Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.

Brief Description Collection consists of a wide variety of materials (correspondence, form letters, audio tapes, films and videotapes, etc.) that document the ministry and history of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in the United States and around the world. Based on earlier collecting protocols, the collection also contains material about Billy Graham personally, such as oral history interviews with his Wheaton College classmates.Originally this collection contained mainly...

Dates: Created: 1863-1999

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Collection

Billy Graham family Christmas cards.

Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005-006

Dates: 1965-2004

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham Interview, 1957

Unprocessed Material — Reel: 1

Identifier: 2023-018

Dates: December 30, 1957

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham My Answer column clippings.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 1

Identifier: 2007-030

Dates: 1952-1979

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham photograph.

Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2009-064

Dates: 1966

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham photograph at 1969 US Congress on Evangelism.

Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2005-054

Dates: 1969

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham photographs.

Unprocessed Material — Folder: 1

Identifier: 2000-014

Dates: 1960

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham photos.

Unprocessed Material — Container: 1

Identifier: 2022-0022

Dates: 1976

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Billy Graham-related clippings scrapbook.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 1

Identifier: 1991-012

Dates: 1951-1953

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christianity Today International (CTI) records.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 3

Identifier: 2007-026

Dates: 1955-2007

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christianity Today International (CTI) records.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 4

Identifier: 2007-027

Dates: 1955-2007

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christianity Today International (CTI) records.

Unprocessed Material — Box: 2

Identifier: 2007-043

Dates: 1956-2007

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Christianity Today Records.

Collection

Identifier: CN 008

Brief Description Correspondence, memos, forms, financial reports, minutes of meetings, study papers, clippings and other records of the Evangelical Christian publishing organization. The records describe the founding of the organization to publish the magazine Christianity Today and its creation or acquisition of other publications such as Campus Life, Leadership, Leadership 100, Partnership, and Your Church. Besides material on the editing, publishing and distribution of these periodicals, the files also...

Dates: Created: Majority of material found within 1930, 1954-2002

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Christianity Today Records.

Collection 005 Papers of Vernon W. Patterson

Collection

Identifier: CN 005

Scope and Contents Correspondence, clippings, reports, financial records, press releases, promotional material, forms, newsletters, and oral history interviews relating to Vernon W. Patterson's (1892-1991) active participation and leadership in evangelistic activities in the Charlotte, North Carolina, area. The papers focus particularly on his involvement in various evangelical lay organizations and other institutions and the early career of Billy Graham. The interviews were recorded on 3/4/85 and 3/5/85 and...

Dates: Created: 1900-1985

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 005 Papers of Vernon W. Patterson

Collection 006 Papers of John C. Pollack

Collection

Identifier: CN 006

Scope and Contents This collection contains drafts of John Pollock’s 1966 and 2004/2005 biographies of Billy Graham. The 1966 version was originally published as Billy Graham: The Authorized Biography. This book was reprinted in revised and expanded edition in 1969, with the title Crusades: Twenty Years with Billy Graham. It brought the story of Graham’s life up to 1969. Im 1979, Pollock published another biography of Graham entitled ...

Dates: Created: 1973-2005

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 006 Papers of John C. Pollack

Collection 007 Records of Navigators

Collection

Identifier: CN 007

Scope and Contents Correspondence, memos, reports, forms, manuals, statistical summaries, publicity materials, newspaper clippings relating to the counseling and follow-up systems the Navigators created and supervised for Billy Graham Evangelistic Association meetings between 1950 and 1957. Records document the details of this system for counseling people who came forward at BGEA evangelistic meetings and maintaining contact with them as they began to develop a Christian lifestyle. For some crusades, besides...

