The Blue Triangle Branch of the Young Women's Christian Association of Des Moines was founded in 1919 to offer segregated programs for the African-American community. In 1947 it merged with the main branch of the YWCA as part of a nationwide...
Scrapbook compiled by Evelyn Birkby; chiefly contains clippings from "Up a country lane, " Birkby's weekly homemaking column in the Shenandoah Evening Sentinel newspaper.
Photographs taken at Camp Boone in Boone, Iowa, a girls' camp operated by the YWCA of Greater Des Moines. Images include African American as well as Caucasian girls.
The Name of the Game – This Building Campus -- Faces from the Crowd – The President’s Report -- Art Criticism in one Lesson – Toward the Engineering Art – Football Coach -- Practicing What he Preaches – Basketball A-Go-Go -- Her Honor...