Graham, Billy, 1918-2018.
Person
Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Collection
Collection
Identifier: CN 074
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
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
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
Collection 225 Records of the Baptista Film Mission
Collection
Identifier: CN 225
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, diaries, newsletters, scripts, catalogs, films, and other material related to the work of the Baptista Film Mission. This collection contains much information on the beginnings of the Protestant evangelical Christian film industry. Included are films featured are evangelical and fundamentalist figures like V. Raymond Edman, Billy Graham, Henry A. Ironside, Bob Jones Jr., Paul Rader, Oswald J. Smith, and Walter Wilson and nondenominational organizations. Subjects documented...
Dates:
Created: 1908-1977; Majority of material found in 1939-1963
Collection 285 Papers of Torrey Maynard Johnson Sr.
Collection
Identifier: CN 285
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, oral history interviews, scrapbooks, sermons, minutes, reports, photos, posters, newspaper and magazine clippings, brochures, audio recordings, video recordings reflecting Johnson’s life as an influential American Protestant from the 1930s through the 1990s. Besides documenting Johnson’s pastorates of Midwest Bible Church (Illinois) and Bibletown Community Church (Florida), his leadership of Youth for Christ International, and his activities as an independent evangelist, the...
Dates:
Created: 1919 -2001
Collection 326 Papers of James Edwin Wright
Collection
Identifier: CN 326
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews and personal notebook relating to the ministry of James E. Wright with Youth for Christ in India, Mexico, and the United States.Series 1: Audio TapesOral history interviews with James E. Wright in which he describes his youth, conversion and spiritual growth, education at Wheaton College and Multnomah School of the Bible, involvement with Youth For Christ in Portland, Oregon, India and Mexico, counseling and follow-up...
Dates:
Created: 1950-1986
Collection 343 Papers of Samuel F. Wolgemuth
Collection
Identifier: CN 343
Scope and Contents
Administrative correspondence, reports, minutes, memos, newsletters, publications, promotional material, photographs, and slides documenting Samuel F. Wolgemuth's term (1965-1973) as president for Youth for Christ. The correspondence with YFC staff, individuals, and representatives of other Christian organizations, predominates. Materials document contact with major YFC donors, administration of YFC at various executive levels, fund raising, communication, and promotion. Prominent people...
Dates:
Created: 1962-1981
Collection 426 Papers of Paul E. Little
Collection
Identifier: CN 426
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, minutes, course notes, lecture notes, manuscripts, articles, photographs, and audio tapes relating to Little's college education at Wheaton College Graduate School, and his work as an evangelist, teacher, writer, and Evangelical leader.Included are Little's seminary lecture notes, and files on his contribution as assistant director of the 1974 International Congress on World Evangelization in Switzerland. A substantial portion of the collection consists...
Dates:
Created: 1946-1987; Created: Majority of material found in 1954-1975
Collection 489 Oral History Interview with John A. MacDonald
Collection
Identifier: CN 489
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews with John Allan MacDonald (1921-2014) in which he discusses his education and activities at Wheaton College from his graduation in 1943; literary societies; friends and faculty; the impact of World War II on the campus; Billy Graham and his role in the United Gospel Tabernacle in Wheaton; MacDonald's evangelistic and church ministry among San Francisco hippies in the late 1960s and work with Jews for Jesus (JFJ) and its founder Moishe Rosen. The second interview...
Dates:
Created: 1993-1994
Collection 492 Papers of William A. Drury
Collection
Identifier: CN 492
Scope and Contents
Oral history interviews, audio recordings, brochures, photographs, and a video tape relating to the ministry of William A. Drury, evangelist and youth worker with Percy Crawford, Youtharama, and Youth Haven.
Dates:
Created: 1962-1996
Collection 563 Papers of Robert Coleman
Collection
Identifier: CN 563
Brief Description
Correspondence, manuscripts, oral history interviews, class lecture notes, meeting files and other materials relating to Coleman's ministry as an evangelist, scholar and church leader. Besides Coleman's own life and ministry, the collection contains voluminous material on the theology of evangelism and Christian discipleship, American 20th century Evangelicalism; the growth of Christianity in Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, particularly in regard to the...
