- In Her Own Right: The Lutheran Deaconess Movement
Books and serial publications published by the various Lutheran Deaconess Communities in the United States, focused on those with Motherhouses in Philadelphia and Baltimore. The “In Her Own Right” project has been made possible in part by a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence. - In Her Own Right: Women's Missionary Societies of the Lutheran Church
Books and manuscripts published or created by the various Lutheran Women's Missionary Societies of the General Synod, General Council, and United Synod of the South. Included here are both published materials from all three communities and manuscript minutes for the General Council's Women's Missionary Society. The “In Her Own Right” project has been made possible in part by a Humanities Collections and Reference Resources Foundations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities: Celebrating 50 Years of Excellence. - In Her Own Right: Annie E. Sanford Missionary Collection
Annie Evaline Sanford was born on February 4, 1873 in Springfield, Illinois and graduated from Carthage College in 1894. Annie Sanford completed five missionary terms in India from 1895-1902, 1904-1911, 1913-1920, 1922-1929, and 1931-1938. Primarily stationed at the Guntur Girls' School in Guntur, India, Miss Sanford assisted in hospital duties, taught Sunday school, and completed local missionary work during her service. During travel and work, Miss Sanford kept a journal that she would write for several months, then would send back to her family as a letter. For consistency purposes, this finding aid refers to the documents as letter journals to express their dual function in Miss Sanford’s life. In her letters, she chronicles her experiences spreading education and Christianity with communities in India. She also highlights local customs, the rigid Indian caste system, the weather, traveling throughout India, and current events in India and in the U.S. Each time Miss Sanford would travel between the U.S. and India, she would take a different route to tour parts of North Africa, Asia, and Europe, and this is reflected in her letters.
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- Table Talk (1964-1999) (student publication)
- Graduating Student Photographs from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg
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FINDING AID
Click here to view the finding aid.MANUSCRIPTS
- Common Service Book and Hymnal, 1918
- Seminary Hymn, 1926
- The Ladies of Hanover, play about Women's Missionary Society, by Elsie Singmaster, 1888
- In Tent and Bungalow by Amy Sadtler Albrecht (Lutheran missionary in Hindu Girls School, Guntur, India), edited by Elsie Singmaster Lewars
- The Unconquerable Hope, undated
PHOTOGRAPHS
- Portrait, 1893
- Portrait, 1895
- Portrait, 1928
- In front of old public library in Gettysburg, PA, 1948
- On park bench, 1948
LETTERS
- From Elsie Singmaster Lewars to "Luellla and George," June 5, 1945
- Ben Peery to Harold Philip Bell mentioning Elsie Singmaster , January 9, 1924
- Charles Livingston to Elsie Singmaster
- October 28, 1924
- January 17, 1925
- June 29, 1935 (handwritten)
- June 29, 1935 (typed)
- Series of replies to Elsie Singmaster regarding Robert Moffat Livingston's service in the Union Army under the name "Rupert Vincent," 1935
ARTICLES
- Short biography, The Lyons-Bernville Lutheran Parish Dear Book, 1932
- Honorary Recogition, Gettysburg College Bulletin, January, 1959
- "Lewars passed on her beliefs through books," The Morning Call, June 4, 2000
- "Susan Hill to talk about Elsie Singmaster Nov. 29," Gettysburg Times, November 16, 2000
- "Program to focus on area author," Gettysburg Times, November 25, 2000
- "Out of the Past," Gettysburg Times, June 10, 2009
- "New Elsie Singmaster Society to meet locally," September 5, 2013
- "The positive impact of Elsie Singmaster," October 19, 2013
- "Christ Lutheran hosts dramatized story of Gettysburg this Friday," Gettysburg Times, November 14, 2013
- "1895: Gettysburg's first attempt at a public library," Gettysburg Times, February 19, 2014
- "'Elsie Singmaster: Stories of Gettysburg' to be presented at Seminary Ridge Museum," March 25, 2014
- "Singmaster to be topic of ACHS meeting," March 31, 2014
- "Elsie Singmaster wrote of life in Gettysburg," Gettysburg Times, June 25, 2014
- "Singmaster to be featured at ACAC Brown Bag Lunch," December 20, 2015
- "Early 20th-century novelist with Valley Ties fought for women's education," The Morning Call, undated
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FINDING AID
REPORTS, 1883-1889
- March 18-April 18, 1883
- June 27-July 8, 1883
- July 23, 1883
- July 26-August 31, 1883
- September 13, 1883
- October, 1883
- Special Report: Chicago Cornerstone Laying, October, 1883
- January 14, 1884
- February 11, 1884
- March 10, 1884
- April 14, 1884
- May 8, 1884
- July, 1884
- August 14, 1884
- November 13, 1884
- December 11, 1884
- January 3, 1885
- February 12, 1885
- May 14, 1885
- January 14, 1886
- February 11, 1886
- April 18, 1886
- May 13, 1886
- June 17, 1886
- November 11, 1886
- December 9, 1886
- April 14, 1887
- May 14, 1887
- July 24, 1887
- August 8, 1887
- September 10, 1887
- October 20, 1887
- November 17, 1887
- December 8, 1887
- January 12, 1888
- February 14, 1888
- March 13, 1888
- April 10, 1888
- June 4, 1888
- July 10, 1888
- August 14, 1888
- September 11, 1888
- October 9, 1888
- November 13, 1888
- December 11, 1888
- April 11, 1888
- May 9, 1888
- July 16, 1889
- 10th Biennial Report Part 1, 1889
- 10th Biennial Report Part 2, 1889
CORRESPONDENCE
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Student writing on mission began in the mid-1820s at the Reverend Samuel Simon Schmucker’s parsonage in New Market, Virginia.
