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American Missionary Association archives
Collection
Identifier: 001
Scope and Contents
This collection is a valuable resource for the study of the abolitionist movement. It includes approximately 350,000 manuscript pieces. The mass of these was written during the period from 1839 to 1882, but several thousand are dated before and after that time. The manuscripts include some of the treasurers’ papers and minutes of Executive Committee meetings, as well as other items such as sermons, statistical reports, drawings, photographs, and essays; however, letters make up the large...
Dates:
Created: 1828-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1839-1882; Other: Date acquired: 08/22/1968
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Amistad Research Center
American Missionary photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: 018
Content Description
The collection contains photographs that were gathered for use in the monthly magazine American Missionary, published by the American Missionary Association. Photographers include W. Knighton Bloom, Laura Kincheloe, and Frank Moore. These photographs document various ethnic groups and communities, both urban and rural in various sections of the United States. Also included are numerous photographs related to Ellis Island in the 1920s.Photographs taken and collected by W. Knighton...
Dates:
Other: 1922-1934
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
H. Paul Beam-Douglass collection
Collection
Identifier: 037
Content Description
Letterbooks, 1907-1908; correspondence, 1906-1918; writings, notes, speeches, reports, programs, photographs, teaching materials, collected materials, and American Missionary Association publications. The items were generated during the period that Harlan Paul Douglass was executive secretary of the A.M.A.This collection supplements the A.M.A. archives and the H. Paul Douglass papers. Photographs and a scrapbook on rural life document the work of the A.M.A. missionaries and...
Dates:
Other: 1906-1918
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
John A. Rockwell Papers
Collection
Identifier: 315
Scope and Contents
The John A. Rockwell Papers consist of approximately 250 letters, dating from 1865-1867. The letters are from the period when Rockwell served as Superintendent of the American Missionary Association's (AMA) Lincoln School in Macon, Georgia, and record his efforts on behalf of the freedmen population in the area of education. The correspondence deals almost exclusively with the problems of administering and supplying a school for freedmen in the heart of the former Confederacy....
Dates:
Created: 1865-1867; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1970
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Edward Parmelee Smith papers
Collection
Identifier: 341
Scope and Contents
The papers of Edward Parmelee Smith document his family, as well as his service to the U.S. Christian Commission, the American Missionary Association, and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The papers are comprised almost entirely of correspondence and photographs, with a small amount of news clippings, Smith's log book for the U.S. Christian Commission, and additional documents present. The majority of the correspondence, which dates from 1818 to 1876, relates to Smith's family and...
Dates:
Created: 1818-1876; Other: Date acquired: 01/01/1976
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
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