Ernest A. Bell papers, 1876-1934
Descriptive Inventory for the
Collection at Chicago History Museum, Research Center
By Mindy C. Pugh, 1991; rev.
by Jennifer Asimakopolis
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Title: Ernest A. Bell papers, 1876-1934
Main entry: Bell,
Ernest A. (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928
Inclusive dates: 1876-1934
Size:
4 linear feet (9 boxes)
1 oversize folder.
Terms of access: Collection is open for research use.
Provenance
statement:
Gift of Harold P. Bell in December 1989 (1989:0775).
Terms governing use: Copyright may be retained by the creators of items, or
their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law, unless
otherwise noted.
Please cite this collection as: Ernest A. Bell papers
(Chicago History Museum) plus a detailed description, date, and box/folder
number of a specific item.
The descriptive inventory contains the following
sections:
Biographical/historical
note,
Summary
description of the collection,
Description
of some material related to the collection,
List
of online catalog headings about the collection,
Arrangement
of the collection,
Detailed
description of archival series in the collection,
List of contents of the
collection.
Biographical/Historical note:
Ernest Albert Bell, Methodist
clergyman, missionary to India, and crusader against Chicago's segregated 22nd
Street "levee" vice district, was born in Melancthon
Township, Dufferin County, in the Canadian province of Ontario on November 3,
1865, the son of Jonadab Bell and Mary Ann (Stevens) Bell. Educated in the
public schools of Ontario and at Albert College in Belleville, Ontario, Bell
came to the U.S. in 1883 and received his B.A. degree from Allegheny College in
Meadville, Pennsylvania, in 1888. He studied philosophy and theology at Boston
University from 1888 to 1890 and was ordained in the Pittsburgh Conference of
the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1890. Bell preached his first sermon at a
Methodist church in Grey County, Ontario, in 1883 and served as a student
pastor in Pennsylvania, Ohio, New York, and Massachusetts between 1885 and
1890.
In 1891, Bell studied Sanskrit
at Oxford University in England before sailing with his wife for the Indian
subcontinent at the end of that year. Bell originally intended to serve in
India under the Methodist Missionary Society, but when that society refused to
send him out from England on account of his ill health, he offered his services
to the Congregationalists (American Board of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions, based in Boston) who then sent him and Mrs. Bell to their mission at
Jaffna in Ceylon.
The Bells had been in Ceylon
for only a few months in early 1892 when Mrs. Bell's health collapsed, and they
relocated to India in search of a healthier climate. By this point, Bell had
also decided that the attraction to the Church of England, which he had first
experienced at Oxford, required that he join that communion; he also was determined
to follow his original intent of serving as a missionary in India. Therefore,
he broke with the A.B.C.F.M. in the spring of 1892 even though he had signed on
with them for five years.
In India, Bell again sought
affiliation with Methodist bodies, but being rebuffed by them, he then followed
his inclination to join the Church of England and served from September 1892 in
a lay capacity under the Anglican M.D.C.S.P.G.F.P. (Madras Diocesan Committee
of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts). The
Anglican Bishop of Madras initially seemed to indicate that Bell could be
ordained as an Anglican priest without conditions, but by early 1893, Bell
discovered that the Bishop now required that he undergo the standard course of
training for ordination. Feeling that the Bishop had breached their initial
understanding on the ordination issue, Bell resigned from the employ of the
M.D.C. in late February 1893.
Bell then again applied to the
Methodists in India and finally won sympathy and some measure of support from
J.M. Thoburn, a Methodist Episcopal Bishop whom Bell had known at Allegheny
College. Thoburn placed Bell as pastor of an English-speaking church in the
Indian interior at Jubbulpore. Thoburn counseled Bell to patiently forego resuming
missionary work among the natives and advised him that his frequent changes of
denominational affiliation had earned him a reputation for willfulness and
instability among India's missionary groups. Bell's position was complicated also
by the fact that the Boston Congregationalists' A.B.C.F.M. demanded
compensation for its costs in outfitting Bell and sending him to Ceylon. Bell
continually urged the societies with which he subsequently affiliated to pay
this obligation; all refused. Bell remained at Jubbulpore until early 1894,
when Bishop Thoburn prevailed upon him to return to the U.S. for the sake of
his health.
