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By Clifton H. Johnson and Christopher Harter
Title: American Missionary Association archives, 1828-1969
Predominant Dates:1839-1882
Creator: American Missionary Association
Extent: 87.8 Linear Feet
Arrangement: The records have been divided into two main classifications: home (United States) and foreign. The home records have been filed according to place of origin, i.e., by states, beginning with Alabama and ending with Wyoming. Within the state files, the records are arranged in chronological order. The foreign records have been filed according to county of origin, with some exceptions. These records are also arranged in chronological order within each country section. A more detailed explanation of the arrangement, including exceptions, can be found at the beginning of volume 1 of the Author and Added Entry Catalog of the American Missionary Association Archives, which is linked to this finding aid under Other URL.
Date Acquired: 08/22/1968. More info below under Accruals.
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 majority of the items. More than 100,000 letters are reports from foreign and home missionaries and teachers.
The papers provide the detailed history of the AMA from its origin to 1882. The materials dated prior to 1846 relate to several subjects, of which the most important are the Amistad case and the efforts of evangelical abolitionists to promote abolitionism among northern churches and religious societies such as the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, and the American Bible Society.
The history of the AMA before 1861 includes its missions in Sierra Leone, Jamaica, Egypt, Siam, and Hawaii, and among Native Americans and fugitive slaves in Canada, as well as extensive home missionary activities. Approximately 150 home missionaries were scattered throughout the North and in the border slave states, but most of them were located in the states and territories west of the Appalachians. In their monthly and annual reports the ministers frequently commented extensively on social, economic, and political conditions of the communities in which they worked.
Most of the papers from the Civil War and Reconstruction Period are statistical and written reports from the missionaries and teachers in the South. By 1865 the AMA had laborers among blacks in every Confederate state and in Kansas, Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, and the District of Columbia. Following the collapse of the Confederacy, with the cooperation of the Freedmen’s Bureau during its existence, the work among blacks was expanded and made more systematic. The AMA was not only the first of the northern benevolent societies to undertake educational and relief work among the Freedmen, but it also supported more workers in the southern field during Reconstruction than any other organization.
In addition to describing the number, size, curricula, and progress of the schools for Freedmen, the reports from the missionaries discuss the political, economic, moral, and spiritual conditions of the South; the opposition of southern whites to the missionaries and Reconstruction policies; relations with the U.S. Army and the Freedmen’s Bureau; denominational rivalry and conflicts among the various philanthropic societies; and their own criticisms of the war and Reconstruction policies of the federal government. This collection is an excellent source on the history of Reconstruction and on the history of the individual states during this period.
In relating the history of the AMA’s work among the Freedmen, the Archives contain the basic primary source materials that explain in detail the early histories of Fisk University, Hampton Institute, Atlanta University, Howard School (at Chattanooga), Emerson Institute, and hundreds of other schools.
The papers are divided into two main classifications: home (United States) and foreign. Home papers are filed according to the state of origin, and foreign letters are arranged by country of origin. The materials found in the addenda series include items added to the original donation after it had been processed. This series comprises the majority of the 20th century material in the collection and focuses mainly on AMA-founded schools. It also contains ledger books and minutes of the Association.
The American Missionary Association was established in 1846 by a network of nineteenth century abolitionists who met at the Second Convention on Bible Missions. Some of them had previously united in the legal defense of the Amistad captives in 1839. During the U.S. Civil War, the Association began founding schools for the freedmen and went on to found hundreds of schools for African Americans, as well as other minority groups and Appalachian Whites.
In 1839, 49 adult males and 4 children were taken to Cuba from what is now Sierra Leone as part of the international slave trade. During a voyage from Havana to another city, they took control of the merchant ship La Amistad and sailed up the eastern coast of the United States. Upon their landing in New York, they were put on trial. In 1841, two years of court appeals pushed their case up to the U.S. Supreme Court, where they were declared free.
The settlement of the Amistad captives to Sierra Leone was administered by the Amistad Committee, which operated the Mendi Mission. Later, the supervision of the mission was transferred to the Union Missionary Society. The resettlement and care of the Mendi Mission had at first been offered to the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, if that organization would adopt the principals of Christian abolitionism. The continued refusal of the American Board to adopt abolitionist principles led not only to the organization of the Union Missionary Society but also the Western Evangelical Missionary Society and the Committee for West Indians Missions. It was representatives of these three organizations, as well as other evangelical abolitionists, who came together at the convention of 1846, at which the American Missionary Association was founded. The American Missionary Association then absorbed the Union Missionary Society, the Western Evangelical Missionary Society, and the Committee for West Indian Missions.
