Scope and Contents There are sixteen scrapbooks in this collection dating between 1900 and 1970. They feature missions around the world, showing photographs, newspaper clippings, newlsetters, and more. They are in three boxes spanning 3.5 cubic feet, plus an external scrapbook.The Home and Foreign Fields scrapbook shows Dr. Mansfield Bailey and Dr. C.S. Ngeo at Kwei Lin Hospital in China on the cover. Other missionaries mentioned in this scrapbook are Catharine Mabie, Howard Freas, O.L. Swanson, J.A....

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The Norman and Dorette Copeland papers span two boxes and date between 1949 and 1983.

The dated folders mostly contain correspondence, as well as some financial information.

The Newsletters date between 1954 and the early 1980s. These newsletters were sent donors and supporters of their mission work. They were written in Ethiopia, Thailand, and Benin.

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The Paul and Laura Edwards papers date between 1947 to 1974 and spans two boxes.

The Newsletters folder dates between 1951 to 1963 and were sent to donors and supporters.

The dated folders contain mostly correspondence, but also include some financial information.

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The Filmstrips and Slideshows collection is made up of various media types, including photographic slides, filmstrips, audio magnetic reels, LP vinyl records, and audiocassettes. Some include a printed script. Much of the content is either about Bethel or missions initiatives in the Baptist General Conference, particularly slideshows created by missionaries about their time on the mission field.

Scope and Contents Judy Coleman Peterson donated materials found interleaved in the Lewis Eric Coleman bible in 2020, including newspaper clippings and handwritten notes in Swedish. Robert Schenck, previous medical missionary in Ethiopia, donated the second series of this collection in 2020. This includes a DVD about Tom Coleman's life, as well as three poems written by Coleman. Included is also a recording of the English translation of "On the Death Trail," currently published as "The Unrevealed...