Items

• WMN209
  Julia Emery's letter of resignation from the Woman's Auxiliary, 1916.
• WMN208
  Letter written by Julia Emery to her father regarding her nomination as Secretary of Woman's Auxiliary, 1876.
• WMN210
  Oil painting of Julia Chester Emery painted by her sister, Helen Winthrop Emery, undated.
• WMN221
  Celebrating the 25th anniversary of their ordination to the priesthood. Participating in the Eucharist in Philadelphia's Church of the Advocate were (left to right); Carter Heyward, Alison Cheek, Nancy Wittig, Emily Hewitt and Alla Bozarth, 1999.
• WMN207
  Mary Elizabeth Wood from Boone University, undated.
• WMN223
  Ida Soule, "The Mother of the United Thank Offering," photographed in her home in Massachusetts, undated.
• WMN218
  Florence Li Tim-Oi addresses the Women's Witnessing Community in Canterbury during the 1988 Lambeth Conference.
• WMN204
  Suzanne Hiatt speaking at the National Consultation of Ordained Women in the United Methodist Church, in Nashville, Tennessee, 1975.
• WMN216
  Rev. Carter Heyward speaks with students in Dayton, Ohio, 1974.
• WMN212
  Emily Hewitt attends the 1973 General Convention in Louisville, Kentucky.
• WMN220
  The Rev. Carter Heyward (left) and the Rev. Allison Cheek serve at a special convention Eucharist honoring the ministry of women, 1994.
• WMN231
• WMN230
  The Right Reverend Barbara Harris, 1999.
• WMN229
  From A Voice from the South, Cooper's 1892 book. Print courtesy of UNC and "Documenting the American South" project.
• WMN228
  Artemisia Bowden, educator and community activist.
• WMN227
  Joyce Phillips Austin, attorney, public servant, and activist, balanced her long and often ground-breaking career with an extraordinary dedication to the work of the Church, particularly in social welfare ministries in and around New York City.
• WMN202
• WMN199
• WMN197
• WMN196
• WMN195
• WMN194
• WMN-ephemera
• WMN-intro
• WMN191
  The Journal of the General Convention in 1949 records the refusal of the House of Deputies to seat three women delegates, Alice H. Cowdry, Ruth Jenkins and Elizabeth Davis Pittman, who had been elected by their diocese. The women refused an offer to be seated without voice or vote.
• WMN093
  A letter to Ruth Jenkins concerning her "courageous stand" as a delegate to the 1949 General Convention, 1949.
• WMN190
  Opinion editorial by Barbara C. Harris, published in the General Convention Daily on October 6, 1973 after the failed vote for women's ordination.
• WMN189
• WMN133
  Convention Daily, 1976. The Convention Daily headline for Sept. 16, 1976, celebrates the passage of women’s ordination
• WMN188
• WMN186
  The Rt. Rev. Edward R. Wells II, retired Bishop of West Missouri, one of four bishops of The Episcopal Church who ordained 11 women to the priesthood in a service in Philadelphia on July 29, 1974, leads the ceremony of laying on of hands.
• WMN161
  An anonymous letter in the Spirit of Missions calls for a special offering to be made at General Convention, September 1889.
• WMN165
  Rev. John Chapman, missionary to Anvik, Alaska, sent this sketch of the mission station to the Board of Missions, which published it in the Spirit of Missions, October 1889.
• WMN166
  The total sum of the Thanksgiving Offering as reported in the Spirit of Missions was $2, 188.64, November 1889.
• WMN187
• WMN185
  When You Lead Worship, a Woman's Auxiliary guide on building an organization, undated.
• WMN184
  When You're Personnel Chairman, a Woman's Auxiliary guide on building an organization, undated.
• WMN183
  When You're Chairman for Social Relations, a Woman's Auxiliary guide on building an organization, undated.
• WMN026
  When You're Chairman…, a Woman's Auxiliary guide on running an organization, undated.
• WMN025
  When You're Treasurer, a Woman's Auxiliary guide on building an organization, undated.
• WMN024
  When You Organize Women's Work in Your Parish, a Woman's Auxiliary guide on building an organization, undated.
• WMN152
  Twenty-eight new female delegates are formally welcomed to the House of Deputies by President of the House, Rev. John Coburn, at the start of the 1970 General Convention.
• WMN096
  Betsy Dyer, the first woman to serve as an official delegate in the House of Deputies, 1964.
• WMN139
  A 1973 cartoon from The Living Church suggests the sense of departure from Apostolic tradition felt deeply by many opponents of women’s ordination.
