HISTORICAL IMAGES

Louisa Lee Schuyler, upon receiving the Honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from Columbia University, 1915. Schuyler, founder of the Charities Aid Association and the Bellevue Hospital School of Nursing, was an influential model for Grace Dodge. She demonstrated how a woman could pursue social service through institution building. (American Journal of Nursing, v. 15, no. 12, September 1915, Periodical Collection, Milbank Memorial Library)

Young Men's Christian Association Building, south side of East 23rd Street at Fourth Avenue, in 1872. The YMCA, which combined Christian evangelism with social service, was a significant philanthropic interest of William E. Dodge, Jr., (Grace Dodge's father). It served as a model for Grace Dodge's later work in establishing the National Board of the YWCA, the parallel organization for women. (William L. Stone, History of New York City, New York, 1872, Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

Dwight L. Moody. Portrait, 1884.Dwight L. Moody, a prominent Protestant evangelist, was a friend of William E. Dodge, Jr. and stayed at the Dodge household during religious revivals held in New York in 1876. Grace Dodge, then 20 years old, got to meet him, to discuss his work, and to absorb some of his missionary fervor. Portrait, ca. 1875. (William R. Moody, The Life of Dwight L. Moody, New York, 1900, Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

Dwight L. Moody, preaching at Agricultural Hall, Islington, London, ca. 1880. (William R. Moody, The Life of Dwight L. Moody, New York, 1900, Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

William Earl Dodge (1805-1883), grandfather of Grace Hoadley Dodge. Portrait by Daniel Huntington. (Courtesy of the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation)

William E. Dodge, Jr. (1832-1903), father of Grace Hoadley Dodge. (Courtesy of Phyllis B. Dodge)

Sarah Hoadley Dodge (1832-1909), mother of Grace Hoadley Dodge. (Courtesy of the YMCA of Greater New York)

William E. Dodge Jr.’s children with their nurse, ca. 1864. Left to right: Grace, Cleve, Mary, nurse, William E. III. (Courtesy of Phyllis B. Dodge)

Grace Dodge with the members of her Working Girls’ Club, ca. 1880. (Courtesy of the Cleveland H. Dodge Foundation)

Copper mine at Bisbee, Arizona Territory, ca. 1890. (Courtesy of the Phelps Dodge Corporation)

Broadside for the Children’s Industrial Exhibition, 1886. Exhibits included drawing, sewing, woodworking, and other crafts by children from schools in the East and Midwest. (Grace Dodge Papers, Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

Grace Hoadley Dodge, photographed about 1905. (Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

Grace Dodge with the Working Girls Club, ca. 1880. (Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

The Library of the New York College for the Training of Teachers at 9 University Place, ca. 1890. (Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)

Nicholas Murray Butler, ca. 1920. Butler became President of the Industrial Education Association in 1886, and worked as Grace Dodge’s close partner in transforming the association into Teachers College, for which he served as president until 1891. Returning to Columbia University, he became Professor of Philosophy, and in 1902, President of the University. (Special Collections, Milbank Memorial Library)