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[Postcard of the YMCA Building in Palestine, Texas]

Description: Postcard of the YMCA building in Palestine, Texas. A handwritten message on the back of the card reads "Hello Chas. If you have any intentions of going to Purdue next year, which I hope you have let me know at once and I will come down some Saturday or Sunday and talk it over with you. C. F. M." The card is addressed to Mr Chas. Forsgard of Waco, texas.
Date: August 8, 1909
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[YMCA Temple]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Temple Y. M. C. A., a three-story building with a porch, balcony, and several rows of windows; there are people gathered on the porch and a lawn and trees in the foreground. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Y. M. C. A., Temple, Texas."
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard of YMCA Building in Mart, Texas]

Description: Postcard of the YMCA building in Mart. Texas. A brick building stands in the middle of an empty field. A message on the back of the postcard reads "Dear cousin Olga have received the Card from you many thanks for it, we had a nice Xmas, and hope you also had. Best Wishes To all. From your cousin Hedwig and a Happy New Year to you."
Date: unknown
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Waco YMCA]

Description: Postcard of a colorized photograph of the Waco YMCA, a large yellow brick building, with a blue sky in the background. Printed on the front of the postcard: "Y.M.C.A. Building, Waco, Texas." There is a brief handwritten note on the back of the postcard.
Date: 1910
Creator: Souvenir Post Card Co.
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Postcard to Fogel Carpenter]

Description: Postcard addressed from a writer in Camp MacArthur to Fogel Carpenter, describing a tournament and reading Literary Digest. The front of the postcard depicts the #95 Y.M.C.A library room at Camp MacArthur, Waco. Multiple young men are in military uniforms, sitting on tables with books and pamphlets in their hands and posing as if they were reading. Bookshelves are lined on the right wall, below portraits and pennants.
Date: 1917~/1919~
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis

[Letter to Alma Hiller, October 8, 1917]

Description: Letter to Alma Hiller from her little cousin, "Hef", who writes about what it's like for him at Camp MacArthur, a military training base in Waco, Texas. The letter also discusses other family members, including a newborn baby in the family. The stationery letterhead has on its left and right side, respectively, an American flag image and a symbol that consists of a triangle within a circle, and it reads, "National War Work Council, Army and Navy Young Men's Christian Associations, 'with the col… more
Date: October 8, 1917
Partner: Private Collection of T. B. Willis
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