United Lutheran Seminary Philadelphia - In Her Own Right: Anne E. Sanford Missionary Collection

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Annie Evaline Sanford was born on February 4, 1873 in Springfield, Illinois and graduated from Carthage College in 1894. Annie Sanford completed five missionary terms in India from 1895-1902, 1904-1911, 1913-1920, 1922-1929, and 1931-1938. Primarily stationed at the Guntur Girls' School in Guntur, India, Miss Sanford assisted in hospital duties, taught Sunday school, and completed local missionary work during her service. During travel and work, Miss Sanford kept a journal that she would write for several months, then would send back to her family as a letter. For consistency purposes, this finding aid refers to the documents as letter journals to express their dual function in Miss Sanford’s life. In her letters, she chronicles her experiences spreading education and Christianity with communities in India. She also highlights local customs, the rigid Indian caste system, the weather, traveling throughout India, and current events in India and in the U.S. Each time Miss Sanford would travel between the U.S. and India, she would take a different route to tour parts of North Africa, Asia, and Europe, and this is reflected in her letters.
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Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 10A
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 10A
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Photo 1: Harold Dunkelberger. Photo 2: A group photo of three adults and one baby. On the back it is written: David i..? seven m..? old when this was taken) — Side B: On the photograph, written in ink: 3 Special girls.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 10B
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 10B
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Haaf Children— Side B: Women at Mang. well: Depicts women drawing water from the well.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 11B
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 11B
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Miss Schuff??— Side B: “A beautifully decorated hut” (tribal art)
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 11C
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 11C
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Postcard depicting a hilly region
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 12A
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 12A
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: “Blind Kantamma” — Side B: Mohammadan Mouahoram.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 12B
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 12B
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: No captions on the photographs- A little girl in a wheel chair (A copy of the photograph which was among the hospital photographs.)— Side B: 2 missionary women with children.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 15D
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 15D
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: “Girls at Meal” – Depicts three girls eating. Behind them, we can spot rows of other girls. All of them are seated on the floor; a woman is serving them food. —Side B: of the album page carries a picture that is cut in half. Probably a group photograph of a congregation because it has a part of the hand-written caption “Congr…” Taken in front of the bungalow? A part of the familiar roof can be seen.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 16A
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 16A
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Hand-written caption on the photograph: “Where Swarty is buried”: Depicts spaces dug out near the altar of a church with one of them that looks like a tomb.— Side B: Top : Shows the interior of a church full of congregants, most of them seated in benches, but some on the floor; men and women are seated separately. On the photograph there is a caption written in ink “Congregation at Rentachintala”. Bottom: Interior of a chapel. Hand-written caption: “Chapel at Luthergiri”
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 16B
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 16B
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Hand-written caption: “Miss Blaer’s Cottage at Sanitorium”: Depicts a missionary woman standing in front of a small house under construction. Standing along with her are 3 men.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 17A
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 17A
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Photograph with a hand-written caption “An Industrial School in Punjab”.— Side B: A printed picture showing a painting of Jesus calling his first disciples: titles and text citation in both English and Telugu; a second line in Telugu.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 17B
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 17B
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: “Girls at Well”: depicts four women drawing water from a well.— Side B: “Village Scene”: depicts men, women and children standing around; in the background there are huge hay-stacks.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 18
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 18
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: (The 3 photographs are pasted on a piece of paper. All three appear to be studio photographs. Two of them have captions printed on them), clockwise: Photo 1: On the photograph: “THREE SISTERS”: 3 young adults, probably from a well-off family because they wear jewelry. Photo 2: Below the photograph a hand-written title “High Caste Family”: From the clothing and jewelry one could say that this must have been a family from Kerala. Photo 3: On the photograph: “ A DANCING GIRL AT REST” : a studio photograph. The dancing girls were the women who were dedicated to the temples; they were also called the ‘devadasis’.— Side B, counterclockwise: Photo 1: “Boarding School”. Photo 2: “Rungiamma” – a little girl’s photograph. Photo 3: “Hannah’s Christian School” showing two missionary women, a local teacher(?) and seated children. Photo taken in front of a small building, probably the school building.
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 19
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 19
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A (A sheet from an album, 3 Photos): Photo 1: Depicts a teacher and a group of girl students; the caption written on the album sheet is called “Arithmatic Class”; Photo caption written in ink is not clearly visible:… Stall School.Photo 2: Photo caption above the photograph says Infant Class Stall School: A classroom of little girls seated on the floor in front of their small desks. Photo 3: Photo of an elderly missionary woman with a little girl. Handwritten caption on the photograph: “Miss Moses”.—Side B, Clockwise: Photo 1: Teachers in ‘Hindu Girls’ Schools of Guntur: Depicts both local men and women teachers; also two missionaries, on one of the images ‘AES’ is written. Photo 2: Teachers’ Meeting. Photo 3: Collection Pots. Photo 4: A group photo of women, mostly in white saris. Photo 5: Group of Hindu Women. (All captions written in ink on the photographs, except on the one where we see a group of women clad in white saris)
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1A
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1A
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Lutheran Church - Missions - India, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Probably a ground-breaking ceremony; Side B: "A Local Tailor"; Other info: Local Indian Families
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1B
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1B
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Lutheran Church - Missions - India, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: "Slifer's children," "Marian Fiedler;" Side B: "Convert Ratnama & Family"
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1C
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1C
Book Binding - India - Photographs, Lutheran Church - Missions - India, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Boarding schools - India - Photographs
Side A: Depicts a book-binding workshop; Side B: Boarding Girls Before a Bungalow
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1D
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1D
Boarding schools - India - Narasaraopeta - Photographs, Lutheran Church - Missions - India, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Photo caption: "G.B. School, Narasarowpet"
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1E
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1E
Boarding schools - India - Photographs, Lutheran Church - Missions - India, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Photo of boys smiling. Possibly a photograph of Anne E. Sanford's Bungalow in India
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1F
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1F
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Lutheran Church - Missions - India, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Guntur High School for Boys
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1G
Anne E. Sanford Scrapbook Leaf 1G
Lutheran Church - Missions - India - Photographs, Women in missionary work - Albums (Books), Missions - India - Guntur
Side A: Two missionary women, probably on furlough; Side B: Depicts the image of a "Temple Car" -- a temple car is a wooden structure on wheels. It is used during the annual festival to take an idol on a procession through the streets of a village/town. Damaged photo.