Series 4: Scrapbooks and memorabilia, 1827 -- 1923
This series contains some restricted material. Restrictions related to specific material are listed in the detailed contents list.
2.75 linear feet; 2.75 linear feet; 3 boxes and 3 OS boxes
This series contains a variety of Schaff's memorabilia, including a photograph album, books of pressed flowers from the Holy Land, an autobiographical scrapbook, periodicals, two books, and a semi-centennial booklet dedicated to Schaff. In the photograph album are 58 photographs of Schaff's Academic contacts, most of which are named in Schaff's own hand, e.g. Patrick Fairbairn of Glasgow, Dr. Grimm of Jena, "Winchester", Dr. Harnack. Some however are named in another later hand with some inaccuracies. Philip Schaff dedicated his autobiographical scrapbook "For my Children," giving rise to the possibility that this may have been used by David Schaff in his published biography of his father. Contents include: biographical note, list of publications, and clippings, articles, invitations, programs, and letters, including one from Schaff's daughter Meta and one from William Gladstone. The Semi-Centennial booklet was produced in 1892 in honor of Schaff's fifty years of teaching, dating from his first lecture at University of Berlin in 1842. The booklet includes a congratulatory address from the University of Berlin, notes or letters from Dr. Weiss, Dr. Harnack, the Union Seminary faculty, and Charles Butler, a student publication in honor of Schaff, and newspaper clippings.
This series is arranged roughly chronologically.
Box 5 Folder 1
Letter of Appointment to Mercersberg, 1843
Box 5 Folder 2
Ordination Certificate, 1844
Box 5 Folder 3
Chi Alpha Roll, Poem, 1867
Box 5 Folder 4
Semi-Centennial Documents, Berlin, 1842 -- 1892
Box 5 Folder 5
Facsimile Bull of Excommunication of Martin Luther, circa 1842 -- 1892
Box 5 Folder 6
Misc., circa 1870
Notes-List of Contributors to Critical, Doctrinal and Homiletical Commentary on Bible Letter re August Tholuck, Dec. 1870 (German) American and British Bible Revision Committees Membership
Box 5 Folder 7
Commemorative Address in The Century, 1893
Box 5 Folder 8
Book-H. von Holst, Constitutional Law of the United States, tr. A. B. Mason, 1887
Box 5 Folder 9
Notebook by Ernst Fink--Friedrich Schleiermacher, Lectures on the Church's Geography and Statistics, 1827
Box 5 Folder 10
Philip Schaff Memorial Committee, 1923
Box 6
Photograph Album--58 Academic portrait photographs, circa 1923
Box 7
Flowers, 1871 -- 1877
Restricted due to fragility.
Wild Flowers from Palestine by Harvey B. GreeneFlowers of Holy Land, 1871Natural Flowers of Jerusalem and Environs, Bought inJerusalem by Philip Schaff, 1877
Box OS1
Schaff's Autobiographical Engraved Scrapbook, 1870
Box OS2
Scrapbook--Articles, Publisher's Prospectuses, 1883 -- 1889
Box OS3
Sammelband of Correspondence and Pamphlets, circa 1883 -- 1889