The Gettysburg Seminary Archives includes handwritten reports given by students beginning in 1824 and continuing through the 1890s. Some are written in German, while the large majority are in English.
The Society of Inquiry on Missions solicited funds and corresponded with other mission societies--Hartwick Seminary in Oneonta, New York; Andover Seminary in Massachusetts; Princeton Seminary in New Jersey; and Pittsburg Seminary in Pennsylvania--with the goal of expanding missionary interest among students of theology. Correspondence between Gettysburg’s society and other societies at Lutheran, Presbyterian, and Congregational Seminaries, indicates the Evangelical rather than sectarian ethos of missionary interest in the antebellum era.
The papers in this collection were written by students and presented by them to the society during a recitation day once every month over the course of several years and provide a record of the type of work done by students.
Throughout the 19th century the society remained central to the seminary experience. The focus of the student interest in mission changed during this time; the early reports on foreign mission work, for instance, gave way after 1865 to a more frequent focus on the needs of home mission. During the 1890s recitations at meetings no longer focused on foreign missionaries but instead were largely tributes to deceased graduates of the seminary, irrespective of whether they had undertaken mission work. By the end of the century mission enthusiasm seemed to have waned. Instead of lists of individual contributors, the treasurer had begun to assess individuals to pay off the society’s debts. The records continue until the 1919 audit.
- Constitution, By-Laws, and Proceedings, 1827-1856
- Minutes, Constitution, By-Laws, and Rules of Election, 1867-1886
- Proceedings, 1868-1873
- Treasurer's Record, 1886-1919
- Treasurer's Report, 1873
- Missionary Benevolence (from Seminary students), 1915-1922
- Reports: Wittenberg, 1833
- Reports: Executive Committee of Missionary Society, 1835
- Reports: English Report of Executive Committee (English and German), 1836
- Reports: Committee Report, 188?
- Reports: Report of the Committee of the Theological Missioary Society, undated
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- Notebook recording the lectures in several courses he attended as a seminarian.
02 - Encyclopaedia & Methodology, Jan-Feb 1863
03 - Modern Atheism, March-April 1863
04 - Homiletics, May-June 1863
05 - Dogmatic History, Oct-Dec 1863
06 - Homiletics, Feb-March 1864
07 - Unidentified Class, Romish Errors, April-May 1864
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- The Church that Makes God Sick, Rev. Robert W. Koons. April 7, 1968
- Isaiah 53, Rev. Herman G. Stuempfle, April 10, 1968
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Journals
Cuba, 1935Anthropology Observations Vol. 1 c. 1950
Anthropology Observations Vol. 2 c. 1950
Anthropology Observations Vol. 3 c. 1950
Anthropology Observations Vol. 4 c.1950
Liberia Journal, 1957-1958
Papua New Guinea, 1974
Audio Recordings
- "Africa Tales" Side [A]
- "Africa Tales" Side [B]
- Sermon, Untitled
- "None, None, None" Sermon
- "Sermon-Talk" [Side A]
- "Sermon-Talk" [Side B]
- "Easter Talk"
- "Re Prayer"
- Language is the Shrine of a People's Soul [Side A]
- Language is the Shrine of a People's Soul [Side B]
- "Easter: Thomas" [Side A]
- "Easter: Thomas" [Side B]
- Lecture, October 2, 1979 [Side A]
- Lecture, October 2, 1979 [Side B]
- Coffee and Fellowship, October 3, 1979 [Side A]
- Lecture, October 3, 1979 [Side B]
- Untitled [Story Snippet]
- Communion Service, November 6, 1977, Introduction to W. Sadler by Herman Paulk, Message by W. Sadler
- Dog and Motorcycle Story
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- Martin Luther King Sr.'s Visit to LTSG, April 24, 1969
02 - Informal Discussion with Seniors
03 - Informal Discussion with Seminary Community
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