The Armenian-language periodical Hay Badani, "Armenian Youth," was produced in Istanbul by the publication department of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. This weekly illustrated magazine geared towards young people and aimed at promoting ethics and moral values primarily contains articles on cultural topics and pieces of literature, as well as anecdotes and riddles and other puzzles. The HAYB collection of Hay Badani, held by the American Research Institute in Turkey's American Board Library, in Istanbul, comprises two volumes (1920-1922).
Extent: 2 volumes containing 104 issues.
Custodial history: The HAYB collection consists of copies of Hay Badeni 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 HAYB collection was 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 HAYB collection was first inventoried and added into the American Board Library (ABL) in 2005 by Board archivist Brian Johnson and library assistant Janet Durna. It is included in the library’s larger collection of publications of the American Board (PAB), and it is arranged on the shelves in numerical sequence by volume, each coded ABL-PAB-HAYB, along with the respective volume and inventory number.
Original institution reference: ABL-PAB-HAYB.
