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Creator:
Albert Schweitzer Center
Inclusive Dates:
-
Abstract:
Organizational records, correspondence, memorabilia relating to the Albert Schweitzer Center in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Type of Material:
Sound recordings.
Correspondence.
Photographs.
Subject:
Missionaries.
Musicians.
Theologians.
Music
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform

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Collection Title:
Creator:
Schweitzer, Albert, 1875-1965.
Inclusive Dates:
1896-1965
Abstract:
Papers of the theologian, philosopher, physician, organist, and music scholar; born in Alsace, France. Founded a missionary hospital in Lambaréné, French Equatorial Africa (now Gabon). Received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1952 for his advocacy of the brotherhood of nations. Collection includes correspondence (1901-1965); 123 notebooks (1918-1965); manuscript essays and lectures on religion, philosophy, and medicine; and sermons. Correspondence includes nearly 1400 letters between Schweitzer and wife Hélène Bresslau (1901-1939); 396 letters (1950-1965) written in German to Erica Anderson; 180 letters to daughter Rhena Schweitzer Miller; and 70 letters to various recipients, including 3 to Rudolf Bultmann. Notebooks document Schweitzer's daily life in Lambaréné, the diseases and stories of his patients, and the arrival of visitors to the mission. They also contain poems, quotations, excerpts from books on philosophy, religion, and history; clippings from French, German, English, and African newspapers; reports on world politics; and commentaries on himself and his work.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Essays.
Lectures.
Notebooks.
Sermons.
Subject:
Gabon -- Description and travel.
Lambaréné (Moyen-Ogooué, Gabon)
Missionaries.
Musicians.
Physicians.
Theologians.
Music
Religion and Philosophy
Science and medicine
Activism and social reform
Humanists.
Missionaries, Medical.
Missions -- Gabon.
Missions, Medical -- Gabon.
Organists.
Philosophers.
Theologians.

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Collection Title:
Creator:
Vickery, Almeda Campbell.
Inclusive Dates:
1908-1962
Abstract:
Daughter of Kate Campbell Vickery and Charles Rowe Vickery, American Congregationalist missionaries to India and Singapore. Includes photographs, writings, notes, and diaries, as well as Vickery family genealogical material.
Type of Material:
Clippings (information artifacts)
Correspondence.
Photograph albums.
Lecture notes.
Negatives (photographs)
Typescripts.
Photographs.
Scrapbooks.
Diaries.
Subject:
Clergy.
Missionaries.
Church and clergy
Clergy -- United States.
Missionaries.
Genealogy.
India -- Missions.
South Asia -- Missions.
Singapore -- Missions.
Congregationalism -- Missions.
Congregational churches -- Clergy.

Creator:
American Home Missionary Society.
Inclusive Dates:
1826-1845
Abstract:
Reports from various of its New York groups to the American Home Missionary Society.
Type of Material:
Correspondence.
Reports.
Subject:
Missionaries.
Church and clergy
New York State
Home missions -- United States.
Missions, American.