COLL. Manuscripts Collections

Abstract Baxter Community Center is a non-profit organization that serves people living in the southeast side of Grand Rapids, Michigan, by providing day care, health care, a food and clothing pantry, tax preparation, counseling, and mentoring. The collection includes the history of the Eastern Avenue Community Center, minutes, correspondence, newsletters, and clippings. Other organizations involved are Grand Rapids Area Ministries, Grand Rapids Board of Evangelism, Grand Rapids City Mission, Grand...

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Camp Roger is located on Little Bostwick Lake near Grand Rapids, Michigan. The camp's program includes nature lore, camp craft, survival skills, canoeing, swimming, hiking, chapel services, devotions, and camp-outs. The collection includes history, clippings, minutes, correspondence, financial reports, camp schedules, staff, and promotional materials.

Abstract Center for Public Justice and Committee for Justice and Liberty Foundation are organizations dedicated to propagating biblical principles in Christian communal action in society, especially in the political sphere. The collection includes materials from Christian Action Foundation (CAF), National Association for Christian Political Action (NACPA), Justice for All, Citizens for Public Justice, Committee for Justice and Liberty, and Center for Public Justice in the form of constitutions,...

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The collection includes minutes of the Chicago Cinder and Scavenger Truck Owners Association (predecessor of the Chicago and Suburban Ash and Scavenger Association); membership lists in 1933 and 1946 in the respective organizations; the 1933-1934 labor agreement between the association and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT), Local 731; and bound photocopied newspaper articles detailing influences in the refuse disposal industry.

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Christian Farmers Federation (CFF) has two branches located in Ontario and Alberta. CFF of Alberta changed in 1992 to Earthkeeping while CFF of Ontario remains unchanged. The collection reflects the common and entwined history. Materials include: news releases, constitution CFF of Western Canada, articles, speeches, and periodicals.

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Professor of English at Calvin College. The collection includes research papers, notes, and a biography of Paulus Den Bleyker; calendar of Den Bleyker's correspondence; an analysis of the written and spoken language of Den Bleyker; translations of correspondence between A. C. Van Raalte and P. Den Bleyker (1850-1959); biography of Van Raalte; outline for a novel based on Paulus Den Bleyker; and an article entitled "Walter Weener: Young Civil War Soldier."

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Farmer at Columbia, Montana. The collection includes letters detailing Zandra's life as a single farmer; a letter regarding a storm which devastated all the farms in the settlement; a letter written to J. W. Brink; a letter fragment written to Zandstra's  parents shortly before he died in a flu epidemic; and a story of his activities written by his nephew, Nicholas Huizenga.

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The collection includes seventeen scrapbooks with newspaper and periodical clippings of ministers, candidates, missionaries, church and school buildings; and clippings of faculty and students of Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary.  Of special note are John Leug’s scrapbook of church buildings, and an indexed scrapbook.

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The collection includes minutes (restricted), reports, yearbooks, anniversary booklets, clippings, newsletters, programs, tracts, guides, handbooks, manuals, photographs, pamphlets, courses of study, educational material, and publications detailing some of the Christian schools, regional organizations, associations, and conferences affiliated with National Union of Christian Schools (NUCS) and Christian Schools International (CSI). [See also the Campus Titles Database.]