Soon, the Association operated missions in Hawaii, Siam (Thailand), Egypt, for run-away American slaves in Canada and liberated slaves in Jamaica, for Chinese immigrants in California, and provided aid to abolitionist churches in the Northern states and territories, and in the border Southern states. As the antebellum era drew to a close, the American Missionary Association found itself contributing to individual teacher's salaries in Indiana, Ohio, and Kentucky. It was not as financially strong as other leading missionary groups of the day and it did not yet operate entire schools. The Civil War brought the opportunity to educate escaped "contrabands" even as the Union armies made inroads through the South, the American Missionary Association was nearby, setting up schools in local facilities which the military had previously confiscated.
By 1866, American Missionary Association officials realized that normal or grammar schools and colleges to train African American teachers would be the most effective use of their resources, and within three years they had chartered seven institutions for higher learning: Berea College, in Kentucky; Fisk University, in Tennessee; Atlanta University, in Georgia; Hampton Institute, in Virginia; Talladega College, in Alabama; Tougaloo University, in Mississippi; Straight University, now known as Dillard, in Louisiana. The curriculums of these schools were modeled after the better Northern schools of the time, combining academic and industrial courses.
The American Missionary Association also aided in the establishment of Howard University and contributed the entire support for its theological department. Fourteen non-chartered normal and high schools had been opened by 1876. By 1879, 150,000 pupils in the South were being taught by graduates of American Missionary Association normal schools and colleges. And by 1888, the Association' schools had educated 7,000 teachers. In addition to training teachers, these schools had two other purposes. They were to demonstrate conclusively that African Americans were capable of mastering higher education and they were to provide African American leaders who might assist their people in the struggle for equal rights.
The Association's primary concern was to provide a liberal Christian education among African Americans, even during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, when public opinion ran strongly in favor of vocational training for the race. However, the American Missionary Association did not lose sight of the African American community's need for economic independence. Consequently, manual labor departments enabled the students to pay for part of their educational costs. In the process, the schools often harvested their own food and raised their own livestock, and they sometimes built and maintained their physical stock of buildings as well.
Following Reconstruction, the American Missionary Association adopted the policy of divesting itself of its primary and secondary schools as rapidly as public authorities in an area could be brought to accept responsibility for African American education. This policy, which sprang from the Association's conviction that education is primarily a public responsibility, allowed for the increase in expenditures toward the improvement of its institutions of higher learning. In an effort to encourage the acceptance of public responsibility, the American Missionary Association frequently turned over its buildings and grounds to local school boards without receiving any financial compensation for the properties. The South, however, was slow to accept this responsibility and as late as 1946, the American Missionary Association was still supporting seven of the region's high schools and academies.
The American Missionary Association established the Race Relations Department at Fisk University, under the directorship of Dr. Charles S. Johnson, in 1942. This met the needs of a climate that contained increased racial strife, both as a result of increased expectations for social participation by World War I veterans of color, and by the increased northern urban immigration by African Americans. After the Second World War, the bi-racial staff of the Race Relations Department endeavored to bring about better human relations through social research, education, and community action. The annual Race Relations Institute, held at Fisk, served as a training ground for many civil rights activists.
The Association's work with Native Americans was interrupted by the Civil War, but was resumed and expanded during the Reconstruction Period. The work with Asian Americans, white residents of Appalachia, and Puerto Ricans also received a significant portion of the American Missionary Association's attention.
In 1934, the Congregational and Christian Churches merged and the American Missionary Association, with Dr. Fred L. Brownlee as General Secretary, became part of the portfolio of the new organization, the Board for Homeland Ministries. The Board had had its own non-American Missionary Association missions in higher education, the Division of Christian Education, headed by Bryant Drake since 1940. Brownlee was succeeded in office by Rev. Philip M. Widenhouse, in 1954, and then by Wesley A. Hotchkiss, in 1957.
