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Billy Graham Center
Archives

Papers of William Ashley "Billy" Sunday
and
Helen Amelia (Thompson) Sunday

~ Collection 61 ~

[Note: What follows is a description of the documents in this collection which are available for use at BGC Archives in Wheaton, Illinois, USA. The actual documents are not, in most cases, available online, only this description of them. Nor are they available for sale or rent. Some or all of this collection can be borrowed through interlibrary loan. ]
Table of Contents

  • Brief Description of This Collection

  • Title Page and Restrictions

  • Biographies of William and Helen Sunday



    • An Essay on the Contents of the Collection (Scope and Content)
  • I. William A. Sunday - General Correspondence
  • II. Helen T. Sunday - General Correspondence
  • III. Sunday Family Correspondence
  • IV. Evangelistic Campaign Files
  • V. Sermons, etc.
  • VI. Press Clippings
  • VII. Scrapbooks
  • VIII. Photographs
  • IX. Receipts and Check Stubs
  • X. Miscellaneous
  • XI. Sunday Papers Supplement

    • Other Information Which Will Be Helpful to the User of This Guide
  • Partial List of the Campaigns of William Ashley Sunday

  • Partial List of Sunday's Assistants

  • Partial List of Billy Sunday Sermon Manuscripts and Outlines in the Collection


    • Lists of Microfilm, Negatives, and Photographs in This Collection (Location Records)
  • Microfilm
  • Negatives
  • Photographs



    • List of the Contents of Boxes of Paper Records in This Collection (Container List)
  • I. William A. Sunday - General Correspondence
  • II. Helen T. Sunday - General Correspondence
  • III. Sunday Family Correspondence
  • IV. Evangelistic Campaign Files
  • V. Sermons, etc.
  • VI. Press Clippings
  • VII. Scrapbooks
  • VIII. Photographs
  • XI. Sunday Papers Supplement

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  • An online exhibit about Billy Sunday Click here to link to a Web page with an online audio file of Billy Sunday's "Booze" sermon.

    Part of this collection is available for inter-library loan. Click for more information.

    Other institutions which have the microfilm edition of the Sunday papers.

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    Click HERE to see the presentation ""Make This the Best Year of Our Lives": Scenes of Christian Ministry from the Year 1898.", which includes material from this collection.

    Brief Description.
    Microfilm edition of originals in Winona Lake, Indiana, including correspondence, sermons, reports, revival ephemera, and scrapbooks dealing mainly with the career of evangelist Billy Sunday from its beginning to his death and about the work of his wife Helen, who, besides acting as his general manager, was a fundamentalist leader in her own right, especially after his death. The collection also contains information about the Prohibition movement in America and life on the home front during World War I.


    Collection 61
    [February 6, 2001]
    Sunday, William Ashley; 1862-1935
    Sunday, Helen Amelia Thompson; 1868-1957
    Papers; 1882 [1888-1957] 1974, n.d.

    Microfilm, Negatives, Photographs

    Restrictions

    The originals of this microfilm collection are in the library of Grace College and Theological Seminary in Winona Lake Indiana. They were processed, organized, described and microfilmed in 1978 as part of a joint project of the Archives of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College, Wheaton, Illinois and Grace College and Theological Seminary, Winona Lake, Indiana, under the supervision of the Center's archivist, Robert Shuster. Persons wishing to quote from any of the documents in the collection in any published work must obtain permission from:



    The Librarian
    Grace Schools
    Winona Lake, IN 49590



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