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Vachel Lindsay Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-063

Scope and Contents The Vachel Lindsay collection is organized into seven series: Biographical, Publications (with Books, Article and Poetry sub-series), Correspondence, Manuscript Material (with Poems sub-series), Lectures, Secondary, and Photographs. The bulk of the collection is located in the published and manuscript poetry series. Several clippings in Secondary also highlight Lindsay's activities. Many items carry inscriptions from Lindsay to Sarah K. Smith, a friend and fellow School of the Art Institute...

Dates: Created: 1908-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1923-1929

Found in: Special Collections

Vaughn Shoemaker Cartoon Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-061

Scope and Contents

The near entirety of the Shoemaker Collection consists of fifty-four pen and ink editorial cartoon drawings, chosen by Shoemaker as his personal best and given to Wheaton College originally for its American Art Collection. The collection contains minimal biographical information.

Dates: Created: 1961-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1961-1972; Other: Date acquired: 1976

Found in: Special Collections

Vera E. Thiessen Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 084

Scope and Contents Correspondence describing Vera Thiessen's experiences and work as a medical missionary for the Africa Inland Mission (AIM) in the Belgian Congo (now Zaire) to her family, which included her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. D. Thiessen, her sisters Carol and Lois, and her brother Jack. A few letters were written to friends as general prayer letters. The time period covered by the letters is 1946 to 1976. Topics discussed include her experiences as a missionary with Africa Inland Mission, Africa...

Dates: Created: 1946-1976

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Vera Mae Perkins Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 368

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Vera Mae Buckley Perkins in which she discusses her family background, her education, the importance of her Christian faith, marriage to John Perkins, racial conditions in Mississippi and involvement in Civil Rights demonstration, and racial conditions in that state. Other topics discussed include her work as a migrant laborer and participation in Civil Rights protests that resulted in the integration of the school system in Mendenhall, Mississippi. The time...

Dates: Created: 1987

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Vernon W. Patterson Papers

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: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Vertical Files

Collection

Identifier: RG-09-004

Scope and Contents

General Vertical Files

Dates: Created: 1827-2013; Other: Majority of material found in 1900-1991

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Vice President for Advancement Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-03-003

Scope and Contents

Records of the Vice-President for Advancement include correspondence of Norman Edwards.

Dates: Created: 1966-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1986

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Vice President of Finance (William Pollard) Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-03-006

Scope and Contents

General files and Financial Data Package documents of Vice President of Finance -- William Pollard

Dates: Created: 1979-1980; Other: Majority of material found in 1979-1980

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Vida Chenoweth Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-114

Scope and Contents The Vida Chenoweth Collection is composed of biographical, news clippings, media, and published material from this world renowned concert marimbist and ethnomusicologist dating from 1950s to 1980s. Photographs and accompanying press scrapbooks document the classical marimbist's rising international acclaim during the late 1950s and 1960s. There are early reel-to-reel audio recordings of Chenoweth's family performances, as well as, media during the height of her solo career. Published...

Dates: Created: 1952-2016; Other: Date acquired: 1998

Found in: Special Collections

Video Recordings

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-12-004

Scope and Contents

Artificial collection of video recordings of campus events.

Dates: Created: 1962-2020

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Vincent L. Crossett Oral History Interview

Collection

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Virginia Healey Asher Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 197

Scope and Contents Correspondence, procedures for evangelistic work, two diaries, autograph book, memorial booklets, clippings, tracts and photographs relating to Virginia Healey Asher’s ministry.The collection consists of a small amount of correspondence (folder 1-1), typed instruction for the Business Women's Invitation Committee (folder 1-6), two diaries and an autograph book (folders 1-3 to 1-5). Also included is a memorial booklet to J. Wilbur Chapman and clippings or tracts of other...

Dates: Created: 1903-1941

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Virginia W. Gasper Papers

Collection

Identifier: SC-215

Scope and Contents The papers of Virginia Warren Gasper chronicle the religious and domestic journey of an American woman whose life spanned nearly a century. A prolific letter writer, Virginia was an only child and wrote regularly to her parents and relatives. She began prayer journaling in 1963 and included cards and letters she had received, as well as clippings from newspapers and magazines that reflected her opinions. She wrote to newspaper editors, politicians, and preachers. The collection contains her...

