Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

Busman’s Honeymoon Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-116

Abstract This archive contains fan correspondence and theater returns from the play version of "Busman's Honeymoon" written by Dorothy L. Sayers and Muriel St. Clare Byrne.

Dates: Created: 1935-1946

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

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.

Dates: Created: 1955-1970; Other: Date acquired: 2005

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

C. Everett Koop Papers

Collection — Container: 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...

Dates: Created: 1968-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1968-1981; Other: Date acquired: 1993

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Calendar Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-003

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Calendar Committee

Dates: Created: 1973-1977; Other: Majority of material found in 1973-1977

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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...

Dates: Created: 1967-2004; Other: Majority of material found in 1975-1989; Other: Date acquired: 1986

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Campus Planning Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-004

Scope and Contents Minutes of the Campus Planning Committee

Dates: Created: 1949-1968; Other: Majority of material found in 1949-1968

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Career Services Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-018

Scope and Contents Minutes, correspondecne the Career Services

Dates: Created: 1998-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1998-1999

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Centennial Committee Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-06-028

Scope and Contents Minutes, correspondence, historical, biographical files of the Centennial Committee

Dates: Created: 1910-1973; Other: Majority of material found in 1910-1960

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Chad Walsh Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-57

Abstract This archive contains Chad Walsh's personal letters to and from C.S. Lewis and Joy Davidman, as well as correspondence between Chad Walsh and others on the subject of the Lewis family. Correspondence relating to Walsh's book, C.S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics (New York: Macmillan, 1949), is also included.

Dates: Created: 1939-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1945-1963

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Change Ringing Archive

Collection — Container: A-30

Identifier: Wade-A-30

Abstract Change ringing serves as the backdrop for Dorothy L. Sayers's novel The Nine Tailors. This archive contains miscellaneous materials related to the practice of change ringing, among them pamphlets, brochures, and periodicals.

Dates: Created: 1951-2004

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Charles Albert Blanchard Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-02-002

Scope and Contents The papers of Charles Albert Blanchard minister, reformer, and second President of Wheaton College consist of both personal papers and administrative archive material. Collected from several sources since 1950, much of the material was given to the College Archives by Dr. Clyde S. Kilby. It was among the Blanchard Family materials given to him by Miss Julia Blanchard (daughter of Charles Blanchard) when Kilby was researching his biography of Jonathan Blanchard. Other material was...

Dates: Created: Majority of material found within 1858-1937; 1858-2012

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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."

Dates: Created: 1990-2000; Other: Date acquired: 2004

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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

Dates: Other: -

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Chicago Sunday Evening Club Records

Collection — Container: 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...

Dates: Created: 1908-2013; Other: Majority of material found in 1938-1993; Other: Date acquired: 1992

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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...

Dates: Created: 1960-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1967-1993; Other: Date acquired: 1994

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Christian Camping International Records

Collection — Container: 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...

Dates: Created: 1955-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1958-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1993

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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

Dates: Created: 1938-1990; Other: Majority of material found in 1938-1984; Other: Date acquired: 1991

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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.

Dates: Created: 1973-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1973-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1987

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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.

Dates: Created: 1986-1987; Other: Date acquired: 1991

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Christians Supporting Community Organizing

Collection

Identifier: SC-200

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 07/21/2015

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Christopher W. Mitchell Papers

Collection

Identifier: Wade-B-33

Abstract This archive includes papers from the career of Christopher W. Mitchell, who served as the third director of the Marion E. Wade Center from 1994 to 2013.

Dates: Created: 1939-2013; Other: Date acquired: June 2015

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Clarence E. Mason, Jr. Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-152

Dates: Created: 1910-1925; Other: Majority of material found in 1921-1924; Other: Date acquired: 1999

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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.

Dates: Created: 1953-2013

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Col. V.A. Pashkov Papers

Collection — Container: 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...

Dates: Created: 1874-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1874-1909; Other: Date acquired: 1989

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

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...

Dates: Created: 1978-2020; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-2002; Other: Date acquired: 1988

Found in: Buswell Library Special Collections

Colin Duriez Papers

Collection — Container: A-35a

Identifier: Wade-A-35a

Abstract This archive contains a typescript sampling the contents of The C.S. Lewis Handbook (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1990), given by Colin Duriez.

