Collections | Archives of Wheaton College

Betsy Palmer Papers

Collection — Container: Books

Identifier: SC-028

Scope and Contents The Palmer Papers is organized into seven series: Correspondence, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Publications, Radio, Scrapbooks, Television and Oversize. The bulk of the collection falls within the Photographs series with this containing several sub-series: Film Negatives, Film Prints, Home & Family Photographs, Miscellaneous Celebrity, Photographs, Movie Stills, Photo Shoot Photographs, Rehearsal Photographs, Television, and Theatre Photographs. The bulk of the photographs...

Dates: Created: 1954-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1954-1985; Other: Date acquired: 1985

Found in: Special Collections

Beverly Yates Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 501

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Beverly (Pannell) Yates in which she discusses her childhood in Michigan, family history, her brother (evangelist William Pannell), her conversion and spiritual growth, impact of B.M. Nottage on her life, work as a nurse, her ministry among women, Ruth Bentley, Melvin Banks, the black church in Chicago, the development of the Chicagoland Christian Women's Conference, and the Westside Holistic Center. The time period covered by the interviews is 1931-1994....

Dates: Created: 1994

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Biblical and Theological Studies Department Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-012

Scope and Contents

Records of the Biblical and Theological Studies Department include program files, department and committee minutes and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1980-2002; Other: Majority of material found in 1986-1999

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Billy and Helen Sunday Ephemera

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: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy and Helen Sunday Papers Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 061

Scope and Contents Microfilm edition of original documents held in Winona Lake, Indiana, including correspondence, sermons, reports, revival ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing mainly with the career of evangelist Billy Sunday from its beginning to his death and about the work of his wife Helen, who, besides acting as his general manager, was a fundamentalist leader in her own right, especially after his death. Persons featured include numerous fundamentalist figures and institutions; sermon topics cover a wide...

Dates: Created: 1882-1974

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham Collection

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. Of particular interest is a scrapbook kept by Graham during his attendance at Florida Bible Institute and Wheaton College. The Archives only has a...

Dates: Created: 1934-2014

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 074

Brief Description Collection consists of a wide variety of materials (correspondence, form letters, audio tapes, films and videotapes, etc.) that document the ministry and history of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association (BGEA) in the United States and around the world. Based on earlier collecting protocols, the collection also contains material about Billy Graham personally, such as oral history interviews with his Wheaton College classmates.Originally this collection contained mainly...

Dates: Created: 1863-1999; Majority of material found within 1943-1999

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham Greater Albuquerque Crusade Records

File

Identifier: CN 198

Scope and Contents Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and Executive Committee minutes of the corporation formed to organize and administer a series of evangelistic meetings held by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Minutes outline procedures involved, including construction of a tabernacle for Crusade use. [NOTE: The notation "folder 1-1" means box 1, folder 1.]This collection consists of four folders containing records related to the...

Dates: 1951-1953

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Graham Wheaton Crusade Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 028

Scope and Contents This collection consists of audio recordings and 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...

Dates: Created: 1959

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Billy Sunday Campaign Music and the Old Time Religion Collection

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: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Biographical Files

Collection — Container: No box number

Identifier: RG-11-002

Scope and Contents This record group consists of individual biographical files that were created as student matriculated at Wheaton College and then served as a "central file" for general information as it was received and retained by the college. Upon the student's death files were transferred to the college's archive for permanent retention. Additional files, mainly those of faculty, were created by the archives or the public/media relations office to respond to inquiries by the public or news outlets. Files...

Dates: Created: 1863-2017; Other: Majority of material found in 1889-2001; Other: Date acquired: 08/31/2008

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Biology Department Records

Collection — Box: I.1

Identifier: RG-07-013

Scope and Contents

Records of the Biology Department include department and academic committee minutes, transcripts (pre-FERPA), subject files, financial information and course information.

Dates: Created: 1940-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1977-1994

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Black Hills Science Station Records

Collection — Container: A2008-061

Identifier: RG-07-014

Scope and Contents

Memories, correspondence, plaques, general files of the Black Hills Science Station. (includes A2008-061)

Dates: Created: 1995-2012; Other: Majority of material found in 1995-1998

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Blanchard Libraries

Collection

Identifier: SC-006

Scope and Contents The private libraries of Jonathan Blanchard and his son Charles Albert Blanchard, the first two presidents of Wheaton College, comprise this collection and includes volumes autographed by these men. This library reflects the interest and activities of their former owners and contains over 300 volumes. The collection contains numerous volumes on Freemasonry, slavery and the temperance movement. The library is an excellent source for the study of nineteenth century American culture and...

Dates: Created: 1734-1928; Other: Date acquired: 1962

Found in: Special Collections

Blantyre Mission Records Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 149

Scope and Contents

This collection consists 2 reels of microfilm containing the Blantyre Missions Supplement (Life and work in British Central Africa, and Life and work in Nysasland), monthly, and later quarterly, journal of the Church of Scotland, detailing missions and evangelistic activities at the Blantyre station in Malawi. Microfilm reels are 35mm, positive copies.

Dates: Created: 1888-1919

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Board of Trustees Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-01-001

Scope and Contents

Records of the Trustees of Wheaton College include minutes, committee files, biographical files and correspondence.

Dates: Created: 1860-2019; Other: Majority of material found in 1916-2018

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Bob Harrison Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 557

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Bob Harrison (1928-2012) in which he describes his family, grandmother's (Cornelia Jones Robertson) involvement in original Azusa Street church in Los Angeles and association with Aimee Semple Mc Pherson, racial conditions in America and the church, influence of his mother and grandmother, his musical development and experience as a jazz vocalist, conversion, writing When God Was Black; high receptivity of Third World people to...

Dates: Created: 1998

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bonnie Jo Adolph Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 282

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Bonnie Jo Adelsman Adolph in which she discussses her missionary service in Ethiopia with Sudan Interior Mission from 1966-1974. Topics discussed include Adolph's education at Wheaton College, decision to become a missionary, living in Taiwan during her husband's military service, reasons for choosing Sudan Interior Mission, her husband's medical work in Ethiopia, observations about Sudanese culture, the church in Sudan, and the Adolphs short term mission service...

Dates: Created: 1984

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bonnie Stuckless Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 415

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews, prayer letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and articles relating to the ministry of Bonnie G. Stuckless and her husband Donald Stuckless, missionaries in Colombia, Panama, and Spain with the Assemblies of God from 1970 to 1992.[NOTE: In the Scope and Content description, the notation "folder 2-5" means box 2, folder 5.]Series: Audio TapesTwo oral history...

Dates: Created: 1969-1992

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Books & Culture Collection

Collection

Identifier: SC-235

Dates: Other: Date acquired: 11/01/2016

Found in: Special Collections

Bowdoin Square Tabernacle Announcement Postcard

Collection

Identifier: Small CN 068

Scope and Contents

This collection contains a postcard with photograph announcing meetings conducted by Rev. Charles E. Eaton at the Bowdoin Square Tabernacle.

Dates: Created: 1907

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bradford E. Steiner Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 258

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Bradford Ezra Steiner (1917-1987), in which he discusses his medical work at Landour Hospital in Landour, Mussoorie, India; diseases; folk medicine; evangelistic outreach to patients in the hospital; conflicts between Christians, Hindus, and Muslims; and carrying medical care into the surrounding villages. The time period covered by the interview is roughly 1947 to 1958.Bradford Ezra Steiner was interviewed by Ted Reihmer at Steiner's home in Elmhurst,...

Dates: Created: 1983

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Brenda Stevens Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 612

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Brenda (Gatlin) Stevens, an agricultural missionary with Mission to the World in Uganda. Topics discussed include Stevens's family background; conversion to Christianity; involvement with Campus Crusade for Christ; reflections on Ugandan culture and the state of the Christian church in Uganda; challenges for western missionaries in a second culture; agricultural work in Uganda; and specific medical concerns for Ugandans. The time period covered by the interview is...

Dates: Created: 1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Brocard Sewell Collection

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-24

Abstract This archive contains poems by Cecil Edward Chesterton, letters to Father Brocard Sewell, and the typescript of Sewell's biography of Cecil Chesterton. Cecil Chesterton, the younger brother of G.K. Chesterton, was the editor of The New Witness, author of A History of the United States and The Party System, widely known in political circles, member of the Fabian Society and the Christian...

Dates: Created: 1892-1983; Other: Majority of material found in 1972-1975

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Bruce F. Hunt Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 104

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews in which Bruce Finley Hunt (1903-1992) discusses his boyhood in Korea, college and seminary education at Wheaton College, Rutgers University and Princeton Seminary; a portion (1928-1942) of his missionary work in Korea and Manchuria; and his impressions of Korean culture. The time period covered by the interviews is roughly 1903-1976.Bruce Finley Hunt was interviewed by Robert Shuster on March 22 and May 21, 1980 and October 16, 2002 in Abington, PA and...

Dates: Created: 1980-1982

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Bud Schaeffer Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 132

Scope and Contents Prayer letters written by Bud and Alice Schaeffer about their mission work with Overseas Crusades. Materials relate their experiences in the Philippines, Australia, and the United States with Sports Ambassadors, which sends various athletes to foreign nations to share their faith. The groups are known by the name Venture for Victory.Letters documents the Schaeffers' work with Overseas Crusades (particularly sports evangelism with Venture for Victory and Sports Ambassadors) and...

Dates: Created: 1955-1993

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Burt E. Long Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 351

Scope and Contents

Oral history interviews with Burt E. Long by Wheaton College student Heather Conley in which Long discusses his memories of Paul Rader and the Chicago Gospel Tabernacle, his education at Wheaton College, and his decades of services as a medical missionary for Sudan Interior Mission in Niger and Nigeria. The time period covered by the interviews is 1930-1986.

Burt Long was interviewed by Wheaton College student Heather Conley on November 26 and December 3, 1986.

Dates: Created: 1986

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Business Office and Accounting Records

Collection

Identifier: RG-07-015

Scope and Contents

Records of the Business Office and Accounting include budget and financial reports, correspondence, legal information, administrative committee minutes, annual reports and audit reports.

Dates: Created: 1842-2014; Other: Majority of material found in 1984-2003

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

Busman’s Honeymoon Collection

Collection — Box: 1

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

Byang Kato Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 654

Scope and Contents Photocopies of essays, theses, articles, tributes, tracts and sermons written by or about Byang Kato, a Nigerian theologian and the first General Secretary of the Association of Evangelicals in Africa and Madagascar (AEAM).Series: Paper RecordsArrangement: Alphabetical by folder title; arranged by Archives staffDate Range: 1962-1996, n.d....

Dates: Created: 1962-1996

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Byron E. Blair Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: SC-186

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: 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...

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

Found in: Special Collections

C. René Padilla Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 361

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with René Padilla, in which he discusses his childhood, family, evangelism in Colombia and Ecuador, persecution by Catholics in Colombia, his education at Wheaton College, work among university students with International Fellowship of Evangelical Students (IFES) in Latin America, evangelical theological education and liberation theology, the 1974 Lausanne Congress and covenant, the ministry of his church in Buenos Aires among drug addicts and slum dwellers, and the...

Dates: Created: 1987

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Cable Communication Committee Records

Collection — Container: Folder

Identifier: RG-06-041

Scope and Contents

Minutes and general files of the Cable Communication Committee

Dates: Created: 1983-1985; Other: Majority of material found in 1983-1985

Found in: Wheaton College Archives

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: Wheaton College Archives

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...

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

Found in: Special Collections

Campus Crusade for Christ Collection

Collection

Identifier: CN 221

Scope and Contents Ten phonograph records and one audio tape containing messages by William R. Bright, Billy Graham, Richard C. Halverson, F.J. Huegel, J. Edwin Orr, Eugenia Price, Bernard Ramm, Wilbur Smith, and others used for various aspects of CCC ministry.The ten phonograph records are approximately twenty minutes on each side and consist of talks on selected topics delivered by Bill Bright, members of the CCC Board, and other outstanding individuals, authors, professors, and missionaries. ...

Dates: Created: 1960

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Campus-in-the-Woods Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 184

Scope and Contents

Personal correspondence, cards, resumes, and mission newsletters from a group of Canadian and American students who attended an Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship summer camp, 1951, near Toronto, Canada. This collection documents an eighteen-year period of the lives of those who communicated with Lois Ottaway with information which was compiled by her for an informal, annual Campus-in-the-Woods Newsletter.

Dates: Created: 1961-1981

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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: Wheaton College Archives

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: Wheaton College Archives

Carl Armerding Papers

Collection

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

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Carl F. H. Henry Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 628

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, reports, notes, minutes, and manuscripts related to theologian and author Carl Henry, documenting his work with the Institute for Advanced Christian Studies, but which also touch on a few other aspects of his life, including his association with Wheaton College and with the magazine Christianity Today.

Dates: Created: 1925-1984

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Carol Carlson Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 058

Scope and Contents

Oral history interview with Carol Hammond Carlson (1985-1980) in which she describes her experiences on the Tibetan mission field. Subjects discussed include first entry into Tibet, reaction of the people to non-Tibetans, and the Islamic rebellion of 1929.

Carol Hammon was interviewed in her home by Ellen Balmer, a Wheaton College student, on November 11, 1978. There is a section of blank tape which resulted in the loss of the bulk of the interview material.

Dates: Created: 1978

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Catherine E. Jeter Oral History Interview

Collection

Identifier: CN 533

Scope and Contents Oral history interview with Catherine Elizabeth Jeter in which she discusses her childhood; conversion to Christianity through a neighborhood Bible club; education; marriage to Joseph Jeter; the start of their ministry (Have Christ Will Travel Ministries); work with inner-city children of Philadelphia and summer camp ministry in Nova Scotia, Canada; and the 1961 Billy Graham crusade in Philadelphia. Other topics discussed include: Jeter’s education at Philadelphia College of the Bible; Short...

Dates: Created: 1996

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Catherine Saavedra Velasco Oral History Interviews

Collection

Identifier: CN 388

Scope and Contents Oral history interviews with Catherine Saavedra Velasco in which she discusses her life and ministry in the Philippines, including her childhood, education, and work as a Bible school teacher. Other topics covered include theological education and evangelism in the Philippines; work with "Here's Life Philippines," sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ; the Christian and Missionary Alliance Church; Filipino culture; Muslim and Catholic communities in the Philippines; Ebenezer Bible College;...

Dates: Created: 1988

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

Catholic Colonial Missions Collection Microfilm

Collection

Identifier: CN 069

Scope and Contents Microfilm edition of correspondence to William Poynter, Bishop of London, from overseas missions, ecclesiastical bodies, and civil governments concerning missionary activities in North America, the West Indies India, and the Mediterranean.This collection consists solely of correspondence to Bishop Poynter from overseas missions, and from ecclesiastical and British Civil Governments overseas. While the main bulk of the material falls between 1821 and 1825, the correspondence...

Dates: Created: 1803-1827

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

C.B. Hogue Papers

Collection

Identifier: CN 645

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, financial records, lists, memos, minutes, notebooks, promotional materials, press releases, and reports which document the planning and convening of the 1981 American Festival of Evangelism. The materials are the administrative files of C.B. Hogue, the vice chairman.

Dates: Created: 1978-1981

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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: Wheaton College Archives

Chad Walsh Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: Wade-A-57, B-38

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, and correspondence with his wife, Eva, during his travels in England in summer 1948 while researching for his book about Lewis. Correspondence relating to Walsh's book, C.S. Lewis: Apostle to the Skeptics (New York: Macmillan, 1949), is also included.

Dates: Created: 1939-1991; Other: Majority of material found in 1945-1963

Found in: Marion E. Wade Center

Champions for Life Records

Collection

Identifier: CN 455

Scope and Contents

Correspondence, minutes, photos, audio tapes, reports, testimonies and other materials which relate to the work of evangelist Bill Glass and his associates in city-wide evangelistic meetings around the United States and especially in correctional ministry. The collection also contains information on other athletes involved in evangelism and many sermons. Champions for Life was previously named Bill Glass Ministries.

Dates: Created: 1957-1995

Found in: Evangelism & Missions Archives

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