• WMN138
  A delegation to the Women’s Triennial, sometimes called “the third House,” listens to a speech on the theme of freedom. The Women’s Triennial voted in favor of women’s ordination in 1973, and sent a memorial to the General Convention recommending adoption.
• WMN136
  Archbishop's Address, 1976. Archbishop Coggan addresses the House of Deputies following their vote on women's ordination.
• WMN135
  The Vote on Ordination, 1976. Dean Collins narrates recordings from the legislative floor during the lead-up to the vote, and the reading of the results.
• WMN134
  Convention Daily, 1976. Not every woman was a proponent of women’s ordination. The Convention Daily profiles Deputy Frances Swinford of Lexington, who strongly opposed the measure.
• WMN131
  The House of Deputies prepares to vote on women’s ordination before a packed gallery, visible on the right. 1976.
• WMN130
  Charles Willie speaks to Betty Bone Schiess, one of eleven women irregularly ordained in Philadelphia on July 29, 1974, after Willie tendered his resignation as Vice President of the House of Deputies in protest of the Bishops' decision to rule the ordinations invalid. His son James clings to his back.
• WMN129
  Charles Willie's Statement, 1976. Charles Willie’s statement to the 1976 General Convention, explaining why he resigned over the censure of those involved in the ordination service in Philadelphia.
• WMN149
  Women's Triennial, 1970. The members of the Women’s Triennium publish a memorial protesting the decision against women’s ordination.
• WMN148
  Women's Ordination-- Miserere! An editorial from the American Church News Convention Daily remarks upon the failure of legislation permitting women's ordination. Oct. 19, 1970.
• WMN147
  Two clips from Convention Dailies emphasize the nature of the debate over women’s ordination. “The Male Canons” is from the Oct. 16, 1970 issue of the American Church News, a conservative publication openly opposed to women’s ordination; “The Male Bible” was printed by the liberal-leaning Episcopal Life Convention Daily (then an independent Church board) the following day.
• WMN146
  Three women hoping to be ordained, Suzanne Hiatt, Carol Anderson and Betty Schiess, attend the 1970 General Convention in Houston.
• WMN145
  Youth delegate Travis Smith of Virginia addresses Convention in favor of women’s ordination, holding a priest’s collar to emphasize that merely holding it “is as close as she can get to the priesthood now.”
• WMN151
  Eleven women kneel at the altar of the Church of the Advocate, Philadelphia, during their ordination to the priesthood on July 29, 1974.
• WMN150
  A button reading "If you settle for what they're giving you…you deserve what you get!", undated.
• WMN092
  Advertisement for Windham House, the deaconess training school, undated.
• WMN091
  The Vocation of Deaconesses, a pamphlet describing the life and education of deaconesses, undated.
• WMN090
  Deaconesses attend the National Conference of Deaconesses, 1967.
• WMN089
  The Deaconess and her Ministry in the Episcopal Church, a pamphlet showing the many ministries of deaconesses, undated.
• WMN088
  "An Advertisement" by Deaconess Hart calls for women to serve, c. 1918.
• WMN080
  The "Why I Went Into Church Work" pamphlet series contains personal essays written by women church workers, undated.
• WMN079
  Consider…the Church, undated. This brochure describes the many professional careers open to women in the Episcopal Church.
• WMN078
  Yes...there are careers for women in the Episcopal Church, a brochure for the Windham House professional training program, c. 1957
• WMN077
  What Do They Do?, a pamphlet promoting women church workers, undated.
• WMN076
  Tell Us About Personnel, a pamphlet answering questions about women's work and training opportunities, undated.
• WMN075
  We Work for the Church, a pamphlet promoting women church workers, undated.
• WMN167
  A special edition of Breviary Offices printed for the Society of St. Margaret by J. Pott & Co. of New York and finished with a hand-carved custom cover depicting the Carthusian cross and motto "Stat Crux Dum Volvitur Orbis," or "The cross stands as long as the world turns," c. 1885.
• WMN120
  This undated booklet, dictated by Mother Louisa Mary, describes the founding of the Society of St. Margaret in America in 1873.
• WMN111
  Objectives of the Guild of St. Barnabas for Nurses, 1905.
• WMN123
  Mary Emery Twing discusses the form and function of diocesan organizations in this paper for the Conference of Associates of the Girls' Friendly Society, Baltimore, May 10, 1887.
• WMN122
  The Order of the Daughters of the King published this history to commemorate its centennial, 1985.
• WMN121
  National Policy of the Girls' Friendly Society in America for Program Making, 1922.
• WMN117
  Members of Girls' Friendly Society chapters from around the world gathered at Sarah Lawrence College in New York for the Girls' Friendly Society World Council, June 24-26, 1957.
