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Collection 050 Ephemera of Merrill Dunlop

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Identifier: CN 050
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, photographs, and a video recordings relating to the ministry of Merrill Dunlop (1905-2002).The oral history interviews with Merrill Dunlop cover his association with evangelist Paul Rader, early religious radio programming in Chicago, the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, Youth for Christ, Christian evangelism and Christian music work. Merrill Dunlop was interviewed by Robert Shuster on November 21, 1978 and June 1, 1979, at Dunlop's home in Oak Park, Illinois....
Dates: Created: 1978-1988

Collection 487 Oral History Interview with Kathryn M. Feldi

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Identifier: CN 487
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi (1912-2015) in which she describes her parents, who were Africa Inland Mission workers in Tanzania; mother's conversion at a Billy Sunday campaign; her own attendance at Wheaton College; memories of Billy Graham as a college student; the Wheaton revival of 1943; favorite professors; and the effect of World War II on the Wheaton campus. The time period covered by the interviews is 1922 to 1993.Kathryn Marie Hess Feldi was...
Dates: Created: 1993

Collection 139 Oral History Interview with Frances Rader Longino

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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

Collection 193 Records of the Washington Street Mission

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Identifier: CN 193
Scope and Contents Sermon notes, minutes, financial records, reports, oral history transcript, clippings, estate descriptions, tracts on various cults and heresies, and photographs documenting the history of the Washington Street Mission in Springfield, Illinois between 1914 and 1982.Records describe tan urban mission and the effectiveness of their programs, administration, and financial activities, and a historical view of its origins in an oral history interview with Mary Brown Miller. Sermon...
Dates: Created: 1916-1982

Collection 180 Papers of Carl Armerding

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Identifier: CN 180
Scope and Contents Diaries, correspondence, scrapbook, travel documents, oral history interview, sermons and other materials documenting Carl Armerding's career and ministry, especially his work as a Bible teacher, preacher, and leader of Central American Mission.Interview topics covered include Armerding's family background, education, recollections of Billy Sunday, Gipsy Smith, Henry Ironside and Will Houghton, missions and evangelism in Honduras and the Bahamas, speaking engagements, teaching...
Dates: Created: 1903-1987

Collection 299 Oral History Interview with Ruth M. Thomas

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Identifier: CN 299
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Ruth M. Thomas about her family and religious background, conversion, recollections of Billy Sunday's campaign in Scranton, PA in 1914, her education at Wheaton College, call to foreign missions, work as a missionary nurse with the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions in a rehabilitation program of a leper colony in southwestern China along the Burmese border among the Tai-Lu people, language study, worship and use of music, an anti-opium campaign, and a...
Dates: Created: 1985

Collection 604 Oral History Interview with Dan D. Crawford

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Identifier: CN 604
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Dan Duvall Crawford in which he discusses his parents, Percy and Ruth (Duvall) Crawford; Percy Crawford’s evangelistic ministry at meetings, through radio and television programming; and the camps his father founded. Other topics discussed include Crawford’s experiences at Pine Brook Camp as a child; Pine Brook Praises and Young People’s Church of the Air; Percy Crawford’s relationship with Billy...
Dates: Created: 2004

Collection 140 Oral History Interview with Everett Mitchell

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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 196 Oral History Interview with Edna Louise Asher Case

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Identifier: CN 196
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Edna Louise Asher Case (1905-1999), in which she discusses her aunt, Virginia Asher, who was a co-worker of Billy Sunday; she was also involved in many other evangelistic efforts. Other topics include: Case's student days at Wheaton College, and her involvement in city mission work; impressions of Mel Trotter, Billy Sunday, Helen Sunday. The time frame covered by the interview is 1905 to 1929.Edna Case was interviewed by  Robert Shuster  on November...
Dates: Created: 1905-1929

Collection 488 Papers of John E. Phillips

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Identifier: CN 488
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, letters, newspaper clipping, a booklet and other materials, relating mainly to John E. Phillips' work as a missionary with the Sudan Interior Mission among the Kambatta people of Ethiopia (1932-1937) and among the Dinka people of Sudan (1938-1949). There is also some information on his involvement in other ministries, such as Ambassadors for Christ and the Allentown Rescue Mission.

Dates: Created: 1926-2003

Collection 389 Papers of John A. Huffman, Sr.

