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Ralph and Helen Scoville Prayer Letters

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 078
Scope and Contents

This collection contains three prayer letters describing Ralph and Helen Scovilles' missionary work in China; travel from Shanghai to Ningsha, Kansu Province (now Yinchuan, Gansu) and raid and 23-day occupation of Ningsha by Muslim bandits.

Dates: Created: 1928-1929

Reuben Archer Torrey, III Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 331
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey III and a videotape of the Otterbein United Brethren Missionary Convention in Waynesboro, Pennsylvania on April 23, 1986.Audio TapesOral history interview with Reuben Archer Torrey in which he describes his childhood in China as the son of Presbyterian missionaries; his experiences at boarding schools in China and Korea; his grandfather, Dr. R. A. Torrey, Sr.; his work as an Episcopalian...
Dates: Created: 1986

Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr. Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 097
Scope and Contents

This collection contains pamphlets, correspondence, reports and articles created by Reuben Archer Torrey, Jr. documenting his internment by the Japanese in China, the great physical and spiritual needs of the people in South Korea following the war there, and the development of the rehabilitation program under Torrey's administration.

Dates: Created: 1942-1966

Reuben Archer Torrey, Sr., Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 107
Scope and Contents

Diaries, correspondence, sermon notes, Sunday school lessons, newspaper clippings, brochures, memorial booklet, photographs, diaries, audio tapes, and glass negatives from R.A. Torrey's career as evangelist, teacher, author, and family man.

Dates: Created: 1882-1983

Robert B. Ekvall Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 092
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, correspondence, photographs, and a manuscript that describe Robert B. Ekvall's education at Wheaton College, work as a missionary in China and Tibet, and military and diplomatic activities during World War II and after in China and Southeast Asia.

Dates: Created: 1933-1980

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

Robert D. Carlson Oral History Interviews

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Identifier: CN 205
Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews with Robert Dean Carlson in which he discusses his childhood in China and Tibet, the condition of the Christian church in those countries, social and religious customs, and the Chinese language. The time period covered by the interviews is 1928 to 1982.

Robert Carlson was interviewed by Robert Shuster on February 27 and April 17, 1982.

Dates: Created: 1982

Robert W. Porteous Prayer Letter

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 074
Scope and Contents This collection contains a prayer letter by Robert Porteous describing accounts of the activities of the church in Yichun, Jianxi Province, including an intensive Bible school and conference for women, prayer meetings for several captured Christian workers, and weekly services, all taking place in the midst of troop movements by government and communist troops, which, although disruptive, did not interfere with church activities. Also included are items about military conflict and...
Dates: Created: 1928

Roger and Mary Howes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 562
Scope and Contents Address books, articles, autograph books, birthday book, correspondence, diaries, documents, journals, manuscripts, newspaper clippings, notebooks, photographs, prayer letters, scrapbooks, sermon notes, songbooks, and testimony which document the Howes' work as China Inland Mission (CIM) missionaries in China from 1925 through 1945, and their work at CIM (later Overseas Missionary Fellowship) office in Chicago and Headquarters in Philadelphia before they retired in 1965. Their correspondence...
Dates: Created: 1899-1993

Roy W. Gustafson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 659
Scope and Contents Scrapbooks, correspondence, photos, newspaper clippings, and other documents relating to Gustafson’s education and life’s work as a minister, evangelist, Bible teacher, and staff member of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. Particularly well documented are the tours of the Holy Land (Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt) he led and lectured to for several decades, his participation in ministries in Africa and Asia, and his active involvement in the worldwide activities of Samaritan’s...
Dates: Created: 1908-2002

Ruddock Staffordshire and Glassware Collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-158
Scope and Contents

The Ruddock Staffordshire and Glassware Collection is a non-manuscript collection of Early American Staffordshire china and glassware. The Old Sandwich glass bowls and pitchers are in three patterns: bellflower, thumbprint, and three faces. The plates and pitcher are the 'old blue' Staffordshire historical wares embellished with early American scenes.