• WMN116
  Children pack missionary boxes, undated.
• WMN115
  Girls' Friendly Society contest winners give Mrs. Roosevelt a birthday party, 1952.
• WMN114
  Two Junior Girls' Friendly Society members speak on Voice of America, c. 1950.
• WMN113
  Girls dressed for a square dance at the Girls' Friendly Society World Assembly, 1955.
• WMN112
  Japanese members of the Girls' Friendly Society, undated.
• WMN125
  The Order of the Daughters of the King published this history to commemorate its centennial, 1985.
• WMN124
  A promotional brochure for the Order of the Daughters of the King, undated.
• WMN118
  Mrs. James L. Cassidy, the outgoing National President of the Daughters of the King poses with Mrs. Edward D. Smith, the newly elected National President, at the Convention Banquet in Seattle, 1967.
• WMN119
  The cover of an Altar Guild Manual, written by Edith Weir Perry in 1934.
• WMN173
  Report of the Executive Board of the Woman's Auxiliary to the Triennial Meeting in Portland, September, 1922. This report describes many concerns of the Woman's Auxiliary in an age of change: the death of Julia Emery, the new responsibilities of the Auxiliary in the Church, including the training of women for service, and the position of women in formal church leadership roles.
• WMN172
  A significant topic of discussion during the 1919 Woman's Auxiliary Triennial Meeting was the possible merger with the Executive Committee of the DFMS and how it might affect the organizational structure of the Woman's Auxiliary.
• WMN179
  St. Mary's Junior Auxiliary, March 1911.
• WMN181
  Girls and boys with their money boxes, Fairbanks, Alaska.
• WMN182
  Rev. Glen Wilcox and his wife Joan learning to use the radio telephone transmitter part of the Missionary Communication Service in Anvik, Alaska.
• WMN022
  Woman's Auxiliary and United Thank Offering prayer card, undated.
• WMN180
  Anne Cady was a trained stenographer who worked as an aide to Hudson Stuck at the Allakaket mission. Miss Cady is pictured here at St. John's in the wilderness, c. 1900-1920.
• WMN178
  Women traveling by boat in the Alaska mission field, 1909.
• WMN177
  Home and Abroad article, "Will Our Women Work", 1870.
• WMN176
  Deaconess with supplies for Alaska mission field, c. 1910.
• WMN110
  Proceedings of the Board of Missions of the Protestant Episcopal Church at their 37th Annual Meeting, 1872.
• WMN109
  The Spirit of Missions, June 1841. A missionary letter gives thanks for prayer books provided by the Female Prayer Book Society of Philadelphia.
• WMN108
  The Spirit of Missions, November 1837. A missionary letter describes a land gift by a woman for the purpose of a "Female Seminary."
• WMN107
  The Spirit of Missions, March 1836. The Domestic Committee reports on the 500 tracts made available by the Protestant Episcopal Female Tract Society of Baltimore.
• WMN106
  The Spirit of Missions, March 1836. Decades before the United Thank Offering, there was a story in the Episcopal Church about Moravian women who inspired a united offering to save some of their congregations from debt.
• WMN105
  The Spirit of Missions, December 1836. The Domestic Committee reports on the 500 tracts made available by the Protestant Episcopal Female Tract Society of Baltimore.
• WMN104
  The Spirit of Missions, April 1836. The Foreign Committee resolves to establish "The Female Foreign School Society" for the support of a mission school in Greece.
• WMN103
  Proceedings of the Domestic and Foreign Missionary Society of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States from its formation to the General Convention held in Philadelphia, 1823. Women's societies existed from the beginning of the church as seen in the Board of Directors' report from the First Triennial Meeting.
• WMN074
  Lueta Bailey, Presiding Officer of the Triennial Meeting, greets Rt. Rev. William Spofford (L) and Rev. Powell Woodward (R), 1967.
• WMN073
  Memorandum on equal participation in church leadership. 1969.
• WMN072
  Letter inviting participation in a Task Force on Women conference, 1976.
• WMN070
  Barbara Bush accepts an honorary membership to the board of the Episcopal Church Women, 1989.
• WMN069
  Triennial Report describing the transition from Woman's Auxiliary to General Division of Women's Work, 1961.
• WMN153
  The Woman's Auxiliar sets standards for professional women supported by the United Offering in these minutes from the Triennial Meeting, 1919.
• WMN132
  The Woman's Auxiliary unanimously carries a resolution honoring Julia and Margaret Emery for their service in these minutes from the Triennial Meeting, 1919.
