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Anna Canada Swain speech file (MS.1MS.ZS1)

Brown University Archives

Box A
Brown University
Providence, RI 02912
Tel: 401-863-2146


Scope & content

The Anna Canada Swain speech file is a collection of nine speeches by Anna C. Swain '11, a Pembroke alumnus and the first female member of the Brown Corporation. The speeches are arranged chronologically and were delivered at various venues from 1940 through 1952, including Columbia University's Church of the Air and the Women's American Baptist Foreign Mission Society. Many of the speeches are based on religious themes.