At this point, the American Missionary Association was absorbed again, into the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, and became a part of the Division of Higher Education and the American Missionary Association. This organizational restructuring was the result of a further merger between the Congregation and Christian Churches, and the Evangelical and German Reformed Churches. Other prominent officers in the campus ministry efforts of the Division were Hartland H. Helmich, Verlyn Barker, Rev. William K. Laurie, Rev. Paul H. Sherry, and Robert Mayo. In addition, Herman H. Long and Rev. Galen Weaver headed the Association's projects concerning race relations; Joseph T. McMillan, Jr., managed college relationships; Robert Newman managed the American Missionary Association's concerns with church and culture; Rev. Yoshio Fukuyama and Rev. Paul H. Sherry tended to the General Secretary's planning and strategy; Dr. Clifton H. Johnson established and operated the Amistad Research Center, the official repository for the American Missionary Association's archives.
Wesley A. Hotchkiss continued to act as the American Missionary Association's General Secretary through this 1957 merger and beyond, and he retired in 1983. At this point, Verlyn Barker succeeded Hotchkiss as Acting General Secretary and in 1984, Nanette Roberts assumed the official office and was succeeded in 1987 by Rev. Theodore H. Erickson, and in 1989 by co-General Secretaries, Rev. B. Ann Eichhorn and Rev. L. William Eichhorn. Other officers in the office of the General Secretary were Rev. Boardman W. Kathan, Rev. James A. Smith, Jr., and Rev. Grant Spradling.
Even after the first absorption of the American Missionary Association, into the Board for Homeland Ministries, in 1934, the purpose of the American Missionary Association was maintained. Truman B. Douglass, the Board for Homeland Ministries' Executive Vice President, cooperated with General Secretary Brownlee to maintain the education ministry. In 1963, the American Missionary Association's schools were transferred to the Council for Higher Education of the United Church of Christ. Douglass' oversight was succeeded by Howard Spragg, the former Board for Homeland Ministries Treasurer, in 1968, and then by Shelby Rooks, in 1984. In 1985, Division of Higher Education was eliminated and became the Division of Christian Education and the American Missionary Association. And in 1987, the Association's financial endowment, which had been carried and maintained intact since 1846, was fully absorbed by the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries.
Accruals: A portion of the records were added to the collection after the original donation had been processed. These records are filed under Addenda at the end of the collection. In addition, the American Missionary Association 1969 addendum documents the 20th century work of the AMA.
Access Restrictions: This collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions: Any copy rights such as the donor may possess in this property are hereby dedicated to the public. It is the responsibility of an author to secure permission for publication from the holder of the copyright to any material contained in this collection.
Acquisition Source: American Missionary Association
Acquisition Method: Gift
Appraisal Information: Correspondence of missionaries and teachers, teachers' reports, and publications produced by the American Missionary Association, which document the early abolitionist and education work condcuted by the Association.
Original/Copies Note: Microfilm copies are available for research use. For more information please see http://www.amistadresearchcenter.org/pdfs/Archon/American Missionary Association Archives - Microfilm Guide.pdf.
Related Materials: The Amistad Research Center houses organizational records of the United Church Board for Homeland Ministries, which absorbed the AMA. The Center also holds the personal papers of various teachers, administrators, and missionaries who served the AMA. A subject guide of AMA-related holds is maintained by the Center.
Preferred Citation: American Missionary Association archives, Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana
Processing Information: Processed
Other Note: During the original processing of this collection, each document was assigned a document number. Entries listed in the Author and Added Entry Catalog of the American Missionary Association Archives are also maintained in a card catalog at the Amistad Research Center. The card catalog includes the corresponding document number for each entry. The three volume catalog is maintained as pdf files on Amistad's website. See Other URL below to access the pdf version of the Catalog.