Dates: Created: 1947-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 007 Records of Navigators

Collection 015 Ephemera of Billy Graham

Collection

Identifier: CN 015

Scope and Contents Collection contains materials gathered by the archivist relating to Billy Graham's life and early ministry. Includes miscellaneous correspondence to Ray Schulenberg, Richard, Mouw, and Charles Fuller, among others. Also includes a copy of Peace with God annotated by Ruth Bell Graham, which she revised for a second edition in 1984. Of particular interest is a scrapbook kept by Graham during his attendance at Florida Bible Institute and Wheaton College. The Archives only has a...

Dates: Created: 1934-2014

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 015 Ephemera of Billy Graham

Collection 020 Papers of Herbert J. Taylor

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 020 Papers of Herbert J. Taylor

Collection 028 Records of the Billy Graham Wheaton Crusade

Collection

Identifier: CN 028

Scope and Contents This collection consists of audio recordings and several hundred follow-up cards used by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) to track the progress being made by inquirers who had come forward during Graham's Wheaton, Illinois, meetings (September 27-October 4, 1959). Each form, with the inquirer's name typed in, was given to the local minister for whose church the inquirer had expressed a preference. The minister returned the form, indicating whether the inquirer was attending...

Dates: Created: 1959

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 028 Records of the Billy Graham Wheaton Crusade

Collection 029 Ephemera of Billy and Helen Sunday

Collection

Identifier: CN 029

Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, bulletins, counselor training materials, promotional pieces, correspondence, audio tapes, photographs, postcards, scrapbooks, films and other materials gathered by the Archives from varied sources, all of which relate to the Billy and/or Helen Sunday lives and evangelistic ministry. These records had no existence as a unit until they were put together by the Archives staff. Hence they are called "ephemera" as opposed to a collection of Billy and Helen Sunday materials...

Dates: Created: 1907-1989

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 029 Ephemera of Billy and Helen Sunday

Collection 040 Papers of Andrew Wyzenbeek

Collection

Identifier: CN 040

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Chicago manufacturer and inventor, Andrew Wyzenbeek, who was very active as a layman in evangelistic work. Among other topics he discusses his early life in Holland, New York City, and Iowa at the turn of the century; his travels in Central and South America; his acquaintance with Billy Sunday, Paul Rader, and Peter Deyneka; the beginnings of the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle; and the beginning of Paul Rader's radio ministry. The collection also contains a folder with...

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 040 Papers of Andrew Wyzenbeek

Collection 049 Oral History Interview with Paul L. Maier

Collection

Identifier: CN 049

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Paul Luther Maier in which he describes the relationship between his father, Walter Arthur Maier, of the radio program The Lutheran Hour and Billy Graham. He also discusses Walter F. Bennett and Company, an advertising firm that worked with the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association.

Paul Maier was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 9, 1978.

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 049 Oral History Interview with Paul L. Maier

Collection 061 Papers of Billy and Helen Sunday

Collection

Identifier: CN 061

Scope and Contents Microfilm edition of original documents held in Winona Lake, Indiana, including correspondence, sermons, reports, revival ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing mainly with the career of evangelist Billy Sunday from its beginning to his death and about the work of his wife Helen, who, besides acting as his general manager, was a fundamentalist leader in her own right, especially after his death. Persons featured include numerous fundamentalist figures and institutions; sermon topics cover a wide...

Dates: Created: 1882-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 061 Papers of Billy and Helen Sunday

Collection 085 Papers of William H. Wrighton

Collection

Identifier: CN 085

Scope and Contents

Sermons, clippings, articles, manuscripts, notebooks, personal records, correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the William Wrighton's career as a pastor, professor, writer. Also in this collection are photographs of Wrighton and his family and friends.

Dates: Created: 1903-1963

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 085 Papers of William H. Wrighton

Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough

Collection

Identifier: CN 089

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, films, videos relating to Paul P. Stough’s missionary service in the Belgian Congo with Africa Inland Mission. Materials contain information on Stough's father, Henry Stough, Wheaton College, Paul Stough's work as a missionary for Africa Inland Mission in the Belgian Congo (Zaire) and Kenya from the 1920s to the 1970s, and generally on the spread of Christianity in Africa.

