George Winslow, Brooklyn YMCA, and Joseph Dudley (c. 1904)
Item Information
- Title:
- George Winslow, Brooklyn YMCA, and Joseph Dudley (c. 1904)
- Description:
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This is one page from a 36-page photo album purportedly kept by Fred Eldridge in 1904, and it contains the portraits of (right) George Winslow ’91 and (left) Joseph Dudley ’95. Between them is a picture of the Brooklyn Railway YMCA.
- Creator:
- Eldridge, Fred J.
- Date:
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[1904?]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
- Collection (local):
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College Archives Digital Collections
- Series:
- Scrapbook Collection
- Subjects:
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International Young Men's Christian Association Training School (Springfield, Mass.)
Springfield College--Alumni and alumnae
Young Men's Christian Association of North America
Winslow, George H.
Dudley, Joseph M.
Portraits
Mustaches
Buildings
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
- Link to Item:
- http://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/2880
- Terms of Use:
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- Publisher:
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Springfield College
- Language:
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English
- Notes:
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George Henry Winslow attended the International YMCA Training School in 1889 and graduated in 1891. For most of his working career, he worked for the Railroad Department of the YMCA. He worked in many different Railroad YMCAs including Kansas City, MO, Hinton, WV, and, for most of his career, Washington DC. The New York Railroad YMCAs started under Cornelius Vanderbilt II’s leadership in 1875 and grew enormously, spreading from Manhattan and the Bronx to Brooklyn and Queens. The national YMCA, invited by railway companies to establish branch hotels at their expense, was operating 150 of them with 37,000 members by 1900. The Association regarded work among the one million railway workers as a high calling. Trainmen with layovers in unfamiliar cities needed clean lodgings and good food. In 1901, a Y publication said, “the railroad men of this country form one of the most important classes of the population . . . Great consequences to the corporation and to the public depend on the steadiness, sobriety, morality and fidelity of these men.” Fred J. Eldridge served as Financial Secretary of the International YMCA Training School. His photo album includes portraits of graduates of the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (now known as Springfield College), as well as the campus and buildings.
Part of the Eldridge photo album
- Identifier:
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eldridge-photo-album-winslow-george-dudley-joseph