Papers of Laura Isabelle Barr, 1930-1993.

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Papers of Laura Isabelle Barr, 1930-1993.

Correspondence, diaries, articles, clippings, oral history interviews, photograph albums, photographs, prayer letters, radio broadcasts, and slides, describing Barr's missionary work among the Lugbara people of northeast Belgian Congo and the West Nile District of Uganda.

2 boxes (.75 cubic feet)17 sound tape reels (17 hrs., 36 min.) : analog, 3 3/4 ips, 2 track, mono. ; 7 in., 1/4 in. tape.

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