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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Un paysan conduisant sa mère [Back] Persian woman traveling. Typical Persian scene.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Missions--Iran., Families--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280827
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Paysans transportant des fagots [Back] Loads of camel thorn for man and donkey. It is used as kindling.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Missions--Iran., Donkeys--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280824
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Warmest wishes, your sincere friends. Vajdieh Usafe November 13 1946 Persian Wedding.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Weddings--Iran., Missions--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280808
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: June 1918 At the foot of Shibley pass - one of our dashgas (wagons) in the ditch.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Missions--Iran., Wagons--Iran., Mountain passes--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280797
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: 1919 Moslem orphan. Many children looked like this during the famine, and many died of hunger.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Missions--Iran., Church work with orphans--Iran., Orphanages--Iran., Malnutrition in children--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280780
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: [Front] Hamadan, Gandjnamé [Back] Carte Postale Hamadan Ganjnameh inscription (Walls).Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Missions--Iran., Achaemenian inscriptions.Geographic subjects:Hamadān (Iran)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280777
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Chavadar! May 1918 Mrs. [illegible], Mrs. Eldrid, Monica. Inside Chavadar. Women sometimes travelled this way.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. East Persia Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Vehicles--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280771
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Description:Text transcribed from caption: Muharram headcutters a religious ceremony. Carte Postale.Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Persia Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Iran Mission., Gillespie, Marie--Archives.Topics:Tenth of Muḥarram--Iran., Missions--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:280763
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Title:Description:Participants identified by Mehdi Abhari in 2017.Creator:Abhari, Mehdi. (author)Subject names:Miller, William McElwee, 1892-1993., Community School (Tehran, Iran)Topics:Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.Geographic subjects:Tehran (Iran)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180818
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Title:Subject names:Miller, William McElwee, 1892-1993., Community School (Tehran, Iran)Topics:Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran., Children of missionaries--Iran.Geographic subjects:Tehran (Iran)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:180817
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Description:Haider Ali, smoking water-pipe, in room fixed up for the feast.Subject names:Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.Topics:Missions--Iran., Pipe smoking--Iran., Hookahs--Iran., Nawrūz (Festival)--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran--Description and travel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140112
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Description:Daughters of Haji Agha Kurds at Mawaua.Subject names:Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.Topics:Missions--Iran., Women, Kurdish--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran--Description and travel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140111
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Description:A ma chére Mrs. Shedd se souvenir affectuous, L Kutter-Barden. Auvernier le 22 mars 1911. (To my dear Mrs. Shedd to remember affectionately...)Creator:Rossi-Vogt. (photographer)Subject names:Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.Topics:Missions--Iran., Women missionaries--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140105
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Title:Creator:Cadwallader's Fine Art Gallery (Marietta, Ohio) (photographer)Subject names:Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.Topics:Missions--Iran., Muslim men--Iran.Geographic subjects:Iran--Description and travel.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140102