List of Archival Collections
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November 6, 2020 Heritage Research Center Inclusive Dates Notes: Finding COLLECTION: Extent Digital Where known Aid Small collection of 16 mm. films related to the medical missionary work Abbott, Donald Humphrey, MD 1940 - 1958 1 box of Dr. Donald Humphrey Abbott, son of Dr. George Knapp Abbott, in the Yes 1940s. A collection of the academic diplomas and professional licensing certificates of Doctors George Knapp Abbott and Cora May Richards Abbott, George Knapp and Cora May Richards Abbott Papers 1897 - 1925 1 box Yes Yes Abbott. George K. Abbott was President of CME, 1907-1909; Cora (his wife) was also on the faculty Collection of the Adventist Amateur Radio Network newsletter from Adventist Amateur Radio Network 1963 - 1980 1 box Yes Yes 1963 to 1980 (51 issues). Female students of the 1934 and 1935 classes of the College of Medical Evangelists School of Medicine formed the Agnodicean Society August Agnodicean Society Ledger 1933 - 1965 1 ledger Yes 1933. The ledger gives the history, story of the Society’s name, charter members, active members, officers, meeting minutes, expenses, etc. Adventist aviation - articles, photographs, correspondence, etc. The collection spans the years 1962-1979. Contained herein are magazine Aitken, James J. 1962 - 1979 1 box Yes articles, newspaper clippings and photographs featuring James J. Aitken along with various other Seventh-day Adventist aviator missionaries. Collection of 25 photographs of the Allen and Johnson Families, including Late 19th - Early Alvin Nathan Allen, Luella Goodrich Allen, Clother George Allen, Dora E. Allen & Johnson Families Photograph collection 1 folder Yes Yes 20th C. Rennings Allen, Esther P. Allen Johnson, Franklin C. Johnson, Henry R. Johnson, Helen Johnson, O. A. Johnson and Nels P. Nielsen. This American Civil War-era field amputation kit once belonged to Elmer David Charland, but was assembled by him long after the war ended. Charland was born on July 18, 1896, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin and attended Union College in Nebraska. Charland became a physician and American Civil War Era Amputation Kit 19th C. 1 kit he and his wife settled in Inglewood, California. Charland passed away Yes Yes on January 4, 1896 in Loma Linda, California. The present amputation kit is housed in a rosewood case with “Elmer David Charland MD” engraved on a brass plate affixed to the lid. The kit contains amputation tools from two different makers: Geo Tiemann & Company of New York, November 6, 2020 and H. G. Kern of Philadelphia. Tiemann & Company made surgical and amputation kits from 1855 to 1871; H. G. Kern manufactured the same from 1837 to 1893. Both companies supplied such kits for the military. American Dental Society of Anesthesiology (ADSA) 1957 - 1991 17 boxes Professional society records American Medical Missionary College 1895 - 1910 Seventh-day Adventist medical college in Battle Creek, Michigan Photos Anderson, Clifford 1954-1974 1 box "Your Radio Doctor" programs, clippings, audiocassettes This collection of 130 glass slides and 230 photographs documents early Seventh-day Adventist medical work in China. Lydia Anderson, whose Anderson, Lydia 1930s 1 box slides these were, served as a Registered Nurse with Dr. Harry Miller in Yes Shanghai. The slides are numbered and some have a brief identification of the subject written on them. No additional information available. Andreasen, M. L. ? ¼ box Writings and correspondence Photograph album, compiled by Miss Ruth Mitchell, R.N., that documents the history of the Andrews Memorial Hospital and the Nursing School in Andrews Memorial Hospital (Jamaica) Photograph Album 1946 - 1949 1 album Yes Yes Kingston, Jamaica, during the years 1946 to 1949. 332 photographs are present, nearly all of them captioned. Angell, E. A. (Earnest A.) 1923 1 folder Two letters, with envelope, from J. N. Loughborough to E. A. Angell Yes Biographical, genealogical, correspondence, research - Anunsen was a Anunsen, Irwin Everett 1989 - 1997 1 box Yes teacher, accountant and elder in the Seventh-day Adventist Church Memorabilia related to Irene R. Armitage, 1929 graduate of the College Armitage, Irene R. 1929, 1979 1 port. of Medical Evangelists, School of Nursing Ledger. In 1909, John Burden invited Ray D. Arnold to come work at Loma Linda Sanitarium and the College of Medical Evangelists, where he worked until retirement in 1964. The ledger is replete with schematics Arnold, Ray D. 1916 - 1949 1 box incubators, baby cribs, soft water pump, pump rods, call plates, dairy homogenizer, transcription boxes, single tube stethoscope, radio plates, g. v. periscope, cutler autopsy bag, hospital call system, statistics on wells, and more! Ashley, Edith Ca. 1930 1 folder Notebook of scriptural texts and topics. Association records – constitution, correspondence, minutes, programs, Association of Seventh-day Adventist Optometrists (ASDAO) 1956 - 1984 ½ box bulletins, reports. Diaries, letters, sermon sketches, and