Guide to the Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers

Descriptive Summary

Title

Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers

Inclusive Dates

1909-1998

Call Number

RG 436

Creator(s)

Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966.

Quantity

11.04 cubic feet (30 boxes)

Language

Materials primarily in English with some material in German and French, and a few items in other languages

Restrictions on Access

Collection open for research. Photographic nitrate negatives in Box 26 restricted; available in digital format. Africa photograph album in boxes 27-30 restricted for preservation concerns; available in digital format.

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Repository

Presbyterian Historical Society, 425 Lombard Street, Philadelphia, PA 19147-1516 USA

Biographical Note / Administrative History

Biographical Note

Eugene R. Kellersberger, 1888-1966
Eugene Roland Kellersberger was born in Cypress Mill, Texas on August 6, 1888, the son of Helene Matern and Julius Rudolph Kellersberger. He attended Whitis Academy in Austin, Texas, graduated from the University of Texas at Austin in 1911 with a B.A. degree, and earned his M.D. in 1915 at Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, Missouri. In 1912, Kellersberger married Edna Helena Bosché of Austin, Texas.

In 1916, the Kellersbergers sailed for the Belgian Congo in Africa as a missionary couple under the auspices of the Presbyterian Church in the United States' Executive Committee of Foreign Missions. Their two daughters, Winifred and Cornelia, were born in 1917 and 1921, respectively. Mrs. Kellersberger spent one full term, from 1916 to 1919, on the mission field. In June 1921, shortly after returning to the Congo from their first furlough, Edna Kellersberger contracted African sleeping sickness. Following successful medical treatment in London, she and her husband returned to the United States in 1922 and were reunited with their two daughters. In 1923, Dr. Kellersberger returned to the Congo mission field alone. In November of the same year, he received word that his wife had been killed at her father's Texas ranch. Following Mrs. Kellersberger's death, the hospital at Bibanga, Belgian Congo, was named the Edna Kellersberger Memorial Hospital.

During Dr. Kellersberger's medical missionary service to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM), he founded the Bibanga Medical School and Hospital and the Bibanga Agricultural Colony (leprosarium). He also served as Medical Secretary for the Congo Protestant Council (1936-1940), and was a member of the Royal Commission for the Protection of Natives. His work in the Congo included pioneering research in the treatment of African sleeping sickness.

Dr. Kellersberger received a Diploma in Tropical Medicine and Hygiene from the London School of Tropical Medicine in 1922. He also became an ordained minister of the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1924. He married Julia Lake Skinner in 1930 and together they served as PCUS missionaries to the APCM until 1940, when Dr. Kellersberger was elected General Secretary of the American Mission to Lepers (in 1950 name changed to American Leprosy Missions). With headquarters in New York City, this interdenominational agency provided assistance to various Protestant mission boards in their medical and spiritual ministries to leprosy patients. His official service of induction as General Secretary took place in March 1941 in New York City. Often accompanied by his wife, who served as promotional secretary for the agency, Dr. Kellersberger visited leprosy colonies and hospitals throughout the world, raising funds and awareness about the disease. He attended several World Leprosy Congresses as the official representative of the United States government. After his retirement from the American Leprosy Missions in 1953, Dr. Kellersberger continued to lecture and write about leprosy from his home in Melbourne, Florida until his death on January 28, 1966.

Dr. Kellersberger received many honors for his missionary and medical work. From the Belgian government he was awarded all three of its highest decorations: Chevalier Royal Order of the Lion in 1936, Chevalier Royal Order of the Crown in 1940, and Officer of the Royal Order of the Crown in 1957. He was also appointed the first Protestant member of the Father Damien Leprosy Foundation. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine of England, and a member of the American Medical Association and the New York Academy of Sciences. He also held memberships in the New York and the American Societies of Tropical Medicine, the International Leprosy Association, and the Advisory Committee on Leprosy of the United States Public Health Service. Dr. Kellersberger authored many articles on leprosy, sleeping sickness, and other subjects, and co-authored Doctor of Happy Landings with his wife Julia in 1949.

