A ACQUISITIONS

billy graham center archives
2004 annual report
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Mrs. Wilberta Schorr points out a particular photo in one of her aunt Bretta Johnson's photo albums to Bob and Mrs. Schorr's husband, Dick. Bretta Johnson was an Africa Inland Mission missionary to Kenya. Mrs. Wilberta Schorr donated the photo albums and other materials of her aunt to the Archives in December.

Acquisition Statistics 1980-2004

1980-1982  1983-1985  1986-1988  1989-1991  1992-1994  1995-1997  1998-2000  2001-2003  2004 Total
Ave. per year
(1980-2004)
BGEA Accessions 111 64 84 94 67 61 63 47 18 609
23
Non- BGEA Accessions 397 439 503 432 394 385 336 182 50 3118
120
TOTAL Accessions 508 503 587 526 461 446 399 229 68 3,727
143
BGEA Accessions Volume in cubic feet 2,016 366 1,893 631 323 212 1,225 436 141 7,243
279
Non- BGEA Accessions Volume in cubic feet 800 840 469 615 391 458 319 288 38 4,218
162
TOTAL Accession Volume in cubic feet 2,816 1,206 2,362 1,246 714 670 1,544 724 179 11,461
458

Selected List of Acquisitions

Billy Graham Evangelistic Association
Papers and materials of George M. Wilson (senior executive of the BGEA), 1937-1981, n.d.
Papers of Roy Gustafson (BGEA associate evangelist), 1937-2002
Papers of Thomas Walter (T. W.) Wilson (BGEA associate evangelist), 1950-1998, n.d.
Records and materials of BGEA - London office, 1951-2001, n.d.
Records of various BGEA crusades, 1963-2001, n.d.
Video tapes of missions featuring Billy Graham in Dallas (2002), Oklahoma City (2003) and Kansas City (2004)
Video tapes of festival featuring Franklin Graham in Kern County, CA (2004)
World Wide Picture video, Last Flight Out, 2004

Evangelism
Papers of William E. Biederwolf (evangelist), 1894-1895
 Papers and materials of Bishop A. J. (Jack) Dain (Anglican churchman and leader of the Lausanne movement), 1924-2003, n.d.

Missions
Records of African Inland Mission International, 1917-2003, n.d.
Records of Eastern European Mission/Euro Vision, 1926-1989, n.d.
Materials of Bretta Johnson (Africa Inland Mission missionary), 1929-1990
Papers of Paul and Mary Ellen Johnson (Mission Aviation Fellowship missionaries), 1964-1979, 2004
 Audio cassette tapes of Gospel Recordings, 1999-2003

Oral History Interviews
BGC Scholarship recipient Habil Omungu (church worker in Kenya)
Esther Filkin (daughter of Andrew Wyzenbeek)
Wayne and Ruth Courtney (China Inland Mission missionaries)
Dan Crawford (son of Percy Crawford)
Winifred Rand (China Inland Mission missionary)

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