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The Michigan District Mission Board Papers
Collection
Identifier: SD001
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of materials created by and collected by various members of the Michigan District Mission Board, in particular from the files of former District Mission Board chairmen—Rev. Daniel Gieschen, Rev. Herbert Kuske and Rev. Frederick Adrian—and from laymember Louis Leitz. The collection reflects a very busy time in the history of the Michigan District, as new missions formed across the state of Michigan, as well as throughout Ohio, western Pennsylvania and West Virginia....
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1940 - 1995
The Northwestern College Archival Collection
Collection
Identifier: S006
Scope and Contents
This collection reflects the wide array of people, activities, and functions of the College throughout its one hundred thirty year history. The files include various correspondence, reports, records, agendas and minutes for the administration and departmental operations of the college. There are also many publications and essays which related to various aspects of the school. In addition, many photographs, slides, artifacts, and memorabilia have been preserved which exhibit the day-to-day...
Dates:
1854 - 2001
The Northwestern Lutheran Academy Papers
Collection
Identifier: S009
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of materials produced by or about Northwestern Lutheran Academy since 1927. This collection also includes the Reinhold A. Fenske papers from 1912-1985.
The collection reflects the life of a small, Lutheran academy established on the prairies of South Dakota to offer a Christian education to the young adults of the outlying districts of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). This collection reflects the synod’s challenges of maintaining a school of this...
Dates:
1912 - 1993
The Northwestern Preparatory School Papers
Collection
Identifier: S008
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of materials produced by or about Northwestern Preparatory School since 1918. The collection reflects the life of a vibrant, growing college preparatory school established for the purpose of feeding students to the worker training colleges of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, particularly Northwestern College in Watertown, Wisconsin. This collection reflects the joys and challenges that came with the co-existence of two student bodies that shared...
Dates:
1918 - 1995
The Office of the President of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Papers
Collection
Identifier: S012
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of materials created by, received by or collected by the members of the Office of the President of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). The collection reflects the work of those who have served the WELS over the years in their capacity as shepherd of this small, conservative Lutheran church body. It reflects the major transitions the synod underwent from the boom years of the early 1970s to the lean years of the 1980s to the second boom in the 1990s to...
Dates:
1955 - 2003
The Oscar J. Naumann Papers
Collection
Identifier: B010
Scope and Contents
The collection is made up of materials created by and collected by Rev. Oscar J. Naumann.
The collection reflects the life of an active man involved in leading a small, conservative Lutheran synod based in Milwaukee, WI through the storms of doctrinal conflict to a period of unprecedented growth in souls and mission efforts at home and abroad, while at the same time maintaining a solid, confessional stance based solely on the Word of God. Many of the items in the collection reflect the...
Dates:
1945 - 1979
The Philipp and Adolf von Rohr Sermon Collection
Collection
Identifier: B012
Scope and Contents
The records include sermons written by Philipp and Adolph von Rohr over the century of service between the two of them. The sermons are written on half-sheets of paper and are nearly all composed by hand (with only a couple exceptions). Most of the sermons are in English, however most of the earlier sermons are in German.
Dates:
1868 - 1968
The Presidential Papers of Gustave E. Bergemann
Collection
Identifier: B011
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of the correspondence of Rev. Gustave E. Bergemann during his tenure as president of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin and Other States.
Dates:
1908 - 1933
The Southeastern Wisconsin District Mission Board Collection
Collection
Identifier: SD002
Scope and Contents
Records consist of documents relating to the overall work of the SEW DMB. Included are meeting minutes for the SEW DMB, for the BHM (then known as the General Board for Home Missions), and for the Inner-City Mission Committee. Also included is information and correspondence relating to each of the missions which received subsidy through the SEW DMB. Also included are various budgetary documents, along with documents explaining the policies and programs of the BHM. A substantial number of...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1977 - 1996
The W.B. Nommensen Collection
Collection
Identifier: B005
Scope and Contents
Records consist of individual correspondences with pastors and teachers in the Southeastern Wisconsin District of the Wisconsin Synod. Correspondences include calls that were accepted, declined/returned, and calls that were being deliberated. Also contained in in the collection are correspondence pertaining to those seeking a return to the public ministry after absence for a period of time. Finally there are correspondences pertaining to anniversaries and congregational dedications.
Dates:
1983 - 1992