COLL. Manuscripts Collections

Abstract The Dutch Immigrant Letter Collection includes a wide spectrum of Dutch immigrant experience-Protestant, Catholic, and secular-and it is the only major collection of its kind. To assemble the Immigrant Letter Collection the archives conducted four major manuscript collection campaigns in the Netherlands and the United States between 1976 and 1990. These efforts accumulated at least eight thousand items-letters, travel accounts, immigrant memoirs, and photographs. Of the 4,970 letters...

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Professor of theology and ethics at Fuller Theological Seminary, and author. The collection includes commencement address; correspondence; and articles on various topics including divorce, abortion, witnessing, death, and homosexuality.

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Professor of music at Calvin College. The collection includes lectures, correspondence, the manuscript of "Fifty Years of Music Making," programs, publicity, soloist information, articles, plus information on performances of the Messiah, other oratorios, musical groups, choirs, and tours.

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Professor of English at Calvin College. The collection includes chapel talks; published articles and poems; book reviews; talks; correspondence; unpublished manuscripts and poems; two plays for the Calvin College Thespians entitled The Potting Shed Program and Lost in the Stars; and recorded lectures and readings. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

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Calvin alumna and United States army nurse. The collection includes military orders, correspondence, programs, certificates, photograph slide cartridges, plus postcards and photograph albums.

Abstract Professor of physics at Calvin College; and a politician (Kent County Board Commissioner, State Representative, State Senator, and Federal Congressman). The collection details Ehlers’ political career including committee service and bills sponsored/co-sponsored, plus his earlier academic career. The collection includes biographical data, resolutions, reports, news releases, memorandums, correspondence, notes, speeches, bills, proclamations, acts, concept papers, house statements, articles,...

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Details the latter part of Henry Baker’s ministerial career, when his work focused on home missions. Includes biographical data, sermons, essays, meditations, and reports. Particularly rich in detailing the evangelism and home mission efforts in the Christian Reformed Church in North America during the middle decades of the twentieth century.

Abstract Historian, Assistant Director of Mackinac Island State Park Commission, and editor. The collection includes articles, pamphlets, and lectures relating to the Mackinac area; and clippings, articles, papers, research materials, manuals, booklets, correspondence, newsletters, photographs, and biographical material on the Hmong people who settled in the Lansing, Michigan, area through the efforts of members of the Covenant Christian Reformed Church, Grand Ledge, Michigan. [See also Hmong...

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Documents the ministerial career of Marvin C. Baarman (1919-1991), in the Christian Reformed Church in North America. The material focuses primarily on the administrative dimensions of his career in the parish ministry and later as he worked for the denomination’s Home Missions Board. Among other topics, it details the denomination’s evangelism during the 1960s and 1970s, as well as the denomination’s commission on race formed in 1968.

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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.