Julia Lake Skinner Kellersberger, 1897-1986
Julia Lake Skinner was born in Linden, Alabama in 1897, the daughter of Julia Lake Woolf and James Lister Skinner. She graduated from Tubman High School in Augusta, Georgia in 1915. After earning a B.A. at Agnes Scott College in Decatur, Georgia in 1919, she taught English at Tubman High School for one year. In the 1920s, Skinner received a Diploma in Religious Education from the Biblical Seminary in New York, was Director of Religious Education at churches in Knoxville, Tennessee, Wilmington, North Carolina, and Clearwater, Florida; and served as the official traveling spokeswoman and representative of the Presbyterian Church in the United States' Executive Committee of Christian Education and Ministerial Relief. She married Dr. Eugene R. Kellersberger on February 3, 1930.

From 1930 until 1940, Julia Kellersberger served as a PCUS missionary to the American Presbyterian Congo Mission with her husband. She published several books and many articles about various subjects, including her work in the Congo. After the couple left the Congo mission field in 1940, she began work as the Promotional Secretary for the American Mission to Lepers (later known as the American Leprosy Missions), a position she held until 1953. Mrs. Kellersberger continued to lecture and write after her official retirement and after the death of Dr. Kellersberger in 1966. Some of her published works include: Congo Crosses: A Study of Congo Womanhood (1936); God's Ravens (1941); Betty: A Life of Wrought Gold (1943); The Salt Baby (1945); A Life for the Congo: the Story of Althea Brown Edmiston (1947); and Doctor of the Happy Landings (1949), co-authored with her husband.

Julia Lake Skinner Kellersberger died in 1986.

Collection Overview

The Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers are arranged into seven series: "Diaries," "Scrapbooks and biography," "Correspondence," "Medical work," "Personal papers," "Julia Lake Kellersberger papers," and "Photographic and related textual materials."

Series I, "Diaries, 1916-1966," consists of forty-six bound, yearly diaries kept by Eugene R. Kellersberger from the beginning of his missionary work in the Belgian Congo until his death. Some years contain almost daily entries while others are almost empty. The diaries also include clippings, photographs, and other materials. The diaries describe Dr. Kellersberger's medical work, daily life at the Congo mission, and the culture and society of the Congolese people. Later diaries discuss his work for the American Mission to Lepers/American Leprosy Missions. Many contain personal observations and feelings about family matters, religious and spiritual beliefs, and missionary work.

Series II, "Scrapbooks and biography, 1909-1998," consists of twelve scrapbooks assembled by Winifred Kellersberger Vass, daughter of Eugene and Edna Kellersberger. The scrapbooks contain primary materials used by Vass in writing her father's biography, Dr. Not Afraid, published in 1986. Included are many letters written by Dr. Kellersberger, as well as letters written by his first wife, Edna Bosché Kellersberger, and his second wife, Julia Lake Skinner Kellersberger. Other letters are from family members, fellow missionaries, medical colleagues, and friends. The scrapbooks also contain programs, articles, photographs, and other items related to Dr. Kellersberger's life and work and to his family. Winifred Vass's incoming correspondence, notes, transcriptions, and other materials related to the biography are interspersed throughout the primary documents. The series also includes an undated and unedited photocopied typescript, "The Diaries of Dr. Not Afraid," of Vass's 1986 published biography, Dr. Not Afraid.

Series III, "Correspondence, 1913, 1920-1966," consists of correspondence written by and to Eugene R. Kellersberger, as well as travel letters from his 1946 world and 1947-1948 Far East tours on behalf of the American Mission to Lepers. Included in this series are Kellersberger family letters written in German, letters from missionaries and government officials, and miscellaneous correspondence.