Dates:
1936-2019
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
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
John C. Pollack Papers
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
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John C. Pollack Papers
Leighton Ford papers.
Unprocessed Material — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1998-054
Dates:
1952-1997
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Wheaton College Billy Graham Center Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 003
Brief Description
Correspondence, proposals, reports, minutes, programs, publications brochures, budgets, audio tapes, clippings, photographs, and video tapes related to the founding, ground breaking and dedication and continuing work of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College as a research and training center in evangelism, and its ongoing activities. Includes audio and video recordings of Center-sponsored conferences (on themes including evangelism and evangelistic preaching, outreach to various...
Dates:
Created: 1919-2011
Youth for Christ Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 048
Brief Description
Minutes, constitution and by-laws, clippings, newsletters, manuals, pamphlets, directories, press releases, audio tapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, club yearbooks, correspondence, etc., about the founding, development and growth, and activities of Youth for Christ in the USA and internationally.Collection documents organizational policies, correspondence of the organization's presidents, conventions and Bible quiz competitions, the operation of Campus Life clubs, Youth...
Dates:
Created: 1944-ongoing; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-ongoing
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- Type
- Collection 16
- Unprocessed Material 1
- Subject
- Evangelistic work. 16
- Evangelicalism. 11
- Evangelicalism -- United States. 10
- Evangelistic invitations. 9
- Religious institutions. 9
- Evangelistic sermons. 8
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 8
- Christian leadership. 7
- Conversion. 7
- Mass media in religion. 7
- Mass media in religion -- United States. 6
- Radio in religion. 6
- Youth 6
- Bible. 5
- Christian life. 5
- Church and social problems -- United States. 5
- Church and social problems. 5
- Church and state -- United States. 5
- Church and state. 5
- Church work with students -- United States. 5
- Church work with students. 5
- Fundamentalism. 5
- Missions. 5
- African Americans. 4
- Chicago (Ill.) 4
- Church work with youth -- United States. 4
- Church work with youth. 4
- City missions. 4
- College students -- United States 4
- College students -- United States -- Religious life. 4
- College students in missionary work. 4
- College students. 4
- Evangelistic work -- Study and teaching. 4
- Fund raising. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation -- United States. 4
- Interdenominational cooperation. 4
- Organizational change. 4
- Radio in religion -- United States. 4
- World War, 1939-1945. 4
- Youth -- United States 4
- African Americans -- Religious life. 3
- Belief and doubt. 3
- Bible -- Study and teaching. 3
- Businessmen -- Religious life -- United States. 3
- Children -- United States 3
- Children -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- Children. 3
- Church work with military personnel. 3
- City missions -- United States. 3
- Conversion -- Sermons. 3
- Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Australia. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Biblical teaching. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Chicago. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Great Britain. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Japan. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Korea. 3
- Evangelistic work -- Public relations. 3
- Great Commission (Bible) 3
- Great Commission (Bible) -- Sermons. 3
- Journalism, Religious -- United States. 3
- Journalism, Religious. 3
- Liberalism (Religion) 3
- Liberalism (Religion) -- United States. 3
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 3
- Missionaries. 3
- Missions -- Congresses. 3
- Motion pictures in church work -- United States. 3
- Motion pictures in church work. 3
- Preaching. 3
- Salvation -- Sermons. 3
- Salvation. 3
- Sermons, American. 3
- Sin -- Sermons. 3
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Religious life and customs. 3
- Women 3
- Women -- Religious life. 3
- Youth -- Religious life. 3
- Youth -- United States -- Conversion to Christianity. 3
- Youth -- United States -- Societies and clubs. 3
- African American leadership. 2
- Apologetics -- Study and teaching. 2
- Belief and doubt -- Sermons. 2
- Bible -- Sermons. 2
- Bible -- Theology. 2
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Religion. 2
- Children -- United States -- Religious life. 2
- Christian education -- United States. 2
- Christian education, Outdoor. 2
- Christian education. 2
- Christianity and culture. 2
- Church work with military personnel -- United States. 2
- Church work with prisoners. 2
- Counseling. 2
- Discipling (Christianity) 2
- Evangelistic work -- Asia. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Canada. 2
- Evangelistic work -- Caribbean Area. 2 ∧ less
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