Interchurch World Movement records, 1919 -- 1962

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Series I: Administrative records, 1919 -- 1921

This series is open for research.

0.5 linear feet; 0.5 linear feet; 1 box

This series contains the records of the Interchurch World Movement(IWM) including pamphlets, typed and handwritten notes regarding the reorganization of the Movement, budget proposals, reports and minutes, a survey of the IWM in Japan, newspaper clippings, and correspondences arranged chronologically to A.L. Warnshuis from various board members of the Interchurch World Movement.

This series is arranged in rough chronological order.



Box 1 Folder 1 Budget Proposals of Foreign Survey Division, 1919


Box 1 Folder 2 Pamphlets, 1919 -- 1920


Box 1 Folder 3 Survey: Japan, 1919


Box 1 Folder 4 Reports and minutes, 1919 -- 1920


Box 1 Folder 5 Correspondence, 1920


Box 1 Folder 6 Notes, circa 1920 -- 1921


Box 1 Folder 7 Newspaper clippings, 1920 -- 1921

Series II: History, circa 1920 -- 1962

This series is open for research.

0.25 linear feet; 0.25 linear feet; 1 box

This series contains an unbound ten-chapter manuscript documenting the history of the Interchurch World Movement, as well as notes and correspondence to and from Barbara Ann Griffis, the Ecumenical Librarian at Union Theological Seminary in 1962, regarding the manuscript.

This series is arranged in reverse chronological order.



Box 2 Folder 1 Correspondence and note, 1962


Box 2 Folder 2-11 History of Interchurch World Movement, Chapters 1-10, circa 1920 -- 1929