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"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

A black and white photo of people walking in the snow. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A black and white photo of people walking in the snow. Photograph albu...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

A group of children standing in front of a christmas tree. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A group of children standing in front of a christmas tree. Photograph ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

A black and white photo of a group of people. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A black and white photo of a group of people. Photograph album, Christ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Article by Alexander Hume Ford, "Our American Colony at Jerusalem," from Appleton's Magazine

Article by Alexander Hume Ford, "Our American Colony at Jerusalem," fr...

Article printed in Appleton's Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 6 (Dec. 1906): 643-655. On the formation and functions of the American Colony in Jerusalem and the various controversies it faced, including those with the... More

Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Jerusalem

Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Jerusalem

Studio portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford taken in Jerusalem, ca. 1885-88. Head and shoulders portrait of Spafford looking left, wearing eyeglasses, jacket, vest, and collar. With beard. Photograph by G. Krik... More

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Picture postcard, "A Spanish Jew of Jerusalem"

Picture postcard, "A Spanish Jew of Jerusalem"

Sepia-toned portrait of bearded man in dark cap and cloth coat, holding wooden staff.

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Photograph of church where Anna Tubena Larssen (aka Lawson) (Anna Spafford) was baptised

Photograph of church where Anna Tubena Larssen (aka Lawson) (Anna Spaf...

Photograph by C. L. Jacobsen, Stavanger Studio [Chicago, Ill.] The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was ... More

Article by Alexander Hume Ford, "Our American Colony at Jerusalem," from Appleton's Magazine

Article by Alexander Hume Ford, "Our American Colony at Jerusalem," fr...

Article printed in Appleton's Magazine, vol. VIII, no. 6 (Dec. 1906): 643-655. On the formation and functions of the American Colony in Jerusalem and the various controversies it faced, including those with the... More

Booklet, "Waiting for the Morning and Other Poems" by Horatio Gates Spafford

Booklet, "Waiting for the Morning and Other Poems" by Horatio Gates Sp...

Copyright 1878 by F. H. Revell, Publisher of Evangelical Literature, 148 and 149 Madison St., Chicago. Printed by Ottawa & Company, Printers, Chicago. Printed pamphlet, 53 pp. Contains Spafford poems adapted ... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Booklet, samples of lace edgings and insertions, with prices per yard, Vester & Co.--The American Colony Store

Booklet, samples of lace edgings and insertions, with prices per yard,...

Black leather-bound sample booklet with accordion-style purple paper page insert and samples of types of lace (product numbers 28-50), with prices per yard for each style. Associated with marketing for the Ame... More

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

An old photo of a man in a white shirt. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

An old photo of a man in a white shirt. Photograph album, Christian He...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

A group of people standing next to a stone wall. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A group of people standing next to a stone wall. Photograph album, Chr...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

A group of people sitting around a table. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A group of people sitting around a table. Photograph album, Christian ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Picture postcard, "A Vernomito Jew in Jerusalem"

Picture postcard, "A Vernomito Jew in Jerusalem"

Black and white print portrait, head and shoulders, of bearded man with side curls, in white shirt and cloth jacket with needlework collar.

Business card of John D. Whiting, U.S. Deputy Consul, Jerusalem

Business card of John D. Whiting, U.S. Deputy Consul, Jerusalem

Printed business card, Jerusalem. Whiting was U.S. Deputy Consul in Jerusalem from 1908 to 1915.

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Paris, France

Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Paris, France

Studio portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford taken in Paris. Three-quarters length portrait of Spafford standing, arm leaning on pedastal, in bow tie, double-breasted jacket, and holding cap in one hand.

A couple of pictures of people playing baseball. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A couple of pictures of people playing baseball. Photograph album, Chr...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Booklet, samples of lace edgings and insertions, with prices per yard, Vester & Co.--The American Colony Store

Booklet, samples of lace edgings and insertions, with prices per yard,...

Black leather-bound sample booklet with accordion-style purple paper page insert and samples of types of lace (product numbers 28-50), with prices per yard for each style. Associated with marketing for the Ame... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Account book, charitable monies received and distributed by American Colony (accounts of funds from Mr. Trowbridge and Mr. Cleland distributed to recipients in Palestine)

Account book, charitable monies received and distributed by American C...

