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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:
Parish group in meeting.
Description:
[Parish group in meeting, Iron Mountain (Mo.)]
Creator:
United 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.
Geographic subjects:
Iron Mountain (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7617
Title:
Nez Perce Indian chiefs.
Description:
[top] HEE-OH-KS-TE-KIN-The Rabbit's Skin Leggings. The only one of the five Nez Perce Chiefs (some say there were only four) who visited Saint Louis in 1832, that lived to return to his people to tell the story. [bottom] HCO-A-HCO-A-HCOTES-MIN-No Horns On His Head. This one died on his return journey near the mouth of Yellowstone River.
Creator:
Catlin, George, 1796-1872. (artist)
Subject names:
Catlin, George, 1796-1872.
Topics:
Nez Percé Indians., Nez Percé Indians--Missouri--St. Louis--19th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7608
Title:
Elizabeth Park Community House.
Description:
[Elizabeth Park Community House, Portland, Maine, Children's Christmas party, December 1947.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. War Services Unit--Archives.
Topics:
World War, 1939-1945--War work--Churches., Church war work.
Geographic subjects:
Portland (Me.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7602
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
Title:
Nez Perce Indian chiefs.
Description:
[Two Nez Perce Indian chiefs who visited St Louis in 1832. Based on drawings by George Catlin.]
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Nez Perce Indians--19th century.
Geographic subjects:
Saint Louis (Mo.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7571
Title:
Clifford M. Drury with statue of Marcus Whitman.
Description:
[Clifford M. Drury stands beside a statue of Marcus Whitman, in front of the Presbyterian Historical Society in Philadelphia, June 26, 1972.]
Subject names:
Drury, Clifford Merrill, 1897-1984., Whitman, Marcus, 1802-1847--Statues., Presbyterian Historical Society.
Topics:
Missionaries--Northwest, Pacific--19th century--Statues., Missionaries--Oregon Territory--Statues.
Geographic subjects:
Philadelphia (Pa.)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7569
Title:
Baseball game between Eskimos and Army.
Description:
[Baseball game between Eskimos and Army.]
Subject names:
Hauman, George Frederick--Archives.
Topics:
Alaska Natives.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7556
Title:
Come over and help us.
Description:
Come over and help us [seal].
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Nez Perce Indians--Missions., Missions--Oregon., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7552
Title:
Samuel Parker.
Description:
[Portrait of Samuel Parker.] From "Wagon wheels west [slide]," the story of the Whitman-Spalding Mission in the Oregon territory, 1936.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. (creator)
Subject names:
Parker, Samuel, 1799-1866.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7510
Title:
Women's Home Missions Seal.
Description:
Women's Home Missions Seal.
Subject names:
Woman's Board of Missions.
Topics:
Home missions--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7509
Title:
Map of Oregon Mission.
Description:
[Map of Oregon Mission, from 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:
Waiilatpu Mission (Wash.)--Maps., Whitman Centennial Celebration (1936 : Walla Walla, Wash.)
Topics:
Missions--Northwest, Pacific--19th century., Missions--Oregon Territory.
Geographic subjects:
Oregon Territory--Maps.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7495
Title:
U.S.S. Bear.
Description:
Sheldon Jackson on the U.S.S. Bear.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909., Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Ships--Alaska., Home missions--Alaska., Missionaries--Alaska.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7463
Title:
Eskimo woman.
Description:
Eskimo woman.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Inuit--Alaska., Alaska natives.
Geographic subjects:
Alaska.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7458
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:
Eskimo visitors on the Cutter Bear.
Description:
Eskimo visitors on the Cutter Bear, Port Clarence, Alaska.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Inuit--Alaska., Alaska natives.
Geographic subjects:
Port Clarence (Alaska)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7405
Title:
Ministers in Industry.
Description:
[Ministers in Industry.]
Creator:
Elkins, Joseph M. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7397
Title:
Child Development Group of Mississippi Head Start Program scrapbook.
Description:
Doll house built by the community of Richmond Grove, 1967.
Subject names:
Child Development Group of Mississippi., United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of National Missions. Department of Mission Development--Archives.
Topics:
Home missions--Mississippi--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Mississippi.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7374
Title:
Introduction of Domesticated Reindeer into Alaska.
Description:
A Lapland family and their tents.
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909--Archives.
Topics:
Sami (European people)--Social life and customs.
Geographic subjects:
Lapland.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7371
Title:
Sheldon Jackson.
Description:
[Sheldon Jackson].
Subject names:
Jackson, Sheldon, 1834-1909.
Topics:
Missionaries--Alaska., Presbyterian Church--Clergy--United States.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:7366

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