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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.

Scrapbook of Anna Santore DeLancy (1911-2001), West Virginia University (WVU) student, class of 1934, and social worker at "The Shack" in Pursglove. Scrapbook includes: WVU Student Fee Card; WVU Freshman Handbook published by the Women's Student Government Association (1931-1932); advertisement for Non-Fraternity Student Body President; unidentified cyanotype; programs from the Nixon Theater, Pittsburgh, PA; WVU commencment program, 1934; WVU commencement invitation, 1932; autographs of Morgantown and Pursglove residents; dance cards; year booklet of the Delta Chapter of Phi Chi Delta, 1933-1934; WVU freshman week programs; WVU May Festival program, 1932; program for Kiwanis Midnight Minstrels Charity Show at the Warner Theatre; WVU ephemera (sports schedule card, 1933, varsity football schedule, 1931, student activity book, 1930-1931); two photographs of group portraits of fellow students; candid photographs of Mary Behner with others; Fairmont College student directory, 1930; Sigrid Onegin recital program, signed "Onegin," 1934; clippings regarding the YWCA; and other items. Anna DeLancy was a Sunday School teacher at The Shack, a Presbyterian neighborhood house still operating in Pursglove. She founded the Beautiful Homes Club there, and was the recreation director after the founder Mary Behner Christopher left in 1938. She spent most of her life as a librarian in New York City.