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American Missionary Association archives

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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

American Missionary Association archives addenda

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 001-1
Scope and Contents The 1969 addendum and later addenda to the American Missionary Association archives are mostly twentieth century in scope, covering two main subject areas. The first is the association's numerous schools. These are considered "field" records, or, the fruits of the Association's missionary work outside of its New York City office. The Addendum is divided into three series: Series 1 covers field-related work, mainly the AMA schools; Series 2 covers projects that were run directly form the New...
Dates: Created: 1849-1991; Other: Date acquired: 03/31/1969

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

H. Paul Beam-Douglass collection

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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

Augustus Field Beard papers

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Identifier: 038
Content Description Predominantly correspondence (1923-1935), also one speech (Dec. 10, 1930), a short memoir (undated), and a few clippings (1929-1931). With three exceptions all outgoing letters (156) are addressed to Frederick Leslie and Ruth Brownlee. The Rev. Brownlee (1883-1962) was Dr. Beard's sucessor as Corresponding Secretary of the American Missionary Association and Mrs. Brownlee, a distant cousin. There are eight incoming letters. Among the subjects discussed are the publication program...
Dates: Other: 1873-1935

Frederick Leslie Brownlee papers

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Identifier: 059
Content Description

Frederick Leslie Brownlee was the General Secretary for the American Missionary Association from 1927 to 1950. Materials include correspondence, scrapbooks, photos, clippings, and other documents, many of which pertain to American Missionary Association institutions.

Dates: Other: 1894-1966

John Allen Buggs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 061
Scope and Contents The papers of John Allen Buggs document his career as an educator and school administrator. The collections consists of 4,000 items or 3.2 linear feet. There are 2,560 pieces of correspondence, 46 multi-page reports, 240 general single-page reports, 25 essays, and approximately 1,000 general items such as financial reports, bulletins, pamphlets, invitations, announcements, photographs, newspaper clippings, contracts, lists, press releases, and biographical sheets.The papers...
Dates: Created: 1939-1964; Other: Date acquired: 12/01/1973

Mary Carver and Marion Russell scrapbook

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Identifier: 074
Scope and Contents In the summer of 1933, Marion Russell and Mary Carver of the Home Mission Board in Boston took a trip by car throughout the eastern and southern United States visiting projects of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and Congregational Christian Churches. This scrapbook and photo journal comprises a rich documentary source of religious and rural life in and around the Appalachian Mountains in 1933.  Ephemera and photographs depict the home of Chief Justice Roger Brooke...
Dates: Created: 1933; Other: Date acquired: 08/01/1989

Nellie De Spelder diaries

 Collection
Identifier: 575
Content Description This collection consists of approximately 200 photocopied pages from the diaries of Nellie DeSpelder during her tenure as an American Missionary Association (AMA) teacher at Daniel Hand Preparatory School in New Orleans, Louisiana. DeSpelder was a teacher who journeyed from Greenville, Michigan to work in the AMA schools. During her tenure she visited the school at Orange Park and that at King's Mountain. Interesting sidelights are revealed in her brief trips to the nearby Mississippi Gulf...
Dates: Other: 1895-1899

Dodd Family papers

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Identifier: 123
Content Description The Dodd Family papers contain 23 items of correspondence to and from members of the family (1862-1866), 15 sermons (1848-1864), 1 printed extract from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (1861), 1 abolitionist pamphlet (n.d.), 3 clippings (1863, n.d.), 4 photocopies on 2 sheets including 2 photographs of Helen M. Dodd (1868, n.d.), 1 pass issued by the Office of the Superintendent of Negro Affairs (1864), and 1 oath of loyalty (1863). Most of the correspondence is from Helen Dodd, with one...
Dates: Other: 1848-1868

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