The Armenian-language version and the Armeno-Turkish edition of the newspaper Avedaper, "The Messenger,"; The Ottoman book collection; The Armenian book collection; The Armeno-Turkish book collection; The Greek book collection; The Greco-Turkish book collection; The Armenian-language periodical Hay Badani, "Armenian Youth,".
Extent: 95 volumes containing 4,351 issues; 237 books containing 41,830 pages; 23 booklets containing 698 pages; 40 pamphlets containing 474 pages.
Custodial history: The collections consist of copies and are kept as an archival set by the publication department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions at its offices in the Board's Istanbul headquarters, the "Bible House" or "Amerikan Han," located at Fıncancılar Yokuşu No. 50. When the Publication Department was restructured as the Redhouse Press in 1966, the collection remained in the Redhouse archives. In 1996, the Redhouse Press was incorporated as an independent company, SEV Matbaacılık ve Yayıncılık Eğitim Tıcaret A.Ş., or "SEV-YAY," and the collection was given to the American Board, which then served as the local liaison agency of the United Church of Christ. (Circa 1960 the ABCFM had been dissolved and it activities absorbed into the UCC’s mission program, which retained the longstanding title “American Board” for its Turkish agency.) The collections were incorporated into the Board’s library in 2005. After the UCC closed the Board office at the end of 2010, it transferred ownership of the collection, as well as the rest of the library, to the American Research Institute in Turkey (2011).
Arrangement: The collections were first inventoried and added into the American Board Library (ABL) in 2005 by Board archivist Brian Johnson and library assistant Janet Durna. They are included in the library’s larger collection of publications of the American Board (PAB). It is arranged on the shelves in numerical sequence by type of original material, with each work coded, followed by an inventory number.
