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Box 24

 Container

Contains 13 Results:

“Daily Life. Vietnam”, 29/5/1995. Published set of 10 modern color photo postcards, in folder w additional images on the cover.

 File — Box: 24, Folder: (26)1
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

“Freedom Flight Refugee Center”, March 1989. (31 Kodak Color) Most exterior views of the building with a man & two women, believed to be unidentified staff of the Center. A few interiors also include staff.

 File — Box: 24, Folder: (26)2
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

March 1989. Unknown Celebration ( 11 Kodak Color)

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 2.5
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Freedom Flight Refugee Center Retreat, May 1987. (6 Kodak Color)

 File — Box: 24, Folder: (26)3
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Women’s Workshop. (3 color Kodak Instamatic type)

 File — Box: 24, Folder: (26)4
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Freedom Festival. Note: Items found in two commercial photo envelop, which may or may not provide access information on the photographer and date. One envelop has “Bernhardy. August 2005” (47 Kodak Color prints)

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 4.5
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Vietnamese Children's Choir, 1976-1979 (1 b/w print) 2000.086

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Tran Quang Tuyen and family. Grand Rapids Press photos. Jim Starkey, photographer. (3 8x10 b/w 7/31/2009) 2000.086? + 2 clippings of GR Press article “Local Viet Refugrees Welcome a Family / by Arn Shackelford.

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Early Relocation Project photo, some probably at Fort Chaffee, others in Grand Rapids, or unknown locales. 2009.004.2 8/19/2009

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995

Black & White. (18 shapshots, including duplicates of most)

 File — Box: 24, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents From the Series: The Freedom Flight Task Force started as a conglomerate of churches and social service groups dedicated to the resettling of the Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975. The group originated from and was led by Rev. Dr. Howard Schipper, who fulfilled a personal call to “find a need and fill it.” After seeing the need of the thousands of refugees spread across the media, Schipper decided to look no further. He and the Freedom Flight Task force spearheaded the relocation of some...
Dates: 1976-1995