This series consists primarily of nine scrapbooks created by the Women's Missionary Society (WMS) of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church. These scrapbooks document activities of the society from approximately 1904 - 1941. They contain various items used by the society to promote programs and events and chronicle the beginnings of some WMS programs and projects. It appears one of the duties of the WMS historian was to compile these scrapbooks as brief, anecdotal records of WMS activities. They contain samples of promotional and educational material, convention material, mite boxes, lapel pins, newspaper clippings, and clippings from the WMS publications Mission Tidings and Calendar. This series provides a valuable glimpse into some components of the WMS and offers an enriched view of the early history of the WMS. Some items are difficult to examine because they are affixed to pages with glue or were disassembled for mounting purposes. Three of the scrapbooks contain a variety of material that highlights the work of the WMS, and other individual scrapbooks are each devoted to a particular topic. There are scrapbooks for the "My Missionary for a Day" program, the Deaconess Department, the 50th Jubilee of the WMS, the Augustana Mission Headquarters and Home. A Centennial News scrapbook, which highlighted events surrounding the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, and a scrapbook containing clippings of photographs from issues of Mission Tidings and Calendar are also part of the series. In addition to these scrapbooks, there is also a small published book of photographs of the Swedish School of Jerusalem. It is stamped, "Historian," so it is assumed it was in the custody of the historian. Some of the pages are quite fragile, with loose and detached items. The covers were removed during processing.
