and correspondence 1957-1964
4 Wyant, Dr. Andrew R. E.: Drafts of papers about Wyant 1964
5 YMCA National Council meeting 1958
6 Vault check-out sheets 1960-1963
7 International Hospitality Center of Chicago 1962-1968
8 Youth Legislature materials 1963, 1965, 1967
box 148
folders:
1 "Gangs and Universities" by James F. Short 1967
2 News releases 1968-1970
3 "The Personal Finances of the Secretary" by P.C. Dix, undated
4 Chicago Central College of Commerce of the YMCA Real Estate Law syllabus, undated
5 Biographies of boys' work secretaries, undated
6 Biographies - index cards, undated
Series 5. Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 6. News
clippings and leaflets 1887-1980 (box 148-172 & vol. 49-72)
Vol. 49 Programs, notices, news clippings 1887-1903
box 148 - continued
folders:
7 YMCA buildings & facilities in other cities ca. 1890-1903 (1 vol.)
Vol. 50 50th anniversary: News clippings, programs 1908
Vol. 51 50th anniversary: Financial campaign 1908-1910
box 149
folders:
1-2 50th anniversary: 50th anniversary fund - clippings, leaflets 1910-1911 (2 vols.)
box 150
folders:
1 50th anniversary: Samples of printed matter, news clippings 1910
Vol. 52 Religious revivals - news clippings 1911-1912
Vol. 53 Membership campaign - mailings & news clippings 1916
Vol. 54 Foreign students activities - McKinlock campus 1916-1933
2 News clippings: 1917
Vol. 55 News clippings: February-October 1917
Vol. 56 News clippings: January-August 1924
Vol. 57 News clippings: September 1924-February 1925
Vol. 58 News clippings: February-August 1925
Vol. 59 News clippings: January-April 1926
Vol. 60 News clippings: August-November 1926
Vol. 61 News clippings: August 1926-February 1927
Vol. 62 News clippings: November 1926-February 1927
Vol. 63 News clippings: February-April 1927
Vol. 64 News clippings: February-August 1927
Vol. 65 News clippings: April-August 1927
Vol. 66 News clippings: August-December 1927
Vol. 67 News clippings: November 1938-January 1943
Vol. 68 News clippings: January 1943-July 1944
Vol. 69 YMCA Centennial: Report of Centennial Plans Committee 1944
Vol. 70 YMCA Centennial: Chicago's observance of YMCA Centennial 1944
box 150 - continued:
folders:
3-4 News clippings: 1952-1953
box 151
folders:
1-2 News clippings: 1954
box 152
folders:
1-2 News clippings: 1955
box 153
folders:
1-2 News clippings: 1956
Vol. 71 News clippings: 1956-1958
box 154
folders:
1-4 News clippings: January-June 1957
box 155
folders:
1-4 News clippings: July 1957-January 1958
box 156
folders:
1-5 News clippings: February-May 1958
box 157
folders:
1-5 News clippings: June-November 1958, 1959
box 158
folders:
1-3 News clippings: October-December 1960
4 News clippings: 103rd annual meeting 1961
5-6 News clippings: June-September 1962
box 159
folders:
1-2 News clippings: October-December 1962
3-5 News clippings: January-May 15, 1964
box 160
folders:
1-4 News clippings: May 16-December 1964
5-7 News clippings: 1965-1967
box 161
folders:
1 News clippings: 1968
2 Chicagoland YMCA reports 1967-1972
Vol. 72 Report on "Making a New YMCA Symbol" 1968
box 161 - continued
folders:
3 News clippings: 1969
4 News clippings: Finance campaign March-April 1970
5-12 News clippings: April, June-December 1970
13-23 News clippings: January-November 1971
box 162
folders:
1-9 News clippings: December 1971-August 1972
10 News clippings: Community Employment Training, 1972
11 News clippings: Urban programs 1972-1973
12 News clippings: Daycare 1972-1974
13 News clippings: Fundraising 1972-1974
14 News clippings: 1972-1973
15 News clippings: January-August 1974
16 News clippings: January-August 1974
box 163
folders:
1-2 News clippings: June-November 1974
3-6 News clippings: 1976-1979
7 Department 1967-1972 Auburn
8 Department 1967-1972 Berwyn-Cicero
9 Department 1967-1972: Central Community College
10 Department 1967-1972: Countryside
11 Department 1967-1972: Division Street
