A portrait photograph of 2010 YMCA Hall of Fame Inductee, Cephas Brainerd, most likely taken the year he joined the New York YMCA in 1853. For more information on Cephas Brainerd, see https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/863. The back of the photograph has a handwritten caption reading "Cephas Brainerd 1853. The year he joined the New York YMCA."
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