Huge Lot Vintage Ephemera WOMEN\'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 1920\'S for Sale

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Huge Lot Vintage Ephemera WOMEN\'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 1920\'S For Sale

$Huge Lot Vintage Ephemera WOMEN\'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 1920\'S$
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Huge Lot Vintage Ephemera WOMEN\'S FOREIGN MISSIONARY SOCIETY 1920\'S:
$200.00

Huge lot of vintage ephemera from the Women\'s Foreign Missionary Society, associated with the Methodist Episcopal Church. Most items are 1927-ish, late 1920\'s. Many items are from the Cincinnati, Ohio branch.
Please see all photos. There are personal letters included from Minnie Dorman and other personal correspondence.
Also ncluded are three original large mailing envelopes with original stamps. All are in condition you might expect at nearly 100 years old.
A true time capsule of vintage ephemera.
From Wikipedia:<<

WMFS was organized in March 1869 at theTremont Street Methodist Episcopal ChurchinBoston, by eight women who responded to a call sent to thirty churches.[2]The eight founders were, Mrs. Lewis Flanders; Mrs. Thomas Kingsbury; Mrs. William B. Merrill; Lois Lee Parker; Mrs. Thomas A. Rich; Mrs. H.J. Stoddard; Mrs. William Butler (Clementina Rowe Butler); and Mrs. P.T. Taylor.[3]A window in the Tremont Street Church commemorates the event and preserves their names.[2]

The first public meeting of the society was held in the Bromfield Street MEC, May 26, 1869. The discussion was quickly followed by decisive action. At a business meeting held by the women at the close of the public occasion, it was voted to raise money to send as a missionary toIndia,Isabella Thoburn, sister of BishopJames Mills Thoburn. An appeal for a medical woman soon followed. As a result of prompt and efficient measures to procure funds, the services of Isabella Thoburn and ofClara Swain, M.D., were secured.

These two women sailed fromNew York Cityfor India, via England, on November 3, 1869, reaching their destination early in January, 1870. They were cordially received, and soon entered upon their work, Thoburn organizing schools and superintending the work of Bible readers, and Swain\'s medical ability gaining for her admission to many places that were closed to others. This society sent to India, China, Korea, and Japan the first woman medical missionary ever received in those countries.

By 1903, its 34th year, it had 265 missionaries carrying on its work in India, China, Japan, Korea, Africa, Bulgaria, Italy, South America, Mexico, and the Philippines, by means of women\'s colleges, high schools, seminaries, hospitals, dispensaries, day schools, and \"settlement work\".[>>