Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Missionary Research Library (New York, N.Y.)
- Extent:
- 87 boxes and 87 boxes
- Language:
- English .
Background
- Scope and Content:
Includes correspondence, reports and annual reports, minutes, studies, surveys, publications, and history of the Missionary Research Library.
- Biographical / Historical:
An outcome of the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh, 1910, the Missionary Research Library was founded in 1914 by John R. Mott in connection with the Foreign Missions Conference of North America. In 1929 the Library was housed in the Brown Memorial Tower of Union Theological Seminary, its Board of Trustees composed of Foreign Missions Conference of North America and Union Theological Seminary members. In 1967, its unique collections, heritage of Ecumenical Protestantism, were transferred into the care of the Union Theological Seminary Library. In 1976 its Board of Trustees dissolved.
- Acquisition information:
- Correspondence, reports, annual reports, minutes, studies, surveys, history, publications.
- Processing information:
Correspondence, reports, annual reports, minutes, studies, surveys, history, publications Cataloged Lynn A. Grove 08/03/88.
- Rules or conventions:
- appm
Indexed Terms
- Subjects:
- Theological libraries -- New York (State) -- New York
- Names:
- Foreign Missions Conference of North America
Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
World Missionary Conference (Location of meeting: Edinburgh, Scotland). Date of meeting or treaty signing: (1910 :.)
Mott, John R. (John Raleigh), 1865-1955
Access
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
- CONTACT:
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(212) 851-5606burke@library.columbia.edu