Bell's experiences in India
convinced him of the harmful influence of denominational rivalry upon Christian
missions and charities. Thereafter he was always determined to stress that his
work was non-sectarian in nature, and though remaining a Methodist himself, he
did not hesitate to work with other Protestant groups in pursuit of Christian
goals. Back in the U.S., Bell served as pastor of a St. Joseph, Missouri,
congregation from 1894-1896 and of a Bellevue, Nebraska, congregation in 1896.
Arriving in Chicago in October 1896, Bell graduated from the Chicago
Theological Seminary in 1897 and, from 1898 until 1902 served as pastor of the Neighborhood
Church in Maywood, Illinois. Dissatisfied with serving conventional
congregations, by 1900 Bell was expending much energy on behalf of India
(famine relief and fundraising for the foundation of a Christian university at
Jubbulpore).
In 1902, he turned to
anti-vice work in Chicago. No longer affiliated with a congregation, Bell's
financial condition remained precarious until his work in the levee district
(just west of State Street, between 18th and 22nd streets) resulted in founding
the Midnight Mission in August 1904. Thereafter, Bell's income as superintendent
of this mission was somewhat more stable.
In the struggle against
segregated vice, Bell had found a field of activity in which he could labor
free of institutional constraints, satisfy his desire to preach the Gospel
openly in the streets, and involve others in a mission of his own choosing and
direction. Holding nightly open-air services in the levee, Bell was repeatedly
threatened by toughs in the employ of the levee's brothels and even arrested on
occasion by the police. Bell's crusading activities increasingly focused public
attention on the moral and public health dangers of the levee district, and he
was successful in securing the cooperation of prominent Chicago church people
(such as Deaconess Lucy Hall and the Rev. Melbourne P. Boynton of the Woodlawn
Baptist Church) and various public officials (such as Chief Justice Harry Olson
of the Chicago Municipal Court) in attempting to reverse the city's policy of
segregation and regulation of vice.
In 1908, Bell helped found the
Illinois Vigilance Association, serving as its corresponding secretary for two
years. In 1910, Bell met with President Taft to urge support of a federal White
Slave Traffic Act, which subsequently passed and became known as the Mann Act.
Bell became widely-known not
only locally but internationally as an anti-vice crusader through his editing
of War on the White Slave Trade (Chicago, 1909) and his translation of
several works on venereal disease by Alfred Fournier. Tougher federal, state,
and local legislation against obscenity and prostitution eventually resulted in
prosecutions that drove the brothels of the levee district out of business in
1912-1913.
With the levee vice district
destroyed, Bell moved his mission to the Loop, where in 1916 it became the
Midnight Church, with Bell serving as its pastor. Bell continued with street
preaching and worked with the Church Federation of Chicago to agitate for the
continued freedom of evangelical groups to engage in open-air preaching. With
the advent of radio, Bell also took to the airwaves and frequently broadcasted
sermons from the Chicago Temple. India remained dear to his heart, and he
continued to hope that he might return there until nearly the end of his life.
He also took a strong interest in the conversion of the Jews to Christianity
and served as vice president of the Chicago Gospel Mission to the Jews.
The destruction of the levee
vice district won Bell a certain amount of fame and recognition in his final
decades. In 1915 his Alma Mater (Allegheny College) awarded him an honorary
Doctor of Divinity Degree, and in 1916, Boston University belatedly awarded him
a theology degree on the basis of his course work of the late 1880s. Bell
served as pastor of the Midnight Church until his death from a brain tumor on
October 27, 1928, at West Suburban Hospital in Oak Park. During the final years
of his life, he had resided at 516 N. Mayfield in Chicago's Austin
neighborhood.
On September 17, 1890, Bell
married Mary Greer, a graduate of Wesleyan University in Nebraska, and she
accompanied him on his missionary work in Ceylon and India. To them were born
seven children: Olive (Mrs. Farrington Daniels), Clare Ernestine, Reginald,
Eleanor (Mrs. Paul Deming Williams), Harold Philip, Jesse Greer, and Frances
Elizabeth. After Bell's death, his daughter Olive Bell Daniels wrote a
biography of her father titled: From the Epic of Chicago: A Biography of
Ernest A. Bell (Menasha, Wisconsin: 1932).
