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- Description:
- Black and white postcard depicting the Y.M.C.A. Building on the corner of Grand River Avenue and Griswold Street. Handwritten message on verso, postmarked Jul 2, 1908.
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Postcard. Color illustration on cardstock depicting an elevated view of the Y.M.C.A. Building with the tops of trees in Grand Circus Park in the foreground. Handwritten note on verso. Postmarked Apr 19, 1911.
- Date Issued:
- 1911-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Y.M.C.A. Building on the corner of Washington Boulevard and Clifford Street.
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- 10-page letter written by George T. Moody, President of the Detroit YMCA. It is a blue carbon copy, typewritten onto slightly yellowed, thin paper with a watermark that shows "Roman Bond." The last page is signed in black ink, "George Taylor Moody." All of the pages are bound together in a green folder which has two brass prongs at the top.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Instructional book; Cover has the Y.M.C.A. emblem at the top, with "Young Men's Christian Association Detroit, Michigan"; beneath is "Mr. Garr A. Thompson, 6/2/1910, No. 10860"; inside are instructions for health care, including hygiene, diet and exercise, as well as an anthropometric table which has been filled out with various anatomical measurements
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- World War I poster with the message, "For Your Boy." Message text is printed in red and black on a white background. The poster has a color drawing of a soldier who is holding a cup of coffee that is being poured by a war relief worker. A "Y.M.C.A." sign can be seen in the background. The artist's name, "Arthur William Brown," is shown at the lower left corner of the drawing. Additional printed text along the bottom of the poster shows "United War Work Campaign - November 11-18, 1918." Small printed text at the lower right corner of the poster shows "Committee on Public Information, Division of Pictorial Publicity" and "Ketterlinus, Phila."
- Date Issued:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Black and white photographic postcard depicting the Y.M.C.A. Building on the corner of Grand River Avenue and Griswold Street. Dated Feb 22, 1906.
- Date Issued:
- 1906-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- April 1885 issues of the newsletter Y.M.C.A. Monthly Bulletin published by the Detroit Y.M.C.A. The cover cautions, "Detroit, No. of Young Men, 23,000. No. of churches, less than 100. No. of saloons, over 1,000. An increase in saloons in 12 months of 275. Looking at it in this light do you think that any active organization on the side of Right should go out of existence?" A Y.M.C.A. building in Montreal is pictured on the cover, and one in Boston is pictured on the second page. Several letters from around the country to L.F. Newman, the General Secretary of the Detroit Y.M.C.A. discussing the organization's importance are on the first two pages as well. The third page contains a list of donors and their gifts for a "new Y.M.C.A. home," as well as a calendar of upcoming events including lectures and concerts. Advertisements are on the back page
- Date Issued:
- 1885-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Color postcard depicting the Y.M.C.A. Building from Grand Circus Park. Handwritten note on the verso. Postmarked Jan 25, 1915.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- Postcard. A color photograph on cardstock depicting an elevated view of the Y.M.C.A. Building with the tops of trees in Grand Circus Park in the foreground. Printed on verso, "Y.M.C.A. Building, corner Witherell and Adams Avenues, is the largest and most complete of its kind in the world and boasts of a gymnasium second to none in the country. It was erected in 1908 and has cost in the neighborhood of $700,000." Handwritten note on verso. Postmarked Jun 23, 1916.
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