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Identifier: CN 389
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, correspondence, films, negatives, photographs, and radio programs which document the life and ministry of John A. Huffman, Sr. The materials cover his presidency of the Winona Lake School of Theology dealing mainly with the work of the students and faculty. There are some materials on the relationship of the School with Fuller Theological Seminary, films about Islam, the WLST tour of Israel and over two dozen radio programs of Great Moments with the Master and...
Dates: Created: 1934-1988

Collection 446 Papers of Jack Wyrtzen

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Identifier: CN 446
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, audio tapes and video tapes relating to the ministry of Jack Wyrtzen.Series: Audio TapesTape 1 to Tape 7: Oral history interviews with Jack Wyrtzen in which he describes his parents, childhood, early influences, conversion, relations with other Christian leaders, development of the Word of Life Fellowship, radio and television work and youth work. The time period covered by the...
Dates: Created: 1991

Collection 118 Ephemera of Mordecai Ham

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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

Collection 279 Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Evans

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Identifier: CN 279
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Elizabeth Morrell Evans (1899-1976) in which she discusses her childhood; education at Wheaton College; work with J. Elwin Wright; her Christian education activities; the development of the New England Fellowship, the National Association of Evangelicals, and the World Evangelical Fellowship; and her work as a missionary in Taiwan. The time period covered by the interviews is 1899-1976.Elizabeth Evans was interviewed by Robert Shuster on October 8,...
Dates: Created: 1984-1985

Collection 040 Papers of Andrew Wyzenbeek

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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

Collection 182 Papers of J. Herbert and Winnifred Kane

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Identifier: CN 182
Scope and Contents

Correspondence and curriculum material from James Herbert Kane and Winnifred Mary (Shepherd) Kane's missiology courses, and three oral history interviews. Materials document the Kanes' missionary work in China and Dr. Kane's teaching in the U.S.  Events described in the interviews cover the time period from 1932 to 1950.

Dates: Created: 1934-1987

Collection 089 Papers of Paul P. Stough

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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

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Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 10
Wheaton College (Ill.) 8
Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 6
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 5
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 4
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Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 4
Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955. 4
Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 4
Biederwolf, William E. (William Edward), 1867-1939. 3
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 3
Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 3
Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 3
Davis, Ralph T. 3
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 3
Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 3
Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 3
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 3
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 3
Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 3
Straw, Darien A. 3
Wright, J. Elwin. 3
Dunlop, Merrill. 2
Houghton, Will H., 1887-1947. 2
Johnson, Jimmie. 2
Jones, Bob, 1911-1997. 2
LeTourneau, R. G. (Robert Gilmour), 1888-1969. 2
McPherson, Aimee Semple, 1890-1944. 2
Mission Aviation Fellowship. 2
Moody Bible Institute. 2
Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 2
National Association of Evangelicals. 2
New England Fellowship. 2
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 2
Park Street Church (Boston, Mass.) 2
Pinebrook Bible Conference. 2
Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 2
Smith, Gipsy, 1860-1947. 2
Smith, Oswald J. 2
Taylor, Herbert John, 1893-1978. 2
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928 2
Trotter, Melvin E. 2
Welsh, Evan D. 2
Word of Life, Inc. 2
World Council of Churches. 2
Africa Inland Church. 1
Africa Inland Mission. 1
Allentown Rescue Mission and Home Association. 1
Ambassadors for Christ (Allentown, Pa.) 1
American Colonization Society. 1
American Council of Christian Churches. 1
Armerding, Carl, 1889-1987. 1
Armerding, Hudson T. 1
Asher, Virginia Healey, 1869-1937. 1
Asher, William. 1
Ayer, William Ward. 1
Barnhouse, Donald Grey, 1895-1960. 1
Barrington College. 1
Becker, Carl K., Jr. 1
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 1
Bingham, Rowland V., 1872-1942. 1
Blaine, Harriet Gertrude. 1
Blanchard, J. L. (Julia L.) 1
Blanchard, Jonathan, 1811-1892. 1
Bollback, Harry. 1
Bolten, John, 1920- 1
Booth, F. Carlton. 1
Bosshardt, Rudolf Alfred. 1
Brown, Robert Thomas. 1
Bryan, William Jennings, 1860-1925. 1
Bubar, Paul. 1
Buker, Raymond B., 1899-1992. 1
Case, Edna. 1
Central American Mission. 1
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 1
Chiang, May-ling Soong, 1897-2003. 1
China Inland Mission. 1
Chow, Moses. 1
Christian Men's Evangelistic Clubs. 1
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 1
Congo Protestant Council. 1
Cook, Robert A., 1912- 1
Coray, Edward A. 1
Crawford, Dan D., 1941- 1
Crawford, Dean. 1
Crawford, Donald Bruce, 1937- 1
Crawford, Donna Lee. 1
Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 1
Dallas Theological Seminary. 1
Darling, Edward Moore. 1
Dawson, Charles H.,, 1916- 1
Dodds, Gilbert, 1918- 1
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 1
Drury, William A. 1
Dyrness, Enock. 1
Emery, Allan C. 1
Evangelical Literature Overseas. 1
Evangelical Teacher Training Association. 1
Evans, Elizabeth, 1899-1989. 1
Evans, Robert P., 1918-2011. 1
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