Summary description of the
collection:
Correspondence, minutes, newsclippings, and publications produced or received by Ernest
A. Bell relating to his career as a Methodist clergyman, missionary to India in
1892-1894, and anti-prostitution crusader in Chicago from 1902 onward. Topics
include various Protestant missionary societies in India; Bell's efforts to aid
India from the U.S. (promoting famine relief and an effort to establish a
Christian university); Bell's Midnight Mission in the 22nd Street levee
district in Chicago; and the successful efforts of Bell and others to eliminate
segregated vice districts. Much of this material is composed of correspondence
between Bell and various laymen and clergymen who shared Bell's interest in
foreign missions and in anti-vice work, although some correspondence between
Bell and his wife and his brothers is present in the collection also.
Collection includes additional
correspondence about Bell in the years immediately after his death, between
Bell's daughter Olive Bell Daniels and family friends. Also included are
records of the Midnight Mission and the Night Church, such as board of
directors meeting minutes and Bell's correspondence in his capacity as superintendent
and pastor, respectively, of these institutions. Finally, the collection
contains publications by Bell's Midnight Mission in Chicago as well as a number
of books and leaflets generated by the anti-vice movement in the United States
and Great Britain.
Description of
some material related to the collection:
Related material at Chicago
History Museum, Research Center, include the Rev. Ernest Bell photograph
collection (1989.0775); the Glover family photographs (2016.0059); the
published biography of Bell written by his daughter Olive Bell Daniels; and
publications by Bell against prostitution, all cataloged separately.
List of online
catalog headings about the collection:
Bell,
Ernest A, (Ernest Albert), 1865-1928--Archives.
Harper,
William Rainey, 1856-1906.
Allegheny
College (Meadville, Pa.)
Boston
University.
Chicago
Gospel Mission to the Jews.
Church
of England--Missions.
Illinois
Vigilance Association (Chicago, Ill.)
India
Famine-Relief Committee.
Midnight
Mission (Chicago, Ill.)
Neighborhood
Church (Maywood, Ill.)
Night
Church (Chicago, Ill.)
Bishops--India.
Christian
communities--Illinois--Chicago.
Church
work with prostitutes--Illinois--Chicago.
Clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Congregationalists--Massachusetts--Boston.
Families--Illinois--Chicago.
Famines--India.
Fathers--Illinois--Chicago.
Jewish
Christians--Illinois--Chicago.
Methodist
Church--Clergy.
Methodist
Church--Missions.
Missionaries--India.
Missions
to Hindus.
Prayers.
Preaching--Illinois--Chicago.
Procuresses--Illinois--Chicago.
Prostitution--Illinois--Chicago.
Protestant
churches--Missions--India.
Religion.
Temperance--United
States--Societies, etc.
Vice
control--Illinois--Chicago.
Viceroys'
spouses--India.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Religious life and customs--19th century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Religious life and customs--20th century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Social conditions--19th century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Social conditions--20th century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Social life and customs--19th century.
Chicago
(Ill.)--Social life and customs--20th century.
Near
South Side (Chicago, Ill.)
Great
Britain--Colonies--Asia.
Great
Britain--Description and travel--19th century.
India--History--British
occupation, 1765-1947.
Sri
Lanka--Civilization--Christian influences.
Form/genre:
Correspondence.
Minutes.
Newspaper
clippings.
Added
entries:
Bonney,
Charles Carroll, 1831-1903.
Boynton,
Melbourne P.
Burgess,
William, 1843-1922.
Daniels,
Olive Bell, 1891-1984.
Farwell,
Arthur Burrage, 1852-1936.
Hallam,
Wirt W.
Howland,
S. W.
Huckel, Oliver, 1864-1940.
Lawson,
Victor Freemont, 1850-1925.
Taylor,
Graham, 1851-1938.
Thoburn,
J. M. (James Mills), 1836-1922.
Allegheny
College (Meadville, Pa.)
Boston
University.
Chicago
Gospel Mission to the Jews.
Illinois
Vigilance Association.