Dates: Created: 1820-1850; Other: Date acquired: 1958

Ruth M. Thomas Oral History Interview

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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

Ruth Paxson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 653
Scope and Contents Correspondence, prayer letters, photograph and pamphlets related to Ruth Paxson’s work as a missionary in China, Europe and the United States and career as an author of pamphlets and books on the Christian life.[Note: In the Scope & Content section, the notation "folder 2-5" means "Box 2, Folder 5"]Series: PhotographsThe following items are located in the ...
Dates: Created: 1908-1958

Ruth Sundquist Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 266
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Sundquist in which she describes her education at Moody Bible Institute, decision to become a missionary, work first in Kentucky home missions as a Christian education worker with the Evangelical Free Church and then her missionary career in China and Hong Kong between 1947 and 1982 as an administrator for a Sunday School and orphanage. Other topics discussed include: language school in China, Chinese attitudes toward the Nationalists, Communists, Americans...
Dates: Created: 1984

Ruth W. Adeney Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 394
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Ruth Winifred Temple Adeney (1912-1911) in which she describes her youth; spiritual growth; education at Northwestern Schools; call to missionary work with China Inland Mission; her missionary experience; her husband, David Adeney; her work with with China Inland Mission in rural areas of Henan Province (1934-1941); and her husband's work with university students in Nanking (1946-1948) and Shanghai (1949- 1950). Other topics discussed include the impact of war...
Dates: Created: 1988

Sadie Custer Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 470
Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Sadie Custer (1911-2007) in which she discusses her childhood, conversion, education at Moody Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, arrival in China in 1936, the Chinese language, work in Shensi province, Bible teaching, transition from missionary to Chinese leadership, the Three Self Movement, the Communist revolution in China and its effect on missions, the Sino-Japanese Conflict, work in Malaysia among Chinese, living in an area in Malaysia...
Dates: Created: 1992

Sarah A. Young Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 542
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, diary, and articles related to the ministry of Sarah Alice, missionary with China Inland Mission. The materials in the collection document her preparation and her evangelism activities in Shanxi Province, China, where she worked from 1896 until 1900, when she and her husband John were killed during the Boxer Rebellion. Young's papers contain many descriptions of missionary work, the lives and testimonies of individual Christians and Chinese society and culture.

Dates: Created: 1894-1901

Society for the Propagation of the Gospel: Lambeth Palace Records Microfilm

 Collection
Identifier: CN 154
Scope and Contents The collection consists of about two thousand five hundred letters and eight volumes of minutes covering the formative years of the Society, 1701-1750. Later papers document the establishment of the American episcopate after the Revolution. The correspondence is primarily with clergy sent to America, but also concerns Eurasia, especially China and India. Correspondence primarily with clergy sent to America, but also concerns work in Eurasia, particularly China and India. Topics covered...
Dates: Created: 1679-1790

Stam Family Collection

 Collection
Identifier: CN 449
Scope and Contents

Memoirs, newsletters, correspondence, diary, photos, film, poems, newspaper clippings and other items that relate to the Stam family, their Christian faith, Star of Hope Mission and the missions and evangelism work of various family members, especially John and Betty Stam who were killed in China by Chinese Communist soldiers in 1934.

Dates: Created: 1919-2003

Steven C. Preston Papers

 Collection — Container: xAccession 2014-0117
Identifier: SC-223
Abstract When Steven Preston was counting the cost of entering public, governmental service, he stated: “I had to ask myself whether I was willing to jump into a highly public position in an agency that was under attack and that had some very significant hurdles.” Despite these challenges facing him, Preston decided that he would transition into a leadership position of the Small Business Administration (SBA) in 2006. A similar question would arise again, less than two years later, when Mr. Preston...
Dates: Created: 2005-2014; Other: Date acquired: 10/13/2014

Susan Bartel Papers

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Identifier: CN 057
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, negatives, and photographs relating to Susan Bartel's service with the China Mennonite Mission Society for over 20 years in the Shantung Province of China. Topics covered by the interviews include: Bartel's youth, conversion to Christianity, education, marriage to Loyal Bartel, and mission work in China; World War II; Japanese occupation of China; arrest and imprisonment of Loyal; life under the Chinese communists after World War II, Loyal’s imprisonment and Susan’s...
Dates: Created: 1932-1979

Theodore Fischbacher Collection

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 091
Scope and Contents

This collection contains an annotated article (written by Phyllis Thompson) about the North-West Bible Institute (NWBI) in Fengzian, Shensi Province, describing the development of the Back to Jerusalem Evangelistic Band, which evangelized in western China, including among Muslims. Also includes photocopies from Theodore Fischbacher's scrapbook with photographs of NWBI (1941-1947) and the Fischbacher family (1942-1944).