12 Department 1967-1972: Elmhurst
13 Department 1967-1972: Harvey Memorial
14 Department 1967-1972: Hyde Park
box 164
folders:
1 Department 1967-1972: Indian Boundary
2 Department 1967-1972: Irving Park
3 Department 1967-1972: Isham Memorial
4 Department 1967-1972: Lawson
5 Department 1967-1972: Leaning Tower
6 Department 1967-1972: Lincoln-Belmont
7 Department 1967-1972: Northwest Suburban
8 Department 1967-1972: Mont Clare-Leyden
9 Department 1967-1972: Northwest Youth Outreach
10 Department 1967-1972: 111th Street
11 Department 1967-1972: Park Ridge
12 Department 1967-1972: Ravenswood
13 Department 1967-1972: Sears Roebuck
14 Department 1967-1972: Southtown
15 Department 1967-1972: Southwest
16 Department 1967-1972: Symons
17 Department 1967-1972: Wabash Avenue
18 Department 1967-1972: Wabash Community Services
19 Department 1967-1972: Washington Park Day Care
20 Department 1967-1972: West Communities
21 Department 1967-1972: West Suburban
22 Department 1972-1974: Auburn
23 Department 1972-1974: Austin
24 Department 1972-1974: Camps
25 Department 1972-1974: Camp Martin Johnson
box 165
folders:
1 Department 1972-1974: Central YMCA Schools
2 Department 1972-1974: Chatham
3 Department 1972-1974: Harvey Memorial
4 Department 1972-1974: High Ridge
5 Department 1972-1974: Hotel
6 Department 1972-1974: Hyde Park
7 Department 1972-1974: Indian Boundary
8 Department 1972-1974: Irving Park
9 Department 1972-1974: Isham Memorial
10 Department 1972-1974: Lawson
11 Department 1972-1974: Leaning Tower
12 Department 1972-1974: Lincoln-Belmont
13 Department 1972-1974: Metropolitan Office
box 166
folders:
1 Department 1972-1974: Mont Clare-Leyden
2 Department 1972-1974: North Suburban
3 Department 1972-1974: Northwest District Youth Outreach
4 Department 1972-1974: Northwest Suburban
5 Department 1972-1974: 111th Street
6 Department 1972-1974: Park Ridge
7 Department 1972-1974: Ravenswood
8 Department 1972-1974: Sears Roebuck
9 Department 1972-1974: South Shore
10 Department 1972-1974: Southtown
11 Department 1972-1974: Southwest
12 Department 1972-1974: Symons
13 Department 1972-1974: Transportation Centers
14 Department 1972-1974: Washington Park
15 Department 1972-1974: West Communities
16 Department 1972-1974: West Suburban
17 Subject file 1975-1977: Adult Treatment Center
18 Subject file 1975-1977: Alcohol and drugs
19 Subject file 1975-1977: Answer columns
20 Subject file 1975-1977: Aquacenter
21 Subject file 1975-1977: Auto repair
22 Subject file 1975-1977: Awards
23 Subject file 1975-1977: Bicycle riding
24 Subject file 1975-1977: Black Achievers of Industry dinner 1974-1976
25 Subject file 1975-1977: Black Achievers of Industry dinner 1974-1976
26 Subject file 1975-1977: Black Achievers of Industry dinner 1974-1976
27 Subject file 1975-1977: Black firms
28 Subject file 1975-1977: Successful black people
29 Subject file 1975-1977: Board members
30 Subject file 1975-1977: Camping
31 Subject file 1975-1977: Central YMCA Community College (CYCC)
32 Subject file 1975-1977: Classes
33 Subject file 1975-1977: Class exams
34 Subject file 1975-1977: Coalition for United Community Action (CUCA)
35 Subject file 1975-1977: Coins
36 Subject file 1975-1977: College Level Examination Program (CLEP)
37 Subject file 1975-1977: Commencement
box 167
folders:
1 Subject file 1975-1977: Conferences and meetings
2 Subject file 1975-1977: Contests
3 Subject file 1975-1977: Crusade of Mercy
4 Subject file 1975-1977: Daycare
5 Subject file 1975-1977: Directories
6 Subject file 1975-1977: Driving
7 Subject file 1975-1977: Elections
8 Subject file 1975-1977: Events
9 Subject file 1975-1977: Football
10 Subject file 1975-1977: Fundraising
11 Subject file 1975-1977: Gifts and grants
12 Subject file 1975-1977: Ground-breaking
13 Subject file 1975-1977: Hockey
14 Subject file 1975-1977: Human and community development centers
box 168
folders:
1 Subject file 1975-1977: Hunting
2 Subject file 1975-1977: Hypnosis
3 Subject file 1975-1977: Interior decoration
4 Subject file 1975-1977: Jaycees
5 Subject file 1975-1977: Juveniles
6 Subject file 1975-1977: Learning for Living
7 Subject file 1975-1977: Life Experience Credentialing
8 Subject file 1975-1977: Mayor Daley Marathon
9 Subject file 1975-1977: Mayor's Office
10 Subject file 1975-1977: Mayor's Summer Youth Employment Program
11 Subject file 1975-1977: Miscellaneous
12 Subject file 1975-1977: Modeling
13 Subject file 1975-1977: Model Cities - Urban Progress Center
14 Subject file 1975-1977: News articles
15 Subject file 1975-1977: 19 South LaSalle
16 Subject file 1975-1977: NYPUM
17 Subject file 1975-1977: Obituary
18 Subject file 1975-1977: Open House
19 Subject file 1975-1977: Other agencies
20 Subject file 1975-1977: People
21 Subject file 1975-1977: Physical examinations
22 Subject file 1975-1977: Physical fitness
23 Subject file 1975-1977: Play lots
24 Subject file 1975-1977: Public Relations
25 Subject file 1975-1977: Quinn Chapel African Methodist Episcopal Church
26 Subject file 1975-1977: Reading
27 Subject file 1975-1977: Real estate
28 Subject file 1975-1977: Resource
box 169
folders:
1 Subject file 1975-1977: Reunions
2 Subject file 1975-1977: Sailing
3 Subject file 1975-1977: Security Technology
4 Subject file 1975-1977: Seminars
5 Subject file 1975-1977: Sewing
6 Subject file 1975-1977: Social Security
7 Subject file 1975-1977: Stamps
8 Subject file 1975-1977: "Struggle, Synthesis, Unity" mural
9 Subject file 1975-1977: Tiny tots activities
10 Subject file 1975-1977: Tours and trips
11 Subject file 1975-1977: Tri-Faith Employment and Training Corporation
12 Subject file 1975-1977: Vision screening
13 Subject file 1975-1977: Volunteers
14 Subject file 1975-1977: Welfare
15 Subject file 1975-1977: Women
16 Subject file 1975-1977: Workshops
17 Subject file 1975-1977: World service
18 Subject file 1975-1977: Wrestling
19 Subject file 1975-1977: Y-Indian Guide Tribe
20 Subject file 1975-1977: Yoga
21 Subject file 1975-1977: Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA)
22 Subject file 1978-1980: Adult Care: Classes
23 Subject file 1978-1980: Adult Care: Employment
24 Subject file 1978-1980: Adult Care: Homebound
25 Subject file 1978-1980: Adult Care: Information - referral
26 Subject file 1978-1980: Adult Care: Meals
27 Subject file 1978-1980: Adult Care: Transportation
28 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Canoeing
29 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Competitive
30 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Diving
31 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Handicapped
32 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Kayaking
33 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Learn to Swim
34 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Log burling
35 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Pre-school
36 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Sailing
37 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Skin diving - scuba diving
38 Subject file 1978-1980: Aquatics: Water exercises
39 Subject file 1978-1980: Camping: Day
40 Subject file 1978-1980: Camping: Resident
41 Subject file 1978-1980: Camping: School
42 Subject file 1978-1980: Camping: Seniors
43 Subject file 1978-1980: Camping: Special needs
44 Subject file 1978-1980: Camping: Wilderness
45 Subject file 1978-1980: Clubs & organizations
46 Subject file 1978-1980: Community development: Beautification
47 Subject file 1978-1980: Community development: Housing
48 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Alcohol and drugs
49 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Birth control
50 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Educational
51 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Family