Dates: Created: 1979-1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough

Collection 108 Papers of J. Palmer Muntz

Collection

Identifier: CN 108

Scope and Contents Correspondence, newspaper clippings, a book manuscript, a film script, tapes of sermons and speeches, and other items which describe Muntz's early career as director of the Winona Lake Bible Conference, the early development of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association and the criticism it received, the careers of Billy Sunday and other evangelists. There are also several sermons on Christian prophecy and evangelism to the Jewish people. Topics covered include information on Palmer's career...

Dates: Created: 1947-1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 108 Papers of J. Palmer Muntz

Collection 111 Papers of Charles H. Troutman, Jr.

Collection

Identifier: CN 111

Scope and Contents Correspondence, minutes, reports, manuals, and other records documenting Charles Troutman's career in Christian ministry among university students, first with Inter-Varsity in the United States and Australia and then with Latin America Mission. This collection also contains a great deal of information on evangelical Christianity in the United States, Australia and Latin America; Troutman's letters from his service in the Pacific in World War II; and reports and other information relative to...

Dates: Created: 1924-1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 111 Papers of Charles H. Troutman, Jr.

Collection 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham

Collection

Identifier: CN 118

Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence, oral history interviews, newspaper clippings, microfilm, periodicals, photographs, sermon transcripts and notebooks. It documents in a non-comprehensive way Ham’s preaching style, some of his evangelistic meetings; his campaigns against Roman Catholics, Jews, evolution, and for the prohibition of alcohol and the racial hierarchy in the American South. There is in particular a great deal of material about the 1934 meetings in Charlotte when Billy...

Dates: Created: 1875-1983; Majority of material found within 1915-1934

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham

Collection 139 Oral History Interview with Frances Rader Longino

Collection

Identifier: CN 139

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Frances Rader Longino (1909-1996) in which she recounts memories of evangelists Billy Sunday, Mel Trotter, Homer Rodeheaver, and her uncle, Paul Rader. Other topics include: city mission work and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Pacific Garden Mission, Winona Lake, and Cedar Lake Conference Grounds. Also included are reminiscences of Rader's reaction to Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, the formation of Scripture Press, Billy Graham's early preaching and crusades, and some...

Dates: Created: 1980

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 139 Oral History Interview with Frances Rader Longino

Collection 140 Oral History Interview with Everett Mitchell

Collection

Identifier: CN 140

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Everett Mitchell (1898-1990) who as a teenager sang invitation songs at Billy Sunday evangelistic campaigns. Other topics discussed include: Mitchell's background, music and radio career, musical training, Billy and Helen Sunday, evangelistic work in Chicago, Gipsy Smith, Homer Rodeheaver, other evangelists, career as a war correspondent during the Korean War, religious use of radio, evangelistic rallies and crusade music. The time period covered by the intervew...

Dates: Created: 1989-1980

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 140 Oral History Interview with Everett Mitchell

Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby

Collection

Identifier: CN 171

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and personal papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby, missionaries in Lisbon and Santiago do Cacem, Portugal, under The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM). Collection includes interviews, articles, correspondence, prayer letters, manuscript notes, and other material from the Bobbys about their mission work, including evangelism and radio broadcasting. The correspondence also includes information on various theological issues and American Christian leaders. The oral...

Dates: Created: 1980-1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 171 Papers of Albert and Mary Lee Bobby

Collection 172 Records of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly

Collection

Identifier: CN 172

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, news releases, minutes of meetings, and other materials which describe the origins, planning, purpose, and results of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly (PACLA) meeting held in Nairobi, Kenya in December 1976, a gathering for evangelical African church leaders and missionaries in Nairobi, which grew out of of an informal meeting of African leaders at the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization held at Lausanne, Switzerland. The bulk of this...

