'Help make a better Shanghai' – YMCA archives

A real trove of hi-res archival images, photos, maps and textual records, mostly related to the activities of the YMCA in China: the Online Archives of the University of Minnesota.

Tags: 1930s, architecture, archive, photo, shanghai, ymca

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