Series IV, "Medical work, 1911-1986," consists of papers related to Dr. Kellersberger's medical work as a missionary, medical researcher, and General Secretary of the American Mission to Lepers/American Leprosy Missions. Included are statistics, correspondence, surgical notes, and other materials from the American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM); reports, bulletins, articles, and other papers related to the American Mission to Lepers/American Leprosy Missions; and articles on leprosy and sleeping sickness authored by Dr. Kellersberger. The series also contains a 1911-1912 Washington University Medical School class notebook of Dr. Kellersberger.

Series V, "Personal papers, 1914-1982," consists of guest books, clippings, biographical materials, travel mementos, and other personal items. Also included are obituaries, memorial service programs, and other materials related to the death of Dr. Kellersberger.

Series VI, "Julia Lake Kellersberger papers, 1915-1987," consists of papers related to the life and work of Julia Lake Kellersberger, second wife of Dr. Eugene R. Kellersberger, and correspondence related to the death of Dr. Kellersberger. Included are articles written by Mrs. Kellersberger, correspondence, biographical materials, and miscellaneous other items.

Series VII, "Photographic and related textual materials, 1913-1970, 1981, 1998," includes photographs, slides, photographic nitrate negatives, and a photograph album. The bulk of the photographs, slides, and photographic nitrate negatives relate to Dr. Kellersberger's time as a medical missionary in the Belgian Congo and to his 1946 world and 1947-1948 Far East tours on behalf of the American Mission to Lepers. Arrangement is alphabetical by topic.

Dr. Kellersberger's Africa album contains over 2,000 items, mostly photographs. The album includes a topical index, an introductory note by Kellersberger, and multiple inscriptions. It primarily spans the years from the 1920s to 1940.

Organization and Arrangement

The collection is arranged as follows:

SERIES I: DIARIES, 1916-1966

SERIES II: SCRAPBOOKS AND BIOGRAPHY, 1909-1998

SERIES III: CORRESPONDENCE, 1913, 1920-1966

SERIES IV: MEDICAL WORK, 1911-1986

SERIES V: PERSONAL PAPERS, 1914-1982

SERIES VI: JULIA LAKE KELLERSBERGER PAPERS, 1915-1987

SERIES VII: PHOTOGRAPHIC AND RELATED TEXTUAL MATERIALS, 1913-1970, 1981, 1998

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Related Material

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Received from Winifred Kellersberger Vass in 1986, 1990, 1997, 1998, and 2000.

Processing Information

Collection processed and guide prepared in 1998 by Julie Doyle, Processing Archivist, Presbyterian Historical Society, Montreat, North Carolina.

Collection reprocessed and guide revised by Bill Brock, Collection Management Archivist, September 2012.

Conservation treatment and housing of Eugene R. Kellersberger's Africa photograph album by the Conservation Center for Art and Historic Artifacts, Philadelphia, 2013.

Material added and guide revised by Bill Brock, Collection Management Archivist, 2014.

Preferred Citation

Eugene R. Kellersberger Papers, RG 436, Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Catalog Headings

The following headings have been used to index the description of this collection in the society’s electronic catalog.

Personal Name Subject

Kellersberger, E. R. (Eugene Roland), 1888-1966.

Kellersberger, Edna Bosché, 1888-1923.

Kellersberger, Julia Lake Skinner, 1897-1986.

Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010.

Kellersberger family.

Corporate Subject

American Leprosy Missions.

American Mission to Lepers.

American Presbyterian Congo Mission.

Presbyterian Church in the U.S. Executive Committee of Foreign Missions.

Topical Subject

Missionaries, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Women missionaries--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Missionaries, Medical--Biography--20th century.

Presbyterian Church--Missions--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Missions to leprosy patients--20th century.

African trypanosomiasis.

Leprosy--Hospitals--Congo (Democratic Republic)

Leprosy.

Missions, Medical--Congo (Democratic Republic)--20th century.

Tropical medicine--Congo (Democratic Republic)

Geographic Subject

Congo (Democratic Republic)--Missions--20th century.

