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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:
Rev. Herbert M. Peters.
Description:
[Rev. Herbert M. Peters, S.S. Missionary, giving a Bible to lumberjack in north woods of Minnesota. Stamped on back: "Property of Audio Visual Aids Department Room 831, 156 Fifth Avenue, New York 10, N.Y."]
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Peters, Herbert M., 1904-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--Minnesota--20th century., Church work with loggers--Minnesota--20th century., Missionaries--Minnesota--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Minnesota.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8355
Title:
Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.
Description:
[Lumber camp in Portland, Oregon.]
Creator:
Weister Co. (Portland, Oregon) (creator)
Subject names:
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--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland--20th century., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8350
Title:
Pastor of the Pines.
Description:
Pastor of the Pines, G.H. Redden, Aug. 1, 1929. [Stamped on back: Dep't of Education & Publicity Board of National Missions, 156 Fifth Ave., N.Y.C.]
Subject names:
Redden, George H., 1882---Portraits., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Church work with loggers--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8340
Title:
Jack McCall.
Description:
[Jack McCall, lumber camp missionary in Western Montana.]
Subject names:
McCall, Jack., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Montana, Western--20th century., Home missions--Montana, Western--20th century., Church work with loggers--Montana, Western--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Montana, Western.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8336
Title:
The Cowboy's Hitchin' Post.
Description:
[Left to right] R. Everett King, Ralph Hall, and Joe Evans reenact their 1940 meeting in Del Rorte Hotel in El Paso to arrange for the first cowboy camp meeting at Montosa for the film "The Cowboy's Hitchin' Post," July 1946.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Evans, Joe M., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Camp meetings--New Mexico--Montosa--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Montosa (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8333
Title:
Portland, Oregon, lumber camp.
Description:
[Lumberjacks in lumber camp posing with a felled bee tree. On back: "Doing their bit for the cause, cutting wood to heat the church. Money is scarce but there is plenty of wood, strong hands, and willing hearts. On this occasion we 'felled' a bee tree. The men in the center are holding some of the honey." Attached to February report of Stewart J. Robertson.]
Subject names:
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--Oregon--Portland., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8324
Title:
Ralph Hall reading the Bible.
Description:
[Ralph Hall reading the Bible.]
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8316
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:
Cowboy camp meeting.
Description:
[Men gathered under prayer tree during a Montosa, New Mexico camp meeting.]
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Camp meetings--New Mexico--Montosa--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Montosa (N.M.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8297
Title:
Minister preaching in logging camp.
Description:
[Postcard of a minister preaching in a logging camp after supper, with men sitting on edge of bunks. The publication "Close-ups" by H.N. Morse identifies this image as Jack McCall preaching to lumber jacks in a bunk house (p. 6).]
Subject names:
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--Oregon--Portland., Lumbering--Oregon--Portland., Church work with loggers--Oregon--Portland., Missionaries--Oregon.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Or.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8285
Title:
Washington lumber camp.
Description:
[An up to date logging camp in Washington; nice warm buildings. On back: "Mr. Gillespie's office" and "Dick Ferrell, one of 14 Presbyterian logging camp missionaries holds services regularly in this camp."]
Subject names:
Ferrell, Richard Townsend, 1885-1956., 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--Washington., Lumbering--Washington., Church work with loggers--Washington.
Geographic subjects:
Washington
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8279
Title:
Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman.
Description:
[Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman.]
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Sherman, Roger B. (Roger Bennett), 1892-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8278
Title:
Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman on horseback.
Description:
Ralph Hall (left) and Roger Sherman ride together as they did in their youth when Hall converted Sherman.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Sherman, Roger B. (Roger Bennett), 1892-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century., Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8274
Title:
Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman.
Description:
[Ralph Hall and Roger Sherman pray under a tree.]
Subject names:
Hall, Ralph J., 1891-1973., Sherman, Roger B. (Roger Bennett), 1892-, United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--New Mexico--20th century., Home missions--New Mexico--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
New Mexico.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8264
Title:
Demonstration for second year student nurses.
Description:
Demonstration for second year student nurses. Sage Memorial Hospital, Ganado Mission, Arizona.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.)
Topics:
Hospitals--Arizona--Ganado--20th century., Nursing students--Arizona--Ganado--20th century., Home missons--Arizona--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Ganado (Ariz.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7411
Title:
Class of 1937.
Description:
Class of 1937 [Ganado Mission, Sage Memorial Hospital].
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Sage Memorial Hospital (Ganado, Ariz.)
Topics:
Hospitals--Arizona--Ganado--20th century., Nursing students--Arizona--Ganado--20th century., Home missons--Arizona--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Ganado (Ariz.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7272
Title:
Ming Quong Home.
Description:
Ming Quong Home, Los Gatos, Calif. Makings of Dinner.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Ming Quong Home (Los Gatos, Calif.)
Topics:
Home missions--California--20th century., Church work with Asian Americans--California--20th century., Asian Americans--Missions--20th century., Girls' schools--California--Los Gatos--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Los Gatos (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6816
Title:
Minister talks to mother of a California migrant family.
Description:
Minister talks to mother of a California migrant family.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with migrant labor--California--20th century., Home missions--California--20th century., Migrant agricultural laborers--Missions--California--20th century., Missionaries--California--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
California.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6802
Title:
Migrant mission clinic.
Description:
[Migrant mission clinic.]
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives.
Topics:
Church work with migrant labor--United States--20th century., Home missions--United States--20th century., Migrant agricultural laborers--Missions--United States--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6656
Title:
The house itself - It's a large square building located on a corner.
Description:
The house itself - It's a large square building located on a corner.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Support Agency--Archives., Donaldina Cameron House.
Topics:
Home missions--California--San Francisco--20th century., Church work with Asian Americans--California--San Francisco--20th century., Asian Americans--Missions--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
San Francisco (Calif.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6632

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