Christians (Disciples of Christ) -- History

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The papers of Charles C. Chapman include files he personally kept and organized and a few items such as his academic robe, some photographs and some citrus fruit labels that his family deposited at a later date. Charles C. Chapman's papers include his files pertaining to his long association with Chapman College, speeches he gave on over 400 occasions, copius notes by topic for his autobiography, pamphlets and news articles of interest to him, and personal and business papers.

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This subseries contains conscientious objector ephemera/pamphlets, and pamphlets on pacifism from Harmon Wilkinson's collection.

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This collection is the papers of Irvin C. "Ernie" Chapman, '33, and contains documents relating to his service as a trustee of Chapman University, and also contains personal documents, such as ephemera relating to his travels to Europe.

Scope and Contents This series contains 7 CDs of PowerPoint presentations with photos of students and alumni of Chapman University, as well as congregants and ministers of All People's Christian Church in Los Angeles, dating from the 1930s until the present. This series also contains a folder of individual Disciple ministers, churches, Loch Leven conference grounds and the Churchman's Foundation Christian Church Retirement home. Other churches included in the series are: Huntington Park Christian Church,...

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1 box.

Contains ephemera from various annual and international conventions (1899-1987) which includes pamphlets, programs and buttons.

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1 box.

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1 box, containing materials from RG16 Series V-XI.

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Shares box with RG 16 Series V.-XI. This folder contains letters of correspondence between Pres. George Reeves and the United Christian Missionary Society 1950-1952.

Scope and Contents Shares box with RG 16 Series V.-XI. This folder contains Memoranda about pending legislation in the U.S. Congress of interest to the churches, explaining programs or regulations of government agencies as may be requested by the constituency, to list the persons in the government who have special knowledge of value to officials of the churches. These memoranda cover the period 1948-1952. The name on the Memoranda changed in January, 1951, to National Council of the Churches of Christ in the...

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Series VIII is a Report in 1955 to the Board of Education of the Disciples of Christ of the Survey of Chapman College after its move to Orange County. Also included in Series VIII is: 2 copies of pamphlet entitled "The Church and the Christian College" A pamphlet entitled "Higher Education for Christian Leadership" Shares box with RG 16 Series V.-XI.

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Contains Constitution dated August 1, 1947 Shares box with RG 16 Series V.-XI.

Scope and Contents Shares box with RG 16, containing Series V. - Series XI. This series contains the following: A pamphlet entitled "A" or "The"? Disciples of Today and Yesterday. "Created to Serve" about the Christian Board of Publication The Disciples Student Fellowship Journal Vol IV, No. 4 April 1950 issue.This Record Group also contains scanned copy of images from the history of Chapman University. It also includes articles about and publications by Hesperian College and California Christian...

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1 box, containing Series V. - Series XI. This folder contains correspondence between Pres. George Reeves and the Emergency Million campaign, publications explaining or promoting the campaign for foreign missions in 1947, and accounting records of amounts pledged and received.

Abstract The Bruce Brown scrapbook contains primarilty newspapers articles that include histories of First Christian Church of Fullerton, South Park Christian Church, Los Angeles, Charles C. Chapman, Freemasonry, Ku Klux Klan in Los Angeles, women's rights, etc. There is a little primary material, in the form of a letter, a Spokane Base Ball Club season pass, and church event flyers and notices. There is also some commentary on post-its by previous owners of the scrapbook, remarking on the content...

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1 box, containing materials from RG16 Series V-XI.