India
Famine-Relief Committee.
Midnight
Mission (Chicago, Ill.)
Neighborhood
Church (Maywood, Ill.)
Night
Church (Chicago, Ill.)
Great
Britain--England--Oxfordshire--Oxford.
India.
Sri
Lanka.
United
States--Illinois--Cook County--Chicago.
Arrangement of the
collection:
The papers are arranged in
three series:
Series 1. Personal papers
Subseries 1. Correspondence
and topical files
Subseries 2. Biographical material
Subseries 3. Appointment books
and finances
Series 2. The Midnight Mission
Series 3. Publications and artifacts
Detailed
description of archival series in the collection:
Series 1. Personal papers (box 1-4)
This series contains all of
Bell's correspondence other than his correspondence pertaining to the
Neighborhood Church of Maywood, the Midnight Mission, and the Night Church
(which are in Series 2). Also included are biographical materials on Bell as
well as Bells' appointment books and financial records. It is composed of three
subseries:
Subseries 1. Correspondence
and topical files
Subseries 2. Biographical material
Subseries 3. Appointment books
and finances
Subseries 1 contains Bell's
correspondence with family members as well as with all his various associates
in mission and church work, excepting those correspondence files pertaining to
the operation of Bell's Midnight Mission and Midnight Church, which are in
Series 2. Though Bell's career as a Christian missionary and minister underwent
many changes of direction, he had many lifelong friends who loved him deeply,
kept in regular contact, and offered him encouragement and advice. Very few
individuals ever broke with Rev. Bell permanently; most realizing that his zeal
for righteousness was not intolerance or lack of learning but rather the
expression of a genuine faith, which involved Bell in many self-sacrifices.
Among those whom Bell met at
Boston University and carried on a lifelong correspondence are the Rev. Oliver Huckel, a Congregational minister in Baltimore who took a
friendly interest in Bell's activities from afar and who collaborated with Bell
in crafting verses for hymns; Dr. Marcus D. Buell of Boston's Theology
Department; and the department president, W.F. Warren.
Bell's correspondence with
colleagues in the mission field includes letters from N.G. Clark of the
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions in Boston; Margaret W.
Leith, a patroness of the A.B.C.F.M.; and S. L. Howland of the A.B.C.F.M.'s
Ceylon Mission. Clark and Leith penned reproachful letters to Bell in mid-1892
following his break with their mission, and Bell's friendship with Leith was
permanently damaged though Clark eventually came to respect Bell's decision.
Howland remained cordial throughout the affair. Another prominent correspondent
during the India years was A. Wescott of the Madras Diocesan Committee
(Anglican), who coordinated Bell's activities in 1892-1893 during the months of
his affiliation with the Anglicans. Most revealing of Bells' complicated
situation in India is his correspondence with Bishop J.M. Thoburn of the
Methodist Episcopal Church. Bell wrote openly to Thoburn about the
misunderstandings and betrayals he had endured in India, while Thoburn with
equal candor told Bell that he was seen by others as unstable and inadaptable
to the missionary life. Bell's correspondence files also contain a fair number
of self-justifying letters written to the Anglican Bishop of Madras but (at
Mrs. Bell's urging) never sent.
Following his return to
America, Bell remained in contact with fellow missionaries Harvey Reeves
Calkins at Jubbulpore and Malcolm Goldsmith of the Church Mission Society
(Anglican) at Hyderabad. Bell also corresponded for years with T.H. Dodson of
St. Paul's College in Lincolnshire, England. Bell perhaps met Dodson at Oxford.
Following the inception of
Bell's anti-vice work in Chicago, his correspondence gradually shifted from
India-based concerns (although that interest never entirely disappeared) to
those (financial, logistical, spiritual) connected with the war on the levee
vice district. In his efforts on behalf of India, Bell corresponded frequently
with fellow Chicagoan Charles C. Bonney, who was president of the Christian
University Fund for India (of which Bell was the secretary) and also chairman
of the India Famine-Relief Committee (again, with Bell the secretary). On
behalf of anti-vice efforts, Bell kept up correspondence with fellow reformers Arthur
Burrage Farwell, a member both of
the Chicago Law and Order League and the Illinois Vigilance Association,
as well as with the Rev. William Burgess, a Congregational minister, and with
Wirt W. Hallam, a Chicago manufacturer/broker and member of the Vice Commission
of Chicago.
