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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
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 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. 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 L. Knecht Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Wade-A-12 through A-13
Scope and Contents
This archive contains photocopied materials from Mr. William L. Knecht. Mr. Knecht was studying C.S. Lewis's view of apotheosis (literally the elevation of humans to divine status) and compiled a large amount of correspondence with authors, pastors, and national Christian leaders. Also included are two manuscripts, a first and second draft of his study.The letters are quite detailed in Knecht's questions to these people and also in their answers. Numerous references are made to...
Dates:
Created: 1985-1986
Found in:
Marion E. Wade Center
William Lindsay Gresham Correspondence
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Wade-A-51a
Abstract
This archive contains correspondence to and from William (Bill) Lindsay Gresham. Others involved include C.S. Lewis, Joy Davidman, and Douglas and David Gresham. Also included is correspondence to Marj Mead from Lyle Dorsett concerning the acquisition of the Gresham letters.
Dates:
Created: 1940-1982; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1960
Found in:
Marion E. Wade Center
William Lindsay Gresham Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Wade-A-86 through A-91
Abstract
This archive contains the personal papers of William Lindsay Gresham including: correspondence, and many of the works and research materials from his writing career.
Dates:
Created: 1913-2009; Other: Majority of material found in 1940-1962
Found in:
Marion E. Wade Center
William S. Akin Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: SC-001
Scope and Contents
This collection highlights the life and work of a book-collector and contains reviews, letters, and articles collected over the years as Mr. Akin sought out and acquired desired works. The non-monographic portion of the collection measures over seven (7) linear feet, while monographs number over 4,000, with a special emphases upon British literature, including Lewis Carroll, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson, and John Bunyan, and Americana, including a first British printing of Lewis and Clark's...
Dates:
Created: 1921-1999; Other: Majority of material found in 1950-1976; Other: Date acquired: 1968
Found in:
Special Collections
Williams Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: Wade-B-2 through B-3 and B-5
Abstract
The Williams Family Papers contain a variety of personal documents, vital records, publications, correspondence, and other materials relating to Charles Williams and his family.
Dates:
Created: 1836-2000; Other: Majority of material found in 1920-2000
Found in:
Marion E. Wade Center
Woman's Christian Temperance Union Series
Series
Identifier: CN 065
Scope and Contents
Annual meeting minutes/reports, 1874-1934; correspondence and historical files, 1858-1933, n.d.; scrapbooks, 1857-1898; and minute books of various local W.C.T.U. organizations in Michigan.The Woman's Christian Temperance Union papers are Series III of a twenty-one-series microfilming project done between 1975 and 1977 with the cooperation of three repositories holding significant papers relating to temperance and prohibition: the Michigan Historical Collections (Ann Arbor), the...
Dates:
1853-1939
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
Women's Council Records
Collection — Container: Folder
Identifier: RG-08-008
Scope and Contents
Minutes and general files of the Women's Council
Dates:
Created: 1961-1962; Other: Majority of material found in 1981-1981
Found in:
Wheaton College Archives
World Evangelical Fellowship Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 338
Brief Description
Correspondence, reports, minutes, budgets, audio tapes, photographs. Topics documented included the formation of the WEF in 1951 to foster fellowship, cooperation, and communication between evangelical national and regional associations around the world; the gradual growth of influence by non-Western associations; the activities of Evangelical Protestants in many different parts of the world; the leadership of J. Elwin Wright, Clyde Taylor, Waldron Scott, and David Howard, among others. Many...
Dates:
Created: 1926-1992, undated; Other: Majority of material found in 1948-1986
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
World War II Materials from Dorothy L. Sayers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: Wade-A-99
Abstract
This archive contains materials relating to Dorothy L. Sayers's work during World War II, including her advisory role in the Author's Planning Committee, and correspondence regarding knitting clothes for trawlermen.
Dates:
Created: 1939-1943
Found in:
Marion E. Wade Center
Youth for Christ Records
Collection
Identifier: CN 048
Brief Description
Minutes, constitution and by-laws, clippings, newsletters, manuals, pamphlets, directories, press releases, audio tapes, videotapes, photographs, posters, club yearbooks, correspondence, etc., about the founding, development and growth, and activities of Youth for Christ in the USA and internationally.Collection documents organizational policies, correspondence of the organization's presidents, conventions and Bible quiz competitions, the operation of Campus Life clubs, Youth...