Dates: Created: 1975-1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 172 Records of the Pan African Christian Leadership Assembly

Collection 176 Records of the National Prayer Congress

Collection

Identifier: CN 176

Scope and Contents Audio tapes of 30 addresses given at the National Prayer Congress held in October 1976 in Dallas, Texas. Tapes were prepared as part of a series for radio broadcast. Topics cover both theoretical and practical aspects of prayer, including its role in evangelism, national revival, biblical teaching, and impact on the family. Speakers included Harold L. Fickett, Paul Toms, Rex Humbard, Jack McAlister, W.A. Criswell, Cliff Barrows and Billy Graham, William Richardson, Bruce Cook, James Kennedy,...

Dates: Created: 1976

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 176 Records of the National Prayer Congress

Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford

Collection

Identifier: CN 177

Scope and Contents This collection contains curriculum materials and lecture notes, manuscripts of messages, correspondence, prayer letters, financial records, clippings, maps, promotional materials, minutes, photographs, newsletters, oral history interview, documenting Zoe Anne Alford's work in India and among Navajo Indians in New Mexico. The collection provides a broad overview of her education, preparation and missionary career, extending from her grammar school education into her retirement. It provides...

Dates: Created: 1925-1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 177 Papers of Zoe Anne Alford

Collection 192 Papers of Harold Lindsell

Collection

Identifier: CN 192

Scope and Contents Collection contains correspondence, reports, meeting minutes, manuscripts, and other materials documenting the career and life of Harold Lindsell as a theologian, author, speaker and editor, dating primarily from his becoming Associate Editor of Christianity Today magazine in 1964. Collection contents contain considerable information on Christianity Today, Wheaton College, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, Westmont College, the Simon Greenleaf School of Law, and Lindsell's research on the...

Dates: 1938-1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 192 Papers of Harold Lindsell

Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin

Collection

Identifier: CN 206

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with John C. Chin (1911-1989) in which he discusses his childhood in China, medical training, and the Chinese Christian church; the work of China Inland Mission in Honan, Szechwan, and Yunnan provinces; the Japanese occupation of China; Nationalist and Communist parties; medical work in CIM and Presbyterian hospitals; war conditions and relocation to Taiwan; Also discussed is his founding of the Lutheran Seminary, Taiwan; the contemporary status of Chinese Christians,...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 206 Oral History Interview with John C. Chin

Collection 209 Papers of Eugene R. Bertermann

Collection

Identifier: CN 209

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, manuscripts, photographs, phonograph records, and other materials relating to Eugene R. Bertermann's involvement in religious broadcasting, particularly in regard to his responsibilities as president and one of the board of directors of the National Religious Broadcasters; executive director and board member of Far East Broadcasting Company; and one of the planners of the ecumenical evangelistic effort known as Key '73.Materials particularly...

Dates: Created: 1955-1981

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 209 Papers of Eugene R. Bertermann

Collection 213 Oral History Interview with Sarah "Sally" Bell

Collection

Identifier: CN 213

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sally Bell, in which she describes her mission work with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador, 1965 to 1976. Other topics discussed include: her conversion during Billy Graham's Toronto crusade in 1955, preparation for and work on the mission field with radio station HCJB in Quito, Ecuador (in the departments of evangelism, television, and administration), language school in Costa Rica, comparisons between Western and Latin American culture, the role of women in...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 213 Oral History Interview with Sarah "Sally" Bell

Collection 216 Oral History Interview with Horst Marquardt

Collection

Identifier: CN 216

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Horst Marquardt, in which he discusses his childhood in Germany under the Nazi government, his work for the Communist party in east Germany, his conversion to Christianity, and his career as director of Evangeliums-Rundfunk, the German branch of Trans World Radio. Other topics discussed include: Marquardt's involvement with Hitler's "Youth Movement," conversion to Christianity, his early radio career in East Germany, listener responses and conversion experiences,...

Dates: Created: 1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives / Collection 216 Oral History Interview with Horst Marquardt

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