YMCA Sources
YMCA Libraries on the Mexican Border scholarly article in Libraries and Culture v.32 no.1 1997
Photo postcard of YMCA building in Yale Collection of Western Americana, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Postcard photographs related to United States military involvement in the Mexican Revolution. ca. 1910-1917. WA Photos 307
Library Catalogs
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EPCC Online Catalog
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The Woman's Club of El Paso : its
first thirty years by Mary S. Cunningham on Reserve. Copies y at VV
library and UTEP at HQ1906.E4C86. Also at the public library at various
branches at 367.9764962 CUN. p.93 mentions that the Woman's Club
gave $100 to the YMCA building fund and the newspaper article reference
is El Paso Herald Dec 1, 1906. So browsing the newspaper microfilm on
that date and before will be useful.
- Desert Immigrants -- Mexican YMCA p.221-223
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The Woman's Club of El Paso : its
first thirty years by Mary S. Cunningham on Reserve. Copies y at VV
library and UTEP at HQ1906.E4C86. Also at the public library at various
branches at 367.9764962 CUN. p.93 mentions that the Woman's Club
gave $100 to the YMCA building fund and the newspaper article reference
is El Paso Herald Dec 1, 1906. So browsing the newspaper microfilm on
that date and before will be useful.
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UTEP Library Catalog
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El Paso Public Library Catalog
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NMSU Library Catalog (especially if you are researching a New Mexico topic)
EPPL: Border Heritage Center
Call and ask the staff before you go down (915-543-5440), if there is an entry in their vertical file. This is a collection of photocopied articles on a person or topic.
In addition, check the newspaper card catalog to see other articles available. You would then have to search for the article in the microfilms, ask at the reference desk around the corner from the readers for help.
Password
- "Girls Basketball Comes to El Paso"
Password 24: 173-177
Mr. Charles Titus, Executive Director and P.C. Jacobus, Physical Director of the YMCA started girls' basketball as a local competitive sport in 1909. So this gives two names to search as well.
page compiled by
Rachel Murphree
Last updated
09/18/2008