The International Institute of McKeesport (Pennsylvania) was organized by the McKeesport YWCA in 1918. It occupied rental quarters until 1926, when it was moved into the main YWCA building. In 1940, the Institute separated from the YWCA and merged with the American Service Institute of Allegheny County.
Records (1922-1940) of the International Institute of McKeesport (Pennsylvania) include annual reports; annual statistical reports to the National Board (1927-1939); scrapbooks of newspaper clippings pertaining to Institute publicity and activities (1923-1940); miscellany; background on the foreign-born (ca. 1936-1937), and photographs (1921-1923).
Inventory available.
Related collections at the IHRC are Records of the American Council for Nationalities Services as well as records of individual International Institutes in New Bedford (Mass.); Biddleford-Saco (Maine); Boston (Mass.); Buffalo (N.Y.); Lewiston (Maine); Minnesota; New Castle (Pa.); New Haven (Conn.); Niagara Falls (N.Y.); St. Louis (Missouri); Baltimore (Md.); Jersey City (N.J.)
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