SC. Buswell Library Special Collections
Record Group
Identifier: SC
Found in 647 Collections and/or Records:
Adeline Eliza Collins Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-208
Scope and Contents
The Addie Eliza Collins Papers is composed of biographical information about her principalship at Wheaton College, correspondence with Collins' decendants, college manuscripts and family photographs. The bulk of the collection centers around a dozen hand-written college papers in delicate script and family photographs from 1870-1900 including her mother, children and grandchildren.
Adeline Hendricks Scrapbook
Collection — Box I
Identifier: SC-134
Scope and Contents
The Adeline Hendricks (1915) scrapbook is embossed with the words, "The Girl Graduate, Her Own Book." The covers are leather-lined cardboard, faded, and measure 6 x 9 1/4. The first pages are dedicated to photos of familiar campus scenes and faculty. Six photos feature a boating trip. These images include marginal comments. Tucked within are standard scrap items: literary society invitations and programs, alumni banquet notices, recital and concert programs. A few of the light green pages are...
Adolf Andrew Brown Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SC-172
Scope and Contents
The A.A. Brown ('21) photo album, composed of gray construction paper, features a few words of description beneath each image, identifying persons and places. Interesting photos include an aerial of Blanchard Hall, the former chapel located in Blanchard Hall, the graduating class of 1919, and images of the severe damage inflicted upon the City of Elgin after a tornado hit in 1920. The book's covers are black, measuring 11 1/2 x 7. Other images show Charles Blanchard, Darien Straw, Elsie Dow,...
Adrienne Jones Scrapbook
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SC-135
Scope and Contents
The Adrienne Jones scrapbook is blue, embossed with a large gold "W" on the cover, and measures 16 x 12 1/4. Tucked into the front are loose photos of Charles Blanchard and his wife. The introductory pages are columns for the citing of names, addresses and comments of classmates. Further photos display family, friends and college faculty. Included are social event invitations and notices. Other photos show the Field Museum and scenes from various travels, such as Washington, DC.
Agnes Sanford Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-174
Scope and Contents
The Agnes Sanford Collection is a non-manuscript collection of audio recordings related to healing and spiritual gifts.
Alan Thornhill Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-100
Scope and Contents
Alan Thornhill's Papers highlight the life and work of a British playwright. The collection contains major series of biographical, manuscripts, published, correspondence, media, and secondary materials. The biographical material is primarily obituaries. The manuscript material contains plays, sketches, notebooks, journals, essays, sermons and talks, and wedding and funeral addresses. The largest section of the correspondence is composed of letters Thornhill sent to his mother...
Alice G. Howard Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-105
Scope and Contents
The Alice G. Howard Collection is composed of memorabilia dating from 1938-1990. The collection contains Red Cross, American Legion, and U.S. Armed Forces pins, patches, medals, and uniform items related to her volunteer service during World War II.
Allen Lewis Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-060
Scope and Contents
The Allen Lewis Collection, measuring over eight feet, highlights the life and work of an American woodblock artist and engraver. The collection contains major series of biographical, correspondence, manuscripts, artwork, media, and secondary materials. The biographical material is mainly that of his professional career, coming from secondary sources, such as a "Who's Who" article. The correspondence is composed of letters sent to Lewis' mother while he was in Paris (1894-1902) and letters...
Alzina Stone Dale Papers
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-106
Scope and Contents
The Alzina Stone Dale Papers are composed primarily of correspondence to/from Madeleine L'Engle, as well as, interviews, articles, book reviews, pamphlets, poems, and media material.
American Piano Concerti Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-040
Scope and Contents
The American Piano Concerti Collection contains dozens of printed and manuscript concertos from the early (1920s) to late (1990s) twentieth-century. The contents of the American Piano Concerti Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/40
American Scientific Affiliation (ASA) Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-026
Scope and Contents
The American Scientific Affiliation Collection, part of the Wheaton College Special Collections, contains a detailed record of the workings and development of this Christian professional organization. The collection includes photographs, brochures, minutes, papers, books, manuscripts, and articles from the origin of the organization in 1941 up to the early 2000s.Pieces of correspondence dating from prior to the foundation of the Affiliation are also included. All material has been...
Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-048
Scope and Contents
The Anita and Peter Deyneka, Jr. Papers comprise eleven series: Biography, Published Material, Unpublished Material, Correspondence/Faxes, Conference, Media, Speeches/Lectures, Ministries, Secondary, WRF, and Memorabilia. The bulk of the collection is found in the latter portions of the series with Ministries, Secondary and WRF occupying three-quarters of the collection. These series document the activities of the Deyneka's various internal and external activities. Ministries includes records...
Anonymous (female) Diary
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SC-127
Scope and Contents
This five-year, green-pebbled clasped diary measures 4 X 5. The anonymous female diarist begins her entries on Jan. 1, 1935, and writes irregularly until Dec. 31, 1936. The entries, featuring her daily functions at home and school, are routine, chronicling such activities as sleighing, homework, church attendance, shopping, tennis playing, instrument practice, etc... Many pages are blank.
