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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

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The Burke Library is one of the largest theological libraries in North America, with holdings of over 700,000 items, including extensive special collections. The mission of the Burke Library is to identify, acquire, organize, provide access to, interpret, and preserve for the future information in the field of theology and contextually related areas of study.
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Chi Alpha, 1816-1967 14 boxes (14 boxes)

Chi Alpha (New York, N.Y.)

Manuals (annual) containing historical sketch, constitution, list of members and officers, 1882-1937 (incomplete); meeting records including order of exercises, 1883-1926, and Centennial Meeting , 1829-1929, Nov. 30, 1929; scrapbook, 1829-1929, containing letters, programs, and clippings; minutes, including original transcript of minutes of the first meeting of Chi Alpha, Nov. 28, 1829, first book of minutes, 1829-1933, minutes, Nov. 27, 1829-Feb. 26, 1938 (21 v.) and Jan. 4, 1964-Dec. 16, 1967 (2 v.); Secretary's annual report, 1852-1938; Treasurer's annual report, 1858-1926; Topic Committee's annual report, 1897-1925; two committee reports, 1845, 1881; thirteen letters, 1838-1901; address, essays, and poems related to Presidents' inaugurals, 1867-1926, and other events, 1863-1938; obituaries of members, 1816-1937; and six memorial pamphlets.

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Department of Church Planning and Research records, 1855-1985, bulk 1930-1980 58 linear feet (58 linear feet 99 boxes)

Council of Churches of the City of New York. Department of Church Planning and Research

Includes materials from Church Planning and Research Department; and materials from states of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut organized by borough, city, metropolitan region, and its counterparts including census reports, church community studies, demographic monographs, evaluative reports, denominational histories, minutes, publications of data, and Regional Plan Association publications.

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Francis Brown papers, 1832 -- 1940 18 linear feet (18 linear feet; 36 boxes)

Brown, Francis, 1849-1916
Francis Brown was a Presbyterian minister, biblical scholar, and Union Theological Seminary president. The collection contains correspondence (including relating to Union Settlement and Union Theological Seminary; General Synod of the Presbyterian Church); class notes; sermons; the Brown, Briggs, Driver Hebrew-English Lexicon manuscript; family papers and photographs; and an earthenware Astarte figurine.
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Sophia Lyon Fahs papers, circa 1850 -- 1987 3.5 linear feet (3.5 linear feet; 6 boxes and 1 reel box)

Fahs, Sophia Lyon, 1876-1978
Sophia Lyon Fahs was a Unitarian educator, author, editor, minister, innovator in religious education of children, one of the first women faculty members at Union Theological Seminary, and wife of Methodist minister Charles Harvey Fahs. The collection contains papers from Sophia Lyon Fahs' UTS Alumni File as well as her personal files, including materials related to her husband Charles Fahs' writings; correspondence with her biographer Edith Hunter as well as general correspondence; Riverside Church Sunday School papers and religious education publications; and materials donated by Dorothy Beck Fahs, including articles about SLF, memorials, and correspondence, as well as drafts and correspondence related to Cobb and Dorothy Fahs' work on Old Tales for a New Day (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1981), the companion volume to Sophia Fahs' earlier books on mythic stories for children.
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