COLL. Manuscripts Collections

Professor of education at Calvin College. The collection includes chapel talks, class lecture notes, term papers, radio interviews, articles, Christian Home and School clippings, and correspondence. [See also the Campus Titles Database.]

Christian School Teacher. Manuscript entitled: 'Sunday Church Day Monday Wash Day: The Way We Lived on the Hills and in the Hollows of Highland in the late 30s and early 40s.

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. The collection includes sermon notes (in Dutch and English), and file cards on mission fests, topics for young people society, baptisms, marriages, professions of faith, funerals, and cards indicating texts, dates, and places where sermons were preached.

Businessman and lumber and land buyer. The collection includes biographical data; diaries or daybooks; journal; letter press book with mostly business correspondence; receipts; newspaper clippings; photographs detailing lumbering; a portrait; clippings of Vogel Center, Michigan; hand-carved wooden folk art frame; and a two-volume set of Harper's Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion.

Professor of biology, Appalachian State Teachers College. Papers, consisting of lectures and reports on zoology, biology, embryology, physiology, botany, and genetics.

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church.  The collection includes:  papers; manuscripts; correspondence in response to articles published in The Banner, and The Reformed Journal, and to the publications Somewhat Less than God, and The Reformers and Their Stepchildren; plus, correspondence from his Ann Arbor chapel period.

Correspondence from relatives in the Netherlands to David (Douwe) Venhuis describing family events and daily affairs, and commenting on the impact of the Great Depression, World War II, and the German occupation of the Netherlands, and the post-World War II economic condition in the Netherlands. The letters are in Dutch.

Minister of the Christian Reformed Church. Papers consisting of sermons in the English and Dutch languages. Also a scrapbook with photographs and clippings of family members, students, ministers, professors, lay members, church groups, institutions, and organizations.

Soldier in the United States Army. The author writes to relatives in Holland, Michigan, about the experiences of military training and subsequent fighting in France during World War I. He relates the disgust of German soldiers with their government, riots for peace in Austria and Budapest, and the end of the war.

Missionary with the Sudan United Missions, Africa. The collection includes photographs, family history, artifacts, and letters written to friends and to Christian Reformed Church societies detailing Nigerian missionary life.