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COLL. Manuscripts Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: COLL

Found in 598 Collections and/or Records:

Grace Meyers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-174
Abstract

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.

Dates: created: 1920-2012

Kathlyn Meyers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-175
Abstract

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.

Dates: created: 1916-1941

William Mierop Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-176
Abstract

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.

Dates: created: 1914-1930

John Clover Monsma Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-177
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...
Dates: created: 1919-1970

William Muller Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-179
Abstract

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.

Dates: created: 1930-1987

Milo J. Stapert Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-242
Abstract

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.

Dates: created: 1861-1947

Yske C. Spyksma Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-241
Abstract

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."

Dates: created: 1939-1973

Radia Spoelhof Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-239
Abstract

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.

Dates: created: 1916-1972

Charles Spoelhof Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-350
Abstract

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Collection includes correspondence and reports to the Home Mission Board, 1948-1958; papers on evangelism and immigration, and office of deacon and elder; minutes and reports regarding the Ralph Janssen case, 1921; radio, catechism, special occasion, and Old and New Testament sermons.

Dates: created: 1919-1989

Clarence Bouma Collection

 Collection
Identifier: COLL-018
Abstract

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church and professor of ethics at Calvin Theological Seminary. This extensive collection includes sermons, correspondence, class lecture notes, writings, and various manuscripts. It details ethics, polemics, Christian theism, philosophy, theology, comparative religion, psychology, Christian education, college conferences, organizations, church and state relationships.

Dates: created: 1891-1965; Other: Majority of material found in 1925-1950; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1993