During the anti-levee vice
district fight, Bell was involved in disputes over tactics with Dr. Graham
Taylor of the Chicago Commons settlement house. Following the elimination of
the levee, however, Taylor acknowledged that Bell's approach to the problem had
been more direct and appropriate than his. Near the end of Bell's life he
received a letter from Taylor (February 5, 1927) which concluded "that
song you sung at me eight years ago sings on still soaring overhead of all I
was, am, or may be--except your fighting me hard & fighting me strong--when
I was wrong--and that friendly criticism expresses the truest friendship."
Bell's correspondence with
several wealthy Chicagoans while seeking financial support for his various
projects is of particular interest. In 1900, Bell wrote and paid a visit to
Chicago real estate magnate Levi Leiter, whose daughter Mary, Lady Curzon, was
the Vicereine of India, seeking to involve Leiter in
supporting famine relief efforts for India. To Bell's dismay, Leiter refused
even though the Vicereine had endorsed the efforts of
Bell's committee. Also of interest is an October 18, 1909, letter from Victor
Lawson, publisher of the Chicago Daily News, to Bell; in it Lawson (a prominent
financial supporter of Bell's Midnight Mission) announces that an enclosed
check for $560 was intended only to pay the arrears in Bell's salary and not to
go to the board of the mission, which Lawson declared to be incompetent.
Also at the end of this
subseries is correspondence which Bell conducted with his wife Mary from the
days of their courtship through the end of his life, along with correspondence
he conducted with his brothers Chauncey, a grain merchant, and John, a medical
doctor. Bell's correspondence with these two brothers is extremely revealing as
they were both very free in giving advice and in criticizing Bell's career,
regardless of the evident affection they had for him.
Subseries 2 contains news
clippings and articles that give biographical information on Bell at various
stages of his career as well as his academic degrees, obituaries, testimonials,
and the correspondence which Bell's daughter Olive Daniels conducted with
Bell's friends and colleagues during the years when she was researching and
writing a biography of her father.
Subseries 3 contains Bell's
series of little leather appointment books which date from 1892 through 1928.
In these books, Bell entered not only notations about upcoming meetings and
events but also recorded his spiritual resolutions, prayers, and small
descriptions of poignant incidents. Loose scraps of paper enclosed in these
notebooks also record prayers and observations in which Bell comments freely on
people who had helped or hindered his work, such as one dated October 27, 1896,
in which Bell recounts a visit to President William Rainey Harper of the
University of Chicago: "I called upon President Harper of the magnificent
new University of Chicago whom I had met at Yale before I went to India. He did
not know me and would not receive me as it was not his office hour--ordered me
to come back next day at half past two. He was fat and sleek and proud and had
not even a handshake for one who had hazarded life and all things for our
Savior Christ."
Series 2. The Midnight Mission (box 4-5)
This series contains
correspondence and minutes, 1906-1928, which are specifically connected with
the pastoral and anti-vice efforts of Bell's Midnight Mission, subsequently known
as the Night Church. The early correspondence in this series (through 1913)
includes letters to members of the mission's board informing them of upcoming
meetings and fundraising correspondence, culminating in a letter from Bell to
the directors dated October 8, 1912, in which he announces the police closing
of portions of the levee vice district ("'Fallen is Babylon!'") and
declares that "with the fall of the vice districts the methods of night
evangelism must be modified to meet the new environment." The minutes of
the mission's board of directors include not only financial statements for the
mission but also plans for evangelism of the vice district and the purchase of
a building for the mission; reports from Bell as superintendent of the mission
are also present.
The correspondence and minutes
for the Night Church, which the Midnight Mission was renamed in 1916, reflect a
quieter mission; with the fight against the vice districts won, Bell shifted to
more traditional forms of evangelism and street preaching. This latter material
also shows, however, that Bell even in his mid-50s still desired to return to
India. A letter to Victor Lawson dated July 3, 1919, and typed on the
letterhead of the Night Church appeals to Lawson for an annuity for twenty
years so that he could devote his final years to promoting Christian higher education
in India.
