Douglass, Harlan Paul papers, 1889-1953 | Amistad Research Center

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Scope and Contents: The Harlan Paul Douglass papers consists of approximately 400 items, 3 reels of microfilm, and 4 volumes. The papers include correspondence; clippings; biographical data; family histories by Douglass' mother, Maria Greene Douglass, and father, Truman Orville Douglass; photographs; wills; honors and tributes; an appreciation book; writings; and a scrapbook. The items relate to Douglass' school days, his career with the American Missionary Association and his retirement. Included among the papers is a bibliography of his writings and data on his parent's respective families. The biographical and autobiographical items have been microfilmed, as has a Metropolitian Pittsburgh Church Study (1948). The parental authobiographies are included in both negative and positive microfilm copies. Douglass' thesis, The English Christian Socialist Movement of the Mid-Century) is a holograph. The appreciation book was signed by representatives of Belgium, France, and Great Britain in attendance at the Inter-Allied Conference on World Agriculture in 1919.