box 170
folders:
1 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Incident
2 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Medical
3 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Outreach
4 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Runaway
5 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Street gang
6 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Suicide
7 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Transition Center
8 Subject file 1978-1980: Counseling: Vocational
9 Subject file 1978-1980: education: formal: college
10 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Formal: High school
11 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Formal: Resource information & material
12 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Art
13 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Classes
14 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Cooking
15 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Dance
16 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Dog obedience
17 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Hobbies
18 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Language
19 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Music
20 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Personal development
21 Subject file 1978-1980: Education: Informal: Physical development
22 Subject file 1978-1980: E&T: Comprehensive Employment & Training Act (CETA)
23 Subject file 1978-1980: E&T: Summer Youth
24 Subject file 1978-1980: Facility Development: Facility development or demise
25 Subject file 1978-1980: Facility Development: Open house
26 Subject file 1978-1980: Family programs - Family Focus
27 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Aerobics (dance exercises)
28 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Arica Psycho calisthenics
29 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Cardiac therapy - stress test
30 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Fitness Center promotion 1980
31 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness classes: General
box 171
folders:
1 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness classes: Seniors
2 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Jogging
3 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Massage
4 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Slim Living
5 Subject file 1978-1980: Fitness: Weights
6 Subject file 1978-1980: Fundraising
7 Subject file 1978-1980: Health education: Cardio-pulmonary resuscitation
8 Subject file 1978-1980: Health education: First aid
9 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Awards
10 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Black Achievers
11 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Board members
12 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Model United Nations
13 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Staff
14 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Volunteers
15 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: YMCA members
16 Subject file 1978-1980: Leadership development: Youth & government
17 Subject file 1978-1980: Meetings & events: Dinner parties, entertainment
18 Subject file 1978-1980: Meetings & events: Elections
19 Subject file 1978-1980: Meetings & events: Residence
20 Subject file 1978-1980: Meetings & events: Seminars, meetings, conventions
21 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Basketball
22 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Chess
23 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Golf
24 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Gymnastics
25 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Handball
26 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Handicapped
27 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Judo - karate