Handwritten accounts received and distributed, in cardboard-bound lined "Exercises" notebook, hand-labeled on the cover "Relief Fund." Includes listings "Money received from Mr. Trowbridge Feb. 4, 1918-April 19... More

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

A group of people riding in a horse drawn carriage. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A group of people riding in a horse drawn carriage. Photograph album, ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of Our Rest and Signs of the Times, with illustrations

"The Great Pyramid of Egypt--The Mightiest Wonder on Earth" issue of O...

Printed issue (Nov. 1882) vol. 9, no. 11, pp. 161-168, with illustrations. By "The Editor." Published by Thomas Wilson, Chicago, Ill., and W. H. Guest, Pateroster Row, London, England. Illustrated with views of... More

Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Jerusalem

Photographic portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford, Jerusalem

Studio portrait of Horatio Gates Spafford taken in Jerusalem, ca. 1885-88. Head and shoulders portrait of Spafford looking left, wearing eyeglasses, jacket, vest, and collar. With beard. Photograph by G. Krik... More

Newspaper clipping, Olga Owens' review of Paul D. Moody's biography of Dwight L. Moody, published in the Boston Evening Transcript

Newspaper clipping, Olga Owens' review of Paul D. Moody's biography of...

Newspaper clipping, 1 p. Olga Owens' review of My Father: An Intimate Portrait of Dwight Moody (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.) by Paul D. Moody. Headline: "A Great Evangelist Seen in the Eyes of His Son." Includ... More

Bible of Horatio Gates Spafford (facsimile edition, English Version of Bagster's Polyglot Bible, London): selected pages and handwritten notes

Bible of Horatio Gates Spafford (facsimile edition, English Version of...

Scans include handwritten notes in front and back sections of the Bible, plus samples of Spafford notations on selected passages from scripture (from Genesis, Exodus, 1 Kings, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Matthew, Joh... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Photograph album, Locust plague of 1915

Black leather photograph album, bound vertically, containing 57 hand-colored prints ( ca. 10 1/2 x 7 1/2") depicting the effects of the locust plague of 1915 in Palestine. Attributed to Lewis Larsson, photograp... More

Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved alone" among her traveling party in the shipwreck of the Ville du Havre

Telegram from Anna Spafford to Horatio Gates Spafford re being "Saved ...

Handwritten cablegram, Atlantic Cable Message, The Western Union Telegraph Company. To [Horatio Gates] Spafford, 159 LaSalle St., Chicago [law office of H. G. Spafford]. Received at Chicago, Ill., Dec. 2d, 5:4... More

Business card of attorneys Horatio Gates Spafford, H. O. McDaid, & John P. Wilson, Chicago, Illinois

Business card of attorneys Horatio Gates Spafford, H. O. McDaid, & Joh...

Printed business card of law firm Spafford, McDaid & Wilson (H. G. Spafford, H. O. McDaid, and John P. Wilson) Attorneys and Counselors at Law, Room 37 Republic Life Building, 157 & 159 LaSalle Street, Chicago.

Letter from Irene M. Givenwilson, Curator, American Red Cross Museum, to Bertha Spafford Vester

Letter from Irene M. Givenwilson, Curator, American Red Cross Museum, ...

Typed letter on American Red Cross, National Headquarters, letterhead to Mrs. Vester in Jerusalem. Re receipt of material from Jerusalem for the Red Cross Museum (1 p.)

Newspaper clipping, Olga Owens' review of Paul D. Moody's biography of Dwight L. Moody, published in the Boston Evening Transcript

Newspaper clipping, Olga Owens' review of Paul D. Moody's biography of...

Newspaper clipping, 1 p. Olga Owens' review of My Father: An Intimate Portrait of Dwight Moody (Boston: Little, Brown & Co.) by Paul D. Moody. Headline: "A Great Evangelist Seen in the Eyes of His Son." Includ... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

A group of people standing and sitting in a field. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A group of people standing and sitting in a field. Photograph album, C...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Photograph album, World War I, Palestine and Sinai

Green cloth and black leather spine bound photograph album containing 296 captioned prints depicting events, troop movements, and military activities during World War I, with emphasis on Ottoman, German, and A... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Vester

Scrapbook compiled by Fannie L. Koster and given to Bertha Spafford Ve...

