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Wheaton College (Ill.)

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Found in 237 Collections and/or Records:

Collection 658 Papers of Samuel D. Faircloth

 Collection
Identifier: CN 658
Scope and Contents

Prayer letters and an oral history interviews which document Samuel Douglas Faircloth’s childhood, conversion, education at Wheaton College and elsewhere, and his work as a United States Army chaplain in Italy immediately after World War II, as a church planter in Portugal, and a seminary professor at the Tyndale Theological Seminary in the Netherlands.

Dates: Created: 1949-2011

Collection 698 Papers of Lois R. Ferm

 Collection
Identifier: CN 698
Scope and Contents Correspondence, memoranda, reports, and other documents relating to Lois R. Ferm’s work as a personal assistant to Billy Graham and particularly relating to the Billy Graham Center, Graham’s personal library, and the BGEA Oral History Project.This collection consists of materials documenting Ferm’s work as a personal assistant to Billy Graham and Resource Coordinator of the BGEA. Although there are a few earlier items, almost everything in collection dates from 1970 or later. The...
Dates: Created: 1967-2000

Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 021
Scope and Contents Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's...
Dates: Created: 1964-1967

Conversion Narratives Collection

 Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-228
Scope and Contents

The contents of the Conversion Narratives Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/228

Dates: Other: -

David Howard files about book manuscript.

 Unprocessed Material — Box: 1
Identifier: 2001-061
Dates: 1995-2001

David M. Howard, Sr., Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 484
Scope and Contents Four oral history interviews, paper records, and photographs documenting David Howard's life and work with Latin American Mission, InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, and World Evangelical Fellowship. Topics covered in the interviews include Howard's childhood, Christian faith, education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary and administrator with Latin America Mission; missions director for Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, director of the 1980 Consultation on World Evangelization; and...
Dates: Created: 1968-1993

Donald Hoke papers related to Billy Graham and Billy Graham Center (BGC).

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1998-083
Dates: 1974-1998

Elizabeth Green Papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-032
Scope and Contents

The Elizabeth Green papers contain material relating to the life and career of Elizabeth and Albert Green, father and daughter. It comprises fifteen series and includes Articles, Biographical, Correspondence, Business Correspondence, Music Education, Programs, Travel, Books, Manuscripts, Music Scores, Personal Journals, Lectures, Media and Photographs.

Dates: Created: 1914-1988; Other: Majority of material found in 1928-1974; Other: Date acquired: 1987

Enock Dyrness Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-085
Scope and Contents

The papers of Enock C. Dyrness contains one folder containing biographical material; however, the bulk of the collection deals primarily with his professional interests, including correspondence with Henry C. Thiessen, and later Thiessen's estate. Secondary material includes pamphlets and surveys about Wheaton College and various mission agencies. The collection occupies .42 linear ft.

Dates: Created: 1931-1969; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-1952

Esther Salzman Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 052
Brief Description Oral history interview with Esther I. Salzman (1906-1996), a Wheaton College alumna and missionary to China in the 1940s and to the Philippines from 1950 to 1972. Topics discussed include her education at Wheaton College, medical work in China and the Philippines, and Communism in China. The time period covered by the interview is 1906 to 1978. Esther Salzman was interviewed by Wheaton College student Fred Baker on October 28, 1978 at her home in Kankakee, IL....
Dates: Created: 1978

Fellowship Foundation Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 459
Brief Description Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, reference files, clippings, newsletters and other material related to the work of the Foundation (also known as International Christian leadership) which involved developing small group prayer fellowships, especially among government, business and academic leaders. There is a great deal of information on the United States and other countries. Also documented is the group's involvement in various community development, patriotic, and personal...
Dates: Created: 1937-1988, undated

Helen Renich Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 124
Brief Description Two oral history interviews with Helen Gignilliat Torrey Renich in which she describes her grandfather, Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., and her experiences growing up in China as a child of missionaries. Other topics discussed include her experiences at Wheaton College and culture shock. The collection also includes photographs of her family life in China and Chinese nationals, ca. 1920-30s.Helen Renich was interviewed by Robert Shuster on May 15, 1980 in Michigan and on May 17, 1982...
Dates: Created: 1920-1982

Herbert J. Taylor Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 020
Brief Description Correspondence, photographs, reports, publications, posters, minutes of meetings, and other documentation of Herbert J. Taylor's long involvement in the leadership of such organizations as Child Evangelism, Youth for Christ, Christian Service Brigade, Pioneer Girls, Young Life, National Association of Evangelicals, Fuller Seminary, Christian Workers Foundation, and Inter-Varsity as well as his role in the planning and development of Billy Graham's Chicago crusades and of Key '73. Other...
Dates: Created: Ca. 1916-1979

Institute for Advanced Christian Studies Records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-241
Dates: Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2013

Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 352
Brief Description Correspondence, form letters, financial and statistical reports, minutes, memos and promotional material related to IFMA administration and its service to its member missions. The files on IFMA members and numerous other Christian agencies predominate. Numerous mission-related subjects are documented, among them those related to the theoretical, theological, or practical aspects of the missionary enterprise, such as missionary aviation, the education of future missionaries, theological...
Dates: Created: 1934-1983, undated

International Christian Broadcasters Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 086
Brief Description The collection contains correspondence, audiotapes, photographs, financial reports, slides, blueprints, and memos related to the activities of International Christian Broadcasting's (originally the World Conference on Mission Radio) work to promote interest in Christian broadcasting and to support and encourage Protestant Christian radio and television broadcasters, largely engaged in evangelism. Materials include data on the International Communications Congress in Tokyo (1970), Muslim...
Dates: Created: 1937-1978; Other: Majority of material found within 1954-1978

InterVarsity Christian Fellowship Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 300
Brief Description Administrative records of IVCF spanning the time period from its founding in 1940 until 1991; includes materials created prior to the establishment of IVCF. Includes records of the presidents (Woods, Hummel, Troutman, McLeish, Alexander, McLeish), Paul Little, Campus chapters, Regional divisions and directors, Missions department, Urbana Missions Conventions, Nurses Christian Fellowship, Development department, Jim Nyquist, Strategic Planning, Finance, and manuscript material for the 1991...
Dates: 1928-2017

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC-237
Scope and Contents Jill Peláez Baumgaertner Papers are organized into four series: Essays/Reviews, Poetry, Biographical, and Correspondence.Essays/Reviews contain material over three decades from 1972-2003. Poetry (published and unpublished) is organized by year and contains manuscripts from 1983 to 2012.  Biographical contains letters written by Chaplain Martin Baumgaertner (USAF) during WWII and Korean War, as well as, media and photographs.  Correspondence (personal) covers over fifty years from...
Dates: Created: 1972-2016; Other: Date acquired: 07/12/2017

John J. Coleman Papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: SC-166
Scope and Contents

The John J. Coleman diary numbers 96 pages in a leather binding, now dis-attached at the covers. Each page contains Coleman's script. The book measures 3 X 5 1/2. His handwriting is legible as he engagingly relates daily life at Wheaton College during the years in which he attended, 1886-89.

Dates: Created: 1886-1887

Jonathan Blanchard Papers

 Collection — Box: microfilm
Identifier: RG-02-001
Abstract The Jonathan Blanchard Collection is a diverse gathering of items covering the family of Wheaton College's first president. Ranging from the scribblings of grandchildren to a petition for the abolition of slavery, they illuminate Blanchard in many roles: Minister, College President, Abolitionist, Anti Secretist, Reformer, lecturer, and head of a large family. Jonathan Blanchard's life in both the public and private realm is detailed. In addition to the biographical interest of the materials,...
Dates: Created: 1808-2018; Majority of material found within 1808 - 1893

Joseph C. Jeter Papers.

 Collection
Identifier: CN 532
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Joseph C. Jeter, who discusses his family and growing up, social and racial conditions in Philadelphia, education and employment, conversion and church involvement, first pastorate, limited missionary positions available to African Americans in White agencies, experience in Uganda and burden for missions, return to Uganda to survey mission stations staffed by African American missionaries, dire condition, and resulting burden to serve missionaries. Topics...
Dates: Created: 1983-1996

Julia and Herman Fischer Family Papers

 Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-117
Scope and Contents The material of the Herman A. Fischer, Sr. Family Collection was likely given to the Wheaton College Special Collections by Raymond P. Fischer, son of Herman Fischer, Sr. Most of the information in this collection spans the years from 1858 to 1934, although it includes several pieces from before 1800. The material is divided into several main categories, each related to Herman Fischer, Sr., his wife Julia Waters Blanchard Fischer, or one of their children. Other categories include Untitled...
Dates: Created: 1733-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1858-1934; Other: Date acquired: 1991

Ken and Kay Gieser book.

 Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1
Identifier: 1997-088
Dates: 1984

Landon Chronicles (1921): Margaret Decides to Go to Wheaton (hour 16, clip 15)

 Digital Record
Identifier: LC16-15
Dates: Digitized: 1921

Landon Chronicles (1921): Margaret's Beginnings at Wheaton (hour 17, clip 4)

 Digital Record
Identifier: LC17-04
Dates: Digitized: 1921

Landon Chronicles (1923-1924): Kenneth Found Out He Would Graduate Early (hour 7, clip 2)

 Digital Record
Identifier: LC07-02
Dates: Digitized: 1923-1924

Landon Chronicles (1924): Kenneth Graduated from Wheaton (hour 21, clip 2)

 Digital Record
Identifier: LC21-02
Dates: Digitized: 1924

Leighton Sandys Ford oral history interviews

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2023-012
Dates: 2023

Lyle Dorsett Papers

 Collection — Container: Books
Identifier: SC-083
Scope and Contents

The Lyle Dorsett papers relate to Dorsett's research for an uncompleted project on Ulysses S. Grant from the early 1980s.