28 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Racquetball
box 172
folders:
1 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Self-defense - wrestling
2 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Skiing
3 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Tennis - platform tennis
4 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Track & field
5 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Volleyball
6 Subject file 1978-1980: Sports & recreation: Youth Basketball Association
Series 5. Metropolitan Office records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 7. Centennial Celebration Files, 1955-1958 (box 172-174 & vol. 73-77)
box 172 - continued
folders:
7 Centennial Fund Campaign: 1957-1958
8 Centennial Fund Campaign: Ketchum, Inc. (Public relations firm) 1956-1958
Vol. 73 Memoranda, bulletins and forms 1956-1958
Vol. 74 News clippings 1958
Vol. 75 Memos and reports 1958
box 172 - continued
folders:
9 Centennial Fund Campaign: Reports 1961-1965
10 Centennial Fund Campaign: Equipment inventory 1957-1958
11 Centennial Fund Campaign: Material on press conference 1957
12 Centennial Fund Campaign: Film title selections 1957
13 Centennial Fund Campaign: Film 1956-1958
14 Centennial Fund Campaign: Giving, special cabinet committee 1957
15 Centennial Fund Campaign: John B. Rogers payment schedules 1958
16 Centennial Fund Campaign: Giving by general employees 1957-1958
17 Centennial Fund Campaign: Plan, undated
18 Centennial Fund Campaign: Digest of workers' progress reports July 15, 1957
19 Centennial Fund Campaign: Correspondence and reports 1955-1957
20 Centennial Fund Campaign: Correspondence and reports 1955-1957
box 173
folders:
1 Centennial Fund Campaign: Correspondence and reports 1955-1957
2 Centennial Fund Campaign: Refusals and rejects 1955-1957
3 Centennial Fund Campaign: Progress report January 1958
4 Centennial Fund Campaign: Solicitation lists February 1958
5 Centennial Fund Campaign: Solicitation lists February 1958
6 Centennial Fund Campaign: Promotional literature 1952-1958
7 Centennial Fund Campaign: Letterhead
8 Centennial Events: 1957-1958
9 Centennial Events: "Y's Up" - presentation based on Great Enterprises 1958
10 Centennial Events: Youth opinion poll 1957
11 Centennial Events: Centennial suggestions, Dasho-Rogers, Inc. (public relations firm) 1957
12 Centennial Events: Spectacular March 22, 1958
13 Centennial Events: News clippings March 1958
14 Centennial Events: Public relations 1957-1958
15 Centennial Events: "Around the Y in Ninety Minutes" centennial program pageant suggestion for March 22, 1958
16 Centennial Events: Membership campaign 1957
17 Centennial Events: United membership promotion packet ca. 1957
18 Centennial Events: Youth conferences 1957
box 174
folders:
1 Centennial Events: Youth festival
2 Centennial Events: YMCA Centennials - Chicago and others 1951-1955
3 Centennial Events: YMCA Centennials - Chicago and others 1951-1955
Vol. 76 Youth conference planning 1957
Vol. 77 "Y's Up" centennial stage spectacular - publicity scrapbook 1957-1958
box 174 - continued
folders:
4 Centennial History: Committee minutes 1955
5 Centennial History: Correspondence 1956-1957
6 Centennial History: Great Enterprises - distribution of book by departments 1957-1958
7 Centennial History: Department quotas 1957
8 Centennial History: Colton, Ethan T. 1957
9 Centennial History: Dedmon, Emmet, 1955-1957
10 Centennial History: Dedmon, Emmett, drafts of chapters
11 Centennial History: Dedmon, Emmett, drafts of chapters
12 Centennial History: Research files of press releases, news clippings, pamphlets 1951-1956
Shelf Research notes for Great Enterprises (2 card file boxes)
Series 5. Metropolitan Office Records, 1861-1980 (box 116-177) - continued:
Subseries 8. Association of Retired Secretaries, L. Wilbur Messer Chapter, 1931-1964 (box 175-177)
