Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions Records, 1886-1964
Publisher: Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions
Published: 1886-1964
Place of publication: Northfield, Mass.
Language: eng
Format: Microfiche
Notes: Microfiche. Jamestown, N.C. : James Lutzweiler, Schnappsburg University Press, 2008 approx. 12,000 fiche ; 11 x 15 cm.

The contents of each box are described in the 170-page guide to the collection that follows the guide to the box enumerations.

The collection is housed in the archives of Yale University Library, Divinity Library Special Collections.

The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization which sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad. It also sought to publicize and encourage the missionary enterprise in general.

The papers document the activities of the Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions and provide valuable information on various aspects of American religious life during the period 1886-1964. Religious conditions on American college and university campuses are documented. Vast files of student volunteer application, information and health examination blanks provide personal data on thousands of prospective missionaries which is of potential interest to genealogists, biographers and historians. The financial records and correspondence provide documentation related to philanthropic support of religious causes in America. The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions was an organization that sought to recruit college and university students in the United States for missionary service abroad. It also publicized and encouraged the missionary enterprise in general.
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Table of contents: title: I. Volunteer and inquirer forms and statistics; title: II. Volunteer and inquirer correspondence; title: III. General correspondence; title: IV. Financial correspondence and records; title: V. Organization and policy records; title: VI. Field work; title: VII. Publications and literature distribution; title: VIII. Conventions; title: IX. Relationships with other organizations; title: X. Photographs