North American Gymnastic Union
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Variants
N.A.G.U.
NAGU
Gymnastic Union of North America
Nordamerikanischer Turnerbund
Nord-Amerikanischer Turnerbund
North-American Turner-Bund
North American Turnerbund
Amerikanischer Turnerbund
Identifies LC/NAF RWO
Identifies RWO
Later Established Forms
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Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
Earlier Established Forms
Sources
found: Its Normal College. Normal College of the North American Gymnastic Union, 1909-10:t.p. (North American Gymnastic Union) cover (N.A.G.U.)
found: Freidenker (Milwaukee, Wis.). Freidenker, 21. Nov. 1880:p. 4 (... Nordamerikanischen Turnerbundes)
found: Fortschritt (Indianapolis, Ind.). Der Fortschritt, 18. Dez. 1887:p. 7 (... Nord-Amerikanischen Turnerbund)
found: NUCMC data from Univ. of Ill. at Urbana-Champaign Archives for St. Louis Turnverein. Records, 1923-1932(name not given)
found: LC manual cat.(under hdg. American Turners: national society org. 1850 at Philadelphia, though some local societies were founded as early as 1848; named Socialistischer Turnerbund; dormant during Civil War; reorg. 1864 as Amerikanischer Turnerbund; known as Nordamerikanischer Turnerbund; English equivalent, North American Gymnastic Union, was also used beginning in 1865; name changed in 191- ? to American Gymnastic Union, in 1922? to American Turnerbund, and in 1938 to American Turners)
found: Principles of the North-American Turner-Bund (Gymnastic Union of North America) and Constitution of the Bloomington Turn-Verein, Bloomington, Illinois, 19--?
notfound: American Gymnastic Union. Normal College. Normal College of the American Gymnastic Union, 1920-21: t.p. (American Gymnastic Union)
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Change Notes
1986-02-19: new
1998-11-06: revised
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