Anna E. Hall letters and ephemera

Collection

Identifier: BC-2025-103

Scope and Contents

Letters by and ephemera pertaining to Anna E. Hall. Letters from Hall to her New England Deaconess Training School classmates, Edna Apphia Hill and Ann M. Randall, begin with Hall's return to Atlanta after graduation and continue with letters from Monrovia and Cape Palmas. Additionally, there is a New England Deaconess Home Training School commencement program, McKinley memorial service program, Liberia’s 60th Independence anniversary program annotated by Hall, and Hall's visiting card from Monrovia.

Dates

Creation: 1900 - 1916

Creator

Hall, Anna E. (1870-1964) (Person)

Access Note

Collection is open for research.

Conditions Governing Use

These materials are made available for use in research, teaching and private study, pursuant to U.S. Copyright Law. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials. Any materials used for academic research or otherwise should be fully credited with the source. The original authors may retain copyright to the materials.

Biographical Note

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Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia in 1870. She attended Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University), graduating in 1892. She taught for a year in Ormond, Florida and served as a school principal in Jesup, Georgia for four years. Then she attended the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 as their first Black student. Hall graduated from New England Deaconess Training School on May 22, 1901.

Hall worked as a Methodist deaconess in Atlanta, Georgia from 1901-1906. In December 1906 she moved to Monrovia, Liberia to begin missionary work with the Kru (or Kroo) people. In her second year, she relocated to Garraway, Liberia, where she directed the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission. Hall spent 25 years in Liberia before returning to home to Atlanta.

In 1952, a dormitory at Gammon Theological Seminary in Atlanta was named for her, and in 1956 she was knighted by the Republic of Liberia for her work there. Anna E. Hall died in 1964.

Source:

Biographic note, Anna E. Hall collection. Archives Research Center. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Full Extent

.5 Linear Feet (1 container)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

Letters and ephemera from Anna E. Hall, who was among the first Black graduates of the New England Deaconess Home Training School in Boston in 1901 and later a missionary in Liberia.

Arrangement

Alphabetical.

Provenance

Purchased from Open Boat Booksellers in 2025.

Related Materials

A larger collection of Hall's materials can be found at: Anna E. Hall collection. Archives Research Center. Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library.

Related collections at Boston College: New England Deaconess Hospital School of Nursing records, MS.1989.008, John J. Burns Library, Boston College.