Dates: Created: 1919-2010; Other: Majority of material found in 1938-2008; Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2010

Found in: Special Collections

Visual Arts Collection

Collection — Container: Hogarth

Identifier: SC-234

Scope and Contents

The contents of the Visual Arts Collection may be searched in the library catalog using keyword: SC/234

Dates: Other: -

Found in: Special Collections

W. Lloyd Fesmire Scrapbook

Collection — Box: I

Identifier: SC-145

Scope and Contents

The Lloyd Fesmire scrapbook is a spiral bound book, 5.25 by 7 inches, with an orange cover sporting a cartoon rodeo cowboy and W. Lloyd Fesmire's signature. It is titled with the words, "Senior Sneak '42," which was held at Jack & Jill Ranch in Montague, MI. The interior contains photos of the trip, showing the lake, cabins, bonfires and various group activities, including a talent show. Some pages are blank, and there is no written description to accompany the images.

Dates: Created: 1942

Found in: Special Collections

W. Robert and Frances Holmes Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 405

Scope and Contents Collection of letters written primarily by Robert Holmes and his wife, Frances (Frannie) to their families in the United States, while they served as missionaries with the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Sri Lanka from 1947 to 1960. A few of the letters are from the children, Bobby and Carol Lou, to their grandparents, and there are a few letters sent to the Holmes family. (The originals were retained by the donor.) The letters date from 1947 to 1960, and were mostly...

Dates: Created: 1947-1960

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wade Collection Search Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-056

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Search Committee - Wade Collection

Dates: Created: 1980-1981; Other: Majority of material found in 1980-1981

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

War in Heaven Archive

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-9

Abstract

This archive is a collection of materials relating to the Wheaton College production of an original, musical adaptation of Charles Williams' War in Heaven.

Dates: Created: 1984-1985

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Warren H. Lewis Diaries Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-117 through 121

Abstract

This archive contains a copy of the diary of Warren H. Lewis (1895-1973), the elder brother of C.S. (Jack) Lewis. The complete diary covers a span of fifty years, and fills twenty-three hand-written "volumes." Also included at the end of the archive are the seven "Travel Journals" that Warren kept while vacationing in England and Ireland.

Dates: Created: 1912-1972

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Warren H. Lewis Diary Inserts Archive

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-96

Abstract

This archive contains article clippings, correspondence, and other inserts which have become detached from the Warren H. Lewis Diaries.

Dates: Created: 1908-1971

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Warren H. Lewis Letter Collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-107 through 108 and 111

Abstract

This archive contains personal letters between Warren H. Lewis (elder brother of C.S. Lewis) and various correspondents.

Dates: Created: 1908-2008; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1973

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Warren H. Lewis Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-110

Abstract

This archive contains personal papers from Warren H. Lewis, brother of C.S. Lewis, as well as inserts removed from the Boxen manuscripts and the Lewis Family Papers or Memoirs of the Lewis Family (1850-1930). A draft of C.S. Lewis: A Biography edited by Warren Lewis is also included.

Dates: Created: 1850-1973

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Warren H. Lewis Walking Tour Maps Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-53

Abstract

The maps and books contained within this archive belonged to Warren H. Lewis. These items contain information about areas in England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland where Warren Lewis and his brother C.S. Lewis went on walking tours. There are handwritten markings on several of these items. The original maps are stored separately from the research copies of this archive.

Dates: Created: 1907-1968

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Washington Street Mission Records

Collection

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wayne G. Bragg Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 096

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews with Wayne G. Bragg (1931-2009), in which he describes his missionary experiences in Brazil and the Caribbean working with university students, his student days at Wheaton College, and his experience at Wheaton College as a faculty member. Dr. Bragg was interviewed by Mary Ann Buffington at Wheaton College on February 15 and May 9, 1980.

