Microform Finding Aids

About These Finding Aids

The Yale Divinity Library holds an extensive collection of microform archives documenting missionary work, ecumenical movements, and global Christianity from the 19th and 20th centuries. These materials are available on microfilm and microfiche formats.

The finding aids linked below provide detailed inventories of each microform collection, including:

• Reel or fiche numbers and their contents
• Date ranges covered
• Organizational structure of the archives
• Information about missionaries, stations, and geographical locations

To access these microform materials, please contact the Divinity Library or visit the Special Collections reading room.

Available Finding Aids

• American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
• Association for Theological Education in South East Asia
• Baptist Missionary Society
• Basel Mission (Evangelische Missionsgesellschaft in Basel): Ghana
• Church of North India
• Conference of British Missionary Societies
• Couturier, Marie-Alain, Collection
• Duffus, William, Letters and Letter Books
• International Missionary Council
• Jerusalem and East Mission
• Mother Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Philadelphia, Pa.)
• Paris Evangelical Missionary Society
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions
• Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Woman's Board of Home Missions
• Presbyterian Church of England Foreign Missions Archives
• Ramabai, Pandita, Papers
• Stewart, Lyman, Papers
• United Society for Christian Literature
• World Council of Churches: Archives of the General Secretaries
• World Council of Churches: Christian Medical Commission
• World Council of Churches: Correspondence of the General Secretariat
• World Council of Churches: Relations with Roman Catholic Churches

Last updated: February 21, 2026