Dates: Created: 1941-1947

Vereide Family Papers

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Identifier: CN 727
Scope and Contents Papers of the Vereide family relating to the work of International Christian Leadership (ICL, later known as the Fellowship Foundation), mainly the efforts of Abraham Vereide and his daughter Alicia Davison. The collection reflects the activities ICL and its associated group International Council for Christian Leadership (ICCL) in fostering prayer groups, leadership seminars, and informal contacts involving government officials, business people, and civic leaders to promote spiritual unity...
Dates: 1945-2014, undated; Majority of material found in 1953-1985

Victor G. Plymire Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 341
Scope and Contents Letters, articles, over 1200 photos, maps, diary and other material relating to Victor Plymire's missionary career in Tibet and China under the auspices of the Assemblies of God. The collection contains information not only on his evangelistic work among various strata of Tibetan society but also about his evangelistic/exploration expedition of 1927-28 which crossed from northeastern to southwestern Tibet; Tibetan culture and society; the Buddhist religion; and the early history of relations...
Dates: Created: 1908-1957

Vincent L. Crossett Oral History Interview

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Identifier: CN 288
Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Vincent Leroy Crossett (1907-1999) in which he describes his education at Wheaton and Westminster Seminary, missionary work with China Inland Mission/Overseas Missionary Fellowship in China and Taiwan, and pastoral work in a local church in Hawaii. Topics discussed include Crossett's education at Wheaton College and Westminster Seminary; decision to join China Inland Mission; language school; evangelism methods; characteristics of the Chinese church; CIM's...
Dates: Created: 1984-1986

W. Arthur Saunders Papers

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Identifier: CN 471
Scope and Contents Oral history interview and a manuscript translated by W. Arthur Saunders, relating to Saunder’s missionary service in China with China Inland Mission and Overseas Missionary Fellowship from 1930 to 1987. The interview describes his childhood in England, emigration to New Zealand, training at the New Zealand Bible Institute, joining the China Inland Mission, going to China in 1930, evangelistic work in south Gansu province, the work of Chinese evangelists, worship services in Gansu churches,...
Dates: Created: 1992

Wayne W. and Ruth K. Courtney Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 603
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, oral history interviews, and photographs which document the Courtneys' courtship and marriage, Ruth Courtney's ministry in China as a single missionary with China Inland Mission, their brief work together in China after their marriage (1949-1951), and later work for the mission in the Philippines and in the United States.

Dates: Created: 1940-2006

Wheaton '83 Conference Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 598
Scope and Contents

Correspondence, papers, case studies, minutes, participant evaluations, and other documents relating to the planning, holding and follow-up of Wheaton '83, an international, evangelical conference exploring the nature and mission of the global church. The meeting was sponsored by the World Evangelical Fellowship and other organizations. It consisted of three simultaneous consultations which dealt with the local church, evangelism across frontiers, and Christian response to human need.

Dates: Created: 1975-1984, undated

William E. Blackstone Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 540
Scope and Contents Materials relating to the ministry of William E. Blackstone, evangelist, Christian Zionist, and first superintendent of the Chicago Hebrew Mission. These materials include correspondence, organizational reports, miscellaneous mission organization reports, book orders, financial statements involving home and foreign missionaries as well as indigenous Christian workers, people and organizations who received support from the Milton Stewart Evangelistic Fund of which Blackstone was sole trustee,...
Dates: Created: 1891-1979

William Ekvall Simpson Photocopies

 Collection
Identifier: Small CN 114
Scope and Contents This collection contains a booklet of photocopies assembled by Ray Smith and a photocopy of a manuscript copied from a typed manuscript attributed to William Wallace Simpson. The booklet contains a narrative by Smith about the life and death of William E. Wallace and copies of many documents, articles and excerpts from books. The documents are mainly concerned with the investigation into the death of the two men, while the articles and excerpts also deal to some extent with Simpson's work as...
Dates: Created: 1998

William H. Nowack Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 632
Scope and Contents

Prayer letters, publications, sermons notes of Nowack documenting William H. Nowack’s work as an independent Christian missionary in the United States (Tennessee) and China (Honan) over a period of four decades.

