COLL. Manuscripts Collections

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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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church; E. A. Meppelink taught in Christian schools. The collection includes wedding albums, Calvin College Student Life photographs, programs, and a description of the Radio Choir Tour of 1950.

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Christian school teacher. Diaries (1925-1983) which chronicle her thirty-five year teaching career at Christian schools in Celeryville, Ohio; Muskegon, Michigan; Ripon, California; and correspondence.

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Teacher. Photo albums and scrapbooks with travel pictures of Yellowstone, Salt Lake City, and Holy Land tour; plus school class pictures, family pictures, and a scrapbook of published poems.

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Missionary (camp worker) of the Christian Reformed Church to the Navajo Indians. Articles compiled by Henry Ippel from The Banner, Missionary Monthly, and The Instructor for the Sunday School.

Abstract Minister of the Christian Reformed Church, author, and publisher of the American Daily Standard, plus president of The World. The collection includes the periodical The World, manuscripts, reviews, articles, and correspondence, (of special note is a letter, directed to Abraham Kuyper with a plea for him to form a World Alliance of Calvinists, and expressing Monsma's gratitude for the influence...

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Minister of the Christian Reformed Church; Missionary pastor in Carambei, Brazil; Director of the Instituto Christao; and Manager of Colegio Agricola and Netherlands Consul for the State of Panama. The collection includes correspondence, immigration reports, mission reports, articles, newspaper clippings, and photo albums. Also interviews (with transcriptions) of William and Charlotte Muller.

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Baker at the Kalamazoo Biscuit Company. The collection includes three bound volumes of the Bible copied in longhand in the Dutch language, and family information.

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Employee of Lunham & Reeve, a shipping company in New York; an amateur ship historian; and secretary-treasurer of the Committee in the East on Historical Documents of the Christian Reformed Church (Eastern Historical Committee). The collection includes clippings and correspondence detailing emigration, immigration, and genealogy; and a series of articles published in De Wachter entitled "Van Schepen ter Zee."

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Christian school teacher. Papers include a roll book, questionnaire on school libraries, reports, studies, Christian school teacher contracts, a plaque in recognition of forty-three years of service, clippings relating to family history, a Christmas recipe booklet with contributions by R. Spoelhof's pupils, and a collection of photographs and clippings of the tornado damage in southeast Grand Rapids area (April 21, 1967), including Sylvan Christian School.