Genre-form

Correspondence. aat

Diaries. aat

Film negatives. gmgpc

Photograph albums. aat

Photographs. aat

Scrapbooks. aat

Personal Added Name

Kellersberger, Edna Bosché, 1888-1923.

Kellersberger, Julia Lake Skinner, 1897-1986.

Vass, Winifred Kellersberger, 1917-2010.

Collection Inventory

Box	Folder	Description	Alternative Formats

		SERIES I: DIARIES, 1916-1966

1	1	Diary, 1916-1920
1	2	Diaries, 1920-1922, 1924
1	3	Diaries, 1925-1926	Digital
1	4	Diaries, 1927-1928

2	1	Diaries, 1929-1930
2	2	Diaries, 1931-1932
2	3	Diaries, 1933-1934
2	4	Diaries, 1935-1936

3	1	Diaries, 1937-1938
3	2	Diaries, 1939-1940
3	3	Diaries, 1941-1942

4	1	Diaries, 1943-1944
4	2	Diaries, 1945-1946
4	3	Diaries, 1947-1948

5	1	Diaries, 1949-1950
5	2	Diaries, 1950-1951
5	3	Diaries, 1952-1953

6	1	Diaries, 1954-1955
6	2	Diaries, 1956-1957
6	3	Diaries, 1958-1959

7	1	Diaries, 1960-1961
7	2	Diaries, 1962-1963
7	3	Diaries, 1964-1965

19	5	Diary/Guest book, 1966

		SERIES II: SCRAPBOOKS AND BIOGRAPHY, 1909-1998

8	1-10	Scrapbook #1 (re to 1916), pages 1-321, 1909-1994 and undated
8	11-19	Scrapbook #2 (re 1916-1920), pages 1-238, 1916-1920, 1985 and undated
8	20-25	Scrapbook #3 (re 1920-1922), pages 1-170, 1920-1926, 1961-1987 and undated

9	1-9	Scrapbook #4 (re 1922-1924), pages 1-255, 1922-1924 and undated
9	10-19	Scrapbook #5 (re 1924), pages 1-311, 1915, 1924-circa 1929, 1935, 1972-1988 and undated

10	1-15	Scrapbook #6 (re 1925-1928), pages 1-435, 1925-1928, 1979-1983 and undated
10	16-24	Scrapbook #7 (re 1928-1936), pages 1-275, 1928-1938, 1970-1972, 1981-1984 and undated

11	1-8	Scrapbook #7 (re 1928-1936), pages 276-510, 1928-1938, 1970-1972, 1981-1984 and undated
11	9-19	Scrapbook #8 (re 1936-1940), pages 1-335, 1932-1941, 1965, 1981 and undated

12	1-12	Scrapbook #9 (re 1940-1946), pages 1-365, 1940-1946, 1973, 1995 and undated
12	13-23	Scrapbook #10 (re 1947-1953), pages 1-348, 1940-1954, 1964-1966, 1983-1989 and undated

13	1-7	Scrapbook #11 (re 1954-1966), pages 1-205, 1954-1966, 1980-1985, 1994 and undated

21	1	Scrapbook #12 - Letters of appreciation for publication of Dr. Not Afraid by Winifred K. Vass, 1980-1998 (bulk 1986)

22	1-11	"The Diaries of Dr. Not Afraid" (unedited photocopied typescript of Winifred K. Vass's biography, Dr. Not Afraid, published in 1986), undated

		SERIES III: CORRESPONDENCE, 1913, 1920-1966

14	1	Correspondence - Eugene Kellersberger and family (in German), 1920-1924
14	2	Correspondence - Eugene Kellersberger and family (in German), 1925
14	3	Correspondence - Eugene Kellersberger and family (in German), 1926-1933
14	4	Correspondence - Eugene Kellersberger and family (in German), 1934-1960
14	5	Correspondence - Belgians (in French), 1926-1940
14	6	Correspondence - Alonzo Edmiston, 1939
14	7	Correspondence - Governor of Nigeria, 1963-1966
14	8	Correspondence - Leprosy patients, 1930-1949
14	9	Correspondence - William Morrison to the Bosché family, 1913
14	10	Correspondence - Joseph Savels, 1925-1946
14	11	Correspondence - Alfred Stonelake, 1946
14	12	Travel letters from world leprosy tour, 1946 March-April	Digital
14	13	Travel letters from world leprosy tour, 1946 May-July
14	14	Travel letters from world leprosy tour, 1946 August
14	15	Travel letters from world leprosy tour, 1946 September-October
14	16	Travel letters from Far East leprosy tour, 1947 November
14	17	Travel letters from Far East leprosy tour, 1947 December
14	18	Travel letters from Far East leprosy tour, 1948 January
14	19	Travel letters from Far East leprosy tour, 1948 February
14	20	Travel letters from Far East leprosy tour, 1948 March
14	21	Travel letters from world tour, 1961 May-June
14	22	Travel letters from world tour, 1961 July-August
14	23	Miscellaneous correspondence, 1923-1962
14	24	Correspondence from Dr. and Mrs. Kellersberger to the Women of First Presbyterian Church, Knoxville, Tennessee, 1921-1942

		SERIES IV: MEDICAL WORK, 1911-1986

15	1	American Presbyterian Congo Mission (APCM) - Comite Special Du Katanga (primarily in French), 1926-1942
15	2	APCM - Contrat D'Agregation (in French), 1931
15	3	APCM - Published Constitution and By-Laws (Revised October 1928), 1929
15	4	APCM - Farewell letters and speeches (in French), 1940
15	5	APCM - Medical statistics, Bibanga Station (in English and French), 1928, 1932, 1936-1937
15	6	APCM - Missionary letters from the Kellersbergers ("Kellygrams"), 1930-1939
15	7	APCM - Official documentation for the Kellersbergers, from Belgian government and PCUS Executive Committee of World Missions, 1916-1940
15	8	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Annual reports, 1970-1976, 1980
15	9	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Articles, 1964, 1966
15	10	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Bulletins, 1941-1977	Digital
15	11	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Itineraries for the Kellersbergers, 1946-1954
15	12	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Leprosy Missions Digest, articles by and about Dr. Kellersberger, 1948, 1957
15	13	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Medical reports of Dr. Kellersberger from world leprosy tour, 1946	Digital
15	14	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Prayer Calendar [for 1956], 1955 November
15	15	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Publicity materials, circa 1940s-1970s	Digital
15	16	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Report of tour to China, Nov. 1947-Jan. 1948
15	17	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Special contributions correspondence, 1938-1943, 1950-1951 and undated	Digital
15	18	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Statistics of financial gifts, 1931-1953
15	19	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - Wilbur Chapman, 1950, 1966 and undated
15	20	American Leprosy Missions, Inc. - World Leprosy Congresses, 1946-1953
15	21	ALERT (All Africa Leprosy Rehabilitation Training Center), 1944-1969
15	22	ALERT, 1970-1976
15	23	The Star (published by the patients of the U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carrville, Louisiana), 1954-1984

16	1	Leprosy - Articles, 1978, 1981 and undated
16	2	Leprosy - Articles and miscellaneous, 1940s-1986
16	3	Article - "Africa and Modern Medicine," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1944
16	4	Article - "African Sleeping Sickness; A Review of 9000 Cases from a Central African Clinic," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1933
16	5	Article - "African Trypanosomiasis; A Brief Clinical Study of African Sleeping Sickness," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1943
16	6	Article - "A Doctor's Dividends in the Congo," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1932
16	7	Article - "An Interesting Case of Elephantiasis from the Belgian Congo," by Dr. Kellersberger, undated
16	8	Article - "Leprosy Today," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1943
16	9	Article - "Note on a Case of Sleeping Sickness in a Child Three Weeks Old," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1925
16	10	Article - "Report on One Hundred Cases of Sleeping Sickness Treated with Tryparsamide," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1927
16	11	Article - "The Social Stigma of Leprosy," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1951
16	12	Article - "Sulfoxone Sodium (Diasone) in the Treatment of Leprosy," by Dr. Kellersberger, 1951

