Guide to the Frances Pryor Irwin Papers
Open for research.
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Frances Pryor Irwin was appointed by the Board of Foreign Missions to the Syria Mission in 1921 and taught at the American School for Girls in Beirut, Syria. In 1924, she assumed the principalship for the newly formed American Junior College for Women and remained in that position until her resignation from missionary service in 1937.
Record Group 186 consists of Frances Pryor Irwin's correspondence and miscellaneous photographs, 1922-1935, undated.
SERIES I: Correspondence, 1922-1935 (Box 1 Folders 1-13; Box 2 Folders 1-12a):
Includes outgoing correspondence, primarily to her family and is arranged chronologically.
SERIES II: Photographs, 1922-1934, undated (Box 2 Folders 13-38):
Includes miscellaneous photographs that reflect Irwin's missionary service in Syria. Most photos are dated to correlate with her outgoing correspondence and are arranged chronologically by month and year.
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Materials marked "Digital" in the Collection Inventory may not have been digitized in their entirety.
Included with the finding aid in folder 1 of box 1 are several pages of attempts to catalog Irwin's letters by subject. Though these calendars were included, their accuracy should not be assumed.
Collection processed and finding aid prepared: 1984
Frederick J. Heuser, Jr., Archivist.
Collection addition and finding revised: 1988
Kristin L. Gleeson, Associate Archivist
Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group 186 | |
SERIES I: Correspondence, 1922-1935 | |||
Outgoing | |||
1 | 2 | 1922 November-December | |
1 | 3 | 1923 January-June | |
1 | 4 | 1923 July-December | |
1 | 5 | 1924 January-June | |
1 | 6 | 1924 July-December | |
1 | 7 | 1925 January-June | |
1 | 8 | 1925 July-December | |
1 | 9 | 1926 January-June | |
1 | 10 | 1926 July-December | |
1 | 11 | 1927 January-June | |
1 | 12 | 1927 July-December | |
1 | 13 | Furlough Correspondence, 1928 | |
2 | 1 | 1929 January-June | |
2 | 2 | 1929 July-December | |
2 | 3 | 1930 January-June | |
2 | 4 | 1930 July-December | |
2 | 5 | 1931 January-June | |
2 | 6 | 1931 July-December | |
2 | 7 | 1932 January-June | |
2 | 8 | 1932 July-December | |
2 | 9 | 1933 January-June | |
2 | 10 | 1933 July-December | |
2 | 11 | 1934 January-June | |
2 | 12 | 1934 July-1935 January | |
Incoming | |||
2 | 12a | From F. Boyes in Tripoli, 1923 February | |
SERIES II: Photographs, 1922-1934, undated | |||
2 | 13 | 1922 November | |
2 | 14 | 1922 December | |
2 | 14a | Suk El Gharb, 1922-1923 | |
2 | 14b | Suk El Gharb, 1922-1923 | |
2 | 15 | 1923 January | |
2 | 16 | 1923 March | |
2 | 17 | 1924 January | |
2 | 18 | 1924 April | |
2 | 19 | 1924 August | |
2 | 20 | 1924 September | |
2 | 21 | 1924 November | Digital |
2 | 22 | 1925 May | |
2 | 23 | 1923 June | Digital |
2 | 24 | 1927 January | |
2 | 25 | Summer, 1927 | Digital |
2 | 26 | 1927 October | Digital |
2 | 27 | 1929 August | |
2 | 28 | Junior College, 1929 | Digital |
2 | 29 | 1930 February | |
2 | 30 | 1930 July | |
2 | 31 | 1932 August | Digital |
2 | 32 | 1932 September | |
2 | 33 | 1933 March | Digital |
2 | 34 | 1933 July | |
2 | 35 | 1934 | Digital |
2 | 36 | Miscellaneous, undated | Digital |
2 | 37 | Miscellaneous, undated | |
2 | 38 | Kennedy Mem. Hospital, Tripoli/American College for Women, Beirut | Digital |