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Collection Summary
Title | American Colony in Jerusalem collection, circa 1786-2007 |
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Span Dates | 1786-2007 |
Bulk Dates | (bulk 1870-1968) |
ID No. | MSS85137 |
Creator | American Colony (Jerusalem) |
Extent | 16,600 items ; 64 containers plus 17 oversize ; 37.6 linear feet |
Language | Collection material in English, with Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Swedish |
Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
Summary | Religious community in Jerusalem founded by American emigré Christians, Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) and Anna T. Spafford, and perpetuated by their daughter, Bertha Spafford Vester, and others. Correspondence, diaries, minutes, notes, hymns, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, photographs, photograph albums, printed matter, and other papers relating to the history of the colony and its members. |
Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123 |
LCCN Permalink | LC Online Catalog record for this collection: http://lccn.loc.gov/mm2004085137 |