Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. With the generosity of influential people who were made aware of her desire to be a missionary, she was able to enter the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 and graduated May 22, 1901 as the first African American to attend the school. Her missionary work was realized in December of 1906, when she travelled to Monrovia, Liberia to teach the Kroo (Kru) people. Her second year she was asked to go to the southern part of the Republic, Garraway, where she became the successor to the Director of the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission. 

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu
May 16, 2019

Anna E. Hall Collection

Anna E. Hall was born near Bainbridge, Georgia on March 1st, 1870. She lived a religiously oriented childhood with her mother, a seamstress, and expressed the desire to serve as a missionary while a student at Clark University (now Clark Atlanta University) in Atlanta, Georgia, where she completed the normal course on May 12, 1892. With the generosity of influential people who were made aware of her desire to be a missionary, she was able to enter the New England Deaconess Training School in Boston, Massachusetts in 1899 and graduated May 22, 1901 as the first African American to attend the school. Her missionary work was realized in December of 1906, when she travelled to Monrovia, Liberia to teach the Kroo (Kru) people. Her second year she was asked to go to the southern part of the Republic, Garraway, where she became the successor to the Director of the Julia A. Stewart Memorial Girls Home and School, Garraway Mission.

At the AUC Robert W. Woodruff Library we are always striving to improve our digital collections. We welcome additional information about people, places, or events depicted in any of the works in this collection. To submit information, please contact us at DSD@auctr.edu

Two unidentified men standing in a garden with a wheelbarrow of potatoes.
Anna E. Hall Collection
A woman seated in a tree with two boys below. Possibly in India. Written on verso: Taken in June 1958. Yours truly with the 2 sons of our (?). There names are (L to R) Pelrvais and Jared. I am wearing salwar chemise, duputta. Sometimes I wear frocks, sometimes saris.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing outside with four men. Written on verso: Rev. Short, GA; Rev. Fields, LA: Rev. Meerans, D.C; Miss Hall; Jackson, LA.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified woman.
Anna E. Hall Collection
An unidentified aerial view of land and water.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified woman.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall greeted by three men. Written on verso: 1954 Dedication of Anna E. Hall Dorm Gammon Theol. Seminary; Left to Right: 1. Bishop Moore 2. Dr. Harry Richardson 3. Miss Anna E. Hall 4. Bishop Bowen.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Two women standing in a plaza. Written on verso: April '53 With Mrs. Richleu at Rockefeller Center New York. Ivy.
Anna E. Hall Collection
This scrapbook features photographs and memorabilia about Anna E. Hall created for her by Clark College students. Some of the items included are newspaper clippings, writings, and photographs of Anna E. Hall with various groups of students and adults. Some of the identified people in the photographs include: Dr. Stella Brewer Brookes, Dr. James P. Brawley, Dr. James R. Porter, Bishop Arthur E. Moore, Dr. Harry V. Richardson, Bishop J.W.E. Bowen, Susie Cunningham, Eva Samuel Martin, Roberta Parks, S.J. Saxon, Eva B. Parks, J.N. Shopshire, and 1892 Clark University graduates Lillie Lovelace, Julia Starks, and Constance Peeler.
Anna E. Hall Collection
This scrapbook features photographs and memorabilia about Anna E. Hall created for her by Clark College students. Some of the items included are newspaper clippings, writings, newsletters, and photographs of Anna E. Hall, Agnes McAllister, and groups of students and teachers from the Garraway mission in Liberia.
Anna E. Hall Collection
An unidentified man seated at a desk with a typewriter.
Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified woman and young man.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Portrait of a woman. Written on verso: Ruth McLaren-D.F.O class-First Methodist church Buffalo N.Y. Taken in Baysville, Ontario Canada- Sept. 4, 1949.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing on steps with unidentified woman. Written on verso: Methodist conference Boston, MA April 1948. Anna Hall, Warner right (?).
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified minister and woman (possibly Warner).
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified priest.
Anna E. Hall Collection
The executive mansion house. Monrovia, Liberia.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Portrait of an unidentified woman seated with an unidentified girl standing next to her.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing with unidentified nurses.
Anna E. Hall Collection
Anna E. Hall standing on steps.
Anna E. Hall Collection