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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:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Lapland reindeer en route to Alaska in public park. Seattle, Washington, 1898. No. 574. U.S. government reindeer expedition to Alaska. Wilse & Kirk Photo. Seattle.
Creator:
Wilse and Kirk (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Washington--Seattle., Missions--Washington--Seattle.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:104189
Title:
Ships in Alaska.
Description:
U.S.S. Fleetis, Seattle Harbor, April 1902.
Creator:
Hamilton, William E. (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Ships--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:103332
Title:
Animals in Alaska.
Description:
The reindeer herd in the city park, Seattle, Washington. En route to Alaska, 1898.
Creator:
LaRoche (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Washington--Seattle.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102695
Title:
Animals in Alaska.
Description:
Reindeer herd, Seattle.
Creator:
LaRoche (Seattle, Wash.) (photographer)
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Reindeer--Washington--Seattle.
Geographic subjects:
Seattle (Wash.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:102664
Title:
The Whitman Mission.
Description:
The Whitman Mission (Waiilatpu) in 1843 [illustration].
Subject names:
Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:9946
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:
Marcus Whitman pleading for Oregon.
Description:
Marcus Whitman pleading for Oregon before President Tyler and Secretary Webster. [Plate from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon by Oliver W. Nixon, p. 128a.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory--Missions., Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8119
Title:
The tomahawk that killed Marcus Whitman.
Description:
The tomahawk that killed Marcus Whitman.
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Death and burial., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Whitman Massacre, 1847., Tomahawks., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8114
Title:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide.
Description:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide, July 4, 1836. "They raised the flag, read a chapter from God's Word and took possession of the land for Christ and for the Church" [Illusration of Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Eliza Hart Spalding, and William H. Gray on their journey west.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Oregon Mission., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8094
Title:
Whitman Centennial seal.
Description:
[Whitman Centennial seal, from title page of A Brief Requesting Assistance in the Restoration of the Grounds and Reconstruction of the Buildings of the Waiilatpu Mission on the Centenary of its Founding, 1836-1936.]
Subject names:
Whitman Centennial Celebration (1936 : Walla Walla, Wash.), Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8058
Title:
Murder of Dr. Marcus Whitman.
Description:
Massacre of Rev. Dr. Whitman of the Presbyterian Mission. An Artist's Conception of the Murder of Dr. Marcus Whitman. Illustration from Clifford M. Drury's Marcus Whitman, M.D. [Original plate from a wood-engraving by N. Orr & Co. Plate originally published in Frances Fuller Victor's (1826-1902) biography of Joe Meek, The River of the West, published ca. 1870. Reprinted in Clifford Merrill Drury's (1897-1984) Marcus Whitman, M.D.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Death and burial., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Whitman Massacre, 1847.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8052
Title:
Marcus Whitman on his winter ride.
Description:
Marcus Whitman leaving home on his winter ride to save Oregon. [Plate from How Marcus Whitman Saved Oregon, by Oliver W. Nixon.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon--History--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8049
Title:
Waiilatpu Mission Site.
Description:
Waiilatpu Mission Site where the Whitmans labored.
Subject names:
Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.), Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7873
Title:
Papoose doll.
Description:
Papoose doll, which once belonged to Elizabeth Sager when she was a girl living at the Whitman Mission. [Used in an exhibit at the Whitman National Monument museum by the National Park Service.]
Creator:
United States. National Park Service. (creator)
Subject names:
Sager, Elizabeth, 1837-1925., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory., Northwest, Pacific.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7762
Title:
Marcus Whitman Memorial Plaque.
Description:
[Postcard of Marcus Whitman Memorial Plaque in Walla Walla, Washington.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Memorials--Washington (State)--Walla Walla., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Walla Walla (Wash.)--Memorials.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7750
Title:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide.
Description:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide July 4, 1836. "They raised the flag, read a chapter from God's Word and took possession of the land for Christ and for the Church" [Illusration of Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Eliza Hart Spalding, and William H. Gray on their journey west.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Oregon Mission., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7735
Title:
Map of Marcus Whitman's journey west.
Description:
[Map of Marcus Whitman's journey west.]
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Overland journeys to the Pacific., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century--Maps., Missions--Oregon Territory--Maps.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Maps., Oregon Territory--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7709
Title:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide.
Description:
Marcus Whitman on the Great Divide July 4, 1836. "They raised the flag, read a chapter from God's Word and took possession of the land for Christ and for the Church" [Illustration of Marcus Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, Henry Harmon Spalding, Eliza Hart Spalding, and William H. Gray on their journey west.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847., Whitman, Narcissa Prentiss, 1808-1847., Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874., Gray, W. H. (William Henry), 1810-1889., American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. Oregon Mission., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century., Oregon Territory--Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7649
Title:
Marcus Whitman's missionary commission certificate.
Description:
This is to certify that Doct. Marcus Whitman is an assistant missionary to Indian tribes West of the State of Missouri under the direction of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. [Signed] R. Anderson and David Green. [Replica of John P. Hartman's pen and ink drawing of Marcus Whitman's missionary commission certificate from the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Feb. 17, 1835.]
Subject names:
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847.
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Northwest, Pacific--Missions--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7580
Title:
Marcus Whitman grave and monument.
Description:
[Postcard of Marcus Whitman grave and monument in Walla Walla, Washington.]
Subject names:
Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Death and burial., Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.), Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Monuments.
Topics:
Memorials--Washington (State)--Walla Walla., Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missionaries--Oregon Territory., Sepulchral monuments--Washington (State)--Walla Walla.
Geographic subjects:
Walla Walla (Wash.)--Memorials.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7577

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