Robert P. Swierenga Collection, 1830-2013 | Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

By Kip Odell, 2001; Ed Gerritsen, 2013

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Collection Overview

Title: Robert P. Swierenga Collection, 1830-2013

ID: COLL/404

Primary Creator: Swierenga, Robert P. (1935-)

Extent: 46.75 Cubic Feet. More info below.

Arrangement: Folder level description

Abstract

Albertus Christiaan Van Raalte Research Professor at the A. C. Van Raalte Institute, Hope College, Holland, Michigan, 1996-present; professor of history emeritus, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, 1968-1996; assistant professor at Calvin College, 1965-1968; and a writer and editor of books and articles in the field of Dutch-American studies. The collection includes correspondence; research materials detailing ship passenger lists; Dutch immigrant and emigration statistical records; published materials detailing Canadian emigration and Dutch Jewry in the North American Diaspora; lecture notes; conference materials; recordings; photographs; and personal records. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

As of 2013, this material is still being actively collected.

Administrative Information

Repository: Heritage Hall, Hekman Library

Accruals: Further accruals expected

Alternate Extent Statement: 95 Boxes

Acquisition Source: Robert P. Swierenga

Other Note: Acc. No. 00.39, 03.45, 04.54, 05.34, 06.49, 07.51, 07.59, 08.03, 08.60, 10.18, 10.30, 11.17, 12.05, 13.10, 13.20

Box and Folder Listing

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Correspondence],
[Series 2: Research Correspondence],
[Series 3: Emigration Records],
[Series 4: Passenger Lists],
[Series 5: Recordings, Conference, Scrapbook, 1968-1981],
[Series 6: Dutch Material],
[Series 7: Books],
[Series 8: Research Articles and Papers],
[Series 9: Papers],
[Series 10: Jewish Material],
[Series 11: Books and Reviews],
[Series 12: Lecture Notes],
[Series 13: Conferences],
[Series 14: Course Material],
[Series 15: Newsletters],
[Series 16: Miscellaneous],
[Series 17: Photographs],
[Series 18: Video Tapes],
[All]

Series 9: Papers

Box 77

Folder 4: "By the Sweat of our Brow: Economic Aspects of the Dutch Immigration of Michigan" --- 1997
Folder 5: "Calvinists in the Second City" --- 1994
Folder 6: "Catholic Emigration from the Southern Provinces of the Netherlands…" --- 1982
Folder 7: "Catholic and Protestant Emigration from the Netherlands…" --- 1984
Folder 8: "Chicago's Groninger Hoek: The Origins and Development of the Dutch Colony…" --- 1989
Folder 9: "Decisions, Decisions: Turning Points in the Founding of Holland" --- 1997
Folder 10: Calvin Theological Journal --- 1986-1988
Folder 11: "Dutch-American Historical Research: A Behavioral Perspective" --- 1977
Folder 12: "Dutch Immigration to Michigan and the Middle West" --- 1998
Folder 13: "Dutch International Labor Migration to the United States, 1835-1880" --- 1979
Folder 14: "Dutch Labor Migration to North American in the Nineteenth Century" --- 1980
Folder 15: "Dutch Patterns of Migration to the U.S. in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" --- 1986
Folder 16: "The Dutch Transplanting in the Upper Middle West" --- 1990
Folder 17: "Holland (Michigan) Consultation on CRC History" --- May 2001
Folder 18: "The Homestead Law in Iowa Politics and the Press, 1855-1862" --- 1961
Folder 19: "The Immigrant Impact on the American Church in the Nineteenth Century" --- 1978
Folder 20: "International Labor Migration in the 19th and 20th Centuries" --- 1978
Folder 21: Jews First, Dutch Second, Americans Third" --- 1989
Folder 22: "The Little White Church: Religion in Rural America" --- 1997
Folder 23-24: "Local-Cosmopolitan Theory and Immigrant Religion" --- 1979

Box 78

Folder 1: "A Paradise that Never Was: Dutch Immigrants in Argentina" --- 1998
Folder 2: "Pieter Gayl: Crusader Against the Abuse of History" --- 1961
Folder 3: "Public Support for Non-Public Schools: A Study of Opinion…" --- 1961
Folder 4: "A Sketch of Robert and Grace Swierenga's Life in Chicago" --- 1987
Folder 5: "1834-Netherlands Church Secession and the Dutch Experience" --- 1997
Folder 6: "1857-Secession Again: Origins of the Christian Reformed Church" --- 1997