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Nott Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 304
Overview:
The Nott Family Papers document the life and work of three generations of family members. Eliphalet Nott (1773-1866) served as president of Union College for 62 years beginning in 1804. Eliphalet's brother Samuel Nott (1754-1852) was a Congregational minister in Franklin, Connecticut for 70 years. The bulk of the collection relates to Samuel's son, also named Samuel (1787-1869) who, with his wife Roxana Peck Nott, went to India as part of the first group of missionaries commissioned by the...
Dates:
1797-1944
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Morgan Phelps Noyes Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 198
Overview:
Sermons, writings, and memorabilia document the life and work of prominent Presbyterian minister Morgan Phelps Noyes. Noyes was a 1914 graduate of Yale University, received an honorary D.D. from Yale in 1938, and was a member of the Yale University Corporation from 1945 to 1959. He served served churches in New York and New Jersey from 1920 to 1957 and was Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1945 to 1951.
Dates:
1913-1972
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Franklin and Bertha Schweinfurth Ohlinger Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 23
Overview:
The collection provides documentation of American Methodist mission work in China, particularly in Fujian Province, and in Korea. The Ohlingers were educational missionaries and pioneers in the field of translation and publication for the church in China. Franklin Ohlinger was born in Ohio in 1845. He served as a missionary under the Methodist Episcopal Church Foreign Mission Board beginning in 1870, based in Fuzhou, Fujian Province. He was a founder of the Union Theological School and the...
Dates:
1867-1973
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Howard Olson Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 238
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and collected material document the life and work of Howard and Louise Olson and their family. The Olsons were Lutheran missionaries and educators in Tanzania from 1946 to 1988. Howard Olson was instrumental in translating the New Testament into the Rimi language and had a particular interest in African music and hymns.
Dates:
1943-2010
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Edwards Amasa Park papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 291
Overview:
The papers primarily document Park's work as Professor of Sacred Rhetoric (1836-1847) and Professor of Christian Theology (1847 to 1881) at Andover Theological Seminary, and as editor of Bibliotheca Sacra from 1844 to 1884.
Dates:
1835-1899
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Harman V. S. Peeke Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 185
Overview:
Detailed and substantive quarterly letters and writings document the missionary work of Harman V. S. Peeke and his wife Vesta G. Peeke. The Peekes were missionaries in Japan from 1893 to 1929, serving under the Reformed Church in America.
Dates:
1887-1987
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Lillian Picken Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 159
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and collected materials document Picken's work and the work of the ABCFM in India beginning in 1928. Lillian Picken was an American missionary in India, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, American Marathi Mission, later known as the United Church Board for World Ministries. She took part in educational, industrial, social, and evangelistic work in the Satara area of western India.
Dates:
1921-1974
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
John Winthrop Platner papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 292
Overview:
The collection documents Platner's work as a professor at Harvard College and Andover Theological seminary.
Dates:
1896-1921
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Liston Pope Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 49
Overview:
The papers document Pope's career and thought. They are primarily related to his professional work, but personal insights are also available, particularly in the correspondence with his wife and friends. The collection provides information about theological education in the United States, the activities of the ecumenical movement during the 1950s, the relationship of the church (particularly the Congregational denomination) to social concerns such as labor and race relations during the 1950s....
Dates:
1909-1984
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Marvin H. Pope Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 135
Overview:
The Marvin H. Pope Papers document the life and work of a prominent professor at Yale. Correspondence, notes, writings, course-related materials, collected materials, and audiovisual materials shed light on his academic work and his interactions with colleagues and students. Marvin H. Pope taught at Yale in the Department of Religious Studies and Divinity School from 1949 to 1986 and was one of the world's leading authorities on Ugarit. Pope made many contributions to biblical studies, which...
Dates:
1916-1998
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Frank Chamberlin Porter Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 119
Overview:
Correspondence, notes, and writings document Porter's life and work. Frank Chamberlin Porter (1859-1946) was Winkley Professor of Biblical Theology at the Yale Divinity School from 1891 to 1927.
Dates:
1886-1967 1886-1940, bulk 1886-1940
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
H. Boone Porter Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 230
Overview:
This collection documents the work of H. Boone Porter, an important figure in the Episcopal Church during the second half of the 20th century. A graduate of Yale, Berkeley Divinity School, and General Theological Seminary, Boone was a Professor of Liturgics at General Theological Seminary from 1960 to 1970. As a member of the Standing Liturgical Commission of the Episcopal Church, he was a major architect of the 1979 Book of Common Prayer. Later he served as Executive Director of the Town and...
Dates:
1940-2003, bulk 1954-1999
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
William H. Poteat Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 243
Overview:
This collection documents the thought and work of William H. Poteat, a Yale Divinity School graduate who taught at Duke University from 1960 to 1987. The material was gathered by Walter B. Mead, who contacted former students and colleagues of Poteat, asking them to provide writings and correspondence of Poteat that document his contributions to the field of philosophy of religion.
Dates:
1954–2018
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Charles W. Ranson Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 96
Overview:
This record group documents Ranson's mission and ecumenical work, particularly providing insight on the development and operations of the International Missionary Council and Theological Education Fund. His work as a theological educator and administrator, and his latter years in a Congregational pastorate are also documented. Ranson served as an Irish Methodist missionary in South India, General Secretary of the International Missionary Council, Director of the Theological Education Fund and...
Dates:
1938-1979
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Religious Education Association Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 74
Overview:
These are the official archives of the Religious Education Association (REA). The Religious Education Association was founded in 1903 at a convention in Chicago, which had been convened by the Council of Seventy of the American Institute of Sacred Literature. Its goal has been to promote religious and moral education. The REA has produced many publications and has sponsored conventions and round tables on religion and higher education, as well as a major program of research on religious...
Dates:
1902-1982
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Religious Education Association Records - Addendum A
Collection
Call Number: RG 74A
Overview:
The papers document the history of the REA from 1982 to 2003, when the organization merged with Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education (APRRE). They are an addition to Record Group No. 74, which covers the years primarily from the founding of the organization in 1903 to 1982. There is some overlap and duplication between these two collections, since it includes the complete newsletter, REACH, from its beginning in 1971, plus publications from the 75th anniversary in...
Dates:
1982-2003
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Records of Religious Educational Institutions
Collection
Call Number: RG 33
Overview:
Record Group 33 is an open collection composed primarily of printed material from the institutions represented. This collection includes records from religious educational institutions in the United States and Canada, dating from 1808 to 1974.
Dates:
1808-1974
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
John and Eleanor Reuling Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 120
Overview:
Letters, reports, and writings document American mission work in South Africa from 1927 to the 1960s. John A. Reuling was director of teachers' training at Adams College, Natal, South Africa, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, from 1927 to 1941. After 1946 he was an administrator for the United Church Board for World Ministries, serving first as regional secretary for Africa and then as general secretary for Mission. Eleanor Swanson Reuling also taught at...
Dates:
1920-1965
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Sanford Richardson Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 311
Overview:
Extensive correspondence, reports, and an autobiography document the work of Sanford Richardson, missionary among the Armenians in Ottoman Turkey from 1857 to 1879, serving under the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions.
Dates:
1857-1879
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Reinhold Riemer Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 121
Overview:
Notes and papers from Riemer's years at the Yale Divinity School (1915-1917) provide insight into the curriculum and teaching methods at YDS during the first part of the twentieth century. Reinhold Riemer was a Yale Divinity School graduate, Moravian minister, and President of the Moravian College for Women.
Dates:
1915-1917
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library