[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent.]

Small Collection 44 [February 21, 1996]

Booth, Evangeline Cory

Ephemera; 1911-1916

1 Folder

Restrictions

There are no restrictions on the use of this collection.

Biography

Leader in the Salvation Army, daughter of Army founder William Booth; born, 1865; directed Army operations in Canada, 1896-1904; national commander of Army in the U.S., 1904-1936; died, 1950.

Scope and Content

Letters written by Evangeline Booth during her service as Field Commissioner of The Salvation Army in the United States. Correspondence concerns actual or potential contributors. Also includes a printed card with autograph, July 22, 1936, and a newspaper clipping advertising free Christmas dinners in 1910.

Provenance

The materials for this collection were received by the Center in April 1979 from C.D. Price, Inc. and Harold R. Nestler, February 1980 from Lorraine Burdick, and September 1984 from the BGC Museum.

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