Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. With the generosity of influential people who were made aware of her desire to be a missionary, she was able to enter the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 and graduated May 22, 1901 as the first African American to attend the school. Her missionary work was realized in December of 1906, when she travelled to Monrovia, Liberia to teach the Kroo (Kru) people. Her second year she was asked to go to the southern part of the Republic, Garraway, where she became the successor to the Director of the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission. At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu
May 16, 2019

Anna E. Hall Collection

Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. With the generosity of influential people who were made aware of her desire to be a missionary, she was able to enter the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 and graduated May 22, 1901 as the first African American to attend the school. Her missionary work was realized in December of 1906, when she travelled to Monrovia, Liberia to teach the Kroo (Kru) people. Her second year she was asked to go to the southern part of the Republic, Garraway, where she became the successor to the Director of the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu
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  • Geographic Location = Liberia
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Bishops, circa 1930 1925/1935 Two men standing outside. Written on verso: Left to Right Bishop S. Mordol and Bishop John A. Sulhan (my Bishop). Bishop Sulhan is coming to US soon. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, Missions Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, 1923 1923 A group portrait of women and children in front of a house in Liberia. Anna E. Hall wearing a white dress. Written on verso: The Julian A Stewart Girls Cottage - as Mr. Donahugh saw it, 2_1923. It is complete now- 1924. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, Missions Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1925 1920/1929 Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified man outside a church in Liberia. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, Missions Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1925 1920/1929 People waking into a thatch roofed house in Liberia. Anna E. Hall wearing a white dress. Written on verso: visiting house of Mr. Mooney, native Commissioner. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, Missions Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1925 1920/1929 Anna E. Hall and boys standing in a field in Liberia. Written on verso: Miss Hall & Mission Boys. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, Missions Anna E. Hall Collection
Martha Drummer, circa 1910 1905/1915 Martha A. Drummer. Printed on recto: Martha A. Drummer, sailed for Africa, 1906. Missionary of Pacific Brance, Woman's Foreign Missionary Society, Methodist Episcopal Church. Portraits and people, AfricaAfrican American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection