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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Photogravures Booklet, 1914 1914 Photogravures booklet Anna E. Hall Collection
Sewing Class, 1914 1914 A class in sewing with students and teachers. Girls being trained for home keepers. Garraway, Liberia. Missions, Portraits and people, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Two Girls, circa 1915 1910/1919 Two young girls stand by a rock. Written on verso: Fannie S. G. Clair, Hall G. Willah. Missions, Portraits and people, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Two Boys and a Chair, circa 1915 1910/1919 Two young boys stand next to a chair. Written on verso: J. Stanley Daugh, Daniel Fields Daugh. The Kings Sons of Belmand (?) near our (unreadable). Missions, Portraits and people, African Americans--Religion 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
Mission Students, circa 1910 1905/1915 A group portrait of Mission students in Liberia. Missions, Portraits and people, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Mission Students, circa 1910 1905/1915 A group portrait of Mission students stand in front of the Mission Home. Garraway, Liberia. Missions, Portraits and people, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection