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Today's Resources

Now, more than a century after the 1896 conflagration, the American Baptist Historical Society (ABHS) is housed at two locations: the American Baptist Archives Center at the American Baptist Mission Center in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania; and the American Baptist-Samuel Colgate Library on the campus of Colgate Rochester Divinity School in Rochester, New York. Its resources include more than 80,000 volumes and 225,000 periodicals, pamphlets and manuscripts Materials held in the Archives Center include:

• original correspondence of home and overseas missionaries,
• official denominational minutes and publications,
• documents from the Baptist World Alliance,
• personal papers of Baptist leaders,
• photographs and glass slides,
• artifacts and mementos.

See Special Collections for finding lists for Original Church Records and Manuscript Collections.