COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and professor of Old Testament at Calvin Theological Seminary. The collection includes: lectures; addresses; notebooks; correspondence; photographs; thesis; and class notes on the Arabic language, Bible school, Ethiopian language, Old and New Testaments.

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The collection includes a letter (with translation) and a post card album. The letter and album were sent to Sjerp Woudstra, at Nyland, The Netherlands. The letter is illustrated with scenes from Grand Rapids, Michigan and the album contains post cards of Grand Rapids.

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Professor of music at Calvin College. The collection includes a cantata, The Parable, commissioned by and dedicated to the Calvin Oratorio Society, with text adapted by Stanley Wiersma; and a manuscript entitled "A Nigerian Journal."

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House painter. Born in Leens, Groningen, the Netherlands, immigrated in 1907, married Grietje Hekman (1884-1971) in 1909. The collection includes two volumes of written collections of men's society readings in Grandville Avenue Christian Reformed Church (Y. P. De Jong, pastor), and two volumes of published dialect readings (Groninger).

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Professor of chemistry at Calvin College. The collection includes a list of publications, scientific articles, procedures, plans for an experimental chemistry laboratory, research materials, laboratory instruction manuals, laboratory research notebooks, paper on his early reflections on Southwest Grand Rapids, and a lecture. [See also the Campus Titles Database, and J.T. Hoogstra Coll. 116]

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Professor of philosophy at Calvin College and at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. The collection includes articles, lectures, addresses, pamphlets, editorials, book reviews, and periodical clippings. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

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Minister of the Gereformeerde Kerken, 1922-1945, and the Gereformeerde Kerken Vrijgemaakt, 1945-1961, in the Netherlands. Letters, written from Grand Rapids, Michigan, to family in Sauwerd, Groningen. They give an account of a young man's life: travel stories; factory work; studies at Calvin Theological Seminary; Thanksgiving in Moline, Michigan; a vacation in Chicago, Illinois; church and social activities; World War I; and pro-German allegiance.

Abstract Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes sermon files with an index; student notes; article files; scrapbooks consisting of pictures of churches and ministers according to classis; a letter, written to Henry Beets, relating information concerning the Christian Reformed Church in Hull, North Dakota; a manuscript history entitled "Tales from Dutch History"; correspondence regarding family history; outline of Christian Reformed history; information regarding Maxwell...

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Papers include correspondence, classis reports, publications on various issues, and sermon outlines.

Abstract Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Original collection received in 1993. Includes correspondence of Ralph Janssen, Quirinus Breen, his brother Peter, Jan van Lonkhuijzen, Jan Karel Van Baalen, and Edward J. Tuuk; a few copies of his sermons as well as two on Lord's Day 38; booklets and brochures written on the issue of the Janssen case; proceedings of Classis Zeeland; and articles of Quirinus Breen. Also included is the crucial booklet entitled "Toch Afgezet maar Ten Koste van Recht...