photographs related to Hazel Ausherman, Hazel Marion 1945 - 2006 5 boxes Marion Ausherman, 1928 graduate of the College of Medical Evangelists, School of Dietetics. Baby Fae 1984 - 9 boxes Material related to Infant heart transplant November 6, 2020 Bacchiocchi, Samuel 1999 - 2006 2 boxes Material related to his writing and teaching Backus, Isaac and Family Collection 1700s – 1900s 11 boxes Material related to Isaac Backus and family Manuscript “Story of My Life”. Judson Alder Baker, born in 1870, attended Battle Creek College and studied at the Battle Creek Sanitarium. Baker, Judson A. (Albert) 1870-1957 2 vols. Yes He was a schoolteacher and a Seventh-day Adventist literature evangelist. Ballenger / Mote Collection 1846 - 1982 12 boxes Research files The Free Advent Banner (1920 - 1923) and The Banner (1923 – 1936) were published by the Banner Publishing Association, a Corporation of Free S.D.A. in Savannah, Georgia. The Free Seventh-day Adventist Church grew out of the established Seventh-day Adventist church due to The Banner 1923 - 1936 90 issues increasing racial issues in the United States and the failure of established Yes church leaders to heed the counsel of Ellen G. White regarding the “color line” in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The black pastors and others felt they had no choice but to separate to maintain their sanity and their faith. Mission stories and plays, correspondence, reports from the missionary Barclay, William Lindsey 1947 - 1956 1 box experiences of W. L. Barclay in the Inter-American and Southern Asia Divisions of the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Collection of personal correspondence between James F. Barnard and Barnard, James F. 1955 - 1980 1 box various Seventh-day Adventist missionaries, between the years 1958 and Yes Yes 1979. Some of the letters include photographs. 80 letters, primarily from Harold Emmett Barr, writing from Cedar Pines Health Retreat, Oakhurst, California, to his mother, Sarah Ella Stowell Barr, Sarah Ella 1917 - 1939 1 box Barr, who was residing in Riverside, California. The letters date between Yes Yes 1917 and 1939, with the bulk of the letters falling between 1937 and 1939, ending just days before Sarah’s death. Cloth bag Bates brought out from Dartmoor prison, 3 silver table spoons, Bates, Joseph & Family Memorabilia 1815 - ? 2 boxes 2 thimbles, a linen sheet woven by family member, pair of beaded slippers belonging to a daughter, a brooch and a bracelet. Photocopies of faculty and student information, and photographs of the Battle Creek College 1870s – 1890s 2 boxes Photos College. Battle Creek Sanitarium 1874 - 1983 9 + boxes Publications, photographs, etc. related to the institution Photos 137 letters from Geneva Beatty, M.D., to family, friends and colleagues. Late 1930s – mid Beatty, Geneva, M.D., Correspondence 1 box Beatty was a 1937 graduate of the College of Medical Evangelists, upon 1940s which she traveled to China and worked with Harry Miller in Shanghai November 6, 2020 and elsewhere. Also included are letters from Dr. Harriman Jones, Geneva’s husband; and Gertrude Green, director of a nursing school in China. Becker, Elmer Leroy 1 scrapbook Scrapbook related to Becker’s missionary travels Berkeley (Calif.) Seventh-day Adventist Church 1873 - 1908 1 box Records of early church history Tape recordings (reel-to-reel) of the 1952 Bible Conference, a Seventh- day Adventist conference held at the Sligo Church in Takoma Park, Bible Conference (1952) 1952 19 tapes Maryland from September 1–13, 1952. The Conference was the second major Bible Conference held by Adventists during the twentieth century, and the next major meeting of its kind after the 1919 Bible Conference. Bietz, Reinhold R. 1906 - 2005 10 boxes Papers, photographs, awards, etc. related to his life and work John Bodell was a life-long colporteur, who also served as press secretary for the Northern Ireland Conference. The manuscript here is an obituary Bodell, John A. 1953 1 manuscript Yes Yes for Isabel Bell Murphy of Ireland, who became a Seventh-day Adventist around 1890 and worked for the church until her death in 1953. Franklin B. Hough was born in Martinsburg, NY in 1822. He studied medicine and practiced in Somerville, NY from 1848 to 1852. He is described as a "pioneer historian of counties in New York State" and an advocate of forest conservation. In 1855 and 1865, he was Superintendent of the State Census for New York and was also involved in the 1875 census. He was one of seven Commissioners of Parks in New 1844 – 1847; 1848 The Book of Franklin B. Hough 1 manuscript York in 1872 and in 1876 he became a Forestry Agent in the U.S. Dept. of Yes Yes – 1851. Agriculture. He published several reports on forest management and spoke out tirelessly on the subject. He died at his home in Lowville, NY, June 11, 1885. The manuscript contains the accounts of Gustavus Academy (Gustavus, Ohio), September 1844 to October 1847 (p. 1-43); accounts of Hough's medical practice 1848-1851 (p. 44-139); plus miscellaneous records (p.