Box 1

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The earliest records in this group reflect Oberlin’s support of missionary endeavors of Protestant organizations both at home and abroad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The organizations affiliated with Christian missionary activity were the Foreign Missionary Volunteers, the Students Missionary Society, the Student Volunteer Band, the Union Missionary Society, the Young Ladies Missionary Society, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor. Later twentieth and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The earliest records in this group reflect Oberlin’s support of missionary endeavors of Protestant organizations both at home and abroad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The organizations affiliated with Christian missionary activity were the Foreign Missionary Volunteers, the Students Missionary Society, the Student Volunteer Band, the Union Missionary Society, the Young Ladies Missionary Society, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor. Later twentieth and...

Scope and Contents From the Collection: The earliest records in this group reflect Oberlin’s support of missionary endeavors of Protestant organizations both at home and abroad in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The organizations affiliated with Christian missionary activity were the Foreign Missionary Volunteers, the Students Missionary Society, the Student Volunteer Band, the Union Missionary Society, the Young Ladies Missionary Society, and the Young People’s Society of Christian Endeavor. Later twentieth and...