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Subseries 1: Lars Herman Beck, 1st President, 1893-1910

Folder inventory

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Sermons

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Correspondence: Thorberg Beck and President Evald Lawson

Dr Beck's widow shares events prior to the college start in 1893.  The early years in Brooklyn, New York.  Names of some of the first students, the move to New Jersey.  Letters show deep respect shown by President Lawson to Mrs. Beck and her appreciation

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Six speeches,  1893-1910

 

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Sermons, 1898-1901

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Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, 1892

Part 1, Manuscript pages 1-165,  A Comparison of the Doctrines of Reality in the Philosophies of Lotze and Bostrom

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Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, 1892

Part 2, Manuscript, pages 166-331, A Comparison of the Doctrines of Reality in the Philosophies of Lotze and Bostrom

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Ph.D. Thesis, Yale University, 1892 (complete and typed)

A Comparison of the Doctrines of Reality in the Philosophies of Lotze and Bostrom

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Memoirs,  translated by Walter T. Eickman, forward by Dr. Walter W. Gustafson

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Memoirs,  Pages through 100a of typed copy of memoirs

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Memoirs, 1971

 

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Memoirs and letters from grandson, 1971

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Memoirs, 1971

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Autographs of famous people (C.S. Franzen, Woodrow Wilson, W.T. Sherman, Captain John Taylor, William Lloyd Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Stephan A. Douglas, etc.) civil war letters, other letters, 1860-1905

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Letters, 1894-1932

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Tabor Lutheran Church 75th Anniversary, 1876-1951

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Contracts, personal, college; railroad reduced fare requests

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Fundraising correspondence, 1903-1909

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50th Birthday congratulations, 1909

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Letters, invitations to…?  1904-1926

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Letters, invitations from… 1900-1909

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English forward to Dr. Lars Herman Beck’s autobiography

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Minnen,  Dr. Beck’s autobiography notes in Swedish

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Dr. Beck’s Ph.D. certificate in original metal tube

 

 

 

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