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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
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Undated stereograph and photograph
Stereograph of home of Anna and Horatio Gates Spafford, Lake View (Chicago), Illinois, circa 1875
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Photograph of church where Anna Tubena Larssen (aka Lawson) (Anna Spafford) was baptised, Stavanger, Norway, circa 1870s
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Photograph of home of Anna and Horatio Gates Spafford, Lake View (Chicago), Illinois, circa 1875
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Spafford, McDaid & Wilson, attorneys at law, business card, circa 1870s
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“The Sinking of the Steamship Ville du Havre,” photoprint of Currier and Ives lithograph, 1873
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Telegram from Anna T. Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), Dec. 2, 1873
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Telegram from Dwight Lyman Moody to Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), 1874
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Portrait of Anna T. Spafford, circa 1873
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Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), Paris, France, 1873
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Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), Jerusalem, circa 1885-1888
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“It Is Well with My Soul,” draft of hymn by Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), circa 1873-1878
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On to Jerusalem
Hymns by Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888)
“How Long Oh Lord,” 1879
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“Next Year at Jerusalem,” circa 1879
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“Perilous Times,” circa 1879 See Oversize
Waiting for the Morning and Other Poems, 1878
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Diary of Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), 1882
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BOX I:2 Letter from Anna T. Spafford, Oct. 5, 1902
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Moody, Dwight Lyman, miscellany
Letter from Dwight L. Moody to D. W. [Daniel Webster] Whittle, Jan. 30, 1874
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Newspaper clipping, Olga Owens' review of Paul D. Moody's biography of Dwight L. Moody, published in the Boston Evening Transcript, Mar. 19, 1938
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In the Holy Land
Bible belonging to Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888), circa 1870s
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Letter from Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888) to Charles Piazza [Piazzi] Smith, May 27, 1887
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“The Great Pyramid of Egypt–The Mightiest Wonder on Earth,” from Our Rest and Signs of the Times, no. 11, Nov. 1882
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Map of Jerusalem, undated See Oversize
Correspondence between A. Loivy and Horatio Gates Spafford (1828-1888)
Letter from A. Loivy [Rev. Dr. A. Löwry], Secretary, Anglo-Jewish Association, to Horatio Gates Spafford , Nov. 20, 1885
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Letter from Horatio Gates Spafford to A. Loivry [Rev. Dr. A. Löwry], Secretary, Anglo-Jewish Association, Dec. 8, 1885
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Letter from Anna T. Spafford to Mrs. Morse, Feb. 9, 1909
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Letter to Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919) from the American Colony, Mar. 8, 1906
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“Our American Colony in Jerusalem” by Alexander Hume Ford, Appleton's Magazine, Dec. 1906
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Letter to Alexander Hume Ford from the American Colony, Dec. 18, 1906
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“Americans Lead in Jerusalem Progress” by William T. Ellis, Aug. 17, 1913
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The American Colony at Work
“In Memoriam” keepsake with pressed flowers, circa October 1888
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List of antiquities sent to University of Pennsylvania Museum, Philadelphia, Pa., Sept. 4, 1913
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Postcards of the Holy Land
Picture postcard, "A Spanish Jew of Jerusalem," 1921
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Picture postcard, "A Bedouin and his pride," 1921
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Picture postcard, "Fishermen at Jaffa," 1921
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Picture postcard "A Bedouin in his happy mood," 1921
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Picture postcard "Foundations of Tower of Antonia," 1921
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Picture postcard, "Sorting his wheat," 1921
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Picture postcard, "Jaffa, landing place / Jaffa, Landungsplatz / Jaffa, ia rade," circa 1921?
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Picture postcard, "Brook Cherith near Jericho," 1921
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Picture postcard, "A Vernomito Jew in Jerusalem," 1921
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Picture postcard "An Orthodox Jew of Jerusalem," 1921
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Picture postcard, "Absalom's Pillar and Mary's Well," 1921
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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, circa 1908-1915
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“The Chief Industries of the American Colony, Jerusalem, at the Present Time,” Jan. 1907
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Letter from David Fairchild to John D. Whiting, Dec. 30, 1916
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Letter from Gilbert Hovey Grosvenor to John D. Whiting, Nov. 9, 1915
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The Locust Plague
Locust album, 1915 See Oversize
Photograph of Bertha Spafford Vester, John Vester, Louise Vester, and Jemal Pasha, circa 1915
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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
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Turkish lira note
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Movement order, Kantara Military Railway, for John D. Whiting, British intelligence, Nov. 26, 1918
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American Colony nursing corps
Names of nurses, 1917
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