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Cummings Guest House Register (Full), Usm African American Collection

Cummings Guest House Register

The Cummings family of Old Orchard Beach, Maine, ran a guest house from 1923 until 1993. Register in which guests signed themselves in or were signed in by staff at the Cummings Guest House, 110 Portland Ave., Old Orchard Beach, Maine. Includes signatures of family members who attended reunions after the Guest House ceased operation.

Date Range:

1923-1998

Size of Collection:

1 ft.

Provenance:

The Cummings Guest House Register belonged to the Cummings Guest House, in operation in Old Orchard Beach ME from 1923 into the 1990s. It was purchased by the University of Southern Maine’s Glickman Library, with some …

Mary Margaret Hill Scrapbook 1923, Mary Margaret Hill

Scrapbooks

Mary Margaret Hill went to Ward-Belmont during the 1923-1924 school year.

A Call To The Dust & Ashes, William E. Booth-Clibborn

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

This booklet, The Call to the Dust & Ashes, contains reflections and statements from the First Southern Bible Conference of the Pentecostal Assemblies of The World, held in Little Rock, Arkansas November 3-10th, 1922. The Conference was put on by some of the white PAW ministers in the South, including William Booth-Clibborn, C. C. O Opperman and other ministers from Texas, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Missouri. But the meeting was controversial because black PAW ministers because they could not attend due to segregation in the South. Nevertheless, this booklet is an important artifact of Oneness Pentecostalism.

Scrapbook, Ila Duncan Sewell

Ila Duncan Sewell Papers

Ila Duncan Sewell's scrapbook from her time as a student at Abilene Christian College from 1921-1924.

Texas Boy Evangelist, Clarence Heckendorn

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

A book about the life of Clarence Heckendorn, a boy who was saved a singer for the Pentecostal evangelist. Charles Parham. He joined Parham's evangelist band at age 15 and preached in Kansas, Oklahoma, Nebraska and Colorado. The book tells his story and includes teachings on salvation, sanctification, baptism in the Holy Spirit, and prophecy. Contains photos of Heckendorn, Percy Campbell.

The year is c. 1921.

Montana, Northern Cheyenne Reservation, St. Labre's Mission School, 1921, William M. Hughes, Bureau Of Catholic Indian Missions

Montana

The Bureau of Catholic Indian Missions (BCIM) was created in 1874 as the Office of the Commissioner for Catholic Indian Missions to protect, promote, and administer the Native American mission interests of the Catholic Church in the United States. Records in this group are organized by record group and then state or territory and year.  Collection organization varies very little throughout the collection, however, prior to 1921, general correspondence was organized by location.  Starting with Director Hughes, general correspondence was placed as its own subgroup within the collection and is organized alphabetically.  Please go to Ask An Archivist if you …

"Coming To Guymon" (October 19??), Holy Spirit Research Center Oru Library

Parham News Paper Clippings

"Coming to Guymon [Oklahoma]". Publisher unknown. Date is October 22-23, 19??. Photo of Parham appears to be c. 1920s. No transcript.

The Personal Testimony Of Aimee Semple Mcpherson, Aimee Semple Mcpherson

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

The testimony of Aimee Semple McPherson published by Echo Park Evangelistic Association in circ. 1920.

Table of Contents:

• 7 - Conviction and Conversion
• 13 - Baptism in the Holy Ghost
• 19 - Marriage and Calling into the Vineyard
• 21 Miraculous and Instantaneous Healing of Broken Ankle
• 25 - Call to Foreign Fields
• 27 - Death of My Husband
• 33 - Work in Canada
• 35 - Called to Dwell in Tents
• 39 - Transcontinental Auto Tour
• 43 - Call to Build the House of the Lord

Images of this book are copyrighted to the HSRC and may not be reproduced in …

Rosalyn Kirsch's Scrapbook 1920-1922, Rosalyn Kirsch

Scrapbooks

Rosalyn Kirsch went to Ward-Belmont during the 1920-1922 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Lewiston Of Today, 1920, R. J. Lawton (Publisher)

Lewiston, Maine

No abstract provided.

Azusa Street Mission: Fourteenth Anniversary Of The Out-Pouring Of The Holy Spirit In Los Angeles California, William J. Seymour

Books and Other Holy Spirit Artifacts

This is a program from the Fourteenth Anniversary of the Azusa Street Outpouring in 1920 put together by William J. Seymour. It was one of the last events at Azusa. Seymour died in the summer of 1922 from a heart attack.

This program contains an outline of Seymour's teaching on the soon coming of Christ and a number of songs that were sung during the meeting.

Songs include:

"Were You There?", "He's Coming Soon", "I Remember Calvary", "Christ Returneth", "The Hallelujah Song", "The Comforter Has Come", "Christ Receiveth Sinful Men", "He Lifted Me", "I Want To Be Ready", "Lord I …

Pastor's Salary Account Book, 1919-1927, Bethlehem United Church Of Christ (Tenth Legion, Va.)

Series 1 - Administrative Records, 1844-1979

Contains records of church members and payments made by each member to the pastor’s salary.

Green Box No. 02; Printing Plates/Cuts Used In E. Haldeman-Julius Materials; Plate 1, Emanual Haldeman- Julius

Little Blue Books Printing Plates

Green Storage Box of Printing Plates/Cuts used in E. Haldeman-Julius written material production. This includes, Little Blue Books, Big Blue Books, Appeal to reason, Haldeman-Julius Weekly to name a few. This is printing cut/plate 1 from Green Storage box #2

America's Mission To Serve Humanity: (Wilson A Prophet, In A Line Of Prophets), Frank Moss

Electronic Texts in American Studies

America's divinely-ordained mission is to serve humanity; Germany's ruler-imposed mission was to dominate mankind. America's galaxy of prophets culminates in the president, whose voice is heard throughout the earth; Germany's line of prophets crashes to ruin in the kaiser; "Deutchland ueber alles" has become a dirge, but rescued peoples are singing "Sweet land of liberty."

