Sport - Pool - The billiards hall 1909 Framed Print

Hand colored photo from 1909
Original title: A common scene in the Bancroft-Foote Boys Club
Photographer: Lewis Wickes Hine
Location: New Haven, CT

The Boys Club of New Haven was founded in 1871 by philanthropist Eliza Maria Blake, the wife of inventor Eli Whitney Blake. She established it in her home across from the New Haven Green when city leaders recognized the need for recreational facilities and social services for the growing immigrant population. It was the third Boys Club in the country, and today there are more than 4,600.

In 1891, the club moved to 200 Orange Street, located in the United Workers building, a hub for social service organizations. This building was demolished in the 1920s to construct the Hall of Records. The club stayed there until 1915, when it relocated to a new facility on Jefferson Street, closer to the factory workers families it served.

For six decades, the Jefferson Street location was the only recreational facility in the...

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