17	1	Washington University alumni citation, 1957
17	2	Washington University School of Medicine class notebook for embryology, histology, gross neurology, and microscopic neurology, 1911 October-1912 March
17	3	APCM surgical notes, 1918-1940
17	4	Certificate from the U.S. State Department naming Dr. Kellersberger as an official representative to the International Leprosy Conference, Cairo, Egypt, 1938

		SERIES V: PERSONAL PAPERS, 1914-1982

18	1	Admiral Nimitz, 1947, 1971-1981
18	2	Albert Schweitzer, 1949, 1960, 1966, 1981-1982 and undated
18	3	Alcohol/smoking, 1953, 1956 and undated
18	4	Article in Sunday about Dr. Kellersberger, 1945 July
18	5	Biographical, 1973 and undated
18	6	Birth affidavits (photocopies), 1916, 1924
18	7	Business cards, 1940s and undated
18	8	Clippings, 1921-1966
18	9	Clippings, undated
18	10	Death of Dr. Kellersberger - Articles and obituaries, 1966
18	11	Death of Dr. Kellersberger - Memorial gifts, 1966
18	12	Death of Dr. Kellersberger - Memorial services, 1966
18	13	Death certificate, 1966
18	14	Decorations from the Belgian government (in French and English), 1957
18	15	Enabled: A Life Sketch of Eugene Roland Kellersberger, M.D., by Winifred Kellersberger Vass, undated
18	16	Genealogy - The Family and Genealogy of Julius Josef Kellersberger, 1977
18	17	"Happy Landings" (Melbourne, Florida), 1958-1959 and undated
18	18	Inspirational stories, 1920s-1960s and undated
18	19	Marriage license of Eugene R. Kellersberger and Julia Lake Skinner, 1930
18	20	Missionary motivation, 1972 and undated
18	20a	Moody Bible Institute - Founder's Week Conference, 1951
18	20a	Moody Bible Institute - Missionary pageant, "The Kellersberger Story" re Edna Bosché Kellersberger and Eugene Roland Kellersberger, 1952 [available as MP3 file]	Digital*
18	21	New York Academy of Sciences certificate of membership, 1950
18	22	Passports - Eugene R. Kellersberger, 1930s-1960s
18	23	Souvenir of the Passive Resistance Movement in South Africa 1906-1914 and clippings, 1914, 1940 and undated
18	24	Travel Mementos - Cameroun (Ebolowa Leper's Colony), 1946
18	25	Travel Mementos - China, 1947-1948
18	26	Travel Mementos - Siam, 1948, 1951
18	27	Travel Mementos, miscellaneous, 1946, 1961
18	28	University of Texas, 1930s-1970s and undated
18	29	Washington University School of Medicine (St. Louis, Missouri) Class of 1915, fiftieth anniversary review, 1965
18	30	Washington University School of Medicine, miscellaneous, 1930s-1970s

19	1	Guest book, Gramercy Park, New York, 1941-1953
19	2	Guest book, 1948-1951
19	3	Guest book, "Happy Landings," 1954-1957
19	4	Guest book, "Happy Landings," 1958-1966
19	5	Diary/Guest book, 1966

