- NEW YORK COLORED MISSION
- NEW YORK STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY - BOOKER WASHINGTON INSTITUTE
OF LIBERIA
NEW YORK COLORED MISSION (Boxes 57-63)
Background: The Mission was founded in 1865, originally named
the "African Sunday School Association." Wood appears
on letterhead and in accounts as Treasurer for 1907-1912 and Secretary
for 1914-1920.
I. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Fair invitations, etc., ca.
1906-1910. [1 folder in Box 57]
Notes on contents: examples of invitations to annual benefit
Thanksgiving and Holiday fairs, markets and concerts, fund-raising
brochures and cards, original artwork [by Katharine G. Buffum?]
used on fund-raising items and invitations, draft of Christmas
appeal, application for copyright [of artwork].
II. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Fair correspondence, etc.,
1906-1911. [5 folders in Box 57]
Notes on contents: letters, bills, receipts, accounts, notes,
recipe book, menu, advertisements.
Chiefly letters related to planning benefit fairs, markets and
concerts and letters enclosing donations to fairs. Includes TLS
of Henry van Dyke agreeing to autograph books for 1906 fund-raiser,
menu and recipe book (1906) with watercolors and various bills
and receipts for supplies for putting on fairs and markets.
- Fair correspondence, 1906 (Oct. - Dec.). [Wood label "Fair
1906"]
- Fair correspondence, 1907 (Oct. - Dec.). [Wood label "Correspondence"]
- Fair, 1909. [Wood label "1909"]
- Fair correspondence, 1910.
- Fair correspondence, 1911.
III. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Correspondence, 1911-1920.
[9 folders in Box 58]
Notes on contents: letters, clippings, report, accounts, notes.
Topics discussed include financial matters and general mission
business and meetings, suitability of persons for mission's work,
plans to buy a country place for convalescents, starting and running
a day nursery (1912-1913). Correspondents include Joshua L. Barton,
Mary S. Kimber and others.
- Correspondence, 1911 (Jan. - May).
- Correspondence, 1911 (June - Dec.).
- Correspondence, 1912 (January - April).
- Correspondence, 1912 (May - July).
- Correspondence, 1912 (August - December).
- "Day Nursery" correspondence, 1912-1913.
- Correspondence, 1913.
- Correspondence, 1914-1917.
- Correspondence, 1918-1920.
IV. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Reports, 1907-1910. [1 folder
in Box 59]
Notes on contents: letters discussing annual reports, handwritten
and typed drafts of annual reports.
V. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Treasurer's papers, 1907-1911
(a few items for 1912 filed in). [13 folders in Boxes 59-60]
Notes on contents: Treasurer's statements and receipts, includes
drafts of monthly statements, accounts, numerous receipts and
some related correspondence.
Folders 1-7 (Box 59), folders 8-13 (Box 60).
- Treasurer's correspondence, 1907-1908. [Wood label "NYCM
Treas."]
- Receipts, 1907 (November - December). [Wood label "Receipts
November," etc.]
- Receipts, 1908 (January - October). [Wood label "Receipts
January," etc.]
- Treasurer's statements (drafts), 1907-1908. [Wood label "L.
H. Wood - Treasurer - N. Y. Colored Mission"]
- "Misc. vouchers," 1910-1911.
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1910 (November - December).
[Wood label "November 1910," etc.]
- "General donations," 1911.
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1911 (January - March).
[Wood label "January 1911," etc.]
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1911 (April - June). [Wood
label "April 1911," etc.]
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1911 (July - August). [Wood
label "July 1911," etc.]
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1911 (September - October).
[Wood label "September 1911," etc.]
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1911 (November - December).
[Wood label "November 1911," etc.]
- Receipts, etc., ca. 1911-1912 (a few items). [Wood labels
"Statement of Treasurer of Trustees," "Contract
for telephone service" and "Statements"]
VI. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Treasurer's papers, 1912. [6
folders in Boxes 60-61]
Folders 1-3 (Box 60), folders 4-6 (Box 61).
- "Unpaid bills," 1912.
- Donations, 1912.
- Check stub book, 1912.
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1912 (January - March).
[Wood label "January 1912," etc.]
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1912 (May - August).
