Center for Adventist Research Manuscript Collections
The Andrews University Center for Adventist Research holds over 400 named manuscript collections comprising about 4,000 linear feet of records. Materials in these collections include letters, diaries, personal items, biographical/autobiographical material, topical or subject-focused files, research and lecture notes, published and unpublished manuscripts, photographs, scrapbooks, audiovisual recordings, artifacts, and more. Much of this is considered primary research material. Somewhere over half of these collections of personal papers are currently processed (organized) and ready for research use. Work continues on those collections that are not yet available.
At the Center for Adventist Research, there are three ways to gain access to manuscript collections that are ready for research use.
1. Access the James White Library catalog. Search for an author or subject name and look for “Papers” among the hits. Conversely, do a title search for “Papers,” and then look for an individual name that interests you. You may also do a non-LC call number search for “Collection” to see a list of all available manuscript collections.
2. Access the Center’s Archives Space portal. There you may do a word or phrase search and the application will return all hits across all of our manuscript collections descriptors that match your search terms. You will then need to navigate through the Archives Space environment to see the search results. Please note that with only a few exceptions, what we have available digitally is the finding aid and the descriptors that appear in the finding aid. Full text of the manuscript collections is generally not available at this time. Digitizing a manuscript collection is an extremely time-intensive process that we have not been able to undertake except for a handful of collections. If you would like to sponsor our digitization of a manuscript collection, please contact us at car@andrews.edu.
3. Access the manuscript collections in PDF format. Below is a listing of all our manuscript collections finding aids in PDF format. Look through the list until you find a collection name that interests you. When you click on it the PDF of the finding aid, or register, will open. You may scroll through the finding aid or use the “Find” feature of the PDF reader to search for terms that appear in the finding aid.
If you have questions or need help locating a specific Collection register, please contact the Center for Adventist Research at car@andrews.edu.
List of all collections in PDF:
Adventist Controversial Topics, 1970s to 1990s – 362
Adventist Heritage Ministry Records – 312
Albright, William F. Biography Collection – 100
Amadon, Grace Collection – 154
Anderson, John Peter Papers – 20
Anderson, Roy Allan Papers – 152
Andren, Henry E. Collection – 122
Andrew Fearing Collection – 105
Andross, E. E. Collection – 129
Andross, Matilda Erickson Papers – 130
Australia Historical Materials – 237
Battle Creek Sanitarium Collection – 234
Baxter, Sr., William E. and William E. Baxter, Jr. Collection – 265
Beardsell, Derek C. Collection – 101
Becker, C. Warren Collection – 210
Belden, Franklin E. Collection – 225
Bell, Goodloe Harper: Allan G. Lindsay Collection – 41
Bordoville [Enosburgh], Vermont Church Records – 175
Boulder Adventist Church History Collection – 254
Branson, W. H. Collection – 109
Brownsberger, Sidney Family Papers – 14
Case, Azaria Chamberlain (Australia) – 138
Chalmers, Elden M. Collection – 245
Chilson, Adriel D. Collection – 32
Christensen, Otto Collection – 33
Church Bulletin Collection – 334
Cleveland, E. E. Collection – 267
Clinton Theological Seminary Collection – 34
Colón, May-Ellen Collection – 221
Committee for Women in Ministry Collection – 261
Conradi, L. R. Collection – 226
Corliss, Julia Anne Diary – 285
Cottrell, Raymond F. Papers – 238
Craw, Hiram A. Collection – 268
Daniells, A. G. Collection – 227
DeGraw, M. Bessie Papers – 339
Delaporte, Ernest P. Collection – 220
Detamore, Fordyce W. Collection – 332
Eckenroth, Melvin K. Papers – 163
Edwards, Ballenger Calvin Collection – 213
Edwards, Calvin Collection – 128
Edwardson, Christian Papers – 27
Effenberg, Johann Heinrich Collection – 21
Farnsworth Family Diaries – 182
Floyd Greenleaf Adventist Education Collection – 344
Floyd Greenleaf Latin American and Caribbean Collection – 236
Gafford, Mary Kate Papers – 351
Gordon, Paul A. Collection – 281
Graf, Otto J. Collection – 123
Griggs, Frederick Papers: Arnold C. Reye Collection – 135
Hall, Lucinda M. Collection – 228
Hare, Eric B. and Robert Collection – 40
