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Date(s)
- 1896-1947 (Creation)
Extent
0.63 cubic feet
Name of creator
Biographical history
Justina Lorenz Showers (1885-1984) was a Church of the United Brethren in Christ churchwoman. She graduated from Bryn Mawr College (Pennsylvania) and served as secretary of Young Women's Work of the Women's Missionary Association. In April 1911, she married J. Balmer Showers, a professor at Bonebrake Theological Seminary and later bishop in the church.
Showers was an active leader in the Women's Missionary Association serving as a trustee (1921-1946) and its president (1941-1946). She was also president of the Women's Society of World Service from 1947 to 1955. For twenty-one years she was president of the Miami, Ohio, branch of the Woman's Missionary Association. In addition, Showers was president of the Dayton, Ohio, Young Women's Christian Association.
Content and structure elements
Scope and content
This collection contains one scrapbook of materials related to the Miami, Ohio, Branch of the Woman's Missionary Association of the Church of the United Brethren in Christ. The scrapbook contains programs, correspondence, reports, articles, and clippings from magazines. In the interest of storage and scrapbook is disassembled and placed in file folders.
System of arrangement
Materials are arranged by scrapbook page.
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Conditions governing access
There are no restrictions regarding this collection.
Physical access
Technical access
Conditions governing 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.
Languages of the material
- English
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Custodial history
Immediate source of acquisition
This item was part of the original Evangelical United Brethren Collection.
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Related archival materials
Drew Methodist Library Biographical Files
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General note
When citing material from this collection please use the following format: Direct reference to the item or its file folder, Justina Lorenz Showers Scrapbook, 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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Archivist's note
Prepared by Mark C. Shenise, Associate Archivist and Nikolay Petrov, Student Assistant