Box | Folder | Description | Alternative Formats |
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1 | 1 | Finding Aid to Record Group | | |
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| | SERIES I: BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 1920, 1943-1995 | | |
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1 | 1a | Material primarily concerning the deaths of Henry Rankin and Herman W. Eavey, 1920, 1964, n.d. | | |
1 | 2 | Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, commencement program, 1943 | | |
1 | 3 | Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois, diploma, 1943 | | |
1 | 4 | Missionary Training Institute, Nyack, New York, diploma, 1946 | | |
1 | 5 | Newspaper clippings; correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1946-1947, 1950-1951 | | |
1 | 6 | Upper Nile Province, Governor’s Office, Mal Kalal, official notice of school regulations, 1959 | | |
1 | 7 | The Republic of the Sudan, Upper Nile Province, documents and correspondence re: entering and leaving the Republic and a summons to appear before investigator, 1959, 1961 | | |
1 | 7a | Mission actions concerning Dorothy Rankin, 1959-1970 | | |
1 | 8 | Driver’s license and related letter, 1971 | | |
1 | 9 | Notebook, 1977 | | |
1 | 9 | Appointment book, August-December, 1992 | | |
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11 | 1 | Notebooks, ca. 1977-1994 | | |
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1 | 10 | Pre-retirement correspondence, incoming and outgoing, 1985-1988 | | |
1 | 10a | Dorothy Rankin brief work history sketches, ca. 1990 | | |
1 | 10b | Presbyterian Church (USA) citation to Dorothy Rankin, 1991 | | |
1 | 11 | YWA, Speakers list, 1994 | | |
1 | 11a | Dorothy Rankin obituary, memorial service materials, and related correspondence, 1995 | | |
1 | 12 | Autobiographic sketch of Rankin (incomplete draft), n.d. | | |
1 | 13 | Notes re: Mission Department, n.d. | | |
1 | 14 | Family tree, n.d. | | |
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| | SERIES II: CORRESPONDENCE, 1947-1995 | | |
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| | Subseries 1: Family, incoming and outgoing, 1947-1989 | | |
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| | Outgoing | | |
1 | 15 | 1947 | | |
1 | 16 | 1948 | | |
1 | 17 | 1949 | | |
1 | 18 | 1950 | | |
1 | 19 | 1951 | | |
1 | 20 | 1952 | | |
1 | 21 | 1953 | | |
1 | 22 | 1954 | | |
1 | 23 | 1955 | | |
1 | 24 | 1956 | | |
1 | 25 | 1957 | | |
1 | 26 | 1958 | | |
1 | 27 | 1959 | | |
1 | 28 | 1960 | | |
1 | 29 | 1961 | | |
1 | 30 | 1962 | | |
1 | 31 | 1963 | | |
1 | 32 | 1964 | | |
1 | 33 | 1965 | | |
1 | 34 | 1966 | | |
1 | 35 | 1967 | | |
1 | 36 | 1968 | | |
1 | 37 | 1969 | | |
1 | 38 | 1970 | | |
1 | 39 | 1971 | | |
1 | 40 | 1972 | | |
1 | 41 | 1973 | | |
1 | 42 | 1974, January-September | | |
1 | 43 | 1975, February-May | | |
1 | 44 | 1975, June-December | | |
1 | 45 | 1976, January-June | | |
1 | 46 | 1976, July-November | | |
1 | 47 | 1977 | | |
1 | 48 | 1978 | | |
1 | 49 | 1979 | | |
1 | 50 | 1980 | | |
1 | 51 | 1981 | | |
1 | 52 | 1982 | | |
1 | 53 | 1983 | | |
1 | 54 | 1984, January-August | | |
1 | 54a | 1986, November; 1987, February; 1989, May, July, November | | |
1 | 55 | n.d. | | |
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| | Incoming | | |
1 | 56 | 1947, 1952, 1957 | | |
1 | 57 | 1961-1963 | | |
1 | 58 | 1964 | | |
1 | 59 | 1976 | | |
1 | 60 | 1961 | | |
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| | Subseries 2: Misson, 1947-1995 | | |
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| | Rankin, outgoing | | |
2 | 1 | 1961-1965, 1989, 1992-1994 | | |
