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Reference (shelfmark):: EAP760/1
Title:: The Tīrthalāl Naghabhanī Archive (TLA)
Scope & Content:: This collection contains the following 6 series: EAP760/1/1: Candannāth Papers, 1867-1918 EAP760/1/2: Tīrthalāl Collection (TLC) [The Family and the Regime], 1763-1968 EAP760/1/3: Financial Transactions, 1860-1983 EAP760/1/4: Photographs, 1989-1996 EAP760/1/5: Family Collection (TLF), 1125-1996 ...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, Hindi, Maithili, Nepali, Newari, Newari, Classical, Not applicable, and Sanskrit
Date Range:: 1125-2006
Extent:: 11039 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP833/1
Title:: Lazic Family Archive [1854–1926]
Scope & Content:: This collection is very valuable because it is composed of unique materials which do not exist in other archives or libraries and their preservation is of utmost importance for researchers in the field of humanities and social sciences. Most of publications are printed in the middle of the Great...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, German, and Serbian
Date Range:: 1854-1926
Extent:: 50055 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP833/1/3
Title:: Archival material [1921–1922]
Scope & Content:: Archival material about the First World War suitable for interdisciplinary approach which includes several letters, notes, postcards, war posters and other documents. Extent and format of original material: 4 files This series contains the following 4 files: EAP833/1/3/1: Telegrams [21–27 Janua...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English, French, and Serbian
Date Range:: 1921-1922
Extent:: 110 TIFF images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/1
Title:: Manuscripts relating to the American Ceylon Mission
Scope & Content:: This collection consists of nine manuscript files related to the 19th-century American Ceylon Mission, including reports, church record books, and minutes from meetings. Anonymous private collection.
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1816-1883
Extent:: 2732 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/1/6
Title:: Ecclesiastical Reports 1855-1860
Scope & Content:: This file holds reports from numerous mission stations in the Jaffna peninsula, including Batticotta, Chavagachery, Karativoe, Manipay, Oodoopitty, Oodooville, and Valany. Some of the reports are signed by missinoaryes like E.P. Hastings (?-1890), and Levi Spaulding (1791-1873), and mission assis...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1855-1860
Extent:: 478 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2
Title:: Jaffna Diocese of the Church of South India (JDCSI) Collection
Scope & Content:: This description comes in part from Professor Bernard Bate's finding aid for the JDCSI's archive, published in 2005. This collection consists mostly of manuscript materials "from the establishment of the American Ceylon Mission (ACM) in 1816 by the American Ceylon Board of Commissioners for Forei...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1816-1866
Extent:: 1300 Tiff images

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2/4
Title:: Diary Fragment, 1836-1838
Scope & Content:: This file describes church admissions, schools, the printing press, religious vocations, mission meetings, and funds of the mission. The writer mentions Samuel Hutchings (1806-1895), Benjamin Meigs (1789-1862), M.D. Sanders (?-?), and Miron Winslow (1789-1864) in his reports.Physical characteris...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1836-1838
Extent:: 84 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2/8
Title:: Sundry Reports, 1855-1866
Scope & Content:: This file contains reports on the process of ordaination for Ceylonese preachers, certificates of ordination, and license to preach. It also contains detailed data relating to the ACM's printing establishment, with tract-by-tract descriptions by Levi Spaulding (1791-1873), and information on clas...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1855-1866
Extent:: 356 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/2/9
Title:: Letterbook Fragment, 1858-1866
Scope & Content:: This file contains copies of letters sent from E.P. Hastings (?-1890) to Rufus Anderson (1796-1880), Secretary of the ABCFM. These letters refer to ACM business and concerns such as methods for village schools, the uses of the Native Evangelical Society in Jaffna, and financial burdens as well as...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1858-1866
Extent:: 224 TIFF files

Reference (shelfmark):: EAP835/3
Title:: Jaffna College Archive Collection
Scope & Content:: The archive belongs to Jaffna College and holds diverse materials ranging from 1710 to the present, with a focus on late nineteeneth- and early-twentieth century materials. The materials are divided into seven shelves categorized by major subject: history, religion, medicine, astronomy, the Tamil...
Collection Area:: Endangered Archives Programme
Languages:: English and Tamil
Date Range:: 1841-1895
Extent:: 1635 Tiff images

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