Alabama: 1878 May - 1882 July, undated, Nos. 3628-4047
Arkansas: 1847 October - 1878 June, Nos. 4048-4192
Arizona: 1867 November, Nos. 4193-4194
California: 1850 August - 1882 December, undated, Nos. 4195-4689
Colorado: 1864 April - 1879 September, Nos. 4690-4707
Connecticut: 1878 November - 1891 July, undated, Nos. 15591-15707
Delaware: 1853 December - 1878 March, undated, Nos. 15708-15786
District of Columbia: 1828 December - 1864 November, Nos. 15787-16183
District of Columbia: 1874 January - 188?, Nos. 18323-18627
Florida: 1863 May - 1870 March, Nos. 18628-19045
Florida: 1870 April - 1878 December, undated, Nos. 19046-19327
Georgia: 1863 April - 1866 April, Nos. 19328-19860
Georgia: 1878 May 16 - 1882 December, undated, Nos. 27158-27663
Hawaii: 1843 September - 1855 November, Nos. 27664-27865
Hawaii: 1856 March - 1878 June, undated, Nos. 27886-28289
Illinois: 1843 January - 1852 September, Nos. 28290-28762
Indiana: 1864 January - 1882 October, undated, Nos. 39117-39578
Iowa: 1847 June - 1855 December, Nos. 39579-39442
Iowa: 1875 July - 1882 January, undated, Nos. 41524-41853
Kansas: 1854 November - 1858 December, Nos. 41854-42195
Louisiana: 1876 January - 1878 December, undated, Nos. 46497-46986
Maine: 1846 September - 1853 December, Nos. 46987-47316
Maine: 1872 January - 1892 December, undated, Nos. 49068-49710
Maryland: 1847 October - 1865 February, Nos. 49711-49856
Michigan: 1875 January - 1882 December, undated, Nos. 70077-70563A
Minnesota: 1847 August - 1857 December, Nos. 70564-70824A
Mississippi: 1876 June - 1878 December, undated, Nos. 72891-73250
Missouri: 1845 August - 1864 June, Nos. 73251-73541
Montana: 1882 July - 1882 September, Nos. 74372-74376
Nebraska: 1855 March - 1882 October, Nos. 74377-74489
New Hampshire: 1846 May - 1861 December, Nos. 74490-75328
New Hampshire: 1877 July - 1882 October, undated, Nos. 77016-77169
New Jersey: 1829 January - 1868 December, Nos. 77170-77829
New Jersey: 1869 January - 1882 December, undated, Nos. 77830-78414
New Mexico: 1850 February - 1853 June, Nos. 78415-78491
Ohio: 1877 October - 1886 February, Nos. 118734-119239
Oklahoma: 1873 July - 1882 October, Nos. H1-H8
Oregon: 1862 February - 1878 July, undated, Nos. H9-H123
Pennsylvania: 1876 January - 1888 December, undated, Nos. H3961-H4280
Rhode Island: 1845 June - 1868 June, Nos. H4281-H4754
Rhode Island: 1868 July - 1878 November, undated, Nos. H4755-H5120
South Carolina: 1854 October - 1864 July, Nos. H5121-H5394
South Carolina: 1884 May, undated, Nos. H8709-H8761
South Dakota: 1872 October - 1883 January, Nos. H8762-H8812
Tennessee: 1867 January - 1866 December, Nos. H8813-H9195E
Vermont: 1872 January - 1879 August, undated, Nos. H1-3455 - H14309
Virginia: 1848 February - 1859 December, Nos. H1-4310 - H1-4329
Virginia: 1872 January - 1889 April, undated, Nos. H1-12992 - H1-13455
Washington: 1862 July - 1882 November, Nos. H2-2 - H2-41
West Virginia: 1863 November - 1878 June, undated, Nos. H2-42 - H2-215
Wisconsin: 1843 December - 1854 December, Nos. H2-216 - H2-679
Wisconsin: 1875 January - 1882 December, undated, Nos. H2-2433 - H2-2709
Wyoming: 1870 April, No. H2-2710
Barbados: 1857 December, No. F1-1
Bermuda: 1858 May, No. F1-2
Brazil: 1861 October - 1864 December, Nos. F1-3 - F1-8
Canada: 1846 November - 1852 December, Nos. F1-9 - F1-299
Canada: 1853 January - 1879 July, undated, Nos. F1-300 - F1-899
China: 1861 February, No. F1-890
Egypt: 1853 February - 1857 December, Nos. F1-894 - F1-1126
Egypt: 1858 January - 1882 May, Nos. F1-1127 - F1-1205
France: 1867 March - 1872 April, undated, Nos. F1-1206 - F1-1219
Gambia: 1849 October - 1850 August, Nos. F1-1220 - F1-1224
Germany: 1866 February - 1878 April, undated, Nos. F1-1225 - F1-1243
Greece: 1872 April - 1872 July, Nos. F1-1244 - F1-1246
British Guiana: 1861 March, No. F1-1247
Spanish Guinea: 1852 October, No. F1-1248
Haiti: 1848 March - 1865 November, Nos. F1-1249 - F1-1264
India: 1855 January - 1868 May, undated, Nos. F1-1265 - F1-1270
Jamaica: 1844 January - 1849 December, Nos. F1-1271 - F1-1662
Jamaica: 1866 July - 1877 October, undated, Nos. F1-3952 - F1-4404
Liberia: 1860 December - 1869 May, Nos. F1-4404A - F1-4416
Marquesas Islands: 1854 May - 1855 December, undated, Nos. F1-4417 - F1-4588B
Nassau: 1858 February - 1859 September, Nos. F1-4588C-4588E
Netherlands: 1867 August - 1877 April, Nos. F1-4589 - F1-4591
Nos. 10896-10810971: Mendi Mission account books, 1848-1856
No. F1-10972: Mendi Mission book containing prominent facts respecting the Mission, Church transactions, marriages, deaths, etc., ca. 1849-1856
No. F1-10973: Mendi Mission (Kaw Mendi Station) day book, February 1851-October 1852
No. F1-10974: Mendi Mission (Kaw Mendi Station) day book, September 1852-December 1855
No. F1-10975: Mendi Mission (Good Hope Station) day book, April 1854-February 1857
No. F1-10976: Mendi Mission (Good Hope Station) day book, March 1854-December 1856
Switzerland: 1867 February - 1873 September, Nos. F1-10977 - F1-10983
Thailand: 1847 February - 1854 June, Nos. F1-10984 - F1-11797
Thailand: 1854 July - 1874 September, undated, Nos. F1-11798 - F1-12327
Turkey: 1859 July - 1877 September, Nos. F1-12328 - F1-12331
USSR (Russia): 1861 May - 1867 May, Nos. F1-12332 - F1-12333
United Kingdom: 1844 February - 1866 June, Nos. F1-12334 - F1-12666
United Kingdom: 1877 February - 1882 September, undated, Nos. F1-14030 - F1-14148
Unidentified Places: 1848 July - 1877 July, undated, Nos. U1-U778
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A145
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A146
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A147
Carte-de-Visite, 3 x 3"
No. A148
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x7"
No. A149
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A150
Carte-de-Visite, 2.5 x 4"
No. A151
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A152
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A153
Tintype, 2.5 x 4"
No. A154
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A155
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A156
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A157
Daguerreotype, 3 x 4"
Attached note reads: Barnabas Root - A pupil in the Mendi Mission School, Jan. 2, 1860
No. A158
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A159
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A160
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A161
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A162
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A163
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A164
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A165
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7"
No. A166
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7", unidentified woman
No. A167
Cabinet Card, 4.5 x 7", unidentified woman
No. A168
Tintype, 2 x 3", unidentified woman
Un-numbered
Henry W. Hubbard letterbooks:
No. A171, 1904-1908
No. A172, 1896-1904
No. A173, 1890-1895
No. A176: Questions on the Gospel of History / by James Strong (New York: Carlton & Porter, 1852). Inscribed "Mrs. J.K. Cheesman [?].
No. A177: The North-Western Hymn Book / compiled by D.L. Moody (Chicago: Spalding & LaMontes, 1868)
Ledger book, 1913-1921
No. A1247
No. A1261: History of the American Missionary Association, circa 1929
No. A1262: American Missionary Association Constitution, circa 1927
No. A1266: Route Card for the Schools of the American Missionary Association (2 copies)
No. A1267 and A1269: Shall We Have a Connecticut Industrial School for Colored Girls in Georgia? (2 copies)
No. A1270: Country High Schools for Negro Youth
No. A1271: A Typical Rural School
No. A1408: An Echo of Christmas in an A.M.A. School / by Helen Dickinson, undated
No. A1409: From Beaufort to Blowing Rock: North Carolina, "The Old North State" / by James W. Cooper, undated
No. A1410: Alabama / by James W. Cooper, undated
No. A1411: Two Girls' Work / by Cicely Savery, circa 1900
No. A1412: The Education of Afro-American Girls / by D. L. Satterfield, undated
No. A1432: The Community and Settlement Work of The Latin-American Institute, 1918
No. A1433: Highways and Byways, 1931
No. A1434: Why African Mothers Fear / by Amy Bridgman Cowles, undated
No. A1436: A Visit to Sierra Leone, West Africa / by Rev. O. Faduma, undated
No. A1442: A List of Missions and Missionaries under the Auspices of the American Missionary Association, 1920
No. A1443: A List of Missions and Missionaries under the Auspices of the American Missionary Association, 1909
No. A1444: Who's Who, A Directory of Workers, 1929
No. A1447: Spelman Messenger, Vol. 18, No. 5 (February 1902)
No. A1448: The Negro Question / by George W. Cable, 1888
No. A1449: The Burning of Negroes in the South: A Protest and a Warning / by B. O. Flower, undated
No. A1450: The Negro in Professional Life / by Rev. George W. Moore, undated
No. A1451: A Town of Colored People in Mississippi / by Rev. B. F. Ousley, undated
No. A1452: God's Designs For and Through the Negro Race / by E. H. Fairdhild, 1882
No. A1453: "The Black Shadow in the South" / by Atticus G. Haygood and "Have American Negroes Too Much Liberty?" / by Charles H. Smith, undated
No. A1455: Negro Migration and Its Implications: North and South / by George E. Haynes, 1923
No. A1456: Native Helpers at Mound Bayou, Mississippi / by Henrietta B. Ousley, undated
No. A1457: Uncle Tom's People and the A.M.A., circa 1921
No. A1458: Some Efforts of American Negroes for Their Own Social Betterment, Report of the Third Atlanta Conference, 1898
No. A1459: Our Work in the South and Why the Southern People Cannot Do It / by A. F. Beard, undated
No. A1460: After Forty-Five Years / by George W. Moore, undated
No. A1461: Culture is Colorless, undated
No. 1462: "The Progress of the Negro" / by A. D. Mayo, undated
No. 1463: "The Peculiarities of the South" / by N. S. Shaler, undated
No. A1464: Is the Negro Meeting His Responsibility? / by Rev. Harold M. Kingsley, undated
No. A1465: "The Negro Intellect" / by William Matthews, undated
No. A1466: The New Inter-Race Relations in the South / by Will Winton Alexander, 1922
No. A1467: The Advancement of Colored Women / by Mrs. Booker T. Washington, undated
No. A1469: Keep Christmas, undated
No. A1470: A Mexican War Orphan, undated
No. A1471: They Live at Marion (Mission Reserves Leaflet No. 1) / by Ida Vose Woodbury, undated
No. A1472: Children of the Gulf / by Mrs. H. I. Miller, undated
No. A1473: Suggestions for the Use of Mission Study Classes and Others Using "The Upward Path", circa 1909
No. A1474: Planting Ideals in Soil and Souls / by George L. Cady, undated
No. A1475: The Year of Jubilee, circa 1922
No. A1476: The Mormon Mind / by Claton S. Rice, 1923
No. A1477: Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly, Vol. LIII, No. 3 (January 1902)
No. A1478: American Missionary Association Summary, 1922
No. A1479: The A.M.A. "Social Settlements" in the South / by Rev. Joseph E. Roy, undated
No. A1480: Reminiscences of Abraham Lincoln and Notes of a Visit to California. Two Lectures / by Joshua F. Speed, 1884
No. A1481: The American Missionary, Vol XXXVIII, No. 5 (May 1884)
No.
Includes "Avery Club Song" by Hattie E. Williams
Nos. A1534-A1549
Reprints of photographs originally dated 1930s-1950s
Nos. A1550-A1553
Includes commencment programs and programs/flyers for dramatic and musical performances
Nos. A1554-A1567
Broadside for anniversary celebration of Avery Club of Brooklyn, New York, and Vicinity
No. A1568
Includes commencment programs and programs/flyers for dramatic and musical performances
Nos. A1569-A1574
School newspaper, The Avery Tiger
Nos. A1575-1585
School newspaper, The Avery Tiger
Nos. A1586-1595
School yearbook, The Averyite
Nos. A1593A
Reprint of article regarding educational partnership between Tougaloo College and Brown University
No. A1593B
Typescript of sermon on slavery orginally delivered in 1860, with additional correspondence.
Nos. A1596-1618
Includes corerspondence between Ruth Morton and Samuel C. Adams, Jr., as well as an offprint of Adam's article "The Acculturation of the Delta Negro"
Nos. A1619-1682
Includes corerspondence between Ruth Morton and Samuel C. Adams, Jr., as well as various reports written by Adams and others
Nos. A1683-1739
List of students at Mendi Mission, number of years at mission, and topics of their studies, undated
No. A1743
List of employees commissioned by the American Missionary Association and the Western Freedmen's Aid Commission during the month of December 1866.
No. A1744
List of employees of the American Missionary Association, December 1866
No. A1745
List of employees commissioned by the American Missionary Association and the Western Freedmen's Aid Commission during the month of January 1867.
No. A1746
List of employees of the American Missionary Association and the Western Freedmen's Aid Commission, 1867.
No. A1747