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 New York Training School for Deaconesses Finding Aid

 

BOX #

CONTENT DESCRIPTION

DATES
   

 
   

 
TSD1 Summary: This is the first of three spiral bound notebooks with documents collected by the Deaconesses themselves. Each one sided page is listed as its own file.

1890-1909
   

 
TSD1 - File #1 Letter: Bishop Henry Codman Potter to William Reed Huntington offering his support with his Deaconess initiative

May 23, 1890
TSD1 - File #1 Copy of the NYTSD School Seal

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TSD1 - File #2 First copy of the Grace House Training School for Deaconesses booklet with an officials list submitted to Bishop Potter for his approval; with a handwritten note from Huntington to Potter asking if its ok that he be listed as Visitor.

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TSD1 - File #3 Two pages, one listing the faculty, the other announcing the opening and aim of the school.

May 1890
   

 
TSD1 - File #4 Two page Schedule of Studies

Oct. 1890
   

 
TSD1 - File #5 Two articles in newsprint: one being the text of Title I Canon 10 "Of Deaconesses", the other detailing its history beginning in 1855 taking us up to & beyond the passage of the 1889 canon.

1889, 1891
   

 
TSD1 - File #6 Handwritten extract on St. Faith from the Annals of the Virgin Saints by Masters, together with the Collect from the Breviary Office

1890
   

 
TSD1 - File #7 News Article: The New Home of the New York Training School for Deaconesses 212 East 12th Street: the first public reception was held in the fall of 1892

1892
TSD1 - File #7 News Article: The formal opening of St. Faith's Home was held in October 1891 - this article speaks of the fulfillment of William Reed Huntington's dream

1891
   

 
TSD1 - File #8 Typed Copy of the NYTSD Certificate of Incorporation

May 1891     

   

 
TSD1 - File #9 Amendment to the Certificate of Incorporation

1957
   

 
TSD1 - File #10 Statutes of the NYTSD

1891-1910
   

 
TSD1 - File #11 News Article: "The Deaconess, Work of the Order in the PE Church" - includes a line drawing of Grace House

1890-1892
   

 
TSD1 - File #12 News Article, "Deaconesses" - early opinions in England

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TSD1 - File #12 News Article, "The Training of Deaconesses". Labeled as the beginning of the "other" church workers idea.

1893
   

 
TSD1 - File #13 Tabular View of Junior and Senior Year Instructions showing class schedules

1891
   

 
TSD1 - File #14 Newspaper line drawings showing A House Party, In Saint Faith's House, and Work in the Slums.

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TSD1 - File #15 News Article, "The Deaconesses - St. Faith's Home - The Setting Apart Ceremonies"

Oct. 1892
   

 
TSD1 - File #16 News Article about items found in the first NYTSD Yearbook of 1893.

1893
TSD1 - File #16 Photograph of Sarah Kirtland Barker, the first graduate to be Set Apart a deaconess in Grace Church. She was on staff at Grace Church for twenty years becoming Deaconess Emeritus in 1916. She died Sept. 28, 1944 in Newtown, Ct.

Oct. 2, 1892
   

 
TSD1 - File #17 An Order of Service on Commencement Day: three graduates were set apart by Bishop Potter, Sarah Barker, Mary Elizabeth Greene and Kate Newell. Alice Douglas Goodeve was set apart on Nov. 10th

1892
   

 
TSD1 - File #18 Booklet: Services for the Admission of Deaconesses, with a H. C. Potter note on the cover saying he thought it was essentially the Long Island Service with some modifications made by the Rector of St. George's

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TSD1 - File #19 Form for the Setting Apart of Deaconesses in the Diocese of New York: with Bishop Potter's letter of authorization

1890
   

 
TSD1 - File #20 Leaflet for the last Setting Apart held in the EDNY: the form used was the same as the one Bishop Potter had authorized in 1890. It was used throughout the history of the school.

Jan. 25, 1946
   

 
TSD1 - File #21 News Article: "How Girls are Taught to be Deaconesses - Their Work, Study, Recreation, and Costume"

Oct. 1893
   

 
TSD1 - File #22 News Article, " The Rev. Doctor Charles A. Briggs' daughter becomes a special student at the NYTSD". Briggs was a Presbyterian who had been tried for heresy.

Oct. 1893
   

 
TSD1 - File #23 News Article, "The NYTSD" by a New Hampshire student of the school, Theodora Beard

1893
   

 
TSD1 - File #24 Privately Printed "Grace Church Deaconesses": with function, appointment, official relation, compensation, earnings, the Deaconess House, discipline, attire, vacation, and worship.

