Scope and Contents
The collection comprises letters sent and received, a collection of books and pamphlets in Congolese languages, and photographs. Major correspondents are Benjamin and Rhoda Armstrong, Ellsworth, Franklin and Maria Moon, and Charles E. and Viola Smith.
Dates
- 1914-1950
Creator
- Moon, Seymour E., 1869-1940 (Person)
- Moon, Sarah, 1873-1950 (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open to the public. Collection must be used in Special Collections and University Archives Reading Room. Collection or parts of collection may be stored offsite. Please contact Special Collections and University Archives in advance of your visit to allow for transportation time.
Conditions Governing Use
Property rights reside with Special Collections and University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries. Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs. All requests for permission to publish collection materials must be submitted to Special Collections and University Archives. The reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Biographical / Historical
Seymour E. Moon was born in Villard, Minnesota and educated at Newton Theological Seminary. He went to the Congo in 1903 as missionary for the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. In 1908 he was one of the founders of the United Congo Evangelical Training Institute, later called the Ecole de Pasteur et d'Instituteur, at Kimpese. Three years later he was named principal of the Institute, a position he held to 1931. His final term in the Congo, 1932-1937, was as an itinerant missionary. His wife Sarah E. Moon (1873-1950) was a missionary teacher.
Extent
1.5 linear feet (1 container)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Collection comprises papers of American missionaries Seymour E. and Sarah Moon, including correspondence, a collection of books and pamphlets in the Congolese language, and photographs. Major correspondents are Benjamin and Rhoda Armstrong, Ellsworth, Franklin and Maria Moon, and Charles E. and Viola Smith.
Processing Information
Collection processed by processing staff.
This finding aid may be updated periodically to account for new acquisitions to the collection and/or revisions in arrangement and description.
- American Baptist Foreign Mission Society
- Baptists -- Missions -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Correspondence Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Ecole de pasteurs et d'instituteurs (Zaire)
- International Relations Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Missionaries Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Missionaries -- Congo (Democratic Republic) -- Correspondence Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Missions, American -- Congo (Democratic Republic) Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Moon, Sarah, 1873-1950
- Moon, Seymour E., 1869-1940
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Religion Subject Source: Archiveswest
- Title
- Guide to the Seymour E. and Sarah Moon Papers
- Status
- Complete Description
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by processing staff
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Repository Details
Part of the University of Oregon Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives Repository
