YMCA of the USA
Organization
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Broadside Collection
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4767
Scope and Contents
This collection was created through the composition of materials removed from other A&M collections, staff collected materials, and the merging of smaller collections. As a result, this collection covers a wide range of activities and movements from West Virginia and the larger Appalachian region. The subject areas of the collection include: 1) state petitions, and government announcements, 1777-1979; 2) public announcements, public sales, and advertisements, 1853-1899; 3) elections,...
Dates:
1777-2012 and undated
World War I Posters
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1957
Overview
Twelve French and twenty-four American posters promoting recruitment and financial support of their respective countries' efforts during World War I. American posters document recruitment, and the campaigns for the Liberty Bond, Victory Liberty Loan, and the United War Work Campaign, the latter supporting organizations such as the American Library Association, YMCA, and the YWCA, among others.
Dates:
1914-1918
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Appalachian Region 1
- Blair Mountain, Battle of, W. Va., 1921 1
- Campus protests -- West Virginia University 1
- Civil War - West Virginia. 1
- Coal companies - West Virginia. 1
- Coal mine accidents 1
- Coal miners--West Virginia 1
- Coal mining - Labor organization. 1
- Feminism 1
- Football -- West Virginia -- Morgantown 1
- France 1
- Labor disputes -- West Virginia -- 20th century -- History 1
- Socialism 1
- Strikes -- West Virginia -- Coal miners 1
- Temperance and prohibition. 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- United War Work Campaign, Inc. 1
- West Virginia Mine Wars, W. Va., 1897-1921 1
- Women -- Suffrage 1
- Women's history -- 1900-1929 1
- World War, 1939-1945 1 + ∧ less
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