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Guide to the First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn records
ARC.109
Descriptive Summary
| Creator:
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First Unitarian Church of Brooklyn (Brooklyn, New York, N.Y.). |
| Creator:
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Lathrop, John Howland, 1880-1967 |
| Title: |
First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn records |
| Dates [inclusive]: |
1790-1970s |
| Dates [bulk]: |
Bulk, 1833-1967 |
| Abstract:
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The First Unitarian Congregational Society of Brooklyn records contains documents
created and collected by the Church from the point of its founding in 1833 to the
mid 1970s. The collection contains a broad range of documents covering the variety
of the Congregation's work and operations including its official minutes and trustee
records, financial records, ministers files, sermons, photographs, calendars, celebration
programs and registers, and building records that include deeds, leases, and building
plans for the Church of the Saviour and other buildings owned by the First Church.
The community and charity work of the Church is represented as well through ledgers,
correspondence, notes and reports by the various clubs and committees and through
similar documentation from the Church's Willow Place Chapel where the Church's settlement
and welfare programs and Sunday school operated. The Church was also involved with
local and international relief and aid groups, particularly during the tenure of Minister
John H. Lathrop. Lathrop's files include correspondence, minutes of committees, and
other documents from his work with a variety of local and worldwide religious and
humanitarian groups. Lathrop also collected a variety of reference materials, including
pamphlets, flyers, and articles pertaining to peace, liberalism, theology, and family
planning. Other major figures of the First Church and Brooklyn history represented
by the collection include the Low family and Alfred T. White. The collection also
holds scrapbooks with relevant collected clippings that were donated by parishioners
and photographs of some church members and activities. The Second and Third Unitarian
Congregations are both represented within this collection as well. These two congregations
split from the First Congregation at different points in the 19th century and both
re-united with the First Congregation in the mid-1920s. The variety of records relative
to these congregations is similar to that of the First Congregation including trustee
records, building records, finances, minister files, clubs and social work, and Sunday
school records. The documents related to these congregations also include the record
books of their respective Women's Branch Alliances.
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| Quantity: |
50.5 Linear feet In 99 manuscript boxes and 18 oversize flat boxes |
| Language of Materials:
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Materials are primarily in English with some correspondence and publications in Czech,
German and Romanian.
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| Call Phrase: |
ARC.109 |
