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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

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The Burke Library is one of the largest theological libraries in North America, with holdings of over 700,000 items, including extensive special collections. The mission of the Burke Library is to identify, acquire, organize, provide access to, interpret, and preserve for the future information in the field of theology and contextually related areas of study.
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Burke Library collection on Protestant women's missionary societies, 1849 -- 1933

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This artificial collection is composed of four minute books and a personal diary kept by women associated with early 20th century Protestant missionary societies across the United States.
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Burke Library collection on Protestant women's missionary societies, 1849 -- 1933 0.5 linear feet

activities; and a minute book of the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church of Jamestown, New
Burke Library collection on Protestant women's missionary societies, 1849 -- 1933

This series contains minutes of the Young Ladies Missionary Society of Orono (Maine), as well as a small section of the personal diary of Hannah L.W. Penny, a member of the society and daughter of Deacon John Penny (1770-1846); a minute book of the Women's Foreign and Home Missionary Society of Fisk, Winnebago County, Wisconsin, recording its various social and missionary activities; a minute book of the Women's Foreign Missionary Society associated with the Hobart Memorial Methodist-Episcopal Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, recording information about the membership of the society as well as meeting activities; and a minute book of the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church of Jamestown, New York, describing society activities and including detailed annual reports.

Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church of Jamestown minute book, 1921 -- 1933 Box 1, Folder 4

Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church of Jamestown minute book, 1921 -- 1933
This file contains a minute book of the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church of

This file contains a minute book of the Women's Missionary Society of the First Baptist Church of Jamestown, New York, describing society activities and including detailed annual reports.

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Missionary Research Library collection on mission work in Japan, 1902 -- 1981

2.25 linear feet
This collection contains materials compiled by the Missionary Research Library that largely document mission work in Japan during the 20th century, including information on missions and religious work, education work, subject files, committees and reports, photographs, and scrapbooks.
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Woman's Board of Missions records, 1862 -- 1927

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The Woman's Board of Missions was a Congregationalist organization from Boston associated with American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), focusing on the benefit of women and children throughout the world, disseminating missionary intelligence, and supporting single women missionaries. The collection contains correspondence from members of the New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions; detailed minutes from the New Haven Branch and the New York State Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions Executive, Public, and Annual meetings; programs from the Norwich and New London Society and the Brookfield Association of the Auxiliary Foreign Missionary Society; as well as records of the branch officers' conference papers, programs and reports from individual branch meetings, and historical sketches of some branches.
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Series 1: Correspondence, 1871 -- 1893 0.5 linear feet

. Hume refers to the organization in a variety of ways including the Women's Missionary Society of New

This series contains one individual letter and three books of correspondence from members of the New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions. The third volume notes the inclusion of "copies of important missionary and business letters, from the corresponding secretary of the New Haven Brach of the Woman's Board of Missions." The recording secretary for the three volumes was Hannah D. Hume. The records detail information on missionaries in the field as well as events in the branch in the United States. Hume refers to the organization in a variety of ways including the Women's Missionary Society of New Haven and the Ladies' Missionary Society.

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China Planning Committee records, 1944 -- 1945

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This collection contains records of the Subcommittee of the East Asian Committee of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America (FMCNA), who organized a study conference about Christian work in post-war China. Included is correspondence, schedules, and records from the conferences.
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Correspondence A-Y, 1944 -- 1945 Box 1

(Women's Missionary Society) 1 45 Presbyterian Church in the United States 1 46 Presbyterian Church in the
Missionary Society) 1 67 Women's Union Missionary Society of America 1 68 Yale-in-China Association 1 69 YMCA
United Free Gospel 1 65 United Lutheran Church in America 1 66 United Lutheran Church in America (Women's

1 1 A 1 2 American Advent 1 3 American Friends (5 years meeting) 1 4 Augustana Synod, Lutheran (Board of Foreign Missions) 1 5 B 1 6 C 1 7 Christian Reformed Board of Missions 1 8 Church of England in Canada (Missionary Society) 1 9 Church of England in Canada (Woman's Auxiliary to the Missionary Society) 1 10 Church of the Brethren 1 11 Church of the Nazarene 1 12 Congregational (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions) 1 13 Cross, Rowland 1 14 Cumberland Presbyterian Church (Board of Foreign Missions) 1 15 D 1 16 Decker, J.W. 1 17 Disciples of Christ (United Christian Missionary Society) 1 18 Dixon, Stanley 1 19 Evangelical and Reformed Church 1 20 Evangelical and Reformed Church ( Women's Guild) 1 21 Evangelical Church 1 22 Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio, Missouri, etc. 1 23 Evangelical Mission Covenant Church 1 24 F 1 25 Free Methodist Church of North America (General Missionary Board) 1 26 Foreign Mission Conference of North America 1 27 G 1 28 H 1 29 L 1 30 M 1 31 Mennonite Brethren in Christ (Board of Missions of the Pennsylvania Conference) 1 32 Mennonite Brethren of North America 1 33 Mennonite of North America, General Conference 1 34 Methodist Church 1 35 Methodist Church (Women's Division of Christian Service) 1 36 Mickle, Joe J. 1 37 National Christian Council in China 1 38 National Holiness Missionary Society\ 1 39 Northern Baptist Convention (American Foreign Mission Society) 1 40 Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society [Northern?] 1 41 Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (Board of Foreign Missions) 1 42 P 1 43 Presbyterian Church in Canada 1 44 Presbyterian Church in Canada (Women's Missionary Society) 1 45 Presbyterian Church in the United States 1 46 Presbyterian Church in the United States (Committee on Woman's Work) 1 47 Presbyterian Church in the United States of America 1 48 Protestant Episcopal Church 1 49 Woman's Auxiliary to the National Council Protestant Episcopal Church 1 50 R 1 51 Reformed Church in America 1 52 Reformed Church in America (Woman's Board of Foreign Missions) 1 53 S 1 54 Scandinavian Alliance 1 55 Schwenkfelder Church 1 56 Seventh Day Baptist 1 57 Seventh Day Baptist General Conference (Woman's Executive Board) 1 58 Southern Baptist Convention (Foreign Mission Board) 1 59 T 1 60 United Brethren in Christ 1 61 United Brethren in Christ (Women's Missionary Association) 1 62 United Church of Canada 1 63 United Church of Canada (Woman's Missionary Society) 1 64 United Free Gospel 1 65 United Lutheran Church in America 1 66 United Lutheran Church in America (Women's Missionary Society) 1 67 Women's Union Missionary Society of America 1 68 Yale-in-China Association 1 69 YMCA 1 70 YWCA 1 71 General

  1. China Planning Committee records, 1944 -- 1945
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Cornelia A. Condict papers, circa 1883 -- 1944, bulk 1883 -- 1894

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Cornelia A. Condict was a Presbyterian missionary and Corresponding Secretary for the Woman's Synodical Society for Foreign Missions in New Jersey. The collection contains manuscript diaries written while Condict was living in Richmond, Virginia, and while traveling in Japan, Korea, China, Singapore, and India, with contents chiefly related to mission work.
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Margaret H. Brown papers, circa 1940 -- 1969

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Margaret H. Brown was a missionary in China under the auspices of the United Church of Canada, and worked as an editor for the Society of Christian Literature in Shanghai. The collection consists of a typewritten manuscript entitled "History of the Honan (North China) Mission [Presbyterian] of the United Church of Canada," compiled over a period spanning the 1940s to the 1960s, and chronicling the history of the Canadian mission to central China from the 1880s to 1951.
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