Dates: Created: 1903-1980

Winifred Rand Papers

 Collection
Identifier: CN 606
Scope and Contents Oral history interview, articles, questionnaires, and biographical information related to the missionary service of Winifred Rand with China Inland Mission. Topics covered by the material include: Rand’s teaching ambitions as a young girl; reason for move to missions; Portland Bible Institute; Christian and Missionary Alliance missions policy toward single women on the mission field; China Inland Mission training; Chinese language school; doing rural work with Chinese Bible woman in Shansi,...
Dates: Created: 1936-2004

Woman's Union Missionary Society Records

 Collection
Identifier: CN 379
Brief Description Correspondence, reports, personnel files, legal documents, financial files, scrapbooks, and almost 3,000 photographs that document the activity, personnel, and ministry of the organization founded in 1860 by Mrs. Thomas C. Doremus. The mission was intended as a vehicle for sending single women as missionaries to women in closed societies (and therefore unreachable by male missionaries) in Asia, covering their medical and educational work among orphans and women in Burma, China, India,...
Dates: Created: 1860-1983

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Evangelism & Missions Archives 125
Special Collections 8
 
Subject
Missions -- China. 103
Evangelistic work -- China. 77
Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 55
Communism -- China. 51
Women missionaries. 51
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Women -- Religious life. 44
Conversion -- Christianity. 42
China -- History -- 1937-1945. 39
Language in missionary work. 33
China -- History -- Civil War, 1945-1949. 32
Missionaries -- Training of. 32
Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945. 31
Children of missionaries. 30
Missions -- Educational work. 27
World War, 1939-1945. 27
Evangelistic work -- United States. 26
Persecution -- China. 25
China -- Religion. 24
Christianity and culture. 23
Medical care -- China. 22
Missionaries -- Leaves and furloughs. 22
Christian life. 21
Indigenous church administration -- China. 21
Church and state -- China. 20
Religious institutions. 20
China -- History -- 1949- 19
Missions -- India. 19
China -- Description and travel. 18
China -- History -- 1912-1937. 18
Fundamentalism. 16
Missions -- Finance. 16
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni -- Oral history. 16
Chinese -- Missions. 15
Christian education -- China. 15
Christian leadership. 15
Missionaries, Withdrawal of. 15
Missions -- Interdenominational cooperation. 15
Missions -- Study and teaching. 15
Missions, Medical. 15
China -- History. 14
Culture shock. 14
Bible -- Study and teaching. 13
Missionaries' spouses. 13
Missionaries, Resignation of. 13
Missions -- Biblical teaching. 13
Missions -- Japan. 13
Missions -- Taiwan. 13
Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 13
Bible -- Translating. 12
Buddhists -- China. 12
China -- Politics and government. 12
Evangelicalism -- United States. 12
Families. 12
Missions -- Europe. 12
Missions, Medical -- China. 12
Rural churches -- China. 12
China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901. 11
Church and social problems. 11
Evangelicalism. 11
Missions -- Philippines. 11
Refugees -- China. 11
Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 11
Boarding schools -- China. 10
Children of missionaries -- China. 10
Chinese language. 10
Church development, New. 10
Church work with women -- China. 10
Evangelistic work -- Philosophy. 10
Missions -- Africa. 10
Missions -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 10
Prayer. 10
Presbyterians. 10
Rural missions -- China. 10
Rural missions. 10
Three-self movement -- China. 10
China -- Social life and customs. 9
Christian martyrs -- China. 9
College students in missionary work. 9
Evangelistic sermons. 9
Evangelistic work -- Taiwan. 9
Indigenous church administration. 9
Mass media in missionary work. 9
Missionaries. 9
Missions -- Asia. 9
Missions -- Congresses. 9
Missions -- Korea. 9
Missions -- Singapore. 9
China -- Church history -- 20th century. 8
Christian literature -- Publishing. 8
Evangelistic work -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region. 8
