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Anna Santore DeLancy, Scrapbooks and Yearbooks, 1921/1941, bulk 1930/1938

0.75 Linear Feet Summary: 8 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 1/2 in.)
Four scrapbooks (containing letters, photographs, clippings, greeting cards, ephemera, etc.) and two yearbooks created and collected by Anna Santore DeLancy (1911-2001). Anna DeLancy was a Sunday School teacher at The Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood house operating in Pursglove, West Virginia. She spent most of her life as a librarian in New York City. One scrapbook documents the missionary work of her friends Gerald and Sylvia Zimmer in Tungjen in Kweichow, China during the period 1936-1941. They were missionaries from the Spruce Street Methodist Church in Morgantown, West Virginia. It includes over 35 lengthy and detailed letters authored by Sylvia Zimmer regarding her experiences as a missionary, describing interactions with the local population (including children, officials, etc.), local customs and religious practices (including Taoism and Buddhism), the natural landscape, problems with bandits, and the effects of the Japanese invasion of China, among other topics. The remaining three scrapbooks document the life of Anna DeLancy and her husband Charles DeLancy (an engineering student at West Virginia University) in the area of Jefferson, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, during the period of ca. 1921-1938. There are two yearbooks: 1) "The Jeffersonian, 1927" for Jefferson High School, Jefferson, PA; 2) "The Eagle, 1927" for South Union High School of Uniontown, PA.
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Anna Santore DeLancy, Scrapbooks and Yearbooks, 1921/1941, bulk 1930/1938 0.75 Linear Feet Summary: 8 1/2 in. (1 document case, 5 in.); (1 small flat storage box, 3 1/2 in.)

DeLancy, Anna Santore
Four scrapbooks (containing letters, photographs, clippings, greeting cards, ephemera, etc.) and two yearbooks created and collected by Anna Santore DeLancy (1911-2001). Anna DeLancy was a Sunday School teacher at The Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood house operating in Pursglove, West Virginia. She spent most of her life as a librarian in New York City. One scrapbook documents the missionary work of her friends Gerald and Sylvia Zimmer in Tungjen in Kweichow, China during the period 1936-1941. They were missionaries from the Spruce Street Methodist Church in Morgantown, West Virginia. It includes over 35 lengthy and detailed letters authored by Sylvia Zimmer regarding her experiences as a missionary, describing interactions with the local population (including children, officials, etc.), local customs and religious practices (including Taoism and Buddhism), the natural landscape, problems with bandits, and the effects of the Japanese invasion of China, among other topics. The remaining three scrapbooks document the life of Anna DeLancy and her husband Charles DeLancy (an engineering student at West Virginia University) in the area of Jefferson, Greene County, Pennsylvania, and Morgantown, West Virginia, during the period of ca. 1921-1938. There are two yearbooks: 1) "The Jeffersonian, 1927" for Jefferson High School, Jefferson, PA; 2) "The Eagle, 1927" for South Union High School of Uniontown, PA.

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