- Treasurer's statements, receipts, 1912 (September - December).
VII. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - "Correspondence re: Fresh
Air," 1910-1912. [1 folder in Box 61]
Notes on contents: letters, receipts, brochure.
Discusses arrangements for taking children on outings, contributions,
etc. Correspondents include J. L. Barton, Grace Brown and others.
VIII. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Reports, 1911. [1 folder
in Box 61]
Notes on contents: handwritten edited draft "Report of Fresh
Air Workers for the Summer of 1911. New York Colored Mission"
(on Central Bureau of Colored Fresh Air Agencies letterhead);
"Milestones" (1911) with above report, also letter,
notes re: report.
IX. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Misc. Fresh Air, 1911. [1 folder
in Box 61]
Notes on contents: 2 receipts (1911); original artwork for 1911
fund-raising brochure by K. G. Buffum (2 children gardening, one
kneeling, one with hoe). [Wood labels "Fresh Air receipts,"
1911 and "Fresh Air pictures"]
X. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Correspondence re: "Fresh
Air Farm," 1910-1911. [1 folder in Box 62]
Notes on contents: letters.
Discusses possible farm purchase.
XI. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - "Farm lists," ca.
1912. [1 folder in Box 62]
Notes on contents: typed and printed lists of advertisements
for farms for sale in N.J. and N.Y., notes, letter.
XII. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Donations to Fresh Air, 1910-1912.
[3 folders in Box 62]
Notes on contents: letters, cards, fund-raising brochures and
postcards returned with contributions noted, clipping.
- Donations, 1910. [Wood label "1910 Fresh Air donations"]
- Donations, 1911. [Wood label "Fresh Air donations 1911"]
- Donations, 1912. [Wood label "Fresh Air 1912"]
XIII. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - "Booker Washington Art"
[article?] [1 envelope in Box 63]
Notes on contents: copper plate [for newspaper article?] of portrait
of Washington, also plate of his signature.
XIV. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - "List of names"
ca. 1908. [1 folder in Box 63]
Notes on contents: typed and handwritten lists of names and addresses,
printed forms to be used to solicit names (to be kept confidential).
XV. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - "Milestones," 1909-1910.
[1 folder in Box 63]
Notes on contents: publication of NYCM. Includes 2 issues (vol.
2, March 1908, May 1910).
XVI. NEW YORK COLORED MISSION - Literature of other charitable
institutions and organizations, ca. 1906-1911. [2 folders in Box
63]
Notes on contents: letters, brochures, annual reports, etc. of
other charities, arranged alphabetically.
- Literature of other charities, A - M.
- Literature of other charities, N - S.
NEW YORK STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY - BOOKER WASHINGTON INSTITUTE
OF LIBERIA (Box 64)
Background: The Booker Washington Institute was administered
by the New York State Colonization Society. Earlier name was Booker
Washington Agricultural and Industrial Institute of Liberia, Inc.
The Institute had its beginnings in 1928. The school was located
at Kakata, near the Firestone rubber plantation. Wood was elected
to the Board of Trustees of NYSCS in 1947, he provided legal assistance
to the Society. [see "The politics of miseducation: the Booker
Washington Institute of Liberia, 1929-1984," by Donald Spivey,
T166 L7 S74 1986]
I. NEW YORK STATE COLONIZATION SOCIETY - BOOKER WASHINGTON
INSTITUTE OF LIBERIA - Correspondence, minutes, etc., 1947-1952.
[8 folders in Box 64]
Notes on contents: letters, minutes, legal papers, financial
papers, annual reports, notes, "A Report of a Travel Fellowship
to Liberia" by Jacob L. Reddix (1950) [Acting Principal,
Booker Washington Institute]
Correspondence chiefly discusses procedural and legal matters
of NYSCS (incorporation, changes in number of trustees, changing
name to Booker Washington Institute (1950), etc.). Correspondents
include Edward Robinson, L. A. Roy, Phelps-Stokes Fund personnel
and others.
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1947.
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1948 (Jan. - April).
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1948 (May - Dec.).
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1949.
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1950 (Jan. - March).
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1950 (May - Dec.).
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1951.
- Correspondence, minutes, reports, etc., 1952