Anonymous Scrapbook/Photographs
Collection
Identifier: SC-192
Scope and Contents
This black hard-bound anonymous scrapbook measures 12
Anson and Adelaide Hemingway Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-209
Scope and Contents
The Anson and Adelaide Hemingway Collection is composed of manuscripts, photographs, and secondary material. The bulk of the collection comprises eleven photographs of the Hemingway family from 1900-1920. Another item of note is an original letter dated 1867 from Wheaton College president, Jonathan Blanchard providing a character reference on behalf of Anson.
Anthropology Artifacts Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-239
Abstract
A digital collection of anthropology artifacts
ART | Chinese art, feeding 5000 {2016-0111}
Unprocessed — ART RACK
Identifier: 2016-0111
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
ART | Framed Chinese art, "Adoration of the Shepherds" {2015-0114}
Unprocessed — ART RACK
Identifier: 2015-0114
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
ART | Framed Chinese art, "No Room at the Inn." {2015-0115}
Unprocessed — ART RACK
Identifier: 2015-0115
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
Arthur Christy Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-082
Scope and Contents
The Arthur Christy collection is categorized according to personal and professional manuscripts. Private papers contain correspondence to and from friends, professors and editors. The public papers contain manuscripts, articles, translations and chapters for books, many with handwritten corrections and jottings by Christy. Class notes and other coursework are also featured, along with essays profiling literary and anthropological subjects. Book and article manuscripts emphasize Christy's focus...
Arthur F. Holmes Papers
Collection — xBooks
Identifier: SC-183
Scope and Contents
Arthur F. Holmes Papers is composed of published journal articles, book reviews, conference papers and unpublished writings. Professional correspondence between Holmes and Wheaton College Duane Litfin spans the late 1990s. The author's original Master's thesis and Ph.D dissertation are also available.
Arthur J. Ammann Papers
Collection — xAccession 2015-0044
Identifier: SC-224
Scope and Contents
Dr. Arthur Ammann ’58 was a zoology major at Wheaton. He is a pediatric immunologist who has done extensive research in pediatrics and HIV/AIDS in children and who, in 1982, first described two of the three known means of HIV transmission—mothers to infants and through blood transfusions. He also diagnosed the first children with HIV infection. Dr. Ammann is Founder of Global Strategies, a non‐profit organization dedicated to responding to the health needs of disadvantaged women and child by...
Arthur R. Schulert Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-175
Scope and Contents
The Arthur R. Schulert Papers is composed of biographical material and correspondence from his years at Wheaton College (1940-43), Ohio University and Princeton (1944-46). Manuscripts of his published work "Strontium-90 in Man and His Environment" from the 1960s are also available.
Bernard Nelson Collection
Collection — Box I.A.1
Identifier: SC-120
Scope and Contents
The Bernard A. Nelson Papers are composed of personal awards, diplomas, commencement programs, and photographs from the 1930s.
Betsy Palmer Papers
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-028
Scope and Contents
The Palmer Papers is organized into seven series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Publications, Radio, Scrapbooks, Television and Oversize. The bulk of the collection falls within the Photographs series with this containing several sub-series: Film Negatives, Film Prints, Home & Family Photographs, Miscellaneous Celebrity, Photographs, Movie Stills, Photo Shoot Photographs, Rehearsal Photographs, Television, and Theatre Photographs. The bulk of the photographs date...
BK | Anthropology Books {2011-0188}
Unprocessed — Box 2
Identifier: 2011-0188
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
BK | Book donation {2009-124}
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2009-124
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
BK | Foxe's Book of Martyrs
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2013-0051
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
BK | Frank E. Herrick
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2012-0212
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
BK | Hymns and Songbooks {2011-0019}
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2011-0019
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
BK | Merton donation {2009-119}
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2009-119
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
BK | Regimental Histories Written by Chaplains {2012-0035}
Unprocessed
Identifier: 2012-0035
Found in:
Buswell Library Special Collections
Blanchard Libraries
Collection
Identifier: SC-006
Scope and Contents
The private libraries of Jonathan Blanchard and his son Charles Albert Blanchard, the first two presidents of Wheaton College, comprise this collection and includes volumes autographed by these men. This library reflects the interest and activities of their former owners and contains over 300 volumes. The collection contains numerous volumes on Freemasonry, slavery and the temperance movement. The library is an excellent source for the study of nineteenth century American culture and society,...
Books & Culture Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-235
Byron E. Blair Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: SC-186
Scope and Contents
The Byron E. Blair Papers are composed of nearly twenty bound reports from the U.S. Commerce Department, U.S. Bureau of Mines, Radio Science, and other physics publications written by the author on various aspects of rock mechanics, frequency measurement, and phase stability of radio signals.
