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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:
Persian mother and son.
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
Title:
Laborers carrying camel thorn.
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
Title:
Persian wedding, 1946.
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
Title:
Wagon in the ditch at Shibley Pass.
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
Title:
Orphan child.
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
Title:
Women traveling in Iran.
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
Title:
Tatbir (Ritual bloodletting).
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
Title:
Maro Simonian oral history, 1998, side 2.
Description:
"Dreams and visions," recorded April 1998.
Creator:
Simonian, Maro, 1902-1999. (speaker)
Subject names:
Christian Hospital (Rasht, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147308
Title:
Maro Simonian oral history, 1998, side 1.
Description:
"Dreams and visions," recorded April 1998.
Creator:
Simonian, Maro, 1902-1999. (speaker)
Subject names:
Christian Hospital (Rasht, Iran)
Topics:
Missions--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:147307
Title:
Interview of Joseph P. Cochran by Margaret Deck.
Creator:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1892- (interviewee), Deck, Margaret. (interviewer)
Subject names:
Cochran, Joseph Plumb, 1892-
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:146314
Title:
Portrait of Iran missionary, 1911.
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
Title:
Portrait of man, Iran.
Description:
Solomon brother of Mar Shimun. [Photo may actually be of Ishai d'Mar Shimun.]
Creator:
Mirzojeff, Lazar. (photographer)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Men--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140095
Title:
Family in Mavana, Iran, 1927.
Description:
Family and house of Haji Aghan, Kurdish host in Mawaua(?), July 1927.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Kurds--Iran., Children, Kurdish--Iran., Families--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:140090
Title:
Family in Mavana, Iran, 1927.
Description:
Family and house of Haji Aghan, Kurdish host in Mawaua(?), July 1927.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Kurds--Iran., Children, Kurdish--Iran., Families--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139191
Title:
Portrait of Iran missionary, 1911.
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:139176
Title:
Portrait of man, Iran.
Description:
Solomon brother of Mar Shimun. [Photo may actually be of Ishai d'Mar Shimun.]
Creator:
Mirzojeff, Lazar. (photographer)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Men--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139171
Title:
Portrait of man, Iran.
Description:
Solomon brother of Mar Shimun. [Photo may actually be of Ishai d'Mar Shimun.]
Creator:
Mirzojeff, Lazar. (photographer)
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Men--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139163
Title:
Portrait of Iran missionary, 1911.
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:139155
Title:
Family in Mavana, Iran, 1927.
Description:
Family and house of Haji Aghan, Kurdish host in Mawaua(?), July 1927.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Kurds--Iran., Children, Kurdish--Iran., Families--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139138
Title:
The Shedd family arriving to mission work, 1890s.
Description:
John Haskell Shedd in early 1890s. Mr. and Mrs. Shedd arriving in mission premises after last furlough.
Subject names:
Shedd family--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Persia Mission., Shedd, John Haskell, 1833-1895., Shedd, Sarah Jane Dawes, 1836-1921.
Topics:
Missions--Iran., Missionaries--Iran.
Geographic subjects:
Iran.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:139122

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