box 175
1-4 Historical research notes, 1943-1953
5-12 Minutes of annual meetings, 1931-1961
box 176
1 Secretary's reports and project notes, 1934-1938
2-3 Financial reports and minutes, 1948-1960
4-9 Correspondence, 1942-1964 and undated
10 Member address lists, 1945-1964
box 177
1-2 Member personal data A-Z, 1942
3 Obituaries, 1949-1958
4 Chapter newsletter, 1933-1948
5-6 Chapter newsletter (Palm Sunday Bulletin), 1949-1964
7 Chapter memorial service programs, 1949-1963
8 National newsletter (Old Guard News), 1954-1964
Series 6. Department records,
1883-1977 (box 177-189 & vol. 78-150):
Subseries 1. Minutes
of Boards of directors 1908-1962 (vol. 78-149)
Vol. 78 Austin: 1913-1937
Vol. 79 Austin: 1938-1941
Vol. 80 Austin: 1942-1945
Vol. 81 Austin: 1946-1948
Vol. 82 Austin: 1949-1951
Vol. 83 Austin: 1952-1955
Vol. 84 Austin: 1956-1962
Vol. 85 Beverly: 1931-1950
Vol. 86 Central: 1913-1941
Vol. 87 Central: 1942-1951
Vol. 88 Central: 1952-1962
Vol. 89 Central YMCA College: 1935-1945
Vol. 90 Chatham: 1943-1955
Vol. 91 Division Street:
1913-1934
Vol. 92 Division Street:
1935-1947
Vol. 93 Division Street: 1948-1956
Vol. 94 Duncan: 1948-1946
Vol. 95 Duncan: 1947-1952
Vol. 96 Duncan: 1953-1959
Vol. 97 Harvey: 1944-1955
Vol. 98 Hotel: 1916-1938
Vol. 99 Hotel: January
1939-June 1948
Vol. 100 Hotel: July
1948-December 1949
Vol. 101 Hotel: January
1950-June 1951
Vol. 102 Hotel: July 1951-December 1953
Vol. 103 Hyde Park: 1913-1928
Vol. 104 Hyde Park: 1929-1942
Vol. 105 Hyde Park: 1943-1946
Vol. 106 Hyde Park: 1947-1949
Vol. 107 Hyde Park: 1950-1951
Vol. 108 Hyde Park: 1952-1953
Vol. 109 Irving Park: 1926-1944
Vol. 110 Irving Park: 1945-1949
Vol. 111 Irving Park: 1950-1954
Vol. 12 Lawson: 1931-1948
Vol. 113 Lincoln-Belmont: 1927-1942
Vol. 113 Belmont Community: 1914-1915
Vol. 114 Lincoln-Belmont: 1943-1945
Vol. 115 Maxwell Street: 1931-1955
Medical Center - see West-Side Professional Schools
Vol. 116 North Avenue-Larrabee: 1920-1930
Vol. 116 North Side Boys Club: 1908-1912
Vol. 116 North Avenue Community: 1915-1916
Vol. 116 North Avenue Larrabee Boys Club: 1916-1920
Vol. 117 North Avenue-Larrabee: 1931-1946
Vol. 118 North Avenue-Larrabee: 1947-1957
Vol. 119 111th Street: 1926-1939
Vol. 120 111th Street: 1940-1947
Vol. 121 111th Street: 1948-1950
Vol. 122 111th Street: 1951-1954
Vol. 123 111th Street: 1955-1949
Vol. 124 Railroad Departments: 1913-1932
Ravenswood - see Wilson Avenue
Vol. 125 Rogers Park: 1934-1947 - name changed to High Ridge, 1945
Vol. 126 Sears-Roebuck: 1914-1934
Vol. 127 Sears-Roebuck: 1935-1948
Vol. 128 Sears-Roebuck: 1949-1952
Vol. 129 Sears-Roebuck: 1953-1962
Vol. 130 South Chicago: 1913-1930
Vol. 131 South Chicago: 1931-1940
Vol. 132 South Chicago: 1942-1946
Vol. 133 South Chicago: 1947-1950
Vol. 134 South Chicago: 1951-1955
Vol. 135 South Shore: 1933-1948
Vol. 136 South Shore: 1949-1959
Vol. 137 South Town: 1921-1939
Vol. 138 South Town: 1940-1948
Vol. 139 South Town: 1949-1955
Vol. 140 Wabash Avenue: 1951-1962
Vol. 141 Washington Park: 1953-1955
Vol. 142 West-Side Professional Schools: 1918-1940
Vol. 143 West-Side Professional Schools: 1941-1948
Vol. 144 West-Side Professional Schools: 1949-1952 name changed to Medical Center, 1949
Vol. 145 West Suburban: 1947-1956
Vol. 146 Wilson Ave: 1913-1933
Vol. 147 Wilson Ave: 1934-1952
Vol. 148 Wilson Ave: 1943-1950
Vol. 149 Wilson Ave: 1951-1959 name changed to Ravenswood, 1959
Series 6. Department records, 1883-1977 (box 177-189 & vol. 78-150) - continued:
Subseries 2. Board attendance
records, 1928-1975 (box 177-180)
box 177
9-11 Attendance reports, 1928-1934
box 178
1-7 Attendance reports, 1935-1951
box 179
1-6 Attendance reports, 1952-1957
box 180
1 Attendance reports, 1958
2 Lists of boards of directors, 1971
3-6 Changes in boards of directors, 1973-1975
Series 6. Department records, 1883-1977 (box 177-189 & vol. 78-150) - continued:
Subseries 3.