Hare, Peter Edgar Collection – 247
Harlan, Nevins M. Collection – 242
Haskell, Stephen N. Collection – 233
Haughey, Joseph H. Papers – 45
Haynes, Carlyle B. Collection – 46
Haynes, Donald F. Collection – 47
Heppenstall, Edward Papers – 190
Herndon, Booton (Desmond Doss) Collection – 248
Historical Materials: Experiences in Australasia Collection – 235
Hoffman, Jay Milton Papers – 164
Holbert, J. Lloyd Tape Collection – 195
Horn, Siegfried H. Collection – 78
Horsley, Albert E. Diaries (Pseud. Harry Orchard) – 257
Hudgins-Murray, Virginia Lee Collection – 244
Human Relations Workshop Recordings – 179
Inca Union Mission Correspondence, 1917-1925 – 305
Ingathering Tracts Collection – 298
International Adventist Musicians Association Records – 361
Jaecks, Lenard D. Collection – 266
Kansas Sanitarium Collection – 256
Kellogg, John Harvey Papers – 06
Kramer, Wilfried J. Collection – 188
LaRondelle, Hans K. Papers – 304
Liechty, Daniel Collection – 216
Lloyd, Ernest W. Collection – 56
Loasby, Roland E. Lecture Notes – 11
Loughborough, John N. Papers – 327
Madison Institutions Collection – 167
Magan, Percy T. Collection – 229
Marcio, Braulio Perez Collection – 22
Miller, Harry Collection – 252
Miller, William Collection – 25
Monteith, J. Ernest Papers – 159
Moon, Jerry A. Collection – 224
Moore, Raymond S. Collection – 241
Morneau, Roger J. Collection – 308
Nelson, Andrew N. Papers – 289
Numbers, Ron Collection – The Creationists – 178
Oakland, Wisconsin, Seventh-day Adventist Church Records – 292
Ohio Conference Historical Records Collection – 183
Oliver, Barry D. Collection – 147
Padderatz, Gerhard F. H. Collection – 72
Patterson, Glenn Collection – 259
Pease, Norval F. Collection – 150
Pedersen, Emanuel W. Collection – 263
Phipps Family Collection – 223
Prescott, W. W. Collection – 232
Prescott, W. W. Papers: Gilbert Valentine Collection – 127
Prescott, William Warren Papers – 143
Price, George McCready Papers – 02
Reavis Family Collection – 279
Records of the Association of Adventist Women – 325
Rees, Pearl L. Story Collection – 187
Richard E. Harris Collection – 09
Richards Jr., H.M.S. Papers – 343
Seventh-day Adventist Dietetic Association Records – 303
Seventh-day Adventist Encyclopedia Original Articles Collection – 277
Shuler, John L. Collection – 80
Simpson, William Ward Collection – 81
Smith, S. Parker Collection – 249
Spalding, Arthur Whitefield Papers I – 10
Spalding, Arthur Whitefield Papers II – 296
Spicer, William A. Papers – 03
Strand, Kenneth A. Papers – 192
Sutherland, E. A. Collection – 231
Sutherland, Edward A. Collection – 84
The Midnight Cry Video Production Collection – 240
Vandeman, George E. Collection – 288
Vaucher, Alfred-Félix Papers – 91
Vere, E. K. Vande Collection: The Wisdom Seekers – 04
Vitrano, Steven P. Papers – 191
Waggoner, Joseph H. Collection – 315
Walter, Dorothy Blake Collection – 283
Walther, Daniel Collection – 141
Wangerin, Theodora Collection – 92
Waterhouse, S. Douglas Collection – 196
Watson, Charles Henry Papers – 05
Weeks, Howard B. Collection Adventist Evangelism In the 20th Century – 18
Wickwire, Bruce M. Papers – 194
List of collections in PDF that have not yet been included in the Archive Space database:
Andrews-Spicer Collection – 250
Ard, Susan and Herschel Letter Collection – 350
Association of Seventh-day Adventist Librarians Archives – 199
Ballenger, Albion Fox Edward S. Ballenger and Donald E. Mote Papers – 87
Battle Creek Sanitarium Recipe Cards, 1930s to 1950s – 360
Beavon, Eric A. Collection – 384
Chapman, Muriel E. Collection – The History of Seventh-day Adventist Nursing – 270
College, University and Academy School Bulletin Collection – 46
College, University, NAD Academy, and Overseas School Bulletin Collection – 51
Couperus, Molleurus Collection – 184
Ellen G. White Estate Andrews University Branch Office Archive Collection – 260
Grotheer, William H. Collection – 287
Habada, Patricia Collection The Development of SDA Women Clergy – 253
Hammill, L. Richard Collection – 161
Herndon, Booton Collection: The Seventh Day – 79
Holmes, Claude E. Collection – 291
Johnson-Lewis Family Letters Collection – 382
Koch, Alfred Curt Collection – 53
MacIvor, Charles Collection – 251
Mansell, Donald Collection – Armageddon and the King of the North – 198
New York Conference Historical Records – 322
Nichol, F. D. Collection – 264
Offermann, Klemis A. Collection – 71
Penner, Jacob Bernard Collection – 68
Racine Street Project Collection – 329
Ragland, John Marshall Collection – 74
Scwarz, Richard W. Collection – 157
Smith, Uriah Mark Bovee Collection – 146
Vyhmeister, Nancy Collection – 300
White, Ellen G compilation Collection – 140