Dates: Created: ca. 1990

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Collection 002 Papers of Roy Lundquist

Collection

Identifier: CN 002

Scope and Contents The bulk of the collection is comprised of charts created by Roy Lundquist that attempted to trace the effect of Billy Graham Crusades on the crime rates of thirteen selected cities. Also contains a few letters, notes, and newspaper clippings relating to Moody Memorial Church in Chicago, Wheaton, Illinois local politics, and unidentified architectural drawings.

Dates: Created: 1925-1974

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 003 Records of the Billy Graham Center

Collection

Identifier: CN-003

Scope and Contents 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

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

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: Billy Graham Center Archives

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: Billy Graham Center Archives

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: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 008 Records of Christianity Today

Collection

Identifier: CN-008

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, minutes, audio tapes, films relating to the founding of Christianity Today, International (CTI), and its activities as a forum and voice for Evangelical Protestantism in the United States.

Persons featured include L. Nelson Bell, Billy Graham, Carl Henry, Kenneth Kantzer, Harold Lindsell, Harold Myra, Paul Robbins, and numerous other evangelical figures; subjects covered include social and theological issues.

Dates: Created: 1930, 1954-2002

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 014 Records of the World Congress on Evangelism

Collection

Identifier: CN-014

Scope and Contents Biographical sketches, participants' lists, form letters, programs, audio recordings of speeches, and study papers relating to the World Congress on Evangelism held in Berlin on October 26 to November 4, 1966. Besides the English materials, there are study papers in French and German and there are programs, correspondence and speech transcripts in German, French, and Spanish. Thirteen audio tapes contain speeches by various individuals including Billy Graham, Carl Henry, John Stott, Oswald...

Dates: Created: 1966-

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 015 Papers 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. *****Folder 2-3 contains a variety of miscellaneous letters gathered from various sources: two photocopies of letters (1950 and 1958) to Ray...

Dates: Created: 1950-2002

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 020 Papers of Herbert J. Taylor

Collection

Identifier: CN 020

Scope and Contents 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 records...

Dates: Created: 1916-1979

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 021 Records of the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission

Collection

Identifier: CN 021

Scope and Contents Materials relating to the Congress on the Church's Worldwide Mission which was held on the Wheaton College campus in 1966 and was jointly sponsored by the Evangelical Foreign Missions Association and the Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association. Audio tapes document various sessions of the Congress, including biblical expositions, study papers (on subjects like syncretism, church growth, cooperation, the Catholic Church and social issues), reports on missions on the world's continents,...

Dates: Created: 1964-1967

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 028 Records of the BGEA Wheaton Crusade

Collection

Identifier: CN 028

Scope and Contents This collection consists of 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 the church regularly,...

Dates: Created: 1959

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

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: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 031 Ephemera of John Wesley

Collection

Identifier: CN 031

Scope and Contents Collection contains one handwritten letter by Wesley composed during a London visit in October 1782. There are also a couple of newspaper clippings including a description of Wesley's life at Aldersgate and the text of another letter from the evangelist. A scrapbook of clippings (available to researchers on microfilm) from the centennial commemoration of Wesley's death contains articles, poetry, sermons, and illustrations by and about him. The clippings were out of newspapers from all over the...

Dates: Created: 1782; 1889-1902; 1938

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 032 Records of Seminar on the Authority of the Bible

Collection

Identifier: CN 032

Scope and Contents Copies of the papers read at the meeting held in Wenham, MA. Also contains a list of participants, a schedule of events, and copies of the text of the communique and resolutions adopted by the meeting.Most of this collection consists of papers read at the meeting and responses read. The list of titles can be read in the container list, where they are arranged according to the order given. Also in this collection is a schedule of the seminar and copies of the resolutions and communique...

Dates: Created: 1966

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 033 Records of The Chicago Call

Collection

Identifier: CN 033

Scope and Contents Collection contains minutes of the planning committee, correspondence, drafts of the Chicago Call conference, reports, and magazine coverage of the meeting. Documents deal with the efforts to draft a document outlining the need for Protestant Evangelicals to recover what the participants saw as the theology and practice of historical Christianity.