Miscellaneous department records, 1883-1977 (box 181-189 & vol. 150)
box 181
folders:
1 Athletic Field minutes, 1900-1902 (1 vol.)
2 Beverly proposed plan, ca. 1948
3 Central YMCA College: "Resources and Standards of YMCA Colleges", 1925 (1 vol.)
box 182
folders:
1 Central YMCA College: Corporate minutes, 1935-1945 (1 vol.)
2 Central YMCA Community College miscellaneous papers, 1965-1969
3 Central YMCA Schools - students from abroad, 1965
4 Countryside minutes, 1970
5 Chicago Conference on Christian Unity, 1962
6 "The Young Adult in the YMCA", 1968
box 183
folders:
1-3 Hotel: Board minutes, 1953-1967
box 184
folders:
1 Hotel: Board minutes, 1968-1972 (1 vol.)
2-3 Hotel: Board minutes, 1973-1979
4-5 Hotel: Business Committee minutes, 1916-1947
box 185
folders:
1-3 Hotel: Business Committee minutes, 1948-1972 (3 vols.)
4 Hotel: Business Committee minutes, 1973-1977
box 186
folders:
1 Hotel: Manager's reports, 1916-1947
2 Hotel: Annual reports of executive secretary, 1920-1923
3 Hotel: 30th anniversary correspondence and speeches, 1946
4-5 Hotel: Historical material, 1916-1943
5 Hotel: Historical material, 1916-1943
6 Hotel: Miscellaneous, 1916-1947
box 187
folders:
1 Intercollegiate: Minutes and reports, 1892-1899
2 Intercollegiate: Reports and records, 1892-1899 (1 vol.)
3 Isham 50th anniversary portfolio, 1966
4 Logan Square proposal for building, 1950
5 Park Ridge membership survey, 1961
6 Railway Departments - daily register of general information, 1883-1890 (1 vol.)
7 Sears Roebuck promotional material, 1949-1952
box 188
folders:
1 Skokie Valley: Organization meetings, 1954-1955
2 Skokie Valley: Capital fund brochure, ca. 1958
3 South Shore building campaign, 1949
4 Student Departments: Minutes, reports and records, 1899-1900 (1 vol.)
5 Student Departments: Minutes and reports, 1910-1940 (1 vol.)
box 189
folders:
1 Wabash Avenue - minutes of Colored YMCA, 1909-1913
2 West Side minutes, 1893-1896
Vol. 150 Wilson Avenue buildings campaign leaflets and news clippings, 1902-1907
box 189 - continued
folders:
3 Joint meeting (Harvey, 111th Street, Southwest) minutes, 1967
4 Camp Hastings, Camp Martin Johnson, Chinese & Japanese Departments minutes & reports, 1915-1939 (1. vol.)
5 Department statistical reports, 1897-1899 (2 vols.)
6 Department statistical reports, 1897-1899 (2 vols.)
Unprocessed boxes of
manuscript records
Series 7. Original
sound recordings - stored separately (0MM.136)
Restriction: For listening purposes, it is necessary to use a copy, not the original (and to have a listening copy made if one is not available).
