Historical Collections and Artwork: Recent submissions

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    • Registrar's Ledger 1838-1865 

      Unknown author (Kalamazoo College, 1865)
      This is a handwritten ledger listing the names of students from as early as 1838. The name of a parent/guardian, age of student, residence, religious denomination, and reasons for leaving were often noted. Not every academic ...

    • Ora Scott Wiley 

      Scott Wiley, Ora (1960)
      Ora Scott Wiley was the daughter of Baptist Missionaries. She moved to Osaka, Japan when she was nine years old and migrated back to the United States to finish her schooling when she was thirteen. She would graduate from ...

    • Royal Fisher Obituary 

      Fisher, Royal (Kalamazoo College, 1963)
      Royal H. Fisher was the son of Baptist Missionaries from Yokohama, Japan where he spent most of his childhood. He would attend Kalamazoo College with his sister Stella, class of 1905. Royal himself would work as a missionary ...

    • Royal Haigh Fisher 

      Fisher, Royal (Kalamazoo College, 1951)
      Royal Haigh Fisher was born September 20, 1884, in Tokyo, Japan. He was the son of Baptist Missionaries who served in Yokohama. Fisher would graduate, in 1906, later attending the University of Chicago and Oberlin Theological ...

    • Nomination of Royal H. Fisher 

      Hinkle, Ralph; Sanborn, Mark (Kalamazoo College, 1942)
      Royal H. Fisher, class of 1906, was a Baptist Missionary in Japan from 1914-1941. These statements given by fellow K alumni were to nominate Fisher for an unknown award. For a long period of time, Fisher was an educator ...

    • Letter from the American Baptist Foreign Mission Society on Royal H. Fisher 

      Pauley, Annabelle (Kalamazoo College, 1933-09-22)
      Royal H. Fisher graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1906. The son of Baptist Missionaries, he himself would have a long career as a Baptist Missionary, arriving in Yokohama, Japan in 1914. He would work as a schoolteacher ...

    • Broadcast of Stella Fisher Burgess 

      Burgess, Stella Fisher (Kalamazoo College, 1940-04-05)
      Stella Fisher Burgess, class of 1905, was the daughter of Baptist Missionaries and served as an educational missionary in China before settling back in the United States. Her experience abroad proved useful as a representative ...

    • The College Woman's Ideal 

      Burgess, Stella Fisher (Kalamazoo College, 1905-06-21)
      Stella Fisher Burgess was the daughter of Baptist Missionaries and attended Kalamazoo College with her brother Royal H. Fisher. She would graduate in 1905, delivering this speech on Commencement Day, June 21st, 1905. Titled, ...

    • Peking Caravan 

      Burgess, Stella Fisher (Truth Hall Press, 1924)
      Stella Fisher Burgess graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1905. She would go on to work as a missionary in Peking (Beijing), China. An avid writer, often submitting her poetry to the Kalamazoo College Index while in school, ...

    • Stella Fisher Burgess (1881-1974) obituary 

      Unknown author (Kalamazoo College, 1974-02)
      Stella Fisher Burgess graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1905. She would go on to work for the YWCA in Japan where she would meet her husband John Stewart Burgess. Together they would travel to Peking China where they ...

    • Stella Fisher Burgess 

      Reidsema, J.M. (J.M. Reidsema Photographic Art Studio, 1905)
      Stella Fisher Burgess was the daughter of Baptist missionaries who served in Yokohama, Japan. Along with her brother, Royal, Stella attended Kalamazoo College and was involved in many campus organizations, introducing many ...

    • Selma Maxville Funeral 

      Gifford, Martha J. (Kalamazoo College, 1950-02)
      Selma Maxville was a nurse that worked alongside Martha J. Gifford, class of 1910, at the Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital in Moulmein, Burma (Myanmar). In February of 1950, Maxville had been working in the interior of ...

    • Postcard from Burma 

      Gifford, Martha J. (Kalamazoo College, 1933)
      This postcard was brought back to the United States by Martha J. Gifford, class of 1910, a missionary who served in Burma (Myanmar) for nearly 40 years. Pictured in the postcard is the Shwe Dagon Pagoda, which is considered ...

    • Burma Missionary Convention 

      Gifford, Martha J. (Kalamazoo College, 1958)
      Little is known about this picture, but it is presumed to be a convention amongst Baptist missionaries. Pictured in the photo is Martha J. Gifford '10 who served in Burma (Myanmar) and Royal H. Fisher '06 who served in ...

    • Judson College Sesquicentennial Postcard 

      Gifford, Martha J. (Kalamazoo College, 1963-12)
      This post card was sent to Martha J. Gifford, class of 1910, who was a missionary in Burma (Myanmar). She received the card from Dr. Ai Lun who was a colleague with Gifford at the Ellen Mitchell Memorial in Moulmein. The ...

    • Martha Gifford- Group Photo 

      Gifford, Martha J. (Kalamazoo College, 1946)
      Matha J. Gifford, class of 1910, was a medical missionary in Moulmein, Burma (Myanmar). Here she is seated with presumably fellow doctors and nurses. A description on the back lists the individuals from left to right as ...

    • Martha Gifford 

      Unknown author (John M. Reidsema, 1910 ca.)
      Martha Gifford graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1910. Following graduation, Gifford attended Rush Medical College and received her M.D. in 1916. She provided medical missionary work at the Ellen Mitchell Memorial Hospital ...

    • Miss Lida Scott leaves for Burma 

      Scott Ashmore, Lida (Kalamazoo College Index, 1877-11)
      Lida Scott was born in Waterford, Michigan on January 19, 1852. She attended Kalamazoo College for a short period of time from 1869 to 1870. In 1876, she married Rev. Albert J. Lyon and the following year the couple took ...

    • A. J. Weeks Obituary 

      Weeks, Adoniram Judson (Lynden Tribune, 1956-11)
      Adoniram Judson Weeks graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1902. In 1905, together with his wife Louise Scringer (class of 1901), Weeks set sail for Burma (Myanmar) under the direction of the American Baptist Foreign Mission ...

    • Retired Baptist Missionary Honored for Many Years Service in Burma 

      Weeks, Adoniram Judson (Lynden Tribune, 1955-02-03)
      Adoniram Judson Weeks graduated from Kalamazoo College in 1902. In 1905 he was appointed to serve in Burma (Myanmar) as a missionary by the American Baptist Missionary Movement. Weeks credits the Student Missionary Band ...