Descriptive Summary
Access
Publication Rights
Preferred Citation
Acquisition Information
Scope and Content of Collection
Indexing Terms
Descriptive Summary
Title: Congregational Church papers
Dates: 1888-1960
Bulk Dates: 1920-1960
Collection number: H1959.2
Creator:
United Church of Christ, Congregational, of
Southern California
Collection Size:
22 boxes
Repository:
Claremont Colleges. Library. Special Collections, Honnold/Mudd
Library.
Abstract: The Congregational Church Papers brings together records from
a number of Southern California Congregational Church organizations. The earliest
records include those of the Congregational Ministerial Union of Los Angeles and
vicinity, 1908-1934; Woman's Home Missionary Union of Southern California,
1888-1925; and Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific, 1889-1914. The greatest
portion of the collection is annual reports and miscellaneous items from member
churches of the Congregational Conference of Southern California and the Southwest,
1952-1963. Papers from women's organizations account for more than a third of the
collection.
Physical location: Please consult repository.
Languages: Languages represented in the collection: English
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to publish must be submitted in writing to Special
Collections.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Congregational Church papers. Special Collections,
Honnold/Mudd Library, Claremont University Consortium.
Acquisition Information
Deposited in 1959.
Scope and Content of Collection
Records of the Southern California Congregational Church include manuscripts,
correspondence, reports, lists, annual reports, and programs of the following
entities:
- Congregational Ministerial Union of Los Angeles and vicinity, 1908 to 1934
- Los Angeles Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers, 1925 -1955
- Congregational churches in Southern California and the Southwest, 1950 - 1961
- Southern California Congregational Conference, 1913 - 1954
- Congregational Conference of Southern California and the Southwest, 1943 -
1960
- Woman's Home Missionary Union of Southern California, 1888 - 1925
- Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific, 1889 - 1914
- Southern Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions for the Pacific, 1903 - 1925
- Congregational Woman's Home Missionary Federation, 1920
- Congregational Women's Missionary Society of Southern California and Southern
California Federation of Congregational Women, 1925 - 1940
- Southern California Federation of Congregational Women, 1933 - 1943
- Federation of Congregational Women of Southern California and the Southwest,
1943 -1946
- Fellowship of Congregational Women of Southern California and the Southwest,
1946 - 1954
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Congregational Church --Church History --California