Archives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Archival Bookshelf
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The Ordination of Women, condensed by Raymond Tiemeyer. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1970.


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Wolf, L.B. Our Mission Beginnings in China. Baltimore, Md.: Board of Foreign Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1926.


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Harkins, George F. Handbook For Committees of Congregations of the Lutheran Church in America. Philadelphia: Board of Publication of the Lutheran Church in America, 1967.


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Tilberg, Cedric W., ed. Sex, Marriage & Family: A Contemporary Christian Perspective. Commission on Marriage, Board of Social Ministry, Lutheran Church in America, 1970.


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Bystrom, Martin. Letters From Africa. Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern, 1951.


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Dahl, Nellie. Stories From Madagascar. Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House, 1934.


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Swanson, Hjalmar. Three Missionary Pioneers and Some Who Have Followed Them. Rock Island, Ill.: Augustana Book Concern, 1945.


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Bethphage-Biblioteket, Första Bandet. F.N. Swanberg, In Memoriam. Axtell, Neb.: Bethphage Inre Missions Förenings Förlag, 1915.


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Hendricksen, Millie. History of the Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home Society, Edison Park, Chicago, Illinois, 1896-1936. Chicago: Norwegian Lutheran Children's Home Society, 1936.


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Traver, Mrs. J.G. A Century of Service: A Brief History of the Women's Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Synod of New York. N.p., 1937.


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Horn, Edward T. and Lottie Wyse Norman. Japan. Philadelphia: Women's Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America, n.d.


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Published by the Women's Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America, Lutheran Woman's Work highlighted home and foreign mission work.


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Helland, Andreas. The American Santal Mission: Notes on Its History. Minneapolis: American Santal Mission, 1948. 78pp.

History of The American Santal Mission, founded in 1891 to support Danish and Norwegian Lutheran mission work in India.


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Seebach, Margaret R. A Century in India. Philadelphia: Women's Missionary Society, the United Lutheran Church in America, 1942. 40pp.


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Trabert, George Henry. Historical Sketch of the Mission of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church among the Telugus of India. Philadelphia: The Jas. B. Rodgers Printing, Co., 1890. Copyright by author. 124 pp.

Rajahmundry Mission, "How It Became the Mission of the General Council," and missionaries.


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Schaefer, Herbert G. My God is in India. Fort Collins, Col.: Mission Auxiliary of the American Lutheran Church, [1930?] 28 pp. BV 3265 .S33 (Wartburg)

Four stories of mission in India showing the work and power of God. One story is dated 1927.


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Kuder, Calvin F. Ramarow, A Tale of the Rajahmundry Mission. Rock Island, Illinois: Augustana Book Concern, 1900 159 pp.


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Diehl, Nona M. and Selma R. Bergner. Spotlight on Our Fields: Glimpses of Our Overseas Missions. Philadelphia: The Board of Foreign Missions and The Women’s Missionary Society of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1944. 64 pp.

Promotional booklet celebrating Lutheran missions during World War II.


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Heyer, C.F. Father Heyer's Own Story: Travel Letters of the Rev. C.F. Heyer, Founder of the Guntur Mission. N.p.: N.p., 1940. 82 pp.


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Lazareth, William H. A Theology of Politics. New York: Board of Social Missions of the United Lutheran Church in America, 1960. 24 pp.


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The Immanuel Woman's Home, 1907-1932. Chicago: Immanuel Woman's Home, 1932.


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The Immanuel Woman's Home, Chicago, Illinois. Chicago: Immanuel Woman's Home, 1937.


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Fortieth Anniversary, The Immanuel Woman's Home, 1907-1947. Chicago: Immanuel Woman's Home, 1947.


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Forty-fifth Anniversary, Immanuel woman's Home, 1907-1952. Chicago: Immanuel Woman's Home, 1952.


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The Immanuel Woman's Home, 50 Years of Service, A Christian Hospice for Women. Chicago: Immanuel Woman's Home, 1957.

      


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The monthly periodical of the United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South (USS) Sunday school and missionary work, published 1905-1920.


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Checklist of major hymnals in the ELCA tradition, along with pdfs of some of those liturgies.


 
Vikner, David. "The LCA in World Mission, 1842-1982." Background Papers to the Document Call to Global Mission. For Presentation to the Convention of the Lutheran Church in America, Louisville, Ky., September 3-10, 1982. (2.43MB PDF)  
Von Rohr, Heinrich. Pfarr-Amts Journals, 1864-1866. (2.5MB PDF)
Andersen, A.W. - The Place of the Confessions in the Lutheran Church, Master of Sacred Theology thesis, Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, 1934. (5.6MB PDF)
Andersen, A.W. - Correspondence with DELC President Alfred Jensen (11.7MB PDF)
Mortensen, Enok - Biographical Directory of Pastors who served in the American Evangelical Lutheran Church (The Danish Church) 1871-1962, with revisions by Johanne and Thorvald Hansen, 1993. (5.3MB PDF)
Our Saviour's Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church, Bridgeport, Conn. Golden Anniversary Jubilee 1944. (3.33MB PDF)
Niebanck, Richard J. By What Authority?: The Making and Use of Social Statements. New York: Lutheran Church in America Division for Mission in North America, 1977. 65 pp. (2.62MB PDF)
Dedication, Martin Luther Church, Sunday, August 29, 1954. Johnson, Neb.: Martin Luther Church, 1954. 20 pp. (7.87MB PDF)
Wolf, C. Umhau. African Asides. (8.87MB PDF)

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