American Colony in Jerusalem collection, (Record no. 44703)
[ view plain ]
| 000 -LEADER | |
|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 06684cpcaa2200985 i 4500 |
| 001 - CONTROL NUMBER | |
| control field | mm2004085137 |
| 003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER | |
| control field | DLC |
| 005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION | |
| control field | 20260227111730.0 |
| 007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | cr ||||||||||| |
| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION | |
| fixed length control field | 041220|||||||||||| eng |
| 010 ## - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CONTROL NUMBER | |
| LC control number | mm2004085137 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Language of cataloging | eng |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| -- | ara |
| -- | heb |
| -- | swe |
| -- | tur |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | N |
| Source | lcmd |
| 110 2# - MAIN ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | American Colony (Jerusalem) |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | American Colony in Jerusalem collection, |
| Inclusive dates | circa 1786-2007 |
| Bulk dates | (bulk 1870-1968). |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 16,600 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 64 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 18 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 37.6 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in three parts composed of fourteen series. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Part I arranged in two series. Series 1: Topical File, 1871-2004; and Series 2: Oversize, 1871-1942. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Part II arranged in seven series. Series 1: Our Jerusalem, circa 1786-1942; Series 2: Bertha Spafford Vester Diaries, 1920-1968; Series 3: American Colony Members, 1810-2006; Series 4: Business and Legal Files, 1811-2006; Series 5: Chronological File, 1893-1968; Series 6: Miscellany, 1869-2005; Series 7: Restricted, 1887-1984; and Series 8: Oversize, 1866-1938. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Part III arranged in five series. Series 1: Bertha Spafford Vester Files, 1861-1991; Series 2: John D. Whiting Files, 1906-1924; Series 3: Valentine Vester Files, 1989-2007; Series 4: Miscellany, 1879-1997; and Series 5: Oversize, 1918-1967. |
| 506 1# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Restrictions apply. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, diaries, minutes, notes, hymns, financial and legal records, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, photograph albums, and other papers relating to the history of the American Colony and its members, particularly the Spafford, Vester, and Whiting families. Documents the events that led to the founding of this cooperative Christian community in the Holy Land; the lives and philanthropic work of American Colony members including the Anna Baby Home (later the Anna Spafford Baby Home, the Spafford Children's Hospital, and Spafford Children's Center) and other health care services; the secularization and shift toward incorporation of the religious commune; tourist services provided by the colony; and the conflict and split between American and Swedish members. Also documents life in Jerusalem and Palestine as part of the Ottoman Empire, the British mandate, Jordan, and Israel. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Documents business interests including the American Colony Stores and Fr. Vester & Co. Subjects also include the trial in Chicago concerning Mary Whiting's custody of her two children, John D. Whiting and Ruth Whiting; Swedes emigrating to join the American Colony; the locust plague of 1915; antagonism of the U.S. consuls toward the colony; World War I in Palestine; the 1927 earthquake; and Jewish-Arab violence especially the Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. Includes the papers of Anna T. Spafford, Horatio Gates Spafford, and Bertha Spafford Vester. Horatio Gates Spafford's papers include his handwritten lyrics to the hymn, It is well with my soul, written after a shipwreck that resulted in the death of his four daughters. Other individuals represented include Anna Grace Vester, Frederick Vester, Frieda Vester, Horatio Vester, John Vester, Louise Vester, Tanetta Vester, Valentine Vester, Grace Spafford Whiting, and John D. Whiting. |
| 530 ## - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM AVAILABLE NOTE | |
| Additional physical form available note | Selected material also available through the Library of Congress Web site. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Audio-visual recordings |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Some maps |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Geography and Map Division. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Some picture postcards |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
| 545 1# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Religious community in Jerusalem founded by American emigré Christians, Horatio Gates Spafford and his wife, Anna T. Spafford, and perpetuated by their daughter, Bertha Spafford Vester, and others. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material chiefly in English, with Arabic, Hebrew, Swedish, and Turkish. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Anna Grace. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Frederick. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Frieda. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, John. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Louise. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Tanetta. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Valentine. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whiting, Grace Spafford. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whiting, Mary. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whiting, Ruth. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whiting, John D. |
| Fuller form of name | (John David), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1882-1951. |
| 600 34 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Spafford family. |
| 600 34 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester family. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Whiting family. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | American Colony Stores. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Anna Baby Home. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Anna Spafford Baby Home. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Fr. Vester & Co. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Spafford Children's Center. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Spafford Children's Hospital. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Americans |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Charities |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Christian communities |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Consuls |
| Geographic subdivision | Jerusalem. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Consuls |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Earthquakes |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Hymns. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Jewish-Arab relations. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Locusts |
| Geographic subdivision | Middle East. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Medical care |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Shipwrecks |
| Geographic subdivision | Atlantic Ocean. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Swedes |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Tourism |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | World War, 1914-1918 |
| Geographic subdivision | Palestine. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Jerusalem |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Jerusalem |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Israel |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Jordan |
| General subdivision | History. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Palestine |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 19th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Palestine |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | 20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME | |
| Geographic name | Turkey |
| General subdivision | History |
| Chronological subdivision | Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Spafford, Anna T., |
| Dates associated with a name | 1842-1923. |
| Date of a work | Anna T. Spafford papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Spafford, Horatio Gates, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1828-1888. |
| Date of a work | Horatio Gates Spafford papers. |
| 700 1# - ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Vester, Bertha Spafford, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1878-1968. |
| Date of a work | Bertha Spafford Vester papers. |
| 740 0# - ADDED ENTRY--UNCONTROLLED RELATED/ANALYTICAL TITLE | |
| Uncontrolled related/analytical title | American Colony in Jerusalem Collection in the Library of Congress. |
| 856 41 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | American Colony in Jerusalem Collection : Selected Material |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000020">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000020</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms010123.3</a> |
No items available.