		SERIES VI: JULIA LAKE KELLERSBERGER PAPERS, 1915-1987

20	1	Address - "What Georgia Owes to Her Women" (high school commencement), 1915
20	2	Article - "Astronauts of Inner Space," 1983
20	3	Article - "The Asylum of Pity: Guatemala," undated
20	4	Article - "The Battle of Africa," 1942
20	5	Article - "Better Bibanga Babies," 1935
20	6	Article - "Black Diamonds," 1932
20	7	Article - "Choosing a Career," 1951
20	8	Article - "El Divino Salvador," 1946
20	9	Article - "I Have a Shadow," 1984
20	10	Article - "Krismus Gif," 1943
20	11	Article - "A Leper Camp on a Bewitched Island in a Crater Lake," undated
20	12	Article - "Look What I've Got!," 1967
20	13	Article - "Main Street," undated
20	14	Article - "My Christmas Shopping List," 1942
20	15	Article - "Vers l'Avenir," 1946
20	16	Article - "Women of Africa," 1945
20	17	Biographical, 1980 and undated
20	18	Book advertisements, undated
20	19	Book Review of Betty: A Life of Wrought Gold, undated
20	20	Clippings, 1936-1987 and undated
20	21	Correspondence, 1934-1973
20	21a	Correspondence, 1974-1983
20	22	Correspondence 1985, January-July
20	23	Correspondence, 1985 August-December
20	24	Correspondence, 1986
20	25	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, 1966 January
20	26	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, 1966 February 1-7
20	27	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, 1966 February 8-19
20	28	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, 1966 February 20-28
20	29	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, 1966 March
20	30	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, 1966 April -1967 January
20	31	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger from leprosy patients, 1966
20	32	Correspondence re Death of Dr. Kellersberger, undated
20	33	Mementos, 1924-1980 and undated
20	34	Methodist Church 1946 program material for Woman's Societies of Christian Service - "Planning in Africa for a Lasting Peace" by Julia Lake Kellersberger, 1946
20	35	Passports, 1930, 1946
20	36	Rooted in Florida Soil, by Julia Lake Kellersberger, 1971
20	37	Speaking engagements, 1950
20	38	Miscellaneous, circa 1941, 1973 and undated

		SERIES VII: PHOTOGRAPHIC AND RELATED TEXTUAL MATERIALS, 1913-1970, 1981, 1998

23	1	Photographs - Africa - Bibanga mission station, 1919-1930s and undated
23	2	Photographs - Africa - Congolese Christians, undated
23	3	Photographs - Africa - Medical - Circumcision, undated
23	4	Photographs - Africa - Medical - Edna Kellersberger Memorial Hospital, 1920s and undated	Digital
23	5	Photographs - Africa - Medical - Illustrations #1, #3, and #4, undated
23	6	Photographs - Africa - Medical - Leprosy, Bibanga Agricultural Colony (leprosarium), 1930s and undated
23	7	Photographs - Africa - Medical - Sleeping sickness, circa 1920s-circa 1930s and undated
23	8	Photographs - Africa - Medical - Tumors, circa 1920s-circa 1930s and undated
23	9	Photographs - Africa - Medical cases, circa 1920s-circa 1930s and undated
23	10	Photographs - Africa - Native life and customs, undated
23	11	Photographs - Africa - Portrait of Robert Reisdorff, Governor-General of the Belgian Congo, 1939
23	12	Photographs - American Mission to Lepers, world leprosy tour, 1946 April-May, September
23	13	Photographs - American Mission to Lepers, Far East leprosy tour, Philippines, 1947 October-November
23	14	Photographs - American Mission to Lepers, Far East leprosy tour, China, 1947 November-1948 January

24		Photographs - Camelback bridge between Hangchou and Nanking taken by Dr. Kellersberger during his Far East leprosy tour of China, 1948 January

23	15	Photographs - American Mission to Lepers, Far East leprosy tour, Siam, 1948 January
23	16	Photographs - American Mission to Lepers, Far East leprosy tour, India, 1948 January-March
23	17	Photographs - American Mission to Lepers/American Leprosy Missions and Dr. and Mrs. Kellersberger, 1940s-circa 1950, circa early 1960s, 1981	Digital

25	1	Photographs - Belgian Congo, undated
25	2	Photographs - Dr. Paul W. Brand (1914-2003) and leprosy patient, India, undated
25	3	Photographs - Dr. Lee D. Cady (Dr. Kellersberger's personal physician), undated
25	4	Photographs - Honors and medical class reunion, 1957, 1965
25	5	Photographs - Kellersbergers' Florida home, 1950s
25	6	Photographs - Leprosy, 1939, 1953 and undated
25	7	Photographs - New York City snapshots and Julia Lake Kellersberger, circa 1940s
25	8	Photographs - Philippines, circa 1966 and undated
25	9	Photographs - Photos with attached captions from Winifred K. Vass's biography, Dr. Not Afraid, 1915, 1920 and undated
25	10	Photographs - Portraits of Dr. Kellersberger, 1915, 1924
25	11	Photographs - Unidentified, early 1920s and undated
25	12	Photographs and negatives - Bibanga hospital and leper camp/leprosarium (photos taken by Winifred and Lachlan C. Vass III), 1970
25	13	Photographs and photo reproductions - Dr. Kellersberger and family members, early 1920s-1966
25	14	Photographs and photo reproductions - Missionaries and mission, circa 1930s and undated
25	15	Slides - Dr. Kellersberger; medical mission work Belgian Congo/Bibanga; Congo village scenes/native life and customs; Belgian Congo and Uganda trips; New York City; "Kelly Kamp" Melbourne Beach, Florida, circa 1920s-1950s
25	15	Related textual material, 1998 and undated

26	1	Photographic nitrate negatives - American Mission to Lepers, world leprosy tour, 1946 March-April, [RESTRICTED]	Digital
26	2	Photographic nitrate negatives - American Mission to Lepers, world leprosy tour, 1946 April [RESTRICTED]	Digital
26	3	Photographic nitrate negatives - American Mission to Lepers, world leprosy tour, 1946 May-June, [RESTRICTED]	Digital
26	4	Photographic nitrate negatives - American Mission to Lepers, world leprosy tour, 1946 June-July, [RESTRICTED]	Digital
26	5	Photographic nitrate negatives - American Mission to Lepers, world leprosy tour, 1946 July-September, [RESTRICTED]	Digital
26	6	Photographic nitrate negatives - (Book A) Eastman negative album with partially completed subject/number index, re New York/England/Switzerland/USA and old Congo and old USA, 1916-1918, 1920 September-1921 January [RESTRICTED]
26	7	Photographic nitrate negatives - Book 1 and original subject/number index, re medical and Bibanga, circa 1920s-circa 1930s and undated [RESTRICTED]
26	8	Photographic nitrate negatives - Book 2 and subject/number index, re world travel and medical, undated [RESTRICTED]
26	9	Photographic nitrate negatives - Book 3 and original subject/number index, re Belgian Congo, APCM, and medical, 1919, 1921 and undated [RESTRICTED]
26	10	Photographic nitrate negatives - Book 4, re Africa, 1934, 1938, 1940 and undated [RESTRICTED]
26	11	Photographic nitrate negatives - Book 5, re medical, circa 1920s-circa 1930s and undated [RESTRICTED]
26	12	Photographic nitrate negatives - Africa, undated [RESTRICTED]
26	13	Photographic nitrate negatives - Africa - Medical - Illustrations #1, #2, #3, #4, and #5, undated [RESTRICTED]
26	14	Photographic nitrate negatives - Chalmoogra trees, undated [RESTRICTED]
26	15	Photographic nitrate negatives - Leprosy case, Bibanga, Belgian Congo, undated [RESTRICTED]
26	16	Photographic nitrate negatives - New York City snapshots and Julia Lake Kellersberger, circa 1940s [RESTRICTED]

27-30		Photograph album - Front cover embossed, AFRICA IN PICTURE / A.P.C.M. BIBANGA / E.R.K., 1913-1943, 1970 and undated, bulk 1920s-1940 [RESTRICTED FOR PRESERVATION CONCERNS]	Digital

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