Dates: Created: 1980

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wesley G. Pippert Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-056

Scope and Contents The Wesley G. Pippert collection is composed of materials related to the life and work of this lay pastor, journalist/author, and professor. The collection is arranged in seven series--biographical information, publications, speeches/sermons, reporting research on projects, individuals and special collections, and secondary information about Pippert dating from 1950 to the present. The bulk of the material resides in the three reporting research series which include both research information...

Dates: Created: 1947-1994; Other: Majority of material found in 1956-1986; Other: Date acquired: 1993

Found in: Special Collections

West Suburban Choral Union Records

Collection

Identifier: SC-126

Scope and Contents

The West Suburban Choral Union Papers are primarily composed of audio material from 1998-2005 of WSCU concert performances, including Mozart's Mass in C Minor, Handel's Messiah, Bach's St. Matthew's Passion, and Britten's War Requiem. Additional manuscript material from the group's secretary are also available from 1985-1990.

Dates: Created: 1985-2005; Other: Date acquired: 2002

Found in: Special Collections

WETN Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-034

Scope and Contents

Memos, handbook, newsletters, staff records, photos, publications, schedules of the WETN

Dates: Created: 1945-2016; Other: Majority of material found in 1947-1995

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wheaton Academy Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-035

Scope and Contents

Records of the Wheaton Academy include programs, bulletins, correspondence, annuals and brochures.

Dates: Created: 1897-1970; Other: Majority of material found in 1914-1965

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Wheaton College Affiliated Publications

Collection

Identifier: RG-09-005

Scope and Contents

Bulletins, Directories, Handbooks, Magazines, Course Schedules affiliated with Wheaton College

Dates: Created: 1856-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1856-2010

Found in: Wheaton College 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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wheaton College Faculty and Alumni Publications

Collection

Identifier: SC-002

Scope and Contents

The Faculty and Alumni collection consists of published scholarly or artistic productions from the Wheaton College alumni and past and present faculty. The collection also serves as a manuscripts holding collection until individual manuscript materials grow to the point of warranting an individual collection. The contents of the Faculty/Alumni Collection may be searched in the library catalog as keyword: SC/2

Dates: Other: 0000

Found in: Special Collections

Wheaton College Memorabilia

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: RG-11-003

Dates: Created: 1830-2020; Other: Majority of material found in 1910-2000

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Wheaton College Revivals

Collection

Identifier: RG-10-003

Scope and Contents

Files compiled during research by Mary Dorsett on various revivals throughout Wheaton College's history. Research resulted in a Wheaton Alumni Magazine article and a pamphlet published by International Awakening Press (Wheaton, IL).

Dates: Created: 1866-2011; Other: Majority of material found in 1936-1995

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Wheaton College Revivals Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 514

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews, questionnaires, reports, videos, and other materials relating to spontaneous revivals on Wheaton College campus in the twentieth century. There are restrictions on some material in this collection. The collection primarily documents the March 1995 revival at the College, largely through oral history interviews conducted during or shortly after the event; also included are thirteen follow-up interviews conducted two years after the revival.

Dates: Created: 1936-1997; Other: Majority of material found in 1994-1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wheaton College Tolkien Society Archive

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: Wade-A-113, B-9 and B-37

Abstract

This archive records the history and the events of the Wheaton College Tolkien Society, a Wheaton College Special Interest Club established in the Spring of 2011.

Dates: Created: 2008-2024

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Wheaton College Women's Club Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-08-003

Scope and Contents

Minutes of the Wheaton Women's Club along with some clippings and general files.

Dates: Created: 1929-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1959-2004

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Wheaton Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Records

Collection

Identifier: SC-110

Scope and Contents

The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) Records are composed of three minutes record books from 1906-1956 of the Wheaton WCTU's chapter meetings.

Dates: Created: 1906-1956; Other: Date acquired:2000

Found in: Special Collections

Whosoever Heareth, Inc. Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 199

Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, notebooks, clippings, pamphlets, brochures, and sermon tapes related to the career of lawyer-evangelist Clift Brannon and two of the organizations he set up, Whosoever Heareth, Inc. and the Clift Brannon Evangelistic Association. Includes a copy of the data on the Soul Winner's New Testament, an edited version of the New Testament, with notes to be used for individual and group evangelism. Half the records deal with various aspects of the...

