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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Mission Students, 1935 1930/1935 A group portrait of Mission students. Written on verso: Miss Hattie L. Hooks, M.E. Mission, Ganta Hinterland, via Monrovia Liberia, West Africa. Missions, Portraits and people, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall, circa 1930 1925/1935 Passport portrait of Anna E. Hall. African American women, Methodist Church, African Americans--Religion, African American clergy, African Americans--Georgia--Atlanta, Portraits and people Anna E. Hall Collection
"Mammy", circa 1930 1925/1935 "Mammy", a woman with headscarf. African American women, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
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
Man Playing a Drum, circa 1930 1925/1935 An African man playing a tam-tam drum. African Americans--Religion, Portraits and people, Africa Anna E. Hall Collection
Woman in Dance Dress, circa 1930 1925/1935 An African woman in dance dress. On verso (translated from French): Witch doctor dressed in dance. African Americans--Religion, Portraits and people, Africa Anna E. Hall Collection
Cape Palmas, circa 1930 1925/1935 View of the waterside from the river at Cape Palmas, Liberia. African Americans--Religion, Portraits and people, Africa Anna E. Hall Collection
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, circa 1930 1925/1935 Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Calle de San Agustin streetscape, Canary Islands, Spain. Missions, Buildings and grounds, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, circa 1930 1925/1935 Santa Cruz de Tenerife - la Laguna - Carretera de Tejina streetscape, Canary Islands, Spain. Missions, Buildings and grounds, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Dakar, Senegal, circa 1930 1925/1935 View from hospital - homes and Roume Avenue in Dakar, Senegal. Missions, Buildings and grounds, Africa, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, circa 1930 1925/1935 Santa Cruz de Tenerife landscape, Canary Islands, Spain. Missions, Buildings and grounds, African Americans--Religion Anna E. Hall Collection
Child, circa 1930 1925/1935 A child being carried in a sling wrap. Portraits and people, African Americans--Religion, Africa Anna E. Hall Collection