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| BOX I:1-3 | Part I: Topical File, 1871-2004 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, hymns, photographs, photograph albums, scrapbooks, account book, wartime passes, lace sample book, lists, printed matter, and other papers gathered for a 2005 Library of Congress exhibit on the history of the American Colony. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged according to the order and thematic topics used in the exhibit. | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:1 | Family Tragedy | ||||||||||||
| Spafford family and friends photograph album, circa 1870s | |||||||||||||
| Spafford cottage, Lake View, Chicago, Ill., stereograph; and photograph of church in Stavanger, Norway, undated | |||||||||||||
| Spafford home, Chicago, Ill., photograph, undated | |||||||||||||
| Spafford, McDaid & Wilson, attorneys at law, business card, circa 1870s | |||||||||||||
| “The Sinking of the Steamship Ville du Havre,” photoprint of Currier and Ives lithograph, 1873 | |||||||||||||
| Telegram from Anna T. Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), 1873 | |||||||||||||
| Telegram from Dwight Lyman Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), 1874 | |||||||||||||
| Portrait of Anna T. Spafford, circa 1873 | |||||||||||||
| Portraits of Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), circa 1873, circa 1882-1886 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| “It Is Well with My Soul,” draft of hymn by Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), circa early 1870s | |||||||||||||
| On to Jerusalem | |||||||||||||
| Hymns by Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) | |||||||||||||
| “How Long Oh Lord,” 1879 | |||||||||||||
| “Next Year at Jerusalem,” circa 1879 | |||||||||||||
| “Perilous Times,” circa 1879 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Waiting for the Morning and Other Poems, 1878 | |||||||||||||
| Diary of Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), 1882 | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:2 | Letter from Anna T. Spafford, 1902 | ||||||||||||
| Moody, Dwight Lyman, miscellany, 1874, 1938 | |||||||||||||
| In the Holy Land | |||||||||||||
| Bible belonging to Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), circa 1870s | |||||||||||||
| Letter from Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) to Charles Piazza Smith, 1887 | |||||||||||||
| “The Great Pyramid of Egypt–The Mightiest Wonder on Earth,” from Our Rest and Signs of the Times, no. 11, 1882 | |||||||||||||
| Map of Jerusalem, undated See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Correspondence between A. Loivy and Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), 1885 | |||||||||||||
| Letter from Anna T. Spafford to Mrs. Morse, 1909 | |||||||||||||
| Letter to Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) from the American Colony, 1906 | |||||||||||||
| “Our American Colony in Jerusalem” by Alexander Hume Ford, Appleton's Magazine, 1906 | |||||||||||||
| Letter to Alexander Hume Ford from the American Colony, 1906 | |||||||||||||
| “Americans Lead in Jerusalem Progress” by William T. Ellis, 1913 | |||||||||||||
| The American Colony at Work | |||||||||||||
| “In Memoriam” keepsake with pressed flowers, undated | |||||||||||||
| List of antiquities sent to University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pa., 1913 | |||||||||||||
| Postcards of the Holy Land, 1921, undated | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbook of American Colony clippings, 1871-1942 | |||||||||||||
| Bound vol. See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Loose items removed from scrapbook See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Business card, John D. Whiting, United States deputy consul, Jerusalem, undated | |||||||||||||
| “The Chief Industries of the American Colony, Jerusalem, at the Present Time,” 1907 | |||||||||||||
| Letter from David Fairchild to John D. Whiting, 1916 | |||||||||||||
| Letter from Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor to John D. Whiting, 1915 | |||||||||||||
| The Locust Plague | |||||||||||||
| Locust album, 1915 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Photograph of Bertha Spafford Vester, John Vester, Louise Vester, and Jemal Pasha, circa 1915 | |||||||||||||
| World War I | |||||||||||||
| Photograph album, 1914-1917 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbook of Fannie L. Koster regarding American Colony, circa 1908-1924 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Wartime pass issued by Ottoman Turkish forces, 1916-1917 | |||||||||||||
| Turkish lira note | |||||||||||||
| Movement order, Kantara Military Railway, for John D. Whiting, British intelligence, 1918 | |||||||||||||
