The American Colony in Jerusalem
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Family Tragedy
- Spafford
family photographic album,
ca. 1880. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (1)
- Spafford
home.
Cabinet card, ca. 1870. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (4)
- Horatio
Spafford business card. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (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, Library of Congress (6)
- Anna
Spafford.
Copyprint, enlarged from ca. 1873 original. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (7a)
- Horatio
Spafford.
Carte-de-visite, ca. 1873. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (7b)
- Horatio Spafford.
“It Is Well
with My Soul.”
Manuscript hymn, 1871. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (8)
On to Jerusalem
In the Holy Land
- Horatio
Spafford to Charles Piazza Smith,
May 27, 1887.
Manuscript letter. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (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, Library of Congress (16)
- American
Colony. [Jerusalem].
Manuscript map. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (17)
- Bible.
London: Samuel Bagster and Sons. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (13)
- American
Colony to Theodore Roosevelt,
March 6, 1906.
Carbon typescript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (19)
- Alexander Hume Ford.
“Our American
Colony at Jerusalem”
in Appleton's Magazine, Vol 8., no. 6 (December 1906). Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (18)
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The American Colony at Work
- American Colony. “In Memoriam” [to
Horatio Spafford],
decorated with pressed flowers. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (20)
- Wooden
frame with Horatio Spafford's photograph. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (23)
- American Colony (S. Narinsky, photographer).
Assorted postcards of the Holy Land.
Palestine: Jamal Bros., ca. 1921. Rotary photogravures. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (22
a-f)
- Inventory
of antiquities sent to Dr. Gordon,
University Museum, September 4, 1913.
Carbon typescript on letterhead. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (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, Library of Congress (9)
The Locust Plague
- Photographic
album documenting the locust devastation, 1915.
Hand-colored silver gelatin prints. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (29)
- Mounted
locust specimen, 1915. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (27)
- John D. Whiting. “Jerusalem's
Locust Plague…”
in The National Geographic Magazine.
Vol. 28, no. 6 (December 1915). Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (28)
- Bertha
Vester, John Vester, Louise Vester, Djemal Pasha, (left
to right).
Silver gelatin print, ca. 1915. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (26)
World War I
- American Colony. World War
I photographic album, 1916–1918. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (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, Library of Congress (12)
- Wartime
pass issued by Ottoman Turkish forces,
ca. 1916. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (33a)
- Turkish
lira.
Paper currency, ca. 1916.
Manuscript document. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (33b)
- Movement
order for Mr. John Whiting, Attached G.H.Q. Intelligence-West.
Issued November 8, 1918. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (33c)
- Group
photograph of American Colony nursing corps. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (32a)
Gelatin silver print, 1917
- Night
pass for American Colony nurses to travel to hospitals,
1917. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (32b)
- Names
of American Colony Nurses (April-December 1917).
Typescript, 1917. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (32c)
Wartime Aid
- American
Colony School of Handicrafts and Dressmaking.
Pamphlet, ca. 1922. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (25a)
- Lace
sample book, ca. 1917. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (24)
- “Report
of the Syrian and Palestine Relief Fund Sewing Rooms and
Christian Herald Relief Fund,”
ca. 1918.
Manuscript. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (31)
- “Account
book of Money Received by Mr. Trowbridge, February-December
1918.” Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (34)
- Balance
sheet for distribution of charitable funds, February-April
1918. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (35)
- Account
of Distribution of Loud Fund.
Carbon typescript, 1915. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (36b)
- “Mr.
and Mrs. Edward Loud at their island home in Michigan.”
Gelatin silver print. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (36c)
- John
Whiting to Edward Loud,
May 30, 1918.
Manuscript letter. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (36a)
Continuing Relief Work
- Register
of Christian Herald Orphanage. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (39)
- Photographic
album of Christian Herald Orphanage. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (38)
- Written appeals to Bertha Vester, 1918 and 1921.
Manuscript notes. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (37a,b)
- Spafford
Children's Center pamphlet. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (40a)
- Various
activities of the Spafford Children's Center.
Color photographs, ca. 2004. Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (40b,c,d)
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