Nyack College archives, 1871-1984.

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Nyack College archives, 1871-1984.

Archives of the College include catalogs and other college publications, 1911-1935; clippings, articles, circular letters, speeches, and typescript articles, 1933-1984, concerning faculty, college presidents, missionary experiences of graduates, reminiscences of the college, and history of the college; autograph and memory albums of students, 1909-1976; five volumes of lecture notes kept by a student, 1899-1900; letters on the death of college president Dr. Thomas Moseley, 1959-1960; typescript copies of letters from William Christie to family members, 1891-1907, concerning his missionary activities in China and Tibet; transcript of an interview with Howard A. Smith in 1970 describing an episode when he and his family were kidnapped by Chinese communists in West China in 1934; illustrated booklet, 1935, on the Clarkstown Country Club (the club property is now part of Nyack College grounds), and articles about its owner Pierre A. Bernard (also known as the "Omnipotent Oom"); and photographs of the College, students, faculty, and staff, and missionary activities of its graduates, ca. 1900-1980.

ca. 8 cubic ft.

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Nyack College (Nyack, N.Y.). Library.

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Collecting area: History of Nyack College, the Rev. A.B. Simpson, and the Christian and Missionary Alliance. From the description of Repository description. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155538222 Nyack College, founded in 1882 by Reverend Albert Benjamin Simpson (1843-1919) to train Christian missionaries and lay workers, was known as the Missionary Training Institute of the Christian and Missionary Alliance until 1956. In 1972 it became Nyack College and offered a liberal...

Moseley, Thomas Byrd, 1915-

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Christie, William (William Lincoln)

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Smith, Howard A., 1943-....

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Nyack College (Nyack, N.Y.)

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Simpson, A. Buckingham

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Bernard, Pierre A., 1936-....

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MacKenzie, Kenneth, FRCS

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Clarkstown Country Club (Clarkstown, N.Y.)

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