This address shows that a continuous voice of prophecy has rung out from American leaders, from the nation's beginning to the present time, proclaiming the mission of America to Humanity, -- culminating in the tremendous movement of 1918-19, when she undertakes to save democracy, and …

James Hearst Honorable Discharge

James Hearst Documents

The honorable discharge papers of James Hearst at the end of his military service in 1918, filed in Black hawk County in 1919

September 27, 1918: To Geneva Cornell, Archives, John Cornell Bradrick

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Letter to Geneva Cornell from nephew John Cornell Bradrick; discussing John's time in the trenches and the conditions of the overseas camp in France.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1918, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Exercises of Graduation. Held in Gorham, Maine June 19, 1918. Address given by Rev. G. Walter Fishe, Junior Dean of Oberlin College.

June 6, 1918: To Geneva Cornell, John Cornell Bradrick, Archives

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Envelope and photo for Geneva Cornell from John Cornell Bradrick; giving instruction to call someone up.

March 14, 1918: To Geneva Cornell, John Cornell Bradrick, Archives

The Lucinda Lenore Merriss Cornell Collection – Letters

Letter to Geneva Cornell from nephew John Cornell Bradrick; asking her to send him tobacco and detailing how broke John is.

Panoramic Photograph Of 3rd Liberty Loan Parade, 27th Division U.S. Army, Spartanburg, S.C., 1918., W. J. Armstrong

Local History

A panoramic photograph, taken from the Cleveland Hotel, captures downtown Spartanburg, S.C. in 1918, and in particular, the 3rd Liberty Loan parade, with the 27th Division of the U.S Army marching down Main Street. Numerous downtown landmarks are visible, including the towers of Wofford College, the spire of Central Methodist Church, Cleveland Law Range, the court house of the period, Andrews Building, Belk Hudson Building, the Daniel Morgan Statue and Morgan Square, the intersection of Main and Church Streets, the original City Hall and the Spartanburg Herald Journal Building.

To Arms! Songs Of The Great War, Laura E. Richards

Maine Collection

To Arms! Songs of the Great War

by Laura E. Richards

The Page Company, Boston, Mass., 1918.

"First Impression, December, 1917."

The Colonial Press, C.H. Simonds Co., Boston, U.S.A.

Mary Daly Mcwilliams' Scrapbook 1918-1920, Mary Daly Mcwilliams

Scrapbooks

Mary Daly McWilliams went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1920 school years. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

Mary Stewart's Scrapbook 1918-1919, Mary Stewart

Scrapbooks

Mary Stewart went to Ward-Belmont during the 1918-1919 school year. She created this scrapbook during her time there.

James Hearst Order Of Induction Into Military Service

James Hearst Documents

The induction paper for James Hearst into service for the United States in October 1918.

Royster's Almanac In The Year Of Our Lord Nineteen Hundred And Seventeen, F.S. Royster Guano Company

Electronic Texts in American Studies

The months, phases of the moon, celestial risings and settings, historical events (mostly disasters and religious festivals), weather predictions, product endorsements, postal rates, canning tips, farming advice, Hessian fly control, freight car capacities, smoking meat, home-made sausage, butchering, rice, blackberry jam, Thanksgiving turkey hints, cranberries, ginger bread, remedies for chiggers, weights and measures, French proverbs, business rules, corned beef, canned corn, cattle ailments, land measurement, the draft of plows, world facts, wedding anniversaries, sugar cakes, "Success Talk for Boys", cutworm control, digging bar, pipe wrench, jokes, miscellaneous facts, iceless refrigerator, aphis on roses, rules of health, misconceptions about weather, values …

Marguerite Griffith's Scrapbook 1917-1918, Marguerite Griffith

Scrapbooks

Marguerite, born in 1901 in Huntington, West Virginia, attended Ward Belmont during the 1917-1918 school year. She married Harry D. Witherspoon on September 15, 1920, and they moved to California. They had two children: Merilyn and Sara Patricia Witherspoon. They moved to North Carolina where Harry worked as a manager. Marguerite died in 1954 with her husband Harry followed in 1956.

November 15, Usm Special Collections

Batchelder-Haley Letters

In this letter, dated to approximately 1916, Abbie writes to Mrs. Tibbets about several topics, including her teaching job, attending an exhibition, seeing the Emperor pass on the street, tea services, and describes in detail her accommodations. She says that she is very happy in Japan now that she is more used to the climate.

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1916, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School programs for the Public Exercises and Graduating Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 20 and 21, 1916. Address given by Rev. Abraham M. Rihbany, D. D..

Gorham Normal School Commencement Program 1926, Gorham Normal School

Commencement Programs

The Gorham Normal School program for the Graduating Exercises. Held in Gorham, Maine June 15, 1926. Address given by President Kenneth C. M. Sills.

Hattye Mae White Scrapbook 1916-1918, Hattye Mae White

Scrapbooks

Hattye Mae White was born in San Antonio, Texas on October 16, 1897. She attended Ward-Belmont during the 1916-1917 school year. She married Charles Cousins Johnson Jr. on September 7, 1918, and the pair had one son, Captain Charles Cousins III, born August 2, 1919. Captain Cousins would later die during World War II. Hattye Mae White Johnson died on June 23, 1979, in Texas.