COLL. Manuscripts Collections

Abstract Professor of philosophy at Calvin College (1946-1952) and professor of philosophical and moral theology at Calvin Theological Seminary (1952-1975). The collection includes lectures, addresses, articles, essays, chapel talks, classroom notes, outlines, correspondence, materials on campus issues, seminary situations materials, faculty minutes, extensive biographical data, autobiography, family photographs, slides and compact disk (CD with digital scans of each slide) of a trip around the world...

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Professor of psychology at Yale University. The collection includes articles on the subjects of physics and psychology; and two books entitled, Laboratory Experiments in Psychology and Sensation and Measurement: Papers in Honor of S. S. Stevens.

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Director of the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam) Library, writer, and editor. The collection includes a translation of Amsterdamse Emigranten: Onbekende Brieven uit de Prairie van Iowa, 1846-1873 by John H. Yzenbaard.

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West Michigan pioneer; mayor of Grand Rapids; and drug manufacturer. The collection includes a scrapbook containing newspaper clippings, postcards, Grand Rapids City financial records, notations detailing political activities, and an autobiography.

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes: class notes, sermons, outlines, and an incomplete letter. The following mimeographed notes (lectures) were placed in the C. Bouma Collection: - Dogmatic, class notes by J.C. Schaver, 1925-1926 - Encyclopedia of Theology, class notes by J. Schaver. - Dictaten Dogmatiek, als Opgeteeekend in Klas.

Abstract Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and Professor of Bible at Calvin College. Correspondence, sermons, lectures, course outlines, topic files, periodicals, commitee minutes and reports. Class notes taken while a student at Calvin Theological Seminary, 1909-1911, primarily student notes of Professor L. Berkhof's lectures. Princeton Theological Seminary student notebooks of the lectures of Professor J. Gresham Machen, Geerhardus Vos, Benjamin B. Warfield, and others, 1912-1914. Material...

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Lay minister of the Christian Reformed Church and principal of several Christian schools. The collection includes papers on the subjects of Henry Beets; F. M. Ten Hoor; Sunday Evangelistic Campaign in Chicago; Christian Reformed Church history; H. P. Scholte in Pella; Charles Lodge; and a memoir of John Christian Lobbes, 1889-1966.

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Published and unpublished poems.

Abstract Business man. The collection includes a manuscript entitled “Mass Merchant, the Life of Hendrik Meijer,” and collected poems. The manuscript relates the formative years and the circumstances which brought the founder of the Meijer Thrifty Acres discount department store, Hendrik Meijer, to the United States.  Subsequently, his views on American life (as related to his wife-to-be, Gezina Mantel), his political involvement, and the development of the grocery and department stores are described...

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Author and Hudson Valley Dutch dialect expert. The collection includes a manuscript entitled "Laagduits of New York," also known as Albany/Jersey Dutch; and an article entitled "Het Poelmeisie: An Introduction to the Hudson Valley Dutch Dialect." The Bachman Manuscript Collection is at New York State Historical Association, Cooperstown, New York.