C. Everett Koop Papers
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-058
Scope and Contents
The C. Everett Koop papers are organized into five series: Biographical, Correspondence, Manuscript Material (sub-series: Books and Lectures/Speeches), Published Material (Pamphlets), Media Material (Audio tapes) and Secondary. The bulk of the collection is found in the Book Manuscripts. The manuscripts include typescripts and galleys for four of Koop's books: Let's Talk, The Right to Live; The Right to Die, Sometimes Mountains Move and Koop. The remaining series contain a few folders or items...
Calvin Miller Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-024
Scope and Contents
The manuscripts and papers of popular writer and pastor Calvin Miller are arranged into five series. The material arrived in several accessions beginning in 1990. The largest series is book manuscripts, with other categories of articles, correspondence, artwork, and biographical. Miller periodically adds items to the collection and it can be assumed that the papers have not reached their final arrangement. The largest portion of the Calvin Miller Collection is composed of manuscripts, both of...
Charles E. Wilson Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-169
Scope and Contents
The Charles E. Wilson Papers are composed of correspondence, secondary articles, scrapbook and lecture materials from the early 1990s primarily related to his autobiographical manuscript "Bastogne to Bavaria with the the Fighting Fourth Armored Division 1944-45."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon Collection
Collection
Identifier: SC-226
Scope and Contents
The contents of the Charles Haddon Spurgeon Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/226
Chicago Sunday Evening Club Records
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-047
Scope and Contents
Administrative records comprise a large portion of this collection. Minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings extend from 1936 to 1982, and Audits from 1910 to 1991. By-laws, lists of Officers and Trustees, Committee Reports, long-range planning, annual reports, and financial reports, 1987-88, further augment this section. Also present are administrative and personal correspondence from 1904 to 1980, mainly for the years 1960-1980.A small collection of photographs represents...
Christian Arts Trust Records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-067
Scope and Contents
The Christian arts collection provides a great deal of insight into the growth of Christian arts in England. The majority of the information deals with theatre groups funded by the trust. Scripts, puplicity posters, and photographs compose a large percentage of the collection. Biographical information on individuals involved with the trust and financial reports are also included. There are four videotapes, two audio tapes, and one record album made of various theatre presentations. The...
Christian Camping International Records
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-055
Scope and Contents
The records of Christian Camping International provide a good overview of the administrative workings of the organization in its first forty years. The legal and organizational structure are documented in the first series.Correspondence and reports for CCI’s two earliest executive directors are housed in the collection providing highlights of the organization’s leadership.The International Operations series provides a look into the growth of CCI into an international...
Christian Service Brigade Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-027
Scope and Contents
The collection near forty different Christian Brigade publications spanning the decades of the late-1930s into the 1980s. The contents of the collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/27
Christian Sociological Society Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-036
Scope and Contents
The Christian Sociological Society collection contains brochures outlining the objectives and activities of the organization, and includes the range of newsletters from the fall of 1973 to the spring of 1996. The collection also contains administrative correspondence from 1979-86.
Christian Stewardship Council Records
Collection
Identifier: SC-187
Scope and Contents
The Christian Stewardship Council Papers are composed of correspondence from Wesley Willmer from 1986-1987 and documents relative to the 1987 conference "Funding the Christian Challenge." This material covers pre-conference planning, correspondence, acknowledgments, news clippings, and periodicals.
Christians Supporting Community Organizing
Collection
Identifier: SC-200
Clyde Kilby Papers
Collection
Identifier: SC-090
Scope and Contents
This collection is composed of primary and secondary material. Photocopies of articles, addresses, and reviews accompany a small amount of biographical information and correspondence. The secondary material includes general articles and press releases about Dr. Kilby and his work, as well as quoting him. Reviews of Dr. Kilby's works are also included. The materials measure four inches in length.
Col. V.A. Pashkov Papers
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-035
Scope and Contents
The Vasili Alexandrovich Pashkov papers are arranged into 5 series (Literary, Correspondence, Written Documents, News Clippings and Secondary) and occupy 187 microfiche.Approximately 75% of the collection is composed of correspondence, in Russian, French, German, and English, from 1874 to 1901. General correspondence to Pashkov is arranged chronologically, while letters from prominent correspondents are filed in separate series. Letters from Pashkov are found in letter books...
Coleman Luck, Jr. Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-041
Scope and Contents
The Coleman Luck Collection (SC-41) provides a look at the process of free-lance and contracted writing for television and screenplay. Mr. Luck's materials show a project's journey from a simple concept, to an outline, treatment, research, first draft, revisions, final manuscript, and finally to the screen. This collection contains a wide variety of materials including correspondence, periodical clippings, manuscripts and video tapes. The bulk of the material dates from 1984-present. The...
Colleen Townsend Evans Papers
Collection — Books
Identifier: SC-039
Scope and Contents
The papers of the noted Christian author and churchwoman, Colleen Townsend Evans consist primarily of book manuscripts and published articles. Other materials include awards, biographical materials, photographs, and memorabilia. The collection occupies 16 linear inches. The manuscript series contains not only typescripts of books and articles, but also galley proofs and notes. They are arranged alphabetically by the title. Published articles, dating from 1948 to 1987 are also...