This minimally processed collection is the archive of the Society of St. Margaret. The historical records of the Society are strongest in representing activities in several areas: the mother house in Boston, its governance and daily work routines, the work of St. Monica’s Home (including annual reports and other records), the Haiti mission in post-WWII years, the Duxbury convent and summer camp, and several of the houses and missions in other cities. There are also correspondence and diaries of individual sisters as well as a large photographic collection reaching back to St. Margaret’s Infirmary and the Children’s Hospital, both in Boston, and including many photos of the sisters both in portraiture and activities. The arrangement represents basic groups of records, but the collection has not yet been arranged into fonds and series.

Correspondence, reports, proceedings, minutes, and printed material can be found in this small collection.

This collection comprises printed materials, minutes, reports, correspondence, class lectures, photographs, literary works, and guest books created and collected by St. Margaret’s House to document its work educating women as deaconesses, missionaries, and educators. The majority of the records date from 1920 to 1950 with the largest number belonging to the Board of Trustees and the Dean’s Office.

Although most of the records pertaining to academics are from the institution’s final years of operation, there are some files relating to special academic programs, projects, and divisions pre-1945. Also included are a variety of material published by St. Margaret’s House, as well as other material collected by staff in scrapbooks, such as leaflets, articles, and photographs, spanning the organization’s history from its beginning in 1908. A small amount of material from the 1990s, related to the Strong Center, is also present.