• WMN071
  Julia Emery looks at the past and the future in this letter to the Woman's Auxiliary, c. 1921
• WMN068-08
  These National Council meeting minutes record the adoption of a resultion constituting the Woman's Auxiliary an auxiliary to the Presiding Bishop and Council on February 11, 1920.
• WMN068-06
  The minutes of the November 1919 meeting of the National Council record the Woman's Auxiliary's formal request to be made auxiliary to the Presiding Bishop and Council instead of the Department of Missions.
• WMN068-04
  A resolution adopted at the February 1919 meeting of the Board of Missions requested General Convention amend the canons of the church to permit women to sit on the Board of Missions.
• WMN068-01
  Report of the Committee Appointed by the Board on Devember 13, 1916 to Confer with Committee Appointed by Woman's Auxiliary, 1919. This committee report from the February 1919 minutes of the Board of Missions makes recommendations for the new structure of the Woman's auxiliary after its merger with the Board of Missions.
• WMN067
  A collection of United Thank Offering ephemera including buttons, stickers, and an enamel lapel pin of a haloed Julia Emery holding a little blue box, undated.
• WMN066
  Lessons at a school in Pineville, North Carolina, c. 1940s.
• WMN065
  Nurse Rosa Clark (center, standing) with nursing students at St. Paul's Polytechnic Institute, Laurenceville, Virginia, 1958.
• WMN064
  Bishop's House in Ghana funded by a UTO grant, undated.
• WMN063
  Letter thanking UTO for funding a priest with a medical background for the Minnesota Episcopal AIDS Ministry, 1990.
• WMN062
  Letter thanking UTO for funding a new building for St. Antipas Church, Redby, Minnesota, 1987.
• WMN061
  Letter thanking UTO for funding an airplane for the Diocese of North Dakota, not the first airplane funded by UTO grants, 1991.
• WMN174
  United Thank Offering prayer card, undated.
• WMN098
  Thousands Share in the United Thank Offering of the Women of the Church, booklet cover, undated.
• WMN059
  "How the United Thank Offering is Spent," a chart showing the distribution of funds, c. 1950.
• WMN052
  "The Little Blue Box," a promotional poem for the United Thank Offering, undated.
• WMN060
  The Call of the Little Blue Box, cover to a "dramatic programme" by Mary Bosworth and Rachel Leverich, 1913.
• WMN058
  Infographic from "Your UTO Goes to Work".
• WMN057
• WMN056
• WMN055
• WMN054
  United Thank Offering published a series of stories about grant-funded projects.
• WMN053
  The first United Offering box was a beige pyramid. Although the designs on subsequent boxes changed, they remained the "little blue box."
• WMN169
  When You're Treasurer, UTO publication, undated.
• WMN168
  When You're Treasurer, UTO publication, undated.
• WMN166
  The total sum of the Thanksgiving Offering as reported in the Spirit of Missions was $2, 188.64, November 1889.
• WMN165
  Additional remarks on the General Auxiliary Offering, what would later become the United Thank Offering, refers to it as "our thanksfiving offering for all the common love and cheer we enjoy in our happy work," Spirit of Missions, October 1889.
• WMN165
  Rev. John Chapman, missionary to Anvik, Alaska, sent this sketch of the mission station to the Board of Missions, which published it in the Spirit of Missions, October 1889.
• WMN164
  The May 1889 Spirit of Missions records that four Woman's Auxiliary parish groups in Louisiana donated various sums "Sp. [special] toward building chapel at Anvik, Alaska."
• WMN163
  Donations for the Anvik church began appearing in the "acknowledgements" section of Spirit of Missions after Emery's call, April 1889.
• WMN162
  The abstract of proceedings of a Woman's Auxiliary meeting in the Spirit of Missions mention a "special offering in which all branches might share" to build Christ Church at Anvik, Alaska, December 1888.
• WMN161
  An anonymous letter in the Spirit of Missions calls for a special offering to be made at General Convention, September 1889.
• WMN051
  Report of the United Thank Offering Committee to the Triennial of the Woman's Auxiliary, 1922. Although mite boxes were used to gather small donations prior to 1922, it was at this meeting that the United Thank Offering's iconic "The Little Blue Box" was formally established.
• WMN050
  This excerpt from the 1922 Woman's Auxiliary Triennial Meeting minutes contains a resolution commending the women of the Church for their largest united offering in history, the first offering to bear the name "United Thank Offering."
• WMN049
  These excerpts from the 1919 Woman's Auxiliary Triennial Meeting minutes records the decision of the Woman's Auxiliary to change the name of the United Offering to the United Thank Offering and dedicate the 1922 offering for the support of women's mission work.
