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Creation Date
1910
Identification #
OGL291-54
Description
This photo depicts a 2-story YWCA building, the James and Ruby Dinnie home, with vines growing on the front taken around 1910. See our YWCA Records (https://apps.library.und.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/findingaid&id=292&q=&rootcontentid=15829). "The Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) originated in England in 1855, and was begun and financed by women. The goal of the organization was to assist those girls and women who had left the protection of their home for wider fields of activity. The YWCA, a membership organization with a religious purpose, was open to any girl or young woman, providing them with the opportunity for physical, social, mental, and spiritual growth.
"The Grand Forks YWCA was organized on December 30, 1903, when a committee of women met at George B. Winship's home to study the needs of young women in Grand Forks living away from home. A constitution was adopted in January, 1904. Due to prevailing financial conditions, there was no effort to solicit funds from the public, depending entirely upon membership dues and voluntary gifts." Cited from a Rural Women's Studies report on the YWCA (https://ruralwomensstudies.wordpress.com/2015/12/16/ywca-creating-a-moral-landscape-on-the-prairie/).
Places Depicted
YWCA building; North Dakota--Grand Forks
Rights
Elwyn B. Robinson Department of Special Collections, Chester Fritz Library, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks