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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:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel leading a service for prisoners of war in Korea.
Description:
Voelkel leading singing and conducting a service. In rear is chapel tent. We have 40,000 prisoners in my camp, divided into 7 compounds of about 5,000 plus, each. These pictures are all of different compounds. Donor: H. Voelkel.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Korean War, 1950-1953--Korea., Military chaplains--Korea., Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Prisoners of war--Korea., Church work with prisoners of war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145799
Title:
General Assembly in Diamond Mountains, 1931.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Men--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Diamond Mountains (Korea)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145792
Title:
Rural village with church, 1958.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Rural churches--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145790
Title:
Children playing outdoors, 1953.
Description:
Happy Happy Go Round; one of the daily routine outdoors. 14 April 1953.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Children--Korea., Outdoor games--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145782
Title:
Dr. Hahn Kyung Chik preaching in Korea.
Description:
R. Provost.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea., Children--Korea., Church work with children--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145780
Title:
U.S. soldiers at Orthopedic Laboratory in Korea.
Description:
U.S. Army Unit prosthetic shop at 31st ROKA Hospital. Capt. Munn, Capt. Calloway, Srgt. Gouvry, Srgt. Herrera, Col. Kim. C.O., Maj. Lee Chong Duk, Mrs. Edward Adams, Dr. Torrey.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams, Susan Comstock.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Orthopedics--Korea., Hospitals--Korea., Korean War, 1950-1953--Korea., Soldiers--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145778
Title:
Dr. Koc and Interdenominational Medical Directors.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea., Interdenominational cooperation--Korea., Physicians--Korea., Medical personnel--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145777
Title:
Farewell to Dr. Robert E. Speer on the road to Pyengyang, 1897.
Description:
Farewell to Dr. Speer on the road to Pyengyang. Dr. Speer, right of center, is bare-headed, bearded, + wears black, bow tie. Dr. Speer, new Board Sec., was on a trip around the world to study missions. He visited Pyengyang station with Rev. Graham Lee (who is at left in the picture wearing western style straw hat). They walked from Pyengyang to Seoul, + this group of Koreans went with them as far as Whangju, where this picture was taken.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Speer, Robert E. (Robert Elliott), 1867-1947., Lee, Graham.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145773
Title:
Sunday school, ca. 1958.
Creator:
Provost, Raymond. (photographer)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Students--Korea., Sunday schools--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145772
Title:
Dr. John C. Smith with Presbyterian Mission vehicle, ca. 1952.
Description:
From Dr. John C. Smith's trip.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Smith, John Coventry, 1903-
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Automobiles--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145770
Title:
Officers and delegates of the Missionary Society of Korea.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries, Women missionaries--Korea., Women--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145767
Title:
Unpacking White Cross supplies, 1950.
Description:
White Cross supplies arrive, are unpacked and distributed by the Women's Auxillary, directed by Mr. W. B. Lyon.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missions, Medical--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145756
Title:
Scene of music-making in a leprosy village church, ca. 1964.
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Leprosy--Patients--Korea., Leprosy in children--Korea., Children--Korea., Church work with leprosy patients--Korea., Church music--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145750
Title:
Korea mission photos.
Description:
[Left] Sunday dinner in the court. Hsias Kuan Chuang, Mrs. Chang's house. [Right] Henry Shou's father + wife and the four children who held onto their father's leg.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Chosen Mission., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Dinners and dining--Korea., Families--Korea., Children--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145749
Title:
Kai Jung Church, 1951.
Description:
Kai Jung Church. Cost of building was so great because of inflation they were not able to put on tile roof so thatched the addition. New Bell. Army salvage material later made possible rebuilding of church. Donor: J.Y. Crothers.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Evangelistic work--Korea., Church buildings--Korea., Buildings--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea--Buildings, structures, etc.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145747
Title:
Photo album, Korea.
Description:
[Top] Country village congregation. [Bottom] Kyung Dong Presbytery and Presbyterial, Korea.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Lyon, William Barclay.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Portraits, Group--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Clergy--Korea., Rural churches--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145741
Title:
Photo album, Korea.
Description:
[Top] William Lyon with a congregation. [Bottom] Mr. Cork, William Lyon, and Edward Adams with Korean pastors.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Adams, Edward, 1895-1965., Lyon, William Barclay.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Clergy--Korea., Portraits, Group--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145740
Title:
Chaplain Harold Voelkel holding religious service for North Korean captives, June 26, 1952.
Description:
Credit: U.S. Army Photograph.
Creator:
United States. Army. (publisher)
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Voelkel, Harold, 1898-1984.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Korean War, 1950-1953--Korea., Military chaplains--Korea., Korean War, 1950-1953--Chaplains., Prisoners of war--Korea., Church work with prisoners of war--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145728
Title:
Photo album, Korea.
Description:
[Top left] A Korean pastor. [Top right] A colporteur with his cart of Bibles and literature. [Bottom left] William B. Lyon and H.E. Blair with a group of pastors and church officers.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Lyon, William Barclay., Blair, Herbert Edgar.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Clergy--Korea., Portraits, Group--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145723
Title:
James Robertson with Bibles for Chaplain Voelkel.
Description:
Mr. James Robertson of the British & Foreign Bible Society working on the case of Reference New Testaments to go to Chaplain Voelkel.
Subject names:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Korea Mission., Robertson, James, 1884-1967., Voelkel, Harold--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Korea., Missionaries--Korea., Missions--Educational work--Korea., Korean War, 1950-1953--Korea., Military chaplains--Korea., Church work with military personnel--Korea.
Geographic subjects:
Korea (South)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:145721

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