Administrative Information

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open to all researchers.

Conditions Governing Use

Before reproducing or quoting from any materials, in whole or in part, permission must be obtained from the Special Collections Research Center, and the holder of the copyright, if not Swem Library.

Preferred Citation

Helen L. Johnson Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.

Acquisition Information

The materials were acquired by Special Collections Research Center on 07/17/2009.

Processing Information

Accessioned and minimally described in July 2009 by Ute Schechter, Warren E. Burger Archivist. Arrangement and finding aid by Patricia Sanabria, SCRC Staff, in September 2009.

Biographical Note

During the late 1920s and the 1930s, Helen L. Johnson was a preacher and missionary for the Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Home Missionary Society. At one point she was also the national organizer of young people's work of that same society. Further information about this individual or organization may be available in the Special Collections Research Center Wiki: <a href="http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Helen L. Johnson">http://scrc.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php/Helen L. Johnson</a>.

Scope and Contents

Papers of Helen L. Johnson, circa 1925-1940, covering her activities with the Methodist Episcopal Church Woman's Home Missionary Society. Materials include letters addressed to Johnson, photographs, programs, fliers, prayers and religious songs and other ephemera of a religious nature. Geographic areas covered include Ohio, Pennsylvania, Nebraska, and New York State.

Arrangement of Materials

This collection is organized into four series: Programs and Publications; Correspondence; Photographs; and Ephemera.

Related Material

For papers related to Methodist clergy in Virginia, see James Family Papers (Mss. 81 J23).

Index Terms

Genre/Form of Material:

• Correspondence
• Photographs
• Plays (document genre)
• Printed ephemera
• Programs
• Religious texts

Topical Term:

• Address books.
• Hymns.
• Methodist Episcopal Church. Woman's Home Missionary Society
• Missionaries--United States--20th century.
• Pamphlets
• Prayers.
• Women missionaries--United States.

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