Anna E. Hall collection

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Anna E. Hall collection

1892-1964

http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/fa:119

The Anna E. Hall collection (boxes 1 through 3) spans the years of 1896 through 1964. The materials within the collection describe the life and work of this Methodist Deaconess from Georgia. They include Hall's personal diaries describing daily life, including her missionary work in Garraway, Liberia, West Africa. An early journal of John M.L. Harrow describes the tough existence of early missionary life in 1890s Africa. Also of interest are articles, photographs, images and publications related to Anna E. Hall, the histories of Central Methodist church of Atlanta, the African nation of Liberia, Gammon Theological Seminary and the Interdenominational Theological Center. Further collection materials include church service programs, educational information, certificates and licenses, correspondences addressed to Anna E. Hall from the government of Liberia, ministers and former students and friends.

2.09 Linear Feet

eng, Latn

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11658324

Atlanta University Center, Robert W. Woodruff Library

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Hall, Anna E., 1870-1964

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w65z31n3 (person)

Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. Her religious training was delayed due to family responsibilities and lack of financial resources: instead she taught school for one year in Ormund, Florida. She then...