Der Diakonissen Freund and the Deaconess Messenger 1890-1960.

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Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses. Der Diakonissen Freund and the Deaconess Messenger 1890-1960.

Der Diakonissen Freund and the Deaconess Messenger 1890-1960.

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This series comprises issues of the publications Der Diakonissen Freund and The Deaconess Messenger for the Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses (MJDH/PMD). Issues are from 1890-1960 and include bound and unbound copies. Boxes 1 and 2 contain issues of the German publication Der Diakonissen Freund. Box 3 contains primarily issues of The Deaconess Messenger, but has several issues of Der Diakonissen Freund. Box 4 contains bound volumes which have issues that are missing elsewhere in the series. The magazines followed a simple format of news items of diaconal work in which the PMD was involved and informational articles about diaconal work of motherhouses abroad and diaconal work in general. In the German edition, early issues also include lists of deaconesses according to name, birthplace, and date of entrance into the diaconal community. Lists of sisters are further subdivided into deaconesses, auxiliary sisters, and probationary sisters. Pages are numbered consecutively from issue to issue and then start over with the next volume. Some volumes contain an index to issues for the preceding volume. In 1921 the German edition publishing frequency switches to quarterly and page numbering starts over with each new issue. Also beginning in 1921, some articles appear in English and in some issues, not all, a copy of The Deaconess Messenger also appears. The German edition ceased publication in 1941. The English edition follows the same general format as the German edition. In this series there are no bound or unbound copies of The Deaconess Messenger from 1895-1921. This gap is not explained. There is also no explanation given as to why the first issue in 1922 is numbered as volume 1 and includes an introductory article about "this first copy of The Deaconess Messenger." It appears there were no The Deaconess Messenger issues published in 1954 or 1956. For 1947, 1950, 1959, and 1960 only one issue was published and in 1949 and 1953 only two issues were published. Since this series includes bound and unbound issues, the list below comprises issues for which there is no issue available in this series. Records are arranged chronologically. Der Diakonissen Freund. Missing issues: No. 3, 1890, No. 2, 1891, No. 10, 1894, No. 9, 1917, No. 11, 1918, No. 3 1933, Nos. 3, 4, 1941 (uncertain if published) The following issues are found in box 4: No. 12, 1895, No. 1, 1897, Nos. 7-8, 1904, No. 9, 1908, No. 5, 1912, No. 10, 1915, No. 12, 1915, No. 9, 1916, No. 4 1921, No. 4, 1922, No. 1, 1924

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