Black bound scrapbook containing clippings, correspondence, pictures, and ephemera, with loose enclosures, representing exchanges over years between friend and patron Fannie L. Koster of Brooklyn, N.Y., and the... More

Photographic copy of lithograph,"The Sinking of the Steamship Ville du Havre" (1873)

Photographic copy of lithograph,"The Sinking of the Steamship Ville du...

Illustration depicts the immediate aftermath of the accident at sea in the shipwreck of the French luxury steamship Ville du Havre and the British iron ship Loch Earn in the mid-Atlantic ocean. Published by Cur... More

Picture postcard, "Fishermen at Jaffa"

Picture postcard, "Fishermen at Jaffa"

Black and white print of a man and a boy fishing at the seashore.

Picture postcard "An Orthodox Jew of Jerusalem"

Picture postcard "An Orthodox Jew of Jerusalem"

Black and white print portrait of man with hat, cane, overcoat, and white beard, sitting in a chair.

Letter from Dwight L. Moody to D. W. Daniel Webster Whittle

Letter from Dwight L. Moody to D. W. Daniel Webster Whittle

Autograph letter signed, pen and ink, 6 pp. Dwight L. Moody writes to fellow evangelist and hymn writer Whittle re finances, preaching, Christian calling, and Horatio Gates Spafford.

Hospital record for Mustafa Zekie

Hospital record for Mustafa Zekie

Handwritten hospital tabala on printed form. The American Colony in Jerusalem was a Christian utopian community that was established in Jerusalem in the late 19th century. The community was founded by a group ... More

Letter from Edward F. Loud to Friends of the American Colony in Jerusalem (contains copies of various earlier correspondence)

Letter from Edward F. Loud to Friends of the American Colony in Jerusa...

Loud prints letter dated Aug. 20, 1916 including text of various letters received, including the U.S. State Department to Otis A. Glazebrook, Esquire, American Consul, Jerusalem, Dec. 23, 1916; Jacob Spafford... More

Account book, charitable monies received and distributed by American Colony (accounts of funds from Mr. Trowbridge and Mr. Cleland distributed to recipients in Palestine)

Account book, charitable monies received and distributed by American C...

Handwritten accounts received and distributed, in cardboard-bound lined "Exercises" notebook, hand-labeled on the cover "Relief Fund." Includes listings "Money received from Mr. Trowbridge Feb. 4, 1918-April 19... More

Photograph of home of Anna and Horatio Gates Spafford, Lake View (Chicago), Illinois

Photograph of home of Anna and Horatio Gates Spafford, Lake View (Chic...

Black and white stereo photograph of family home of Anna and Horatio Gates Spafford, Lake View, Illinois. Four unidentified adults and one child in yard, with large tree. Photograph by P.B. Greene, Photographe... More

Letter from Anna Spafford to Mrs. Morse

Letter from Anna Spafford to Mrs. Morse

Autograph letter signed, pen and ink, 4 pp. Re parochial education in Jerusalem, Bertha and Grace Spafford's involvement in the Moslem Girls School in Jerusalem, the Greek Orthodox Church in Palestine, and the... More

Photograph of Bertha Spafford Vester and son John Vester with Jamal Pasha and Louise Vester

Photograph of Bertha Spafford Vester and son John Vester with Jamal Pa...

Black and white print photograph of Bertha Spafford Vester with her two young children John (Jock) and Louise, socializing at an outdoor table with Turkish army commander Jamal Pasha.

A black and white photo of a group of people. Photograph album, Christian Herald Orphanage

A black and white photo of a group of people. Photograph album, Christ...

Black leather-bound photograph album featuring 36 black & white captioned prints and 46 black & white portraits of girls. The pages of the album following the portraits of individual girls are blank. 13 loose... More

Bible of Horatio Gates Spafford (facsimile edition, English Version of Bagster's Polyglot Bible, London): selected pages and handwritten notes

Bible of Horatio Gates Spafford (facsimile edition, English Version of...

Scans include handwritten notes in front and back sections of the Bible, plus samples of Spafford notations on selected passages from scripture (from Genesis, Exodus, 1 Kings, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Matthew, Joh... More

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