PCA Historical Center

Archives & Manuscript Repository for the Continuing Presbyterian Church

Accession Record
for the Papers of the
Rev. Dr. R. Laird Harris
[1 March, 2001]

Received on 1 March 2001 from U.P.S., twelve cardboard boxes in good condition, with one exception.  One box had a split side, with contents showing, but otherwise undamaged.

Box #1                        Weight, 25 lbs.

Minutes of the General Synod of the Bible Presbyterian Church, 1938 – 1955 (#1-18)
Minutes of the Columbus Synod of the BPC, 1956 (#19-20)         
Minutes of the Collingswood Synod of the BPC, 1960-1963, 1965, 1969
Minutes of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 1946, 1957, 1958
The Reformed Presbyterian Advocate, October, 1957 through December, 1959
Group of 24 folders labeled “Controversies in the Presbyterian Church

Box #2             27 lbs.

Minutes of the Presbyterian Church of America [OPC], 1936 - 1938
Documents of Synod (RPCES)
Minutes of General Assembly (PCUSA), 1928
1.5 linear feet of foldered articles and papers on various topics              

Box #3             34 lbs.

1.5 linear feet of foldered articles on miscellaneous Christian topics; The Reformed Presbyterian Reporter, 94.14 (May 1965) – 102.6 (Jan. 1969); etc.

Box #4             28 lbs.

1.5 linear feet of foldered articles on Foreign Missions; Church Matters; Archaeology and NIV translation notes; 1956 division of the Bible Presbyterian Church; Journal of Near Eastern Studies , 12.1 – 16.1 (Jan. 1953 – Jan. 1957)

Box #5             38 lbs. [? – label missing]

Issues of Vox Reformata and The Princeton Seminary Review
Faith Theological Seminary, ½ cubic ft. of documents
Westminster Theological Seminary, ½ cubic ft. of documents
Covenant Theological Seminary, ¼ cubic ft. of documents

Box #6             45 lbs.

Issues of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1951 – 1959
Issues of the Bible Review, 1985 – 1993
Issues of Archaeology, 1977 – 1981
Issues of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1974 - 1979

Box #7             33 lbs.

Old Testament Abstracts, 1980 – 1995
Highland College catalog, 1951 – 1953
The Evangelical Quarterly, 1970 – 1972
The Westminster Theological Journal, 1963 – 1964
Photograph album containing photos of early Bible Presbyterian Synods

Box #8             38 lbs.

The American Journal of Archaeology, 69.3 (July 1965) – 79.3 (July 1975)       

Box #9             38 lbs.

Vetus Testamentum, 1.1 (Jan. 1951) – 7.3 (July 1957)
The Jewish Quarterly Review, 54.4 (April 1964) – 64.4 (April 1974)
American Journal of Archaeology, 66.3 (July 1962) – 69.2 (April 1965)           

Box #10            39 lbs.

Issues of the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research, 1974 – 1979, together with a few ASOR newsletters and several Preliminary Reports of ASOR-Sponsored Excavations
American Journal of Archaeology, 79.4 (Oct. 1975) and 80.1 (Winter 1976)
Additional Issues of the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 1951 – 1953
Biblical Archaeologist, September 1992 – December 1997
3 copies of the Analytical Subject Guide to The Jewish Quarterly Review

Box #11            44 lbs.

Biblical Archaeologist, 1.2 and 1.3 (1938); Index to Vol. 1-25; 29.2; 30.3; 33.4; 34.1-34.3; 39.1 (March 1976) – 55.2 (June 1992)
The Bulletin Series of the Near East Archaeological Society, 71-85 and New Series, Nos. 25-30 and 37-38 (1985-1993)

Box #12            37 lbs.

Journal of Near Eastern Studies, 1.1 (Jan. 1942) – 6.2 (April 1947)
The Bible Times, 3.10 (Oct. 1953) and 8.1 (1958) – 13.2 (1963)
The Bible Presbyterian Reporter, 1.1 (Nov. 1955) – 6.6 (June/July 1961)
The Evangelical Presbyterian Reporter, 6.7 (Aug/Sept. 1961) – 10.2 (Feb/Mar 1965)
The Presbyterian Journal, 39.1 (Dec. 1980) – 45.16 (March 1987)