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CHECKLIST OF OBJECTS

Family Tragedy

Spafford family photographic album,
ca. 1880.
Manuscript Division (1)

Spafford home.
Cabinet card, ca. 1870
Manuscript Division (4)

Horatio Spafford business card.
Manuscript Division (4b)

Currier & Ives.
Sinking of the Steamship
Ville du Havre.
New York: Currier & Ives, ca. 1873.
Prints & Photographs Division (5)

Anna Spafford.
Transatlantic cable message
,
December 1, 1873.
Manuscript Division (6)

Anna Spafford.
Copyprint, enlarged from ca. 1873 original
Manuscript Division (7a)

Horatio Spafford.
Carte-de-visite, ca. 1873.
Manuscript Division (7b)

Horatio Spafford.
"It Is Well with My Soul."
Manuscript hymn, 1871.
Manuscript Division (8)

On to Jerusalem

Horatio Spafford.
Waiting for the Morning and Other Poems.
Chicago: F.H.P. Resell, 1878.
Manuscript Division (2)

Horatio Spafford.
" Next Year in Jerusalem."
Manuscript hymn, ca. 1879.
Manuscript Division (3.1)

Horatio Spafford.
Diary entry for August 1882.
Manuscript Division (11)

Anna Spafford to "George and Sarah,"
October 5, 1902.
Page 2 - Page 3
Manuscript letter.
Manuscript Division (10)

In the Holy Land

Horatio Spafford to Charles Piazza Smith,
May 27, 1887.
Page 2
Manuscript letter.
Manuscript Division (14)

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth"
from Our Rest and Signs of the Times. No. 11 (November 1882).
Manuscript Division (16)

American Colony. [Jerusalem].
Manuscript map.
Manuscript Division (17)

Bible.
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons.
Manuscript Division (13)

American Colony to Theodore Roosevelt,
March 6, 1906.
Carbon typescript
Manuscript Division (19)

Alexander Hume Ford.
" Our American Colony at Jerusalem"
in Appleton's Magazine, Vol 8., no. 6 (December 1906).
Manuscript Division (18)

The American Colony at Work

American Colony.
"In Memoriam" [to Horatio Spafford],
decorated with pressed flowers
Manuscript Division (20)

Wooden frame with Horatio Spafford's photograph.
Manuscript Division (23)

American Colony (S. Narinsky, photographer).
Assorted postcards of the Holy Land.
Card 1 - Card 2 - Card 3
Card 4 - Card 5 - Card 6
Palestine: Jamal Bros., ca. 1921. Rotary photogravures.
Manuscript Division (22 a-f)

Inventory of antiquities sent to Dr. Gordon,
University Museum, September 4, 1913.
Carbon typescript on letterhead.
Manuscript Division (21)

"American Colony Founded in Jerusalem by Native of Lansingburgh,"
published in the Troy Times (December 9, 1916)
in an American Colony scrapbook kept between 1881 and 1930.
Manuscript Division (9)

The Locust Plague

Photographic album documenting the locust devastation, 1915.
Photograph 1 - Photograph 2 - Photograph 3
Hand-colored silver gelatin prints.
Manuscript Division (29)

Mounted locust specimen, 1915.
Manuscript Division (27)

John D. Whiting.
"Jerusalem's Locust Plague . . ."
in The National Geographic Magazine.
Vol. 28, no. 6 (December 1915).
Manuscript Division (28)

Bertha Vester, John Vester, Louise Vester, Djemal Pasha, (left to right).
Silver gelatin print, ca. 1915.
Manuscript Division (26)

World War I

American Colony.
World War I photographic album, 1916-1918.
Photograph 1 - Photograph 2 - Photograph 3
Photograph 4 - Photograph 5 - Photograph 6
Photograph 7 - Photograph 8 - Photograph 9
Manuscript Division (30)

James Morgan.
" A Little America Close by Jerusalem's Wall,"
Minneapolis Sunday Tribune
(July 4, 1920)
in scrapbook assembled by Mrs. Koster.
Manuscript Division (12)

Wartime pass issued by Ottoman Turkish forces,
ca. 1916
Manuscript Division (33a)

Turkish lira.
Paper currency, ca. 1916.
Manuscript document.
Manuscript Division (33b)

Movement order for Mr. John Whiting, Attached G.H.Q. Intelligence-West.
Issued November 8, 1918.
Manuscript Division (33c)

Group photograph of American Colony nursing corps.
Manuscript Division (32a)
Gelatin silver print, 1917

Night pass for American Colony nurses to travel to hospitals, 1917
Manuscript Division (32b)

Names of American Colony Nurses
(April-December 1917).
Typescript, 1917.
Manuscript Division (32c)

Wartime Aid

American Colony School of Handicrafts and Dressmaking.
Pamphlet, ca. 1922
Manuscript Division (25a)

Lace sample book, ca. 1917
Manuscript Division (24)

"Report of the Syrian and Palestine Relief Fund Sewing Rooms and Christian Herald Relief Fund,"
ca. 1918.
Page 2 - Page 3
Manuscript.
Manuscript Division (31)

"Account book of Money Received by Mr. Trowbridge, February-December 1918"
Manuscript Division (34)

Balance sheet for distribution of charitable funds, February-April 1918.
Manuscript Division (35)

Account of Distribution of Loud Fund.
Carbon typescript, 1915
Manuscript Division (36b)

"Mr. and Mrs. Edward Loud at their island home in Michigan."
Gelatin silver print
Manuscript Division (36c)

John Whiting to Edward Loud,
Page 2 - Page 3 - Page 4
May 30, 1918.
Manuscript letter.
Manuscript Division (36a)

Continuing Relief Work

Register of Christian Herald Orphanage.
Manuscript Division (39)

Photographic album of Christian Herald Orphanage.
Manuscript Division (38)

Written appeals to Bertha Vester, 1918 and 1921.
Manuscript notes.
Manuscript Division (37a,b)

Spafford Children's Center pamphlet
Manuscript Division (40a)

Various activities of the Spafford Children's Center.
Color photographs, ca. 2004.
Manuscript Division (40b,c,d)

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