COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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Lillian Bode was a missionary in China and Taiwan as well as in Zuni, New Mexico, for a short time. The collection includes correspondence, materials, and photographs from China, and articles by and about her.

Abstract Plastic and reconstructive surgeon (specialized in repairs for cleft lips and palates, decubitus ulcers, and burns), and served as a medical missionary. The collection includes biographical materials; diaries; writings; diplomas; awards; publications; speeches; lectures; correspondence; newspaper clippings; "Letters from Pakistan"; photographs (photographic images of surgical procedures are restricted); and materials from his leadership in the Christian Medical Society, Medical Assistance...

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Professor of Spanish at Calvin College. The collection includes eighteen videotaped interviews, with transcripts and translations that detail the stories of the first Cuban refugees who joined the Christian Reformed Church. Also includes stories of various members of the CRC who worked in the Good Samaritan Center and Good Samaritan Church in Miami, Florida, in the 1960s and 1970s. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

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Professor of education at Calvin College. The collection includes research notes; education course material; class notes; publications; correspondence; education department materials; critiques; Christian Schools International materials; master's thesis regarding Abraham Kuyper; doctoral dissertation detailing educational philosophy for the Christian Reformed Church; and materials regarding grandfather, Nicholaas Hendrik Beversluis (1850-1931).

Abstract Bernard John Bennink was a Christian school administrator, teacher, and editor. The collection includes Bennink's biography, zakboekje (military record), correspondence to Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Warner describing conditions in Rock Valley, IA, in comparison with those in Holland, Michigan, and a post retirement letter to Oakdale Christian School regarding candidacy as a 'special teacher.' Articles about, by, and of special interest to Bennink are included; plus family items-a Dutch New Testament...

Abstract Associate professor of history at Carnegie Mellon University. The collection includes photocopied correspondence, addresses, papers, articles, monographs, manuscripts, dissertations, books, book segments, and miscellaneous materials that detail the research for the book, Making Headway: the Introduction of Western Civilization in Colonial Northern Nigeria (University of Rochester Press, 2009). Photocopied research materials from the Calvin Archives collection...

Abstract The collection includes a diary entitled First Book of Chronicles, 1879-1913, detailing Avink's experiences as a farmer at Blendon, Michigan, and Modesto, California; a diary entitled Second Book of Chronicles, 1913-1915, detailing his experiences at Butte City, California, and the organization of the Afton Christian Reformed Church at Afton, California; a diary, 1915-1943, detailing brief daily community and church events at...

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Farmer and clerk of the East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church, Holland, Michigan. The collection includes a notebook with poems in Dutch and in English; a certificate of citizenship; correspondence with family in the Netherlands, 1916-1923; and a letter from L. J. Lamberts with questions regarding the congregation at East Saugatuck Christian Reformed Church.

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes seminary papers, seminary notes, and newsletters written to servicemen.

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Subject collection of works on the True Reformed Dutch Church. The collection consists of papers, articles, histories, call letters, acts and proceedings, records, and other materials on the TRDC and their ministers in New York and New Jersey.