Showing Collections: 1 - 2 of 2
American Home Missionary Society records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 014
Scope and Contents
The records of the American Home Missionary Society contain correspondence, both incoming and outgoing, and printed matter. The collection documents the financial and administrative aspects of the Society, as well as the personal activities of and issues faced by its missionaries. Immigrant and frontier communities are also detailed within the letters and reports by missionaries.The strength of the American Home Missionary Society records is contained within the incoming and...
Dates:
Created: 1816-1907; Other: Majority of material found in 1826-1894; Other: Date acquired: 07/21/1969
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Reuben A. Sheares II papers
Collection
Identifier: 426
Scope and Contents
The bulk of Sheares' papers include newsletters and publications from various organizations that Sheares was a member or supporter, as well as publications from various United Church of Christ (UCC) congregations. The papers focus mainly on theological issues and programs, including 122 audiocassettes of sermons that Sheares presented at the Congregational Church of Park Manor in Chicago from 1989-1992. Also included are notes and essays from classes in which Sheares was enrolled during the...
Dates:
Created: 1952-1993; Other: Majority of material found in 1960-1980; Other: Date acquired: 05/27/2004
Found in:
Amistad Research Center
Filter Results
Additional filters:
- Subject
- AIDS activists -- United States 1
- Abolitionists 1
- Antislavery movements 1
- Awards 1
- Church work with immigrants 1
- Ephemera 1
- Frontier and pioneer life 1
- Immigrants 1
- Missionaries 1
- News Clippings 1
- Orders of service 1
- Photographs 1
- Racism -- United States 1
- Religion -- History -- 19th century 1
- Reports 1
- Sermons 1
- Sound recordings 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Women missionaries 1 ∧ less
- Names
- American Home Missionary Society 1
- Chicago Theological Seminary 1
- Community Renewal Society (Chicago, Ill.) 1
- Congregational Home Missionary Society 1
- Roosevelt University 1
∨ more