Dates: Created: 1943-1975

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Wilhelmina Aveling Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-077

Scope and Contents The Wilhelmina M. Aveling Papers contains material relating to the 1928 Wheaton College alumna and long-time YMCA Secretary. College-related memorabilia includes photographs, wedding programs, class notes, and report cards. Memorabilia from her travels includes a pressed-flower book highlighting a trip to Europe, photos from a trip to the American West, and postcards. A typewritten manuscript called Agricola or Rural Righteousness is also included. Other items in the collection, comprising...

Dates: Created: 1893-2010

Found in: Special Collections

William B. Riley Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 095

Scope and Contents

Films, including a home movie, microfilm of scrapbooks, notebooks, clippings, and sermons of William Bell Riley, noted Fundamentalist, Baptist minister, theologian,and founder and president of of Northwestern Bible School in Minnesota.

Dates: Created: 1903-1945

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

William Biederwolf Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 195

Scope and Contents Sermons, speeches, scrapbooks, articles, correspondence, and other materials which document William Biederwolf's education and evangelistic activities. [NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]The collection consists mostly of scrapbooks, magazine articles, and manuscripts of Biederwolf's sermons and speeches. There are also a few letters and some miscellaneous items. They were...

Dates: Created: 1884-1922

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

William Booth Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 098

Scope and Contents An audio tape with excerpts from two of William Booth's sermons, one of which contains a reference to Salvation Army; two autographs of Booth, one dated 1921, one undated; one video tape containing black and white photos and filmed segments of Salvation Army activities, including Booth's funeral. Also includes a brief commentary of Salvation Army history in Depression years in the United States, and activities during World War II. Included on the video tape is a 5 minute sermon by Harry...

Dates: Created: 1921

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

William Griffin Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-4

Abstract

This archive includes the typescript of Clive Staples Lewis: A Dramatic Life, here tentatively titled Rum Thing: A Biography of C.S. Lewis.

Dates: Created: ca. 1985

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

William H. Doane Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 194

Scope and Contents Letters concerning hymn publishing and writing from Ira Sankey, Fanny Crosby, Philip P. Bliss, Philip Phillips, and Dwight L. Moody's daughter-in-law written to Doane. Includes a notebook for hymn and sermon references, Doane's will, hand- written lyrics for hymns, and a photograph of Doane, business leader, philanthropist, and hymn writer. Letters represent various details of the hymn-publishing business, including public reaction. Notebook contains words, phrases, verses and sentences...

Dates: Created: 1872-1917

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

William H. Leslie Papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: SC-075

Scope and Contents The William Leslie Papers offer a rare primary source for urban ministry. The collection is organized with five main series (Biographical, Ministry, Correspondence, Publications and Media). The Biographical series contains material relating to travel and education with the education sub-series containing the bulk of the series and is composed of materials from Leslie's graduate studies. The Ministry series is the largest single series detailing Leslie's ministry and further organized into...

Dates: Created: 1960-2015; Other: Date acquired: 1994

Found in: Special Collections

William H. Wrighton Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 085

Scope and Contents

Sermons, clippings, articles, manuscripts, notebooks, personal records, correspondence and miscellaneous items relating to the William Wrighton's career as a pastor, professor, writer. Also in this collection are photographs of Wrighton and his family and friends.

Dates: Created: 1903-1963

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

William J. Barnett Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 248

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews and booklet of short stories and photographs created by William John Barnett, relating to his upbringing in Kenya as the son of missionaries with Africa Inland Mission (AIM) and his own later medical missionary service in Tanzania, Kenya, and the Comoro Islands from 1950-1990.Series: Audio TapesOral history interviews with William John Barnett in which he describes his childhood in Kenya with his missionary parents;...

Dates: Created: 1983-1997

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

William Jennings Bryan Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 097

Scope and Contents

Audio tape of portions of two of William Jennings Bryan's speeches and a recitation. The two speeches are the "Cross of Gold" speech to the 1896 Presidential Convention and an election talk from 1900. The recitation is of the 23rd Psalm, made in 1924.

Dates: Created: 1896-1924

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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