Billy Graham Center Archives Annual Report - 2001 Annual Report - Acquisitions

Acquisitions



Dr. Paul Rader and Bob pose with a cut-out of Rader's famous great-uncle, the evangelist Paul Rader, during Rader's tour of the Archives in May 2001. Rader donated papers of his grandfather, evangelist Luke Rader, to the Archives.

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Acquisition Statistics 1980-2001

1980 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1992 1994 1996 1998 1999 2000 2001
BGEA Accessions 35 48 31 17 25 24 34 15 25 29 17 17 18
Non- BGEA Accessions 139 132 129 122 103 113 127 85 77 151 61 61 55
TOTAL Accessions 174 180 160 139 128 137 161 100 102 180 78 78 73
BGEA Accessions Volume in cubic feet 75 302 52 91 1297 105 94 217 111 19 1078 128 105
Non- BGEA Accessions Volume in cubic feet 245 453 545 106 205 97 240 58 147 219 54 49 98
TOTAL Accession Volume in cubic feet 320 755 597 197 1502 202 334 275 258 238 1132 177 203

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Selected List of Acquisitions

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
Materials concerning preparation work for BGEA crusades and the Amsterdam conferences, 1977-2000
Hour of Decision lineup cards for 2000
Newspaper clippings of St. Louis (1999), Jacksonville (2000) and Louisville (2001) Crusades
Oral history interviews for Amsterdam 2000 and Nashville (2000) and Jacksonville (2000) Crusades
Video tapes of crusades in Jacksonville (2000), Louisville (2001), and Fresno (2001)
World Wide Picture video, Road to Redemption, 2001
Newspaper clippings concerning Billy Graham, L. Nelson Bell and Presbyterian denominations, 1969-1973

Evangelism
Papers of Daniel Paul Rader (evangelist) and Luke Rader (evangelist), 1905-1994, n.d.
Papers of Robert E. Coleman (evangelist and teacher of evangelism), 1951-2001, n.d.
Papers of Vance Havner (author, radio broadcaster and evangelist), 1913-1983, n.d.
Records of AD2000, 1993-2000
Records of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, 1980-1997
Reprint of "‘Billy' Sunday Funeral" pamphlet from the Moody Church News (1935), 1939

Missions
Materials concerning the work of various mission agencies in Greece and Ethiopia, 1928-2001
Photographs and other materials concerning the work of Harry and Marguerite Owen and other China Inland Mission missionaries, 1934-1978, n.d.
Records of Africa Inland Mission, 1929-2001, n.d.
Materials concerning the work of Peter Stam and his sons in The Star of Hope Mission in Paterson, NJ, 1919-1938, n.d.
Materials concerning John and Betty Stam (martyred missionaries to China), 1934-1935
Papers of Paul Culley (missionary to the Philippines, professor and Christian school advocate), 1904-1990, n.d.

Oral History Interviews
BGC Scholarship recipients Shura Facanha (Operation Mobilization) and Raymond Attawia (Christian worker in Sierra Leone)
Robert E. Coleman
Roger Malstead (missionary among Turkish peoples in Great Britain, Turkey and Europe)

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Sample Acquisitions

Listed below are links to individual items from the accessions listed above. We hope they give some idea of the types of materials the Archives collects. (Note: Accessions are not available for research use until after they have been processed.)


Accession 01-21: A photo of the Paul Rader family and the evangelist's associates visiting with an elderly Annie Cook, "D.L. Moody's prayer saint."

Accession 01-25: Photos from the Queen's School for Girls in which Ruth Mellis taught in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1946-1949.

Accession 01-26: A crusade logo and prayer bookmarks from Billy Graham's Vozrozhdeniye (Revival) '92 in Moscow, Russia.

Accession 01-35: A transcript and an audio clip segment of an undated sermon by evangelist Vance Havner entitled "Then Jesus Came."

Accession 01-38: A 1965 Africa Inland Mission letter addressed to applicants for missionary service.

Accession 01-58: A poster for one of Robert Coleman's evangelistic meetings and his notes from the 1966 Berlin Congress

Accession 01-66: A 1920 staff photo of The Star of Hope Mission in Paterson, NJ featuring Peter Stam and his sons.


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