May 1887
   

 
TSD1 - File #25 News Article, "Deaconesses Ordained", the second graduation

Oct. 7, 1894
TSD1 - File #25 News Article, short article on Deaconess' system of instruction

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TSD1 - File #26 News Article:"New York City", Potter to ordain 3 Deaconesses & the graduation took place...

Oct. 1894
   

 
TSD1 - File #27 Photograph of William Reed Huntington: inscribed on the back "Susan Trevor Knapp from her attached friend and rector W. R. Huntington May 1896

May 1896
   

 
TSD1 - File #28 Letter sent to all graduates of the school asking for donations

Nov. 16, 1903
   

 
TSD1 - File #29 Booklet "NYTSD 228 East 12th Street": listing Visitor, Trustees, origin, aim, method, admission, terms, school year, parochial relations, St. Faith's Home, and faculty.

1903-1904
   

 
TSD1 - File #30 Susan Trevor Knapp: small picture of Dean Knapp, with a short typed history of her service

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TSD1 - File #30 Susan Trevor Knapp: Paper read at the Woman's Auxiliary meeting of the Missionary Council at Washington by her. Reprinted in the Churchman and found here in a small booklet.

Nov. 7, 1903
   

 
TSD1 - File #31 List of questions asked of potential candidates

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TSD1 - File #31 Photograph: Classes of 1903 and 1904 in the rear of St. Faith's. Deaconess Knapp and Ranson are shown with the students.

1903,1904
TSD1 - File #31 Photograph: Sister Isabel Perry member of the Sisterhood of the Good Shepherd - snapshot taken in 1907 at St. Faith' s Home. She was Set Apart on St. Mark's Day 1900. She worked at Zion and St. Timothy on West 57th Street.

1907
   

 
TSD1 - File #32 Four page letter from Susan Trevor Knapp to "My Dear Deaconess" telling of the home life at St. Faith's.

July 26, 1904
   

 
TSD1 - File #33 Handwritten House Rules written by Mrs. Hoffman (House Mother) and kept in the office.

1891-1897
   

 
TSD1 - File #34 Five small photographs of the East 12th Street House, including one exterior and three interiors. These pictures are from The Churchman May 4, 1907.

1905-1906
   

 
TSD1 - File #35 Extract from reprint of an article in The Churchman "The Deaconesses of the Church in Modern Times" by the Rev. Lawson Carter Rich.

May 4, 1907
   

 
TSD1 - File #36 Printed "A Lady Day Letter" to Deaconess Charlotte M. Boyd and Fifty Others from William Reed Huntington

1909
   

 
TSD1 - File #37 Picture of an oil painting by Sidney E. Dickinson of the Rev. Charles Norman Shephard

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TSD2 Summary: This is the second of three spiral bound notebooks with documents collected by the Deaconesses themselves. Each one sided page is listed as its own file.

1908-1942
   

 
TSD2 - File #1 Statutes adopted in 1891 and amended in 1910

May 1910
TSD2 - File #1 Statutes adopted as amended in May 1911 to raise the Board membership from 6 to 24.  By-Laws were also added. In effect from 1911-1957.

May 1911
TSD2 - File #1 Statutes and By-Laws repealed and new By-Laws adopted

Nov. 13, 1957
   

 
TSD2 - File #2 News Article from the New York Herald, "Deaconess Training School Sees Its Corner Stone Laid on Cathedral Grounds"

May 7, 1910
   

 
TSD2 - File #3 Article about the new NYTSD building by Susan T. Knapp with photo - from The Great Commission

Jan.-Oct. 1911
   

 
TSD2 - File #4 Photograph of Julia Wheeler Tiffany, in whose memory St. Faith's House was built by her husband, the Third Archdeacon of New York

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TSD2 - File #4 Letter: To George McCullough Miller, Secretary of the Cathedral Board of Trustees, From Mrs. Annie L. (Howard) Townsend, Secretary of the Trustees of the NYTSD, re forming a committee to consider & report on the future relationship of the two bodies

Nov. 14, 1908
   

 
TSD2 - File #5 Letter of reply by Mr. Miller to the above letter.

Nov. 17, 1908
   

 
TSD2 - File #6 Photograph of William Reed Huntington who inspired the revival of the Deaconess movement in America, labeled as having been taken in 1897.

May 6, 1897
   

 
TSD2 - File #7 Photograph 5 x 7 showing the new NYTSD building from the 110th Street side. Also shown is Synod Hall up the street and a good view of the stone rubble wall on 110th.

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