Title Page | Collection Summary | Biographical/Organizational Note | Scope and Content | Arrangement
Collection Summary
| Title | American Colony in Jerusalem collection, circa 1786-2007 |
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| Inclusive Dates | 1786-2007 |
| Bulk Dates | 1870-1968 |
| ID No. | MSS85137 |
| Creator | American Colony (Jerusalem) |
| Extent | 16,600 items |
| Extent | 64 containers plus 18 oversize |
| Extent | 37.6 linear feet |
| Language | Collection material in English, with Turkish, Arabic, Hebrew and Swedish |
| Location | Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. |
| Finding Aid Permalink | Cite or bookmark this finding aid as: https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123 |
| LCCN Permalink | LC Catalog record: https://lccn.loc.gov/mm2004085137 |
| 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. |
| Online Content | Part of the papers of the American Colony in Jerusalem Collection is available on the Library of Congress Web site at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000020 and http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms00020x . |