Subject Files 1886-1962.

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United Lutheran Church in America. Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School, Baltimore, Maryland. Subject Files 1886-1962.

Subject Files 1886-1962.

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This series comprises records of various subject matter that were retained by the Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouse and Training School, Baltimore, Maryland (BMD). Records date from 1886-1962 and include handwritten and typewritten records, as well as printed material. Record types include correspondence, financial statements, printed reports, orders of service, news releases, bound notebooks, pamphlets, brochures, leaflets, memoranda, sheet music, scrapbooks, circular letters, and printed schedules. Subject matter is varied and includes motherhouse regulations and policies, deaconess garb, donations and memorials, nursing work, anniversaries, triennial programs and observances, merger of motherhouse with Philadelphia Motherhouse of Deaconesses, and promotional material for motherhouse. Within the series there are three subseries related to triennial programs, reports and surveys, and publications and printed material. Two records of note, the notebook titled, "Motherhouse Items and Incidents of the Daily Life" and the nursing visits records book offer a glimpse into the daily workings of the motherhouse as well as the type of nursing work the Baltimore deaconesses performed. Also of interest, the scrapbooks comprise newspaper clippings of timely articles from the earliest days of Lutheran deaconess work in Baltimore.

3 boxes (1.4 cubic ft.)

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