Series 3. Publications and artifacts (box 5-9)
This series contains printed
material pertaining to the international anti-prostitution movement of the
1900-1915 period and to India, with the former topic being represented largely
by monographs and the latter by newspaper clippings and pamphlets. Many of
Bell's published works are included in this series, including several editions
of his pamphlet "An Oxford in India" (which advocates a Christian
university in India). This series also
contains a box of souvenirs/artifacts.
List of contents of the collection:
Series 1. Personal papers (box 1-4)
Subseries 1. Correspondence and topical files
box 1
folders:
1 Correspondence, general, 1876-1890
2 Correspondence, general, 1891
3 Correspondence, general, Jan.-June 1892
4 Correspondence, general, July-Dec. 1892
5 Correspondence, general, Jan.-Mar. 1893
6 Correspondence, general, Apr.-June 1893
7 Correspondence, general, July-Dec. 1893
8 Correspondence, general, 1894-1899
9 Correspondence, general, 1900-1901
10 Correspondence, general, 1902-1903
11 Correspondence, general, 1904-1909
12 Correspondence, general, 1910-1912
box 2
folders:
1 Correspondence, general, 1913-1915
2 Correspondence, general, 1916-1919
3 Correspondence, general, 1920-1925
4 Correspondence, general, 1926-1928
5 Family members, 1890-1900
6 Family members, 1901-1910
7 Family members, 1911-1928
8 Mary (Mrs. Ernest A.) Bell, 1890
9 Mary (Mrs. Ernest A.) Bell, 1891-1896
10 Mary (Mrs. Ernest A.) Bell, 1901-1903
11 Mary (Mrs. Ernest A.) Bell, 1909-1928
12 Topical writings: India
13 Topical writings: The Neighborhood Church of Maywood,
1901-1905
14 Topical writings: Miscellaneous personal writings
Series 1. Personal papers (box 1-4) - continued
Subseries 2. Biographical material
box 3
folders:
1 Biographical material, 1884-1925
2 Naturalization papers, 1886
3 Degrees (also see Ernest Bell oversize folder)
4 Tributes upon fiftieth birthday, 1915
5 Illness and death, 1928
6 Obituaries and testimonials, 1928-1929
7 Correspondence of Olive Bell Daniels for biography of
Ernest Albert Bell, 1928-1929
8 Correspondence of Olive Bell Daniels for biography of
Ernest Albert Bell, 1930
9-10 Correspondence of Olive Bell Daniels for biography of Ernest
Albert Bell, 1931
11 Correspondence of Olive Bell Daniels for biography of Ernest
Albert Bell, 1932-1934
Series 1. Personal papers (box 1-4) - continued
Subseries 3. Appointment books and finances
12 Diaries/appointment books, 1892-1900
13 Diaries/appointment books, 1902-1903, 1910-1911
14 Diaries/appointment books, 1912-1914, 1915-1917
box 4:
folders:
1 Diaries/appointment books, 1918-1919, 1920-1922
2 Diaries/appointment books, 1923-1928
3 Cash accounts, 1897-1925
4 Cash books, 1902-1916, 1904-1912
5 Cash books, notebooks, 1913; savings book, 1906-1914
6 Receipts, 1906-1926
Series 2. The Midnight Mission (box 4-5)
box 4 - continued
folders:
7 Midnight Mission correspondence, 1907-1911
8 Midnight Mission correspondence, 1912-1913
9 Meeting minutes, 1906-1909
box 5
folders:
1 Meeting minutes, 1910
2 Meeting minutes, 1911
3 Meeting minutes, 1912
4 Meeting minutes, 1913
5 Meeting minutes, 1914-1915
6 Meeting minutes, 1916
7 Night Church correspondence, 1918-1920
8 Night Church correspondence, 1921-1925
9 Night Church correspondence, 1926-1928
10 Meeting minutes, 1918-1928
Series 3. Publications and artifacts
box 5 - continued
folders:
11 Newspaper clippings: articles by Bell
12 Newspaper clippings: articles about Bell
box 6
folders:
1 Newspaper clippings, topics: India
2 Newspaper clippings, topics: vice in Chicago
3 Newspaper clippings, topics: Oliver Huckel
4 Newspaper clippings, topics: miscellaneous
5 Pamphlets and flyers by Bell: "An Oxford in
India"