Dates:
Created: 1944-ongoing; Other: Majority of material found in 1944-ongoing
Found in:
Evangelism & Missions Archives
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- Evangelistic work. 424
- Conversion -- Christianity. 251
- Missionaries. 211
- Missionaries -- Appointment, call, and election. 198
- Evangelistic work -- United States. 172
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Alumni. 164
- Christian life. 149
- Women -- Religious life. 144
- Women missionaries. 138
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- Missionaries -- Training of. 130
- Correspondence. 128
- Evangelicalism. 128
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- Bible. 115
- Christian education. 115
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- Church and social problems. 101
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- Evangelicalism -- United States. 95
- Christian leadership. 92
- Catholic Church. 80
- Family. 80
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- Communism. 76
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- Mass media in religion. 64
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- Tribes. 64
- China -- History. 62
- Persecution. 61
- Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches. 60
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- Christian literature. 54
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- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Faculty. 46
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- Articles. 44
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- Church work with youth. 44
- City missions. 44
- Missions -- Africa. 44
- Revivals. 44
- Rural missions. 44
- Children. 43
- Evangelistic work -- Congresses 43
- Missions to Muslims. 43
- Wheaton College (Ill.) -- Students. 43
- Racism. 42
- Theology -- Study and teaching -- Asia. 42
- Audiotapes. 41
- Belief and doubt. 41
- Interdenominational cooperation. 41
- Evangelistic invitations. 40
- Missions -- Congresses. 40
- Radio in missionary work. 40
- China -- History -- 1937-1945. 39
- Muslims. 39
- African Americans -- Social conditions. 38
- College students in missionary work. 37
- Culture shock. 37
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- Names
- Wheaton College (Ill.) 182
- Graham, Billy, 1918-2018. 116
- Moody Bible Institute. 58
- Billy Graham Evangelistic Association. 56
- China Inland Mission. 51
- Africa Inland Mission. 47
- Edman, V. Raymond (Victor Raymond), 1900-1967. 45
- OMF International. 42
- Christian and Missionary Alliance. 40
- Sayers, Dorothy L. (Sayers, Dorothy Leigh) 40
- Lewis, C. S. (Clive Staples), 1898-1963. 37
- Youth for Christ International. 35
- Sunday, Billy, 1862-1935. 34
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Billy Graham Scholarship Program. 32
- Buswell, J. Oliver (James Oliver), 1895-1977. 30
- Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship. 28
- Zhongguo guo min dang. 28
- Rader, Paul, 1879-1938. 27
- Campus Crusade for Christ. 26
- World Evangelical Fellowship. 25
- Wycliffe Bible Translators. 24
- Henry, Carl F. H. (Carl Ferdinand Howard), 1913-2003. 23
- National Association of Evangelicals. 23
- Wheaton College (Ill.). Graduate School. 23
- Bright, Bill. 22
- Evangelical Alliance Mission. 21
- HCJB (Radio station : Quito, Ecuador) 21
- International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) 21
- Lausanne Committee for World Evangelization. 21
- Sudan Interior Mission. 21
- Armerding, Hudson T. 20
- McIntire, Carl, 1906-2002. 20
- Rodeheaver, Homer A. (Homer Alvan), 1880-1955. 20
- Ford, Leighton. 19
- Jones, Clarence W. 19
- Latin America Mission. 19
- Perkins, John, 1930- 19
- Africa Inland Church. 18
- Assemblies of God. 18
- Billy Graham Center. 18
- Catholic Church. 18
- Elliot, Jim, 1927-1956. 18
- Ockenga, Harold John, 1905-1985. 18
- Taylor, Clyde W. (Clyde Willis), 1904-1988. 18
- Wyrtzen, Jack, 1913-1996. 18
- Barrows, Cliff. 17
- Chicago Gospel Tabernacle (Ill.) 17
- Graham, Ruth Bell. 17
- Howard, David M. 17
- Moody Memorial Church (Chicago, Ill.) 17
- Plymouth Brethren Christian Church. 17
- World Council of Churches. 17
- Fuller, Charles Edward, 1887-1968. 16
- Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association of North America. 16
- Ironside, H. A. (Henry Allan), 1876-1951. 16
- Jones, Bob, 1883-1968. 16
- Blanchard, Charles A. (Charles Albert) 15
- Crawford, Percy B. (Percy Bartimus) 15
- Glasser, Arthur F. (Arthur Frederick), 1914- 15
- Padilla, C. René. 15
- Palau, Luis, 1934- 15
- Stam, Elisabeth Alden Scott, 1906-1934. 15
- Colson, Charles W. 14
- Columbia Bible College (Columbia, S.C.) 14
- Fuller Theological Seminary. 14
- Johnson, Torrey Maynard, 1909- 14
- Shea, George Beverly, 1909-2013. 14
- Skinner, Tom, 1942- 14
- Smith, Oswald J. 14
- Stam, John Cornelius, 1907-1934. 14
- Dain, Arthur John, 1912- 13
- Elliot, Elisabeth. 13
- Evangelical Fellowship of Mission Agencies (2012-) 13
- Mission Aviation Fellowship. 13
- Nixon, Richard M. (Richard Milhous), 1913-1994. 13
- Torrey, R. A. (Reuben Archer), 1856-1928. 13
- Woods, C. Stacey, 1909-1983. 13
- World Vision International. 13
- Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society. 12
- Dunlop, Merrill. 12
- Hatfield, Mark O., 1922-2011. 12
- Hurlburt, Charles E. 12
- McCully, Theodore Edward, 1927-1956. 12
- Saint, Nathaniel, 1923-1956. 12
- Schaeffer, Francis A. (Francis August) 12
- Smith, Gipsy, 1860-1947. 12
- Stott, John R. W. 12
- Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson, 1868-1957. 12
- Voice of Calvary Ministries (U.S.) 12
- Wright, J. Elwin. 12
- Association of Evangelicals of Africa and Madagascar. 11
- Jesus Christ. 11
- National Religious Broadcasters (U.S.) 11
- Navigators (Religious organization) 11
- Pacific Garden Mission (Chicago, Ill.) 11
- Pierce, Bob, 1914-1978. 11
- Presbyterian Church in the U.S. 11
- Riley, W. B. (William Bell), 1861-1947. 11
- Smith, Wilbur M. (Wilbur Moorehead), 1894-1976. 11
- Taylor, Herbert John, 1893-1978. 11 ∧ less
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