Dates: Created: 1851-1979; Other: Majority of material found in 1862-1911

Matthew Parker Oral History Interview

 Collection
Identifier: CN 413
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Matthew Parker in which he describes his childhood, family, education, conversion, study at Grand Rapids School of Bible and Music and work/study at Wheaton College, ministry with Campus Crusade in its sports ministry and with Overseas Crusades sports evangelism ministry (Venture for Victory w/ Bud Schaeffer), the 1984 and 1986 National Summits on Black Church Development, the Atlanta '88 Congress on Evangelizing Black America, the Afro-American community, white...
Dates: Created: 1989

Media: Photo | USSR Trip

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1046
Dates: Other: 8/24/1991

Media: Photo | Wheaton College

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1036
Dates: Other: 2001 July 9

MEM | Wheaton College locket {2020-0015}

 Unprocessed Material — Container: 1
Identifier: 2020-0015
Dates: Majority of material found within 1940 - 1960

Moody Church Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 330
Brief Description Correspondence, reports, scrapbooks, church bulletins, minutes of meetings, and other records documenting the activities of the influential independent Chicago church started in 1864 by Dwight L. Moody; chiefly from ca. 1910 through 1946. Topics documented include worship services, Sunday school, the weekly activities in the congregation, the governance of the body, and various urban evangelistic outreaches of the church. Besides the history of the church, the collection also documents such...
Dates: Created: 1864-1987

MSS | A Reflection of Koinonia: Theatre Workout

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1041

MSS | Ancient Languages at Wheaton College

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2011-0173
Dates: Other: 2011

MSS | Billy Graham

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1023
Dates: Other: 2010

MSS | Campus Guide and Map

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2011-0170
Dates: Other: 2011 April

MSS | Church Directory

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2011-0178
Dates: Other: 2011-2012

MSS | Crusaders Pressbook

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1019
Dates: Other: 1973

MSS | Events Calander

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1045
Dates: Other: Fall 2008

MSS | Faculty Faith and Learning Papers (2 vol.)

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1020
Dates: Other: 2009-2010

MSS | Faculty Personnel Files (Academic Affairs/Provost) {2010-1075}

 Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2010-1075

MSS | Fischer Dorm Architectural Plans

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2011-0186
Dates: Other: 2004 April 28

MSS | Haddock Artwork {2010-1076}

 Unprocessed Material
Identifier: 2010-1076

Additional filters:

Type
Collection 182
Unprocessed Material 46
Digital Record 9
 
Subject
Evangelistic work. 130
Missionaries. 96
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 91
Conversion -- Christianity. 85
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 84
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Church and state. 65
Women -- Religious life. 63
Missionaries -- Training of. 60
Women 59
Women missionaries. 58
Christianity and culture. 56
Christian education. 55
Language in missionary work. 55
Children of missionaries. 54
Indigenous church administration 51
Evangelicalism. 49
Christian life. 48
Evangelistic work -- United States. 47
Catholic Church. 42
Missions -- Educational work. 42
Families. 37
Medical care 36
Missions, Medical. 36
Church and social problems. 35
Evangelicalism -- United States. 35
Tribes. 35
World War, 1939-1945. 35
Bible. 34
Christian leadership. 33
College students. 31
Missions. 31
Sex role. 31
Education. 30
Religious institutions. 30
Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 28
Communism. 28
Animism. 26
Church development, New. 25
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 25
Pentecostalism. 25
Persecution. 24
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 23
Worship. 23
Culture shock. 22
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 22
Christian literature. 21
Missions -- China. 21
Missions -- Finance. 21
Church growth. 20
College students in missionary work. 20
Evangelistic work -- China. 20
Missionaries' spouses. 20
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 20
Revivals. 20
Bible colleges. 19
China -- History. 19
Christian literature -- Publishing. 19
College students -- United States -- Religious life. 19
Muslims. 19
Children. 18
Church work with students. 18
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 18
Fund raising. 18
Islam -- Relations -- Christianity. 18
Rural missions. 18
Christian education -- United States. 17
College students -- United States. 17
Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 17
Mass media in religion. 17
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 17
Radio in religion. 17
Fundamentalism. 16
Missions -- Congresses. 16
Missions to Muslims. 16
Children of missionaries -- Education. 15
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 15
Evangelistic work -- Congo (Democratic Republic) 15
Intercultural communication. 15
Interdenominational cooperation. 15
Theology 15
Youth 15
Church work with women. 14
Church work with youth. 14
Communism -- China. 14
Conversion -- Personal narratives. -- Christianity. 14
Missionaries, Resignation of. 14
Presbyterians. 14
Theological seminaries. 14
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 14
Bible -- Study and teaching. 13
Boarding schools. 13
Prayer. 13
Radio in missionary work. 13
Belief and doubt. 12
Bible -- Translating. 12
Church and social problems -- United States. 12
Church work with children. 12
Evangelistic invitations. 12
Marriage. 12
Social change. 12
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