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Description:Text transcribed from caption: Youth work camp, Assam Union College. Sifting sand and mixing concrete.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--Assam., Building--India--Assam., Work camps--India--Assam., Universities and colleges--India--Assam.Geographic subjects:Assam (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339955
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: India Village Service. Violet Robinson uses flannel-graph to teach Bible stories at Mahrera.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer)Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., India Village Service., Robinson, Violet.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India., Storytelling in Christian education--India., Christian education of children--India., Children--India.Geographic subjects:India.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339926
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Father bringing daughter to Mission Hospital.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Chhattīsgarh., Fathers and daughters--India--Chhattīsgarh., Missions, Medical--India--Chhattīsgarh., Children--India--Chhattīsgarh.Geographic subjects:Chhattīsgarh (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339892
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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:339873
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Indian Christian Home. Young couple kneel in prayer.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., Married people--India., Prayer--India.Geographic subjects:India.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339871
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: The Committee on World Literacy and Christian Literature. Who will write that millions may read? Young men and women of West Pakistan and India are learning how. They prepare scripts in courses for writers. They bear the discipline of criticism and re-writing and writing again. Advanced training is available in the School of Journalism at Hislop Christian College. The four in this picture attended the International Christian Writers Seminar at Green Lake last summer. Miss Dora Walters prepares religious education materials. Professor Eapen is principal of the Journalism Department at Hislop. Miss Geeta Thomas is completing work for a master's degree in journalism at the University of Wisconsin. Mr. Sasthiasatchy is editor of a Christian magazine. These four represent the many thousands of workers in 54 countries who make the Lit-Lit team. North American supporters supply the logistics.Creator:Lit-Lit Fotos. (publisher)Subject names:Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions--Archives., Hislop College (Nāgpur, India), Walters, Dora., Thomas, Geeta.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Nāgpur., Writers' workshops--India--Nāgpur., Writing--India--Nāgpur.Geographic subjects:Nāgpur (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339793
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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
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Title: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
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Title: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
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Doctor bandaging patient in village clinic Punjab.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Punjab., Rural health services--India--Punjab., Missions, Medical--India--Punjab.Geographic subjects:Punjab (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339662
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Village church.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--Kālimpong., Rural churches--India--Kālimpong.Geographic subjects:Kālimpong (India)--Buildings, structures, etc.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339538
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: A baptismal service.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., Missionaries--India., Women missionaries--India., Baptism--India.Geographic subjects:India.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339501
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Indian women earn rupees to contribute to the New Life Movement. Recently a sum has been sent to Korea to help the Christians there.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., New Life movement (Christianity)--India., Women--India., Knitting--India.Geographic subjects:India.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339500
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from caption: Bob Alter and village woman weaving mats.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer)Subject names:United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Commission on Ecumenical Mission and Relations--Archives., Alter, Robert C., 1926-Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Etah., Missionaries--India--Etah., Women--India--Etah., Looms--India--Etah.Geographic subjects:Etah (India : District)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:339491
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Description:Transcript of correspondence addressed to her sister-in-law, Margaret Bayles. Written during her time as a missionary in North Central India. Also includes biographical information about Emma Bayles McAuley and her family.Creator:McAuley, Emma Bayles, 1815-1891. (author), Bayles, Margaret. (addressee), Cook, Lewis D. (transcriber)Subject names:McAuley, Emma Bayles, 1815-1891--Archives., McAuley, Emma Bayles, 1815-1891., Bayles, Margaret., McAuley, William H. (William Hall), d. 1885.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Fatehgarh., Missionaries--India--Fatehgarh., Women missionaries--India--Fatehgarh.Geographic subjects:Fatehgarh (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:294423
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Description:Two autobiographical essays by Margaret Moore Gottlieb, daughter of American missionaries in India. The first is typewritten and recounts the author's life, beginning in 1937, when she was studying at Wooster College in Wooster, Ohio. Subsequently, this essay recounts the story of Margaret Moore Gottlieb's married life, to Sid Gottlieb, including their rural lifestyle in Northern Virginia, the raising of their four children, their later years spent traveling and volunteering in Australia, Africa, and India, a five-year stint spent residing in Santa Cruz, California, and finally their move back to Northern Virginia. In the second essay, titled "The Anguish of India," the author recounts her childhood and adolescence living in a rural town in India, her feelings about missionary work, her sentiments toward the greater culture she encountered in India, and her thoughts about this culture after returning forty years later to work for a time in a mission hospital.Creator:Gottlieb, Margaret Moore, 1919- (author)Subject names:Gottlieb, Sidney, 1918-1999., Gottlieb, Margaret Moore, 1919-, College of Wooster.Topics:Children of missionaries--India--20th Century--Biography., Missionaries--India--20th Century.Geographic subjects:District of Columbia., India.URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:287129
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from script: School boys harvesting the golden wheat. Cutting and binding is all done by hand. We have twenty-five acres in wheat this year.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. (publisher)Subject names:Moga Training School (Moga, India), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Punjab Mission.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Moga., Missions--Educational work--India--Moga., Missions--Agricultural work--India--Moga.Geographic subjects:Moga (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181759
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from script: School boys breaking ground for their gardens. Every boy from the Vth Year up has an individual garden plot. The younger boys have co-operative class plots.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. (publisher)Subject names:Moga Training School (Moga, India), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Punjab Mission.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Moga., Missions--Educational work--India--Moga., Missions--Agricultural work--India--Moga.Geographic subjects:Moga (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181758
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from script: Making sun dried bricks for a wall.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. (publisher)Subject names:Moga Training School (Moga, India), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Punjab Mission.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Moga., Missions--Educational work--India--Moga., Missions--Agricultural work--India--Moga.Geographic subjects:Moga (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181756
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Title:Description:Text transcribed from script: These are the IVth Grade boys working at their class project which is not playing store but is a real vegetable bazaar. This class manages the whole business of receiving from the boys who own individual plots (about 100) the vegetables to be sold, and offering them for sale to the school food committee and to the families on the school compound, including the missionaries. Market prices are charged and the class make no profits. The keep careful accounts including charge and cash accounts, settle up at the end of the month and pay each plot owner what is due. The boys in the back are building a shop and store room to hold vegetables. Practically all the arithmetic work and much of the other work is derived from this project.Creator:Ferger, Henri R. (Henri Rabb), 1889- (photographer), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Board of Foreign Missions. (publisher)Subject names:Moga Training School (Moga, India), Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. Punjab Mission.Topics:Presbyterian Church--Missions--India--Moga., Missions--Educational work--India--Moga., Missions--Agricultural work--India--Moga.Geographic subjects:Moga (India)URL:https://digital.history.pcusa.org/islandora/object/islandora:181755
