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- 1949-1966 (Création/Production)
Importance matérielle
3.89 cubic feet
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Notice biographique
Hannah Florence Flammer (1893-1987) was a radio personality and an active member of the Woman's Society of Christian Service (now known as United Methodist Women). She attended the New York School of Expression, affiliated with New York University.
In 1913, she married Fred W. Flammer (1891-1957). Hannah Flammer established and was proprietor of the Bacnel School of Expression, which trained radio and early movie celebrities. She conducted a program on radio station WOR-AM in New York.
Flammer was active in the Woman's Society of Christian Service, serving as local, district, and Conference president. She also held offices in the Northeastern Jurisdictional Society and was president of United Church Women in Newark. Flammer developed many multi-media programs based on Methodist activities.
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Portée et contenu
This collection contains slides, audiotapes, films, a filmstrip, slide scripts and listings, conference reports and promotional materials, correspondence, and some photographs.
This collection contains slides, audiotapes, films, a filmstrip, slide scripts and listings, conference reports and promotional materials, correspondence, and some photographs. The slides contain images taken by Hannah Flammer of diverse subjects, most of which are related to the home and foreign missions of the Methodist Church during the 1940's to the 1960's. These include pictures of schools, hospitals and medical clinics, homes, settlement houses, missions to cities and rural areas, Native American missions, and a variety of scenes from both urban and rural areas that were foci for the church's mission and ministry during this period. There are also many slides of conferences of the Women's Society of Christian Service and other church agencies in which Flammer was active. Many scenes from foreign missions and pictures of foreign missionaries are also included. Most of the slides were used in presentations that Flammer gave to highlight and promote the mission work of the Methodist Church. The audiotapes include recordings of some of Flammer's slide presentations, of Bible studies and lectures given at various conferences that she attended, of radio interviews, and of church music. There are three reels of film, two of which are 16 mm and one is 8 mm. the filmstrip is titled "Swinging toward the Light." Also included in the collection are some printed slide scripts connected to Flammer's slide shows, several letters related to her mission promotion work, a container listing of the audiotapes, reports and promotional materials from some W.S.C.S. conferences that she attended, and some photographs.
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This collection is arranged by series.
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Conditions d'accès
There are no restrictions regarding this collection.
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Conditions de reproduction
Detailed use restrictions relating to our collections can be requested from the office of the archivist at the General Commission on Archives and History. Photocopying is handled by the staff and may be limited in certain instances. Before using any material for publication from this collection a formal request for permission to publish is expected and required.
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- anglais
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Note générale
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, Hannah Flammer Collection, United Methodist Church Archives - GCAH, Madison, New Jersey. Do not make use of the items' call number as that is not a stable descriptor.
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Note de l'archiviste
Prepared by Kathleen Knaack, Student Assistant and Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist