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Scrapbook of articles about the American Colony, and loose enclosures
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- Scrapbook of articles about the American Colony, and loose enclosures
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American Colony, Creator
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Vester, Bertha Spafford, 1878-1968, Creator
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- 1881 to 1928
- Subject Headings
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American Colony in Jerusalem--Swedish members
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American Colony in Jerusalem
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American Protestantism
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Christian socialism
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Jerusalem--Religious pilgrimages
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Whiting, Mary C.
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Whiting, John D. (John David), 1882-1951
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Whiting, Ruth
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Merrill, Selah, 1837-1909
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Spafford, Anna T., 1842-1923
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Spafford, Horatio G., 1828-1888
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Lagerlöf, Selma Ottiliana Lovisa, 1858-1940
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American Colony Band
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Vester, Bertha Spafford, 1879-1968
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United States -- Illinois -- Chicago
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Palestine -- Jerusalem
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Sweden
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Manuscripts
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Clippings
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Bound scrapbook of clippings bulk ca. 1881-1928, with loose enclosures. Re Horatio Gates Spafford and the "Overcomers" in Illinois prior to going to Jerusalem; the writing by Spafford of "It Is Well With My Soul"; the founding of the American Colony and the basis in scripture; difficulties of the colonists with American Consul Selah Merrill; the death of Horatio Gates Spafford; the Whiting trial in Chicago (custody trial in which Mary C. Whiting was challenged for custody of her children, Ruth Whiting [later Goldenthal] and John D. Whiting, over an inheritance in the family, on question of suitability of the American Colony as a community in which to raise children); Anna Spafford's testimony and the testimony of others in the Whiting custody trial in Chicago; the American Colony's victory in the trial; the beliefs and principles and funding of the American Colony; the addition of Swedish members at the American Colony; the American Colony's new home outside the Old City (1890s); further controversies with American Consul Wallace; life at the Colony in the 1920s; the Vesters' trip to America in 1922; an offprint of Selma Lagerlöf's "Address to the Universal Christian Conference on Life and Work. Stockholm, 1925"; and articles on the American Colony from various Scandanavian papers.
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Clippings and transcripts of articles are from Appleton's Magazine;The Baptist; the Boston Daily Advertizer; the Boston Evening Globe; the Chicago Daily Tribune; The Chicago Evening Journal; The Chicago Evening Post; the Christian Age; the Christian Century; The Christian Herald and Signs of Our Times; the Daily Intelligencer; the Daily Inter-Ocean; the Harvey Tribune-Citizen; The Independent; the London Daily Mail; the Los Angeles Times; the Messiah's Herald; the New York Evening Post; the Philadelphia Press; The Prophetic Age; the Ram's Horn; the Restitution; the Troy Daily Times; Vaart Land (Stockholm]; the Weekly Dispatch (England); and other sources, as well as unknown sources.
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Loose items include a black & white photographic print of the American Colony Band (musicians with their instruments).
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scrapbook 13 3/4" x 10" closed
- Call Number
- American Colony in Jerusalem
- Source Collection
- American Colony in Jerusalem Collection
- Repository
- Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C. 20540
- Digital Id
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http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mamcol.017_3
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http://www.loc.gov/item/mamcol000130
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