Loma Linda University Archives
The department serves as the depository for Loma Linda University archives for items of historical significance relating to the development of the university.
Holdings include correspondence of university administrators, copies of annual reports, minutes, legal documents, and a wide variety of university publications. The Heritage Room at Loma Linda has a set of the Board of Trustees minutes from 1906 to the present.
The Baby Fae collection, 1984-1989, mainly documents the first heart xenotransplantation in the world performed at Loma Linda University Medical Center by Dr. Leonard Bailey, October 26, 1984. The collection includes: papers, correspondence, reports, minutes, financial documents, clippings, photographic material, audio and video recordings. 8 boxes.
Of interest is the collection of materials relating to the life and work of Percy T. Magan. In addition to a large biographical file on Magan, the collection includes his correspondence files, twelve volumes of his notebooks, and his personal diaries from 1906-1943.
The department has the personal papers of Niels Jorgensen which emphasize the control of anxiety, fear, and pain in dentistry. Linear length: 35 feet. Notable are also collections of: John Burden, R. E. Cleveland, B. C. Courville, I. H. Evans, W. E. Macpherson, P. C. Remondino, K. J. Reynolds, and Edward Risley. Linear length varies.
General Conference Archive Materials
Since its establishment in 1973, the General Conference Archives has attempted to meet the research needs of administrators, researchers, and laymen alike. Its general purpose is to gather, preserve, and make available for use the church headquarters' administrative materials that have historical interest. Their holdings include: legal instruments, minutes, reports, reference files, correspondence, publications, films, recordings, photographs, and machine-readable data files. A guide to their collection is on file in the Heritage Room.
One of the more important sources of interest to scholars is the ever expanding file of General Conference Executive Committee Minutes. The Heritage Room at Loma Linda has a copy of this file beginning in May 1909. Also included in the collection are copies of the Annual Council actions and the statistical reports of the General Conference.