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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in domestic fields. Featured image: Missionary Kate McBeth with the first Women's Missionary Society organized in Lapwai (present-day Idaho).

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Title:
Main Street, Esperance, New York.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Main Street, Esperance, New York. Looking towards the bridge over the Schoharie River. Winter scene.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Esperance (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103514
Title:
Esperance, New York.
Description:
Sheldon Jackson's old church, Esperance, New York. Washington D.C. Bureau of Education Alaska Division.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topics:
Missions--New York--Esperance., Church buildings--New York--Esperance.
Geographic subjects:
Esperance (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103378
Title:
Reformed (Dutch) Church, Minaville, New York.
Description:
Choir Gallery, Reformed (Dutch) Church, Minaville, New York, 1880.
Creator:
Stanton, I. B. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Reformed Dutch Church (Minaville, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church buildings--New York--Montgomery County., Choirs (Architecture)--New York--Montgomery County.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery County (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103040
Title:
Men in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Faithfully yours, Robert W. Hill, Albany, N.Y. January 27, 1908.
Creator:
Albany Art Union. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Hill, Robert W.
Topics:
Missionaries--New York--Albany., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Albany (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102989
Title:
Presbyterian Church, Esperance, New York.
Description:
Street leading up to the Presbyterian Church, Esperance, New York.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Presbyterian Church (Esperance, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church buildings--New York--Esperance.
Geographic subjects:
Esperance (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102971
Title:
Families/groups in Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Celebration of the Semi-Centennial of the ordination of the Rev. Sheldon Jackson, D.D., L.D.D., by the Presbytery of Albany in session at the First Presbyterian Church, Schenectady, NY. June 16, 1908. The Presbytery of Albany taken in front of the Chapel at noon. June 16, 1908.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topics:
Missionaries--New York--Schenectady., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--New York--Schenectady., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Schenectady (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102967
Title:
Reformed (Dutch) Church, Minaville, New York.
Description:
Pulpit, Reformed (Dutch) Church, Minaville, New York, 1880.
Creator:
Stanton, I. B. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Reformed Dutch Church (Minaville, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church buildings--New York--Montgomery County., Pulpits--New York--Montgomery County.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery County (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102931
Title:
Reformed (Dutch) Church, Minaville, New York.
Description:
Reformed (Dutch) Church, Minaville, New York, 1880.
Creator:
Stanton, I. B. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Reformed Dutch Church (Minaville, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church buildings--New York--Montgomery County.
Geographic subjects:
Montgomery County (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102910
Title:
Church, Esperance, New York.
Description:
Church building in Esperance, New York.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Church buildings--New York--Esperance.
Geographic subjects:
Esperance (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102904
Title:
Presbyterian Church, Esperance, New York.
Description:
Presbyterian Church, Esperance, New York. Where Dr. S. Jackson was baptized and from which he was commissioned.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives., Presbyterian Church (Esperance, N.Y.)
Topics:
Church buildings--New York--Esperance.
Geographic subjects:
Esperance (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102732
Title:
Getting at the heart of the downtown problem:
Description:
History of the Labor Temple and its neighborhood.
Subject names:
Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions. Department of Church and Labor.
Topics:
City churches--New York--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:89942
Title:
Letter to Walter Lowrie from Peter Dougherty, Mission House, October 2, 1852.
Creator:
Dougherty, Peter, 1805-1894. (author)
Subject names:
Lowrie, Walter, 1784-1868.
Topics:
Ottawa Indians--Missions--19th century., Ojibwa Indians--Missions--19th century., Presbyterian Church--Missions--United States.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88515
Title:
Labor Temple neighborhood map.
Description:
[Sketch of a neighborhood map around the location of the Labor Temple, at 2nd Ave. 14th St., New York City.]
Subject names:
Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.), Labor Temple (New York, N.Y.)--Archives.
Topics:
Neighborhoods--New York (State)--New York--Maps., City churches--New York (State)--New York.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.)--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8838
Title:
Frank E. Higgins and two men.
Description:
[Frank E. Higgins and two other men at a camp at Seward Mountain of the Adirondacks, January 1913.]
Subject names:
Higgins, Frank E. (Francis Edmund), 1865-1915., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--New York (State)--20th century., Church work with loggers--New York (State)--20th century., Lumbering--New York (State)--20th century., Missionaries--New York (State)--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Adirondack Mountains (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8302
Title:
PCUSA Woman's Foreign Missionary Society.
Description:
[PCUSA Woman's Foreign Missionary Society at General Assembly, Saratoga, N.Y., 1879.]
Subject names:
Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian Church (Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.)
Geographic subjects:
Saratoga (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7231
Title:
Gilmor Sloane House.
Description:
Mayhew Mission Cemetery, Starkville, MS (Site of a Presbyterian mission to the Choctaw Indians, established in 1818).
Subject names:
Gilmor Sloane House (Stony Point, N.Y.)
Geographic subjects:
Stony Point (N.Y.)--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6804
Title:
Miss Donaldina Cameron.
Description:
Donaldina Cameron, head of the Occidental Board of Foreign Missions in San Francisco, which rescued Chinese immigrant girls and women from sex trafficking. Text transcribed from caption: Miss Donaldina Cameron, a San Francisco woman who is not especially popular with certain classes of Chinamen. For twenty years she has been in charge of the rescue work of the Occidental Board of Foreign Missions in San Francisco, and in that time she has rescued from slavery 1,500 Chinese girls. Women's Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church, No. 156 Fifth Avenue, New York.
Subject names:
Cameron, Donaldina MacKenzie, 1869-1968, Donaldina Cameron House.
Topics:
Home missions--United States., Church work with immigrants--California--San Francisco., Human trafficking--San Francisco.--California, Church work with children--California--San Francisco., Church work with prostitutes--California--San Francisco., Women missionaries--San Francisco--California
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6103
Title:
Demonstration to Little Mothers.
Description:
Demonstration to "Little Mothers." [From Annual Report of Welcome Hall, Buffalo, N.Y., 1926, p. 26].
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Mission Development--Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Buffalo (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:5085
Title:
Letter from Eliza H. Spalding to Lorene Hart, August 5, 1850.
Description:
Letter from Mrs. Spalding, dated August 5, 1850 to her sister, Miss Lorene Hart at Holland Patent. Written from Calapooya, Oregon. Mrs. Spalding makes mention of the massacre; how they got out; the "guilty biogoted Catholic"; cost of living in Oregon; her own poor health, etc. [Caption from Clifford M. Drury's notes.]
Creator:
Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851. (author)
Subject names:
Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Hart, Lorene., Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984.
Topics:
Indians of North America--Missions., Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Geographic subjects:
Holland Patent (N.Y.), Calapooya Mountains (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2161
Title:
Letter from Eliza H. Spalding to Lorena Hart, April 4, 1834.
Description:
Letter from Mrs. H.H. Spalding, April 4, 1834 with a note from Mr. Spalding added March 31, 1834, while Mr. Spalding was a student in the Theological Seminary at Cincinnati. References are made to their life, finances, etc. Addressed to Miss Lorena Hart, Holland Patent. Eliza makes mention of studying Greek and Hebrew; of attending missionary meetings, etc. [Caption transcribed from Clifford M. Drury's notes.]
Creator:
Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851. (author), Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874. (author)
Subject names:
Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Spalding, Eliza Hart, 1807-1851., Hart, Lorena., Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984.
Geographic subjects:
Holland Patent (N.Y.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:2094

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