American Colony in Jerusalem collection, (Record no. 44703)

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001 - CONTROL NUMBER
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003 - CONTROL NUMBER IDENTIFIER
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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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007 - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION FIXED FIELD--GENERAL INFORMATION
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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
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-- 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>

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