Evangelistic work -- Congresses. 8
Evangelistic work -- Japan. 8
Evangelistic work -- Korea. 8
Fund raising. 8
Missionaries -- Training of -- United States. 8
Missionaries -- United States. 8
Missions -- Indonesia. 8
Missions -- Thailand. 8
Missions -- United States. 8
Missions to Buddhists -- China. 8
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Language
English 132
Chinese 2
Thai 2
Arabic 1
German 1
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Names
China Inland Mission. 49
OMF International. 32
Zhongguo guo min dang. 28
Shuster, Robert D. 27
Wheaton College (Ill.) 27
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Moody Bible Institute. 19
Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 16
Ericksen, Paul. 14
Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 14
Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
Christian and Missionary Alliance. 11
Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 10
Houghton, Frank, 1894-1972. 9
Taylor, James Hudson, 1832-1905. 9
Chiang, Kai-shek, 1887-1975. 8
Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 8
Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 7
Chefoo School (Yen t'ai shih, China) 7
Evangelical Alliance Mission. 7
Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 7
Kane, J. Herbert. 7
Kuhn, Isobel. 7
Kuhn, John Becker. 7
Schoerner, Katharine Dodd. 7
Schoerner, Otto Frederick. 7
World Evangelical Fellowship. 7
Adeney, David H. (David Howard) 6
Bright, Bill. 6
Glover, Robert Hall, 1871-1947. 6
Graham, Ruth Bell. 6
Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 6
Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 6
National Association of Evangelicals. 6
Assemblies of God. 5
Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 5
Far East Broadcasting Company. 5
Feng, Yuxiang, 1882-1948. 5
Frame, Raymond. 5
Palau, Luis, 1934- 5
Stott, John R. W. 5
Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 5
Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 5
Anderson, Helen, 1909-2004. 4
Anderson, Ian Rankin. 4
Barrows, Cliff. 4
Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 4
Borden Memorial Hospital (Lanchow, China) 4
Buck, Pearl S. (Pearl Sydenstricker), 1892-1973. 4
Ford, Leighton. 4
Frame, Helen. 4
Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 4
Hoste, Dixon Edward, 1861-1946. 4
International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 4
McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 4
Nee, Watchman. 4
Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 4
Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 4
Straw, Darien A. 4
Sudan Interior Mission. 4
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. 4
Wheaton '83: An International Evangelical Conference on the Nature and Mission of the Church. 4
World Council of Churches. 4
World Vision International. 4
Allison, Lon (Lon J.), 1952-2019. 3
Bell, L. Nelson (Lemuel Nelson), 1894-1973. 3
Bible Institute of Los Angeles. 3
Bible Institute of the Philippines (Valenzuela, Philippines) 3
Carlson, Robert Dean. 3
Chao, Calvin. 3
China Inter-Varsity Evangelical Christian Students Fellowship. 3
Christian Medical Society. 3
Contento, Paul A. 3
Crossett, Margaret E. 3
Dow, Elsie Storrs. 3
Fuller Theological Seminary. 3
Gemmell, Nina Eleanor. 3
Goforth, Jonathan, 1859-1936. 3
Goforth, Rosalind, 1864-1942. 3
HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 3
Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 3
Hess, Esther N. 3
Hillis, Dick. 3
Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 3
Jones, Clarence W. 3
Kane, Winnifred Mary Shepherd, 1912- 3
Kennedy, John F. (John Fitzgerald), 1917-1963. 3
Mao, Zedong, 1893-1976. 3
Moody, Dwight Lyman, 1837-1899. 3
Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 3
Nowack, Ruth Louise. 3
OC International. 3
Orr, J. Edwin (James Edwin), 1912- 3
Prairie Bible Institute. 3
Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 3
Princeton Theological Seminary. 3
Salvation Army. 3
Sanders, J. Oswald (John Oswald), 1902-1992. 3
Singapore Bible College. 3
Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 3
Wang, Leland. 3
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