box 190
tape recordings:
1 Annual meeting, Jan. 27, 1955 pt. 1
2 Annual meeting, Jan. 27, 1955 pt. 2
3 Centennial annual meeting, Jan. 23, 1958
4 Centennial annual meeting, Jan. 23, 1958 c. 2
5 Annual meeting, 1959
6 Annual meeting, 1959 pt. 2
7 Annual meeting, probably 1960
8 Address - Dr. Paul Dudley White, undated
9 Annual meeting, Jan. 24, 1961
10 Annual meeting, Jan. 24, 1961 pt. 2
11 Annual meeting, Jan. 24, 1961 pt. 3
12 Annual meeting, Jan. 24, 1961 pt. 4
13 Annual meeting, Feb. 18, 1963
14 Annual meeting, Feb. 18, 1963
box 191
tape recordings:
1 Annual meeting, Feb. 18, 1964
2 Annual meeting, Feb. 16, 1965
3 Annual meeting, Feb. 24, 1966
4 Annual meeting, Feb. 23, 1967
5 Annual meeting, Feb. 23, 1967 pt. 2
6 Annual meeting, Feb. 1, 1968
7 Annual meeting, Feb. 14, 1969
8 Annual meeting, Feb. 14, 1969 pt. 2
9 Annual meeting, Feb. 6, 1970
10 Annual meeting, Grede speech, undated
11 Annual meeting rehearsal (poor quality), undated, Byron Stone
12 Annual meeting rehearsal, Byron Stone, undated
13 President of the United States, Nov. 13, 1957
14 Memorial service for C.C. Robbins, Oct. 10, 1960
box 192
tape recordings:
1 General Secretary's cabinet conference, Sept. 9, 1962 evening
2 General Secretary's cabinet conference, Sept. 10, 1962 morning
3 General Secretary's cabinet conference, Sept. 10, 1962 evening and Sep 11, 1962 morning
4 General Secretary's cabinet conference, Sept. 11, 1962 all day
5 General Secretary's cabinet conference, Sept. 12, 1962 morning
6 General Secretary's cabinet conference, Sept. 12, 1962 closing remarks
7 WIND radio program: "The Central YMCA--A fabulous operation," July 5, 1962
7 WIND radio program: Report on youth programs in the Soviet Union, July 12, 1962
8 WIND radio program: "The human heart and physical fitness," Aug. 2, 1962
8 WIND radio program: "The YMCA Indian guide for boys and fathers," Aug. 9, 1962
9 WIND radio program: "The golden years--A look at YMCA programs for Chicago senior citizens," Aug. 16, 1962
9 WIND radio program: "A look at YMCA activities for 1962-1963," undated
10 Memorial service for Lloyd McClow, Dec. 21, 1962
11 Welfare tour, April 8, 1965
12 Press conference, "Poverty", Feb. 1966
13 Press conference, "Poverty", Feb. 1966
14 Dale Cox Awards: Warren Thompson, Martha Crane, Ben Kartman, 1966
box 193
tape recordings:
1 Dale Cox Awards: Thompson, Crane, Kartman, 1966
2 War on Poverty: Bruce Cole; Crime - Poff, 1967
3 Review of Y programs and newer thrusts, ca. 1968
4 Association building sale, Board of Managers meeting, Mar. 12, 1969 pt. 1
5 Association building sale, Board of Managers meeting, Mar. 12, 1969, pt. 2
6 Metropolitan Cabinet Meeting, Leaning Tower, Oct. 30, 1969
7 Stockholders Luncheon, Dec. 2, 1969
8 1969 Camp, undated
9 YMCA PR Staff meeting, undated
10 John Root and the 70's, April 1970 (poor quality)
11 John Root, "Y" President, Annual Mtg. Philadelphia, April 30, 1970
On shelf: Radio spot announcement - camping 1971 (audio disk)
12 Public service announcements, celebrity speakers, undated
13 "A plea for peace", undated
14 "Camp counselor promotion spot", undated
15 "YMCA basketball" - 60 sec., undated
box 194
Tape recordings:
1 John Todd, Inspirational, undated c.1
2 John Todd, Inspirational, undated
3 John Todd, Inspirational, undated c.2
4 Press training tape, undated
5 Travelogue of Peru, undated
6 Kids, guitar, undated
7 Market, soccer, undated
8 Mr. Taxali, travelogue of India, undated
9 John Root - Board of Managers meeting, undated
10 McClelland, undated
11 Campfire singing, interviews, swimming, crafts, Kirk w/PPM, undated (cassette)
12 #203 Beyer - dictation of minutes, undated
13 YMCA ads for camp counselors, undated