American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions

Scope and Contents The papers of Samuel B. Coles document his work as a missionary and agriculturalist at the Galangue Mission in Angola during the 1920s-1950s. The collection is mostly comprised of photographs, but also contains a small amount of correspondence, lists, and a publication on the Pestalozzi Children's Village School in Angola. The photographs provide rich visual documentation of Coles and his work at the Galandue Mission in Angola, which was the first mission founded and staffed by...

Scope and Contents The J. Taylor and Kathryn T. Stanley papers pertain to the development of Black Congregational and Christian churches in the southern United States during the early to mid twentieth century, as well as the roles Rev. and Mrs. Stanley held during that development. Apart from personal papers of the Stanleys, the collection also contains numerous documents generated by churches, conferences, and instrumentalities of the United Church of Christ and its predecessors. The collection...