Grand Street Boys' Association (New York, N.Y.) Records, undated, 1907-1968, bulk 1940-2000.

The Grand Street Boys' Association began in 1916 as a reunion of men who had grown up on or near Grand Street in the Lower East Side neighborhood of Manhattan and quickly grew into an active club, open to all men (and eventually women) regardless of religion, ethnicity, or social class. The Association promoted welfare projects, acts of fellowship and tolerance, scholarships, youth employment, war efforts, and the elimination of discrimination in sports, among other projects. The collection documents the activities of the Association, as well as the Grand Street Boys' Foundation, its financial arm established in 1945, and its Hobbycraft Program, a charitable program tasked with collecting and redistributing donated items to charitable and nonprofit organizations. Materials include administrative records, financial records, correspondence, minutes, membership records, newsletters, yearbooks, artifacts, speeches, and photographs relating to both the New York Grand Street Boys' Association and the Association's Grand Street House in England. Series I, comprising the majority of the collection, contains the records of the Grand Street Boys' Association. In it are extensive membership records, meeting minutes, annual yearbooks, financial records, administrative material, newsletters, and artifacts. Series II documents the Grand Street Boys' Foundation and contains administrative records and financial records. Some overlap of material will be found in Series I and II such as material pertaining to the relationship between the Association and Foundation. Series III consists of photographs documenting both the Association and Foundation. The photographs show members and highlight the activities of the Grand Street Boys.

Consecration prayer for Mill Street or Crosby Street synagogues

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Blank form of bond used by trustees of K.K.S.I. for house and lot on Mill Street (unsigned)

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Ground Plan for Mill Street Synagogue

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Contract with John Moore for building house on Mill Street

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Subscription for building the first Mill Street Synagogue

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Inventory of real estate on Wall Street

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Letter of trustees to congregation regarding opening of Oliver Street and affect on congregation's property

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Warrant to pay John Moore for building house on Mill Street

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Permit to K. K. S. I. from city to move remains from Oliver Street to 21st Street

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Map of New Bowry and 21st Street Cemeteries and list

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List of names of some of the remains disinterred from Oliver Street and reburied in the 21st Street cemetery

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Hebrew poem on the 78th anniversary of the consecration of the 1st Mill Street synagogue

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Memo of manuscripts and articles deposited in the cornerstone of 19th street synagogue of K. K. S. I.--Papers, Ladies Hebrew Benevolent Society

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Resolution of Trustees, K. K. S. I. to buy ground in Beaver Street, in rear of Mill Street synagogue

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