Overview
| Repository: |
Yale University Divinity School Library
409
Prospect Street New Haven, CT 06511 Email: divinity.library@yale.edu Phone: (203) 432-5301 |
| Call Number: | Record Group No. 34 |
| Title: | Records of Religious and Benevolent Societies and Organizations |
| Dates: | 1804-1987 |
| Physical Description: | Total archival boxes 58; total linear footage 24' |
| Language(s): | In English. |
| Summary: | This collection contains publications of primarily American and British organizations, societies, conferences, and councils. The publications provide primary source documentation of organizations that focused on a wide variety of issues, ranging from sabbath observance to tract and Bible distribution to support of widows to religious education to ecumenical programs, etc. |
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| Catalog Record: | A record for this collection, including location information, may be available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog. |
Administrative Information
Information about Access
Open to qualified researchers.
Cite As
Records of Religious and Benevolent Societies and Organizations, Record Group No. 34, Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library.
Historical note
The publications in this collection date from the early 19th century to the 1980s.
Description of the Papers
Record Group 34 consists of primarily printed material. This guide lists the organizations and conferences alphabetically by name, with dates and place of origin also noted.
The religious and benevolent societies and organizations represented in this collection generally fit into one or more of the following categories:
Bible and tract societies
Christian education/ministry
Connecticut societies
Conferences, conventions
Ecumenical movements
Protestant Episcopal agencies
Related to Jews
Related to Roman Catholicism
Relief and charitable societies
Sabbath observance
Scholarly societies
Sects, religious societies
Societal reform
Published in the United Kingdom
Women's societies
Arrangement
The societies and organizations are listed alphabetically: