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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

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