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History of Presbyterian mission work and missionaries in foreign fields. Featured image: First team of Presbyterian Church in the U.S. missionaries in Korea, November 1892.

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Title:
India, 1939.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Chet Rami Sect Church. Mud house with flag. Two lady missionaries.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Women missionaries--India., Missionaries--India., Rural churches--India.
Geographic subjects:
India--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339787
Title:
India, 1939.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Basketball--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339786
Title:
Tabriz Evangelical Church, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Tabriz Evangelical Church - Turkish speaking congregation. Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Evangelistic work--Iran--Tabrīz., Church attendance--Iran--Tabrīz., Children--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339784
Title:
Nurse Gwendolyn Smith in Rasht, Iran.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Resht, Iran. Nurse Gwen Belgum (now Smith).
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Smith, Gwendolyn Jean.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Rasht., Missions, Medical--Iran--Rasht., Missionaries, Medical--Iran--Rasht., Women missionaries--Iran--Rasht., Nurses--Iran--Rasht.
Geographic subjects:
Rasht (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339780
Title:
Women's group, Wei Hsien, China.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Rachel Dickson, Lucy Murray, Barbara Reeder.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Shantung Mission. Weihsien Station., Dickson, Rachel., Murray, Lucy., Reeder, Barbara.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Wei Xian., Missionaries--China--Wei Xian., Women missionaries--China--Wei Xian., Portraits, Group--China--Wei Xian.
Geographic subjects:
Wei Xian (Shandong Sheng, China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339775
Title:
Hong Kong, 1968.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Church of Christ in China. Children at a rooftop school.
Creator:
Pommerenke, Jean Macpherson, 1895- (donor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Zhonghua Jidu jiao hui.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Students--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339773
Title:
India, circa 1921-1922.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Women making bread.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Women--India., Bread--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339771
Title:
Korean missionaries in Shantung, circa 1931.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Shandong Sheng., Missionaries--China--Shandong Sheng., Women missionaries--China--Shandong Sheng.
Geographic subjects:
Shandong Sheng (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339770
Title:
Hong Kong, 1968.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Church of Christ in China. Possibly a school play.
Creator:
Pommerenke, Jean Macpherson, 1895- (donor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Zhonghua Jidu jiao hui.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Students--China--Hong Kong., Children's plays.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339768
Title:
Gohar School for Armenian Children, Tehran, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Teheran - Gohar School for Armenian Children. Children saying prayers in courtyard before entering school. Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Missions--Educational work--Iran--Tehran., Schools--Iran--Tehran., Students--Iran--Tehran., School children--Iran--Tehran., Schools--Prayer--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339767
Title:
Hong Kong, 1968.
Creator:
Pommerenke, Jean Macpherson, 1895- (donor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Children--Health and hygiene--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339763
Title:
Mamsur Sam preaching and offering scriptures, 1923.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Mamsur Sam, the "Christian Deruish" preaching + offering scriptures.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran., Evangelistic work--Iran., Preaching--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339755
Title:
American Presbyterian Mission, India, circa 1915.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: American Presbyterian Mission, India. W. F. Johnson: born in 1838, missionary to India from 1860 to 1922, 62 years. J. J. Lucas: born in 1847, missionary to India from 1970-1922, 52 years. Psalm XXIII.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Lucas, J. J. (James Joseph), 1847-1939., Johnson, William F.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Missionaries--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339752
Title:
India, circa 1922-1947.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Congresses and conventions--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339750
Title:
India, circa 1929.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: View of the wreckage from one end. This accommodated 21 boys.
Creator:
Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Building failures--India.
Geographic subjects:
India--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339749
Title:
India, circa 1922-1947.
Creator:
Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Bicycles--India.
Geographic subjects:
India.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339748
Title:
YWCA Industrial Girls' Center, Beirut, Lebanon.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: YWCA Industrial Girls' Center. Beirut, Lebanon - Literacy class.
Creator:
Harrington, J. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Young Women's Christian Association.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Lebanon--Beirut., Missions--Educational work--Lebanon--Beirut., Schoolgirls--Lebanon--Beirut.
Geographic subjects:
Beirut (Lebanon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339747
Title:
All Iran Church Conference, Tehran, circa 1930.
Creator:
Khadem, M. D. (publisher)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Bassett, James, 1834-1906., Bassett, Abigail.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tehran., Religious meetings--Iran--Tehran.
Geographic subjects:
Tehran (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339746
Title:
Hong Kong, 1968.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Church of Christ in China. Speaker at an assembly.
Creator:
Pommerenke, Jean Macpherson, 1895- (donor)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Zhonghua Jidu jiao hui.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--China--Hong Kong., Missions--Educational work--China--Hong Kong., Schools--Exercises and recreations--China--Hong Kong.
Geographic subjects:
Hong Kong (China)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339745
Title:
Nurse Vevina Gesite at Colton Kirkwood Whipple Hospital in Tabriz, 1960.
Description:
Text transcribed from caption: Tabriz / Colton-Kirkwood-Whipple Hospital. Vevina Gesite, R.N., fraternal worker from the United Church of Christ in the Philippines, holding a new born baby. Toge Fujihira.
Creator:
Fujihira, Toge. (photographer)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Colton Kirkwood Whipple Hospital (Tabrīz, Iran), Gesite, Vevina., United Church of Christ in the Philippines.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Iran--Tabrīz., Missions, Medical--Iran--Tabrīz., Missionaries, Medical--Iran--Tabrīz., Hospitals--Iran--Tabrīz., Nurses--Iran--Tabrīz., Newborn infants--Iran--Tabrīz.
Geographic subjects:
Tabrīz (Iran)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339740

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