• WMN048
  Mrs. Margaret Sherman (third from left) and Woman's Auxiliary delegates stand in front of the "Blue Box," an aircraft purchased through a 1952 UTO grant for the "Flying Bishop of Alaska," William Gordon, 1956.
• WMN047
  A United Thank Offering Story series, c. 1965. This series of pamphlets shares stories of communities assisted by UTO grants.
• WMN046
  This is the United Thank Offering, c. 1955. This informational booklet discusses the collection and intended disbursement of the 1955 United Thank Offering.
• WMN045
  Your United Thank Offering, Actions of Grace, undated.
• WMN044
  A United Thank Offering promotional calendar card, 1928.
• WMN043
  "The World is My Community," United Thank Offering poster, 1944.
• WMN042
  Four generations give to the United Thank Offering, undated.
• WMN041
  Pointers for Women, a newsletter for women church workers, 1943.
• WMN040
  A page from an Episcopal Female Tract Society of Philadelphia publication showing the society's officers and managers, 1829.
• WMN039
  Church Work, a monthly magazine by and for the women of the church, 1885.
• WMN038
  A Candid Examination of the Episcopal Church in Two Letters to a Friend by the Episcopal Female Tract Society of Philadelphia, 1826.
• WMN171
  Mrs. William C. Sturgis, Treasurer, Churchwomen's League for Patriotic Service is seated in front of the Nation-wide Campaign for the Church's Mission Poster, c. 1919.
• WMN170
  An Ojibwe language Woman's Auxiliary prayer card, undated.
• WMN037
  The United Offering, A Letter to the Woman Who Does Not Know, a letter by Julia Emery describing the origin and purpose of the United Offering and Woman's Auxiliary, c. 1908.
• WMN036
  Who and Where are Our United Offering Missionaries?, a list of women missionaries and their stations, 1913.
• WMN035
  Mrs. H. Shipler, Executive Secretary of the Woman's Council of the Seamen's Church Institute fills Christmas boxes, 1955.
• WMN034
  Women volunteers for the Seamen's Church Institute, wrap thousands of gifts for merchant mariners, c. 1954.
• WMN033
  Woman's Auxiliary United Thank Offering deposit certificate, 1949.
• WMN032
  Woman's Auxiliary United Thank Offering deposit certificate, 1925.
• WMN031
  Photograph of the United Thank Offering ingathering in Honolulu published in "This is the United Thank Offering," c. 1955.
• WMN030
  Photograph of the United Thank Offering ingathering in Honolulu published in "This is the United Thank Offering," c. 1955.
• WMN029
  Twenty-eight new female delegates are formally welcomed to the House of Deputies by President of the House, Rev. John Coburn, at the start of the 1970 General Convention.
• WMN028
  Triennial Meeting Registration table, 1952.
• WMN018
  A series of guides published by the Woman's Auxiliary to teach women how to organize, undated.
• WMN017
  Women with vision impairments weave corn husk mats at Fort Valley College Center, Georgia, 1942.
• WMN016
  Proceedings of the Board of Missions at their 37th Annual Meeting, describing the formation of the Woman's Auxiliary, 1872.
• WMN175
  Alaska Mission church altar decorated with Pine boughs and Pussy Willow branches, c. 1916.
• WMN015
  Proceedings of the Board of Missions at their 36th Annual Meeting, establishing the Woman's Auxiliary, 1871.
• WMN014
  Mary Emery (Twing), undated.
• WMN012
  Altar Guild member Mrs. Ralph Bingham sets up Communion, 1958.
• WMN011
  Women at St. Augustine's College, Raleigh, NC, play the piano, 1958.
• WMN010
  Grace Church Day Guild sewing for a hospital, 1955.
• WMN009
  Rector's Guild Bake Sale at Church of the Ascension & St. Agnes, Washington D.C., 1955.
• WMN008
  Women at St. Paul's Church, Burlington, VT, make bread for Mothers' Sunday, 1949.
• WMN007
  The Family Visiter and Sunday School Magazine, a periodical focused on religious education, 1829.
• WMN006
  Church School at St. Barnabas' Mission in Jankinsville, South Carolina, 1939.
• WMN005
  A confirmation class at St. Augustine's College, Raleigh. North Carolina, 1958.
• WMN004
  Church School offering at St. Joseph's Church, Detroit, Michigan, 1943.
• WMN003
  Children attend Church School, undated.
• WMN001
  Women were supporters, teachers, and students of the Society for the Home Study of Holy Scripture and Church History as seen in this annual report, 1889.