6 Pamphlets and flyers by Bell: "Can We Know God?"
7 Pamphlets and flyers by Bell: miscellaneous
8 Books written and/or edited by Bell: "War on the White
Slave Trade" 1909
9 Books written and/or edited by Bell: "White Slavery
Today" 1917
10 Books written and/or edited by Bell: works contributed to by
Bell or translated by Bell
11 Publications of The Chicago Gospel Mission to the Jews
12 Publications of The Illinois Vigilance Association
13-14 Publications of The Midnight Mission
box 7
folders:
1 Publications of The Night Church
2 Publications on various topics: Jewish issues
3 Publications on various topics: temperance
4 Publications on various topics: vice
5-6 Publications on various topics: miscellaneous, U.S.
7-9 Publications on various topics: India
10 Publications on various topics: "Report of the Indian
Famine Charitable Relief Fund" 1900
11 Publications on various topics: "Report of the Indian
Universities Commission 1902
12 Publications on various topics: miscellaneous, foreign
box 8
books:
Allegheny
College Alumni Register, 1925
Burgess, William, The World's Social Evil, 1914
Chicago
Theological Seminary Register Annual Catalog, 1925-1926
Christian
Education (World Missionary Conference,
1910)
Clouston, Sir Thomas, Morals and Brains (London, 1912)
Coote, William Alexander, A
Vision and Its Fulfillment (National Vigilance Association, 1910)
Craven, T., The Popular Dictionary: English and Roman
Urdu (Lucknow, 1889)
Friends'
General Conference 1908
Hindustani
Git Ki Kitab (Lucknow, 1906)
Hirsch, E.G., The Crucifixion, 1892
Huckel, Oliver, Christian
Science and Common Sense 1899
Wescott, Brooke Foss and
Fenton John Anthony Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek (New York, 1904)
box 9
artifacts/souvenirs:
Stone figurine from India or
Ceylon
Purse
Silk scarf
Wooden tissue box
Piece of wood from slave
auction block, Hotel Royal, New Orleans
Medicine bottle
Letter opener
Old
list of card catalog headings:
The following headings were
placed in the Archives & Manuscripts card catalog:
Subjects:
Bell, Ernest A., 1865-1928.
Bishops--India.
Christian
communities--Illinois--Chicago.
Church of England--Missions.
Church work with
prostitutes--Illinois--Chicago.
Clergy--Illinois--Chicago.
Congregationalists--Massachusetts--Boston.
Family--Illinois--Chicago.
Famines--India.
Fathers--Illinois--Chicago.
Great Britain--Colonies--Asia.
Great Britain--Description and
travel.
Harper, William Rainey,
1856-1906.
India--History--British
Occupation, 1765-1947.
Jewish
Christians--Illinois--Chicago.
Methodist Church--Clergy.
Methodist Church--Missions.
Missionaries--India.
Missions to Hindus.
Prayers.
Preaching--Illinois--Chicago.
Procuresses--Illinois--Chicago.
Prostitution--Illinois--Chicago.
Protestant
churches--Missions--India.
Religion.
Sri
Lanka--Civilization--Christian influences.
Temperance--Societies, etc--United States.
Vice
Control--Illinois--Chicago.
Viceroys' spouses--India.
Added entries:
Allegheny College (Meadville,
Pa.)
Bonney, Charles C.
Boston University (Boston,
Mass.)
Boynton, Melbourne P.
Burgess, William.
Chicago Gospel Mission to the
Jews.
Daniels, Olive Bell.
Farwell, Arthur Burrage, 1852-1936.
Hallam, Wirt W.
Howland, S.W.
Huckel, Oliver.
Illinois Vigilance
Association.
India Famine-Relief Committee.
Lawson, Victor Fremont,
1850-1925.
Midnight Mission (Chicago,
Ill.)
Neighborhood Church (Maywood,
Ill.)
Night Church (Chicago, Ill.)
Taylor, Graham, 1851-1938.
Thoburn, J.M.