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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:
Letter from John Lilley to Col. Rutherford, Aug. 25, 1859.
Description:
Letter from John Lilley, Oak Ridge, to Col. Rutherford, in reference to missionary labors among the Seminole people, Aug. 25, 1859.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:346896
Title:
Seven years old and going to Boggs.
Description:
A promotional film for the Presbyterian-operated Boggs Academy in Keysville, Georgia. Tells the story of Shirley, a little girl who dreams of learning everything at Boggs. Produced by the PCUSA Board of National Missions, 1937.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions., Boggs Academy.
Topics:
African Americans--Education--Georgia--Keysville., African American children--Georgia--Keysville.
Geographic subjects:
Keysville (Ga.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344681
Title:
Good Will mission, Dakota Presbytery, 1886.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 1- John Renville 2- Daniel Renville 3- Charles Crawford 5- Joseph Rodgers 7- John P. Williamson 8- George Fire Cloud 9- John Eastman 10- Moses Makey 11- Moses N. Adams 12- John Flute presented by John Tallmadge Bergen.
Creator:
Bergen, John Tallmadge, 1860-1948. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions., Renville, John B. (John Baptiste), 1832?-1903., Renville, Daniel, 1840?-., Williamson, John Poage, 1835-1917., Firecloud, George, 1878-1968., Adams, Moses N. (Moses Newton), 1822-1902., Flute, John., Crawford, Charles., Eastman, John, 1849-1921., Makey, Moses, -1948.
Topics:
Dakota Indians--Missions--History., Home missions--Dakota Territory--19th century., Indigenous peoples--Dakota territory., Missionaries--Dakota Territory--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Pine Ridge (S.D.), Dakota Territory.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344108
Title:
Good Will mission, Dakota Presbytery, 1886.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 Dakota Presbytery Apr. 22. 1886 Good Will Mission.
Creator:
Bergen, John Tallmadge, 1860-1948. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Home Missions., Renville, John B. (John Baptiste), 1832?-1903., Renville, Daniel, 1840?-., Williamson, John Poage, 1835-1917., Firecloud, George, 1878-1968., Adams, Moses N. (Moses Newton), 1822-1902., Flute, John., Crawford, Charles., Eastman, John, 1849-1921., Makey, Moses, -1948.
Topics:
Dakota Indians--Missions--History., Home missions--Dakota Territory--19th century., Indigenous peoples--Dakota territory., Missionaries--Dakota Territory--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Pine Ridge (S.D.), Dakota Territory.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:344107
Title:
Mexican Mission, El Paso, Texas, 1914.
Topics:
Mexican Americans--Religious life--Texas--El Paso., Mexican Americans--Missions--Texas--El Paso., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Texas--El Paso.
Geographic subjects:
El Paso (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343997
Title:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.) Sunday school teachers, 1911.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: S.S. Teachers Mexican Church El Paso, Texas. 1911.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343893
Title:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.) Sunday school teachers, 1911.
Creator:
Villegas Studio (El Paso, Tex.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.)
Topics:
Mexican Americans--Religious life--Texas--El Paso., Sunday school teachers--Texas--El Paso.
Geographic subjects:
El Paso (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343892
Title:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.) Sunday school teachers, 1911.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: S.S. Teachers Mexican Church El Paso, Texas. 1911.
Creator:
Villegas Studio (El Paso, Tex.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.)
Topics:
Mexican Americans--Religious life--Texas--El Paso., Sunday school teachers--Texas--El Paso.
Geographic subjects:
El Paso (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343788
Title:
House of Neighborly Service (San Antonio, Tex.) scrapbook, circa 1926-1945.
Description:
Scrapbook of the House of Neighborly Service, a community center in San Antonio, Texas which was jointly supported by the Synod of Texas and the Board of National Missions. Includes photographs, clippings, correspondence, pamphlets, and lists of financial contributors. Also includes "A History of the Mexican Mission Work Conducted by the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America in the Synod of Texas" by B. A. Hodges.
Creator:
House of Neighborly Service (San Antonio, Tex.) (creator), Hodges, B. A. (author)
Subject names:
House of Neighborly Service (San Antonio, Tex.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Synod of Texas. Texas Synodical., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Mexican Americans--Religious life--Texas--San Antonio., Mexican Americans--Missions--Texas--San Antonio., Presbyterian Church--Home missions--Texas--San Antonio., Social settlements--Texas--San Antonio., Community centers--Texas--San Antonio.
Geographic subjects:
San Antonio (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343628
Title:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.) session, 1914.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Session of Mexican Church. El Paso, Texas. 1914.
Creator:
Juarez, M. H. (photographer)
Subject names:
Primera Iglesia Presbiteriana Mexicana (El Paso, Tex.)
Topics:
Mexican Americans--Religious life--Texas--El Paso.
Geographic subjects:
El Paso (Tex.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:343627
Title:
Mountaineer Mining Mission slideshow.
Description:
Slides, taken from 1952 to 1957 by Edgar Thorne, of the Mountaineer Mining Mission, Jordan, W. Va. and Edna, W. Va.; converted to VHS, about 1989.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Presbytery of West Virginia., Thorne, Edgar., Mountaineer Mining Mission.
Topics:
Home missions--Appalachian Region., Appalachians (People)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340959
Title:
The Cowboys' Hitchin' Post.
Description:
Glimpses of the work of Sunday school missionaries in the Southwest and a cattlemen's camp meeting. Photographed by Frederick R. Thorne. Edited by John Fenton. Script written by Joe Forest. The title was suggested by the book of the same name written and published by Joe M. Evans of El Paso, Texas.
Creator:
Thorne, Frederick R. (photographer), Forest, Joe. (author), Fenton, John. (editor)
Topics:
Church work with cowboys--Southwest, New., Camp meetings--Southwest, New., Home missions--Southwest, New.
Geographic subjects:
Southwest, New.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:340289
Title:
Sarah Goodwin and Rev. Robert Sandman of the Migrant Ministry Committee Texas Council of Churches, January 25, 1955.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Miss Sarah Goodwin and the Rev. Robt. Sandman of the Migrant Ministry staff Texas Council of Churches look over a part of a 120-doll shipment received from United Church Women of Wichita Falls. These dolls become a part of the interesting equipment of the "Harvester" station wagon. Credit: Texas Migrant Ministry collection, 1952-1980 and undated, Austin Seminary Archives, Wright Learning and Information Center, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
Creator:
Studtman Photo Service. (photographer)
Subject names:
Texas Council of Churches., Goodwin, Sarah., Sandman, Robert.
Topics:
Migrant labor--Texas., Church work with migrant labor--Texas., Home missions--Texas.
Geographic subjects:
Texas.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294114
Title:
Walter A. Soboleff oral history, 1987.
Description:
Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286245
Title:
Walter A. Soboleff oral history, 1987, side b.
Description:
Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.
Creator:
Soboleff, Walter A., 1908-2011 (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)
Topics:
Tlingit Indians--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Tlingit Indians--Religion.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:286020
Title:
Walter A. Soboleff oral history, 1987.
Description:
Soboleff interviewed by Margaret Deck at Sheldon Jackson College, Sitka, Alaska, May 23, 1987.
Creator:
Soboleff, Walter A., 1908-2011. (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Sheldon Jackson School (Sitka, Alaska)
Topics:
Tlingit Indians--Alaska., Missions--Alaska., Tlingit Indians--Religion.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:285859
Title:
Prairie Mission, Prairie, Alabama.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Campus -- softball game, boys.
Creator:
Keith, Clyde R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Prairie Mission (Prairie, Ala.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alabama--Wilcox County., African American elementary schools--Alabama--Wilcox County., Softball for children--Alabama--Wilcox County.
Geographic subjects:
Wilcox County (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183332
Title:
Prairie Mission, Prairie, Alabama.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Campus -- softball, girls.
Creator:
Keith, Clyde R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Prairie Mission (Prairie, Ala.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alabama--Wilcox County., African American elementary schools--Alabama--Wilcox County., Softball for children--Alabama--Wilcox County.
Geographic subjects:
Wilcox County (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183331
Title:
Prairie Mission, Prairie, Alabama.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Campus -- softball, girls.
Creator:
Keith, Clyde R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Prairie Mission (Prairie, Ala.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alabama--Wilcox County., African American elementary schools--Alabama--Wilcox County., Softball for children--Alabama--Wilcox County.
Geographic subjects:
Wilcox County (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183330
Title:
Prairie Mission, Prairie, Alabama.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Distributing donated clothing.
Creator:
Keith, Clyde R. (photographer)
Subject names:
Prairie Mission (Prairie, Ala.), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
Topics:
Missions--Educational work--Alabama--Wilcox County., African American elementary schools--Alabama--Wilcox County., Charities--Alabama--Wilcox County.
Geographic subjects:
Wilcox County (Ala.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:183329

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