Depicted is the School for Christian Workers Letterhead, c. 1887. It includes a picture of the school building, listing of the corporators and trustees, as well as the instructors and workers at the school. The school was created with the object to train young men for the duties of the general secretaries of the Young Men's Christian Associations, gymnasium instructors, and superintendents of Sunday Schools and pastors helpers. The School for Christian Workers was incorporated on January 28, 1885 and it opened on September 8, 1885. The building cost $43,485.09. It contained sleeping accommodations for 44 students, recitation rooms, offices for the instructors, a large gymnasium, baths, and a complete suite of rooms for the Armory Hill Young Men's Christian Association. The Sunday School instructor was Rev. E. P. Armstrong, gymnasium instructors were Luther H. Gulick and Robert J. Roberts, and the instructor of the Young Men's Christian Association was J. T. Bowne. For more information on Luther Halsey Gulick, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/614. For more information on J.T. Bowne, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/15.
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