Dates: Created: 1974-1978

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 035 Papers of Fanny Crosby

Collection

Identifier: CN 035

Scope and Contents Collection contains thousands of manuscripts of lyrics and music dictated by Fanny Crosby, poetess and hymnwriter. Most of the manuscripts are numbered and dated. This collection is also available on microfilm. The manuscripts in this collection are all of poems composed by Crosby after 1861. Most of these poems are dated and the majority are numbered in sequence. A description of these manuscripts can be found in the foreword of Fanny Crosby Still Speaks. For most of the poems the transcriber...

Dates: Created: 1862-1915

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 036 Records of Gospel Recordings, Inc.

Collection

Identifier: CN-036

Scope and Contents Correspondence, reports, and other documents relating to the organization's work of providing Christian workers around the world with phonograph records or audio tapes of brief evangelistic programs of music, Scripture and sermons in thousands of different languages and dialects, presented by indigenous speakers of each tongue. Most of the correspondence is between the staff of Gospel Recordings and Christian workers in different countries, such as missionary to Africa Paul White, requesting...

Dates: Created: 1939-1978

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 037 Evangelicals for Social Action

Collection

Identifier: CN 037

Scope and Contents Collection correspondence, press releases and clippings, lists, minutes, reports, proposals, conference declaration, and financial records, chiefly from workshops sponsored by the Evangelicals for Social Action, 1973-1976. The records in this collection deal mostly with the origins, agendas, and decisions of the 1973-1976 ESA workshops along with some material which indicate the response to the workshop.

Dates: Created: 1965-1976

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 038 Ephemera of Paul Rader

Collection

Identifier: CN 038

Scope and Contents Newsletters, sermon manuscripts, scrapbooks, programs, pamphlets, photographs, negatives, brochures, a taped sermon, slides, thesis materials, and more, documenting Paul Rader's life and ministry. The material deals mainly with his radio work and the organizations he founded, including the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle. Additional material includes items about Rader gathered for a planned biography, sermons of other preachers who spoke at the Tabernacle, newsletters and magazines published by...

Dates: Created: 1899-1996

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 039 Papers of Sarah "Belle" Hawkes

Collection

Identifier: CN 039

Scope and Contents Correspondence etters, reports, and photos relating to the missionary service of Sarah "Belle" Sherwood Hawkes in Persia, now Iran under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church (USA). Subjects discussed in letters include status of women in Persia, progress of mission work, and Sherwood family affairs.The collection consists of several letters written by Hawkes to her family, 1883-1899; and two reports prepared for the mission board which she served, 1884 and 1899. The...

Dates: Created: 1881 - 1899

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

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 a...

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 041 Ephemera of Billy Sunday Campaign Music and the Old Time Religion

Collection

Identifier: CN 041

Scope and Contents This collection contains one audio recording, mostly of American Gospel music. Side 1 includes songs sung by Billy Sunday co-workers, Virginia Healey Asher and Homer Rodeheaver with the choir from the 1917 Billy Sunday revival campaign in New York City. Side 2 includes Dr. Russell Conwell telling his famous "Acres of Diamonds" story and a song by evangelist Gypsy Smith, among others.Side 1 - BILLY SUNDAY CAMPAIGN MUSIC1. Sail On -- New York Tabernacle Chorus...

Dates: Created: Undated

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 042 Ephemera of Old Time Gospel Music

Collection

Identifier: CN 042

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one audio tape containing American Gospel music sung by Homer Rodeheaver, George Beverly Shea, and F. Carlton Booth, with piano solos by Clayton Erb.Side 1: Sung by Homer Rodeheaver - 1. When God is Near , 2. Wonderful , 3. You Must Open the Door, 4. Jesus Took My Burden, 5. Heartaches, 6. The Glory of His Presence, 7. Saviour, Like a Shepherd -- Piano solo by Clayton Erb, dung by George Beverly Shea - 8. Softly and Tenderly, 9. If We Could See Beyond...

Dates: Created: 1930-1940

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

Collection 043 Records of The Old Fashioned Faith

Collection

Identifier: CN 043

Scope and Contents This collection consists of one audio tape which contains mostly American Gospel music. Singers include Homer Rodeheaver and Rodney "Gipsy" Smith, as well as the Princeton Theological Seminary Chorus, among others. Also includes story told by Dr. Russell Conwell.*****Side 11. The Old Fashioned Faith--Homer Rodeheaver, Accompanied by Ackley2. Face To Face--Percy Hemus3. Our...

Dates: Created: 1905-1924

Found in: Billy Graham Center Archives

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