Biographical Information Notebooks 1884-1971.

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Mary J. Drexel Home and Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses. Biographical Information Notebooks 1884-1971.

Biographical Information Notebooks 1884-1971.

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Notebooks containing biographical information for sisters of the Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses (PMD) comprise records for this series. They date from 1884-1971 and the primary record type is a bound notebook with handwritten entries. The range of dates for this collection exceeds the time the PMD was officially in existence because even though notebook entries were created at the time each deaconess began service with the PMD, many of these entries contain later additions made when the sisters were part of the Lutheran Church in America's Deaconess Community. The series includes six bound notebooks, all quite fragile with brittle pages. Other records are loose-leaf typewritten pages taken from ring-binder notebooks that were disassembled for preservation purposes. The remainder of the records are typewritten pages with lists of sisters and brief biographical sketches. All follow the same basic format. They each have an alphabetical index at the beginning and subsequent entries include the sister's date of birth, names of her father and mother, date of entrance into the community, her consecration date, a date if she left the community, and if applicable, her date of death. After these general entries, her work history in the community and her vacation history are recorded. Entries with a line drawn through them indicate a sister who left the community early.

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