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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:
West Africa medical mission correspondence and background papers, 1929-1938.
Description:
Materials in English and French.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cameroon., Missions, Medical--Cameroon., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Africa, West., Missions, Medical--Africa, West.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon., Africa, West.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:169307
Title:
Edna Heminger's correspondence, 1922-1923.
Description:
Correspondence of Edna Heminger (Mrs. L.D. Heminger), a missionary to Cameroon. Primarily between Heminger and the Acting Secretary for Africa, W. Reginald Wheeler, regarding her decision to return to the mission field.
Creator:
Heminger, Edna Michaels. (author), Wheeler, W. Reginald (William Reginald), 1889-1963. (author)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission., Heminger, Edna Michael., Wheeler, W. Reginald (William Reginald), 1889-1963.
Topics:
Missionaries--Cameroon., Women missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
New York (N.Y.), Wooster (Ohio), Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:169260
Title:
Yaounde Station mission reports, 1924-1927.
Description:
Mission reports for the Yaounde Station in West Africa, 1924-1927.
Creator:
Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission. (creator)
Subject names:
United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions., Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. West Africa Mission.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cameroon--Yaoundé.
Geographic subjects:
Yaoundé (Cameroon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:169214
Title:
Organization service of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, Elat, 1957.
Description:
Only known recording of this event. Much of the ceremony is in Bulu. Includes an address by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake in English translated in Bulu by Dr. A.I. Good. Side 2 contains Bulu folklore and a message from Dr. H.L. Weber. Speeches, sermons, and songs in Bulu, French, and English.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975. (speaker)
Subject names:
Weber, Hymen Lawrence, 1873-1962., Eglise presbyterienne camerounaise.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116539
Title:
Richard C. and Anna Mae Rowe report from Cameroon, 1960.
Description:
Includes Bulu men singing Christmas carols and interview with Pastor Biso of Elat.
Creator:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929- (speaker)
Subject names:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929-, Rowe, Anna Mae, 1933-
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon., Bulu (African people), Missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116537
Title:
Organization service of the Presbyterian Church of Cameroon, Elat, 1957, side 1.
Description:
Only known recording of this event. Much of the ceremony is in Bulu. Includes an address by Dr. Eugene Carson Blake in English translated in Bulu by Dr. A.I. Good. Side 2 contains Bulu folklore and a message from Dr. H.L. Weber. Speeches, sermons, and songs in Bulu, French, and English.
Creator:
Blake, Eugene Carson, 1906-1985. (speaker), Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975. (speaker)
Subject names:
Weber, Hymen Lawrence, 1873-1962., Eglise presbyterienne camerounaise.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116519
Title:
Richard C. and Anna Mae Rowe report from Cameroon, 1960, side 2.
Description:
Includes Bulu men singing Christmas carols and interview with Pastor Biso of Elat.
Creator:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929- (speaker)
Subject names:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929-, Rowe, Anna Mae, 1933-
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon., Missionaries--Cameroon., Bulu (African people)
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116516
Title:
Richard C. and Anna Mae Rowe report from Cameroon, 1960, side 1.
Description:
Includes Bulu men singing Christmas carols and interview with Pastor Biso of Elat.
Creator:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929- (speaker)
Subject names:
Rowe, Richard C. (Richard Christian), 1929-, Rowe, Anna Mae, 1933-
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon., Missionaries--Cameroon., Bulu (African people)
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:116508
Title:
Presbyterian Nursery School children.
Description:
Presbyterian Nursery School children in Kumba, Cameroon.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88470
Title:
Willie Clarence Haney and other tutors leading songs.
Subject names:
Haney, Willie Clarence.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon., Missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:88469
Title:
Marsha Snulligan Haney with baptism candidates.
Subject names:
Haney, Marsha Snulligan.
Topics:
Missionaries--Cameroon., Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:80149
Title:
Notes of Journeys About Batanga, 1892.
Description:
Adolphus Clemens Good journal, "Notes of Journeys About Batanga, 1892"
Creator:
Good, Adolphus Clemens, 1856-1894. (author)
Subject names:
Good, Adolphus Clemens, 1856-1894--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Africa, West., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cameroon., Missions--Africa, West., Missionaries--Africa, West.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon--Discovery and exploration.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:45276
Title:
Notes on Second Journey from Batanga to Nyahitande, 1892.
Description:
Adolphus Clemens Good journal, "Notes on Second Journey from Batanga to Nyahitande," 1892.
Creator:
Good, Adolphus Clemens, 1856-1894. (author)
Subject names:
Good, Adolphus Clemens, 1856-1894--Archives.
Topics:
Presbyterian Church--Missions--Africa, West., Presbyterian Church--Missions--Cameroon., Missions--Africa, West., Missionaries--Africa, West.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon--Discovery and exploration.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:44978
Title:
Margaret Chase choir rehearsal.
Description:
Margaret Chase choir rehearsal, Yaounde, Cameroon.
Subject names:
Chase, Margaret Anne, 1925-
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon--20th century.
Geographic subjects:
Yaoundé (Cameroon), Cameroon--Missions--20th century.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:8634
Title:
Modes of travel.
Description:
Modes of travel. Chair in which Mrs. S.F. Johnson travelled from Batanga to Metet, nearly 200 miles.
Subject names:
Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975--Archives., Good, Mary Middlemiss, 1893- --Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6840
Title:
Albert Irwin Good.
Description:
Albert Irwin Good.
Subject names:
Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975., Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975--Archives., Good, Mary Middlemiss, 1893- --Archives.
Topics:
Missionaries--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6814
Title:
Elat Industrial School-Office.
Description:
Elat Industrial School-Office. Pictured: Fred Hope.
Subject names:
Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975--Archives., Good, Mary Middlemiss, 1893- --Archives.
Topics:
Schools--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6811
Title:
Lolodorf Christian man and wife.
Description:
Lolodorf Christian man and wife.
Subject names:
Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975--Archives., Good, Mary Middlemiss, 1893- --Archives.
Topics:
Missions--Cameroon.
Geographic subjects:
Lolodorf (Cameroon)
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6720
Title:
A Towering Monarch Fallen.
Description:
The trees of the rainforest rain from scrub to majestic type such as here pictured - a giant cottonwood. Prized very highly for its beautifully grained lumber is the African mahogany, quantities of which have been exported to Europe and America. Some mission residences have been constructed of finished white mahogany, the waxed grain supplanting the need for pictures.
Subject names:
Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975--Archives., Good, Mary Middlemiss, 1893- --Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6690
Title:
The village call-drum, and four of the villagers.
Description:
The village call-drum, and four of the villagers. Their names, and drum-names, are as follows (left to right): (1) Kpekpem Nsim - W'awu ndok, be ye'e wo kee. You are overcome with greediness, just as they were about to hand it (food) to you. (2) Nsim Minsili - Fete, fete, zen! fete, fete, kulan. Tied up, tied up tight! tied up, tied up, loosened. (3) Ngombayo Nsim (brother of Kpekpem) - O nkele vom besom b' alotane binga, o za sep etom. Don't go where the lucky fellows are taking women along lest you get into trouble. (4) Nsim Bitom - O nkui nbwel a zan. You'll die of witchcraft at midnight.
Subject names:
Good, Albert Irwin, 1884-1975--Archives., Good, Mary Middlemiss, 1893- --Archives.
Geographic subjects:
Cameroon.
URL:
https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:6674

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