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Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society (WABHMS)

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Identifier: Group-13

Dates

  • Creation: 1861-1973
  • Creation: Majority of material found within 1930 - 1959

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Unpublished manuscripts are protected by copyright. Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce must be secured from the repository and copyright holder. Staff may refuse copying of fragile or at-risk materials.

Materials may be accessed by request at the American Baptist Historical Society. For more information on accessing collections or obtaining copies, visit http://abhsarchives.org.

Biographical / Historical

One organization began in February 1877 in Chicago and November in Boston. The two merged in 1909, and based themselves in New York. WABHMS began the Baptist Missionary Training School (BMTS) in Chicago, founded expressly for the training of women for missionary service. In 1955, the American Baptist Convention voted to adopt new by-laws in order to integrate the boards, staff and programs of the American Baptist Home Mission Society and the Woman's American Baptist Home Mission Society.

Extent

60 Linear Feet (150 boxes, but volumes and oversized boxes still need to be added to this inventory. )

Language of Materials

Multiple languages

Preservica Internal URL

https://us.preservica.com/explorer/explorer.html#prop:4&a412591d-7d4c-40ec-90d5-b02dd0da99e1

Preservica Public URL

https://abhs.access.preservica.com/archive/sdb%3Acollection|a412591d-7d4c-40ec-90d5-b02dd0da99e1/

Processing Information

Materials were organized by unknown persons before coming here. Some boxes of records were found in 2019 that also had some materials from the Woman's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society, and those have been included here, as they were interfiled for some reason.

Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
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Repository Details

Part of the American Baptist Historical Society Repository

Contact:
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Atlanta GA 30341-4115 USA
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