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Author/Creator:Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.
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Title:Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions records, 1886-1964 (inclusive).
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Physical Description:285 linear feet (673 boxes, 60 oversize volumes)
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Links:View a description and listing of collection contents in the finding aid
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Notes:Chiefly in English.
Gift of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions, 1944-1963.
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Organization:Organized into ten series: I. Volunteer and inquirer forms and statistics. II. Volunteer and inquirer correspondence. III. General correspondence. IV. Financial correspondence and records. V. Organization and policy records. VI. Field work. VII. Publications and literature distribution. VIII. Conventions. IX. Relationships with other organizations. X. Photographs.
- Access and use:This collection is open for research.
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Biographical / Historical note:The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization which sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad. It also sought to publicize and encourage the missionary enterprise in general.
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Summary:Material documents the activities of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and provides valuable information on various aspects of American religious life during the period 1886-1964. Religious conditions on American college and university campuses are documented. Vast files of student volunteer application, information and health examination blanks provide personal data on thousands of prospective missionaries which is of potential interest to genealogists, biographers and historians. The financial records and correspondence provide documentation related to philanthropic support of religious causes in America.
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Variant and related titles:Archives of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
- Format:Archives or Manuscripts
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Indexes/Finding aids:Finding aid available in repository and on internet.
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Cite as:Archives of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions (RG 42). Special Collections, Yale Divinity School Library.
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Subjects:Beach, Harlan P. (Harlan Page), 1854-1933.
Capan, Edward Warren, 1870-1947.
Eddy, Sherwood, 1871-1963.
Judd, Walter H., 1898-1994.
Latourette, Kenneth Scott, 1884-1968.
Mackay, John Alexander, 1889-1983.
Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955.
Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971.
Speer, Robert E. (Robert Elliott), 1867-1947.
Van Dusen, Henry P. (Henry Pitney), 1897-1975.
Visser 't Hooft, Willem Adolph, 1900-1985.
Warnshuis, A. L. (Abbe Livingston), 1877-1958.
Wilder, Robert P., 1863-1938.
Zwemer, Samuel Marinus, 1867-1952.
National Student Christian Federation.
Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions.
College students in missionary work.
College students--Religious life.
Missions.
Universities and colleges--Religion.
Women in missionary work.
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/747909