Sanford Bates presenting a check to a group of teenage boys at Tompkins Square Building [i.e. Harriman Clubhouse], Lower East Side, New York City.

Boys' Club of New York records. Series VII: Photographs.

circa 1937-1940

The collection contains 403 photographic negatives produced circa 1920-1980 (bulk 1920-1950) by commercial photographers on behalf of The Boys’ Club of New York ("BCNY"). The majority depict young BCNY members engaged in a variety of activities, either at the club’s Tompkins Square Building (later renamed Harriman Clubhouse) or at the William Carey Camp in Jamesport, New York. Many of the photographs were published in annual reports, where they served to promote the organization’s work.

Deteriorated negative.

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Boys--Societies and clubs--New York (State)--New York

Bates, Sanford, 1884-1972

Boys’ Club of New York--Photographs

Lower East Side (New York, N.Y.)--Photographs

Negatives (photographs)
Black-and-white negatives

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