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Soldiers -- Recreation

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Army YMCA records

 Collection
Identifier: Y.GNY.65
Abstract

The collection includes invoices, pamphlets, program information, leases and other materials involving the two Army YMCA branches at Fort Hamilton and Fort Totten in the 1950s though 1980s.

Dates: 1889-1989

Josephine M. Falco papers

 Collection — Box 1
Identifier: IHRC1826
Abstract The Josephine M. Falco Order Sons of Italy in America collection (1940-1981) consists of books on Grand Lodge statutes (1940), rituals (1957), and Constitution and Supreme Laws (1962). Also included are Massachusetts Grand Lodge convention books (1973-1981), miscellaneous correspondence, materials pertaining to a Grand Lodge-USO project to send cookies to troops in Vietnam (1966), to March of Dimes Walkathon (1977), to Falco's tenure as President of the OSIA Massachusetts Grand Lodge Benfit...
Dates: 1940-1981

United Service Organizations-related records

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.4-2
Abstract

Administrative files, club histories, and other records documenting the YMCA's involvement with the USO during and after World War II.

Dates: 1932-1980; Majority of material found within ( 1941-1950).

William M. Forbes photograph albums and papers

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.109
Abstract

Photograph albums documenting William M. Forbes's work in Europe as a YMCA physical director from 1919 to 1922 and some miscellaneous photographs, newspaper clippings, and other material related to Forbes's later work with Army and Navy YMCAs in the United States between 1923 and 1949.

Dates: 1919 - 1949

World War I-related records

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.4-1
Abstract

Minutes, correspondence, publicity bulletins, training manuals, reports, newspapers, and other records of major YMCA administrative bodies which provided services to the military forces in the United States and abroad during World War I..

Dates: 1910-1970; Majority of material found in ( 1917-1921).

YMCA Armed Services Department general administrative records

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.4-4
Abstract

Records documenting the administration of the YMCA's work with the United States armed services from the era of the Civil War through the late 1980s, particularly during the period from the time of the first world war through the Korean war.

Dates: 1863-1992; Majority of material found within ( 1890-1981).

YMCA armed services records

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.4
Abstract

Historical data, correspondence, reports, memoranda, articles, newspapers, pamphlets, photographs, scrapbooks, and other records documenting the YMCA's work serving the armed forces community from the time of the Civil War through the present.

Dates: 1863-1987.

YMCA lantern slide collection

 Collection
Identifier: Y.USA.47
Abstract

Lantern slides and lantern slide shows or lectures compiled by the YMCA, for educational or entertainment use, depicting YMCA activities, mainly in the areas of international (foreign) work and armed services work during World War I.

Dates: 1910s-1920s.