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| | Rankin’s correspondence with COEMAR and Global Mission Ministry Unit | | |
2 | 2 | COEMAR, incoming and outgoing, 1963-1964 | | |
2 | 3 | COEMAR re: furlough and future assignment, incoming and outgoing, 1964 | | |
2 | 4 | COEMAR re: furlough and future assignment, 1965-1966 (bulk 1965) | | |
2 | 5 | Global Mission Ministry Unit, incoming, 1992-1993 | | |
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| | Mission schools | | |
2 | 6 | Friends and students, American Mission, Doleib Hill (some in African language), incoming, 1956-1959, n.d. | | |
2 | 7 | Doleib Hill Girls’ School, incoming and outgoing, 1959-1961, 1963 | | |
2 | 8 | Yehiwot Berhan School, incoming and outgoing, 1988-1991, 1995 | | |
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| | "Dear Friends" circular letters | | |
2 | 9 | "Dear Friends" letters, Dorothy Rankin, outgoing (includes photograph, mailing list, and newspapers clippings), 1947-1950-1952, 1961, 1964, 1973-1974, 1977-1978, 1981-1982, 1992 | | |
2 | 10 | "Dear Friends," incoming, 1954, 1956, 1961-1965, n.d. | | |
2 | 11 | “Dear Friends," Marian Farguhar, incoming, 1963-1965, 1977 | | |
2 | 12 | "Dear Friends," Dembi Dollo, incoming, 1964, n.d. | | |
2 | 13 | "Dear Friends," incoming, 1967, 1975, 1980, 1992-1994 | | |
2 | 14 | "Dear Friends," (Ethiopia), incoming, 1973, 1977-1980, 1992-1994 | | |
2 | 14a | "Dear Friends" form letters, mailing lists, and related correspondence, 1978-1984 | | |
2 | 15 | "Dear Friends," Mike and Billie Healy, incoming, 1993 | | |
2 | 16 | "Dear Friends," Ferne and Campbell, Israel, incoming, 1991-1994 | | |
2 | 17 | "Dear Friends," John and Beth Haspels, Ethiopia, incoming, 1993-1994 | | |
2 | 18 | "Dear Friends," Pete, Carole, Rachel, Dave Unseth, incoming, 1994 | | |
2 | 19 | "Dear Friends," Laura Van Dale and Tedd Roos, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, incoming, 1994 | | |
2 | 20 | "Dear Friends," Harvey and Margaret Doorenbos, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, incoming, 1994 | | |
2 | 21 | "Dear Friends," David and Mary Lou Boyer, Dembi Dollo, Ethiopia, incoming, 1993 | | |
2 | 22 | “Dear Friends,” Sudan, Ethiopia and Kenya, incoming, 1993-1994 | | |
2 | 23 | "Dear Friends," Niles and Ann Reimer, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, incoming, 1994 | | |
2 | 24 | "Dear Friends," Mark and Faye Weaver, "Weaver Update," incoming, 1994 | | |
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| | Individuals | | |
2 | 25 | Aster Adella, incoming, 1993-1994 | | |
2 | 26 | Mary Breeze, Ethiopia, incoming, 1993-1995, n.d. | | |
2 | 27 | Kirba [family], incoming, 1993-1995 | | |
2 | 28 | Karen Salmon, incoming, 1993-1994 | | |
2 | 29 | Girma & Mulushoe [Selassie] Ethiopia, incoming, 1993-1995 | | |
2 | 30 | Petros Tsanu, incoming and outgoing, 1993-1994 | | |
| | Friends and acquaintances | | |
2 | 31 | February-August, incoming (some in African language), 1961 | | |
2 | 32 | September-December, incoming (some in African language), 1961 | | |
2 | 33 | 1962 incoming (some in African language) | | |
2 | 34 | 1963 incoming (some in African language) | | |
2 | 35 | 1964 incoming (some in African language) | | |
2 | 36 | 1965, 1967 incoming (some in African language) | | |
2 | 37 | 1969-1970, 1974-1976 incoming and outgoing (some in African language) | | |
2 | 38 | 1977 incoming | | |
2 | 39 | 1978 incoming | | |
2 | 40 | 1985, 1990-1992 incoming | | |
2 | 41 | 1993, 1995 incoming | | |
2 | 42 | 1993-1994, Ethiopia, incoming | | |
2 | 43 | 1958, 1963, 1990-1993, 1995 | | |
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| | General | | |
2 | 44 | American Bible Society - Shilluk translation, incoming and outgoing, 1963-1965 | | |
2 | 45 | Christmas cards, incoming and outgoing, 1977, 1986, 1992-1993, n.d. | | |
2 | 46 | Fund raising, incoming and outgoing, 1994-1995 | | |
2 | 47 | Post retirement and Africans, incoming, 1983, 1990-1994 | | |
2 | 48 | United States re: Africa, incoming and outgoing, 1993-1994 | | |
2 | 49 | Wycliffe Bible translations and other reference materials, 1990-1992 | | |
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| | SERIES III: SUBJECT FILES, 1937-1995 | | |
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2 | 50 | Anglo Egyptian Sudan maps, 1937, 1948 | | |
2 | 51 | Albania, 1992-1994 | | |
2 | 52 | Afghanistan, Nepal, Interserve booklet, and other materials, 1993-1994 | | |
2 | 53 | Answers expected, 1994 | | |
2 | 54 | Appalachia, 1994 | | |
2 | 55 | Audio scriptures international, 1991-1993 | | |
2 | 56 | Canary Islands, 1994-1995 | | |
2 | 57 | "Consultation on Education" Conference, Stony Point, New York, 1965 | | |
2 | 58 | Ethiopia and Eritrea, report and newspaper clippings, 1976-1994 | | |
2 | 59 | Convention on “Right of the Child,” United Nations, 1994 | | |
2 | 59a | History: Mission and Africa, 1975, 1983-1985, n.d. | | |
2 | 60 | Islam, 1992-1993, n.d. | | |
2 | 61 | Iran, n.d | | |
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3 | 1 | Khartoum Conference, 1965 | | |
3 | 2 | Kazakhstan, 1993-1994 | | |
3 | 3 | Kenya, 1994 | | |
3 | 4 | Kurds, 1992, 1994 | | |
3 | 4a | Lydia Aseffa/"Legs for Lydia Fund"/Women’s Association file, ca. 1971-1974, n.d. | | |
3 | 5 | Mexico, 1992-1994 | | |
3 | 6 | Miami Presbytery, Global Mission Committee, 1993-1994 | | |
3 | 7 | Mission Committee, Memorial United Presbyterian Church, (Xenia, Ohio), correspondence and minutes, 1993-1994 | | |
3 | 8 | Mission Committee re: reference material Presbyterian Peacemaking Program, 1993-1994 | | |
3 | 9 | Mission Committee, subscription mission publication, 1993-1994 | | |
3 | 10 | Mission Committee reference materials regarding mission funding in PCUSA, 1993-1995 | | |
3 | 11 | Mission interpretation (NWMC), 1993 | | |
3 | 12 | North Sudan reprints: re: political condition in Sudan and report, U.S. Committee for Refugees, 1993-1994 | | |
3 | 13 | Resolutions of Church Court concerning Southern Sudan, 1964 | | |
3 | 13a | Sudan - Articles, clippings, and handwritten notes, ca. 1992-ca. 1993 | | |
3 | 14 | Sudan - Maps, reprints, and handwritten notes, 1994 | | |
3 | 15 | Sudan - Reprinted, articles, brochure, and other related material, 1964-1965, 1991, 1994 | | |
3 | 16 | Sudan - Newsletter and other related information, 1964-1965, 1992-1994 | | |
3 | 17 | "Year of Africa," 1994 | | |
3 | 18 | Zaire - Missionary correspondence program, incoming, 1993-1994 | | |
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| | SERIES IV: PUBLICATIONS AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS, 1935-1994 | | |
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| | Dorothy L. Rankin, author | | |
3 | 19 | "The Doctrine of God," Isaiah 40 to 48, 1945 | | |
3 | 20 | "Soteriology," 1945 | | |
3 | 21 | "The Death of Christ," 1946 | | |
3 | 22 | "Reflections," Doleib Hill, 1947 | | |
3 | 23 | Junior Missionary Magazine (includes five issue covers using photographs taken by Dorothy Rankin), 1948, 1949, 1950 | | |
3 | 24 | "The Development of the United Presbyterian Church of North of America from the Reformation to the Present," 1951 | | |
3 | 25 | "U.P Fruit In The South Sudan A Christian Family," The Women’s Missionary Magazine, 1951 | | |
3 | 26 | "Arabic Script Material in Shilluk," 1963 | | |
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3 | 27 | "Highlights of Christian Missions," Dr. Glover and Dorothy Rankin, 1946 | | |
3 | 28 | "Report of Mission Study Tour December 21, 1952-February 20, 1953," H.T. Hoekstra, Mr. and Mrs. Milton Thompson, and Dorothy L. Rankin, 1952-1953 | | |
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| | Other authors | | |
3 | 29 | "The Problem of the Southern Sudan," J. H. Oduho and W.D. Nhial, ca. 1960 | | |
3 | 30 | Reprints from "Service Forum" and other missions related materials, 1962-1963, n.d. | | |
3 | 31 | "Sudanese Revolt Spreads in South," Hedrick Smith, 1964 | | |
3 | 32 | "Home for Vacation," Thompson Gac, the Oma dresser, 1975 | | |
3 | 33 | "Mission: Commitment to God’s Hopeful Vision," Bruce F. Gannaway, 1991 | | |
3 | 34 | "Eaten from Within," Robert D. Kaplan, 1994 | | |
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| | Booklets | | |
3 | 35 | One Hundred Lessons in the Bible, Aulora R. McIntyre, 1935 | | |
3 | 36 | Non-English. Ethiopia, 1961 | | |
3 | 37 | "Alive in Christ In Africa" and newsletters, 1962, 1984 | | |
3 | 38 | "1963 Minutes of the American Mission Upper Nile," 1963 October | | |
3 | 39 | American Bible Society Record, Vol. 120, No. 2, 1975 February | | |
3 | 40 | "Response Ability" (Appalachia), 1985 | | |
3 | 40 | ALM International - leprosy, printed material, n.d. | | |
3 | 41 | Presbyterian Global Prayer Digest, Vol. 13, No. 11, 1994 November | | |
3 | 41 | "1993 Ecumenical Parish Program -- The Middle East," 1993 January | | |
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| | Brochures and other publications | | |
3 | 42 | Brochure, Ghana, "Pray for the Unreached People of Ghana," n.d. | | |
3 | 43 | Brochure, "Coalition for Appalachian Ministry," n.d. | | |
3 | 44 | Bulletin, "Church of Christ in Upper Nile," 1964 | | |
3 | 44a | Worship service program, International Evangelical Church, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1983 | | |
3 | 45 | Catalog (scripture resources), American Bible Society, 1993 | | |
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| | Newspaper clippings | | |
3 | 46 | Newspaper, New Day and Rock, Uganda, 1963 | | |
3 | 47 | Newspaper, Ethio-Echo, and Current News, 1963, 1964 | | |
3 | 48 | Newspaper clippings, re: missionaries in Sudan and Uganda, etc., 1962-1967 | | |
3 | 49 | Newspaper clippings, re: Sudan, Kenya, Congo 1963-1964 | | |
3 | 50 | Newspaper clippings, re: Ethiopia; Camper Roster, Audubon Camp in Wisconsin, 1972, 1978 | | |
3 | 51 | Newspaper clipping, "Arabic Language Teaching in Backward Areas," n.d. | | |
3 | 52 | Newsletter, "Association of Presbyterians in Cross-Cultural Mission," 1994 | | |
3 | 53 | Newsletter, "Prayer Track News" and other information, 1994 | | |
3 | 54 | Newsmagazine, Reporter, 1963 | | |
3 | 55 | Newsletter, "Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus" and EECMY Evangelistic Outreach Report, 1990 | | |
3 | 56 | Amharic-language document and list of names, 1969, n.d. | | |
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| | SERIES V: AUDIO-VISUAL MATERIALS, 1920-1938, 1947-1994 | | |
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| | Subseries 1: Photographs and Negatives, 1947-1994 | | |
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| | Sudan | | |
3 | 57 | E.1 - Natives, Doleib Hill, Sudan, 1949-1959 | | |
3 | 57 | E.2 - Dorothy Rankin with friends and natives, including scenes of Sudan and the natives, 1947-1960 | | |
3 | 57 | Sudan, 1947-1961 | | |
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| | Assortment | | |
3 | 58 | E.1 - Individuals and groups, some annotated (Ethiopia), ca. 1964-1984 | | |
3 | 58 | E.2 - Student classes, 1957-1959 | | |
3 | 58 | E.3 - Dorothy Rankin with native child and other native children, 1957 | | |
3 | 58 | E.4 - Scenes of a picnic, girls being baptized, groups and individuals, annotated, 1957-1959 | | |
3 | 58 | E.5 - Scenes of natives walking to church with drums, individual natives and housing scenes, 1959, n.d | | |
3 | 58 | E.6 - Dorothy Rankin with friends, annotated, 1959 | | |
3 | 58 | E.7 - Bill and Lois Anderson with Sylvia, Malakal, n.d. | | |
3 | 58 | Bill and Lois Anderson (photo reproduction), n.d. | | |
3 | 59 | Sudan, Doleib Hill, some annotated and unidentified, 1993, n.d. | | |
3 | 60 | Joga and family, some annotated and unidentified, 1991, n.d. | | |
3 | 61 | Negatives unidentified (album photos), ca. 1949-1959 | | |
3 | 61 | Negatives unidentified, n.d. | | |
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3a | 1 | Photographs, chronological, most annotated, 1947-1969 | | |
3a | 2 | Photographs, chronological, most annotated, 1970-1994 | | |
3a | 3-4 | Photographs, annotated, n.d | | |
3a | 5 | Photographs, unidentified, n.d. | | |
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| | Subseries 2: Slides, 1947-1992 | | |
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4 | | Container 1: Africa General - Egypt, Congo, Cameroon, Uganda, and Kenya, 1947-1970 | | |
4 | | Container 2: Sudan, 1947-1961 | | |
4 | | Container 3: Ethiopia, 1960s-1970s | | |
4 | | Container 4: Ethiopia, 1962-1990 | | |
4 | | Container 5: Ethiopia, 1965-1990 | | |
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5 | | Container 6: Ethiopia, 1965-1990 | | |
5 | | Container 7: Ethiopia, 1966-1977 | | |
5 | | Container 8: Ethiopia, 1969-1977 | | |
5 | | Container 9: Ethiopia, 1969-1992 | | |
5 | | Container 10: Ethiopia, Philippines, Thailand, and India, 1969-1990 | | |
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6 | | Container 11: Ethiopia, 1971-1990 | | |
6 | | Container 12: Ethiopia - Villages and schools, 1970’s | | |
6 | | Container 13: Ethiopia, 1978-1990 | | |
6 | | Container 14: Ethiopia, 1983-1990 | | |
6 | | Container 15: Ethiopia, 1986-1992 | | |
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7 | | Container 16: Ethiopia, 1992 | | |
7 | | Container 17: Slides Dorothy Rankin may have used for talks, 1970s-1990s | | |
7 | | Sleeved loose slides, 1952-1977, 1984, 1992 | | |
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| | Subseries 3: Albums, 1920-1938, 1947-1950, 1993-1994 | | |
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8 | | Album #1 [Dorothy Rankin beginning her missionary work], 1947-1950 | | |
9 | | Album #2 [Photos not annotated, some duplicates of Album #1], n.d. | | |
9 | | Album #3 [Photos not annotated, some duplicates of Album #1], n.d. | | |
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9a | | Album #4 [Dorothy Rankin], 1920-1938, n.d. (bulk 1931-1938) | | |
9a | | Album #5, [Reunion of South Sudan missionaries], 1993 | | |
9a | | Album #6 [Work project to renovate buildings for the Nile Theological College, Khartoum North, Sudan; formerly Sudan Theological College], 1994 | | |
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| | Subseries 4: Audio Tapes, 1973, 1991-1993 | | |
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10 | 1 | Dorothy Rankin to family (Joe), October 1973 | | |
10 | 2 | Dorothy Rankin on trip to Guraferda, Ethiopia, December 1973 | Digital | |
10 | 3 | U.N. Convention on Rights of the Child (side 1) and A Single Vote (Odyssey-Stereo), BR 374 (side 2), 1991-1992 | | |
10 | 4 | The Church: Its Identity and Mission, a talk by Dr. Bess, 1993 | | |