Guest Books, 1925-1952.

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Augustana Lutheran Church Women. Guest Books, 1925-1952.

Guest Books, 1925-1952.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49884082

This series consists of the guest book used at the Women's Missionary Society (WMS) Headquarters and Mission Home, Chicago, Illinois, and the guest book used at the WMS Lutheran Home for Women, New York, New York. The guest book for the WMS headquarters contains entries for 1925-1940, and the guest book used at the Lutheran Home for Women includes entries for 1930-1952. It appears these guest books were used to record not only the women using the residence facilities at both locations, but also organizations using each location's meeting facilities. Each location also hosted various parties, receptions, luncheons, and other events at which attendance was recorded in the guest books. The guest book for the WMS Headquarters and Mission Home, Chicago Illinois, is a bound, decorative book. The covers were removed during processing. It contains handwritten entries primarily consisting of name, hometown information, and date of visit. In a few instances there are also notations as to why the visitors were at the WMS Headquarters and Mission Home. The guest book used at the Lutheran Home for Women, New York, New York, is a large, bound notebook with its cover intact. Entries are handwritten and include name, hometown, date of visit, and in some instances a telephone number. Much more so than in the WMS headquarters guest book, in this book the event for which the people were in attendance is noted. There are copies of newspapers clippings found in the front portion of this book. It cannot be ascertained why these were included. They have no references to the WMS in them. In both books, there are entries for missionaries from Africa, India, and China, among other places. Other out-of-town visitors came from such places as California, Iowa, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, Canada, and Sweden. Particular care should be taken when handling the pages in the Lutheran Home for Women guest book. The edges and corners are deteriorating.

2 boxes.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Library, ELCA Library