| American Colony nursing corps | |||||||||||||
| Names of nurses, 1917 | |||||||||||||
| Night pass for nurses, circa 1915-1917 | |||||||||||||
| Photograph, circa 1915-1917 | |||||||||||||
| Hospital record, 1916 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Manifesto and other printed announcements, 1882, 1896, 1905, 1914 See Oversize | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous passes and permits, 1914-1917 | |||||||||||||
| Note from A. F. Bernard Shaw to American Hospital, Jerusalem, 1917 | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:3 | Wartime Aid | ||||||||||||
| School of Handicrafts and Dressmaking | |||||||||||||
| Brochures and photographs, circa 1920s | |||||||||||||
| Lace sample book, undated | |||||||||||||
| Report of the Syrian and Palestine Relief Fund sewing rooms and Christian Herald Relief Fund lace industry, circa 1918 | |||||||||||||
| Account book of money received by Mr. Trowbridge, 1918 | |||||||||||||
| Balance sheet for distribution of Charitable Funds, Feb- Apr. 1918 | |||||||||||||
| Loud, Edward F. | |||||||||||||
| Account of and distribution of Loud Fund, 1916-1917 | |||||||||||||
| Letter from John D. Whiting to Edward F. Loud, 1918(?) | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous correspondence, 1916-1918 | |||||||||||||
| “Photograph of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Loud at their island home in Michigan,” undated | |||||||||||||
| Continuing Relief Work | |||||||||||||
| Christian Herald Orphanage | |||||||||||||
| Photograph album, 1918-1927 | |||||||||||||
| (2 folders) | |||||||||||||
| Register of children, 1921-1923 | |||||||||||||
| Appeals to Bertha Spafford Vester for aid, 1918-1921 | |||||||||||||
| Spafford Children's Center | |||||||||||||
| Pamphlet, undated | |||||||||||||
| Photographs, 2004, undated | |||||||||||||
| Documents regarding relief and charitable work | |||||||||||||
| Miscellaneous activities, 1915-1922, undated | |||||||||||||
| Nonsectarian nature of work, 1920, undated | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 1- OV 7 | Part I: Oversize, 1871-1942 | ||||||||||||
| Draft of hymn, map, scrapbooks, photograph album, hospital record, and printed matter. | |||||||||||||
| Arranged and described according to the series, containers, and folders from which the items were removed. | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 1 | Topical file | ||||||||||||
| On to Jerusalem | |||||||||||||
| “Perilous Times,” circa 1879 (Container I:1) | |||||||||||||
| In the Holy Land | |||||||||||||
| Map of Jerusalem, undated (Container I:2) | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 2* | The American Colony at Work | ||||||||||||
| *Administratively restricted | |||||||||||||
| Scrapbook of American Colony clippings, 1871-1942 | |||||||||||||
| Bound vol. (Container I:2) | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 3 | Loose items removed from scrapbook (Container I:2) | ||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 4* | The Locust Plague | ||||||||||||
| *Administratively restricted | |||||||||||||
| Locust Album, 1915 (Container I:2) | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 5* | World War I | ||||||||||||
| *Administratively restricted | |||||||||||||
| Photograph album, 1914-1917 (Container (I:2) | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 6* | Scrapbook of Fannie L. Koster regarding American Colony, circa 1908-1924 (Container I:2) | ||||||||||||
| *Administratively restricted | |||||||||||||
| BOX I:OV 7 | Hospital record, 1916 (Container I:2) | ||||||||||||
| Manifesto and other printed announcements, 1882, 1896, 1905, 1914 (Container I:2) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:1-9 | Part II: Our Jerusalem, circa 1786-1942 | ||||||||||||
| Correspondence, notes, writings, lectures, printed matter, and other papers compiled by Bertha Spafford Vester as resource files for her book, Our Jerusalem. | |||||||||||||
| Most files are arranged chronologically by year. Others are grouped by type of material and therein chronologically. | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:1 | Biographies, 1873, 1941, undated | ||||||||||||
| Chapter on Moslem girls school, draft, undated | |||||||||||||
| Chronological file | |||||||||||||
| 1850-1873 | |||||||||||||
| (12 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:2 | 1874-1892 | ||||||||||||
| (20 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:3 | 1893-1902 See also Oversize | ||||||||||||
| (14 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:4 | 1903-1919 | ||||||||||||
| (17 folders) | |||||||||||||
| BOX II:5 | 1920-1924 See also Container II: 8, 1922 | ||||||||||||
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